Those of you old enough to remember Hardrock, Coco, and Joe may be able to help me out here. Either I’m the only person in the world who watched this show or I hallucinated the whole thing. This would have been when I was a little kid back in the early 60’s. It was about a prince (or possibly a wandering minstrel) who flew around on a magical bearskin rug having adventures and shit. The show as I remember it was in black and white and was done either with puppets or in the type of animation seen in the short linked above. For some reason, I want to say that it aired as an early attempt at children’s programming on public TV and may have been imported from the UK. Help me out here. I know I’m nont clever enough to have imagined the whole thing.
Are you from the Chicago area, by any chance? I vaguely remember it as being a seasonal Christmas offering on one of the local kiddie shows–Garfield Goose and Friends, I think.
No. I’m originally from Pennsylvania. WJAC out of Johnstown PA (where they had the famous flood) used to show a lot of the same kiddie shows as WGN Chicago, apparently. That is, in fact, WJAC channel 6’s logo in the corner of the video to which I linked.
Is this it? (Scroll down to the third or fourth link.)
I wanted to ad, it’s label is a little misleading. It says “full cartoon” but it’s really a 2 1/2 minute clip.
Nah, that’s the whole thing. Do you really think your brain could survive more of it? :eek:
Thanks, by the way. Pow Wow the Indian Boy!
I saw that short once on Bozo on WGN one year. Oddly hypnotic. TV Funhouse on Comedy Central did a good spoof of it actually about holiday depression.
You can purchase your very own copy of it at the The Museum of Broadcast Communications.
http://www.museum.tv/mbc_store/index.html
Look under Holiday Gifts.