Anybody know this TV show?

Tony Abruzzese abruzzese@biochem.bumc.bu.edu
Thu Dec 18 14:46:26 EST 2008


On 12/18/08 12:48 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
> Somebody sent me an e-mail asking about a 1950s-era TV show she 
> vaguely recalls from her childhood. She remembers that it was on 
> WBZ-TV, "... either before, during or after the Captain Kangaroo 
> show.  The few things I remember about this show was it started out 
> with a small group of boys (3 -4) that paddle off in a rubber raft and 
> they found a cave and entered it and ended up following an adventure 
> that just seemed to continue on.  I am assuming that they were trying 
> to find there way back to the real world, but each adventure brought 
> them further away and they would see dinosaurs and large flying birds 
> and such..."
>
> Rings no bells with me at all.  Anybody know what show she is recalling?
>
I remember the show, but it wasn't on WBZ. NBC ran Today w/Dave Garroway.

We did not watch Capt Kangaroo; that was on CBS - then Ch. 5.

IIRC, It was part of a Kiddie  block that WNAC (ch.7) ran on weekday 
mornings ca. 1960-62. It led off @ 7 with the Three Stooges.


Tony

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