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Old 12-10-07, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Mopower
What was the show with the dude in the body suit that showed all his organs and stuff? And he would talk about how the body worked?
His name was Slim Goodbody (created and played by John Burstein). He started out as a recurring character on Captain Kangaroo.

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Old 12-10-07, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by HotThang

Anyone remember Hodgepodge Lodge? I think the theme song ended with some kid saying "Well...maybe not elephants."
LOL - thanks for bringing back the childhood memories of the endless teasing with that show name - I thought I had it blocked forever
Old 12-10-07, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by rfduncan
What about Villa Alegre? THAT was on PBS in that time frame.
I loved that show as well as Zoom.
Old 12-10-07, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
That Vegetable Soup animation used to scare me when I was a kid. Even watching the intro today, I was getting chills.
Same here. Some pretty freaky shit was aimed at the younguns in those days.
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Originally Posted by Chembree
anyways -- I used to watch a PBS show that my brother and I would call 'The Big Ant Show'.....The big ant was actually the name of the show in cursive, turned on its side and had a mirror image - It kinda looked like a big ant (It may have been called the 'Big ant show - but I was little and I dont know for sure) ... I have no idea if this bit of description will trigger any memories, but Ive been trying to find anything about this show for years

Thanks for any help!!
I would imagine that the show is Vision On, a British kids show for deaf children. I used to watch this one as well, on TV Ontario.

Now, maybe I help some others as well. Does anyone remember the following shows?

- The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel
- Tales of the Wizard of Oz (usually paired with The New Adventures of Pinocchio
- Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse

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Old 12-10-07, 01:18 PM
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PBS in Detroit just aired The Hot Fudge Comin Atcha Concert this past week. I know Hot Fudge was produced in Detroit but it was syndicated so somebody else should remember this show. It had a definite PBS vibe although maybe that was just the 70's?

$100 pledge gets you the DVD:

https://secure.ga3.org/03/hotfudge?qp_source=pledgejump
Old 12-10-07, 02:25 PM
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Great, this thread made me go in search of all my favorites from the 80s and early 90s...

Picture Pages: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBvjniQewsU

3-2-1 Contact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIXWh...eature=related

Kid Songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFFw45mWpw

Newton's Apple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-fvuImpa6s

Reading Rainbow (couldn't find the old intro which I liked better): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGhfI_NwcA

Slim Goodbody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3HMQ_LyZY

Ghost Writer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jRPRs1jiKE

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuzc4jgwlT8 couldn’t find anything from the actual show...was it a show in itself, or was it part of another show? And was it Carmen that always yelled "do it Rockapella" at the end or whenever?

Square 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXp3AMgbG6k

Mathnet (was often a part of Square 1 I think): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIKrkkIuGTQ

Storylords:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl4bvNy1iGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLevkW2UxI
Old 12-10-07, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by k_lodge
LOL - thanks for bringing back the childhood memories of the endless teasing with that show name - I thought I had it blocked forever
LOL! Sorry!

Anyone remember Mulligan's Stew?

I would totally buy every ep of Ghostwriter if it was released on DVD.
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Originally Posted by HotThang
...Anyone remember Mulligan's Stew?
I do. I remember learning how to make several easy and nutritious snacks on that program as a young'un.
Old 12-11-07, 12:23 AM
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I remember Zoom, and the Big Blue Marble.
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Originally Posted by aktick
Great, this thread made me go in search of all my favorites from the 80s and early 90s...
Since you ventured into the 80s, how about Tomes & Talismans? I was older than the target audience but love bad sci-fi. so i got hooked on it when I was home sick from school

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Pb0BdT8Qo

And also Powerhouse. But I couldn't find any clip of it on youtube

As for Letter People, I still have my old cards from school where you had to put a sticker of the letter on the character. We would get to watch the show in class. And no, FantasticVSDoom, Letter People was a show on its own. In high school I met a girl from a rival Scholar Bowl team from over near St Louis whose father had worked on the show.

As for 3-2-1 Contact, I used to get the magazine. Plus, as I got older and began watching more mature films I saw The Warriors. Believe me it was a shock to see 2 cast members from 3-2-1 Contact in it
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Wasnt the premise of 3-2-1 Contact a little wierd? Basically 3 teenagers would meet up at an apartment everyday to talk about science, then leave.

