The Happy Pancake Witch
samu...@vax1.umkc.edu
the threads about bad TV shows/Krofft shows/70's children's shows. It has
occurred to me that this is peobably the one and only place where I might be
able to find the answer to a question that has been plaguing the back of my
mind for several years now.
I remember seeing a show on TV (either a movie or, more likely, a half-hour or
one-hour special) in which a modern day good "witch" works as the cook in a bed
and breakfast. She develops a recipie for magic pancakes. Whenever anyone
bites into these pancakes, there would be a freeze frame and colored dots (like
those on a Wonder bread bag) would flash all over the screen. The freeze frame
then ends and the person eating the pancakes magically becomes happy.
Lots of my friends remember having seen this, but none of us can pin down what
it was. It probably would have aired sometime between 1973 and 1978... though
none of us can pin down exactly how old we were when we saw it, we each only
vaguely remember the show. It may have aired more than once.
If anyone can identify this show, please say so! I have been trying for the
last 4 years (along with a few other people) to remember what it was, but so
far every lead has gone to a dead end.
Thanks!
-Scott-
PS - While I'm at it, what was the series that had a regular segment
called "The Bionic Watermelon"?
Ed Dravecky III
: PS - While I'm at it, what was the series that had a regular segment
Hmmm... I'm having trouble with Netcom (so what else is new?) so you may see
multiple copies of this. The show was "The Captain and Tenille Show" (the
title is close, if not exact).
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Kevin Podsiadlik
<samu...@vax1.umkc.edu> wrote:
>I remember seeing a show on TV (either a movie or, more likely, a half-hour or
>one-hour special) in which a modern day good "witch" works as the cook in a bed
>and breakfast. She develops a recipie for magic pancakes. Whenever anyone
>bites into these pancakes, there would be a freeze frame and colored dots (like
>those on a Wonder bread bag) would flash all over the screen. The freeze frame
>then ends and the person eating the pancakes magically becomes happy.
>
>Lots of my friends remember having seen this, but none of us can pin down what
>it was. It probably would have aired sometime between 1973 and 1978... though
>none of us can pin down exactly how old we were when we saw it, we each only
>vaguely remember the show. It may have aired more than once.
Oh, mon Dieu...
Well, I can't say I ever saw it on TV, but I was forced to sit down and
watch it as part of a summer library program on at least two seperate
occasions.
Let's see how does it begin... oh, yeah, this single mother and her kid
are looking for a new home, they want something "small and cozy", so
naturally the real estate guy talks them into buying this three-story,
six-bedroom monstrosity... then it pretty much goes as you said. Man,
why didn't they show us "Manos" while they were at it??!
Then, yes, the bionic watermelon. I'm almost certain that was part of
a "Donnie & Marie" series. Who can forget the scene of the watermelon
jumping into a limo and the limo driving away, played over and over and
over and... There was that and some snotty kid who made fun of the
Osmonds and was *still* unlikeable. And "It Takes Two, Baby"...
Now that was *classic* TV, as Jack Perkins would say...
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Kevin J. Podsiadlik (k...@msen.com)
la...@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Perkins, pancakes. . . you figure it out.
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> Perkins, pancakes. . . you figure it out.
The Hell?. . . I posted this on the 23rd of June (as my cite says. . .) but its
showing up on July 3? I'm all for the holiday giving, but I can't figure this
one out. . .
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>John I. Lahti | When the Spanish explorer Coronado was shown the
>(la...@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) | site that would later become Wichita, he was so
>U of KS Acad. Comp. Servs. | disappointed that he had his guide strangled.
> The University of Kansas | --1994 Mobil Road Atlas
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