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Hi There, Boys and Girls!
America's Local Children's TV Programs
| Author: | Tim Hollis |
|---|---|
| Paperback: | 376 pages |
| Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi (2001) |
| Avg. Rating: |  [ Unrated ] |
| ISBN: | 1578063965 |
| In Print? | No |
The Three Stooges receive mention throughout the book, as it examines all the shows and hosts that screened their short subjects during the late 1950s - early 1970s heyday of local children's programming. Notably, the hosts that costarred in THE OUTLAWS IS COMING! (1965) are covered in detail.
From the back cover...
"Whatever happened to Bozo the Clown, to Aunt Norma, to Solomon C. Whiskers, those television celebrities who hammed it up between cartoons and contests during local kids' shows? In Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs, Tim Hollis tracks down the story of every known local children's TV show from markets across the United States. There have been many books about children's television on the networks, and such shows as CAPTAIN KANGAROO, HOWDY DOODY, and SESAME STREET are legends in broadcasting. However, the local branch of children's programming has received much less attention. For every performer on the scale of a Captain Kangaroo of a Buffalo Bob, there were five or six local personalities who were just as beloved by their viewers -- and sometimes even more so -- since these local stars could be counted on for appearances at stores, children's hospitals, and shopping centers, where kids could meet them face-to-face. Includes a capsule history of this programming from the earliest days of radio to the early 1970s, when a combination of social changes and broadcast regulations sent most of the hosts into retirement. Walt Disney once observed that while there is very little adult in a child, there is a lot of child in every adult. This book will bring back a flood of long-submerged memories for anyone who was a child during this golden era."
(Also published in a cloth-bound 'hardcover' edition.)
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