Candle Cove

; Skyshale033Subject: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: Does anyone remember this kid's show? It was called Candle 
Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere
 so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in 
Ironton at the time. I don't remember which station, but I do remember 
it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
; mike_painter65Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland 
and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a 
pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
; Skyshale033Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: YES! Okay I'm not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always
 kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other 
dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked 
like an antique that didn't belong on the body. I don't remember what 
station this was! I don't think it was WTSF though.
; Jaren_2005Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what 
show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple 
months in '71, not '72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my 
brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let 
me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
: It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl 
who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was 
called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn't a very good pirate 
because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music 
constantly playing. Don't remember the girl's name. Janice or Jade or 
something. Think it was Janice.
; Skyshale033Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned 
the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a 
wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was
 swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I 
especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the 
wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that 
talked.
; mike_painter65Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: ha ha i remember now too. ;) do you remember this part skyshale: "you have…to go…INSIDE."
; Skyshale033Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That's 
what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to 
go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera
 would push in on Laughingstock's face with each pause. YOU HAVE... TO 
GO... INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the
 fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap 
and awful.
: You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
; kevin_hartSubject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
; Jaren_2005Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: That wasn't the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That 
was the villain's sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but 
it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only 
one eye.
: But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can't believe what they let us watch back then.
; kevin_hartSubject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were
 we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin 
taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a
 dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes 
that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
; Skyshale033Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: Wasn't his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children's skin??
; mike_painter65Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn't open and close, his 
jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said "why does 
your mouth move like that" and the skin-taker didn't look at the girl 
but at the camera and said "TO GRIND YOUR SKIN"
; Skyshale033Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
: I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the 
opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the 
characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their 
faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes 
were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl 
was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I 
woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had
 it.
; kevin_hartSubject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: i don't think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
; Skyshale033Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean 
literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole 
show.
; kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: maybe i'm manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i
 swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
; Jaren_2005Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her 
shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw 
careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I 
turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my 
brother and we didn't have the courage to turn it back on.
; mike_painter65Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
: i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about 
when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she 
remebered a kid's show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could 
remember that and i asked why, and she said "because i used to think it 
was so strange that you said 'i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom' and
 then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 
minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show."