Let’s Have Fun (Chuck McCann Show)

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Skooldays

"Let's Have Fun!" Local: WPIX TV Ch.11 NYC Sunday mornings: Sunday September 18,1960 - Sunday June 2,1968 Hosts/Performers:Chuck McCann(9/18/60-8/15/65) Comedy Asistant/Puppeteer:Paul Ashley(9/18/60-8/15/65) "Capt.Jack"McCarthy(8/22/65-8/28/65) Terry Bennett(9/5/65-9/1966) Hank Stohl(9/1966) Bill Biery(9/1966-9/3/67) Head Puppeteer:Tom Tichenor(9/1966) Comedy Asistants:Robert Broderick(9/1966) "Doakey The Clown"(9/19660 "Fireman Frank"(9/10/67-6/2/68) In the fall of 1960..entertainer:Chuck McCann..who had already established himself as a successful comedy performer and puppeteer on such local NYC based kids tv shows as"The Puppet Hotel"(Saturday mornings on WNTA TV Ch.13 ...

The Chuck McCann Show

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Skooldays

The Chuck McCann Show page compiled by Kevin Butler "The Chuck McCann Show!" Local:WPIX TV Ch.11 NYC Weekday afternoons:Monday September 9,1963-Friday July 31,1965 Returned:Local:WNEW TV Ch.5 NYC Weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings: Tuesday September 7,1965 -Friday September 2,1966 Saturday October 9,1965-Saturday April 30,1966 Host/Performer:Chuck McCann Head Pupeteer/Comedy Asistant:Paul Ashley After seeing the success of his sunday morning comedy/ variety kids tv show"Let's Have Fun!"..the station execs at ...

Fashion: Permed hair for men

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Skooldays

Fashion took a dramatic change for women in the seventies and men in the eighties. In the 1970s, acid perms were invented. These use glycerol monothioglycolate instead and contain no ammonia. They are sometimes called buffered waves. This perm is slower but gentler to the hair. Heat is usually added by placing the client under ...

The Dick Tracy Show

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Skooldays

The Dick Tracy Show (Syndicated:1961) Details by Kevin Butler. Production Co.:UPA Studios,Inc. Voices: "Dick Tracy":Everett Sloan "Hemlock Holmes":Paul Frees "Go Go Gomez":Paul Frees "Joe Jitsu":Benny Rubin "Officer Heap O'Calorie":Paul Frees "Stooge Villa":"Uncle Johnny"Coons "Mumbles":"Uncle Johnny"Coons "Prune Face"Paul Frees "Itchey":Jerry Hauser "Sketch Parree":Paul Frees "The Mole":Jerry Hauser, Benny Rubin "BB Eyes":Everett Sloan, Paul Frees "Flat Top":Mel Blanc, Paul Frees "The Brow":(Actor Unknown) "Oodles"(Actor Unknown) "Cheater Gunsmoke":Everett Sloan Other Voices:Jerry Hauser and Frank Nelson In 1960, UPA Animation Studios were hired by The ...

Joe 90 Tv Theme

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Skooldays

Who remembers the Joe 90 Tv Theme? Joe 90 was a futuristic children's TV series about a boy secret agent that ran on British independent television between 1968 and 1969. It was the brainchild of Gerry Anderson, who together with his wife Sylvia produced a string of similar TV programmes in what he called Supermarionation. Although most ...

The Smurfs

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Skooldays

It had to happen in 2011, The Smurfs make it as the next big movie to hit the screens this summer. For years The Smurfs have been loved by generation after generation, but now they make it to the big screen again. We say again as in 1976 they made it with the The Smurfs and ...

1980s PC Magazine

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Skooldays

So did you start out in the 80s with Mac User, or was it Mac World. Maybe you were more into the PC world pushed by IBM. Or perhaps you even go back to 1975 with the magazine called BYTE, launched the first wave of periodicals for early computer hobbyists. What ever you were into you have to ...

Whistle pop candy

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Skooldays

Whistle pop candy sweets! These whistles were actually a boiled sweet lolly, tasty and zingy, with various fruity flavours. Various flavours i can remember include lemon, cola and strawberry. But the real reason you bought these were for there value for annoying parents. While you can suck, you could also blow your whistle at a high pitch screech, ...

Classic 70s Television

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Skooldays

So what were you doing on Friday night back in 1974? Chances are you just may of been watching a classic sitcom on ABC. The Partridge Family Some of the greatest 1970 TV shows would of included The Partridge Family. With David Cassidy, every girl swooned. The Partridge Family went to the top of the hit parade back in ...

Leave it to Beaver Lunchbox

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Skooldays

It seems that the 1957 Leave it to Beaver is the latest craze to grip parents and children. This great sitcom ran through the 1950s and 60s. It was about an inquisitive but often naïve boy named Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and the adventures and pickles he would get into around the neighbourhood. Its estimated there were ...