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The Fearless Fosdick comic strip character created by Al Capp was brought to TV in 1952 as a show featuring marionettes. This was not the Howdy Doody show with a couple of marionettes interacting with live people but it was an entire marionette world, with tiny sets showing exteriors and interiors, tiny furniture and other props, along with tiny wardrobes for changes of clothing. Supposedly, there were just as many adults who watched the show as kids. I was about two or three when it aired.
olddots
(10,237 posts)I lived for the 15 minute Ernie Kovak's Show with Captain Pafoofnick's cigar rocket ship on a string .
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Kovacs' influence on TV has been immense.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Betsy Ross
(3,147 posts)so we could draw a bridge on our TV for Winky Dink to cross. We'd be blind today or dead from the radiation back then.
olddots
(10,237 posts)he did game shows later on
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)He was also the host of some of the rigged quiz shows like Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I seem to recall seeing Fearless Fosdick in a cartoon.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Ding Dong School.
I was also attached to some non-kids' shows: the soap operas First Love and Valiant Lady and the sitcoms Our Miss Brooks and Private Secretary.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)I had a crush on Mr. Greenjeans. I remember singing this song along with him:
olddots
(10,237 posts)Les Paul & Mary Ford had a 15 minute show alone with Nat King Cole and others .
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)I would get out of bed, climb on the counters, and make myself cereal. My dad was surprised every day...
union_maid
(3,502 posts)I guess I'm the same age, but we didn't get a TV until I was about 5 or 6. Would have loved this show, I'm sure.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Here are my earliest tv memories:
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Our neighbors had a tv and our base was experimenting with tv ..that was their first airing..(we were in Panama)
Things were so primitive then, that to talk to our grandparents on the phone we used a HAM radio (over) that our neighbor had set up..