@chai2,
I could not deal with H.R Puffenstuff...he was the Barney of his day. Big, ugly and annoying.
Anyone suggesting "The New Zoo Revue" and any positive connotations, please report for immediate psychiatric evaluation.
I think "My Mother the Car" was from the age of innocence that had other commonplace things like talking horses. I'd forgotten that Jerry's career began that
early.
@Butrflynet,
I've got a feeling Captain Satellite might have been inspired by Captain Video and his Video Rangers. You would be a little young for that one.
@roger,
It went off the air a year after I was born. I remember seeing some reruns at some point. After reading the wiki about it, it sounds like it had more skit and performance art then Captain Satellite had. Captain Satellite was a lot of interviews with kids, authors and NASA people peppered between cartoons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Video_and_His_Video_Rangers
Well,
The Cisco Kid
Route 66
Cheyenne
Peter Gunne
Shenanigans.
It was a '60s game show for kids. My sister, brother and I would fight over who got the best spot in front of the TV.
The Tarax Show.
See, not a soul here remembers it!
(hint: you'd have to be a baby boomer who grew up on Oz to be able to recall it!
)
@Intrepid,
Hah, I got Sky King's autograph when, for some reason, he was filming in our immediate neighborhood in Illinois when I was a kid. I later tossed the autograph book. What a dope.
@ossobuco,
I got Hopalong Cassidy's autograph and Dale Evans. Oh, also the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore).
Remember Hopalong Cassidy played by William Boyd in the early 50's?
@Intrepid,
I remember it especially in 1950. My mother made me a "cowboy skirt" out of (I think) light blue denim.
@Intrepid,
I saw Hopalong Cassidy, in the Fresno parade one year - along with Pinky Lee.
@Intrepid,
I remember Sky King best from radio. Didn't get to see it on TV.
Many early TV shows came from the radio, including, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, Gunsmoke, The Life of Riley, Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, Inner Sanctum, Richard Diamond, Dragnet, Dick Tracy, Superman and others. One odd fact, the radio show of Have Gun Will Travel came from the TV, only it starred John Dehner. To me, Brace Beamer is the Lone Ranger, not the guy from TV. And William Conrad made the best Mat Dillon. (In my not so humble opinion).
I spent some formative years outside of Philly and there was a show called Wonderama.
