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Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that ... Drawing Board and the Captain's "Reading Stories ... gags was the "Ping-Pong Ball Drop ...
While the character did engage in serious conversation, Mr. Moose's ultimate goal was always to maneuver Captain Kangaroo into participating in a riddle or knock-knock joke, the punchline of which would inevitably be followed by hundreds of ping pong balls raining harmlessly but annoyingly down on the Captain. This frequent set-up was a major ...
Keeshan as Captain Kangaroo. Network television programs began shortly after the end of the war. Howdy Doody, which premiered in 1947 on NBC, was one of the first.Starting on January 3, 1948, [16] Keeshan played Clarabell the Clown, a silent Auguste clown who communicated by honking several horns attached to a belt around his waist.
Ping, the duck, lives on a boat on the Yangtze River in China. Every day he and his duck family are taken by their owner to feed on the riverbank. Later, when it is evening, Ping is the last duck to return to the boat, so he hides to avoid being spanked. The following day Ping, feeling lost, begins to swim in search of his family.
She was best known for The Story about Ping , illustrated by Kurt Wiese, popularized by Captain Kangaroo, [1] and for her stories of an insatiably curious Scottish terrier named Angus, who was actually her dog. Her first marriage was to artist Karl Larsson; she later married poet William Rose Benét.
His exceptional skills earned him a place in the All-American Ping Pong team, with whom he traveled to China during the Ping Pong Diplomacy period of the early 1970s. Upon his return, Forrest was a national celebrity, "famous-er even than Captain Kangaroo ", and was invited to New York City by Dick Cavett to appear on The Dick Cavett Show ...
Captain Jim; WIIC/WPXI: Capt. Jim's Popeye Club (with Ted Eckman) WPTT: Captain Pitt (with George Lewis) (same as Captain Chesapeake) WIIC/WPXI: Cartoon Colorama (with Don Riggs) The Children's Corner (Josie Carey and Fred Rogers) KDKA-TV: Funsville (with Sterling Yates, Josie Carey) WDTV: Happy's Party (with Ida Mae Maher), DuMont, 1952–53)
Tom Terrific is a 1957–1959 animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's television show. [1]Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo), Tom Terrific was made as twenty-six stories, each split into five episodes, with one five-minute episode ...