# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/121 "2017-04-04T19:17:15Z")
Beany and Cecil Rocky and Bullwinkle Romper Room (we had Miss Jeanne) The Buck Barry Show (local WOOD-TV) Three Stooges ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/122 "2017-04-04T19:24:00Z")
What about us kids that didn’t have TV as children: we had Uncle Don reading the Sunday comics from the newspaper - until that unfortunate incident with the open mike. I think this may be the original of such incidents connected to others, referenced above. Later there was Freddy Freihoffer on Schenectady, the most powerful station in the Capital District (NY). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/123 "2017-04-04T19:52:34Z")
> [@svd678](#): > > What about us kids that didn’t have TV as children: we had Uncle Don reading the Sunday comics from the newspaper - until that unfortunate incident with the open mike. I think this may be the original of such incidents connected to others, referenced above. [And just as likely to have actually happened.](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/bastards.asp) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/124 "2017-04-04T20:04:33Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > 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! I suspect you’re just a youngster compared to me, so may I respectfully add: -Willy the Worm -Rivets the Robot -Wee Willie Webber -Bertie the Bunyip -Crusader Rabbit and Ragland T. Tiger -Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/125 "2017-04-04T22:08:05Z")
Thanks, Skywalker. At least he seemed to disappear suddenly. Maybe the mike story got started when he was fired/retired? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/126 "2017-04-04T22:51:23Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PI0jjGZOAMc/hqdefault.jpg "The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. theme") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI0jjGZOAMc) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/127 "2017-04-05T00:06:23Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Chicago area, vintage 1970s. > Fireball XL-5 That was 1962-63. I recall it well. Or dimly. Or, well, dimly. I also recall: Romper Room Captain Kangaroo Bozo the Clown Cartoon Alley with Albert the alleycat and Dinkfuzz (Milwaukee area) Milky the Clown (Detroit area) ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/128 "2017-04-05T01:46:26Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I watched Captain Kangaroo a lot because I had a Mr. Rabbit hand puppet. In the DC area there was Pick Temple in the morning, a singing cowboy, and Piccolo the Pony. He had the cool cartoon Space Explorers. In the evening was Captain Tug. He patrolled the Potomac river looking for commie spies or something like that, and played Popeye cartoons. Wow, Pick Temple and Captain Tug, I had forgotten. In the DC area, Bozo T. Clown was played by Willard Scott. And he had a clown cousin named Cousin Cupcake. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/129 "2017-04-05T02:27:03Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > I suspect you’re just a youngster compared to me, so may I respectfully add: > > -Willy the Worm > -Rivets the Robot > -Wee Willie Webber > -Bertie the Bunyip > -Crusader Rabbit and Ragland T. Tiger > -Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse Au contraire, I remember all of them except for Rivits the Robot. I was particularly attracted to _Bertie the Bunyip_, created by Aussie puppeteer, Lee Dexter (“bunyip” is a mythological Australian critter). And, I loved the opening theme to _Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse_. I believe it’s what started me on a path to dig bass lines. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/130 "2017-04-05T03:00:46Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > Wow, Pick Temple and Captain Tug, I had forgotten. > > In the DC area, Bozo T. Clown was played by Willard Scott. And he had a clown cousin named Cousin Cupcake. Willard Scott was also the original Ronald McDonald. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/131 "2017-04-05T18:38:38Z")
Early 70’s Detroit kid here. All the Sid and Marty Kroffts shows, like HR Pufnstuf. Lots of dope smoking writers for these shows. Rumour has it the HR in Pufnstuf stands for Hand Rolled. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl Doctor Shrinker Sigmund and the Seamonster The Banana Splitz Land of the Lost Far Out space Nuts Lisville and I remember another show that none of my peers remember that must’ve came out of the UK, hense all the accents, called Here Come The Double Deckers. Anyone but me remember? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366/132 "2017-04-05T18:47:42Z")
Philly. Born in 1962. Gene London American Bandstand Captain Noah and His Magical Ark. Wee Willie Webber. This was shot at WKBS channel 48. On Ivy Hill Road in Mt. Airy. I lived 3 blocks away. We got tickets once. He was an angry horrible guy who apparently hated kids. ( Interesting side-note: that location is where Philo Farnsworth did the earliest experiments with television. I know, he wasn’t the only one. Still and all, the blue and yellow Historical Marker is pretty enthralling to find !! ) Sally Starr Pix-Anne Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-tv-when-you-were-a-kid/729366.md?page=6)