Good morning Captain!

[ae4fa]

Children of the 50's & 60's grew up with the television character Captain Kangaroo. A gentle man who was happiest teaching children through that media. A man that a moose puppet always bested (remember those golf balls falling on him?) Someone that we all laughed at over his silly train conductor's hat and huge pockets on his coat.

Some people were a bit offended that Lee Marvin is buried in a grave alongside 3 and 4 star generals at Arlington National Cemetery. His marker gives his name, rank (PVT) and service (USMC). Nothing else. Here's a guy who was only a famous movie star who served his time, why does he rate burial with these guys?
Well, following is the amazing answer:

I always liked Lee Marvin, but did not know the extent of his Corps experiences.

In a time when many Hollywood stars served their country in the armed forces, often in rear-echelon posts where they were carefully protected, only to be trotted out to perform for the cameras in war bond promotions, Lee Marvin was a genuine hero. He won the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima. There is only one higher Naval award... the Medal Of Honor. If that is a surprising comment on the true character of the man, he credits his sergeant with an even greater show of bravery.

Dialog from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: His guest was Lee Marvin.

Johnny said, "Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima... and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded."

"Yeah, yeah... I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi...bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys gettin' shot hauling you down. But Johnny, at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew... We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison.

The dumb bastard actually stood up on Red beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends. When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me lying on my belly on the litter and said, 'Where'd they get you Lee?' Well Bob... if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!

Johnny, I'm not lying... Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew..... Bob Keeshan... You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo."

There was this wimpy little man (who just passed away) on PBS, gentle and quite. Mr. Rogers is another on those you would least suspect of being anything but what he now portrayed to our youth. But Mr. Rogers was a U.S. Navy Seal, combat proven in Vietnam with over twenty-five confirmed kills to his name. He wore a long sleeve sweater to cover the many tattoos on his forearm and biceps. A master in small arms and hand-to-hand combat, able to disarm or kill in a heartbeat. He hid that away and won our hearts with his quiet wit and charm.

America's real hero's don't flaunt what they did, they quietly go about their day to day lives, doing what they do best. They earned our respect and the freedom's that we all enjoy.

Look around and see if you can find one of those hero's in your midst. Often, they are the one's you'd least suspect, but would most like to have on your side if anything ever happened.

[K8ERV]

Thanks for the great story.

[ke4mej]

I was also saddened at the passing of Bob Keeshan...brought back lots of memories of watching the Captain Kangaroo show as a boy.

The Iwo Jima story, though, is another of the Urban Legends. #When asked about it in a 1997 interview, Mr. Keeshan said that he had joined the Marines two months before his 18th birthday, in April of 1945, and never saw action.

Fred Rogers never served in the military...another great man, none the less, but i don't like seeing the urban legends propagated.

73
Chuck

[K9STH]

I'm showing my age, but I remember Bob Keeshan in his "original" role as Clarabell the clown on the Howdy Doody show! Actually, that was just for his last 2 years as Clarabell (my parents didn't own a TV when the show came on in 1947 and a neighbor got a TV in 1951 so all the neighborhood kids went over there to watch the show and he left in 1952). I never watched him as Captain Kangaroo until my daughters were watching him in the late 1960s and all of the 1970s.

With the loss of Fred Rogers (Mr. Roger's Neighborhood) last February, and Buffalo Bob Smith the year before, the old children's show hosts are going fast. Mr. Pepermint (local show in the Dallas area that got some national exposure from time to time) died about 2 years ago. His "sidekick" was a beaver puppet named "Muffin".

Of course Sesame' Street is 35 years old and still going strong! But, since the main characters are puppets they can last (although the creater of the Muppets died a while back) forever. I always thought that Sesame' Street was a bit of a disappointment for its original purpose yet a great thing for children everywhere. The original purpose of Sesame' Street was to get pre-school education into the ghettoes of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc. However, it was the suburban children that got/get the most benefit from watching the show.

Anyway, I was in a doctor's office on Friday when Keeshan's death was announced (my wife was listening with earphones to her local talk radio program). When we told the doctors and nurses that he had died, there were all sorts of comments about how they had watched him as a child, what he had meant to them and so on.

Glen, K9STH

Clarabell.. Howdy Doody (WHAT TIME IS IT, KIDS???!!!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

CAP'N KANGAROO! A sad day... truly..

Captain Kangaroo was the 'Mr. Rogers of the early days'. I used to watch him EACH morning. Mr. Green Jeans, BUNNY RABBIT - what a hoot!

He did his show (if memory serves me correctly, which at times, is true! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif from Baltimore - I think.

And then there was "Captain Chesapeake" if anyone happens to recall that show. IT came in the afternoon. It was the 'after school' version of Captain Kangaroo!

Truly.. the 'Golden Age' of TV the entire family would and could enjoy without any concerns about 'the content'.

Yes, we are showing our age... but who cares..

RIP Captain.. RIP!

73

K3FT

[N0KLT]

The Captain was a truely gentle role model for the kids. I was sort of at a 'notch' age for the Captain, I was almost too old to be watching him, but when I was sick as a kid and missed school, which was a lot it seemed, I always enjoyed him, even tho I was asked what are you watching him for? by my parents. I am not sure I had a favorite from his show, his whole show was entertaining to me. If I had to pick one other then the Captain, it probably would be Mr Greenjeans, who, if my leaky memory serves me right also passed away a few years back. Guess I am just a big kid, I used to enjoy watching Sesame Street with my son and he was born when I was 33. Heck I still get a kick out of parts of that show when I stumble across it. You couldn't beat the old Count and the Snuffleupagus for fun, nor any other of the Muppets on that show.

But as someone earlier posted we have lost most of the icons of TV from our childhoods lately(if you are around my age anyway). The Captain, Mr Rogers, and Buffalo Bob were all a part of a lot of great memories for a lot of people in this country. We will miss them.

As a whimsical note, I remember watching some show a few years ago and Bob Keeshan was a guest and he made mention of the fact that he no longer needed makeup to look the part of the Captain and it was true, other then the clothes he looked just like he did all those yrs ago, except he want pretending anymore.

I am sure he and Buffalo Bob and Mr Rogers are swapping stories even now.

73

Gary NØKLT

[K9STH]

I hate to admit it, but I turn 60 in exactly 20 days (13 February 2004). Even though I had 4 bypasses done just over a year ago, my cardiologist tells me that I have the "heart of a 25 year old" (the bypasses were due to heredity rather than things like high cholesterol - my count stays well under 200).

Frankly, except for rheumatoid arthritis, my health is pretty good. Thus, you guys (and gals) are going to have to "put up with me" for a long time!

