Anyone remember local TV shows?

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Local, local, local Chicago.

Bozo. THE Bozo. The one all of you saw on superstation WGN when cable TV became common. Bozo was a lot older than that.

Other good shows (kids):
Grown-up shows:
  • Garroway At Large.
  • Lee Phillip Show (brought to you by Polk Bros.)
  • Passage to Adventure.
  • Chicago Tonight.
  • AM Chicago, which evolved into Oprah. OK, not the best, but it was what it was.
  • Stud’s Place.
  • Kup’s Show.
I’ll hustle to edit these as quickly as possible.
 
Cygnus_X1 said:
Did anyone ever win that? I didn’t see many kids get past the third bucket.
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Kids not only won it, some enterprising parents would build their own buckets (out of KFC buckets?) and have the kids practice in case they got picked.

I was on Bozo twice, once in 1961 and once in 1963. I never got picked for any game or buckets, though. Our neighbor was a Brownie troop leader, and she always got extra tickets.
 
The write up for Garfield Goose is in error about “in your face morality plays.” There was a stop motion animated cartoon called Davey and Goliath, about a boy and his dog. It was a morality play.

Also, in the 1960s, TV was not on 24 hours a day. There was a wonderful closing sequence showing a Starfighter jet which ended with the words: “and touched the face of God.”

It was also OK to have a Nativity Scene in front of the local City Hall.

God bless,
Ed
 
edwest2 said:
The write up for Garfield Goose is in error about “in your face morality plays.” There was a stop motion animated cartoon called Davey and Goliath, about a boy and his dog. It was a morality play.
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But Davey and Goliath were not local. They were a production by the Lutheran Church in America, and distributed for syndication. They also syndicated some adult morality show, a drama tha tran on Sunday afternoons. I can’t remember the name of it, but one of their directors and producers was David Nelson, Ozzie and Harriet’s older son.

Anyway, the Goose was always in need of a guiding hand. He had some quick cash schemes that were less than ethical (making pies in a oven faster by fastening two pies together was one of them, also selling baked goods billed as “untouched by human hands” because they were really touched by geese feet and rabbit hands). But the write-up says that Gar was NOT a morality play. And it was not- although sometimes, even being king, Gar had to learn a few things.

‘In the 1960s it was still o.k. to watch kid’s shows just for the fun of it. No “in your face” morality plays, no lesson to be learned. Just plain fun.’ from chicagotelevision.com/frazier.htm
edwest2 said:
Also, in the 1960s, TV was not on 24 hours a day. There was a wonderful closing sequence showing a Starfighter jet which ended with the words: “and touched the face of God.”
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TV in Chicago in the 1960s ran until the wee hours of the morning. On Friday and Saturday night, it ran until 3 AM. Broadcast picked up again at 5 AM. How else could a person watch Creature Features and Svengooli (more locals)? Kup’s Show, a revival of Stud’s Place and Playboy After Dark (not what you think- actually a sort of talk and variety show) also ran later at night.
 
JW10631 said:
Pittsburgh had Chilly Billy Cardile and Scream Theater. Pittsburgh also had Paul Shannon from WTAE-4 who brought back the Three Stooges from obscurity.

Captain Chesapeake was Captain Pitt on Channel 22 in Pittsburgh before his show was picked up in Baltimore.
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How could you forget Don Riggs and his pal, Willie the Duck?

And Bowling for Dollars hosted by Nick “The Fix” Perry?

And the local boy who made it big, by inviting the whole country into his neighborhood, Mister Rogers?

tee
 
Here in Miami Florida, when I was a little boy, we had several local shows. The ones I remember most were:

BOZO (on WAJA-Channel 23 before Ch. 23 went Spanish)
THE WHITE BARON (on WCIX, which no longer exists)
and the best one of all was
SKIPPER CHUCK’S POPEYE PLAYHOUSE (weekdays 7 a.m.),
on WTJV, which THEN was channel 4, and
starring Chuck Zink. I got to be on the show, I think twice,
and his co-hosts were “Annie” and “Scrubby”.
“Scrubby” wore suspenders, and the kids liked to pull his suspenders back and let them snap against his back.

Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
What were the local TV shows that you remember? How did they capture the flavor of your area?
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I remember Billy Barty’s Big Show in the late afternoons. I loved it when he brought in the animals from Jungleland. (So sad when Jungleland closed, mainly due to insurance problems after several people were injured by animals. For years we’d see the empty seal tank as we drove past there.)

And every morning kindergarten student couldn’t wait to get home to watch Sheriff John at noon. His adventures of Diver Dan were the best! I was so scared of Baron Barracuda!

There was also Hobo Kelly.

For the latenight B movie/monster movie crowd there was Seymour (and his nemesis Banjo Billy). Seymour hosted Fright Night and Seymour Presents on a couple of channels. He was eventually succeeded by Elvira.
 
OutinChgoburbs, you forgot Family Classics on Sunday afternoons on channel 9. Classic old movies. Every Easter they’d show “Song of Bernadette.”
 
I also remember watching Captain Kangaroo while I grew up in Oakland, CA. I also remember the local Dialing for Dollars and Charlie and Humphrey’s Goodstuff Hour on KTVU, Channel 2 in Oakland. Ah, for the “good old days” watching those programs, as well as some of the other “good, clean programs” like Dragnet and Perry Mason. :o 😦

So, who started this trip down Memory Lane anyhow?
 
