THERE’S NEVER BEEN A MORE EXCITING TV SHOW…

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• Gord Bailey November 21, 2009, 12:28 am

  Dan–do you recall the year this aired on CBS?

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• Jym Dingler November 21, 2009, 2:03 am

  It ran 1953-1957. I remember it vaguely (I was 4 when it ended), but the crayon bit is the thing I recall best. Captain Kangaroo was my childhood favorite. Pity most of his work is unavailable, tapes were routinely recycled to save network money. Bean-counting idiocy is a universal constant.

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• Boyer Simcox November 21, 2009, 11:55 am

  i was a kid when that was on and to me it was magic.

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• Bob Kern - KFMJ Ketchikan Alaska November 21, 2009, 6:47 pm

  Winky Dink was my wife’s favorite show as a kid. She still has her “Magic Screen” and crayon kit, hoping the show will come back some day. I think the kits sold for about 50-cents. I wonder what her kit is worth on eBay these days.

  Jack Barry was the emcee and the voice of Winky-Dink was Mae Questel, who also voiced “Betty Boop” cartoons. Mae was a veteran of many films, radio and television shows. She’s probably best known as “Miss Blue Bell” in those 70’s paper towel commercials and as the grandmother in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” She passed away in 1998.

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• adam November 22, 2009, 10:22 pm

  Television & Computer screen Graffitti? Today that could be a concern . Yesteryear not at all..

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