Glen, K9STH

[K4JSR]

A diet of Varsity Hotdogs negates Carbon Dating!
And Glen, You're so "vein"! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
All of this time I thought that Bypass was the name of the
town in the comic strip "Kudzu"!
In a more serious vein, (no pun)(trust me!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif,
there are no real modern day follow ups to any of the great
people we grew up with. I take a look on what is coming
off of the tube for kids today and I weep for my grandchildren. They haven't been born yet, so there is still hope!
I had enough trouble trying to keep my kids first words from
being @$#%@! I spent years watching my language and
my temper and what my kids saw on tv. All it took was one
bad driver on I-285 and all I heard for years was, "Daddy,
what does $%@^%@! mean and why can't we say it?"
Life is rough!
73 Y'all Cal K4JSR http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[KD7WHQ]

Unfortunately, Fred Rodgers never served.
It's an urban legend, easily found on several sites.
Sorry about that, but it floated through the Mauser Shooting Association/K98k page forum quite some time back, and was checked.
(Trying to think of the link)

Sad to say.. but TODAY.. if Captain Kangaroo were on it would.. no doubt... be attacked for being UNPOLITICALLY CORRECT...

I know.. I don't see how (and I'm many here don't either) but there are hyper-sensitive busybodies who find 'the boogeyman behind every closet door' and have to get thier noses all out of joint.

PETA would attack for the 'enslavement' of Bunny Rabbit.
AARP would attack for the 'stereotyping' of the Cap'n.
Some ethnic organization would DEMAND inclusion of something or antoher 'to make it fair'
and the GOvernment would stick their noses into it for whatever reason they felt was relevant.

(AM I CYNICAL or just being realistic, based on todays nutty environemen http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif )

BRING BACK (reruns)

Speed racer,
Mickey Mouse Club
Sky King
Spin and Marty
Flash Gordon
Cap'n Kangaroo
Cap'n Chesapeake
Gigantor
George of the Jungle
Howdy Doody
Art Linkletter

and others which youcould watch.. enjoy, have a laugh with.. and know your kids weren't going to ask you those "INTERESTING" questions like

"Daddy.. how come those two girls are (fill in the blanks)?"
"Daddy.. how come those kids say those things and not get punished?"
"Daddy.. how come that guy lets people make fun of his family?"

SIGH..

And they wonder why I watch TV LAND, NICK AT NIGHT, and other 'old fashioned stuff'.

BTW... Glen is like a Vulcan. His aging process is so much slower than ours. When we are 100, Glen will actually be only 20 in actual medical condition terms.

He'll STILL be helping folks to remember 'the past' and correcting errors on some future high speed reflector.

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CONGRATS on the BDAY, Glen.

Just remember. YOU ARE NOT 60!

You are simply celebrating the 18th anniversary of turning 21 for the 2nd time!

73
Chuck K3FT

[kd5sdi]

Man,
these people were my favorites when I was growing up. It was also really neat to watch my daughter watching mr. Rogers. In the greek and roman lore one could achieve immortality through great deeds of heroism or other noble character. If that were true Mr. Rogers and captain Kangaroo would be right up there, there is no more noble deed than making children happy. So long captain.

[W7WV]

Hey, another rerun I would like to see again, Amos and Andy.

[K9STH]

Amos & Andy are definitely not "politically correct"! They have been shown in reruns on various cable networks and the backlash from a very small, but vocal, minority of the particular minority involved have kept them from being shown. Of course the original radio characters were played by caucasian persons but the TV series was played by blacks (African Americans, Negroes, whatever is politically correct these days!).

The Charlie Chan movies were being shown on cable a few months back and a small minority of oriental persons clammored very loudly about the "sterotypes" being played. They were "pulled" for less than a week. There was such a backlash from other orientals that the cable network "compromised" and showed the movies but then had a "discussion group" about the portrayl of oriental types in the movies. That group was led by "Mr. Sulu" of Star Trek fame. Frankly, the "discussion" was pretty meaningless in my opinion! Also, it turns out that Charlie Chan was based on a real person who was on the Honolulu police force during the 1920s and 1930s.

By the way, does anyone but me remember "Super Circus" with Mary Hartline as the female ringmaster? I don't know if it was a Chicago program only, or if it was "network". All I know is that she got me interested in girls!

Glen, K9STH

[K9STH]

ECI:

The link for the copy of Super Circus doesn't work!

However, now everyone can see why Mary Hartline caused me to discover girls! This was on TV during the 1950s and not the 1990s!

Glen, K9STH

How about adding , Red Skelton to the "list' ?

[w4rot]

- I was always fascinated when the Captain put the keys on the nail and the music stopped...yeah I'm easily amused.
-Red Skelton....Personally I remeber to be one of the greatests mimes ever, IMHO.."May God Bess".
-Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
-Fractured Fairy Tales.
Then, I grew up.
Cow and Chicken.
w4rot

[N8CPA]

I remember "Super Circus," and Alan Hale as "Casey Jones," "Fury--the Story of a Horse and the Boy Who Loved Him" with Peter Graves, "Andy's Kids" (Andy Devine and Froggie--hiya hiya hiya). I also remember "Seahunt," "Rama of the Jungle," "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon," "Whirlybirds," "Ripcord," "Tugboat Annie," "Cannon Ball," "The Vikings," "Lincoln Bale of the Everglades," and I'm sure if you'd name them, I probably watched 'em.

And one of my favorite Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Moose memories: For several years, they hosted TV coverage of one of the Thanksgiving Day parade shows. One of those parades featured a caterpillar type float called the Doodlebug. Every year, Mr Moose would be freaked out by the float, and the captain would make sure he saw it coming down the street.

My favorite Mr. Greenjeans invention was the Captain Kangaroo Cuckoo Clock. As with all his inventions, the idea was to make the captain the feature of the device. In the case of the clock, Mr Gj would move the hands, as Captain K stood inside, pop the doors open and say, "Cuckoo." As the captain was cuckoo-ing, Mr Gj started dusting the face of the clock with a feather duster. The captain opened the doors to cuckoo, and getting a faceful of duster, immediately closed them, leaving the duster stuck in the doors. It appeared to be an unscripted event. To free the duster, the captain popped open the doors long enough to say "Kook!"
To a nine-year-old, it was hilarious!

Steve

[K4TDM]

A favorite of mine in the early sixties was Captain Penny out of Cleveland. He always ended the show saying,

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool Mom. She's pretty nice and she's pretty smart, you listen to her and you won't go far wrong!"

Other "local memories" were Jungle Larry from Chippewa Lake and Mr. Jing-a-ling from Halle's second floor!

NOSTALGIA MODE FULLY ENGAGED!

