"Ding Dong School" & "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"

[Big Horn]

Does anyone remember The Great Foudini? I had a hand puppet called Pinhead from that show (1951)

Pinhead is on the right, Foudini is on the left.

This was the best. Foodinii represented the world the way it should be. I found one of the shows a while back on YouTube. The sound quality is terrible, but it's worth the effort.

http://rhettmagic.furman.edu/FoodiniWeb/index.html

http://sbiii.com/foodini.html

 

[Smiling Jane]

I never watched any of those shows -- we didn't have a TV until I was about 10, and, by the time we did, I was too old for that kind of stuff. We were only allowed to watch TV for a little while in the evening each day, with our parents.

Me too, Butterfly. My dad was pretty much the last holdout on TV. He refused to buy one because he said we would forget how to talk or read a book or any of those simple things we did before. He was certainly right about that.

My brother and I listened to a radio show with Miss Frances every morning while we got dressed for school. My mother wrote and had her gently chide us about dawdling while we were supposed to be getting dressed. We were awed!

I've thought about that experience so many times when I'm remembering how simple life used to be.

 

[fmdog44]

We had Captain Kangaroo and Bozo's Circus in Chicago. I was a nut for Flash Gordon but I hated waiting a full week to see how Flash would get out of the latest peril brought on by Ming The Merciless (coolest name ever for a bad guy).