Mr. Cartoon Reconstructed

Here's my attempt to reconstruct an episode of WSAZ Channel 3's Mr. Cartoon Show originally broadcast in 1987.  All the animated shorts reinserted into the broadcast were downloaded from public domain resource The Internet Archive.

My Mr. Cartoon Memories

Allow me to give you a boring history lesson...

I was born in 1974 in the sticks outside of West Union, Ohio, and resided in a small house located just about 10 or 15 miles north of the Scioto County line...and around 90 miles northwest of Huntington, WV.

It's always amazed me that WSAZ's signal carried that far...if memory serves me correctly, my little house and it's coaxial antenna on a tower was one of the few places in the area that it did come in...remember this is a time, prior to digital signal.

Mr. Cartoon was my constant 4 p.m. companion...I honestly cannot remember a time in which I or my younger sister didn't watch Mr. Huffman's daily antics, until around 1989 (about a year after the daily show left the air and Mr. Cartoon was a Saturday exclusive thing) when we moved from the aforementioned abode to a larger house about 12 miles up the same road to the north....where sadly Channel 3's signal wasn't strong enough to come in.

What's weird is that my strongest memories of the show seem to be connected to whatever particular syndication package was being aired at that time...


Like, the Harveytoons package, which Mr. Cartoon aired in the early to mid 1980s. Being a HUGE comic book fanboy, I immediately fell in love with the animated adventures of the Harvey Comics stand-bys, like Casper, Wendy the Good Witch, and so on... Then, Mr. Cartoon had a period where he showcased the original ALVIN SHOW incarnation of Alvin and the Chipmunks... My favorite era of Mr. Cartoon history seems to fall somewhere during 1986 or '87, when the first half of Mr. cartoon's hour was the typical Warner Bros. Looney Tune or Popeye cartoon, and then the second half hour was filled with an episode of She-Ra: Princess of Power. Sure, it wasn't He-Man and the Masters of the Universe....but it was close enough...LOL!

Mr. Cartoon circa 1991

Jule Huffman Magic 97.9 Interview

Happy Belated Birthday...

If I'm not mistaken....and my facts are correct...yesterday was Jule Huffman's 87th birthday. So happy belated birthday wishes to Mr. Huffman!

Here's a pic of Mr. Huffman hosting his charity 5k run from last year.

Mr. Cartoon, circa 1988

Mr. Cartoon in Action, Circa 1987

Welcome to the Huffman Project!

Welcome one and all to the Huffman Project, the internet's first digital archive dedicated to the works of Jule Huffman, whom many of us fondly remember from our childhood as the man behind the glasses in the role of children's show host Mr. Cartoon, who was beloved by young viewers of WSAZ Channel 3 in Huntington, West Virginia for nearly 3 decades...

We hope that The Huffman Project can also become a virtual gathering place for fans of the show, both young and old...a place where good memories of Mr. Cartoon and his furry sidekick, the beloved Beeper, can be shared and documented.

One of the first things we hope to share here is a reconstructed episode of the show, complete with cartoons and vintage commercials, gathered from the small amount of existing video footage of The Mr. Cartoon Show that sadly seems to exist in digital form these days.

Anyone who possesses personal VHS or digital recordings of the show, please feel free to contact The Huffman Project via comments on this site or via e-mail at awconn1974@hotmail.com.  Any help in gathering as much footage as we can would be greatly appreciated.