# Kid's TV when you were a kid. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366 "2015-08-30T02:26:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Goosie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@Goosie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goosie)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/101 "2017-02-01T03:38:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Brakeman Bill and Crazy Donkey > Wanda Wanda > J.P. Patches As I remember, she was Wunda Wunda! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/102 "2017-02-01T06:15:36Z")
> [@Goosie](#): > > As I remember, she was Wunda Wunda! [She certainly was.](http://www.uniquely-portland-oregon.com/wunda-wunda-on-seattle-tv.html) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/103 "2017-02-01T11:29:11Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > My prime kidvid watching years were from about '76 to about '84, which was pretty much the nadir of children’s TV. Tell me about it. I was born in 1984, but there were still plenty of reruns from this period on in my day, and shows made even years later weren’t much better. Kids’ programming, especially animation, didn’t improve in this country until the early 1990s, and even then it was somewhat hit-or-miss. > [@](#): > > I grew up in north Jersey, so we had the luxury of all the NYC area stations. Also, my family got cable very very early, I’d say in about '76 or '77. (My dad wanted HBO for the boxing.) Back then, cable was HBO plus a few independent stations from different cities (WGN out of Chicago, WTBS from Atlanta, etc). Cable networks with their own original programming came around later. I remember when Nick had a strict no-cartoons policy and ESPN had to resort to Aussie Rules Football to fill their daytime programming. Ah, early cable. I remember a somewhat different era, because the Nickelodeon I remember from early childhood had cartoons like _David the Gnome_ and animated bumpers featuring an evil cat and a good-natured pig engaging in various sports. I also remember _Pinwheel_ as probably one of my very earliest memories of watching TV. > [@](#): > > My mom only let me watch PBS until I was old enough for kindergarten, but I later made up for it with a vengeance. I watched some PBS, but TLC was actually good back then, with shows like _Connections_ (hosted by James Burke), and the Discovery Channel had _Wings_, I believe. (I actually bought the book connected to _Connections_, _The Day The World Changed_. Good read.) > [@](#): > > 3-2-1 Contact This had the best theme tune. It seemed so sophisticated when I was in early grade school. > [@](#): > > Power Rangers One of my little brothers _loved_ the Power Rangers. I was already too old for it by the time it came out. > [@](#): > > Nickelodeon had an afterschool lineup in the early 80s that I liked: You Can’t Do That on Television This hung on long enough I got to watch it, and it was indeed quite good. One of the better SNL-for-kids shows anyone ever produced. (Given that it was Canadian, shouldn’t it be SCTV-for-kids?) > [@](#): > > Saturday Morning Cartoons: Pretty bad during my childhood. Everything seemed to be under the heavy hand of educational psychologists and standard & practices people. Even classic Loony Toons shorts were heavily edited, with all the shots of, say, Daffy getting shot in “Duck, Rabbit, Duck” getting edited out. This I do not recall. By the time I was watching TV, Cartoon Network was showing unedited Warner Brothers classics back-to-back throughout long portions of the daytime in the summers, at least. They didn’t show the more racist ones, sure, but if you saw a cartoon duck get his beak blown backwards, well, if it was good enough for theater audiences in 1943, it’s good enough for you. And if you learn about “A” stickers from Bugs Bunny’s aircraft running out of gas and stopping right before it crashes into the ground, hey, bonus. > [@](#): > > Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and Filmation were in a race to the bottom in the late 70s and were regurgitating the same formulas they had hits with at the start of the decade. The predominant trends were a) Scooby-Doo/Josie & The Pussycats knockoffs (Speed Buggy, Jabberjaws, Captain Caveman, etc etc) and b) actions shows that were resolute in not showing any action and insisted on tagging a PSA on at the end. Which was worse: the Super-Friends with Wendy & Marvin or the Super-Friends with the Wondertwins? I don’t think a punch was ever thrown in either version. I remember Filmation doing adventure shows such as Tarzan and Blackstar ( a sort-of warm up for He-Man), where they would blow their budget on some impressive rotoscoped sequences and then re-use them over and over. I saw the tail end of these, and re-runs of some of the older ones. My parents tell me I was a big He-Man fan as a very young child, but I do not recall that at all; I do recall crap like _The Snorks_ and _Captain Planet_ and reruns of 1970s dreck like _Jabberjaw_ and the old _Scooby-Doo_ being passed off as children’s entertainment, and I knew it was crap back then. > [@](#): > > Early 80’s Saturdays were dominated by Smurfs, Smurfs, a plethora of Smurfs knockoffs (Snorks, Wuzzles, Gummi Bears etc), shows based on video games, and blindingly saccharine “pro-social” pap like the Getalong Gang. I was old enough to be more selective and stop watching a lot of cartoons, especially since we had