Word: keeshan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to you and CBS for presenting Captain Kangaroo [Aug. 3]. It is the only "children's" show my children will watch. The local shows for wee ones present old cartoons and adult commercials, and my children walk away. I would appreciate seeing Mr. Keeshan sans Captain costume...
...what makes you think only mothers demand Kangaroo Keeshan? I am a male adult, 32, and have been more "broken up" over this program than I was with Flash Gordon serials back...
...Captain Kangaroo has cost CBS more than $1,500,000 a year; but the wigged, whiskered, grandfatherly old party with his big, pouchy pockets and perky hats is far and away the best in the often over-cute field of children's TV. His real name is Bob Keeshan, and his secret is that he talks softly to the kids, tells them what makes the world tick, with the same fizzless, unexcited manner that NBC's Dave Garroway uses on their parents. (In the same time slot. Kangaroo consistently matches or beats Garroway in the Nielsen ratings...
...midget pony, a coati, a kinkajou, and a ten-week-old Himalayan sun bear. Another colleague, Cosmo ("Gus") Allegretti, inhabits the skin of the durable Dancing Bear, is also the prime mover behind other sympathetic creatures-Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and the somnolent Grandfather Clock. Without prompting devices. Actor Keeshan, 32, meanders around the set using man-to-man language that can make a four-year-old feel almost grown up. He handles his influence on open minds with care: "There'll be no slapstick and no horror, no matter how innocently presented...
...proving that a dog is a boy's best friend. CBS's Champion is about Gene Autry's horse, rather than Gene Autry. The newest kid show, Captain Kangaroo, is crowded with baby chicks, baby squirrels, lambkins, goats and assorted birds. And Kangaroo's Bob Keeshan promises bigger and better quadrupeds as soon as his show is moved to a studio equipped with a large elevator: "Now we're limited to those that can walk-or be carried-upstairs." The animal take-over has been so complete that the new programs employing mostly humans have...