ABC (Nick on ABC)
Preview show hosted by Kenan and Kel
8:00 Scooby Doo, Where are You? (Hanna-Barbera) [Reruns]
8:30 Rugrats (Klasky-Csupo)
9:00 The Wild Thornberrys (Klasky-Csupo)
9:30 Hey Arnold! (Hanna-Barbera; Snee-Oosh)
10:00 Ed, Edd n Eddy (AKA Cartoon)
10:30 Buzz Lightyear of Space Command (Hanna-Barbera; Pixar)
11:00 As Told By Ginger (Klasky-Csupo)
11:30 Mike, Lu and Og (Hanna-Barbera)
12:00 Robot Jones (Hanna-Barbera)
12:30 I Am Weasel (Hanna-Barbera)
1: Of course Kenan and Kel are hosting this year's preview special. The only question I have is, would Kel be the Shaggy of the two hosts?
2: I would just like to say "Welcome home, Scooby-Doo!"
3: The fact that Buzz Lightyear managed to be put into this schedule makes him somehow look like an outlier by comparison. Sorry.
4: With that said, aside from Scooby and Buzz, every other show here fits the Nickelodeon mold in some way, shape, or form ITTL.
CBS
8:00 Pokemon (Nelvana)
9:00 The Magic School Bus (Nelvana)
9:30 Batman Beyond (Screen Gems)
10:00 Pokemon: The Johto Chronicles (Nelvana)
10:30 Angela Anaconda (Nelvana)
11:00 Pelswick (Nelvana)
11:30 Stuart Little (Screen Gems)
12:00 NASCAR Racers (Screen Gems)
12:30 Beast Machines: Transformers (Nelvana)
1: It makes sense that an hour of the original Pokemon would begin the 2000 season on CBS.
2: Magic School Bus and Batman Beyond are great veterans to keep around here, as is Beast Machines: Transformers.
3: Pokemon: The Johto Chronicles, Pelswick, and Stuart Little make the most sense in this lineup of new programming.
4: However, Angela Anaconda and NASCAR Racers are the most interesting newcomers this year.
5: Despite all of this, I will say that if a new preview special were in the works, it would probably be hosted by Stuart Little and Snowbell this time around. That, or Ash and Pikachu.
NBC
8:00 Kenzo (MWS; RKO)
8:30 C-Bear and Jamal (Film Roman)
9:00 Flint the Time Detective (Lionsgate)
9:30 Max Steel (MWS; Mattel)
10:00 Sheep in the Big City (MWS; RKO)
10:30 What About Mimi? (MWS; RKO)
11:00 Godzilla: The Series (MWS; RKO)
11:30 Kong: The Series (MWS; RKO)
12:00 Local programming
1: Given the turnabout over the past year or so, Kenzo reruns are absolutely going to happen at 8:00, whether you like the show or not.
2: C-Bear and Jamal & Flint the Time Detective give NBC some third-party support in the forms of Film Roman and Lionsgate, which are both surprising to see here for different reasons.
3: Sheep in the Big City is another surprise to see on Saturday Mornings, but not by Hanna-Barbera this time around. On the other hand, I hope this results in Mo Willems' children's books getting the animated treatment in a few years from MWS, NBC, RKO, and IOU.
4: Let me just say that pairing Godzilla and Kong in the same hour between 11 and 12 is absolutely perfect. Just one request to make it better: Label this hour as "Godzilla vs. Kong" on the promotional material.
SBC
8:00 Power Rangers: Time Force (New Line Cinema) [Live action]
8:30 Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue (New Line Cinema) [Live action]
9:00 Los Luchadores (New Line Cinema) [Live action]
9:30 Jackie Chan Adventures (DiC; Golden Harvest/New Line Cinema)
10:00 RoboCop: Alpha Commando (DiC; New Line Cinema)
10:30 Men in Black: The Series (Carolco)
11:00 Oggy and the Cockroaches (Gaumont; New Line Cinema) [Reruns]
11:30 Samurai Pizza Cats (New Line Cinema) [Reruns]
12:00 Static Shock (Carolco)
12:30 Local programming
1: Two concurrent Power Rangers sagas back to back? It must be my birthday!
2: Remember when I suggested a Bruce Lee cartoon that was basically Jackie Chan Adventures with a different martial artist back in the early 90s? I'm at least glad that Golden Harvest is doing Jackie Chan as much justice and servitude in accuracy as they gave him in live action.
3: With that said, though, I don't see Los Luchadores lasting past 2002 at the most optimistic point possible.
4: I'm intrigued by the Samurai Pizza Cats and Oggy reruns randomly placed there. Did you run out of ideas?
5: On the other hand, RoboCop and Men in Black did deserve to stick around on SBC.
6: On top of all this, Static Shock probably earned the status of a Warner Bros. legend, especially with the creator of Freakazoid! ITTL in charge of the entire animation division.
Fox
(Most Fox programming produced by Grantray-Lawrence or Walt Disney Television Animation)
8:00 Pepper Ann
8:30 The Weekenders
9:00 Teacher's Pet
9:30 Lloyd in Space
10:00 Casper and Molly McGee
10:30 The Backstreet Project
11:00 X-Men Evolution
11:30 Digimon: Digital Monsters
12:00 Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego (Acquired from DiC)
12:30 House of Mouse
1: Teacher's Pet, Lloyd in Space, and X-Men Evolution could be great hits for Fox. Especially that last one.
2: Everything else looks fine to me.
UPN
8:00 Maisy (Universal)
8:30 Arthur (Paramount)
9:00 Sabrina: The Animated Series (Universal)
9:30 Sam and Max: Freelance Police (Universal)
10:00 Cardcaptors (English dub produced by Universal)
10:30 Roswell Conspiracies (Universal)
11:00 Archie's Weird Mysteries (Universal)
11:30 The Zeta Project (Paramount)
12:00 Shaun the Sheep (Paramount; Rankin Bass & Aardman)
12:30 Sonic Underground (Paramount)
1: Maisy, Cardcaptors, Roswell, and Archie make up a great catalog on Universal's side. Especially with Tom Ruegger as the new head.
2: Speaking of Ruegger, would we get to see his Mixed Nutz pitch become a reality, only with Universal's stable of animated characters instead of the WB and HB families?
3: As for Paramount, I'm surprised that Shaun the Sheep is made a few years earlier, but that's a fun butterfly regardless.
4: All in all, a really good sixlet of Saturdays.