Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
CBS canceled Captain Kangaroo at the end of 1984. An episode of the show in 1981 became professional skateboarder Tony Hawk's first appearance on television. [6] Captain Kangaroo was the longest running children's television show until 1997 when it was surpassed by Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which itself was surpassed by Sesame Street in 2003.
CBS Storybreak is a Saturday morning anthology television series that originally aired on the CBS network from 1985 to 1989. [1] Hosted by Bob Keeshan (and in its 1993 return by Malcolm-Jamal Warner), the episodes are half-hour animated adaptations of children's books published at the time of airing, including Chocolate Fever.
In 1976, songs from the television series sung by Weems were released on an album, Debbie Weems Sings Songs from Captain Kangaroo, published by Wonderland Records. She was later featured in an article in the October 23, 1976 edition of TV Guide , called Don’t Tell Your Mom About Debbie , which was about her career on Captain Kangaroo .
In the fall of 1981, as part of an expansion of the CBS Morning News, Captain Kangaroo was moved to the earlier time slot of 7:00 a.m. and reduced to half-hour – at which time, the program was retitled Wake Up with the Captain. In the fall of 1982, Captain was relegated to a Saturday morning 7:00 a.m. time slot. The network offered a package ...
The Adventures of Lariat Sam is an American Western animated television series that ran 59 episodes Saturday mornings on CBS which was a serialized cartoon from Captain Kangaroo in 1962. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
When the movie was released in Australia, initial box office performance was strong, but reviews were bad and business soon tailed off. [105] Milestone later claimed Boone's character was the basis of Paladin, the character he played in the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel (1957–1963). Milestone directed an episode of this show. [63]
The cartoon features the pre-adolescent Native American boy Pow Wow, as well as the tribe's medicine man, and a Native American girl who is a friend of Pow Wow's. [2] The cartoons often center on Pow Wow's discovery of an animal, hurt or otherwise, and his attempts to protect the forest and wildlife from various threats.