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The show's origins were completely by happenstance. In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become ...
Smith was with The Uncle Al Show for six years. Smith achieved his greatest fame by the late 1960s, when he went to then-new TV station WXIX in Cincinnati to host an afternoon puppet/cartoon show which came to be called Larry Smith's Cartoon Club, which he hosted throughout the 1970s. Smith and his puppets were the first stars of WXIX when they ...
Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal – A short-tempered host of a children's show, he usually goes on the air with a hangover: "Oh, kiddies, Uncle Al had a lot of medicine last night." Whenever he got really agitated, he would yell to "Get Miss Twinkle on the phone!" Grabowski – a benchwarmer football player obviously not cut out for the sport.
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The Skipper Ryle Show became an surprise hit and ultimately ran seventeen years on WKRC. Originally an hour-long Saturday morning show, it later moved to Sundays for two hours, and later still became a weekday series. At its peak the show was second only to WCPO's Uncle Al Show in popularity among kids. Part of the show's larger appeal was that ...
TODAY's Al Roker posted a photo of Savannah Guthrie's son, Charley, meeting LeBron James at a party at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Lewis' own program, The Uncle Al Show, ended its run in Cincinnati a year after Captain Kangaroo left CBS. Keeshan and Bunny Rabbit promote an auto seat belt campaign, 1970. CBS aired the program on weekday mornings, initially telecast live in the Eastern and Central time zones at 8:00 am (ET)/7:00 am (CT) for its first four years (it would ...
Giving the fans what they want! Tre Cooper shared a photo of his now-infamous uncle after Tahzjuan Hawkins admitted during the Bachelor in Paradise season 7 premiere that she dated him pre-show.