Years later and still no repeats...

That was a bit tame compared to ITV, where before CITY, you would get Sons and Daughters or the young Doc,... Maybe that why so many kids of today are a bit off the trolley.

Has the policy been done so the companies can get good returns on the DVD sales?

This is EXTREMELY pedantic but there were screenings of Tom and Jerry on CBBC. The "programme" the Beeb made mentioned up there was Tom and Jerry's Greatest Hits which was, basically, three Tom and Jerry cartoons stuck together with a Beeb-produced title sequence, and if you look at saturdaymornings.co.uk and look at the scripts of both the last Going Live and the first Live and Kicking you'll notice it was shown before both programmes, and in those days Saturday mornings were linked from the Broom Cupboard.

There were some cartoons that weren't generally shown on CBBC, though, The Flintstones was one which would often be shown before or after CBBC, at 3.30 or, before Neighbours, at 5.35, but I'm pretty sure that it was almost never shown during CBBC. I remember someone writing into Andi Peters' column in Fast Forward in 1990 asking why BBC1 stopped showing The Flintstones at 6am before Breakfast News, which they did for a while, I remember watching it, and Peters said it was because Nicholas Witchell was watching it rather than getting ready. He said it was apparently too expensive to show at that time and I also recall he said it was actually bought as an adult show rather than a kids' show, hence why it was currently being shown at 10am. Although later I remember it being shown on Going Live, and maybe another Saturday morning show?

The Flintstones was often shown in the 5.35 slot in the early days of CBBC, before Neighbours launched, introduced by Phillip Schofield over the globe as a BBC1 programme.

On the clip above, there's a promo for Holiday Mornings which shows a clip of the Flintstones (unless it's just a Christmas one-off?)

Not seen Telebugs since its original run. Virtually no one remembers it so I was glad to see some episodes appear on Youtube. It's dated quite badly though.

Good call on the Cosgrove stuff. Victor & Hugo, Biker Penguins and Phantom Cat. All decent shows I used to watch on CITV. A good era for British animation.

Oxtales. Seemed to be shown over the summer holidays around 1992 or 93 and never seen again. I was surprised to read up that this was Japanese. I always assumed it was American.

There's a show i remember on CiTV called Cone Zone. It was set in an ice-cream parlor and it was similar to Spatz.

I've searched YouTube and i'm surprised there's no episodes of this on there yet.

A bit later it seems The Flintstones did seem to become an official kids show, presumably around the time the film came out in 1994 which was very much a childrens' film. Before that they were showing it as an adult show like Head of the Class or Bilko. Same as how eventually the Warner Bros cartoons were shown during CBBC around the turn of the century.

How about The Raccoons and Muppet Babies? They were also shown at 5.35pm too. Did Children's BBC extend to 6.00pm for these shows?
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No, CBBC still finished at 535pm officially. The only time it was extended was during the winter 1984 season post Sixty Minutes, and even then there were bizarre anomalies. For example on a Tuesday Star Trek was on at 510pm to 6. However, Wales had their news on at 530pm so on the Tuesday at 510pm ish they showed Ask the Family which had been shown at 530pm the previous night in England / Scotland.

I thought Children's BBC wasn't created until 1985?

Invison first appeared in September 1985, before it was normal ca with slides.

That wasn't called "Children's BBC" or "CBBC" though?