One thing I honestly miss about Saturday Morning Programming blocks is how they provided a convenient source of animated content for low income/non-cable viewers.
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The show BARELY had any episodes to meet the demand of 52 episode order, or the ratings were miserable. In the case of Fighting Foodons, you can tell the ratings were unforgiving to it despite being in the same ballpark as Medabots.
To elaborate to younger people Saturday Morning Cartoons weren't just giving you an easy source of animated content if you lacked cable, but they also gave you something to look forward to every Saturday at the end of the week.
We didn't have any of those blocks in the UK... hell, looking at the programs on the images, alot of them didn't even air on the same channels over here.
If you are curious about how Fox Box came about. Basically in 2002 after Disney essentially killed Fox Kids in buying out Fox Family Worldwide, Fox licensed the Saturday Morning timeslot gap out to 4Kids entertainment which is what gave us Fox Box later known as 4KidsTV
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That's how we got the infamous One Piece Rap and 4kids reputation. It was poor management that did FoxBox in.
The show BARELY had any episodes to meet the demand of 52 episode order, or the ratings were miserable. In the case of Fighting Foodons, you can tell the ratings were unforgiving to it despite being in the same ballpark as Medabots.
It was almost never on because it sat in the worst possible time slot possible.
At all. It must have been a lot more sane in it's original japanese dub.
The Cramp Twins and Cubix both aired on Cartoon Network.
Funky Cops, Shaman King, Sonic X and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all aired on Fox Kids, then later Jetix.
Kirby aired on Pop.
And Ultimate Muscle has never aired in the UK to the best of my knowledge.