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And there was also a traditional kids show with a studio audience and kids playing games for prizes. The name of that show escapes me, but I did win a Fresh-Up Freddie from sponsor 7-Up for taking the position of Brutus and losing a game of Snakes and Ladders."
In Vancouver,Ron Morier hosted his eponymous Carousel (Carnival?) kiddies show. Old Dutch was prominent.This may be the one.
I loved a good kiddie show,and the PacNW had some of the best. One of my earliest tv memories after my parents bought their first in 1959 was watching puppet mice search for green cheese on Bob Hutton's Planet Pals.If ANYONE has a clip of that kids show and its mice,any program,please let me know. I would pay to see it again. Seriously.
Peter Rawslton (the ventriloquist) became a local legend with Pete's Place,and had a show or three more thru the years ,Old Dutch again taking sponsorship if memory serves.
As as a child in Victoria,Captain Puget on KOMO,Stan Boreson's Clubhouse on KING and Wunda Wunda were personal afternoon faves.I had huge crush on Ruth Prins at age six! Uncle Bob and Shandy (the St.Bernard) came live from the CHEK studios in Victoria five days a week ,complete with live peanut gallery I was there for my fifth or sixth birthday! Last I heard,Bob was comfortably retired(?),and Shandy of course was long gone, pushing up doggie-daisies
About twenty years ago,pre-internet,I made preliminary steps in writing a manuscript meant become a history of children's programs in the PacNW.One interviewee was a delightful old gent named Bob Willett,a puppeteer who came to Burnaby via LA during TVs golden age.He hosted a very early (late 40s?) kiddie show in SoCal, and did the same in BC around the time CHAN signed on.Sadly,my project fell by the wayside,and the notes have been lost,but I vividly recall him lamenting the CHAN/cum BCTV archives retained little(if any) of those early shows. He also said that a lady named Karen Currie was also invovled on-air as a co-host. (Miss Karen?) Anyone?