20 Cartoon Characters From The 1960s Who Defined Our Childhood
ENTERTAINMENT | September 7, 2023
Written by Sarah Norman
With so many channels and on-demand everything, kids are flooded with as many cartoons as they can stand these days -- but in the pre-cable days it was a different story. You had to remember to tune in at the right time on the right night to catch a prime-time cartoon like Jonny Quest or Mr. Magoo. If that was too much to manage, there was always Saturday -- just roll out of bed and plop down in front of the set and you'd see some sort of cartoon.
Classic cartoon characters of the '50s and '60s strove to be funny in a wholesome way; there was no sex or bad language, and the dastardly adversaries always lost in the end. Of course, there was a little violence, as cartoon characters tend to whack each other with hammers and fall off of cliffs with no lasting consequences.
