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"Let this year be over..."
(set 25 days ago)
Location: Where my bills arrive
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Fun City Man: Reading your posting has reminded me of watching Soupy Sales on Sundy morning as a kid. I mean with 5 stations + PBS there weren't alot of choices, and yet we survived. I guess we were outside playing..lol
I also remember the Great Balentine, it seems like likely alot of the performers I grew up with are passing away.
As a person born in the 70's, I believe the world has become stale. Nothing to look foward to anymore. Everything has been done pretty much as far as technology and what not. Maybe improvements on current technology, but I think the world is kinda boring right now.
Going from rotary to touchtone phones...wow
Antenna to cable...wow
Cell phones...wow
Internet...wow
But now it's like, "ok, now what?" exactly.
What's next in our lifetime? Time travel? Flying cars? I doubt it. Cure for cancer? unlikely...Seems to me the only thing to look foward to now is how much money can you make.
And I totally think TV sucks these days, aside from a few select programs.
Bring back Looney Tunes dammit! and not some watered down "PC" version either.
Last Month on Saturday September 18,2010..it was on that date 50 years ago(0n a sunday morning
..actually)that NYC's second most popular and long running kids variety tv show"Let's Have Fun!"debuted
on WPIX TV Ch.11.
Hosted by Chuck McCann and The Paul Ashley Puppets and set against the backdrop of a tv studio:
"The Little Little Theater"..McCann and Ashley would perform character comedy and puppet skits and
engage their viewers in informational segments,contests and interviews with guest performers and
personalities inbetween the reruns of old movie comedies,cartoons,serials and reruns of"The Adventures Of Superman","Abbott & Costello"TV Shows and"Mack & Myer For Hire"TV Film Comedies.
Chuck & Paul would host"LHF!"From Sunday September 18,1960 to Sunday August 15,1965.
The series would continue with other hosts/performers mc'ing the program.."Captain Jack"McCarthy
would host the show for the remainder of the summer of 1965.
Entertainer Terry Bennett would the show with his two vent puppets"Red Flannels","Rusty Hinges"
and with these puppet heads"Dinky Duck","The Dog" and"The Man" against the backdrop of "The Fun
Fair"for the 1965/1966 tv season.
Hank Stohl,"Beachcomber Bill"Biery,The Tom Tichenor Puppets,Robert Broderick and
"Doakey The Clown"(Ed Alberian)would mc the series for the 1966/1967 season.(The Stohl/
Biery version of the show was set against the living room of a private house and later against
the backdrop of"Beachcomber Bill's"South Sea Isle retreat)
Former WPIX TV Cameraman and director turned actor and one time kids tv
host:Scoey Mitchell would serve as "Let's Have Fun's!"last mc playing the gentle,
soft spoken and articulate firefighter"Fireman Frank"from September,1967 to
June,1968.(Mr.Mitchell's version of "LHF"was set against the backdrop of the
Officer Joe, Jack McCarthy, Chuck McCann, you don't have hosts like these any more for blocks of children's programming. We were very blessed that we had THREE local channels if you lived in the NYC area. Most cities only had one. Channel 11 and channel 5 had great kids shows and they packaged reruns and old movies and shorts for a whole new generation of fans, BoweryBoys/Eastside Kids/ Little Rascals, Abbot and Costello, etc.
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" Charleston South Carolina"
(set 10 days ago)
Location: home...finally, home .
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Remember Winky Dink with (I think) Jack Barry? I cannot be the only kid who once forgot to put the magic screen up & actually drew right on the TV set.
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