Old shows and Cartoons that no one remembers but you

[warmark]

@Bumbershoot

Yeah, I was pretty sure it was Tom Terrific, but I didn’t want to google it. I’m trying to do these from memory. To tax my feeble brain even further, I seem to recall that Tom Terrific’s dog was named Mighty Manfred.

I have no idea about most of the shows in this thread (which I guess is kind of the point), but dad has a pet dog named Manfred, which he named after Mighty Manfred.

[kitemaker_chuck]

I remember a show called Vision On.

I seem to recall that it was aimed at children who were hearing impaired, but there was actually parts of it for everyone.

[Find_Friends]

@kunilou

My own TV watching goes back to Ding Dong Schooland Kukla, Fran and Ollie so I’ve forgotten more shows than I can remember.

One of my favorites from childhood was Topper, a rather lame sitcom version of the movie. To this day I still watch anything with Anne Jeffreys or Robert Sterling.

Oddly enough, two shows I have absolutely no memory of are Winky Dink and You and the “Learn to Draw” segments with John Gnagy on Wonderama, which ALL my friends remember.

More links:

http://www.irememberjfk.com/mt/2008/09/winky-dink_and_you.php

Winky Dink and You

I very vaguely remember Winky Dink. In the mid-70’s a 5 years-older GF asked if I remembered it. I said no, even though she described placing plastic on a TV screen. A short while later it came back to me. I may have even done the plastic bit, although I can’t tell whether this is “stage memory.” Maybe all that happened is that I asked for the Magic Screen kit at a store and there wasn’t the money for it.

“Learn to Draw” was great with the Ball, Cube, Cylinder and Cone as the shapes everything was supposed to be reducible to. (IIRC) This, of course was before the age of fractals.

I definitely remember Topper, and Kukla, Fran & Ollie. There was definitely some school show which I watched as a preschooler, so it had to be Ding Dong School. *Miss Rita *came later. I can’t find it, BTW!

Together with Howdy Doody, Captain Kangaroo, and Mickey Mouse Club, these had to be the oldest shows that I remember at all.

You know, just before the glaciers of **the last Ice Age **started to retreat!

• “Jack”

[sciurophobic]

@Kythereia

Nobody but me remembers Freakazoid?

We all remember it. That’s why we didn’t mention it.

[Labdad]

@True Blue Jack

There was definitely some school show which I watched as a preschooler, so it had to be Ding Dong School. Miss Rita came later. I can’t find it, BTW!

“Ding Dong School” was hosted by Miss Frances.

But there was also “Romper Room”(remember Mr. Do-Bee and Mr. Don’t-Bee?).

We didn’t have a locally produced version in Atlanta, so for us the hostess was Miss Nancy. You may have had a local version, and that may be where your “Miss Rita” was. (Romper Room hostesses were always “Miss” Someone.)

[rolandgunslinger]

U.f.O

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RfzkhqBLY

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Fireball XL-5

Fireball XL5

[Jolly_Roger]

@Labdad

“Ding Dong School” was hosted by Miss Frances.

But there was also “Romper Room”(remember Mr. Do-Bee and Mr. Don’t-Bee?).

We didn’t have a locally produced version in Atlanta, so for us the hostess was Miss Nancy. You may have had a local version, and that may be where your “Miss Rita” was. (Romper Room hostesses were always “Miss” Someone.)

I hated Romper Room as a kid. That lady never said she saw me in her stuoid mirror whatever thingie and my RL first name is remarkably common.

[melodyharmonius]

Okay - what about the PBS show where the guy would draw the story while someone did a voice-over narration? What was that called?

It always ended with some variation of “Susie not only finds out what’s in the old barn - but goes on a series of other adventures all found here in this book, Susie and the Sticky Wicket”

Which annoyed me because i never got the books and never knew how the stories ended.

[Nurobath]

Anyone remember Cliff Hangers from '79? I think the first time I ever got upset about a TV show cancellation.

How about Werewolf?

Strange Luck. Really cool but short lived show.

Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch.

I remember that the networks used to have a fall season preview show every year (which I always watched for the cartoon previews). Checking Google I found this http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/history_fall_preview.php. I had no idea that the networks still did these. Last time I saw one was in the late 70s.

