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There was nothing better then growing up in the ’90s waking up to no school on a Saturday and turning on NBC. The TNBC roster was an early morning to afternoon extravaganza of awesome show after awesome show. To this day if I catch one of the shows on that I loved during that time period, I still cannot turn it off. Below is my tribute to some of the shows that got me through my elementary years with the classic intro videos that we all know and love included.
Hang Time
In the nineties there was nothing better then Saturday Mornings on NBC. From 1995-2000, Hang Time, a show about a boy’s high school basketball team, the Deering Tornadoes, with one of the players being a female at a fictional Indiana high school was one of my favorites. And the catchy tune in the intro still rings in my head to this day. With Dick Butkus and Reggie Theus as team coaches and Anthony Anderson in his hay day, made this show an instant classic.
California Dreams
California Dreams is about a multi-ethnic group of teens and their band. Another addition on the TNBC lineup of the ’90s run by producer of Saved By The Bell, Peter Engel. Here’s a did you know: seven members of the cast (Brent Gore, William James Jones, Jennie Kwan, Jay Anthony Franke, Kelly Packard, Michael Cade, and Heidi Noelle Lenhart) were reunited on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on March 4, 2010, where they performed the theme song from the show after being briefly interviewed by host Jimmy Fallon.
City Guys
C-I-T-Y you can see why, I would never leave City Guys off this list! City Guys took place in NY and was probably the coolest and most mature of the roster of TNBC Saturday morning hits. The show was mainly driven by the main characters, Jamal (Wesley Jonathan) and Chris (Scott Whyte) who had to stay on the ball in high school and avoid trouble, while their principal attempted to keep them in line. Chris and Jamal’s similar personalities caused friction between them in the beginning, but as the series went on, they became best friends.
NBA Inside Stuff
Any NBA fan would tell you, especially a New Yorker, that basketball in the nineties was in it’s prime. And if you were a basketball fan you had to watch NBA Inside Stuff on Saturday mornings. Generally the finale of the TNBC roster and sometimes on really great days it would lead right into NBA on NBC Basketball and the most famous intro song of all time. Here is a brief clip of our main man Ahmad Rashad doing REWIND.
