In the age before Sesame Street, who was your childhood TV teacher?

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Most of us seniors are the first generation of TV kids. We grew up with the TV on. Today, there's entire TV networks devoted to kids. But we were watching TV way before Sessame Street. Do you remember those kids' programs from back then? Who was your TV "teacher"?
 

Puppet show.

Howdy Doody Show #8 | 1950s Kids TV Show


The clip is to long to watch or maybe it because it's to simple compared to todays animatronics. One of those changes in life that isn't thought about.
 
Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans. Oh, and Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit. :) I almost said Hatchy Milatchy from WNEP and Miss Judy, but then I realized that's what I watched with my daughter in the mid and late 80s... maybe that *is* when I learned most! 😁
 
I loved Soupy Sales. A lot of his humor went right over the kids' heads, though, and was adult-oriented. One of the funniest stories I heard was about a prank his crew pulled on him. There was a knock on the "door" and Soupy went to open it. He was supposed to be talking to one of the other characters but actually out-of-sight there was a naked woman standing there. Since the show was live, he had to stand there and act like nothing was wrong.

Ding Dong School was my thang. I loved Miss Frances.

Remember Mr. Do-Bee on Romper Room.

I also loved the Winky Dink and You show. You sent off for a plastic sheet you put on the TV screen. You would then draw a picture as shown on the TV screen. The TV picture would then disappear and eyes and a mouth would appear in the right spots and voila! your picture was animated! That was magical for the times.

And then there was Pinky Lee. He was one-of-a-kind. I was watching the day he had some kind of attack, maybe a heart attack. He fell to his knees, clutched his chest and rasped out "help me!" Since he was always bouncing around and pulling tricks, the kids were laughing. Then the camera quickly panned somewhere else and that was the end, at least for a while, of the Pinky Lee Show.
 
TV teacher? LOL There was TV in those days but mostly in big cities until that marvelous new invention called cable came along. We listened to that old-fashioned thing called a radio. Well, we watched the radio while we listened.

Now that I think about it, by the time cable came to our tiny town, I had already finished school and moved to the city. My roomie and I couldn't afford a TV so we still listened to the radio.
 
During early to mid 1950s kid years, good morals TV shows with Clark Kent, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, Zorro, Rin Tin Tin, Davy Crockett.
 
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We had the best story telling, artistic illustrating, imagination expanding teacher on TV.

GENE LONDON.

This video gives you a pretty good idea of what an inspiring person he was.

 
T.V was first introduced into Australia on the 26th of September 1956. WE used to watch it through shop windows while waiting for the bus after school. My parents couldn't afford to buy a B&W one until about 1959.
 

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