Talk:Captain Kangaroo

message: Also among the toons, or so I've heard, was Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, created by Terrytoons. Can anybody cite a source?  Trekphiler 00:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Manfred the Wonder Dog was a sidekick to Tom Terrific, as the story notes. In my Captain-watching years, I never saw him in his own cartoon. - DavidWBrooks 00:53, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The first time I heard about Captain Kangaroo was in the song "Butch" sings to himself when he goes back to fetch his watch from the appartment in the Pulp Fiction movie by Quentin Tarantino.
Maybe it's worth mentioning here?
:I think it definitely is worth mentioning as this was also the first time I'd ever heard about the show. I was surprised it hadn't already happened so I started a "popular culture" section and mentioned the reference in there. --Thoughtcat 08:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure how relavent or truthful a statement about "numerous people born after 1960" not knowing what Captain Kangaroo was is.  I was born in 1975, but watched his show until its cancellation.141.156.31.249 17:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

text: That song was from a group known as The Statler Brothers and the song title was Flowers on the Wall. I don't think mentioning the Pulp Fiction relation to the song is necessary since it's mentioned in the song's main article. A mention of how this song in particular references the show might be a good idea though as there are numerous shows, covers, and articles that reference the song (which is not a reference to the show itself directly) --Poet  Talk  15:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mentioned in a song in Pulp Fiction 

message: The entire Wake Up with the Captain article almost duplicates what's already found in this article. I suggest we just make that article redirect to this one. hateless 05:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. - DavidWBrooks 10:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: As a Brit who remembers the Ludwig cartoon I was surprised to see no standalone entry for it. As I recall, Captain Kangaroo wasn't shown in the UK so it seemed right that Ludwig should have its own entry, so I cut out the explanatory text from the Cartoons section and used that as the basis for a new Ludwig (cartoon) entry. --Thoughtcat 09:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ludwig

message: The theme music to the original Bob Keeshan series, the "Puffin Bill" instrumental, was used in a late episode of "Doctor Who."  I was startled to hear it, and I always wondered how that came to happen; was there some connection, or was it just a coincidence?  
It was a Sylvester McCoy (the seventh Doctor of the regular TV series--the last before the series went on hiatus, so it was years after the original Captain) episode.  The Doctor and his then-companion Ace landed in their space/time vehicle in a bus holiday resort in Wales in the late 1950s.  The background music was what I knew very well as the Captain Kangaroo theme.
140.147.160.78 19:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original theme music--heard in Doctor Who?? 

message: Didn't the Slim Goodbody live-action shorts air as part of Captain Kangaroo at one point?  I have a storybook LP that has "as seen on Captain Kangaroo" (with a picture of Bob Keeshan) emblazoned on the cover. - Pennyforth 20:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't the reference to him in the article cover that? - DavidWBrooks 21:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I missed it before, my bad. - Pennyforth 21:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No - good; you asked. Bad is slapping something into the article without checking. ... And I can one-up your Slim Goodbody storybook LP. I've got a couple of Captain Kangaroo LPs from my youth, including Mr. Green Jeans explaining the meaning of "Waltzing Matilda" to a confused Captain. - DavidWBrooks 21:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slim Goodbody 

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message: This is a nice article, clearly written by knowledgable people who like their subject. It definitely could use a handful of in-article references to various sources.
24.130.11.114 (talk) 03:17, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Some citations needed

message: Is the Schwinn marketing really notable enough to deserve its own section? Rees11 (talk) 01:45, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Arguably, yes. It's startling to today's TV audience, especially in line with the posthumous imagine of Keeshan/Captain as a sort of educational-TV Ganhdi for kids. I have just removed a bit of the more overheated language in the section. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:52, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

text: Speaking as somebody who is old enough to have watched it in those years, I have only the vaguest memory of Schwinn selling on the show - but then again, I was only 5 or 6. Schwinn was definitely synonymous for bicycle in American suburbia of the 60s. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:17, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schwinn 

message: I always thought the music, Puffin Billy, was made from the keys when they jiggled. That's why the music stopped when they rested on it's hook.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.32.192.33 (talk) 11:41, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keys 

message: This is article is woefully undersourced. I've added a couple of articles in the ELs that a fellow editor with time to do so might be able to use. -- 207.237.230.157 (talk) 01:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources and citations

message: What ever became of this man? Is he still alive? I've searched the Internet time and again, but can find next to nothing about him.GermanShepherdsPie (talk) 08:24, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cosmo "Gus" Allegretti 

