KIDS T.V. VOL. ONE
ESCAPE FROM EARTH and JR. SCIENCE
(approx 45 min)
ESCAPE FROM EARTH, produced as part of THE WORLD OF WONDERAMA, in association with the American Rocket Society and featuring future Wonderama host Sonny Fox, was an early Metromedia TV (then known as Metropolitan Television) series, depicting the history of space travel.
A telephone interview with X-15 pilot Scott Crossfield doesn't materialize, but Fox has lots of footage of the X-15 and the preparation for space flight, including the centrifuge test.
The special guest is a co-founder of the American Rocket Society, who presents films of rocket experiments from the early 1920's, including shots of space flight pioneer Robert Goddard at work.
Fox gives a history of rocket flight from antiquity, and plugs a model of the then new Vanguard rocket, Dollcraft toys, and Polk's hobby store on Fifth Avenue and 32nd Street in New York.
JUNIOR SCIENCE (approx 10 min)
A science show for younger children, in which the avuncular host discusses what makes objects move and stand still, how gravity works, and why objects react to movement the way they do using marbles, feathers, grapefruits and grapes.
KID'S TV VOL. TWO - WONDERAMA
(approx. 60 min.)
As a kid, I would watch WONDERAMA hosted by Sonny Fox every Sunday morning. Today it is virtually impossible to find any of these shows.
I was lucky to find this print among the Kinescopes that Channel 5 discarded to make room in their vaults.
This show is particularly historically important because it was dedicated to the children of Korea.
Featuring Korean performers dancing and playing music, this is an uncharacteristically ethnic show for this period. Sonny even tells the Korean story of the Tiger and the Rabbit. This volume also includes the original Stella D'oro Cookie and Cherrios commercials.
The second show on this tape is an absolute kid's classic -- MR WIZARD (1960).
Hosted by Don Herbert, this was one of the longest-running science shows for children, spanning a continuous 14 seasons. In this particular epiode, Mr. Wizard teaches a young boy about the laws of gravity.
KID'S TV VOL. THREE - WONDERAMA
(approx. 55 min.)
In this sequel we give you another rare WONDERAMA episode, but this time Sonny Fox travels to Helsinki, Finland.
While there he visits a children's marathon race and interviews some of the kids. He then tours the home of an average Finnish family to show American children their differing lifestyles.
THE HOOT GIBSON SHOW, the second on the tape, is a stage and sad episode. The legendary cowboy is obviously way past his prime but he introduces us to some rope tricks and some Western music anyway.
We include the original and tremendously bizarre commercials for raising Chinchillas in your home -- and those alone are worth the price of this tape!
THE PAUL WINCHELL SHOW & FOUDINI THE GREAT
(approx. 60 min.)
Paul Winchell was a talented performer and ventriloquist who enchanted children and parents alike.
While he both sang and danced, he was particularly popular for the relationship he had with Jarry Mahoney, his wooden sidekick.
This tape's episode is a Christmas production in which Paul and Jerry visit the planet Mars where they sing Christmas songs.
We round out the hour with the puppets Hope and Mory on THE GREAT FOUDINI which, when it aired on August 25, 1951, became the first kid's program to be shot on film.
THE PAUL WINCHELL SHOW
& VISIT TO 1972
(approx 55 min)
A great quality print of the PAUL WINCHELL SHOW with Paul and Jerry having fun at breakfast, and Knucklehead Smiff introducing the acrobatic team of The Kayarts.
Also includes Hartz Mountain bird food spots, classic promos for The Tales of the Texas Ranger, The Lone Ranger and Your Show Of Shows, singer Betty Ann Grove and Milton Delugg and his Orchestra.
The second show is a incomplete but fascinating look into the future of the 1970s as it was envisioned in the 1950s.
Host Dave Garroway takes us through the effects of technolgy on our lives with guest skits from Eli Wallach, Wally Cox, Sid Caesar, Arlene Francis, Georgiann Johnson, Nanette Fabray, Admiral of the Fleet (ret.) Chester Nimitz, and a very rare appearance from Carl Sandburg, reading his poetry on the future of mankind.
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JUNIOR SCIENCE (approx 10 min)
A science show for younger children, in which the avuncular host discusses what makes objects move and stand still, how gravity works, and why objects react to movement the way they do using marbles, feathers, grapefruits and grapes.
KID'S TV VOL. TWO - WONDERAMA
(approx. 60 min.)
As a kid, I would watch WONDERAMA hosted by Sonny Fox every Sunday morning. Today it is virtually impossible to find any of these shows.
KID'S TV VOL. THREE - WONDERAMA
(approx. 55 min.)
In this sequel we give you another rare WONDERAMA episode, but this time Sonny Fox travels to Helsinki, Finland.
THE PAUL WINCHELL SHOW & FOUDINI THE GREAT
(approx. 60 min.)
THE PAUL WINCHELL SHOW & VISIT TO 1972
(approx 55 min)