How about those songs we used to sing on the school bus?
"Hey Michael,
Someone’s calling my name
Hey Michael,
I think I heard it again
You’re wanted on the telephone
Well if it isn’t Sally then I’m not home
Hey Sally…"
etc., etc.
Ohh, I remember those.
Another link about Simon mentioning Captain K.
I’ve got to disagree with Cyrokk about the Coolest Little People Toy: it was the Castle, hands down. Came with a dragon (with his own cave that had a secret door into the castle), a trapdoor’d dungeon, and everything. Even a knight in (quasi)shining armor.
Better than the garage, which I’d gotten in years previous.
Anybody remember the Star Trek Playset with the “transporter”, which made the action figures amazingly vanish through centrifugal force? That was pretty rockin’.
I had the model set of the communicator, phaser, and tricorder. Played with those until they fell apart.
You don’t mean Tales of the Wizard of Oz do you?
That cartoon was from the early 1960s, but like that dreadful The Mighty Hercules cartoon (also from early 60s) - you know the one where Hercules had to put on a ring and hold it up toward Olympus and he had that stupid centaur sidekick, Newton? - the cartoon was shown well into the 70s. Because it was so old, the cartoon’s colour saturation could vary. Sometimes I found the lion looked ruddy, othertimes he was a washed out tan colour, or looked kinda greenish. He didn’t have swirling whiskers though. At least, not that I can remember.
My Play Family Castle and Play Family House are on my desk abouve my computer as we speak (type). My pink dragon is lookin’ at me! No people, I’m afraid, but I have one throne, the house’s kitchen table, and the royal bed.
Had to get them out of storage along with my Flexible Flyer hobby horse because they were needed for an album cover.
I don’t think that’s the show I saw. The lion comes close, but the wizard was very short and had a triangular hat. It too might have suffered from saturation problems as I somehow remember much of the cartoon taking place with an orange background and a flower here and there for scenery. It seemed as if the artists could only work with the crudest block shapes: circles, squares and triangles… very odd but intoxicating…
And I remember the Little People castle, but I can’t for the life of me understand why I would drool over the house instead of the castle (I had the parking garage and the farm). If I had to decide now, I’d take the castle.
Cy
There are more Tales of Oz pictures here. the site is painfully slow, but it shows the shows logo and more of the characters (the lion a different colour). The wizard does have pointy hat.
For some reason thought the “swirling whiskers” you describe are familiar… I can’t think of any other show that would fit the wizard of Oz description though, except one by Chuck Jones called Off to See the Wizard. But that one wasn’t all that roughly drawn, and the main function was to introduce a weekly kid’s movie - prime time in the early 1960s. I don’t think it had the wizard, and the lion had a big mane and looked more like the movie lion.
How about those schlocky live action Saturday morning shows, Shazam! and its sister show (sort of) Isis? Those were pretty awful.
Lidsville, on the other hand, was outlandishly cool.
Hattytown! We used to watch that, and a ton of other foreign kids’ animation, on this show called Pinwheel back when Nickelodeon first came on the air. That show literally went on for hours; we could get up around 8 and watch all sorts of triipy funky cartoons from Europe (both East and West) until after lunchtime.
'S funny… every time I have some Monterey Jack cheese with hot peppers in it, I think of the “Pepper Cheese” episode of Hattytown.
Ya know, the more I look at that lion the more I think that was indeed the show. Chances are pretty slim that an identically drawn lion would show up in another cartoon.
I said it had an orange background, yet we had a black and white TV…lol… That wasn’t the only show that I used my imagination to determine what the colors were supposed to be. And if I applied my own color to the show, I probably added whiskers to the lion as well… That scarecrow looks familiar too, and yep, the wiz is wearing a pointy hat… Thanks for the site!!!
Fat Albert made me sad because it was the last animation on saturday mornings (School of Rock was also an indicator). I couldn’t sit through any of the live action shows, although I do remember Electrowoman and Dynagirl.
Do capguns still exist? I remember those cool revolvers that took those yellow plastic caps, never a misfire.
Not only can you read the lyrics to the theme on this page, you can download the song from there. Plenty of other shows are also featured on this site.