Bowling For Dollars
Dialing For Dollars
Art Linkletter - Kids Say The Darndest Things! (STILL A HOOT!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

If you are going to get started on attractive ladies that fueled many a young man's mind..

The bestest show was MICKEY MOUSE CLUB! #If you need to ask why... #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

(We WON'T talk about the ones that came along 'just a bit later' in the teenaged years)

For sheer 'the good guys are tough but fair' there was

gravel voiced Broderick Crawford "TWENTY ONE FIFTY TO HEADQUARTERS!!!!" (with the tooth buster metal Motorola mike!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

'Have Gun, Will Travel'
ANY John Wayne Movie.


Amos and Andy were hoots! #I never, ever, recalled anyone (me included) ever attaching any stereotypes to it. THAT had be to taught to me by the very people who objected to it #

I used toget the biggest laugh out of #listening to Kingfish 'plotting' how to make the big score and Amos and Andy trying to figure out how to pull some stunt or another.

Charlie Chan! #Great show! #Watching him methodically deduce the 'identity of the killer' from the evidence and facts was SO COOL! #He was the Columbo of those days (and he had his trademark hat! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif # )

At the risk of REALLY offending the PC crowd...

Father knows best
My Three Sons
Leave it To Beaver..

(BTW.. does ANYONE recall the 'infamous' line that snuck through which had some REALLY funny double entendre to it? #It DID happen becuase I heard a cut from a recording of the episode a buddy of mine in the broadcast industry had acquired. #HINT... It was a comment that June Cleaver made to Ward after he rather pointedly verbally reprimanded one of his sons) #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Back then.. you COULD trust your car to the man who wore the star!

K3FT

[KA7RRA]

I grew up in the puget sound area in Kirkland I remember JP-Patches and Stand Borstain ( spelling)

Back then every body wanted to be a patches pal
Are there any great role modle for kids today like they had back when we were growing up??
I remember shows like the long ranger surperman where
everybody wanted to be a good guy. Most of the tv shows I see today are garbage
Dave

[K9STH]

Again, admitting to my age:

I remember the Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, The Shadow, Gangbusters, and a lot more on the radio! You had to use your imagination to "see" what was going on.

The Lone Ranger and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon were both produced out of Detroit. One of the major writers of both shows was Bob "Arch" Green who moved to the Dallas area in the mid-1970s. I got to meet him as well as hear many of his tales of the audiences' reactions to the programs.

The Lone Ranger was especially targeted by various people. For example, the word "kemosabbe" supposedly meaning "special friend" in Pottawattomi (Tonto was supposedly originally a Pottowattami) was actually "invented" while the script writers were sitting around a table at a bar in downtown Detroit.

One day Arch met, in the same bar, a high iron worker who was in town building one of the major buildings in Detroit. After a while the iron worker asked Arch what he did for a living and Arch told him that he was a writer for the Lone Ranger show. The iron worker then asked if he could get some of the promotional items for all 5 of his children since they were real Lone Ranger fans. Arch explained that it was customary to just give one set of the material to each family. The iron worker understood. Then, he asked Arch where the word "kemosabbe" came from and Arch explained that it was an "ancient" Pottawattomi word meaning "special friend". The iron worked "realed back" and said "I'm a Pottawattomi and there ain't no such word in our language"! Right then and there, Arch decided that this particular person should get all of the promotional materials that he wanted!

The Lone Ranger show often used some real names of very minor outlaws (who were long dead) as the villans in the plots. Well, one day Arch got a telephone call. It seems that they had used the name of a particular individual who not only was still alive, but was then living in the Detroit area! This individual was very upset at the way he had been portrayed in the show. When Arch asked what he could do to rectify the situation, the "outlaw" replied that he would meet the Lone Ranger at the main intersection in downtown Detroit at "high noon". They would "fight it out" using clumps of horse manure!

On the Sergeant Preston of the Yukon show, in one show King (the "lead dog" of Preston's dog team) hurt his paw. The show's producer insisted that for the next 4 weeks that King had to "limp" (of course the announcer had to say this!) as he walked just to keep "continuity" with the plots!

Arch had many more "tales" of the old days of Radio. He was in his 70s when I met him so I doubt that he is still alive. But, considering his attitude, etc., he could most certainly still be around!

Glen, K9STH

[WA2ZDY]

I guess I'm feeling a little deprived here.

We didn't have a TV until I was 11 or 12. And when we did get the thing, I never fell into its mystical grasp. In fact, not much later I would get into hamming and any hope the TV had of sucking me in was lost.

Mind you, I'm 42 now, so we got our first TV around 1973 or 1974. I'm not talking ancient history here. But no TV is why I know how to read and I enjoy it. Also why I can function now when there's snow on the dish outside.

TV now? Flyers games, occassionally Jeopardy, but religiously, 7th Heaven.

Do I really feel deprived? Not at all. Fortunate is more like it. I see too many folks who can't live without the idiot box. I did.

[N0KLT]

Another great show from the 'good ole days' was Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, quite a funny show with hand puppets and live people, Fran as I remember was Fran Allison, June Allison's sister, Ollie was a single toothed dragon or some thing like that and I have no clue what Kukla was supposed to be, he looked like the character that is the symbol for Jack-in-the-box but without the hat.

Another kid's show from that time, that I really don't know if it was a network or local show, was a puppet show called Beanie and Cecil, Beanie being a kid on a boat of some kind and Cecil was the sea sick sea serpent that talked to Beanie all the time. Beanie, of course, wore a propeller beanie.

I think the first cartoon show series I remember was something called Crusader Rabbit about a rabbit who was a Knight in Merry Old England. I don't remember if that one was a network show or a local one either.

As far as characters on tv and shows of their own, I vaguely remember old Gabby Hayes having a show in the afternoons that showed westerns, but since it was only a 15 minute show, I assume it was some of the old cliff hanger seriels from the Saturday Matinee days.

How about Range Rider, and Red Ryder as well as the Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassiday shows. And all of their great and goofy side kicks.

So many great shows, so many holes in my memory, so little time to recall them.

Those were the days, some might say they were the Life of Riley.

73

Gary NØKLT

[K9STH]

Trivia question:

Who played the original Riley on the television show The Life of Riley. It wasn't William Bendix! He came on the show the 2nd year.

Glen, K9STH

[KC9CIL]

Lee Marvin and Bob Keesham
http://www.snopes.com/military/keeshan.htm

Mr. Rogers
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp

And another site is [http://urbanlegends.about.com/mbody.htm][/URL]
I didn't look up the stories here but you can.

[K9STH]

ECI:

You got it! Jackie Gleason was Riley before doing the Jackie Gleason show on which the Honeymooners was originally just a "skit" on every program.

