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Hiya, Kids!! Disc 3 (1950)
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| Starring: | Todd Russell, Jack Barry, Dayton Allen, Claude Kirchner, Andy Devine, June Foray, Billy Gilbert, Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters |
| Director: | Leslie Goodwins, Eddie Davis |
| Genre: | Television, Comedy, Kids & Family |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Studio: | Shout Factory |
| Length: | 150 minutes |
| Released: | May 6, 2008 |
| Rating: | G |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS:
ON THIS DISC:
Episode from The Rootie Kazootie Club 1950 – 1954
Created by Steve Carlin, who at the time was in charge of RCA’s children’s phonograph records, The Rootie Kazootie Club met over the airwaves from 1950 to 1954 with “Big Todd” Russell, Mr. Deetle Doodle and, of course, Rootie Kazootie!
“Big Todd” Russell wasn’t just comfortable with the juvenile members of The Rootie Kazootie Club, nosirootie. He also hosted quiz shows on radio such as Double Or Nothing and Strike It Rich and is perhaps best remembered as the creator and producer of The $64,000 Question.
Rootie Kazootie was extremely popular and led to a series of Rootie Kazootie Golden Books.
Episode from Winky Dink And You 1953 – 1957
Get out your Winky Dink kit, because it’s time for Winky Dink And You—a show you didn’t just watch . . . you actually got to play! Winky Dink And You was the first interactive television show, allowing children the opportunity to be a part of the show by placing a clear “magic window” on the television and drawing on it with crayons.
Jack Barry, who already had a successful run with Juvenile Jury, hosted the show. Barry later went on to emcee the 1970s game show Joker’s Wild, but is perhaps most famous as the host and coproducer of the wildly popular Twenty-One, which created a great scandal by providing answers to contestants, nearly ruining Barry’s career and prompting Congress to develop new laws that prohibited the fixing of quiz shows.
Winky Dink And You ran from 1953 to 1957, and if Winky Dink sounds a bit familiar, it’s because the voice was provided by Mae Questel—best known as the voice of Olive Oyl and Betty Boop.
Episode from Super Circus 1949 – 1955
From 1949 to 1955, the small screen was transformed into the big top during Super Circus featuring Ringmaster (and former radio announcer) Claude Kirchner.
Ringmaster Kirchner, clowns Cliffy, Nicky and Scampy, and the various circus acts thrilled the kids. But it was bandleader Mary Hartline who became the real attraction.
Mary Hartline had a certain appeal, and suddenly fathers were happy to watch television alongside their kids. Hartline wasn’t just popular with the dads, however. Kids adored her, which led to an abundance of merchandise such as Mary Hartline dolls, paper figures, apparel and books—even comic books titled Super Circus Featuring Mary Hartline.
Episode from Andy’s Gang 1955 – 1960
“Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!” Andy’s Gang was an immensly popular variety show for kids starring Andy Devine (“Cookie” in over 400 Roy Rogers Westerns, and “Jingles” in The Adventures Of Wild Bill Hickock). Along with Froggy the Gremlin, Midnight the Cat, Squeaky the Mouse and some other oddball regulars, there were skits, book-readings and weekly serials such as Little Fox (included in this episode) and Rhama Of The Jungle.
The show, the format, even Froggy the Gremlin all derived from Ed McConnell, who had been a children’s radio host since the 1920s, and his 1943 program Smilin’ Ed McConnell And The Buster Brown Shoe Gang. In 1950 Smilin’ Ed brought the show to television under the title Smilin’ Ed’s Gang. When Ed died unexpectedly in 1955, Andy Devine took his place, and the show became Andy’s Gang.
Episode from The Cisco Kid 1950 – 1956
“Here’s adventure! Here’s romance! Here’s O. Henry’s famous Robin Hood of the Old West—The Cisco Kid!” While each episode of The Cisco Kid began with those words, very little about the television Cisco Kid harkened back to O. Henry’s version.
In his 1907 book of short stories, The Heart Of The West, O. Henry introduced the Cisco Kid in “The Caballero’s Way.” The character was not Hispanic, he had no sidekick and, according to O. Henry, the Cisco Kid “ . . . killed for the love of it—because he was quick-tempered—to avoid arrest—for his own amusement—any reason that came to his mind would suffice.”
There were numerous films about the Cisco Kid as early as 1914 and even a radio series, but in the 1945 film The Cisco Kid Returns, Duncan Renaldo was introduced to audiences in the title role. He continued to make Cisco Kid films and was paired with Leo Carrillo as Pancho in his last five features.
In 1950 Renaldo and Carrillo reprised their roles for the Cisco Kid television series, ending each episode with the exclamations: “Oh, Pancho!” “Oh, Cisco!”
Episode from Sky King 1951 – 1959
“Out of the clear blue of the Western sky comes Sky King,” a ’50s television series about an Arizona rancher and pilot who stumbles upon danger in every episode and then saves the day. Kirby Grant, who played as Schuyler “Sky” King, had appeared in dozens of films and was an accomplished aviator, which contributed to the believability of the show. The plane Sky flew was the Songbird and his ranch was called The Flying Crown.
Gloria Winters played Sky’s niece, Penny. Winters was a well-rounded actress who appeared in many films and onstage. In 1964 her book Penny’s Guide To Teen-age Charm And Popularity was published as an etiquette guide for teenage girls.
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