Captain Kangaroo, and Mister Green Jeans.

Remember?

Bob Keeshan....Marine!

yup, sure was nice growing up back then.

Heck yes. I can also remember Andy Devine's "Andy's Gang" (sponsored by Buster Brown and Red Goose Shoe brands) as well as "The Howdy Doody Show" and even "Kookla, Fran, and Ollie."

what was the bears name. I remember Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder dog.

I was before his time, but I watched him on TV with my kids.

Dancing Bear

Remember Mr. Moose?

"Smokin' cigarettes, and watching Captain, Kangaroo, don't tell me, I've nothing to do,"
The Statler Brothers.

Was it Buster Brown shoe stores that had that machine
that you could look down thru and see the bones in your feet?
Wounder how many rads you got with that.....thought it was cool back then tho'....

How about Diver Dan?

I watched Captain Kangaroo a bunch and loved the show.

Romper Room!

I am pretty sure that the show "Sherry and Lambchop the lamb" is what got Travis aka DeFlave started on his sheep fetish problem

Ya boy!

Remember "Bunny Rabbit" and "Grandfather Clock?? And how the ping pong balls would drop from the ceiling? Good stuff!

Loved Captain Kangaroo , Mr Green Jeans and Bunny Rabbit. I was young and had my whole life ahead of me .

YES !!!

Good times.

BTW,

There's no comma needed between Captain Kangaroo and Mister Green Jeans.

Sorry.

Thanks for that! I literally had not seen any of Diver Dan in 45 years! What passed for 'special effects' back then.....

Romper Room and whoever it was with the magic mirror.








I'm diggin' deep for that memory.

oh ya I remember

Yup - pretty sure it was Buster Brown....Remember the machine, too! COOL! Had kids, so the radiation didn't get all the way to the boys...

Was the bad guy in Tom Terrific cartoons?

Dancing Bear.

Give me an E. Bulgarian porn site at 1G and Atari Pong any day of the week over CK.

You just have to believe Mooochelle watch all those.

Dancing Bear. Cosmo Alegretti (?) Was the man in the bear suit.
He just passed away last summer. Probably the last of the Capt. K. actors.

Crabby Appleton

Yea man, I thought is was weird how the brand new tenner shoes made my feet burn. Those things were in a lot of stores back then. Those in store x-ray machines could let you see your toe bones plumb through those rubber covered tenner toes.

How about Henry Aldrich on the radio?

Any time we had enough wind to spin the wind charger to charge the battery in the old Philco, we could listen to that show plus a few others.

Amos and Andy was our favorite, I think.

Yep, he was rotten to the core.

:)Kinda seedy, too.

I remember Capt. Kangaroo and then there was the Local Ranger Andy on Channel 3 WTIC before it became WFSB. Part of the CBS network. Stopped watching pretty much the News since its pretty much communist. Didn't loose much. On the other hand The Capt was fun to watch, when I was a 6 year old. Then their was Sharrie Lewis and Lamb Chop before PBS. I didn't watch much TV since it interfered with Outside time. I spent more time in the woods than most. I had a lot of woodland to play in. found some good fishing holes along the way too.

I watched the show some, but my more favorite shows were Seahunt, Flicka, The Cisco Kid, and Gunsmoke, of course!

Yep. As a kid there wasn't TV. I remember sitting in front of the Motorola radio on Saturday mornings & listening to the adventurers of Sky King, Hoppalong Cassidy, & the Lone Ranger. Kids actually played outside in those days & were perfectly safe. When we got our first TV I remember watching Its Howdy Dooty Time. Crusader Rabbit was also one of my favorite cartoons. The kids in my neighborhood used to chant- he's here, he's there, he's everywhere, he's Crusader Rabbit.

Dang we're digging up some good old one's. Loved the first Gunsmoke shows.

We're on a roll. Keep it up.

Wasn't Bob Keenan a beach boss on Iwo Jima?

Doc

Speed racer!

There was a couple of urban legends about Bob Keeshan winning the Navy Cross and some Iwo Jima stuff, but he never saw any combat at all in WW2. Most of it was based on something Lee Marvin was supposed to have said on a talk show, but actually didn't. I use to see him on Nantucket Island occasionally in the early '80s and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy.

My favorite was Johnny Quest! That was some good stuff for the era, and who among us would not have traded places with that kid and his sidekick Haji, seeing the world and solving big time crime with all of those cool inventions of his dad and team!

Do ya'll remember the saying at the beginning of all of the superman shows?

"Fighting for truth, justice and THE AMERICAN WAY!" Bck then, American exceptionalism was just accepted as fact and as right by everyone. Even, to a degree, by our enemy's and counter countries.

What I would give to have that attitude and the actions it brought on returned to this great land!

Try to fins such an attitude or expression in todays popular Television outside of the Fox News Network.