By the way, Fran Allison (Fran of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie) has been on various television shows in the past several years (I think she is still living) along with Kukla and especially Ollie.

Buffalo Bob Smith, who died a couple of years ago, was at the Collin Creek Mall in Plano, Texas (less than 2 miles from my house), a few years back. My wife and I didn't know that he was going to be there and just happened to go up there that evening. He was on the lower level and the entire lower level and the 2nd level that overlooked the area below were filled with middle-aged people. We got a "rail" standing place on the 2nd level. You should have heard several thousand people answering to the question "kids, what time is it" in unison! I wasn't sure if the roof of the mall would hold!

Since the original Howdy Doody is in the Smithsonian Institution, he had film clips instead of having a substitue puppet. Also, he had someone who was playing Clarabell.

My wife and I have a Howdy Doody doll (about 16 inches tall) sitting in a small chair on top of our piano! It is in excellent shape! Sometimes my wife puts our "Nipper" (RCA-Victor) dog next to him. This is an original plaster Nipper rather than the hollow plastic types from the 1960s and 1970s.

Glen, K9STH

[KD7WHQ]

Thanks, CIL.. It was snopes.com I couldn't remember.
It is an excellent bookmark however http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[K7KBN]

Steve, N8CPA, remembers Alan Hale as Casey Jones. I remember one episode of that show where Casey had been "trainjacked" (I guess that's would be the term). He told the bad guy he had to blow the train whistle and the bad guy (sucker!!!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif said, "Go ahead". Casey then blew "S M S". I had been a ham for a couple of years, and I knew he was going to do "S O S", but he did it five times, and every time there was an M instead of an O! Next day, I mentioned it to one of my Elmers (yes, we had them back then too, only they were just "Mister Rabb", in this case). He had been a railroad telegrapher...still was, actually...and he gave me a quick lesson in AMERICAN Morse Code!

Turns out ol' Casey WAS saying SOS!

[K7KBN]

Glen - do you remember "Big Jon and Sparky"?

[wd5kca]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (k7kbn @ Jan. 25 2004,19:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Steve, N8CPA, remembers Alan Hale as Casey Jones. I remember one episode of that show where Casey had been &quot;trainjacked&quot; (I guess that's would be the term). He told the bad guy he had to blow the train whistle and the bad guy (sucker!!!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif said, &quot;Go ahead&quot;. Casey then blew &quot;S M S&quot;. I had been a ham for a couple of years, and I knew he was going to do &quot;S O S&quot;, but he did it five times, and every time there was an M instead of an O! Next day, I mentioned it to one of my Elmers (yes, we had them back then too, only they were just &quot;Mister Rabb&quot;, in this case). He had been a railroad telegrapher...still was, actually...and he gave me a quick lesson in AMERICAN Morse Code!

Turns out ol' Casey WAS saying SOS![/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Ol Casey Jones was a real innovator. He was sending a message that would not be recognized as the universal distress call until many years later.

[K9STH]

KBN:

Not really! I think Sparky was some sort of dog, but I may be remembering something else.

Glen, K9STH

[K7KBN]

Glen - no, Sparky was a puppet, and &quot;Big Jon&quot; was his...friend. They were on a radio show back in the early-to-mid 50s called &quot;No School Today&quot; (it was on Saturdays). The theme song was &quot;The Teddy Bears' Picnic&quot;.

And right after &quot;No School Today&quot;: &quot;High adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space! Missions of daring in the name of interplanetary justice! TRAVEL into the FUTURE with Buzz Corey, Commander-in-Chief of the SPAAAAACE PATROLLLLL!&quot;.

Like Dave Barry says: I can't remember a three-item grocery list, but I can remember all the words to &quot;Pineapple Princess&quot;.

[w3sy]

In a related story, sadly, Barney the purple dinosaur has passed away.

Just think, in 20 million years, he'll return as 87 Octane at a Shell station near YOU!

FOOEY on Barney! A knock off of the MOST famous of dinosaurs - &quot;DINO&quot; - from 'The Flintstones'. BARNEY also took a perfectly good children's rhyme 'This Old Man' and ripped that off too!

Other famous lines from famous shows and cartoons we all should recall.

'I'm SMMARRRRRTER than the average bear!'
'EXIT! Stage Right/Left'
'I taut I saw a Puddy Tat!? I DID! I DID! I DID SEE A PUDDY TAT!!'
'Yoouurrrrrrrrrrr despicccable!'
'Ummmmm.. what'ssss up, Doc?'
'Hello! I'm Mr. Ed!'
'HIIIYOOOO SILVER! AWAY!'
'Curses! FOILED again!'
'HELP MR WIZARD!!!'
'Drizzle, drazzle, drozzle, drone! Time for this one to come home!'
'Set the Wayback Machine, Sherman!'

and there are dozens and dozens more...

You know what's REALLY kinda strange? realizing that I know 10 times more jingles, catch phrases, and the like from the early days of TV than I do now...

It's even STRANGER when you find yourself using them in normal conversation. It's EVEN STRANGER when the other persons RECOGNIZES THEM TOO!


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Damn.. the GEEZ ALERT has sounded!

73
K3FT

[K9STH]

SY: Since Barney's home is just a couple of miles from me (he is out of Plano, Texas) I guess that this part of Texas will have oil in a few million years! Now you have to go about 30 miles to get to some oil and more like over 40 to really get that many oil wells!

KBN: I have never heard of the No School Today program! Either I was too old to listen or else it wasn't on a popular Chicago radio station. Also, we got our first TV in 1955 but my grandmother had one in 1952. So, by the mid-1950s I was watching TV and not listening to the radio.

I believe that there was a children's television program that had a cartoon in which one of the characters was Sparky the dog. Somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind I remember at least one of my daughters watching the program.

Now, for a really local children's program there was the Jingles the Christain Dragon Show. This was on one of the Dallas independent UHF stations around 1971 or 1972. Jingles was, of course, a puppet and they had a &quot;peanut gallery&quot; just like Howdy Doody. Jingles showed some really badly drawn cartoons and interfaced with the audience. Frankly, the program was really pretty bad (not in terms of the subject, just &quot;bad&quot; in the acting, program content, etc.)! However, my eldest daughter who was 4 at the time liked to watch it and she even got accepted to have her birthday party &quot;on the air&quot; with Jingles. But, before her birthday the show got cancelled and she was disappointed!

When she was a senior in high school she was on the Mr. Pepermint Show (which was VERY popular for years around the Dallas / Fort Worth area). She placed very high in a national science competition (got a fairly nice scholarship cash award from Duracell Batteries) and they wanted her to come on the show. However, she only agreed to go on if she could also feature her artwork. They complied with her request. She is now a very successful commercial artist (she got a &quot;full ride&quot; to Southern Methodist University due to her art ability!). Since SMU is VERY expensive, and since she could live at home (about 10 miles to the campus) this worked out very well! She liked Mr. Pepermint, but what she really liked (and she was 18 at the time) was &quot;Muffin&quot; the beaver puppet!

