Among my earliest memories of seeing the show on WGN was that they occasionally
showed other Columbia shorts than the Stooges. I remember two that I have since
identified as Andy Clyde shorts, and also the Buster Keaton's short, "Nothing
But Pleasure." The Keaton film stood out most vividly for me because I thought
he was a handsome man, and didn't look at all like the Three Stooges, and also
because of the violence of the comedy. This would have been about 1962, so I
was five years old. Seeing "Nothing But Pleasure" years later in 1980, I was
astounded at how well I remembered it. Familiar Stooge actors Dorothy Appleby
plays Mrs. Keaton, and Bud Jamison plays a cop.
As I remember it, if the Cubs weren't on, The Three Stooges were on at 3:30 in
the afternoon, "Dick Tracy" with Ray Rayner as Sgt. Henry Pettibone and his
trusty (puppet) dog Tracer was on at 4:00. From 1963 on, "The Mickey Mouse
Club" was at 4:30, and Garfield Goose" from 5:00 to 5:45. Then there was a
short news program, with Jack Brickhouse (You don't forget names like that!).
At 6:00, WGN used to show cartoons: Huckleberry Hound on Mondays, Yogi Bear on
Tuesdays, Rocky and his Friends on Wednesdays and Fridays, and Quick Draw
McGraw on Thursdays, which was replaced in 1964 by Woody Woodpecker.
I am sure there are plenty of folks around with better memories of those years,
but these are mine.
--Kay
Student at Mildew College: "Is it true that the time and space are calculated
by the interplanetary magnetism to solar radiation?"
Moe: "SIT DOWN!!"
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I am from Racine, WI so I watched these same programs on WGN. Andy Starr was
the host (played by the late Bob Bell who was also Bozo and, before that, Uncle
Bob on the Luncheon at Twelve show in the early sixties). Starr also showed
Andy Clyde comedies and many of us believed Starr and Clyde were the same
person. He would occasionally play music on a wind up victrola.
The late Frazier Thomas hosted Garfield Goose and Family Classics. Garfield
was a puppet who snapped his beak rapidly, offering no voice, but Frazier
understood every word he said. Same for another puppet, Romberg Rabbit, who
moved his mouth, but no words came out. The camera would close in a the
"little theater screen" and we would see those surreal Clutch Cargo and Space
Angel cartoons which featured immobile drawings with real mouths. Or the
semi-live-action Diver Dan, which feature fish as the good and bad guys, as
well as the title character and a mermaid.
Frazier also hosted Family Classics on Sundays at 5pm. It is where I first saw
classic old movies like Boys Town and Captains Courageous.
aahhh memories.....
as the late Tommy "Pops" Richards used to say on WISN TV -12 in Milwaukee:
"Roll 'em Lester!"
JN
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Thank you for sharing your memories! It brought back many memories and
made me feel like a kid again!! I did not realize that was Bob Bell as
the janitor. I would love to somehow get some videotapes of that show
if it exists. There were so many GREAT kid shows on WGN at that time.
I sent an email to you at "r7...@cdmnet.com" because I wanted to
reminisce with you further.....thanks!
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># 69 "Spook Louder" (1943)
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>Moe: (to Curly) "I'll unload your brains, if you got any!"
>Moe: (to Curly) "I'll knock your head right through your socks!"
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>#5 "Pardon My Scotch" (1935)
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>Moe: (to Curly) "Now listen, grapehead. I'll explain it so that even
>YOU can understand it."
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>Kay Lhota wrote in message
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> Ah, the Golden Age of Cartoons: Quick Draw McGraw and Pepe LePeu
>["Arriba, arriba"] and Woody and Yogi, Ruff 'n' Ready, Heckle 'n' Jeckle
>[my all-time favorite cartoon with the crazy magpies], Pixie and Dixie
>[mice] and Mr. Jinx cat ["I hate those mises to pieces!"], the Road
>Runner and Coyote, Rocky & Bullwinkle with: Natasha and Boris, The
>Wayback Machine with Sherman and Mr. Peabody, Fractured Fairy Tales
>narrated by the late actor Edward Everett Horton, Dudley Do-Right and
>Nell with that great villian (and name!) Snidely Whiplash, and I
>remember the last couple of years of "Howdy Doody" (1947-1960).
> As an interesting trivia note on cartoons: In 1960, "Huckleberry
>Hound" was the first cartoon series to win an Emmy Award! Not "The
>Flintstones"!
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>Ah, the Golden Age of Cartoons: Quick Draw McGraw and Pepe LePeu
["Arriba, arriba"]
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Yikes! You are confusing the French skunk from the Warner cartoons and the
mexican burro Baba Louie from the Quick Draw cartoons! And Baba Louie never
said "Arriba!" That was Speedy Gonzalez. Baba would refer to his mentor as
"Quicks Draw" however.