The Soupy Sales Show - Complete Episode of Classic Television

[@jeanmank742]

Laughing with tears of joy and nostalgia. Misery at home and school, but kiddie TV out of NYC saved our lived, plus amazing friends and a great neighborhood. My sibs and I were truly blessed.

[@jonathanlane5432]

Wow! I watched Soupy faithfully on WNEW-TV, New York and I don’t remember one episode that was packed with so many bits as this one plus 2 pies in the face!

[@jeanmank742]

Me, too. We lived in Norwalk, CT and were blessed with the best of after-school TV and our beloved WABC 77 AM radio!

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Thanks for all the laughs and smiles Soupy! You Frank,and Clyde were the best!

[@robertcombs55]

I never missed Soupy as a boy LOVE these shows!!

[@GK-ev5rd]

I watched Soupy in DETROIT in the 50s. The first true SUPERSTAR on TV in the Motor City. He also had a evening show with great music Jazz, and singers who were from Detroit or passing through. Soupy was a big Jazz record collector.

[@georgegates526]

Ahhh.. Creative humor WAS NOT dead back then!!! Thank you Soupy Sales!!

[@mAmAananna]

I grew up with him and I have a unique sense of humor.

[@chillbeatsandvibez7901]

How are you! Hope you are alive still

[@paskuniag]

There was no one else like him on NY tv in the 60s.

[@ericdreizen1463]

Never before or since, anything like it on the air. People R smart enuf to know that if they tried it, they'd fall flat on their faces! Seems even more remarkable in retrospect. And he wrote it all!

[@glennhfriedman4571]

before that in Detroit

[@MsBackstager]

Soupy was the reason why I rushed home from school -- just to watch him on TV.

[@annabelkitten07]

My dad (who was in his 20s) would come home during his lunch break from work, conveniently timed to catch Soupy Sales. :)

[@ecurb962]

I was led to believe, all the copies of The Soupy Sales show were either discarded, and damaged beyond repair. Thank you for posting this.

[@kennethdegruchy5503]

The 2 inch monochrome video tapes were authorized for erase and reuse. However this was not before a number of them were sent somewhere (possibly EUE Screen Gems) to make electron beam recording 16mm film negatives for a film distribution. Not sure if the shows were distributed back in the day to other tv stations but I have heard the shows were available to the Armed Forces Film Network. I wonder if the cost of creating the film distribution negatives was born by the US Govt. If so it is the best use of the tax payers money that I could ever think of because now these precious shows survive.

[@TralfazConstruction]

Each second of a viewable Soupy Sales show is precious. My mother, younger brother and I would watch this and enjoy it together. I asked my younger brother, not so long ago, if he remembered anything at all about Soupy Sales and he could only recall Soupy's oversized bowtie and 'the lion puppet" (Pookie). I filled him in as best I could. When my family would take long(er) car trips my mother would relate our ETA in terms of how many Soupy Sales Shows we'd have to watch before we got where we were going.

[@sandranelson7124]

My favorite scene from this video clip was the "Chew Tobbaco Rag" song. That is such a classic!! (IMO)

[@rty1955]

​@@kennethdegruchy5503id like to know where you got that info from

[@allenstone7518]

Still love Soupy, a comic genius.

[@BingCherry11]

Kudos to the Great Puppet Master who literally breathes life into our Favorite Lion Pookie; that Lion we have all come to know and love!!! I can't believe all the things that little puppet can do! LOL

[@Historian212]

Frank Nastasi, genius guy who played pretty much all the wacky characters.

[@ericdreizen1463]

@@Historian212 And B4 him, the great Clyde Adler.

[@krstr5960]

I truly loved White Fang …. A wonderful concept….I watched him 60 years ago….Just as funny today

[@Literarymiss]

I loved Soupy and this song is a classic!

[@Suddenlyits1960]

It’s a such shame that most of his shows are gone.

[@Johniola1]

You are awesome, sir! PLEASE keep these coming!!! :)

[@Modeltnick]

This was hilarious then and now! Frank Nastasi was just as funny as Soupy, especially in the bar scene! Miss you guys!

[@sergioalbuquerque4134]

Very funny. Both.

[@818Dimples]

Absolutely 😢😢😢😢

[@Laura4Cats]

Child or adult, who could refrain from laughing at this abject silliness? I can remember, when I was a kid watching Soupy Sales in New York in the 60s, laughing so hard I literally could not breathe. All these years later, these silly skits are still hilarious.

[@RichHayes-s2e]

I'm laughing still- so good to see Soupy and all the characters! It helps explain why I am as I am

[@VeroYorkie]

It's like stepping back in time! So funny all over again! I love it! Pookie

[@ericdreizen1463]

Genius! We'll not see his like again!

[@wabankik]

...It was my Dad who had got me into watching Soupy & White Fang religiously !, He had some pretty special guests on with him as well !

[@alexyamach3635]

My brother and I used to imitate White Fang and Black Tooth and it drove my Mother up a wall!

[@sybil-roxanneclemons1333]

I would join you guys!

[@robertcombs55]

My favorite show of all time.

[@BingCherry11]

Pookie: "Oh boy, I thought that nut would never leave!" LOL

[@josephdilorenzo7791]

Who would have thought back in the day, that two of Soupy's sons would end up in the band Tin Machine with David Bowie?