a VCR by then and could rent older, classic stuff. I was still on the lookout for decent action/super-hero shows could find a few decent ones: Thundarr the Barbarian, Spider-man & His Amazing Friends, Dungeons & Dragons, Jana of the Jungle (very short-lived, but created/designed by Doug “Jonny Quest” Wildey). _Wuzzles_… _Gummi Bears_… crap, all crap. I am _so_ glad I grew up with the _Animaniacs_ and _Ren & Stimpy_ and _South Park_. (Funny story: Back around 1998, my dad had moved to Worthington, MN, to take a job and generally get things settled so my mom and us kids could move up from Poplar Bluff, MO, when the school year ended. This meant he had Dish Network while the rest of us were still watching cable, so he had Comedy Central and we didn’t. He apparently tuned into Comedy Central late one night, watched the first episode of _South Park_, saw that it was focused almost entirely on things going into and coming out of Cartman’s ass, and then waited so he could tape it and mail the tape to his three sons, then aged 10, 12, and 14. I believe he did this for multiple episodes. Needless to say, when people talk about how their parents never let them watch vulgar comedy and toilet humor, I find it hard to relate.) > [@](#): > > Japanese Imports: In our family’s early cable days, one of the stations out of Philadelphia had an after-school block of Space Giants, Marine Boy, Speed Racer and Ultraman. I was also very into Battle of the Planets and Star Blazers (which was on at 6am). I started recognizing anime-style as an indicator of shows I would like, and you had to search them out then. Ulysses 31, Mysterious Cities of Gold, and the Robotech, which was pretty much the end of my U.S cartoon watching until I went to college except for some Duck Tales. _Duck Tales_ was golden, and had a theme tune that easily ranks in the top ten of all time. I also liked _TaleSpin_, _The Pirates of Dark Water_, and _Darkwing Duck_, for the more adventure-oriented cartoons. Of course, the greatest adventure cartoon was _Batman: The Animated Series_, which still holds up and even introduced a whole new character into the Batman canon: Harley Quinn. That, and it marks Luke Hamill’s first turn as the voice of the Joker, which is still seen as one of the definitive performances. All that plus the memorable, atmospheric Dark Deco art style. One cartoon which never gets much love is _Count Duckula_, about a vampire duck who was mistakenly resurrected with ketchup instead of blood so he’s a vegetarian, despite the best efforts of his manservant to get him to feast upon the living. He also has a ten-ton “nanny” who can never be persuaded to use a door instead of bashing a hole in the wall. More subtle, understated comedy from the land of Benny Hill. > [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Canadian kids TV shows back in the day were awesome. And a few of them made it onto Nickelodeon back in the early days, before it had much of its own programming. > [@](#): > > Today’s Special I remember this. > [@](#): > > You Can’t Do That on Television (“Duuhh I heard that.”) Yep, still remembered among people who watched Nick in the 1990s. > [@](#): > > Fraggle Rock I remember this, but I don’t think it was on Nick in the US. I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/104 "2017-02-01T11:54:31Z")
Might as well list a few more especially good shows from my early years: _The Adventures of Pete & Pete_ _Rocko’s Modern Life_ _The Angry Beavers_ _Invader Zim_ _Beakman’s World_ (It might be heresy, but I have fonder memories of Beakman than I do of Bill Nye. This show was just _stranger_ and I responded to that.) _Space Ghost Coast to Coast_ (The proto-[adult swim], the anti-talk-show, the little injection of weird, sophisticated humor.) _The Moxy Show_ (Bizarre CGI dog voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait.) _Dexter’s Laboratory_ _Samurai Jack_ _Cow and Chicken_ _Johnny Bravo_ _I Am Weasel_ _Two Stupid Dogs_ … and whatever I mentioned in my previous post, including a lot of cartoons from the 1920s onwards on Cartoon Network back before it had any of its own programming and actually had a show called _ToonHeads_ which existed purely to showcase classic cartoons, including the really old black-and-white ones. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/105 "2017-02-01T13:24:38Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I was a wee lad in Philadelphia, which had a lot of local children’s programming in addition to the network stuff. > Locally produced programming: > Gene London > Pixanne > Sally Star and Popeye Theatre > Chief Halftown > Pete Boyle (Our Gang/Little Rascals) > Happy the Clown > Lorenzo the Clown > \ Philly had an abundance of good local kid shows. Dr. Shock was good, campy late night entertainment, too. Chief Halftown “is the[longest running local TV children’s show](http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/chief.html) in the history of the world.” He was on the air for 50 years. Great guy, too! ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/106 "2017-02-01T13:32:09Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > If you remember this one…I may well know you. I at least shared a number of experiences with you. > > “Wallace and Ladmo” The longest running kid’s show in history. Thanks, TV Time. I understand what you mean by your quote. Did you know that Wallace and Ladmo was also aired in some parts of Idaho and Utah? I read an article about that, not sure of the exact dates, but 1960s I think. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/107 "2017-02-01T18:09:24Z")
