Toys No Saturday morning cartoons for us.
Wild Bill HickokBut plenty of Saturday morning cowboys. Who didn't contemplate becoming aAnnie Oakley cowboy or cowgirl with the likes of Annie Oakley, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Wild Bill Hickok, Range Rider, the Lone Ranger, and horses Fury and Flicka to fantasize over? The Mickey Mouse Club provided more Western heroes with the romantic Zorro, and the adorable Spin and Marty. Weren't we destined to be a moral generation, growing up with the Cowboy Code, and having moral advice sung to us by Jimmy on the Mickey Mouse Club? (can't you still sing "The race is run by running, there is no other way..." Other Spin & Martyfavorite Saturday morning shows, as well as after school shows, include Sky King, Circus Boy (Corky grew up to be a Monkee), Rin Tin Tin, and Jeff's Collie (later to be called Timmy and Lassie.Circus Boy

While we were very young there was more help with our morals, and our favorite hosts, Miss Francis on Ding Dong School and Captain Kangaroo could give the next generation's Mr. Rogers a run for his money. Ding Dong School


If you lived in Chicago you  watched puppets. Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Here's Geraldine, and everyone's favorite, Garfield Goose and Friends. Garfield GooseThere was another local show, The Blue Fairy, which made a big impression on me but is now just a blur. Right along with Winky Dink, whom I vaguely remember as a star with legs but nothing else? The only reason Winky Dink is a memory at all is that he sold a kit with a magic screen. You put the screen over your TV screen and then could color on it as instructed during the show. We weren't the only kids who drew all over the TV screen without benefit of the protective plastic.



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