series of educational shorts, which mixed original songs and animation with lessons on basic school subjects such as mathematics, science, and history.
Stars from live-action series aired as part of the Saturday morning lineup, most notably including the cast of ABC's Land of the Lost revival, hosted interstitials every half-hour during the block.
While an opening sequence and custom last-segment show bumpers were included, the theme music used was the instrumental version of ABC's 1991 America's Watching campaign.
After Disney formally took over ABC's operations, the company's president and CEO Michael Eisner sought to create a Saturday morning block that was different from those carried by its competitors at the time, recruiting Peter Hastings (who had left Warner Bros.
However, reruns of Disney Channel original live-action and animated series[6] (with shows such as Kim Possible, The Proud Family, and That’s So Raven joining Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens) came to dominate the lineup by 2003.
To comply with the Children's Television Act, ABC chose to carry only select episodes of Disney Channel series featuring moral lessons and/or educational anecdotes.
ABC Kids ceased to import new Disney Channel series onto its schedule after the 2006–07 season, when Hannah Montana, The Emperor's New School, and The Replacements were added to the block.
As a result, the block (outside of Power Rangers) relied entirely on repeats of the channel's shows that first aired on ABC Kids from 2005 to 2007 for the remaining three years of its run (all of which, most notably That's So Raven, were out of production by September 2011).
[9][11] However, as with its predecessor network-programmed blocks, programs may be deferred to Sunday daytime slots, or (in the case of affiliates in the Western United States) Saturday afternoons due to breaking news or severe weather coverage or, more commonly, regional or select national sports telecasts (especially in the case of college football games) scheduled in earlier Saturday timeslots as makegoods to comply with the E/I regulations.