Damn, I miss Warren. The Warren of the 70s and 80s. No crime, no murder, etc.

Great production and funny exposition. I suggest a doc on the older Cleveland kid shows, such as Ghoulardi and Big Chuck & Hoolihan, Little John. I appreciate how you connect the dots with post-war demographics and consumerism. We really were the first generation to be raised by TV to be good consumers!

Back when every city ran their own radio and television stations…and the likes of Elon and Bezos DID NOT OWN NEARLY EVERYTHING.

I watched this religiously as a kid. One night he showed puppies so my parents took me to get a puppy. I was so excited! I remember when the bridge collapsed and my parenrs heard his wife was on the bridge when it collapsed. 😢

Great guys!!

Bob was very instrumental in bringing me to Christ. God arranged to meet me when I was in a lonely place and was desperately seeking a renewed spiritual life. One of the things the Lord led me to was WCRF. Bob's Sidewalk Chats really got me thinking and helped me examine my own faith. I would click him off as I headed to work, but the questions he had posed and his comments upon the answers he received from the people he interviewed were on my mind all day. After an interview, he would come on the studio mike and say, "This lady says that, but God's word says this. How about you?" Whoa, talk about conviction. Bob's practice of playing the old hymns with biblically based lyrics, and not focusing on newly released songs, helped to deepen my spiritual connection. He really leaned on vocalists like George Bev Shea, Evie, Joni and others I can't remember. I still love to hear songs by them. Bob even said my name over the air one day. He had a guessing game in which he recorded a noise and challenged listeners to guess what it was. I guessed that the noise was a ball point pen scribbled on a paper on a clipboard. I called in and got him directly. I told him what I thought the noise was and told him my name. When he told the audience what it was, he read off the names of the people who had guess correctly and mine was one of them. Ha ha, one time when he was telling the folks to march around the breakfast table, he said, "Someone told me they can't march around their table because they don't have enough room. You don't have enough room? Okay, then march under it!" He was so lively and fun to listen to. I really miss him.

Excuse me Attack of the Crab Monsters is a timeless classic 😊

❤ Jungle Larry and Safari Jane, seeing them and the animals!

Never knew Captain Penny roomed with Cool Hand Luke!

Franz looked like Tom Selleck😅

I also used to watch Frankie Yankovic’s Polka Varieties which started my lifelong love for polka which still gets me mocked by people who think they’re cool😅

I was born in 1952 and grew up with Miss Barbara, Captain Penny and Mr Nicklesworth, Barnaby and Long John the Invisible Parrot, Ghoulardi, not to mention Mr Jingeling! I met Captain Penny at a Manners when I was maybe 5. Captain Penny showed Our Gang and The Three Stooges. And in the late ‘70s worked at CWRU and used to see Earl Keyes, who played Mr Jingeling. He worked in the AV Department.

If WCOM Channel 68 became one of the first Fox affiliates, it would have been a ratings grabber and a popular channel to watch.

If you've ever seen Jack Parr on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, he says he had the best voice in Cleve. Johnny asks him, "Who has the best voice now? Parr replies, "Wayne Mack" who was heard on this video signing off for WGAR.

I saw this documentary at the Cedar Lee Theater in Cleveland when it came out, and the hosts were there for a Q&A. As a kid growing up in the 60s, I remembered a lot of these shows. Thanks so much for putting it on KZbin!

Do you have all the Barnaby shows? I was on one. Sent a post card in and was chosen. My mom and I took a bus from Dover to the studio.

Oh, thank you! Ya got the jingle in my head! (When KYW signed off for maintenance, the announcement was read over "That Happy Feeling" - Bert Kaempfert)

Oh, in the days when many radios didn't have an fm dial!

In the thumbnail, I thought it was Mr. Rogers, but it's Captain Penny. I'm 48, so I don't remember Romper Room.

Miss Barbara never said my name…

Very well done video !

Golda Canyon

What was the crap about white names comment? So they go through ethnic names like idiots.Stupid and this documentary sucks.

Dixie Brook

Although I was late to the party.......... I did get to watch Barnaby and Hickory Hideout in the 80's. It was fun.

I remember when Captain Penny showed up for an appearance at Giant Tiger on Brook Park Road. He wasn’t in costume and kids were mobbing him when he came in the store . My Mom, my brother and I were not standing too far away. He was trying to get through the mob and I heard him say something like “get these kids away from me”. My Mom heard it too and we abruptly left.

I have the record Lynn Sheldon made.

Well done!

It's that hanna-barberian alice in wonderland and through the looking glass special!

Yes I understand that but jumping from Captain Penny to Superhost left me bewildered.

No Ghoulardi, Big Chuck, Houlihan and Little John? The Ghoul?

Are there full episodes of any of these shows available anywhere. I’d love to watch them with my young children.

Loved that graphic..."The Philadelphia Inquirer station." Triangle publications, Walter Annenburg.

The guy in the Romper Room segment seems familiar - lol It was great viewing this at the premier at the Cleveland Cinematheque on a big screen

I'm a little surprised you did not mention the most famous incident in Cleveland live TV , when Barnaby had his on-air melt-down. I don't remember much of it, but: "...And there's no goddamned bird in that cage!" Maybe you didn't want to besmirch his memory, but we are all in our 60's or 70's now, so we can take a little reality ;)

Remember Video Arcade with Candy Cramer from the early 1980s on Channel 61?

Well this brings back a lot of memories... I watched these shows in the early to late sixties. My mom didn't like me watching the Three Stooges on the Captain Penny show, so I'd watch them until I heard my mom coming downstairs. Then I'd switch to the afternoon movie in channel 3. And switch it back to the Three Stooges when she went back upstairs. Oh, and I have at CD and video of Robert Farnon's "La Claire Fontaine", the Barnaby theme. I still choke up a bit when I hear it...

I remember this as from the 60's. Janet Waldo did the voice of Alice.

I liked Barnaby. He had a friendly face.

I had as a kid a Ghoulardi sweatshirt. It was black but his outline was in white. And I always wondered about Superhost. I don’t know if it was make up or a naturally red nose but it made me think he was a drinker. But I was kid. I can be forgiven.

I didn’t see Big Chuck and Hoolihan. I started watching when Lil John came.

I had a pair of Keds. They were white and behind the heel was a red ball logo. I think they were Keds. I was pretty young then.

That’s where I met Mr. Jingleling at Hallies. Mom took me.

Liked Jungle Larry especially his hat.

I hate the Three Stooges. They’re not funny and the slapping and eye poking hand hitting I just don’t get. Slap stick I don’t get.

Mom would always recite Capt. Penny’s saying to me. No wonder I could never fool her. I finally gave up trying. Moms know everything down to every thought. Brrrrr!

Roger Ramjet. LOL! I remember him!

In high school my class took a trip to the Big Chuck Lil John show. We were the audience of a Mary Hartsky skit. But we never saw the skit. We’d just hold up signs and ai had to tell the girl behind home her sign was upside down. Chuck wasn’t exactly nice. Never saw Lil John. I used to watch Big Chuck and Lil John. Not too impressed. I liked The Ghoul and hen he passed away.

I vaguely remember Franz except that I seemed to be fascinated by his hands. And his mustache was bushier than my maternal grandfather’s. But other than that it’s a blank.

I wondered how she could see all those kids in the magic mirror as a kid.