The San Francisco Channel 2 had Romper Room. I sent in a picture to Miss Mary Ann and was selected to be on the show for a week. It was fun to see how everything worked behind the camera, and how she was able to look into her “magic mirror” and see all of the viewers. I was one of the older kids on the show since I was in kindergarten at the time. So, I got to miss school for the week and they rolled a TV into the classroom so the class could watch while I was on. Too bad that was before the era of VCR’s.

We also had Dialing for Dollars. I remember this because our neighbors across the street won a gift certificate to an upscale restaurant in San Francisco, and they didn’t think they would like it. They gave it to us, and my dad took me. I was about 7 at the time. It was a wonderful meal, and I couldn’t imagine why they turned it down.
 
tee_eff_em said:
How could you forget Don Riggs and his pal, Willie the Duck?

And Bowling for Dollars hosted by Nick “The Fix” Perry?

And the local boy who made it big, by inviting the whole country into his neighborhood, Mister Rogers?

tee
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Well, I didn’t forget, because I didn’t grow up near Pittsburgh. I was familiar with Chilly Billy from my dad and later, my friends from Pgh that I met in DC.
I became familiar with Paul Shannon the same way. Bill Cardile was the weather guy for WPXI Noon News for years, up through the late 1990s, after I returned to Pittsburgh.

There was a Bowling for Dollars on WEWS-5 in Cleveland. If you were lucky enough to be selected to bowl, you had to pick a postcard and some lucky schmuck got to split the prize that you would win for bowling two strikes.

Channel 27 in Youngstown had the Money Movie at 4PM on weekdays. If they called you at home and were able to say how much money was in the pot, you won the money. Incidentally, the best ratings for the Money Movie was always Star Trek week.
 
JW10631 said:
Well, I didn’t forget, because I didn’t grow up near Pittsburgh. I was familiar with Chilly Billy from my dad and later, my friends from Pgh that I met in DC.
I became familiar with Paul Shannon the same way. Bill Cardile was the weather guy for WPXI Noon News for years, up through the late 1990s, after I returned to Pittsburgh.

There was a Bowling for Dollars on WEWS-5 in Cleveland. If you were lucky enough to be selected to bowl, you had to pick a postcard and some lucky schmuck got to split the prize that you would win for bowling two strikes.

Channel 27 in Youngstown had the Money Movie at 4PM on weekdays. If they called you at home and were able to say how much money was in the pot, you won the money. Incidentally, the best ratings for the Money Movie was always Star Trek week.
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Cincinnati also had bowling for dollars and an afternoon Money Movie.

Bill Cardille probably gained national recognition when he appeared as a TV news reporter in the original Night of the Living Dead.
 
Ravyn_Guiliani said:
The Happy Piper or was it the Merry Piper? loved that show when he fell asleep after reaching into his magic bag and dreamed of fantasy adventures.
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Pip the Piper and his sidekicks Miss Merrynote and Mr. Leader (as in band leader). I think that might have been a nationally syndicated show.
 
Tenebrae said:
OutinChgoburbs, you forgot Family Classics on Sunday afternoons on channel 9. Classic old movies. Every Easter they’d show “Song of Bernadette.”
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You’re right, I did. And along with “Song of Bernadette” there was “Tobor” the movie about the robot, that was annual.

Well, when you live someplace where at least 70% of the population is baptized Catholic…movies like “Bernadette” pop up. I always used to get angry at the Mother Superior of the convent, until the part of the movie where she repents.
dulcissima said:
The San Francisco Channel 2 had Romper Room. I sent in a picture to Miss Mary Ann and was selected to be on the show for a week. It was fun to see how everything worked behind the camera, and how she was able to look into her “magic mirror” and see all of the viewers. I was one of the older kids on the show since I was in kindergarten at the time. So, I got to miss school for the week and they rolled a TV into the classroom so the class could watch while I was on. Too bad that was before the era of VCR’s.

We also had Dialing for Dollars. I remember this because our neighbors across the street won a gift certificate to an upscale restaurant in San Francisco, and they didn’t think they would like it. They gave it to us, and my dad took me. I was about 7 at the time. It was a wonderful meal, and I couldn’t imagine why they turned it down.
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My husband remembers a klids’ program in the Bay Area called Mayor Art.
 
Hi I’m new to this forum and noticed the posts concerning old kids tv shows from Pittsburgh.I live in Butler,PA.and very much remember old kid shows like Paul Shannon’s Adventure Time,etc.There are a couple people that hosted kid shows on WTAE I was curious if anyone remembers.One is Sandy Mason who hosted a daily afternoon kids show w/Joe Negri and 2 ventriliqist dolls called Tommy and Grandma.She recorded for MGM Records,in fact I have a couple 45’s by her.One record was called Terry about a girl’s boyfriend getting killed in a car wreck after an argument,which she sang on the show.Does anyone remember what this show was called and what happened to Sandy?Also does anyone remember Miss Jane from Romper Room who died in who died in 1969.I always wondered what she died from.I remember she died about a week after Thanksgiving '69 and I remember watching her on Thanksgiving Day that year.I believe she appeared on tv the morning of the day she died.Does anyone have any info on these 2 ch.4 veterans?Thanks Russel
 
Here in Miami, Florida in the 1960s there was also
CAPTAIN JACK & BANJO BILLY. The guy who played
Captain Jack was an actor who lived here. I got to know
him kinda in the late 1970s.

Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
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