[@stevenjorgenson9713]

I watched every episode I could when I was younger.. Still love Pookie!

[@kathyevans3251]

I really love this show .

[@lanfordripley7780]

Love the Soup Man !!!!!

[@briannelson42]

That cigarette ad on the radio is by Eddie Lawrence from his album DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP!

[@theophano]

Watched him on Detroit TV in the 50's.

[@ddmcpaisley6299]

Miss good ol' creative quality TV programming! Soupy was Genius!

[@thevoiceisbydon]

I remember watching this is a kid and thinking being on tv must be a great way to make a living...

[@HowardGale]

As a kid growing up in the 50s and 60s we had some great television as compared to today's kids. We actually had to think and some of those skits were just incredible. A precursor to SNL for sure.

[@glennhfriedman4571]

Always caught his show after school

[@debrakweddington8127]

I watched Soupy Sales when I was kid. I lived in southern Ohio.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Didn’t you hear? Blackie Sampsons in town!

[@rty1955]

I was in the studio when this show was made

[@WastrelWay]

Well, as far as I can tell, a lot of that would not be allowed on TV today. Drinking, a song about chewing tobacco, and the really bad jokes, so bad they are good. "Tie score," LOL.

[@QuantumRift]

If ye chew tobacco, don't spit on the floor - expec-to-rate in the cuspi-dooooor (and wiggle your butt at the camera)...LOL...ROFLMAO

[@jamesmiller4184]

I got the most teen-aged excited (!) when his girlfriend PEACHES showed up!! My-oh-my WHAT a gorgeous thing she was. When that young, I could not have wished than any more or less than to MARRY her! Always wondered what became of that sweetie. Tonight, I'll slumber dreaming of that Heavenly Vision of some 58 years ago, now. (Some very few things we just do not forget.) . : .

[@luislaplume8261]

This made us kids to use our imagination to figure out what the people who knocked on the door looked like. A classic ! I would rather watch Soupy Sales than Captain Kangaroo. Only Wonderama would offer stiff competition.

[@debrakweddington8127]

I remember the pies in the face.

[@leonardmarshman4187]

This was REQUIRED viewing for me and my mostly-Jewish friends back in our elementary school days. Every weekday at 3, Cali. time. Gotta' love that a supposed "kiddies' show" had no qualms about showing adults smoking cigarettes. Good times. And, no, Soup and all of those Winston, Pall Mall, and Marlboro "cowboy" commercials never convinced me I needed tobacco in my lungs or life.

[@leonardmarshman4187]

Like "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson", the show was never funnier than when the bits DIDN'T WORK. And having the live crew crack-up off-camera only added to the merriment and hilarity.

[@BingCherry11]

Soupy didn't give Pookie a tip!!!

[@-danR]

Not complete; the last 3-4 seconds are cut off. We loved where he rounds the corner at the end the block by banking and hopping on one foot. It was hilarious.

[@OofusTwillip]

He got that bit from Charlie Chaplin. Soupy learned a lot from watching silent movies in his formative years.

[@edhalfen7380]

White Fang...Black Tooth...oh reh o rehah. I recall that he did an "off color" (I'll call it) joke about what would happen if skirts got any shorter, they'd have...I do believe that was the last straw for him. Anybody remember?

[@rebeccarollins9603]

Girls would have to powder 4 cheeks!

[@stj971]

I must have missed that one

[@sgit1]

Just great. Something similar was Chuck McCann.

[@818Dimples]

There's a skit called LADDIE that Soupy Sales and Frank did with Soupy's poodle. Use the bathroom before viewing. I wish they would show the skit on KZbin

[@captainjay1034]

If you cannt find the humor in this show you have an empty soul

[@stj971]

And you're braindead

[@ruthannkizakavich3325]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!

[@keithrissolo7437]

WHAT YEAR WAS THIS???

[@pattiecake11]

1965

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Wish were recorded a little louder.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Mork?

[@713unclebill]

FRANK GRITANNI WAS THE BEST OF THE SIDEKICKS OF THE SOUPY SALES SERIES

[@robertvelez8485]

SOUPY Sales Rocks!

[@HEAD3455]

screw ny he started in Detroit then gotmore money to move to big apple

[@death2pc]

Frank Nastasi........!!!

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Mokk?

[@jessicawright9434]

hes from north Carolina, in his show his skits are black , as for musicect, hair nappy than mines,

[@jamesmiller4184]

EXACTLY what I always thought! . : .

[@stj971]

He was from w Virginia

[@Historian212]

You know he was Jewish, right?

[@compound32]

It was ok...

[@carlhopkinson]

I never thought this was funny when I was a little kid, and I see that my initial judgement was correct.

[@roddypiper100]

Carl Hopkinson and

[@jamesmiller4184]

Well, you're way out-voted, Carl.

[@ecolidamienbuckhills2387]

soupy sales sucks.

[@ConsensusReality]

you're so much of a loser that you visit threads of things you hate?

[@QuantumRift]

Still a loser after 4 years. You suck.

[@walterglowacki2185]

Comments from someone who lives in his Mommies basement!

[@thebambino4728]

You guys need to show the episode that got him KICKED OFF THE AIR - the infamous BANANA CREAM JOKE episode , lol !!