Glen, K9STH

[N0KLT]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (K3FT @ Jan. 25 2004,23:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">'Drizzle, drazzle, drozzle, drone! Time for this one to come home!'[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Geez alert is right.

The only one I didn't recognize is this one, what was it from. The reset I recognized and remembered quite easily but that one is a mystery.

Ah the good ole days

73

Gary NØKLT

[K9STH]

FT:

A while back, for some reason, I said &quot;cowabunga&quot; in a department store. The clerk said &quot;oh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!&quot; I said, &quot;no, Howdy Doody&quot;. The clerk looked at me like I was from outer-space! I then explained that I knew the TMNT, but that the expression &quot;cowabunga&quot; was about 50 years older than they were!

Glen, K9STH

[N0KLT]

Glen

Wasn't Sparky the Dog a character that was used for fire prevention campaigns, sort of like Woodsy the Owl and McGruff the Crime Dog? I remember some sort of dalmation cartoon dog wearing a fireman's hat and for some reason I want to attach the name Sparky to the character.

73

Gary NØKLT

[K9STH]

KLT:

I believe that you are correct in that Sparky is the cartoon dog used in the fire prevention programs. I may have seen some of the cartoons that used to be presented (may still be presented!) on the children's programs to educate them on fire safety.

Glen, K9STH

[N8CPA]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (N0KLT @ Jan. 25 2004,22:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (K3FT @ Jan. 25 2004,23:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">'Drizzle, drazzle, drozzle, drone! Time for this one to come home!'[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Geez alert is right.

The only one I didn't recognize is this one, what was it from. The reset I recognized and remembered quite easily but that one is a mystery.

Ah the good ole days

73

Gary NØKLT[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
That was a character, a turtle whose name I can't remember, from a cartoon, who would want to travel back in time with the help of a wizard. Things would invariably go wrong, as the wizard watched through the crystal ball. That was the encantation that would return the turtle to present time.

WHAT THE HEQQ WAS THE NAME OF THAT CARTOON?
That will drive me nuts all day. Thanks a lot!

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Also, I remember that Casey Jones episode with the SOS.
He said the name of the letter after each series of toots.
3 Shorts, &quot;S,&quot; etc. Another episode I remember, they used the train to evacuate people from an area before a dam burst. When they saw the dam burst, Casey said, &quot;That was too close!&quot; His fireman said, &quot;Amen!&quot; I was in first grade at a Catholic school at the time, and it was the first time I remember hearing &quot;Amen&quot; used on television. I was so naive, it made me think they were Catholic.

Everybody, Sing!
&quot;...Casey Jones
Steamin' and a rollin'
Casey Jones
You never have to guess!
When you hear
The tootin' of the whistle
It's Casey at the trottle
Of the Cannon Ball Express!&quot;

I was also a fan of Gabby and Gene Autry and Roy and...
&quot;Oh, Cisco!&quot; &quot;Oh, Pancho!&quot;

What a self-indulgent nostalgia binge this thread is!
Lotsa fun! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

CPA/KLT... rest your weary mind.. wipe your fevered brow.

The phrase 'Drizzle Drazzle Drozzle Drone, Time for this one to come home' came from 'Tooter, The Turtle'. A young turtle who Mr. Wizard would send to various places. It was 'kinda like Mr. Peabody and Sherman with the WayBack Machine'.

Tooter was interested in going places where he could play out fantasies such as being a memberof the 'The Three Musketeers' etc. #Tooter would say this when he was in trouble and wanted to be rescued! He would call 'HELPPPPP, MR. WIZARD!!! HELPPPPPPP!&quot;

'Sparky' the dog was a dalmation. He wore the classic red fireman's helmet and would help folks learn about fire prevention tips andthe like.

Althugh.. I kinda look at Glen as the 'McGruff' of QRZ.

He growls at times and says 'TAKE A BITE.... OUT OF SILLINESS!'

&quot;Glen, the QRZ.COM Behaviour Moderator&quot; I still have this picture of Glen in his white and black striped referees shirt in another thread! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Glen, #COWABUNGA! Yep, has happened to me many times. Usually it's kids that say it and I let it go.. but - like you - when an older person says it was from TMNT I have to correct 'em! #Don't want them to pass errors to their kids!

And of course.. there is always.

&quot;ONLY YOU!!!..... CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES!!&quot;

OK.. NOW for BONUS POINTS!!

Who can repeat, verbatim.. the ENTIRE 'Smokey, The Bear' #song?

BWAH HA HA!

I know.. you are ALL gonna have that tune running around your heads ALL DAY!

BWAH HA HA!

and THAt will trigger you to remember Daniel Boone's theme, along with all those long-buried theme songs from your past V watching days!

As Bugs Bunny says.. 'Ain't I a stinker!!??'

73

Chuck K3FT

[k0fo]

&quot;Out of the blue of the western sky comes....Sky King!&quot;
and his niece Penny, and their Cessna 310B &quot;Songbird&quot;

&quot;Ding Dong School&quot; with Miss Frances

[K9STH]

FO:

You have been watching the &quot;late&quot; versions of Sky King! The earlier TV versions used an old twin Beech!


FT:

Smokey the Bear
Smokey the Bear
Pawin' and a growlin' and snifin' the air
He can spot a fire
Before it starts to flame
He can smell the smoke
That's how he got his name
Smokey the Bear
Smokey the Bear
Pawin' and a growlin' and snifin' the air

Now, the original Smokey the Bear was a badly &quot;singed&quot; cub that was found still alive after a major forest fire. Since he was so badly &quot;tinged&quot; with smoke and smelled like smoke as well, the park rangers named him Smokey. He became the &quot;standard&quot; of the slogan &quot;Only you can prevent forest fires&quot;. If I remember correctly, the original Smokey survived until just a few years ago in a national zoo somewhere.

Glen, K9STH

[ke4mej]

I was a big Sky King and Penny fan myself...i don't remember a Beechcraft being used, though. #Prior to the Songbird, i remember a Cessna T-50, the old &quot;Bamboo Bomber.&quot; #There was a nephew in the earlier versions too, but i can't remember his name...didn't make as big an impression on me as Penny did, i guess!

73
Chuck

[K9STH]

It may have been a &quot;bamboo bomber&quot;, but I remember it as being an old twin Beech! Definitely remember the &quot;B-25&quot; type of twin rudders. But, that was almost 50 years ago! I do remember when they changed over to the &quot;modern&quot; twin Cessna.

