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Saturday Morning TV

From 7:00 AM test-pattern wakeups to Soul Train—when cartoons ruled network television.

'80s SatAM TV
★ 98

Pee-wee's Playhouse

CBS / Pee-wee Pictures • 1986–1990

For five glorious seasons on CBS, avant-garde punk puppeteers smuggled high art into 9:30 AM Saturday morning television.

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