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From: trb@floyd.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Old TV
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 14:18:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 19 14:18:49 1983
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Yea, Lauren, I remember Colonel Bleep.  His archenemy was one of my
favoritely named cartoon characters - The Black Knight of Pluto!

Speaking of favorite names...  In NYC, the nightly Marvel comics show
was called "The Merry Marvel Marching Society."  The Submariner had a
female foe named Vassa, Queen of the Sea.  Cute, huh?

Do you guys out there remember the Lariat Sam cartoon on Captain
Kangaroo?  Sam's archenemy was Bad Lands Meany.  They both had
sidekicks, Sam's was a horse, BLM's was a twerpy little guy.  What were
their names?  (Yes, I know the answer.)

I have vague loving memories of Fireball XL-5.  I recall seeing an
episode several times where there was a huge building which was a self
contained city which caught fire.  Towering Inferno with marionettes.

I remember watching Dobie Gillis a lot and enjoying him quite a bit.  It
had Maynard G. Krebs, the Bohemian, if I correctly recall.  I was quite
young.

Speed Racer was shown until recently on the local scramblevision
channel during the unscrambled part of the day.  I always used to catch
the tail end (it came right before the Uncle Floyd Show - hence my
system name floyd), which was too bad because they played the closing
theme music without the great lyrics.  Also, there seemed to be two
generations of credits footage, the old one had the lyrics at the end
and interesting, more primitive footage, the newer one had just music
and a series of odd cars, from Model T types to the Mach 5.  From
Speed's family, I remember Speed, his dad Pops Racer, his sister
Trixie, his little brother Spritle and Spritle's monkey friend
Chim-Chim.  Speed had a long lost brother named Rex Racer, who
eventually appeared as the masked "Racer X."  Clever transposition, I
thought.

At the end of EVERY episode, Speed would win a grand prix and get a big
loving cup trophy, Spritle and Chim-Chim would be upset because they
didn't win anything and would scream "I want CANDY!" Speed would give
them the cup, which was always filled with candy.  S&C would start
chomping away with both hands and then next scene there was a picture
of them with bulging bellies and blue faces.

Anyone out there remember "The Big World of Little Adam?"  "What's
New?"  Educational programs from the Gemini space program days.

Ah...

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491