''Super Sunday'' (also called ''Super Saturday'') was a 1980s American animated television series produced by

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and

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. It was distributed by

Claster Television Claster Television, Inc. was a Baltimore, Maryland–based television distributor founded in 1953 by Bertram H. (Bert) Claster and Nancy Claster (Goldman) as Romper Room Inc. It was originally a producer of the children's show '' Romper Room'', on ...

. ''Super Sunday'' was a half-hour block with four six-minute matinée segments of '' Jem'', '' Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines'', '' Robotix'', and ''

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''. It aired on various television stations in syndication on Sunday mornings from October 6, 1985 to October 1986. In markets that the series aired on Saturday, the series was retitled ''Super Saturday''. All four segments were based on

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toy lines.

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For the first four weeks of ''Robotix'', two consecutive episodes were broadcast as a bridge until ''Jem'' began airing. It is believed that the later ''Inhumanoids'' also ran two consecutive episodes in some weeks before the stand-alone show began.

History

The block began as ''Super Week'', a five-day tryout that featured the first five chapters of ''Robotix'' while beginning ''Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines''. The series were cycled through, and only two or three of the four different segments appeared in a given episode. Despite all four shorts being collected into stand-alone made-for-TV movies (as was done with previous Sunbow/Marvel collaborations ''

G.I. Joe ''G.I. Joe'' is an American media franchise and a line of action figures owned and produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Action Soldier ( U.S. Army), A ...

'' and ''

The Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two Extraterrestrials in fiction, alien robot fac ...

''), only ''Inhumanoids'' and ''Jem'' went on to be expanded into independent full-length shows.

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