message: I beg to differ regarding the claim in the first section that Captain Kangaroo was the longest-running children's television show.
That honor is held by Chief Halftown, a show with cartoons and tales told by a full-blooded Native American from the Seneca nation, hosted by Traynor Ora Halftown (who was a full-blooded Seneca in real life) on WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.  Chief Halftown ran from 1950-1999. Bill S. (talk) 04:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added "nationally broadcast" to the article to address this point. JTRH (talk) 06:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: A wonderful example of why wikipedia has survived and thrived, despite all the flaws. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the longest-running children's show 

message: I seem to remember a segment where Captain Kangaroo brought out a box (shoebox?) with paper, scissors, tape, string, etc. to make pictures & things.  I can't remember the details (what they called the segment, who else participated, etc.)  It wasn't even mentioned in the main article, and that was what I was looking for!  Can anyone out there help me out with more information?
--72.161.222.231 (talk) 17:27, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arts & Crafts Segment 

message: According to the website "filmreference" Bob Claver produced and wrote the shows first 1000 shows.  According to an interview with Claver "Bob Claver: I worked for a small production company in Chicago for a month. They needed to open up a New York office. I was the only bachelor and had just got out of the Army and college. So I went off to New York, and got a room in this awful hotel. We were working on two kid’s show, and had an hour to fill from 12 – 1 every day.  One show was a disaster, but the other was a show called “Time For Fun” with Corny the Clown – who was actually Bob Keeshan. 
GH: Captain Kangaroo? 
BC: Yes. That ultimately led to my first really big network job: I was the associate producer, and wrote the first 5 years of The Captain Kangaroo Show”. It was a big hit and totally confused the head of CBS. He couldn’t understand one reason why anybody would watch that show. His final word was, “Start it, and if you have any trouble, call me.” I quit after 5 years. I was the Executive Producer by then. I was too young to get locked into that kind of thing. It ran for 26 or so years. "  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rohrmanjim (talk • contribs) 02:35, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Producer and writer Bob Claver 

message: I seem to recall that in the mid-60s to early 70s, the Captain hosted the Thanksgiving special,"The CBS ALL-AMERICAN Thanksgiving Day Parade." This included segments from Macy's parade, the TG Parade in Montreal, Canada (filmed at another time, as the Canadian TG is dated differently) a segment from Philadelphia, featuring Mummers, and lastly, the Honolulu TG Parade, sub-hosted by Jack Lord (Five-O's McGarrett of the 60s) riding a white horse.
In between the parade segments, we joined the Captain in a plush living-room type setting, with fireplace and loaded table, evoking warm and fuzzy thanksgiving day feelings, while he prepped us for the next parade segment.
If I AM remembering correctly, I'll say that CBS hasn't had as good Parade Hosting OR Coverage since then.
Can someone confirm or deny my memory??  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.171.135.58 (talk) 04:57, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It sounds like a CBS (national) airing, with local cutaways. That said, Captain Kangaroo would be an odd choice for Philly segments (IIRC, this show was film in NYC). Are you sure you don't mean Captain Noah (Philly produced show, but at the ABC affiliate)? - SummerPhD (talk) 05:13, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Captain's thanksgivings 

message: I was wondering if any collections (besides the Captain Kangaroo TV Show Bob Keeshan DVD which if reviews are to be believed is horrible and only has two shows) exist or if most episodes were lost due to the wiping and junking common to US TV up to the 1970s.--BruceGrubb (talk) 18:55, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any collections of shows exist? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: my question: is this an article about Captain Kangaroo, or Nipsey Russell? otherwise, here is another trait of a wikispecial biographical photo: use a photo in which the subject of the biography is in a secondary, peripheral or unfavorably illuminated position. seriously, is there a wikipedia policy that requires unrecognizable, uninterpretable, botched, blocked, or otherwise useless portrait photos of its biographical subjects? this policy should be written out so that it can be challenged by the readers. Drollere (talk) 03:35, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Finding good photos of people that we can legally use is hard. You are welcome to add a better one. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 10:58, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Wikispecial Biographical Photo 

message: I removed a sentence that said CBS "allowed" affiliates to air local programming, etc., at 9 AM ET. The network didn't program in that time slot in the Eastern Time Zone, but the network schedule started at 9 Central and Pacific. But networks don't "allow" affiliates to run local programming; the affiliates completely control when they choose to pick up the network. Unfortunately, my edit summary was inadvertently truncated. JTRH (talk) 19:03, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time slot 

message: Saved below FYI from a previous (deleted) edit. The News Hound (talk) 01:41, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song list