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BRING OUT YOUR DEAD (Part Whatever)

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Kepler said:
The soundtrack of my yute

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Million Dollar Movie was my youth also-along with the Syncopated Clock Theme from the Early Show. Kind of appropriate to see all of this on this thread since most all of the TV stars I remember from the 50's are already gone or barely hanging on at this stage.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Rockey Jones, Space Ranger was a great program. I even had all of the books. I think that there were eight. :)
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There were 8. I had them too. Once that show came on, I could not be moved from in front of the TV. Far better than Captain Midnight.;)
 
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Kepler said:
He hosted from 59 to 67 (says Wikipedia, I have no memory of him), McAllister from 67 to 77. Apparently the parting with McAllister was pretty ugly.
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I remember Sonny Fox, who became Sanford Fox and was in charge of the Emmy's for a few years (if memory serves me right).
 
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DrDemento said:
Holy Cow!! I am a kid again-now just need Rootie Kazootie and I coulgo back to about 1954!!
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I liked Rocky alot. Even better, the way the crossed straps on the babe's uniform, uh, enhanced her figure. Was her name Veena or something like that?
 
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I also remember Officer Joe Bolton showing cartoons on Channel 11. He also did the Three Stooges and The Little Rascals (Our Gang). And of course Soupy Sales was way ahead of his time. Old Pio has a great clip of the Soupy Sales Show.
 
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du78 said:
I also remember Officer Joe Bolton showing cartoons on Channel 11. And of course Soupy Sales was way ahead of his time. Old Pio has a great clip of the Soupy Sales Show.
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:D

after graduation i went to nyc and got a job at chemical bank.. lived on 35th & 3rd.

in the morning on sat and sun i'd walk down 35th against all the traffic coming out of the tunnel to 2nd ave and turn right. there, three doors down was a bagel shop that made great salt bagels and gave me the small coffees in the cups (the creator of which just died..). on their 'wall of fame' was one picture. a head shot of soupy. :D
 
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Axel and his Dog was a favorite of my dad's. I've been trying to dig up DVDs or copies of this show for a while. No such luck. There was a dvd put out by the radio HOF or something like that but never got around to buying it.
 
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du78 said:
I also remember Officer Joe Bolton showing cartoons on Channel 11. He also did the Three Stooges and The Little Rascals (Our Gang). And of course Soupy Sales was way ahead of his time. Old Pio has a great clip of the Soupy Sales Show.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cherobZX9cc

It's just some of the guys having a giggle at Soupy's expense on live TV.

In Chicago we had "Elmer the Elephant," "Uncle Johnny Coons," "Garfield Goose" and the all time king of local kids shows, the best ever, "Bozo's Circus." Larry Harmon had sold the rights to the Bozo cartoons and the Bozo face to TV stations all across the country. Most simply used a guy in a suit to sell stuff and intro cartoons.

WGN, however, created an hour long program that featured daily live circus acts (occasionally you'd see one that had been on Ed Sullivan), a 12 piece band, 300 kids live on the set, sketches and the "grand prize game" in which kids tossed ping pong balls into sand pails. If a kid got it into "bucket #6" (in addition to all the other prizes he'd won in buckets 1-5), he'd win a bike and a bag full of silver dollars. The "magic arrows" would pick one boy and one girl out of the "peanut gallery" who would also be playing for kids at home.

At its height, there was an 8 year wait to get on the show. Young couples would get married and write in for their allocation of four tickets. The tickets would come (for 8 years down the road) and by the time the young couple got to go to the show, they'd have like a 7 year old and a 5 year old. When you requested Bozo's Circus tickets, you were getting in line behind half a milion people!

Cable TV, changing demographics and do-gooders finally put Bozo out of business. The clowns in Washington decreed that children's shows had to have some sort of "educational" value. It wasn't enough to make 'em laugh anymore, you had to teach 'em long division or some d**m thing. Pity. But Bozo had better than a 25 year run in Chicago, and has the distinction of being the best local kids show ever.
 
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joecct said:
I remember Sonny Fox, who became Sanford Fox and was in charge of the Emmy's for a few years (if memory serves me right).
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If you mean host, it must have been a different awards show. Here is the list of the hosts of the Emmys -- it's an interesting exercise in how TV trends have waxed and waned. Oh, and Earl Warren hosted one year. Now that's weird. Check out the 1961-62 season co-hosts -- that must have been fascinating.
 
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Two words: Casey Jones.

And I used to watch Bozo growing up. We had cable, so we could catch WGN. I always enjoyed watching the Grand Prize Game.
 
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Old Pio said:
I liked Rocky alot. Even better, the way the crossed straps on the babe's uniform, uh, enhanced her figure. Was her name Veena or something like that?
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It was Vena-she appeared in lots of my dreams during childhood. At that age I never knew women looked like that:) Other than fantasizing about her I always had Rita Hayworth and my favorite Hedy Lamarr. Drat I'm getting old.:(
 
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Old Pio said:
The clowns in Washington decreed that children's shows had to have some sort of "educational" value. It wasn't enough to make 'em laugh anymore, you had to teach 'em long division or some d**m thing. Pity. But Bozo had better than a 25 year run in Chicago, and has the distinction of being the best local kids show ever.
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Shame-the cartoons back then may not have been politically correct, but they sure were entertaining and they were funny. They did not have to have a message in each one and you could just sit back and laugh and have fun. Something sorely missing today.
 
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DrDemento said:
It was Vena-she appeared in lots of my dreams during childhood. At that age I never knew women looked like that:) Other than fantasizing about her I always had Rita Hayworth and my favorite Hedy Lamarr. Drat I'm getting old.:(
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It's Hedley!

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DrDemento said:
It was Vena-she appeared in lots of my dreams during childhood. At that age I never knew women looked like that:) Other than fantasizing about her I always had Rita Hayworth and my favorite Hedy Lamarr. Drat I'm getting old.:(
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I am mixing up Rocky Jones, Space Ranger and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Thanks for clarifying things.
 
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DrDemento said:
It was Vena-she appeared in lots of my dreams during childhood. At that age I never knew women looked like that:) Other than fantasizing about her I always had Rita Hayworth and my favorite Hedy Lamarr. Drat I'm getting old.:(
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Vena was a hotty. rocky was better off with her than Bobby and Winky.

Mike Nelson was a mean Winky.
 
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