by KidsTVgupAdmin | Sep 11, 2017 | Children's TV Classics
It seems hard to believe, but Sesame Street just celebrated its 40th year on the air. I celebrated the show’s birthday by attending a panel discussion on “40 Years of Life on the Street” at the Brooklyn Public Library on November 21. The panel was...
by KidsTVgupAdmin | Sep 11, 2017 | Children's TV Classics
“A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty “Hi-yo, Silver!” Who was that masked man? Of course, it had to be The Lone Ranger, star of a TV series set in the Old West that aired in primetime on ABC from 1949 to 1957 and was...
by KidsTVgupAdmin | Sep 11, 2017 | Children's TV Classics
Happy Trails to you, until we meet again… If you watched The Roy Rogers Show as a child, you probably have the rest of the show’s theme song running through your head now. The Roy Rogers Show debuted on NBC on December 30, 1951, and ran there until 1957. ...
by KidsTVgupAdmin | Sep 11, 2017 | Children's TV Classics
“From out of the clear blue of the Western sky . . .comes Sky King!” Sky King was a modern-day (at the time) cowboy show with a twist — the cowboy was an airplane pilot living on a ranch in Arizona, who used his small plane to chase down the bad guys...
by KidsTVgupAdmin | Sep 11, 2017 | Children's TV Classics
Paul Winchell was a superb ventriloquist, comedian, singer, and all-around multi-talented performer who appeared with his featured dummy sidekick Jerry Mahoney on NBC in the 1950’s. Winchell and his wooden co-star were originally seen in primetime on...
by KidsTVgupAdmin | Sep 11, 2017 | Children's TV Classics
One of my absolute favorite shows as a kid was Gumby, a trippy, somewhat surreal series filmed using stop motion clay animation. There were 233 episodes of the show produced over the course of its 40-year history on TV, all featuring the green clay robot-like little...
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