Top 50 Cartoons Of The 80's – The Golden Era Of Saturday Morning Cartoons - Explored- Mega List

I wish I grew up in the 80's. I was born in 1994.

Bucky O'Hare

Prospector gadget? lol stop with the fucking AI generated narration! In fact, most of your chapter names are wrong.

ThunderCats!!!!

Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decade form, to Mumm-Ra, they ever living!!!!!!

I was born 1975, but I also agree...
The 80's were awesome 😎👍🏻

Most of these cartoons were shown in the UK , but not on Saturday mornings apart from a couple. A couple were shown on Sunday mornings on Channel 4. but most were part of Children's BBC or Children's ITV in the afternoons after school. A couple of these cartoons were shown on Cartoon Network when it first started airing in the UK. This is a short comment as there would be too much information to give a long comment

Wait, he man started outu as a toy line and then got a cartoon? And not the other way around?

Let me understand...this is a list and not a ranking right??

Come on you forgot about one more cartoon Galtar and the Golden Lance. How you can forget about it?

Born in 77 yes Yes yes 80s did Rock 🤟

he man can sing.

I was born in 1972. So proud of being an 80s kid. We had the best hands down.

Thundercats is the greatest cartoon of ALL TIME!

NOTHING LIKE THE 1980S WE HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING CARTOONS
T.V. SHOWS, MOVIES MUSIC,TOYS, I FOR ONE
LOVE THE 1980s SO MUCH
FUN & SPECIAL THAT I CAN'T BE
RECREATED BETTER THAN
WHAT'S OUT THERE NOW
THE 1980s NEVER GETS
OLD 1980s FOREVER THANK YOU LATER

A few good names missing, let me add (I know a lot of them might not have come in the 80s, maybe before or after) -
1. Adventures of the Gummi Bears
2. Alladin
3. Talespin
4. Swat Kats
5. Captain Planet
6. Bird Man
7. Richie Rich
8. Tom n Jerry

Die alten Cartoons waren noch Handgezeichnet und die ganze art die die Cartoons aufweisten haben Heute noch eine ganz eigene Aura ! All die neuen animierten Cartoons
kommen nicht an das heran +
Ich denke das Heutige Cartoons einfach schnell produziert werden und schnelles Geld einbringen sollen ! Das merkt man alls Konsument natürlich ! Das meine ich alls Objektive Kritik und nicht alls aussage eines 80's Kind !

Angefangen mit He Man, Dino Riders, GI JOE, MASK das waren meine Favoriten !

This is an awesome trip down Nostalgia lane! I have not thought about many of these shows in probably 30+ years, however it's amazing how the theme tunes came back instantly on many of these! It just goes to show the details that made these shows epic!

Far too much talk over sadly

I was born in 1984 in China Shanghai, and most of these cartoon I have watched in my childhood... lovely 80s.

Who remembers 'Kissyfur' ?

Bro. You missed the # 1 cartoon... Robo Tech !! Although I remember pretty much all the other's you mentioned!

T Birds -
Sky Commanders -
G.E.M. -
And plenty more that wasn't mentioned,

For me, the biggest ones were Transformers and Dogtanian And The Three Muskahounds. But yeah, also He Man, Inspector Gadget, Danger Mouse, Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors, Battle Of The Planets (though that was 70s?), Scooby Do, Smurfs, Thundercats, Pink Panther (also 70s?), all the Warner Bros stuff (often 70s I reckon) etc.

The voice and the script are Class A 👍🏻

Cares Bears 1986 and The Raccoons 1985 were great cartoons also.

A great list of fantastic childhood memories, mind you I was surprised to see Dogtanian and the 3 muskerhounds absent

1st place TMNT - 2nd place Thundercats - 3rd place Silverhawks (for me)

You missed the paw paw bears, foofur, and gummy bears cartoon.

Born in '74... One cartoon that I loved but wasn't mentioned was the infamous Jem & the Holograms...🤗 The music, fashion, & lessons kept me addicted to it. Not to mention the dolls that came from the cartoon as well...Also Rainbow Brite, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Tranzor Z, & Pound Puppies.I still watch Jem to this day along w He-man, She- Ra, TMNT & ThunderCats...Needless to say that I'm a big kid. I prefer cartoons over adult shows any day. It's my therapy...😉🥴🤷🏾‍♀️🎉

Born in 85 so mostly mid to late 80s cartoons but some where great, Thundercats being one

My favorite was Star Blazers

When We Were Kids We Didn’t Look For Flaws From The Creators; Because We Knew It Was Art/Fake
Today Ppl Take Movies To Seriously & And It Takes Away From The Artist Creativity; Because Their Afraid Of Being Judged
I Wish We Could Be Normal Again
Life Today Is To Seriously

Omg Voltron 😀😊

Thundercat, He-Man, Smurfs, Duck Tales, Tom & Jerry, Healthcliff, & Even PAC Man/Mrs.PAC Man Was The Best Cartoons
And Transformers

I Love The Graphics Of The 80’s
Today Graphics Looks Fake
The Creators Need To Take A Page Out Of The Books From These Creators

The 80’s Were The Best Years Of My Life!
What An Experience

Such amazing shows until stupid Christians branded most of them "satanic"😂😂😂😂

Мульты из моего детства

Yeah, you missed a few. Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Pound Puppies, and most importantly , Jem and the holograms. Was disappointed Jem wasn't included but I was surprised you did Danger Mouse. It did show during the 80's in Britain but it wasn't shown in America until the 90's. If you were going to show cartoons from other countries shown in them in the 80's and in the 90's in America then you should have shown Spartakus and the sun beneath the sea. That was such a great show. It's really too bad they never released it on DVD with it's English dub or even subtitled for American viewers to buy.

i am born im 1982 but the first time sseine it was in the 90sin Poland befor we didnt had any kind of such Cartoons when my parent migratet 89 to germany and i saw this Cartoons not only for the first time but also in color its blew my mind

Impressive ! 80s was best decade of all time !
I was born in 1987 , The great year to cartoon rock n roll music and hollywood movies

The always be my favorite decade of cartoons the of 1980

Nowadays kid, will not ever know whats it feels.. This internet era make kid this days lazy,, mobile phone is theirs bff..

This bring back good memories of my childhood and of simpler times, i miss the 80s

No Robotech?!? That surprises me.

Wow ,that was a voyage to my childhood , only a few of these didn't aired were I lived . For me it's missing Ulysse 31 ...

The 80's was collective, all of us got up Saturday morning, for fox, NBC, abc. Unlike today, every one downloads an watches what they want on their devices , it's not collective as in 80 and early 90s.