i will pick another one David Strassman and his collection ! he is funny and excellent ! Ted E. Bare Wonders If His Fur Makes Him Look Fat | Strassman Live Vol. 1 | David Strassman - YouTube
We get WGN so I've seen bits of Garfield Goose reshown (along with Bozo, and Suzy Snowflake and all that Christmas stuff). There's something special about the local junk you watched as a kid, even if it's just junk to others who didn't see it.
I saw Avenue Q with my younger niece, the theater geek. As a present for her getting the lead in the school musical, my brother asked a friend with "connections" to get tickets. She brought an envelope by the afternoon before the show with four tickets, a pair for my brother and his girlfriend, and a pair for my niece and me. When we got there, my brother and his girlfriend sat in seats in the 12th row, and the usher brought my niece and me to DEAD CENTER FRONT ROW. The show was so funny that I nearly fell out of my seat. This was a road show production in Kansas City, and the majority of the front row was occupied by season ticket holders who didn't seem to know what to make of this show. But my niece and me were laughing so hard that members of the pit orchestra commented on it as we went to the lobby for intermission. After the show we bought poster signed by all the cast (a benefit for a Broadway AIDS charity) from the actor who voiced Trekky Monster, who also commented on how hard we were laughing.
Steve Zodiac (though I have not watched full episodes since I was a kid). It may not have aged well if I DO watch some, but loved FIREBALL XL5 as a kid along with SUPERCAR.
Supercar had some great puppets... either Mitch the Monkey or the evil Master Spy would be my favorites. They reused the Steve Zodiac puppet in the later Stingray series... he was 'Johnny Swoonara', an actor who was playing a fictional W.A.S.P. patrol sub pilot for film or tv. What a swell!
Of course, it's the dozy dog in my avatar - Sweep! How many other canines have jammed with Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden? Look at him go! Sweep got swing!
I guess every city with a local TV station had their own low budget / crappy children's programming with bad puppets. Ours was 'Uncle Bob & Archie'... later 'Archie Wood & Friends'... and sad to say, this was must-see TV at weekday lunchtime. The puppets and ventriloquism were terrible... except for maybe Marvin The Mouse... he was a bit of a cool jazzman sock. There were countless stories about how Uncle Bob was a jerk in real life... and how he letched on the kids' moms in the studio. I think it ran until about 1970... but lives on in the charity shop record section... lots of stuff put out on the local K-tel label.
Here's a nomination from New Zealand.. Thingee, who was co-host on kid's TV show "Son of a Gunn".. who often played a rather bemused straight-man to Jason Gunn's antics.
Slightly related; I was looking through some British Pop magazines from 1962-63 and ran across three guys billed as 'The Puppets'. One of those multitude of early 'beat boom' acts that sank without much trace on the charts. They looked somewhat square in two photos and listening to their Three Boys Looking For Love record on youtube (a Joe Meek production) they sound relatively square too (someone page Michael Bentine). Speaking of whom... any fans of this puppet show?
