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Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for 29 years, from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.
Tired of CBS's constant reductions of his show, Keeshan left Captain Kangaroo when his contract with the network ended in December 1984, just nine months shy of the show's 30th anniversary.
Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76. Keeshan died of a long illness, his family said in...
Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television’s walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76. Keeshan, who lived in Hartford, Vt., died of a...
No cause of death was announced, but he had had heart problems since the 1980's. Captain Kangaroo, a round-faced, pleasant, mustachioed man possessed of an unshakable calm, was both unique and...
Bob Keeshan, who entertained generations of children as Captain Kangaroo, died of a long illness on Jan. 23. He was 76. Keeshan first donned his red coat with large pockets in 1955, when Captain Kangaroo premiered on CBS.
But when Bob Keeshan died Thursday at age 76, it marked the departure of a monumental pioneer whose career spanned the birth of television to the current era of commercially driven children's...
No cause of death was announced, but he had had heart problems since the 1980's. Captain Kangaroo, a round-faced, pleasant, mustachioed man possessed of an unshakable calm, was both unique and...
TV's Captain Kangaroo -- who befriended millions of children for more than three decades -- has died. Bob Keeshan was 76. His show premiered on CBS in 1955, moved to PBS many years later, and...
Bob Keeshan, television’s beloved Captain Kangaroo, who entertained and educated millions of children for more than 30 years, died Friday. He was 76.