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==Saturday morning programming==
===Early years with ''Captain Kangaroo''===
CBS broadcast the live action series ''[[Captain Kangaroo]]'' on weekday mornings from 1955 through 1982, and on Saturdays through 1984. For the first three months, ''Captain Kangaroo'' was only seen on weekday mornings. Thereafter, until 1968, Captain was also seen on Saturday mornings. One exception was the 1964 to 1965 season, which saw the broadcast replaced on Saturdays by a Keeshan vehicle called ''Mr. Mayor''. From 1968 and until 1982 it was seen on weekdays only again. Except for pre-emption for news coverage, notably the three-day continuous coverage of the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] in 1963, and a few shows that were 45 minutes, the show aired a full 60 minutes on weekday mornings until 1981. It was broadcast in color from September 9, 1968 onward.
The audience of children could never compete in the ratings with such entertainment/news shows as ''The Today Show'', although it won [[Emmy Awards]] three times as Outstanding Children's entertainment series in 1978–1979, 1982–1983 and 1983–1984. But in the fall season of 1981, to make more room for ''[[CBS Morning News]]'', the Captain was moved to an earlier time slot of 7 a.m. and cut to 30 minutes, sporting a new title ''Wake Up with the Captain''. In the fall of 1982, it was moved Saturday mornings to 7 a.m. (6 a.m. Central, Mountain, and Pacific). Reruns were offered to CBS affiliates to run Sunday morning in place of the cartoon reruns offered before. Most CBS affiliates only cleared Saturday mornings after that. Still a third of the CBS affiliates no longer ran ''Captain Kangaroo'' at all after 1982. It was finally canceled altogether at the end of 1984 due to lack of clearances from affiliates.
====See also====
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