Also, I definitely remember the nephew. If I remember correctly, he was also a pilot and &quot;saved the day&quot; a couple of times.

Glen, K9STH

[K9STH]

MEJ:

According to various websites the original airplane used on the Sky King show was a T-50 bamboo bomber. However, I definitely remember a twin tailed aircraft being used on some shows. The bamboo bomber had/has a &quot;conventional&quot; single rudder. The aircraft with the twin tail was probably a Beech T-45 which was about the same size as the T-50.

The nephew's name was &quot;Clipper&quot; according to various websites. Kirby Grant, who played Sky King was killed in an automobile accident and, again according to the various websites, is why the show was cancelled.

Glen, K9STH

[N8CPA]

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT--I GET TO CORRECT THE GURU!

Glenn, with all due deference and respect, the stanza
was:

&quot;...He can spot a fire
Before it starts to flame
That's why they call him Smokey
That is how he got his name.&quot;

Most humbly submitted.

!!

PS. When I went to summer camp, they passed out comic books of his story, and the lyrics were on the last page. We sang it around the camp fire.

[K9STH]

CPA:

You may be right! However, we didn't have any comic books provided by the National Forest Service when I was in the Boy Scouts so the words that we learned may not have been absolutely correct!

Probably was like a lot of campfire songs, the words got &quot;modified&quot; as the song passed from camp to camp!

However, Camp To-Pe-Ne-Be of the Pottawattomi Council BSA (To-Pe-Ne-Be, To-Pe-Ne-Be how you make me shiver, from your old dining hall to your little dinky river. I love you with my heart. I love you with my liver. To-Pe-Ne-Be, by the river!) is still there, just off of U.S. Highway 421 south of Michigan City, Indiana, and just west of LaPorte! The old dining Hall (which was new when I was a Boy Scout and then a counselor at the camp - 1950s) burned down last summer!

Glen, K9STH

[N8CPA]

I hate to hear about old BSA camps closing or burning.

The last time I stayed at a BSA camp I was in college. One of my roomates had a friend whose parents managed one in northern Ohio. We spent the night up there in the permanent tents, sleeping on metal cots without mattresses. Since no scouts were using it that weekend, we each had a tent to ourselves. It was the weekend of the Perseid meteor shower. I just wish I had been a ham then. But that was well before I even heard of meteor scatter.

Steve

[K9STH]

Fortunately, the dining hall sat on a hill completely away from the rest of the camp. That was the only thing damaged (according to the LaPorte Herald-Argus - local newspaper with two websites). The camp is still very much in operation and just held a &quot;Klondike Derby&quot; (sleds drawn by the scouts themselves, etc.) last week. Again according the the Herald-Argus.

I believe that a new dining hall has already been built.

Glen, K9STH

[W0LPQ]

Glen, I think they went from the Bamboo Bomber to an early Cessna 310. That was before WE had radios in that thing. They stuffed it full of the old ARC radio stuff, which Cessna had invested in.

73

Bill, WØLPQ

[K9STH]

I definitely remember a &quot;twin tailed&quot; aircraft in at least a couple of the shows. It might have been another airplane that was part of the plot! I do remember a couple of shows where the players flew different aircraft from their &quot;usual&quot; mounts. It may have been during one of these!

Anyway, I was not a regular watcher of the program (or is the correct term &quot;viewer&quot;!) and it has been many years since I watched the Sky King program! Now, Super Circus! I definitely remember Mary Hartline!

Glen, K9STH

[W0LPQ]

Glen, you are right again. It was a Beech 18 (Twin Beech). You might remember the Collins Twin Beech, or rather a pair of them. The last one to go was in the mid 80's when 18Z went to California. The guy was going to rebuild it as original....but never heard from him again.

So....Bamboo Bomber to the Twin Beech to the Cessna 310.

73

Bill, WØLPQ

N8CPA.. DING DING DING!! You are the winnah! You have the words 100 percent correct. Glen had the rest correct but you supplied the correct other verse!


BTW. to those who wondered WHAT the double-entendre phrase used on 'Leave It To Beaver' was...

It occured a couple of times at various times during the show's run.

The first time I heard it (and this was confirmed by a buddy in the business who saved a tape and played it for me).. was just after Ward had gotten on Beaver for screwing up SOMEHTHING and had given him a GOOD talking to!

Then he sent him upstairs to 'wash up before supper!'. The next morning, June and Ward were talking, and June commented on the talking to that Ward had given Beaver the evening before.

Her line was, &quot;Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?&quot;

As a kid.. I totally missed it.. but later.. when my understanding of 'slang' became more enhanced.. I heard it again on the re-runs and almost fell off the chair laughing at it. I was watching it with couple friends. THey missed it at first until I told them - after I finished laughing. Then we all lost it again. I can't watch that show without smiling.

I know.. it MAY be a bit risque.. but sometimes the FUNNIEST things are those that happen 'by accident' and totally out of the blue.

I am having such a blast reading your posts, folks! Such a hoot!

Ahh, Annette.... a young boys dream.. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

73
Chuck K3FT

GEEZ ALERT ENABLED!!

[K8ERV]

All bow down and grovel to my feet. I finally caught Glen in a mistake. It is NOT Smokey THE bear. It is SMOKEY BEAR. I worked for the Forest service (volunteer) There was no THE in the name. Very important! #Hear Yea, Hear Yea. Just Smokey Bear. Since passed away. # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

TOM K8ERV

[K9STH]

Tom:

You caught me in my yearly mistake! I make one mistake a year to prove that I am human. Until now every mistake that I have made was when I thought I was wrong about something but I really was right!

Glen, K9STH

[K9STH]

Bill, by the time I worked for Collins (1967 to 1969 right out of college) they were flying the Gulfstream I aircraft. If I remember correctly, they held 13 passengers. When flying from Cedar Rapids to Addison (suburban Dallas for those who don't know the area) 12 passengers, all dressed in 3-piece suits and carrying briefcases would get off of the airplane. Then, an elderly gentleman wearing old blue jeans and a &quot;T&quot; shirt would get off. Yep, that was Art Collins! Not always, but sometimes!

The company flew the Gulfstreams out to Newport Beach, California, twice a week from Dallas as well as almost daily flights to Cedar Rapids.

Glen, K9STH

K9STH said.. &quot;Tom:

You caught me in my yearly mistake! I make one mistake a year to prove that I am human. Until now every mistake that I have made was when I thought I was wrong about something but I really was right!

Glen, K9STH

to which I reply.

UH UH! Glen.. I KNOW what you are doing.. you are just TESTING us to see if we ACTUALLY READ the posts on threads! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

K3FT

[AG3Y]

OK, Trivia time. Who played the Princess SummerFallWinterSpring on Howdy Doody ?

