A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's. (I FOUND IT!)
A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's. (I FOUND IT!)
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#1A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's. (I FOUND IT!)
Posted: 11/18/07 at 12:31am
I'm going to sound like a crazy person...
Do any of you remember a PBS childrens show featuring a woman and puppets?
I remember a portion of the show that was like "Hee-Haw"; with a large garishly painted wall with doors, and the puppets would open the door, stick their heads out, tell a joke and close them.
Towards the episodes end, the woman would sit on a blue-screen cloud and read letters from viewers. (and I think wave at the kids from above.)
During the end credits, a wagon would go past the screen pulled by these marionette horses.
That is all I remember. Faint outlines of this show that must have been in reruns by the time I saw it.
I must have been very young when they aired.
Anyone know its name?
UPDATE: "THE FROOZLES" aka "THE LAND OF FROOZE" !!!
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#2re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 12:41amThe only person I can remember (going back to the 60's?) is Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#2re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 12:46amnah this show wasn't even one-tenth the quality of Shari Lewis.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#3re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:12am
upon further thinking - I believe the woman was flying and pointing to viewers homes down below.
This show sounds so f'd up.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#4re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:15amI'd say you were imagining it, but most shows in that time period were messed up.
#5re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:17am
so many children's shows seem like they are on acid though.
What was that one with the gelatinous masses of goo the sing nonsense?
The Boobles or something like that
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#6re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:18am
You just want to see me in a straight-jacket.
But I know it was real, because it came on right before Mr. Mihuta's Art Chest.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#7re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:19amI don't remember that one, Taz.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#8re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:21am
I was being toally serious:
click on the blobs!
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#9re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:23amohh those things. I thought you were describing a show while we were growing up.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#10re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:23am
EDIT: Nevermiiiiiiiiind.... Taz beat me.
#11re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:25am
lol, that's exactly what I was talking about!
Matty, it wasn't puffenstuff was it?
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#12re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:27am
Nope.
but it was in that family (and by family, I mean drug-inducing) - only not sid and marty, and no where near teh production value.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
lstbutifulgrl2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
#13re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:49am
i'm trying to think of the shows i watched as a kid.
um, you already said Lamb Chop.
Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
Capitan Kangaroo
Romper Room
Fraggle Rock
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
#14re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:53am
mateo---what you're describing sounds like a local or regional show. Not a national one.
What area did you grow up in? You'd probably have better luck targeting '70s and '80s kids who grew up there.
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#15re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 10:59am
May be "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie"? But that was earlier than the 70's, and more of my siblings generation.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#16re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 11:24amI also wondered if it might be Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
#17re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 11:32am
If I'm too young to have watched Kukla Fran and Ollie, Mateo certainly was!
But you can see how they influenced Sid and Marty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IvsHAGQRtA
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#18re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 11:37am
I just looked up "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie," and that is not it. Thanks though!
Bestie- I grew up in the Los Angeles area. So, it may have been local - but I swear the woman would read fan mail or give "shout outs" to kids in different states.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 3:46pm
IT sounds like the end of Romper Room- which was produced in many cities for local broadcast starting in the 60's- it ended with the hostess looking through a "Magic mirror" she held up and calling out to the kids watching her "I see Bobby and Leeane and Marty and Jill & Tony..."
I used to give her the "Finger" and hope she'd yell at me.
#20re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 6:22pm
It sounds like Romper Room to me too. Joe described it exactly as I remember.
http://www.tvparty.com/lostromper.html
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#21re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 6:45pm
Mateo,
I feel your pain in not being able to identify a beloved show form your childhood. I have been trying to track down a show for YEARS, to no avail. It aired around '87-'88 and was about two siblings (and older sister and younger brother) who had an amulet to transport them back and forth between a magical land. It was live-action, but the creatures in this land were Jim Henson-esque puppets, although I don't think it was Jim Henson.
Akiva
#22re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:51pm
Two pretty big lists of 80s tv shows - anything there?
http://www.i80s.com/80s_tv/80s_television.html
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1137227
lstbutifulgrl2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
#23re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:55pm
it really does sound like romper room.
i was on romper room. :)
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#24re: A question for children of the 70's/Early 80's.
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:02pm
I looked up romper room - and that is not it. although the whole magnifying glass-thing is similar.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
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