I don't know how many cable systems receive the Boomerang Network but it's happily available via satellite. Once or twice a day, I switch over to at random and usually catch a cartoon from the early years of Hanna-Barbera. I don't think it's just nostalgia for my youth that makes me enjoy those shows. They were cleverly written and the animation was often quite ingenious. I was also a devout student of Warner Brothers cartoons at age eight but I don't think I really noticed that the H-B cartoons contained a minute fraction of the drawings seen in a good Looney Tunes. It's amazing, watching an old Huckleberry Hound today, to see how much of the action takes place off-screen or is otherwise upcut. If Huck falls down, you never see him get up. That would have required actual animation. So they cut around that movement, implying it or having him "zip" to a standing position. As I watch a Quick Draw McGraw I remember from 1962, I am amazed at how much wasn't really there and was filled-in by my young imagination.
It's an amazing bit of sleight o' hand but Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera had a powerful secret weapon that enabled them to pull it off: Superior voice work, most of it done by the great Daws Butler and a solid supporting cast. Daws was so expressive, so able to wring humor out of any words, that he supplied all the personality and style that was absent from the drawing. It's really a joy just to listen to him and to hear his frequent co-star, Don Messick, playing off him.
The schedules over on Boomerang are a little frenetic. I have rarely been able to track what comes on when, and even when you think you know, announced start times are highly approximate. There are very few commercials so what was once a 30-minute show no longer fills out a half-hour. As a result, they insert oddments and stray cartoons almost randomly between the announced programming. These sometimes cause the next scheduled show to start a little late. Lately in those "bonus" slots, I've caught a few nuggets from the 1967-68 Filmation series of Superman, Aquaman and other DC Comic characters. Again, I am now amazed at how cheap the animation appears but the scripts aren't as strong, the direction isn't as facile with its misdirection, and the voicework doesn't compensate for any of those shortcomings. On one level, it's fun to see them again but on another, it's disillusioning. I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy.