Do you remember watching a program as a small child, and not remembering what it was, and never seeing any reference to it again? I have three such memories; these would all have been in the mid-1960s.
1. As an adult, I thought this might have been an episode of Little Rascals/Our Gang, but I can't find any episode guide that mentions such a storyline. A live-action program I watched in the morning: A little boy is invited to a girl's birthday party, and doesn't want to go. He digs up a bunch of worms and wraps them in a pretty box. The little girl screams when she opens this present. When it is time for the cake to be served, the boy doesn't get any. He is forced to eat the worms. The episode ends with him dangling a worm over himself, with his mouth open.
2. A live-action retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk that had some science fiction elements. I don't think this was the Gene Kelly special. The one detail I remember clearly is that Jack is asked a series of simple questions but not given time to answer them. When the asker finally shuts up, Jack answers all of them by saying something like "Yes, yes, no, no, yes, no, yes, no."
3. A cartoon about King Kong in New York. I just remember seeing the ape walking among the skyscrapers, knocking them down. I suspect this was probably a Japanese cartoon dubbed into English.
No idea why I remember these details so vividly, but they've haunted me for 50 years!
1. As an adult, I thought this might have been an episode of Little Rascals/Our Gang, but I can't find any episode guide that mentions such a storyline. A live-action program I watched in the morning: A little boy is invited to a girl's birthday party, and doesn't want to go. He digs up a bunch of worms and wraps them in a pretty box. The little girl screams when she opens this present. When it is time for the cake to be served, the boy doesn't get any. He is forced to eat the worms. The episode ends with him dangling a worm over himself, with his mouth open.
2. A live-action retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk that had some science fiction elements. I don't think this was the Gene Kelly special. The one detail I remember clearly is that Jack is asked a series of simple questions but not given time to answer them. When the asker finally shuts up, Jack answers all of them by saying something like "Yes, yes, no, no, yes, no, yes, no."
3. A cartoon about King Kong in New York. I just remember seeing the ape walking among the skyscrapers, knocking them down. I suspect this was probably a Japanese cartoon dubbed into English.
No idea why I remember these details so vividly, but they've haunted me for 50 years!
