Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Keeshan as Captain Kangaroo. Network television programs began shortly after the end of the war. Howdy Doody, which premiered in 1947 on NBC, was one of the first.Starting on January 3, 1948, [16] Keeshan played Clarabell the Clown, a silent Auguste clown who communicated by honking several horns attached to a belt around his waist.
CBS canceled Captain Kangaroo at the end of 1984. An episode of the show in 1981 became professional skateboarder Tony Hawk's first appearance on television. [6] Captain Kangaroo was the longest running children's television show until 1997 when it was surpassed by Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which itself was surpassed by Sesame Street in 2003.
Three actors played Clarabell on a regular basis. The first was Bob Keeshan, who later became Captain Kangaroo and was reputedly fired over a salary dispute in 1952. [2] Keeshan was succeeded by Robert "Nick" Nicholson, [3] who also played the character of J. Cornelius Cobb on The Howdy Doody Show.
Clarabell – The mute clown who communicated in mime, by honking horns on his belt, and by squirting seltzer. Originally played by Bob Keeshan, who went on to create the children's TV character Captain Kangaroo, he was later played by Robert "Nick" Nicholson and finally by Lew Anderson. Clarabell did not talk because the actor would have to be ...
Captain Kangaroo [cf] CBS: October 3, 1955 December 8, 1984 6,090 Bob Keeshan died in 2004. 29 years 29 Lou Dobbs Tonight [cg] CNN: June 1, 1980 November 11, 2009 29 years 29 Lilias, Yoga and You [ch] PBS 1976 1999 500 [35] 29 years 29 Hometime: PBS: November 1, 1986 January 30, 2016 29 years 29 The Sports Reporters [ci] ESPN [cj] October 9 ...
Robert Keeshan - Captain Kangaroo (CBS) 1978. Tom Aldredge - The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People ("Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare") (CBS) 1979. Jack Gilford - Big Blue Marble ("Hello in There") (SYN) Geraldine Fitzgerald - Special Treat ("Rodeo Red and the Runaways") (NBC)
What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information; Cite this page; Get shortened URL; Download QR code
Keeshan (left) and Brannum on set. During World War II, Brannum enlisted in the US Marine Corps and joined a Marine band led by Bob Crosby. [3] [4] After the war, he joined the Four Squires, and later moved to Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians; Waring's group had a regular radio show on NBC, where Brannum met fellow Marine Bob Keeshan, who was working at the network, and who later hired ...