# Obscure 60's children's tv show. Need help. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787 "2003-12-18T16:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/1 "2003-12-18T16:56:41Z")
Those of you old enough to remember [Hardrock, Coco, and Joe](http://www.nantyglo.com/Christmas/hardrock.asf) 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. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/2 "2003-12-18T17:54:26Z")
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. [www.toontracker.com/garfieldgoose/garfield.htm](http://www.toontracker.com/garfieldgoose/garfield.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/3 "2003-12-18T18:20:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/4 "2003-12-18T20:25:11Z")
Is this it? (Scroll down to the third or fourth link.) [http://www.toontracker.com/realvid/realvid.htm](http://www.toontracker.com/realvid/realvid.htm) ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/5 "2003-12-18T20:28:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/6 "2003-12-18T20:43:16Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/7 "2003-12-18T21:22:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Awgrimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Awgrimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Awgrimm)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-60s-childrens-tv-show-need-help/219787/8 "2003-12-18T21:37:57Z")
You can purchase your very own copy of it at the The Museum of Broadcast Communications. [http://www.museum.tv/mbc\_store/index.html](http://www.museum.tv/mbc_store/index.html) Look under Holiday Gifts.