Wiki:

Johhny Quest was a TV ripoff of the famous Tom Swift book adventures. I read every single Swiftie and loved them. As a fledgling gunnut, I distinctly recall "Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle."

Counting flowers on the wall, don't bother me at all...

Johnny Quest

He would have been disappointed in Hadji crashing into the World Trade Center on 9/11 though.

deputy dawg and the varmints

Haji was not a Middle Easterner, was from India. Would not likely even have been a Muslim with his attire and background.

But I think haji was suppose to be Hindi.

Did anyone besides me get a spring loaded Johnny Eagle rifle that looked a lot like an 03/A3 springfield that fired plastic bullets? Each 30/06 'casing' had a spring in it that pushed the plastic projectile out of the barrel when the trigger was pulled. Easily my all time favorite toy, along with my olive drab pup tent.

I enjoyed CK. Mr. Green Jeans, Bob, Mr. Moose and Bunnyrabbit.

Johnny Quest was a fav on Saturday mornings, too.

Anyone else remember Gunsmoke and the SixShooter on the radio? two famous T.V. and Movie stars were the narrators. Anyone remember who they were?

how about sky king with his daughter penny and son skylar?

Without actually Googling it, William Conrad (From Cannon TV series) comes to mind. Not sure though.

Oh yeah. If memory serves correctly, when you shot the rifle, it had a built in Bang...whine sound like a ricochet of a bullet.

The thing I remember about Johny Quest was the high body count for each show.

For a 10 or 12 year old kid, Johny didn't mess around - he and Race flat out killed the bad guys. Not like some of the later GI Joe or other cartoons where there'd be explosions and gunfire and all manner of mayhem but nobody actually died.

Sure. I watched it regularly way back when.

Love the old commercials for toy guns!

I doubt my grandkids would want to be caught with one of these at school today though...

I think you are right, but this was 45 years ago and I really don't remember for sure on that point. Great toy, though.

Some good wholesome violence in Johnny Quest. I loved it

Ghost,

WOW! Bringin back some memories there! Thanks for finding and posting that. Now my grandkids have a purple dinosaur and four gay teletubbie thingies in pastel outfits to watch. Sigh......

Tom Swift and his Flying Lab was the first book that I ever read cover to cover.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/321389...eed&gclid=CMjqzLPvgL0CFbFaMgod_hUAIw

I liked that old show ...is that a smoke in the fishes mouth ...luv it!

Johnny Quest... I watched that every time ...always shooting they were!! I got them on vhs/dvd now ...as I kid I read the tom swift books good stuff! the "newer version" of tom swift was a waste tho

how about this >>>> good times!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)

break out the Lego's.....for mom and dad to walk on !! ouch!!

I think I vaguely remember this opening. The tune sounds familiar.

William Conrad was the voice of "Matt Dillon" on the radio show, Gunsmoke. Later Conrad played the lead in Cannon, and afterward starred in Jake and the Fat Man.

I don't know which actor's voice was used on Six Shooter, as I never heard the show.

L.W.

Jimmy Stewart was "six shooter" I believe.

Them Legos were for rich, high tech kids... We had Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys!

In today's world, Race Bannon would probably be cast as Dr. Benton C. Quest's bodyguard and "traveling companion", no need for a sleazy Asian women named "Jade" to distract Race from his primary interest. That said, Race was a heck of a pilot, once landing a jet on an abandoned cargo ship in the Java Sea.

You can probably buy the Jonny Quest series on DVD if you want to trip back down memory lane. I tried that with the Rocky & Bullwinkle series and found it to be a bummer, even the shows within the show, Fractured Fairy Tales and Peabody & Sherman, were lame beyond belief.

Jeff

I must be the only person under 40 in this thread...but I watched the Captain in his last 4 years on TV.

Ha, the rich kids had TV with Captain Kangaroo.

Do you guys remember "The Time Tunnel" where the two guys were lost in an Army time travel experiment. They would fall out of the sky at the beginning of each episode, almost always in the middle of some really significant historical event. My favorite was when they landed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 6th 1941 and one of the guys encountered himself as a child. Scared the schit out of his young self. Sci-Fi channel used to rerun some episodes about 10-15 yrs. ago.

Clutch Cargo....

She was his Niece
He didn't have kids of his own

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_king

DAMMM U GUYS MEAN I had all them toys..and some real old games ...hell my dad washed folding sammie bags

I had an "Erector Set". Remember that. I still have most of it. The red metal case too.

Correct! Still listen to all the old Gunsmoke, Six-shooter, Ft. Laramie, True Tales of the Texas Rangers on Sirius radio classics (station 82 I think). Also all the othe good shows like Richard Diamond, and the man with the action packed expense account, "Yours truly, Johnny Dollar". Not to mention all the old variety shows too!

cool ..I was to poor ....really...to have that ....hollychit!