[vison]

Chez Helene. Rocket Robin Hood. (Sorry if already mentioned.) My kids watched these shows.

Lollytoodum. (sp?) A kind of folk song thing, as I recall. On CBC.

[vison]

Missed the edit window.

“Could Mighty Mouse beat up Superman?”

“Don’t be stupid. Mighty Mouse is only a cartoon. Superman’s a real guy!”

[jackelope]

@Olentzero

One last one before I get distracted by something shiny: Anyone else remember the Hot Fudge Show?

You bet I do!

[Find_Friends]

@Labdad

“Ding Dong School” was hosted by Miss Frances.

Thanks for the info.

@Labdad

"But there was also “Romper Room”(remember Mr. Do-Bee and Mr. Don’t-Bee?).

We didn’t have a locally produced version in Atlanta, so for us the hostess was Miss Nancy. You may have had a local version, and that may be where your “Miss Rita” was. (Romper Room hostesses were always “Miss” Someone.)

:smack: How could I have forgotten the name of the show, even if momentarily? Of course! Romper Room! A few minutes later I had found some Miss Rita/Romper Room links through Yahoo, but there was no more time to post. No wonder she didn’t show up on a Wikipedia search if the show was franchised and there were local Misses.

Miss Rita was the “Miss” for a Rochester, New York station (serving Greater Rochester, Monroe County, and a fairly large section of Upstate New York between Buffalo and Syracuse).

• “Jack”

[Zebra]

@melodyharmonius

Okay - what about the PBS show where the guy would draw the story while someone did a voice-over narration? What was that called?

It always ended with some variation of “Susie not only finds out what’s in the old barn - but goes on a series of other adventures all found here in this book, Susie and the Sticky Wicket”

Which annoyed me because i never got the books and never knew how the stories ended.

On our local PBS when I was a kid they did a version of this but a local class would write the story, read it and kids from the class would draw it.

I got to be one of the readers once when I was in second grade.

[NicePete]

@TommyTutone

I also used to have a strange fascination with PBS Educational shows during the 70s. They were locally produced at wherever and sent around the country to other PBS channels and usually ran about 15 minutes long. We used to watch ‘Mulligan Stew’ (which came with an activity book) and ‘The Letter People’ in school, but whenever I was sick, I would watch ‘Metric System’, ‘Read All About It’ (the mysteries of the first season were the best), ‘Vegetable Soup’ which was a trippy freaky mess, ‘All About You’, and whatever the hell gave us the phrase ‘Palabra Jot’.

Oh heck yeah! Mulligan Stew especially. 4-4-3-2, that’s the formula for me and you!

One of those made locally was “Math Country”, which I particularly remember because a friend of mine had a bit part.

[Carl_Corey]

Some 3-2-1 Contact trivia:

The guy who played Ricardo in The Bloodhound Gang was also Rembrandt in the cult classic The Warriors.

The actress who played Trini was the candy store girl who Luther yells at in The Warriors as well.

[Shodan]

@Bumbershoot

Yeah, I was pretty sure it was Tom Terrific, but I didn’t want to google it. I’m trying to do these from memory. To tax my feeble brain even further, I seem to recall that Tom Terrific’s dog was named Mighty Manfred.

As I recall, it was Mighty Manfred UMPH!! the Wonder Dog.

Regards,
Shodan

[Small_Hen]

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@Leiko

There was some Christian cartoon series I used to watch at elementary school. All I can remember is that there were probably three kids- two white, one other (I don’t remember if they said where he was from, just that he was brown and the other kids were very pale pink), who go back to Biblical times because they fell into an archaeological dig. Or something like that.

I don’t suppose this was either “Superbook” or its less well known companion “The Flying House”, was it? Neither had an archaeological dig, but both had traveling through Biblical times.

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[melodyharmonius]

@Leiko

There was some Christian cartoon series I used to watch at elementary school. All I can remember is that there were probably three kids- two white, one other (I don’t remember if they said where he was from, just that he was brown and the other kids were very pale pink), who go back to Biblical times because they fell into an archaeological dig. Or something like that.

It wasn’t the Kingdom Chums was it? Where they go back and discover 10 different commandments? It starts off as non-cartoon - and then the kids go in to the cartoon . . .