Good lord no
Last time I saw Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) was when the FX network had a morning program called "Breakfast Time" which ran for a few years in the mid-90s before moving over to Fox as "After Breakfast" where it died a quick death. From what I recall, the programming at FX was aimed at the demographic that would remember Captain Kangaroo, so they brought Keeshan on that show to make appearances. While the producers perhaps thought it'd be sentimental for people who'd remember him from their youth, at that time he was around 70 years old, had slowed down considerably and I recall my boss at the time walking into the room when they were airing some banter with Keeshan and he looked at the TV and said "Oh wow, why are they even showing him like that, they shouldn't be doing this."
Already been done. In the 1979-82 time range CBS had a weekday companion of the Sunday morning show that used the same theme music (usually shortened) and similar graphics. At first the weekday version ran 60 minutes and was later expanded to 90 minutes for a year or so. Originally anchored by Bob Schieffer, later by Charles Kuralt working a long week. The 90 minute version had a 7:30am start time, which followed a revamped half-hour version of Captain Kangaroo, called Wake Up.
They tried that. It wasn't very good.
As well as the star of the 1997 reboot, John McDonough, who died earlier this year: CT man known from 'Captain Kangaroo' reboot dies
I remember vaguely the reboot. I was facetious anyway, but has anything worked in that timeslot on CBS since the Captain?
