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Saturday morning cartoon related: Does anyone remember.....
....In The News?
In The News aired on CBS in the 70s and early 80s as a five-minute bumper in between Saturday morning cartoons giving the young viewers an informative, yet brief and understanding news article on such items as "The Greenhouse Effect" and "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 20 Years Later". It served as an intelligent alternative to ABC's "Schoolhouse Rock".
The announcer, Christopher Glenn, gave a smooth, soothing voiceover to the news events, always ending the clip with "I'm Christopher Glenn, with [insert topic here], In The News".
The opening was REALLY cool, the animated globe, with the ITN logo circling it several times before we zoomed in to the logo, revealing the news footage at hand. And the SFX? COOL! Who could forget the blippity-blippity-blippity doo DOO doo doo dooooooo!
Who remembers this with me? I saw reruns of this on TVLand back in '95 in the early mornings before I went to class and I thought I was 8 years old again. Flashbacks like a mammajamma.
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