Pittsburgh's Original TV Stars Part 5 of 5

[@tommmarree3689]

What a great show! For anyone born in this era, this is such a treat! How lucky we were to have these tremendous people as role models......

[@RRPounder]

You're saying Nick Perry was a role model?

[@ronparfitt8442]

Since this program aired in 1988 (34 years ago!) could anyone provide us a list of those TV personalities that have since passed away and what year? Good Bless them all. I really wish I could get this entire show on DVD. It would be a treasure to go back and watch this over again. Great memories and stories! It’s Pittsburgh history at it finest that brought a smile on my face and tear in my eye!! Perhaps even produce an updated program with the TV personalities since 1988. ❤️

[@ericobrien9507]

Let me make this easy for you. Joe Negri is the only one from this program who is still alive at age 96!

[@ronparfitt8442]

Thank you Eric. I thought that almost of them were (unfortunately) deceased. They were all great!! Do you know if this program is available on DVD or even VHS? It would be wonderful to have and be able to reminisce about the “good old days”.

[@ericobrien9507]

@@ronparfitt8442 I wish it was. Unfortunately it isn't and probably never will be unless the SAG-Aftra folk release it publicly. That same year they also did "Pittsburgh's Original Radio Stars" only except most of those weren't really "original" as much as they were connections to the originals!

[@protorhinocerator142]

Mister Rogers wasn't a Pittsburgh treasure. He was a national treasure.

[@essanaypaul6253]

I had hoped to see The Three Stooges clowning with Paul Shannon again some day. Sad to hear that nobody cared to save that particular show from erasure.

[@alwilson3204]

Though this a late comment, Shannon was by far the biggest name and held the fondest of memories as a personality and a fixture, so it's a shame from part 4 to part 5 one or the other kept talking over him to where he hardly got to engage the audience. Wish I could say the same for ol' crooked Nick Perry, who everyone from back in the day, from anywhere near Pittsburgh, is well aware he was a huge embarrassment to the region as he went to jail for rigging the Daily Number at 666.

[@alwilson3204]

And, while Mr. Rodgers certainly had a long running, beloved program, he was not actually considered as prominent as Paul Shannon was.

[@RRPounder]

Why didn't they all slide down a chair and let Mr. Rogers have the first chair?

[@razorsedge7100]

I know Fred Rodgers is an institution in these parts but there is something strange about him.

[@bobgomez9481]

Joe Negro?

[@jamesberwanger250]

Negri. He was a neighbor of ours in Mt. Lebanon.

[@bobgomez9481]

@@jamesberwanger250 - so it wasn't Negro?

[@jamesberwanger250]

@@bobgomez9481 No, Negri, and he's still with us at 95 years old! He's pretty famous as a jazz guitarist.