Back in those early days of television when every TV station across the country had a live kiddie show, the then-CBS affiliate, WBAY, Channel 2 from Green Bay presented Cheer Up Time, a daily 60 minute cartoon show presided by none other than Colonel Caboose. It came on right before Captain Kangaroo and I was an avid watcher. This 1958 ad most likely graced newspapers and TV Guides across the Fox Valley. We first encountered Colonel Caboose on this blog back in 2012:
http://menashabook.blogspot.com/2012/08/fizz-nik-party-with-colonel-caboose.html
Yep! The good old days. how we looked forward to those cartoons. Later, I always pointed out to my son how beautifully the old Warner Bros. gang was painstakingly drawn compared to the cartoons of the 70s and later. They even possessed their own shadows! The Colonel replaced (and outranked) Captain Hal O'Halloran. As I aged to preteen years my peers considered his show for "little kids" but I still loved it. Do y'all remember Bobby Nelson, the very personable weatherman? He didn't have a satellite but somehow his chalk board predicted the weather just as accurately.
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Too bad we don't have Saturday morning cartoons anymore. Or shows like the Bozo Show or locally Oscar the Clown. I was on his show once at Creative Arts by Holiday Inn.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED Colonel Caboose!!!
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