{"id":1974,"date":"2011-08-30T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2011-08-30T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:25:26","slug":"just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/just-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Just For Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Just For Fun!&#8221; review by Kevin Butler<br \/>\n<strong>Local:<\/strong> WNEW TV Ch.5 NYC<br \/>\n<strong>Saturday Mornings:\u00a0<\/strong>Saturday Mornings:Saturday October 3,1959-Saturday September 4,1965.<br \/>\n<strong>Hosts:<\/strong> Sonny Fox (10\/3\/59-7\/31\/65)<br \/>\n&#8220;Uncle Fred&#8221; Scott (8\/7\/65-9\/4\/65)<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 1959..Sonny Fox&#8217;s wife Gloria was expecting another child.Her husband went to the station execs At WNEW TV C.5 and asked them for a pay raise.<\/p>\n<p>The station execs refused his request for a pay raise, but they did offer Sonny an ulternitive.If he could create, produce and present another kids tv series for Ch.5&#8217;s saturday morning scheduale?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1975\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1975\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1975\" title=\"just-for-fun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun.jpg\" alt=\"Just For Fun hosted by Sonny Fox and Uncle Fred Scott \" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just For Fun in 1950s and 60s hosted by Sonny Fox and Uncle Fred Scott<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They would pay him more monies for mc&#8217;ing that program.<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to host a saturday morning edition of the station&#8217;s popular sunday morning kids&#8217; variety program: &#8220;Wonderama!&#8221;, Fox began to tinker with different concepts.<\/p>\n<p>His thoughts soon went back to the days.when he and the members of his bunk at summer camp were engaged in &#8220;The Color Wars&#8221;, a series of stunts that the campers played in teams, in order to earn points and win prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Using this idea as the basis for the show&#8217;s format and hiring former WOR TV Ch.9 NYC producer and director: Bob Cahn (Who was one of the first producer\/director&#8217;s of Ch.9 &#8220;Merry Mailman&#8221; )to help create the games.Sonny And Bob presented their concept to the heads of WNEW TV.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Impressed with the format..the station gave the show the green light and &#8220;Just For Fun!&#8221;made it&#8217;s debut on Ch.5 on Saturday morning October 3,1959.(the show&#8217;s theme music was the theme tune from The Bing Crosby\/Fox movie musical&#8221;High Time&#8221;which was\u00a0composed and arranged by Henry Mancini)<\/p>\n<p>Every week Sonny put the members of &#8220;The Blue, The Gold And The White&#8221; Teams thru their paces. As they tried to throw LP discs\u00a0thru a hanging target without breaking it or placing a tennis ball ontop of a vacum cleaner hose and balancing the ball on a cushion of air, as they tried to get the ball into a paper cup.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the show&#8217;s most unique segments were: &#8220;The Mystery Chest&#8221; where one boy or girl had to try and find a certain key hidden inside of a large bowl..the right key would open a chest and when the chest was opened.<\/p>\n<p>A siren was heard throughout the studio and that lucky kid would win a treasure chest full of toys and games from the show&#8217;s<br \/>\nsponsors.<\/p>\n<p>The other segment was&#8221;The Mystery Guest&#8221;, based on the popular feature of Mark Goodson&#8217;s Sunday Night CBS TV Game Show&#8221; What&#8217;s My Line?!&#8221;. A panel of three kids (made up from members of the three teams)would try to find out the identity of the &#8220;Mystery Guest&#8221; by asking the guest questions..while blindfolded.<\/p>\n<p>Such well known performers and personalities as Dayton Allen, Huntz Hall,Joe Flynn,Tim Conway,Carl Ballantine.Billy Sands,Jimmy Nelson, Paul Winchell,Chuck McCann &amp; Paul Ashley,Mickey Mantel,Charolette Rae and Yogi Bera would engage the kids in the fun.(&#8220;The Mystery Guest&#8221;segment would be revived two decades later on WWOR TV Ch.9&#8217;s&#8221;Steampipe Alley&#8221;)<\/p>\n<div>Fox would continue to mc\u00a0Just For Fun..until he left the series following the\u00a0Saturday\u00a0July 31,1965 broadcast.\u00a0Ch.5&#8217;s resident staff announcer and cartoon show host &#8220;Uncle Fred&#8221;Scott would serve as the show&#8217;s second and and last mc from Saturday August 7,1965 until Ch.5 ended the fun on Saturday September 4,1965.<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/just-for-fun\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Just For Fun hosted by Sonny Fox and Uncle Fred Scott\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/just-for-fun.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>&#8220;Just For Fun!&#8221; review by Kevin Butler Local: WNEW TV Ch.5 NYC Saturday Mornings:\u00a0Saturday Mornings:Saturday October 3,1959-Saturday September 4,1965. 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