What movie did she star in with a famous rock singer ?

1000 points for each correct answer !


73 from Jim AG3Y

[AG3Y]

OHHHH , I just HATE &quot;Know it alls&quot; like you , Tom ! ! ! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

You are absolutely 100% correct. #

Tragic ending to such a promising life. #She was really a beautiful girl, but my understanding is that she could talk a drunken sailor under the table! #You would never believe it, based on her screen image ( both large and small ! )

BTW, just to bring back the original subject of the thread, Capt. Kangaroo, I understand that Bob was dismissed by early critics as having &quot;no talent whatsoever&quot;. They were ready to dump him on the trashpile of young actors with a lot of ambition, but no ability. Should be a source of inspiration to all of us, I would say !

73 from Jim AG3Y

[K9STH]

Actually, the Princess was &quot;played&quot; by the puppeteer! Her voice was Judy Tyler!

Everyone knows who was the voice of Howdy Doody, don't they?!!

Glen, K9STH

[K7KBN]

For Pacific Northwesterners:

Zero dockus
Mucho crockus
Kalabazoola-bub...

Anybody remember...?

[AG3Y]

I seem to remember that there were two versions of the Princess. #One was &quot;live&quot; and the other a puppet, depending on what kind of interaction they were having with &quot;Buffalo Bob&quot; Smith. #I have a book about the old show kicking around somewhere. #I will have to dig it out and see if I can come up with some other interesting trivia about the program.

Here is a URL about the Princess's &quot;Dual Identity&quot; ( my words! )

http://www.howdydoodytime.com/cast_princess.htm

I admit that I did not see too much of the show in its original run. #( Just a year or so too late for the best part of it ) but did catch a few episodes before it went off the air. #

More to come. #73 for now. #Jim AG3Y

[AG3Y]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">
Everyone knows who was the voice of Howdy Doody, don't they?!!

Glen, K9STH [/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

The answer is on this URL

http://www.howdydoodytime.com/puppets.htm

73 from Jim AG3Y

[K9STH]

You have to really &quot;dig&quot; for the information on the site!

However, it was Buffalo Bob Smith who did the voice of Howdy Doody. As the site says, the various actors spent the hour before the show recording the voices of the puppets.

I don't remember the period that Buffalo Bob was recovering from a heart attack that Gabby Hayes filled in for him. According to the website that was in 1954. I had &quot;grown out&quot; of the Howdy Doody show by then and wasn't watching it. My sister may have watched it, but she would have just turned 3 and probably doesn't remember.

Now, for those who have lost track: Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, was the first Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody show for the first 5 years that the show was on the air. Thus, the thread hasn't been completely &quot;hijacked&quot;!

Glen, K9STH

[KD7WHQ]

KBN:
Stan Boreson.

What do I win? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[N0KLT]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (K9STH @ Jan. 27 2004,13:04)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Actually, the Princess was &quot;played&quot; by the puppeteer! Her voice was Judy Tyler!

Everyone knows who was the voice of Howdy Doody, don't they?!!

Glen, K9STH[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
For at least one season, the Princiss was played by a flesh and blood actress, I have no clue to the years, but I presume the actress was Judy Tyler. Not sure why they went away from the puppet or back to it, but one never knows what tv producers think about Or if they think, My Mother the Car being an example of non thinking.

Speaking of old time tv personalities, did you folks read that Jack Paar passed away today? Now there was a uniquie one also.

73

Gary NØKLT

[K9STH]

And then there were Mr. Ed and Frances the &quot;talking mule&quot; (voice by Chill Wills who also sometimes played the &quot;general&quot; in some of the movies)!

My middle daughter doesn't like for her children to watch Barney although she knows the creator of Barney personally! Kelly thinks Barney is too weird.

Glen, K9STH

[N0KLT]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (K9STH @ Jan. 27 2004,20:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And then there were Mr. Ed and Frances the &quot;talking mule&quot; (voice by Chill Wills who also sometimes played the &quot;general&quot; in some of the movies)!

My middle daughter doesn't like for her children to watch Barney although she knows the creator of Barney personally! Kelly thinks Barney is too weird.

Glen, K9STH[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Good for your middle daughter, she is my kind of people.

73
Gary NØKLT

[W0LPQ]

Anyone remember Buffalo Bob's infamous speech after the program ended....but his mic was still on..!

&quot;That otta hold............&quot;

73

Neat thread, lots of history..

Bill, WØLPQ

[K9STH]

Bill, that was not Buffalo Bob but a radio children's program host. I don't remember his name right now, but the broadcast was made in the 1940s. That ended his career right then and there!

Glen, K9STH

[K7KBN]

WHQ - you win ten pounds of &quot;fresh&quot; lutefisk!

Glen - I think the guy who is/was supposed to have made the live mike gaffe was Soupy Sales. Seem to remember reading that somewhere.

[K9STH]

It wasn't Soupy Sales. It wasn't on television at all! It was a children's radio broadcast from the 1940s. I'll have to look around and find the exact person who did this. The &quot;clip&quot; appears at various times on television as a &quot;blooper&quot;.

What the person said was &quot;That should hold the little bastards for a while&quot;. Unfortunately, the mike was still &quot;live&quot; and the program was still on the air! The problems of live radio!

Glen, K9STH

[K9STH]

Found it!

It was &quot;Uncle Don&quot; Carney and he didn't make the comment in the 1940s as I had thought but in 1929 on station WOR. Now, there are those who say that he really didn't make the comment, but there are many people who said that they heard it and the fellow who's program came on right after &quot;Uncle Don&quot; said that he did make the remark. It was &quot;standard&quot; procedure for &quot;Uncle Don&quot; to introduce the next program and and the microphone was left &quot;live&quot; instead of being turned off for a minute, or two, and then turned back on.

However, &quot;Uncle Don&quot; did not have his career ruined by the comment as many have believed (including me!). He continued until 1947 when he retired from broadcasting. According to various sources, he was &quot;pulling down&quot; $90,000 per year at the height of the Depression! Thus, he was a very popular radio personality.

Glen, K9STH

[N0KLT]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (k7kbn @ Jan. 28 2004,11:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">WHQ - you win ten pounds of &quot;fresh&quot; lutefisk!

Glen - I think the guy who is/was supposed to have made the live mike gaffe was Soupy Sales. Seem to remember reading that somewhere.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
What's 2nd prize? 20 lbs of lutefisk, which by any definition is not fresh http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

73
Gary NØKLT

[ad5td]

My fav was when Mr. Green Jeans would pick up that big ol' bass violin and become the &quot;Old Folk Singer&quot;. And Mr. Moose’s Ping-Pong Balls. My Mom loved Capt. Kangaroo because it kept me occupied while she woke up in the morning. She told me &quot;I was never so grateful as when you learned to pour your own cereal and watch the Capt.

