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Lunch with Soupy Sales (1953)
sexy soupy
I loved this show as a kid. It was very funny, and the pie throwing slap stick comedy was perfect for a 10 year old, but a lot of the subtle humor was way over our heads, aimed at adults. I remember he used to answer a knock on the door and open it. We never saw who was behind the door unless they entered, but could only imagine who or what was there. In college when I worked at a TV station, I saw some rather blue video tapes. One of them was a Soupy Sales show in which he would answer the door and they would play the song The Stripper. He would ooh, ah and grin before closing the door. I think he reopened the door 4 or 5 times - same song - same comments. The video I saw interspersed cuts from behind the door. Yes there was a stripper there. I heard his crew pulled all kinds of pranks like this and worse, on him while he was doing his live show.
Andy's Gang (1955)
great show
Wow, someone else remembers this show. I remembered it as the Buster Brown Show and all my friends thought I was crazy when I described the show. (ditto with Winky Dink) I particularly liked Froggie the Gremlin. There always seemed to be some stuffed shirt lecturer and Froggie would throw out some silly phrase which the lecturer would insert into his speech and then get all frustrated. After all that Froggie would disappear in a cloud of smoke. When you're seven, that was the height of comedy. Who remembers "I've got shoes, you've got shoes, everybody's got to have shoes, and the very best shoes that you can buy are Buster Brown shoes.