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Anybody remember "Andy's Gang"?

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kirkiefan

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Was on You Tube recently and re-discovered "Andy's Gang" in the form of a few video clips of the filmed series which starred actor Andy Devine and several puppet characters Froggy The Gremlin and Midnight The Cat.

I vaguely remembered this Saturday morning show from my early childhood which I think ran on NBC and on the former WLWD in Dayton. It looked as if it was filmed live in a theater with a live stage setting and a live children's audience.

What I also found out recently is that Andy wasn't the first host..he was actually a replacement for Smilin' Ed McConnel who passed away during the show's initial run.

This is what children's programming should be...full of wholesome humor,spontanious gags and situations,creative storytelling which excites the imagination and not over-inundated with five minute commercial breaks.

Thanks for the memories and to Ira Gallen at:

http://www.tvdays.com
 
"Andy's Gang" was rerun on WTOG/44 Tampa/
St. Petersburg in the '70s. It did originally air
on NBC (see my posting on daytime schedules
from the fall of 1957), although there had been
a hiatus after Smilin' Ed's death in 1954.

And we should all remember the sponsor, too:
Buster Brown shoes.
 
The show looked like it was done in a large theatre. To save money it was filmed in a small Hollywood studio. They spliced in stock footage from the '40's of screaming kids in a movie house. Same kids in the same seats week-after-week.
 
And the same kid running along the front row in front of the camera, week after week. Or was he simply a creature of habit?
 
Midnight the Cat, Squeaky the Mouse and Froggy the Gremlin, in a song!

You mentioned "Midnight the Cat" and "Froggy The Gremlin" and that sent my mind rolling back trying to remember where I had heard of those characters in a song before. Well I finally remembered where, it
was in the song "The Chocolate Dandies of 1932" by a group by the name of "Tiny Alice." In the show
that you mentioned was there also a third character by the name of Squeaky The Mouse? In the song by Tiny Alice there is. If you dig up the song you'll find its a really cool jazzy song. By the way who is Doctor Jazz? lol lol.....
 
You're right Radio Star..Squeaky the Mouse was also on the show.
 
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