[KD7WHQ]

Born and raised in Ballard (suburb of Seattle), also known as Snoose Juction, Scandihoovia, and a number of other names, and I have never even tasted lutefisk.

Even surrounded by the Scandinavians as I was http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Somehow I don't think I was missing much.

How about a pack of Brats? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif lol

[W0LPQ]

Thank You Glen....I was so engrossed in Buffalo Bob that I completely forgot &quot;Uncle Don&quot; Carney..! It certainly was him and it was radio...! At that time there were no local TV stations in Idaho and in fact, not sure there were any at all in the State.....maybe Boise but not sure..!

More history...this is neat..!

73

Bill, WØLPQ

The 'that oughta hold the little bas****s' comment I have heard on tape. Someone had it recorded and it survived.

A HOOT to hear.. espeically when you consider now adays that would be a standadr line on ANY 'TV' program running today.

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

73
Chuck

I'm off to get the peanut butter to put on the horse's lips so he will imitate Mr. Ed's talking!

Be back, buckaroos!

(DON'T FORGET TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE!'.. 'A CHRISTMAS STORY!

Don't say the QUEEN MOTHER of words, Lifebuoy tastes A W F U L!!! UGH... not that *I* ever did that, m ind you.

[ac3p]

I credit Sky King for planting the amateur radio seed in my young mind. Watching Penny talk to Sky on the radio gave me the idea that it was a cool thing to do. It was years later that I learned that anybody could do it.

As for Casey and the Morse...Don't forget those Warner Bros. cartoons that have actual Morse sent in them. I believe the fellows in the Sound Dept. were hams and there's a few messages to hams in them.

Other TV memories.....There was Rocky Jones...and even earlier...Tom Corbett and the Space Cadets.....Both with cheesy special effects.....How can you forget Lassie (with Jeff and Gramps) and Fort Apache and Davey Crockett?

For us Baltimoreans there was Miss Nancy on Romper Room....Pete the Pirate and Officer Happy (afternoon cartoons)....Dr. Lucifer (Saturday Night horror flicks)....
Buddy Deane (the local version of Dick Clark that actually predated American Bandstand).....
and the worst show I ever saw on TV, The Collegiates #a local talent scout show....

And by the way, in spite of all this TV, I still managed to learn to read... #

73

Frank

RIP Bob Keeshan....Jack Paar

[AG3Y]

And wasn't it &quot;Miss Jean&quot; on Maryland Public Television ? I used to work there, and the cottage that figured so prominently in the program was just a little old run down shack that was perched on the side of the driveway around the back of the studio section. I was so disappointed when I actually saw the thing in &quot;real life&quot;, that I wanted to cry. But of course, I was a grown boy, and had to remember that everything you see on TV isn't always REAL ! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

That cabin looked like a real neat place on the &quot;Toob&quot; ! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

73 from Jim

For AC3P and AG3Y... (and any others who MIGHT have seen this... )

Please prepare yourself for a short trip down memory lane.

you are seated in front of the TV watching 'Romper Room'.

Miss Sally holds up the mirror in front of her face and begins her 'end of the show spiel' #As she does, the mirror turns transparent and she can look through it - as if she's looking through the TV screen at you. #And she says...

NOW.. repeat after me.
(thanks to N8CPA for the corrected text!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

&quot;Romper Bomper Stomper Boo!
Tell me, Tell me, Tell me do!
Magic Mirror, tell me today,
Did all of our friends
Have fun with us at play?&quot;

And then she would recite a litany of names. We children.. were supposed to #believe that she could see us and we should wave 'HELLO' to her.

AC3P reminds me that 'Miss Claster' was there and YES! I remember her and her husband too. His name used to come up in the credits. I believe it said 'Burt Claster Production'http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

For you folks who could receive WBFF-TV, Channel 45 in Baltimore, MD..

I'm sure you remember 'Captain Chesapeake' and 'Ghost Host Theatre' NOW.. the REAL trivia questions..

1) Who was 'Captain Chesapeake' (real name)
2) What connections - if any - did Cap'n 'C' have to Ghost Host Theatre?
3) HOW did they make that booming 'sepulchre like' voice that the host of Ghost Host Theatre used?

and for EXTRA credit trivia... (one free 'GET OUT OF BEING BANNED BY GLEN' CARD. HI) WHO played 'Mondy the sea monster on the Captain Chesapeake show?)

BWAH HA HA!!

Be back.. my hearing aid battery just died and I have to go refill my glass with Ensure. OMG! I hear a 'CQD' on the old superregen!

AM I OLD or what? &lt;grin&gt;



AND WERE *YOU* A GOOD DO-BEE!?!

I was.. well, umm.. I tried, anyway!

heh

k3FT

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[N8CPA]

Sorry,

I gotta correct another verse. It was:

&quot;Romper Bomper Stomper Boo!
Tell me, Tell me, Tell me do!
Magic Mirror, tell me today,
Did all of our friends
Have fun with us at play?&quot;

Well, when Miss Lois had the show, anyway. She would recite it with the mirror in hand, the back of the mirror to the audience. The screen would fade to a confusing image of something out of focus and moving. Then it would clear, and Miss Lois would be looking into the camera through an empty mirror frame. &quot;Wow, mommy, she can see me!&quot;

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[ac3p]

Chuck,

Miss Sally was after my time.

I watched Miss Nancy (Claster). She and her husband Bert originated Romper Room and later the &quot;franchise' went to other cities.

Now for more trivia.....

Who was Rocky Jones female nemisis ?

73

Frank

p.s. Don't bee a band splatterer. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[K9STH]

Another trivia question:

On the Terry and the Pirates show the &quot;co-pilot&quot; was known as &quot;Hotshot Charlie&quot;. What was his &quot;real&quot; name? Not the actor who played this character, but what was &quot;Hotshot Charlie's&quot; full name on the show?

Glen, K9STH

[K9STH]

ECI:

But what did the &quot;C&quot; stand for and why?

Have to think for a moment on &quot;Doc's&quot; first name. Actually watched Gunsmoke on the Western Channel this evening!

Glen, K9STH

[K9STH]

Galen &quot;Doc&quot; Adams!

Glen, K9STH

[K8ERV]

And here all these years I thot Doc Adams first name was Doc----- http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

TOM K8ERV

[K9STH]

&quot;Hotshot Charlie's&quot; full name was Charles Charles Charles. According to him (at least to his character) his mother did not have any imagination!

Glen, K9STH