Sandy Becker Show WABD New York Part 5

The last part of this rare clip. Sandy does some sketching.

[@user-wl8gh8lr5e]

I watched this show every chance I could. The Bert Kampfert song "That Happy Feeling" brings me right back to my young years of the 1960s. I watched Sandy on a black and white Philco TV with an antenna on the roof.

[@hoskeebo]

This guy was the greatest! He treated children as if they were actually valuable (Imagine that!) Thanks for putting p this video.

[@cynthiascully9799]

Loved Sandy Becker...so funny !

[@debras8683]

Sandy Becker- my first love! I used to tell adults that I was going to marry him when I grew up.

[@seishsmom638]

All of us Jersey kids watched this show religiously everyday!

[@billfecher7382]

Thank you Sandy for helping to make my childhood a childhood filled with happy & joyous memories. You & Soupy Sales brought so much joy & laughter to myself & my folks. Thanks Again !

[@68lincoln]

I agree with you. I watched his morning show on WNEW Channel 5 in 1963 and 1964 on our Zenith b&w console tv set. I loved Sandy Becker with all of his voices and accents and I used to call some kids Geeba Geeba back then! Great memories of growing up in the early 1960s in the suburbs of NJ.

[@1952kid]

Thank you ,SANDY BECKER,for giving me wonderful chidhood memories.Five years old,lying on the floor and watching Sandy on black and white TV. This is the closest thing to being five again,thanks for putting this on for all us old farts.

[@fractionstein]

As a sickly kid in in NYC in the 50's, Sandy Becker was a huge part of my day. I named my parakeet after one of his and regularly trumpeted the praises of Geeba Geeba. Now I'm a professional puppeteer myself. All Hail Geeba Geeba!

[@laverdadesmejor]

Sandy was very talented his show was very entertaining with a variety of interesting segments. One I remember was viewers would mail in a paper with 5 lines of varying size & shapes and would specify an object for Sandy to draw using the lines. Am I the only one that remembers that????

[@barbarayevoli9771]

1958 Kid. I also used to love Sandy Becker, before the Electronic Age he let you strech your Immagination! My Mother used to call me Norton Nork when I did things wrong as a kid! And Hambone and all that! Im glad to hear he was really nice in real life!

[@magistrumartium]

I think Sandy Becker was one of my first role models.

[@manidig]

3:45--- My uncle invented that flute toy! It was called "The Record Flute" There were circular paper "records" with the dots on them. You slid the slide to match the dots and you got something close to the right note. They had songs and bird calls on the records. One whistle came with 8 paper discs. They were sold for 49 cents at Woolworth's.

[@fromthesidelines]

Channel 13 went on the air as WATV in 1949, and became WNTA in early 1958, after National Telefilm Associates bought the station, in the hopes of making it the flagship station of the "NTA Film Network". Channel 13 actually went off the air in mid 1961, and didn't return until Educational Broadcasting Corp. "won" the station's license in a bidding war among other interested parties, and was rechristened as "educational station" WNDT in September 1962...

[@fromthesidelines]

DuMont sold WABD to Metropolitan Broadcasting in 1958, and changed its call letters that year to WNEW (to compliment their radio stations of the same name). Eventually, Metropolitan became "Metromedia"- and they controlled Channel 5 until they sold out to News Corporation {Fox} in 1986. Between 1954 and 1960, WNBT was known as WRCA-TV [and WRCA AM/FM as well], until it officially became WNBC.

[@c.w.b.5409]

i would love too see clip of Norton Nork

[@fractionstein]

So long I have waited to hear the name Geeba-Geeba again. Where did yo get these clips from? I remembered Geeba orginally had a beard and then it was removed. Memories from a long time ago. Oh, and before I forget... thanks!

[@castillianwagon500]

My uncle was his neighbor in Douglaston Queens. Sandy had a tall stone wall around his house and vicious dogs. Yes vicious. That was before his divorce. We actually knew him. He was really nice and my cousin was on his show & I saw him on TV. Sandy also had a house in Virginia at the time. I was born & raised in N Y City.

[@richardspeziale]

@rty1955 what did you do at DuMont?

[@Lester2955]

Having grown up in New York I thought this program was on WNEW? Of course that was 45 years ago, so it is hard to remember all of those things.......

[@Sassyjass2012]

It was. WABD morphed into WNEW, by the 1960s.

[@wmbrown6]

And "Junior Frolics" (or some equivalent thereof), from what I read, also aired on WNJU in its early days of existence (1965). Certainly "Uncle" Fred Sayles was on 'NJU in the days before they became a Spanish-language station.

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

No.."Junior Frolics"/"Junior Town Frolics"aired on WATV/WNTA TV Ch.13 in Newark,N.J. The station is now known..as WNET TV Ch.13 is now in NYC.

[@wmbrown6]

And between WNBT and WNBC-TV, Channel 4 was WRCA-TV. And WABC? Before March 1, 1953, Channel 7 was WJZ-TV.

[@carmelo3750]

Yes, and for a while they broadcast ap news directly from the teletype with no announcer

[@Juliaflo]

Do you remember when New York City's Channel 13 was WNTA-TV?

[@MrTantalust]

205 e.67th Street?

[@1952kid]

1958 NYC TV GUIDE ; Sandy Becker Cartoons 8 AM , CHANNEL 5 . The Sandy Becker Show 8;30 AM. C HANNEL 5 . Sandy Becker Looney Tunes 6;30 pm Channel 5 . All on Monday - Friday 1958 Sandy Becker had 3 shows on .

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

He also hosted:"The Bugs Bunny Theater","Sandy Becker Presents The Out Gang Comedies" and he was the first host/performer of"Wonderama"on WABD/WNEW TV Ch.5 in NYC..1952 Kid.

[@andrewfernandez4609]

I understand sonny fox is the only living ex-wonderama host.

[@richardspeziale]

@sandysoup i'm remembering 13 as WNDT, but i was only three-and-a-half years-old name-it and-claim-it at PLaza 2-5000 win a good guy sweatshirt any tapes/kinescopes of 'Fun at One'? or how bout the guy on channel 5 who put on a wig and mimed to Beatles songs? huh? HUH?

[@vincentbasso4903]

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