3 Cult 1985 Animated Shows That Every ’80s Kid Wishes Were Still on Every Saturday Morning
In the 1980s, the deregulation of children’s television advertising under the Reagan administration’s FCC chairman Mark Fowler removed the program-length commercial restrictions that had previously kept toy advertising and cartoon content separate. Studios responded by building entire series around action figure lines rather than treating merchandise as secondary to animated shows. That meant Hasbro, Mattel, […]