Nobody has benefited more from PBS than the kids. Public broadcasting's afternoon and morning lineups have given children an invaluable resource for education and entertainment. It was the TV ...

35 years ago today, and then again five years later, Saturday mornings were changed everywhere for an entire generation of kids who got to sit down and watch a ton of cartoons over the weekend.

I just turned 60, which makes me a member of the last peer group to grow up with what Nick at Nite used to call “America’s television heritage.” When we were kids, some black-and-white shows from the ...