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Captain Kangaroo ~
Who remembers watching him with a teeny tiny tv screen set in this monster of a box?
n the annals of televison, few children's programs ever made as much impact as Captain Kangaroo. Hosted by Bob Keeshan (at one time, he played Howdy Doody's friend, Clarabell) from the appropriately-named Captain's Place, the Captain was so named because he always wore an overcoat with large, kangaroo-like pouches. Each show featured stories, skits, vaudeville acts, songs, games and other educational activities. Captain Kangaroo's friends were Mr. Green Jeans (who always brought an animal to the show); Dennis, an apprentice handyman and do-it-all person; and Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit. Bunny was always mute, but made his point ever-so-cleverly, while Mr. Moose always tricked the Captain into allowing him to stand under a shower of pingpong balls. As the show got on in years, new features were added, including Uncle Backwards (a tape of some simple action, such as peeling an orange or building a doghouse, shown in reverse); "Picture Pages," a matching activity hosted by Bill Cosby.
This show premiered on CBS the same day Walt Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club (1955) premiered on ABC.
Most network shows were broadcast in color by the mid 1960s. CBS did not convert the Captain's early morning program to color until 1967.
This was US network television's longest running children's series, until surpassed in 1999 by PBS's Sesame Street (1969). It is still the longest running children's series on US commercial television.
Captain Kangaroo and crew hosted the CBS Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in the 1960's.
After the cancellation of Robert Keeshan's Saturday television show "Mister Mayor", the secondary characters joined the Captain Kangaroo show. These individuals included Dudley D. Dudley, whose job was being a substitute statue, Rollo the Hippopotamus and Aunt Maude.
Don't forget Mr. Green Jeans, he was my favorite. I remember watching it and Uncle Lee winding the grandfather clock.
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Do you remember Romper Room? with Ms. She was married to satan himself. Christina Henry fled to Arizona to her parents after several beatings, an incident of trying to kill their newborn son, and another incident of him taking pictures of her swimming and there is an alligator in the background coming after her. He thought it was funny. He beat her and their newborn son. He stalked her house in Arizona and had plans to break in and kill her.
"DFW airport police and FBI agents were looking at passengers coming off an American Airlines flight from Tucson. They were looking for a man named A. Donald Vester, who had aroused the suspicion of a Tucson ticket clerk by his bizarre appearance and behavior. According to the clerk, Vester had the massive torso of a weightlifter and a tiny head. He was wearing a foolish-looking black wig, and when he moved his arms his biceps seemed to wrinkle.
Vester had acted so jumpy when he tried to check his briefcase that the clerk told him he would have to carry it on board. When scanned a clerk saw what looked like a pistol. Vestor (Dr. Henry) was asked to open the briefcase, he'd said that he'd lost the key. He voluntarily handed the briefcase over and they let him board his flight to Dallas. LE bomb experts pried the briefcase open and found burglary tools and a .32-caliber pistol and nine bullets, glass cutter, glue, pliers, a plumber's helper, 23 firecrackers, string, three books of matches and a double-edged hunting knife.
In Dallas,no one getting off the plane looked like Vester's description. An FBI agent saw black hair hanging out of a man's raincoat pocket, and asked if he was "Donald Vester" ( he said he liked to travel under different names), and when LE asked him to empty his pockets, he had a bottle of pills, safety pins, a street map of Tucson, a car-rental with hand-written notes and a wallet with two full sets of identification in two different names, neither were for A. Donald Vester. But here was a Maryland driver's license, social security and library cards, and a post office receipt, all in an other person's name. There were also credit cards and a U.S. Public Health Services ID identifying the bearer as Dr. Patrick Henry. (He told her many times how he would kill someone. He would use safety pins to stick in their eyes, and place fircrackers, if a woman, in her vagina and up her butt. That the explosives couldn't be too powerful, because he wanted to be close and watch.
FBI agents confirmed that the man was indeed Dr. Patrick G. Henry, and he was registered at a hotel in Dallas, and had been at a medical conference. Apparently he had left the conference, flown to Tucson and returned to Dallas under a false name." They couldn't detain him and had to let him go, but kept his suitcase and it's contents."
Later after looking at the notes on the rental car agreement they discovered it the had the address of his ex wife and in code on Hertz application was what looked to like a burglary plan: "In 1409; select window; tape, plunger; thru-open; find T; M T; out front; or rm window." LE wondered what "T" stand for? and "M"? The agent thought of the gun and the double-edged knife." LE said they thought he was going to torture kill her that night, but was scared away.
Anyway, she was said to of been one of the Romper Room teachers, but I don't know where. There were franchises in different places in the U.S. and I don't know which one. I read this book "Deadly Intentions" by William Randolph Stevens, way back when it first came out. I also remember the news of Henry being detained. Also his case IIRC was one of the cutting edge ,and maybe the first time DNA was used in a trial. Patrick Henry was released from prison in 1986. There have been two movies about it. One in 1985 and a remake in
I wonder if Zuri followed this trial back when she was a mere child. Romper Room also started in Baltimore. Remember the magic mirror? The punching bag clown?
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