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Originally Posted by Vexx
Jonny Quest and the Flintstones were initially aired on prime time evening television if I recall. The Flintstones were essentially an animated "Honeymooners" set in imaginary cave times and Quest was a science fiction adventure series. But they were unusual for the time.
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And after that there was the fairly similiar Jetsons.
In fact, most of Hanna Barbera's output was, despite often poor production values, watchable by all ages. Think Top Cat, Yogi Bear or Wacky Races.
There was, however, a period in the 70s and 80s where the animation industry dived. It also coincided with gap between Disney's Golden Age, and it's Renaissance beginning with the Little Mermaid, the films that Disney produced between 1970 and 1988 have with few exceptions proved to be as iconic as the films before and after. Almost every Disney animated feature prior and after this time proved to be extremely succesful and iconic, whereas during that period only a 1/3 have had long lasting success. Since 1998 or so Disney has again had a period of poor releases.
Disney may be getting it's mojo back though, after a few recent succesful releases. Only time will tell though.