Does anyone remember captain kangaroo??!
Question: I used to watch with my late brother, his favorite part was when Bunny would drop all the ping pong balls all over the place. I enjoyed the whole show in itself, Grandfather clock, Mr. Green Jeans, Moose, Yeah it was a time of television innocence. It was replaced with the Today show if I remember right.
Answers: I used to watch with my late brother, his favorite part was when Bunny would drop all the ping pong balls all over the place. I enjoyed the whole show in itself, Grandfather clock, Mr. Green Jeans, Moose, Yeah it was a time of television innocence. It was replaced with the Today show if I remember right.
I loved Captin Kangaroo as a kid. He cracked me up. Still does when on the rare chance I can find him on TV which is very rarley.
THE greatest kids show that has ever been on t.v. Followed closely by Mr. Rogers and Stress-me Street.
sure...mr. greenjeans and bunny rabbit...and hundreds of ping-pong balls falling from the ceiling...
That was my absolute favorite show as a kid...
I remember him very well. Used to skip school and sit down with pnutbutter and jelly sandwiches and watch him. Also got into a lot of trouble too.
Also the Capt served in the Marine Corps.
I do!! I am 58 years old and I used to watch him on t.v. I also remember Howdy Doody, Sally Star, Mr. Wizard and Kookle, Fran and Ollie!
Of course! I watched him every morning before school. I loved Mr. Green Jeans!
Captain Kangaroo was the forerunner of all kids T.V. shows from the 1950s, for anyone to remember these original shows would have to be pass 53 years of age.
MR GREEN JEANS
MR MOOSE
...good times, good times..........
Yes! That was a good show. I loved the "never go swimming alone" song.
I've heard of him didn't he like turn out to be a drunk or something (seriously)
I didn't grow up in suburbia... and the TV wasn't a babysitter or a passtime, as it serves for the most part since the 1950's through to today... (now for toddlers to college-age "kids" that sit before a TV, game system or PC.. but still, are IN the house -- to the contentment of their mommas/ papas... who are happy they're inside).
(I feel a rant, coming on..)
We grew up, outside of the "apartment" and in the community -- and the world was very different, and made the 'Wonder Years' look like the little leagues in comparison in its compleixity, enjoyment and a cast of characters from MY childhood area of Brooklyn NY that STILL can be the subject of hours of conversation, by adults that re-connect, even now.
Long ago memory.. it seemed weird, even THEN to have a grown man that looked older then my father talking & hanging out with kids... it wasn't fun for me, to watch. I recall his hair styles and his suits, wide lapels like a clown would wear but without the big shoes, makeup and nose of a circus clown.. was odd to me, even then.
That show wouldn't fly today -- and doesn't. Different society, today... with adults captivated by kids as a fetish and REAL crimes of abuse/worse well-known (and shown on Dateline NBC as easily as a kid can log-on to the internet).
You just can't have a grown man, pandering to kids like Capt. Kangaroo, Wonderama, Mr. Rogers, etc. etc. (there was Pee Wee Herman in the 80's, and he was more of a cartoon, then a real male personality and a draw for teen/college age audiences as well -- like today's SpongeBob). There's a few shows that try this audience -- with small measures of success but again, they have to be LESS men, show no masculinity and behave like oddballs or in some very offbeat way... like the guy with ALL THE PETS crawling all over him in a home-setting (20-25+ animals on a table and his head, etc.) or, the science guy, dressed oddly with sound effects and quick cuts, odd voiceing or, the now deceased Australian guy that had a niche of being dangerously close to things that could bite off his head, etc. (for the scare-factor).
Although I didn't watch it much, as some of my childhood friends did... and we talked often, since we mostly walked to/from same elementary school at the same time (by OURselves at 6, 7 years old!!)... and were outside playing most every evening and all day/night on weekends (w/o adults around, or even watching).