Word: magilla
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...never saw Sesame Street. I never saw Walter Cronkite. I didn't Get Smart either. Not once did I come home from school and settle down on the couch for a little Gilligan's Island or Magilla Gorilla. There was no All in the Family in my family. M*A*S*H, Mannix, Merv, David Frost talking with Richard Nixon, Howard Cosell talking with Howard Cosell, Sunday-morning cartoons, late-night movies--we had none of it. Or, rather, my mother was having none of it. By her decree, ours was the only house in the neighborhood without a television...
...mike had been left open, the little bastards' parents wrote in, and Uncle Don's autogiro never again set down on the roof of Bamberger's department store. In a sense, that minuscule conflict has occurred ever since. Cynicism has animated most children's shows, from Howdy Doody to Magilla Gorilla. Bozo the Clown uttered fatuities between pitches in the '50s. The golden age of the '50s brought such entertainment as Kid Gloves (little boys boxing with gloves that "couldn't hurt") and Grand Chance Roundup, which gave the winner a one-week shot at the Pier groups in Atlantic...