Penultimate happy memory of Andy, Midnight, Squeeky, and Froggy! They helped get me through a very rough childhood. THANK YOU FOR THIS!
@susanklingbeil4400 Жыл бұрын
Kids today would think the things we watched back in the day were weird. They don't know what they are missing.
@jaymorgenthal94793 жыл бұрын
I watched Andy’s Gang every Saturday morning on WNBC ch 4 in NYC
@mauricewascom6586 ай бұрын
Hello JAY ! I watched on WDSU NBC 6 in New Orleans ( the First TV station in Louisiana )❗👍🏼
@TimXJ6 жыл бұрын
The stuff for a generation of children's nightmares. LOVE Andy's Gang!!
@mauricewascom6586 ай бұрын
FOUND TREASURE from my Childhood ❗😄❤️❤️❤️❤️
@BernardGreenberg2 жыл бұрын
I didn't yet know the expression "WTF", but when I watched this (repeatedly) c 1960, that well summarized my reaction. "What is going on here? Why do other kids supposedly think this is 'nice' or funny or cute or what?" Between the elephant dramas (why does "Andy's Story Book" seemingly contain nothing else?) and the genuinely entertaining chaos artist Froggy, this was for me the most incomprehensible part of this most unusual show.
@mauricewascom6586 ай бұрын
Simple, Bernie - they got the 🐘 to work for peanuts so naturally they used him more than the others, who were all "Union" members ❗😹😸😋😺😂😁
@laynelongfellow75698 жыл бұрын
I once had a phone conversation with my Cuz'n Dan about this show. He's 10 yrs. younger than I (1937/1947). It took 15 min. for us to realize that his version was on TV, hosted by Andy Devine, whereas my version was on radio and hosted by Smiln' Ed McConnell. Neither remembered the other's version. So I called Joe, who's exactly halfway between us in age (1942). He remembered both.
@sitarnut2 жыл бұрын
Bro...We loved Andy, but regarded him as an interloper as, "Smilin'" Ed McConnell started the show on RADIO...then, later on TV... He came up with the animal characters. We saw a bunch of the first ones with Ed.. always advertised Buster Brown Shoes with Tige, the dog inside the heel along with the goofy Lord Fauntleroy looking Kid. Who looked exactly like the Buster in the Sunday color newspaper comic strips of the early 1900's. They are hilarious.
@004752 Жыл бұрын
this is the stuff nightmares are made of
@CptEtgar Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@mauricewascom6586 ай бұрын
C'mon ❗😹
@jimlimbach66292 жыл бұрын
I agree with Midnight: "NICE"!
@EndingSummerwithRalph11 жыл бұрын
Keyboard Cat's Great Great Great Great Grandpa!
@arnoldcohen12502 ай бұрын
I suspect the animal close up shots were of real animals while the shots of them doing things were puppets or dolls. I believe the entire Viet Nam anti war movement was started by kids raised on Froggy the Gremlin. There was a hypnotizing surreal quality to the entire show. It was wonderful.
@kilgoretrout38758 жыл бұрын
Poor cat...Poor hamster, too. I used to watch this show when I was little. Never thought then about the cruel way the creatures were treated. I just remember loving Midnight.
@fraklein6 жыл бұрын
"Niice"
@namelessbychoice38326 жыл бұрын
Niceeeee
@jjrwass5 жыл бұрын
still luv him
@wuwei58174 жыл бұрын
They were puppets... I even knew that when I was a kid.
@margaretfitzgerald7187 Жыл бұрын
Way before Sesame Street, or even Disney!
@McNabbulous11 жыл бұрын
The original grumpy cat!
@mxylpx6 жыл бұрын
The cat and hamster had their revenge and filed a gross neglect and willful sadism suit against the fat man. Years later, Devine would relate his nitemares of them haunting his dressing room late at nite and in his dreams with,"Niiiice"!
@mightysaturn51335 жыл бұрын
lol
@mauricewascom6585 ай бұрын
@mxylpx Yep INDEED 👍🏼😂😹😸😋😜🤣
@scottphillips20945 жыл бұрын
That cat smells like a brewery.
@BobDenny8 жыл бұрын
I think the animals are puppets. I clearly recall this show.
@brendanwoods99278 жыл бұрын
No they're not. they're forced into suits that make them look like they're doing certain actions.
@brendanwoods99278 жыл бұрын
Utterly warped phantom zone Andy’s Gang inhabitants, with its live animals manipulated by wires, cheap plastic puppets and smoke bomb effects, canned music, canned audience reactions, canned audience footage, endlessly recycled into infinity, but if not, perhaps the sight of Midnight the Cat being forced to mime playing the organ to the tune of “Yes, Jesus Loves Me,” while Squeaky the mouse / hamster is manipulated into beating out a dirge like rhythm on a bass drum and Andy Devine drones tunelessly along in the background
@fidge54 Жыл бұрын
You are an idiot
@mauricewascom6585 ай бұрын
@BobDenny Absolutely Right ❗😊👍🏼
@mauricewascom6585 ай бұрын
@@brendanwoods9927 "Upon my word ❗" exclaimed Alice and Jerry's dad. 😂🤣😹
@simonjager92593 жыл бұрын
You ought to read Armageddon Rock by George R R Martin from the year 1982. I miss in this video Ghana the Elephant Boy.
@death2pc11 жыл бұрын
Nice.............
@ferociousgumby7 жыл бұрын
Obviously drugged and trussed animals. I think a lot of hamsters died during the filming of this.
@allexx1239 жыл бұрын
Is Squeeky's real paws clamped down into that Harmonica ?
@mightysaturn51335 жыл бұрын
yuppers
@dominique14814 жыл бұрын
My dreams be like:
@Evilimp00011 жыл бұрын
The cats eyes say "Kill me now".
@jjrwass5 жыл бұрын
eltons inspiration
@MooseCall10 жыл бұрын
Impatient bastard.
@RRaquello10 жыл бұрын
This show was completely faked. There was no live audience. The audience sounds were dubbed in & they cut in old stock footage of an audience in a theater. Andy Devine & the animals were shot separately (notice they're never in the same shot) and spliced together from two different films. It's all edited together. Talk about making a show on the cheap!
@mikesullivan51989 жыл бұрын
So what???
@croiners4166 Жыл бұрын
Don’t tell anyone!
@idelsagil91299 ай бұрын
0:44
@MissInvisible1111 жыл бұрын
Is Midnight a black persian?
@SlapstickGenius23 Жыл бұрын
The poor kitty probably was indeed black furred, albeit not of the radically punch nosed kind. She’s probably a (rather early) postwar button nosed American Persian instead.
@Lampshade519 жыл бұрын
This is the strangest kid's show of all time. In every episode that I have ever seen, Andy Devine appears to be drunk, the animals are forced to do things that would get them busted by the ASPCA if done today, and the production is so cheap it looks like it was shot on a home movie camera!
@DonBarzini-lw3bc2 жыл бұрын
It won an Emmy in 1949
@paltielbenyamin1273 Жыл бұрын
Grow up!
@logansmith771911 жыл бұрын
Hodgman was not.
@mikescott5624 Жыл бұрын
What future Trump and NRA supporters watched as kids.