There was a generation of kids in Dallas who were traumatized (let’s say even MORE traumatized at the time) when they realized that beloved kid’s show host [Mr. Peppermint](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/bd/9b/55bd9b6626be413c537b34562318773c.jpg) was actually [Jerry Haynes](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MeeqRKk9bn4/hqdefault.jpg), who had witnessed and reported on the assassination of JFK. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > CS says, Fuck you, clown! Pandemonium shuts down the taping. In fairness, some version of that story has been told about pretty much every kid’s show since the dawn of radio. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/108 "2017-02-01T19:17:11Z")
Ft. Worth late 60’s to early 70’s. Dallas had Mr. Peppermint in his prissy red and white striped blazer and straw panama. In Ft. Worth, we were a little grittier. We had Icky Twerp and Slam Bang Theater with Ajax, Delphenium, and Arkadelphia: three stage hands in gorilla suits. > **[Slam Bang Theatre: Starring Icky Twerp with Ajax and Delphinium!](https://patioculture.net/slam_bang/)** > > The Slam Bang Theatre Orchestra featuring Icky Twerp (with umbrella) Listen to the Slam Bang Theatre theme music! Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Peppermint, Icky Twerp…screech!!! Icky Twerp? Icky was different. Slam Bang Theatre was different. Not... The man behind the Twerp was Bill Camfield and he also hosted the Saturday night horror movie as Gorgon. He lived directly behind the station and was used to going back and forth several times a day to work behind or in front of the camera. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/109 "2017-02-01T19:57:29Z")
I came in at the end of the 70s beginning 80s but I kept moving between CA which was all the leftovers from the 50s-70s (although I miss getting up at 6 am and watching 2 hours of felix the cat) and in Indiana the only major things we got was wgn and 4 so when I was a kid it was bozo but back then they didn’t have after noon cartoons and then years later they didn’t have morning cartoons … and gramps got a satellite so we watched a lot of those costumed Disney shows (pooh corner dumbos circus ) in like a 4 hour block then theyed show something cool like tron or the black hole and then about 1 pm repeat the whole block over again But I remember on channel 5 "KTLA"in la the Popeye guy would do 3 or 4 hours in the morning on sundays and then would do a family movie afternoon … sometimes hed run over on Popeye so the camera would shw him walking over from the drawing set to the den set while he changed clothes mr Rogers style … mr frazer on wgn’s bozo would do the same thing In the late 80s Disney took over the afternoons after ducktales were popular although I watched gi joe at 4:30 but its strange theres no afternoon cartoons on any of the 4 la channels … 5 9 11 and 13 although 13 never had afternoon cartoons (bring back anaimacs!)… but I remeber 13 because right before they became upn they ran Disney Saturday morning reruns but at 9:30 they had the first us version of a cartoon that I thought that was funny as hell but wasn’t going to make it …it was weird like most Japanese cartoons and it was about catching animals in fact I told my disabled nephew about it so he could see it before it got cancelled … It was pokemon… and man every kid in my family since then has been in to pokemon … I cant escape it although its not on as much anymore but that’s only due to warners giving up network tv and putting almost everything in cartoon network or boomerang ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/110 "2017-02-01T20:08:55Z")
oh and the CH4 in Indiana mascot for years was this preschool type they called "Janie " but she wasn’t around by the time I was really old enough to remember but we watched wgn or the other Chicago indy channel… 30 something Heres something …Who watched the ghost-busters cartoon ? the one where it was based off an old 30 movie and then the kids show mentioned above ? I always thought it was lame … I mean tracey the monkey some guy that was the human version of Launchpad mc quack … and the red headed 30s moll type and the inappropriate chick from the future … they had some sort of triangle going with the blonde hero … I do wish I had gotten the toys when I seen them … since there one of the rarest toy lines ever … only reason I remember them is they had the whole series in a cd strip case that Walmart had hanging on a budget wall that said “kids after noon shows” but you could see the characters and name on the dvds … ---
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> [@nightshadea](#): > > oh and the CH4 in Indiana mascot for years was this preschool type they called "Janie " but she wasn’t around by the time I was really old enough to remember but we watched wgn or the other Chicago indy channel… 30 something Probably 32, (former) home of the Sox. We hardly watched that channel because the only TVs we had that could pick up UHF were B&W. ---
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> [@kunilou](#): > > In fairness, some version of that story has been told about pretty much every kid’s show since the dawn of radio. But the story about Soupy Sales telling kids to go into their sleeping father’s wallets and mailing him the ‘green pieces of paper with the presidents on it’ is totally true. He wasn’t fired and the show wasn’t cancelled. It was suspended for a bit, though. ---
