QUIZ
TV shows kids watched
Did you grow up watching TV in the ’50s and ’60s, a period many think of as a golden age of children’s programming? For most of us, there were only a handful of channels, but what aired on those channels transformed the TV into a big box of fun. Perhaps you remember Play-Doh being introduced on Captain Kangaroo (page 52). What else comes to mind about those glorious kids shows?
1 It was an early “interactive” show where host Jack Barry asked viewers to draw on the TV screen using a plastic cover and special crayons.
a. Romper Room
b. Winky Dink and You
c. The Mickey Mouse Club
d. Captain Kangaroo
2 Who created Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy and Charlie Horse?
a. Joan Rivers
b. Jane Henson
c. Phyllis Diller
d. Shari Lewis
3 Milton Supman caused a ruckus on this show in 1965 when he told his young viewers to send him “green pieces of paper” from their parents’ wallets.
a. The Howdy Doody Show
b. Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood
c. Lunch with Soupy Sales
d. Captain Kangaroo
4 It featured an Anything Can Happen Day.
a. Wonderama
b. Big Top
c. The Howdy Doody Show
d. The Mickey Mouse Club
5 This popular show had the peanut gallery.
a. Kukla, Fran and Ollie
b. The Howdy Doody Show
c. Sam and Friends
d. The Paul Winchell Show
6 Do you know the real name of Howdy Doody host Buffalo Bob Smith?
a. Robert Schmidt
b. Robert Cummings
c. Bob Keeshan
d. Bob Crane
7 What character was created in 1955 from an old coat and pingpong balls?
a. Topo Gigio
b. Kermit the Frog c.
Farfel
d. Ollie
8 This quirky sci-fi show debuted on the DuMont Television Network in 1949.
a. Buck Rogers
b. Thunderbirds
c. Captain Video and His Video Rangers
d. The Time Tunnel
9 Many people have portrayed Bozo the Clown. Who played both Bozo and Ronald McDonald?
a. William Conrad
b. Ernest Borgnine
c. Al Roker
d. Willard Scott
1-b; 2-d; 3-c; 4-d; 5-b; 6-a; 7-b; 8-c; 9-d