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I watched the Letter People. We also had the Letter People program in pre-school.

The other PBS shows I watched (and these are probably more 80s/90s I assume) were:

3 2 1 Contact
Square One TV / Mathnet
Carmen Sandiego
Ghostwriter
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Reading Rainbow

I watched Cosby's Picture Pages as well, but I thought I watched that on Nickelodeon.
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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
I loved Zoom, it was probably #4 for me right after the big three mentioned in the first post.

I also watched The Big Blue Marble, but I'm not familiar with those others.

Some more:
Villa Alegre - A Spanish Sesame Street
Carrascolendas (sp?)
3-2-1 Contact

ah man, I remember that and the theme song

'la la lala, la la la la la la la la la - Villa Alegre!"

which in turn reminds me of that sesame street pinball machine number song:
1 2 3 4 5... 6 7 8 9 10 ... 11 .. 12 do do do do do do do do do
Old 12-12-07, 02:15 AM
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I barely remember 3-2-1 Contact, but I got the magazine for several years.

I used to LOVE the BASIC computer programs in the magazine.

Ghostwriter.

That show was a trip. I'd buy it too (it's out there but too expensive)... The acting was so wooden at times though. And that one girl that thought she could rap. LOL!
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OK, so I managed to track it down myself... It was called "Bread and Butterflies". Which seems a bit obvious now, but for years I thought that the first word had two syllables, like "Breadsticks and Butterflies".

Anyway, it was almost identical to other PBS shows called "Inside/Out", "Self, Incorporated" and "On The Level". Which isn't that surprising, since they were all made by a group called "National Instructional Television Center" in association with several PBS stations.
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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

I've been searching for someone who might remember a strange little PBS show in the 70's or early 80's. It was broadcast in north MS, so I'm sure it was part of a larger distribution. It usually aired just before or after Electric Company. It might have been titled Wonder Wombat, about a rather melancholy thin green muppet, round head, big eyes, usually shot against a black backdrop. He often rode a bike around, sometimes wore a cape and pretended to fly. It was a really surreal, somewhat disturbing show. Anyone else ever see this show?
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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

Can't answer your question, David. But I do appreciate the thread bump. The first post had a link to the Letter People video. While I never caught this on PBS, it brought back a flood of memories from kindergarten.
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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

Zoon and Big Blue Marble for me.

Also, 321 Contact was a must watch for me. Earlier days, Electric Company and before that Sesame Street. Mr Rogers was also good fun for the surreal trips to Make Believe Land.
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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

[QUOTE=Fanboy;8348212]I would imagine that the show is Vision On, a British kids show for deaf children. I used to watch this one as well, on TV Ontario.

Now, maybe I help some others as well. Does anyone remember the following shows?



Hey, Fanboy!! -- I didn't remember that I had posted and then never knew that I got a response ... Thanks!!! That was indeed the show I was asking about ...

Thanks again!!!
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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

I just stumbled across a show I remember. Simon In the Land of Chalk Drawings. I think it aired with Captain Kangaroo..

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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

I was a huge fan of Newton's Apple and 321 Contact.

We used to get a lot of Canadian shows airing on the New Hampshire and Boston PBS stations.

Some of my favorites were:

Read All About It - which I remember being like Doctor Who in its terrifying-ness
It Figures
Inside Out

and some weird show I can't remember the name of which had a woman talking about your body in some 70s nightmare of an apartment.
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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

The only way I can say this makes me feel old is in saying these kids shows were so much better in comparison to whats on for kids today. Out of all these shows I remember Slim Goodbody, but laugh now at his bad Jewfro. And The Letter People is awesome knowing it inspired the canceled MTV series Wonder Showzen.
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Re: How many of these 1970's PBS KIDS SHOWS do you remember?

Originally Posted by Davidmd
I've been searching for someone who might remember a strange little PBS show in the 70's or early 80's. It was broadcast in north MS, so I'm sure it was part of a larger distribution. It usually aired just before or after Electric Company. It might have been titled Wonder Wombat, about a rather melancholy thin green muppet, round head, big eyes, usually shot against a black backdrop. He often rode a bike around, sometimes wore a cape and pretended to fly. It was a really surreal, somewhat disturbing show. Anyone else ever see this show?
Are you thinking of the Clyde Frog Show?

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