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Does anybody else remember the Popeye show hosted by Tom Hatten on Sunday mornings, that aired on KTLA channel 5 in the Los Angeles area in the 1970s? Between cartoons, Tom Hatten would draw pictures on a big sketchboard, and occasionally pull letters randomly out of a chest for giveaway prizes. He later appeared in an L.A. stage production of _Annie_, playing the role of president FDR. ---
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Sesame Street Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Darkwing Duck Inspector Gadget (in the rare cases where we had cable) ---
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When I was very young, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street , Mr. Rogers and I used to love the Electric Company. I remember watching a lot of The Flintstones and Speed Racer. One of my favorite memories is always watching Top Cat with my dad. I recall The Archies and Josie and the Pussycats on Saturday mornings. I watched a ton of Hanna Barbara stuff like Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound. I also loved Underdog. I remember Kimba and I posted upthread how upset I always was when I was quite young that the teacher on Romper Room never saw me in her magic mirror. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/116 "2017-02-02T01:08:43Z")
I think Howdy Doody was the only show on the air for kids of that age (1952). The Shari Lewis puppet show might have also been on then, but only on Saturdays. Also on Saturdays was The Big Top, a show of circus acts. We could only get one channel, so there might have been a kids show on another network that we wouldn’t have known about. Most early kids shows were locally studio-produced. On our station, Foreman Tom, in a western outfit, would sit on a fence and whittle a stick and introduce old 1930s western movies. The theme song still sticks in my head, “Riders in the Sky” by David Rose orchestra. Nice piece of music. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/K0SnoB0cIos/hqdefault.jpg "Tunes of Yesteryear #5: Ghost Riders in the Sky, David Rose") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SnoB0cIos) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/117 "2017-02-02T06:42:12Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Does anybody else remember the Popeye show hosted by Tom Hatten on Sunday mornings, that aired on KTLA channel 5 in the Los Angeles area in the 1970s? > > Between cartoons, Tom Hatten would draw pictures on a big sketchboard, and occasionally pull letters randomly out of a chest for giveaway prizes. > > He later appeared in an L.A. stage production of _Annie_, playing the role of president FDR. "But I remember on channel 5 “KTLA"in la the Popeye guy would do 3 or 4 hours in the morning on sundays and then would do a family movie afternoon … sometimes hed run over on Popeye so the camera would shw him walking over from the drawing set to the den set while he changed clothes mr Rogers style … mr frazer on wgn’s bozo would do the same thing” ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/118 "2017-04-04T18:36:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I remember _Adventure Time_. I grew up with the Three Stooges. Paul Shannon appeared in their final feature film _The Outlaws Is Coming_. He played Wild Bill Hickcock. > > Do you remember his rocket to the North Pole around every Christmas season? He would read kids’ letters to Santa Claus and stuff them into a fake rocket, then a stagehand would set off a fire extinguisher underneath the rocket so that it looked like it was being launched. > > Another show I remember on WTAE was [Ricki and Copper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricki_%26_Copper). It was a kids’ show hosted by Ricki Wertz who had a big red dog named Copper. The dog would mingle with the kids and was as popular as the host. > > I also remember _Studio Wrestling_ and _Chiller Theater_. Bill Cardille hosted both shows. He passed away just last year. Channel 11 had afterschool cartoon show for a number of years…"Cap’n Pitt"was the name of the host and, I think, also the title. It was all non-WB cartoons, as I recall. I think Willy the Duck, as voiced by Don Riggs, was a regular. Riggs was also weatherman and Willie was on the nightly news broadcast in the early 70’s ball-busting the lead anchor. ---
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Missed this earlier. > [@Derleth](#): > > This hung on long enough I got to watch it, and it was indeed quite good. One of the better SNL-for-kids shows anyone ever produced. (Given that it was Canadian, shouldn’t it be SCTV-for-kids?) YCDTOTV struck me more as Laugh-In-for-kids. The splashing water, joke lockers standing in for the joke wall, various people gathering on stage between skits, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/120 "2017-04-04T18:47:38Z")
Seattle had J.P. Patches on channel 8, Brakeman Bill and Crazy Donkey on channel 13, Stan Boreson on channel 5, and Wunda Wunda on channel 5 also. J.P. had a morning show, and all the others(I believe) were after school shows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366.md?page=7)