A Saturday morning cartoon called, “The Schmoo.” He was a bowling pin shaped creature with no arms and he could change into anything. He was accompanied by 3 teens, one of whom was Billy Joe, I believe. The theme song went something like,
“It’s the new Schmoo,
the incredible new Schmoo.
He’s gonna please you,
this incredible new Schmoo.”
He could say very few words that were understandable and spoke in sort of squeaks. It may also be spelled, “Shmoo.” Not sure. I LOVED him. He was so adorable!
I don’t remember them, but I’ve heard of them. Part of the DePatie-Freling corral (along with the Pink Panther and the Ant and the Aardvark), they were later renamed the Texas Toads to be more PC.
Before he got his own TV show, the Schmoo was a minor character in the L’il Abner comic. Like all of the residents of Dogpatch, the Schmoo was the creation of the legendary Al Capp.
I remember “The Mighty Hercules” from way back when I was a kid in the 60’s. I also watched “Snuffy Smith”, “Beetle Bailey” and “Yippy, Yappy and Yahooey” cartoons in the afternoon when I got home from school.
What about “The Banana Splits” from the early 70’s? And “Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp”!
ETA: I was shocked to learn that “My World And Welcome To It” only lasted 14 episodes! Without clicking the link, I remembered that it starred William Windom and Lisa Gerritsen.
Dang. That has to be one of the weirder simulposts I’ve ever been involved in.
I think the strangest part of Captain Bleep was Squeek. Why a highly advanced space alien would choose a cowboy puppet as a deputy I never really understood.
I also remember Clutch very well. Highly disturbing.
At that point there would be a twanging sound, and Froggy the Gremlin, a rubber frog puppet, would appear in a cloud of smoke. Froggy, who was always pulling pranks, was my absolute favorite part of the show.
Because you are Canadian, and the Raccoons favourite activity was playing hockey?
I remember a number of these–heck, I can even “It’s About Time,” and “Dusty’s Trail.” But how about “Captain Nice,” “Hank,” and (for the cheap-n-cheesy-cartoon lovers) “Rocket Robin Hood”?
I nominated Barney’s Clubhouse POW! in this thread a few months back. Note, the youtube link isn’t of the original Barney’s show itself (which aired in 1981 or so), but a retrospective news story aired sometime around 1990.
Yeah, I remember that one well. It seems to be one of those “Holy Grail” things that has disappeared without a trace. Too bad, because I’d like to see it again. Like you, I remember it being pretty scary for a kids’ show, although I could’ve sworn it was actually on The Electric Company rather than Sesame Street.
Back in high school, all of my friends thought I was totally making up The Adventures of T-Rex, which I watched when I was about seven. They only showed it at like 6am on Saturday mornings.
Even in the late 90’s when I tried to convince people that it had existed, there was virtually no information whatsoever about the show on the internet.
Almost nobody I talk to remembers Pinwheel, which I used to watch obsessively when I was like 5. I remember my mom absolutely hated it, particularly the green puppet Ebeneezer, though I’m not sure why.
The Ladybug Song was still in rotation on Sesame Street when I was watching in the late 80’s. I hadn’t seen it in a hundred years, and as soon as I clicked on the video just now I sang to myself, “1 2 3…4 5 6…7 8 9…10 11 12.”
My favorite Sesame Street segment was always Tiny Little Super Guy, which absolutely nobody remembers.
This is Green Bay’s usage of the syndicated TV POWWW format, which is just as shown here- usual kiddy show form with a phone-in Intellivision game. On New York’s WPIX, kids said PIX instead of POW.
There was a show on Nickelodeon that featured two koalas that traveled through space and time to Koala Land or something. Along for the adventure was a human girl. This show was on around the time when David the Gnome was huge.
Fuck, I can’t even remember the name of it. The Foozles? I have to look this up now. Hang on a sec.
EDIT: Noozles. God this brings back memories. I must have been out of my damn mind to have found this entertaining. It will always have a spot in my heart, though. God bless the makers of Noozles.
No, Bill Jackson syndicated it worldwide. BJ and Dirty Dragon was local only. You can still contact BJ at http://www.dirtydragon.com/ – I know this because I felt a need to apologize to him for being a bit of a jerk when he lived around the corner of my junior high. Okay, I just wanted an excuse to email him! His daughter replied, since she’d gone to the same school, but we were about ten years apart.
I loved that show! Just to show how much Jewish culture permiated the US in the 60s, it took me years to figure out it was Jewish, despite the Hebrew lessons. Just seemed normal to me, though I noticed they stuck with Bible stories from the Old Testament.