I still have my Creepy Crawlers set and my late wife’s Flower Power (is that what it’s called?) – which was essentially the same thing but for girls.
They’re in storage – I should dig them out some day and see if they still work. Wonder where I’d get the goop for them?
Perhaps from the 80s?
I remember a candy bar called no jelly (it wasn’t capitalized IIRC) that was basically a soft peanut butter center covered in chocolate. The TV commercials involved a male/female vaudeville-type act: he was PB and she was jelly, and she wore a cute tutu but never got to go onstage. He kept apologizing to her backstage, about how she never got to go out, but all the people wanted was Peanut butter – but no jelly.
Please, someone else remember this, too. Please. :dubious:
DaveRaver I remember both the S.R.A. cards and the bus songs. We used to sing “Johnny stole a cookie from the cookie jar! Who me? Yeah you! Couldn’t have been! Then who? Susie! Susie stole a cookie from the cookie jar!” And on, and on, and on…
Girls… remember all of the jump rope songs during recess???
Well, they used them in my high school production of Annie Get Your Gun, so they existed ten years ago, at any rate. (And I remember many of the chorus girls being envious of the male cast members, as we never got to play with anything that made noise. ;))
DaveRaver, did you go to school in the San Jose area because I remember doing the SRA cards when I lived there during the first grade. I also recall smoking through the whole set (not literally, of course :D). Also, was red the highest level you could go? For some reason, I remember some color like silver or olive green as being higher but I’m not so sure because it was a long time ago.
I also remember seeing the No Jelly bar commercials on TV. However, I never ate them because I’m allergic to peanut butter. (BTW, I seem to recall there now is a PB&J candy bar made by Russell Stover that’s on the market.)
Anyway, does anybody remember a game called “Pie Face” (or something similar) that was made by Ideal in the late 60’s/early 70’s"? I seem to remember it involved sticking your face through a hole and avoiding being creamed by pie. The last time I saw it for sale was in a discount toy warehouse in 1975.
I’m freaking out on so many levels. I forgot so much of this stuff. Sternvogel that link is gold. The Hilairious House of Frightenstein!!! Billy Van!!! He was my first comedy god. I saw re-runs of that show a couple of years ago and it was truly the most hilarious thing. I also used to watch the Party Game which was basically charades I think. It made me feel so sophisticated.
Something on that page also reminded me of Commander Tom on one of the Buffalo stations which brought back a huge flood of nostalga for this campaign they had in Buffalo at the time for having pride. I can’t remember who called it “Talkin Proud Land” but they became obsessed with their own self esteem (maybe because it was such a pit) so all the promos were about pride in Buffalo? All the cartoons were on channel 29 and the song went, “Get to know us! Buffalo 29 Get to know us! *Take a liiiiiitle bit of time.” They showed crappy cartoons after school.
That’s pretty regional but I guess so is The Pop Shoppe!! Just seeing those bottles brings back memories of birthday parties.
micronauts just got re-released
Mmmm Marathon bars…nice to know you can still find them, even though they’re not called the same. Thanks to the poster who posted that link.
Anyone remember Taco flavored Doritos? I searched the web for those about a week ago and found that they’re still being made (apparently) but you sure can’t buy them where I live. I can’t even find plain Doritos, either. Bah. Does anyone know where I can buy some??
I have no idea what this was called but I remember them being wildly popular when I was in Junior High. It was a small bottle of cinnamon flavored liquid that you soaked toothpicks in, ending up with (duh) cinnamon flavored toothpicks. They were HOT, too!
This show may have been a regional thing but I remember faithfully watching Bozo the Clown.
How about the show on PBS called Zoom? I still know part of the jingle:
Come on, give us a try.
We’re gonna show you just why.
We’re gonna teach you to fly high!
Hmm, I can remember that but can’t remember what I had for dinner yesterday.
Great thread!
Nobody’s mentioned the Bicentennial? I thought that everyone had a ventilated '76 t-shirt!
also:
Schoolhouse Rock
Bill Cosby and the Cosby Kids
Rock concerts without security guards
'67 Chevy Camaros, used, in good condition for $3000