Remember this old kid's show?

[Coinneach]

My earliest children's show memory is from when we lived in England: Noddy! I even wanted a blue cap with a bell on it. (Still do! but what kilt would it go with?)

Mighty Mouse was my favorite growing up.

As for Rocky and Bullwinkle's show, my favorite part was the Fractured Fairy Tales told by Edward Everett Horton.

[Dirka Skene]

What a can o' beans I opened up, huh?

[Standard]

What a can o' beans I opened up, huh?

And we thank you!

[KFCarter]

And we thank you!

Seconding that!

[Inchessi]

That Romper Room Bimbo NEVER said my name!

I too always loved Fractured Fairy Tales on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show!

[dfmacliam]

That Romper Room Bimbo NEVER said my name!

I too always loved Fractured Fairy Tales on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show!

that's cause the magic mirror only shown her the good boys and girls... and she never said my name either...lol

you know, those days.. Dad had a remote even before they came out... lol he would tell us kids to change the channels.. lol

[james a. husky]

Going to jump in the "Way-Back" machine and set it for the "Hie'lands, 1720's...).

So we're all sitting around a chunk of smoldering peat, blinking cheerily and passing great plumes of sulphurous euphoria, passing "aboot" the communal cup of turnip soup, and "ain" sez tae "t'other": "MacGregor... do ye' remember when we was jes' barin's... the Grand tales t'was told round the fire...! Wha's ain o'yer favourite tale tellers...?" And "MacGregor" sez: (add your "ain" story here!

The point I'm making is that throughout history, people have been talking about thier childhood story memories... It goes back into the most ancient areas of our past! We just change the aspect of the "camp fire"!

OK... Just musing... now back to Novemeber 15, 2009...

I never trusted Hopalong Cassidy... He always ended up with the... Horse!!!

Jim aka kiltiemon

[Morris at Heathfield]

Voltron (Power Rangers was a rip off of this);

Not really. Power Rangers was a clear (licensed) ripoff of various Japanese Super Sentai series. Some of it was filmed in California, but most of the fight footage was lifted directly from the Japanese shows. The first Super Sentai series was broadcast beginning in 1975, while Beast King GoLion (the Japanese series that became Voltron in the US) aired beginning in 1981. The concept for both of those shows was influenced by Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (better known in the US as Battle of the Planets or G-Force [no, not the one with the guinea pigs ]), which was originally supposed to be a superhero show similar to Batman. However, the superhero in this case suffered from a surfeit of sidekicks, and the five-member superhero team became an established convention of Japanese animation (or anime, as I believe they call it now).

Er, how do I know all this?

[Bigkahuna]

Very early on, there were a series of cartoons about the story of the Firebird and the Snow Princess. I believe these were of Russian origin and have never seen them since the 50s. They were very well animated and had the music of Stravinsky as background. I always wondered what happened to them.

[Macman]

The CBC shows I remember were Mary Muggins and Friendly Giant. We also got Captain Puget, Stan Boresman, J.P. Patches and Brakeman Bill from the Seattle stations (as long as you had rabbit ears). Yogi Bear was one of my favourites, along with Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Pixie and Dixie, Daddy Doggie and Augie Doggie, my son, my son.