Remember this old kid's show?

[Bugbear]

*SCREAM!!*
I just had a flashback of "Hee Ha."

[Piper]

My memories are of Philly area tv shows. Tom Terrific, Beanie & Cecil, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Howdy Doody, Crusader Rabbit, for some of the puppet and cartoon selections. For human hosts there were Captain Kangaroo, Wee Willie Weber, Sally Starr and Soupy Sales. I'm sure there were others that have slipped my mind. Of course they were all in black and white. At the risk of seeming too ancient, I remember when tv "signed off" for the night, usually around 11 pm. They would play the National Anthem, and then go to a test pattern till next morning. I tell my grandkids that I'm from so far back that we used to watch tv by candlelight.

[dfmacliam]

I remember the "it's 8 o'clock, do you know where your children are?" the signing off was like a wake up call, when you fell asleep watching tv. Our Gang, the Little Rascals, The Three Stooges (all the different charactors), Cisco Kid, Speedy Gonzales, yes, that great Sunday Night Lineup.... I still watch "Where The Red Fern Grows", lol "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" with a young Sean Connery..

[james a. husky]

"Plunk yer Magic Twangger Froggy!!!!!!"

Who, after the smoke cleared, would say: "Hi-Ya, Kids... Hi-Ya, Hi-Ya!!! And "Midnight" the Cat... "NICE"!

Howdy Doody (My Dad knew "Buffalo Bob"). Princess Summer-Spring-Winter-Fall was WAY "Hotter" than Penny!

Pinky Lee, Tom Terrific, Winky Dink (He tought children how to draw on the TV tube with crayons!), Captain Midnight, Rin Tin Tin, and the aforementioned Lassie, Fury, Sky King...

And... for those budding psychologists amoung us: The Cisco Kid and Pancho. Wherein each episode would end with Cisco and Pancho looking at each other with strange grins, Saying: "Hey, Cisco"... "Hey Pancho"..., grabbing each other, dancing around in a circle and firing off their guns!!! If I had know who Dr. Freud was I would have found it even funnier than I did then!

Then there was a virtually unlimited succession of Saturday morning series of "Serials" from the 1940s (former movie theater serials) that were shown on the tiny tube... WW1 Boy Scouts solving problems, All sorts of cliff-hanger shows that were shown in installments. That sort of thing.

For live-action, locally produced shows we had "Skipper Chuck", "M.T. Space" (who hosted Science-fiction movies), "M.T. Graves" (who hosted horror movies), and a couple of others.

Jim aka kiltiemon

[LANCER1562]

Anybody from the Bay Area remember Bob Wilkins "Creature Features"? A knock off of Elvira.

I tell my kids that I was literally weaned on The Beatles.

Some years ago, a co-worker of mine and I used to amuse ourselves by playing "You know you're getting old when you remember..."

Back to Saturday Morning cartoons, does anyone remember Speed Buggy, Ultra Man, Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumly, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop who was always being rescued by the Ant Hill Mod and they're car Chugaboom, Danger Island with a very young Jan Michael Vincent, The Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer that mixed live action and animation?

[walkerk]

Anybody from the Bay Area remember Bob Wilkins "Creature Features"?

That was late Saturday night entertainment at its best (and cheesiest .) Had an opportunity to meet Bob Wilkins in 2006 - he passed away early this year. His successor, John Stanley, lives here in Pacifica.

[ozth3dog]

The gummi bears, duck tales, and darkwing duck were my fav. shows in the world. They would show Mcduck and his arch enimy flintheart in a kilt from time to time.

[Bigkahuna]

How about Kate Smith singing"God Bless America", or Zacherly and Monster Movie Theater. I also thought that Sharri Lewis was Hot!!

[BroosterB1]

When I was a kid in Seattle, there were a couple of shows in B&W that had been imported from Japan, Speed Racer mentioned already, but there was another that I have never heard anyone mention, Gigantor about a mega robot that could fly and destroy things. I think this was the pre-cursor to the later trend of huge Japanese robots; but as I recall the robot was autonomous, even to the point of having feelings for the young boy protagonist.

Anybody remember Giganantor?

[Bugbear]

When I was a kid in Seattle, there were a couple of shows in B&W that had been imported from Japan, Speed Racer mentioned already, but there was another that I have never heard anyone mention, Gigantor about a mega robot that could fly and destroy things. I think this was the pre-cursor to the later trend of huge Japanese robots; but as I recall the robot was autonomous, even to the point of having feelings for the young boy protagonist.

Anybody remember Giganantor?

I might remember something like that...

On the other hand, I remember Puff the Magic Dragon.

Or how about, Bednobs and Broomsticks.