When I grew up and into the 90s there were plenty of action shows for older kids. Today it’s usually either shows for younger kids or shows for adults (or shows for adults pretending their shows for younger kids but are just meant to make adults feel like they “made it better”), while the action shows for older kids have been limited to Disney XD, maybe Power Rangers on Nickelodeon, and one or two Netflix shows unless you can find those older shows or will settle for comedy? Even some of those “action shows” have to be more goofy than the stuff I grew up with that often gets slapped with “goofy” or “campy” by people who don’t know the meaning of the words sometimes. I stumbled upon an old article from Digital Spy (linked in a different article I was reading) discussing the same issue back in 2016.
looking for something specific?
-
Previously in the Spotlight
BW This Month
BW’s History Records
What interests me?
The Local Chatter
- The Annual Rudolph Bad Take Hits Again | BW Media Spotlight on BW Video Review: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
- How To Traumatize Kara Zor-El And Keep Her Supergirl | BW Media Spotlight on Shazam And Supergirl: How DC Broke Billy Batson & Kara Zor-El
- Sing Me A Christmas Story> Why No Weird Al On The BW Yule Log Playlist? | BW Media Spotlight on Feed the World…but fix that line!
- Sing Me A Christmas Story> Why No Weird Al On The BW Yule Log Playlist? | BW Media Spotlight on BW’s Yule Log
- Ben Kellogg on BW’s Daily Video> The Fate Of Free Comic Book Day
Top Posts
Things we talk about
Academy Comics anime Archie Comics Art Soundoff Art Soundoff Challenge Autobot Batman Blue Beetle book review Bruce Wayne Captain America Chapter By Chapter Christmas Clark Kent comics comic strip commentary DC animated universe DCAU DC Comic DC Comics DC Universe Decepticon Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day Friday Night Fights Godzilla Green Lantern He-Man Ian Flynn IDW Publishing Iron Man Jake & Leon Jeff Rovin Justice League kids TV Knuckles the Echidna Malibu Comics manga Marvel Adventures Marvel Cinematic Universe Marvel Comic Marvel Comics Marvel Universe Masters of the Universe Megatron Optimus Prime Robin Robotech Saturday morning cartoon Saturday Night Showcase Scooby-Doo Simon Furman Sonic the Hedgehog Spider-Man (Peter Parker) Star Trek Star Wars Supergirl Superman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Flash The Phantom Tom Clancy Tony Stark Transformer Transformers trivia Ultraverse v-log Video game video games webcomic web comic Wonder Woman YouTubeBW on Twitter
My Tweets- Join 683 other subscribers
RSS Subscription
Posts I Like
Help Support & Improve BW Media Spotlight
The Clutter Reports (my other site)- Christmas Decorations 2025
- Putting Out The 2025 Christmas Decorations
- Quick Report> Another Goal Reached
- Two Videos On Physical Media’s Comeback
- Book Report> Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image
- No Project This Week
- Quick Report> TWO Computers Backed Up (+ assessment of where I am)
- Quick Report> One Computer Backed Up
- Apologies And Hopes
- Quick Report> More File Back-Up Syncing






Seeing that list of cartoons makes me feel lucky to have grown up in the 1980s.
LikeLike