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From: wgr@rti-sel.UUCP
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Subject: Re: More favorite cartoons. (Tom Terrific query)
Message-ID: <685@rti-sel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 17:47:22 EST
Article-I.D.: rti-sel.685
Posted: Mon Feb 24 17:47:22 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 07:15:12 EST
References: <619@drutx.UUCP> <681@rti-sel.UUCP> <119@factron.uucp>
Reply-To: wgr@rti-sel.UUCP (Bucky Ransdell)
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC
Lines: 17
Keywords: Tom Terrific Crabby Appleton
Summary: 

In article <119@factron.uucp> bruce@factron.UUCP (Bruce Barnett) writes:
>Crabby Appleton -  which was also the name of some rock group.
>For some reason it seems he had a funnel on his head that was special,
>but perhaps it was really the Tin Woodsman of Oz.
 
>BTW what year was Tom Terrific shown?
>This was my earliest memory of TV. My facts may be fuzzy.

The funnel on Tom's head *was* very similar to the Tin Woodsman's hat, 
but Tom's was called his "magic thinking cap", or some such.  It enabled 
him to transform himself into different things, apparently anything that 
he could imagine.  I remember it made a funny sound when he changed into
something:  "da da DOO doo doo."

It seems to me that Tom Terrific was a segment of the Captain Kangaroo
Show for a long time (i.e. more than one year), but I really can't 
remember, either.