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Smilin' Ed McConnell and his Buster Brown Gang was one of the first children's TV shows filmed in Hollywood. In the original shows, McConnell started the program by greeting the audience—"Hiya, kids"—after which the audience sang a song for the sponsor, Buster Brown shoes: "I got shoes, you got shoes, everybody's got to have shoes, but there's only one kind of shoe for me—good old Buster ...
Froggy with Smilin' Ed and the cast of Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang, 1947. Froggy the Gremlin was a character created by Smilin' Ed McConnell and brought to radio in the 1940s and television in 1950s on the Smilin' Ed's Gang show, and later Andy's Gang TV show, hosted by actor Andy Devine after McConnell's death.
A drawing of Smilin' Ed and the cast of Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang, 1947.. Smilin' Ed McConnell (born James McConnell; 1882 – July 23, 1954) was a radio personality, best known as the host of the children's radio and television series, Smilin' Ed's Gang, closely identified with its sponsor, Buster Brown shoes, and also known as The Buster Brown Program. [1]
Buster Brown's association with shoes began with John Bush, a sales executive with the Brown Shoe Company; he persuaded his company to purchase rights to the Buster Brown name, and the brand was introduced to the public at the 1904 World's Fair. Little people were hired by the Brown Shoe Co. to play Buster in tours around the United States ...
WJZ-TV: The Lorenzo Show (with Gerry Wheeler) WMAR: Mr. Morning's Clubhouse (with Stu Kerr) WMAR: Professor Kool (with Stu Kerr) WMAR: Romper Room ("Miss Nancy" Claster, "Miss Sally"; also seen with "Miss Sally" in TV markets without local Romper Room shows) WBAL-TV: Paul's Puppets children's marionette show that ran from 1948 to 1958
And once Buster was gone, he stayed gone — minus the occasional cameo appearance — until the start of the show's third season. For Brown, that storyline was an early example about the ...
Mrs Brown’s Boys turns up again, in primetime slots on Christmas and New Year’s Day, like a planet-eating black hole in the TV schedule. Not all television has to be good.
Mischief Makers was a children's television series created by National Telepix that debuted on television syndication in 1960. The fifteen-minute series consisted of shortened Our Gang silent shorts that were originally released through Pathé, as well as various shorts from rival series including Mickey McGuire, Buster Brown, and others.