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Another obscure children's show

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dwood

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Hello, I'm new around here, but a good friend alerted me to this board, and I hope this hasn't been covered before (I did a search first.) Very nice resource.

At any rate, I'm almost positive there was an old b/w children's show that used to air in the very early morning on one of the UHF channels when I was very little (very early '70s). Now, I can't find even one person who remembers it, so I suppose it's possible I dreamt it into existence. Here are the details:

It was black and white, and cheaply filmed (videoed) on a standard "cyc," or cyclorama set, with minimal light projections on the walls.

In the middle of the set was a fake tree, and one of those sort of decorative electrical gaslamp mockups people used to put by their driveways to light the way to the front door. Only, the "head" of the gaslamp is a white spherical diffuser, rather than the "lantern" type.

The host was a pretty lady dressed in a Peter Pan-style "Pixy" dress, and she had puppet friends who lived in the tree to talk with.

I'm thinking it might have aired on WATL, or WHAE, as it came on right before WTCG started airing the Three Stooges/Our Gang hour. Might have been WTCG. That would put it at about 5:30 am, I think, which may explain how I might have dreamt it.

Because I was so little then, details are way fuzzy, but it seemed like it aired weekday mornings. But, it's also possible it was a Sunday morning offering from WHAE, and may have had a religious tone. Can't remember any of the content.

I remember I only watched it on days where I'd gotten up unreasonably early, and there was nothing else on (which might tip the balance toward Sunday morning programming.)

Any memory hits out there? Or have I been hallucinating since a young age?
 
Did "Pixanne" ever air in Atlanta? I don't recall it, although
I remember Channel 4 in Greenville, SC showing it at 9 AM
around 1973-74.
 
bpatrick said:
Did "Pixanne" ever air in Atlanta? I don't recall it, although
I remember Channel 4 in Greenville, SC showing it at 9 AM
around 1973-74.

No clue. I literally remember seeing a similar character in front of a tree once... I seem to remember her pulling art supplies out of the tree to do some kind of craft with the kids on set.
 
Thanks so much guys, you rule! It was indeed Pixanne! I must have been remembering the older b7W stuff. Cheers!
 
this has been bothering me , I have some of the same memories but I cant find a pic of the magic light anywhere , I am almost sure it was pixanne but there's not much of her show on the net, its the same story over and over , I live in rome ga this would have been mid to late 70s on Atlanta or Chattanooga tv, if anybody remembers the light post and what it did please help , I think it took her places
 
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