# Kiddie show hosts you never missed watching ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009 "2003-08-05T00:10:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/1 "2003-08-05T00:10:36Z")
Every major city had them. The folks that hosted a kiddie show before and right after school every day. I grew up in Houston and I remember cadet Don and his sidekick Seymour (who incidently lived in a flying saucer). Then after school it was Kitirik! Good gosh I LOVED Kitirik… I actually got to meet her once at a grand opening of a shopping center in pasadena… A day I will NEVER forget! Any memories of those type for you guys and gals?? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/2 "2003-08-05T00:15:15Z")
Ray Raynor, Chicago. Used to wear an umbrella hat and ran the old Flash Gordon serials. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/3 "2003-08-05T01:06:46Z")
An earlier thread on this subject: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=33095](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=33095) ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/4 "2003-08-05T01:39:23Z")
In Atlanta eons ago it was Officer Don and the Popeye Club. 5,4,3,2,1 - ZERO! ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Brewer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@Master\_Brewer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Brewer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/5 "2003-08-05T04:12:39Z")
Did anyone ever watch Ramblin’ Rod in Portland, OR? I watched that show every morning! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/6 "2003-08-05T09:55:51Z")
This thread is better suited for [**Cafe Society**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=13). I’ll move it for you. * * * **Cajun Man** ~ SDMB Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/7 "2003-08-05T10:14:50Z")
Sir Graves Ghastly. He used to show scary movies Saturday Afternoon in the Detroit area. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/8 "2003-08-05T13:25:24Z")
Captain Chesapeake and his sidekick, Moandy (sp?) the Sea Monster on channel 45 in Baltimore. They hosted the afternoon cartoons and reruns. ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/9 "2003-08-05T13:25:56Z")
Hmmphh…did they just not have anything like this in NY in the 80’s?? The only things I can remember, though not really what you’re saying, are: Captain Kangaroo Romper Room Carol & Paula (that may have been called the Magic Garden, actually…) ---
**Author:** ![kikkapoo\_joy\_juice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85f322/32.png) [@kikkapoo\_joy\_juice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kikkapoo_joy_juice)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/10 "2003-08-05T16:22:19Z")
I forget the name but it was a guy in a cheesy spacesuit standing next to a giant cardboard “console” that would fill with the cartoon logo and zoom in for the cartoon. That was his entire act- never moved around. But he sent me an “Atomic Ring” that was a mgnifying glass over a bit of fluorescent paint. You’d take it into the closet and stare really close and see shooting stars. I thought x-rays were piercing my eyes, but I just had to watch. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/11 "2003-08-05T18:01:53Z")
WHO, channel 13 in Des Moines (NBC affiliate) had Duane Ellott and Floppy, at 12:15 and 3:00. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/12 "2003-08-05T18:18:24Z")
Bozo and The Mickey Mouse Club ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/13 "2003-08-05T23:02:22Z")
Cap’n. Earnie’s Cartoon Showboat on WOC-TV out of Des Moines Iowa. I went to Brownies for one meeting and quit because it meant missing the showboat. Great cartoons. Popeye, Lippy the Lion and Hardee Har Har, Wally Gator, Touche Turtle. I loved that show. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/14 "2003-08-05T23:04:31Z")
Davenport, not Des Moines. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/15 "2003-08-05T23:12:28Z")
In the L.A. area: Engineer Bill Hobo Kelly And my favorite, because my dad was a sheriff, and he looked like this guy: Sheriff John “Put another candle on my birthday cake my birthday cake my birthday caaaaake, put another candle on my birthday cake I’m another year old today!” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/16 "2003-08-05T23:31:13Z")
In New York in the '60s, the immortal Soupy Sales. Two characters I loved were Philo Kvetch, detective, and his nemesis Onions Oregano. ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/17 "2003-08-06T00:34:39Z")
Chicago–ditto Ray Raynor, sports, weather, traffic AND cartoons all in one show–not to mention do-ti -yourself projects and annual jelly bean contests. Frasier Thomas on Garfield Goose. I don’t know why, but whenever that goose handpuppet whacked him on the head, I’d fall down in fits. It was also interesting to see him go from a gaudy blue"admirals" uniform on GG to a calm distinguished “Alisair Cooke” type guy on Family Classics on Sunday afternoons ---
**Author:** ![bowler\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@bowler\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bowler_girl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiddie-show-hosts-you-never-missed-watching/193009/18 "2003-08-06T03:19:33Z")
Columbus, Ohio in the mid to late 70’s had a show on channel 10. It ran before school and was called, appropriately enough, the Schoolies. I can remember a brunette hostess with a Dorothy Hamill type haircut and possibly Popeye cartoons. Southern Illinois had Uncle Briggs in the 80’s.