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A popular segment was the visit from the green puppet Froggy the Gremlin, who would appear in a puff of smoke ("Hiya, kids! Hiya, hiya, hiya!") when McConnell yelled the catchphrase "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!" The same phrase was later used by Andy Devine. Froggy was always interrupting the story and causing trouble.
Froggy with Smilin' Ed and the cast of Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang, 1947. Froggy the Gremlin was a character created by Smilin' Ed McConnell and brought to radio in the 1940s and television in 1950s on the Smilin' Ed's Gang show, and later Andy's Gang TV show, hosted by actor Andy Devine after McConnell's death.
In fact, Devine served as honorary mayor of that city, where he lived, preferring to be away from the bustle of Hollywood, from May 18, 1938, to 1957, when he moved to Newport Beach. [8] [9] Devine also worked in television. He hosted Andy's Gang, a children's TV show, [9] on NBC from 1955 to 1960.
Froggy the Gremlin, on the Buster Brown Gang radio show and Andy's Gang TV show in the 1940s and 1950s; Froggy, an Our Gang film character played by Billy Laughlin; Froggy, in Russell Banks's novel Rule of the Bone "Froggy" LeSueur, in The Foreigner; Froggy (Sonic the Hedgehog character), a frog in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games
Peter Devine (stage name Andy Devine, 28 February 1942 – 27 January 2022) was a British actor primarily on television, whose best known role was Shadrach Dingle on one of ITV's long-running soap operas, Emmerdale. He played Shadrach on and off starting in 2000 and made his final appearance in July 2010.
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February 18: Andy Devine, American actor (voice of Friar Tuck in Robin Hood), dies at age 71. [42] February 21: John Hubley, American animator, film director, producer, screenwriter and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios, UPA and Sesame Street) dies at age 62. [43]
Shug Fisher (born George Clinton Fisher Jr.; September 26, 1907 – March 16, 1984) was an American character actor, singer, musician, and comedian.During his 50-year entertainment career, he performed in many Western films, often as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers in serials and in B movies starring Roy Rogers.