Small-town TV

[Doug Drown]

"Pow-Wow the Indian Boy" has been featured in a monthly off-Broadway show 
called "Cartoon Dump," which is produced and directed by an animation 
history expert named Jerry Beck and his colleague Frank Conniff (of "Mystery 
Science Theater 3000" fame).  It's a hilarious off-the-wall satire on '60s 
TV kiddie shows, hosted by an unfailingly perky ditz named Compost Brite. 
The cartoons Beck has chosen are execrable --- the very worst of the late 
'50s- early '60s lot (hence the name Cartoon Dump).  There is a taped 
episode connected to Beck's website, "Cartoon Brew".  Here's the link:

http://cartoondump.com

-Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bud Yacomb" <outofthebusiness@gmail.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: Small-town TV


>I am glad to hear that Uncle Gus was a regular guy, and even gladder that
> talent "owned" a couple of major accounts and could throw this fun fact in
> the general manager's face.
>
> Big Brother's milk drinking was centered around his "toast to the 
> President
> of the United States."  But Bob didn't seem to care too much for Kennedy 
> and
> kept Eisenhower's portrait posted even when he added Kennedy the position 
> of
> prominence.
>
> Violence isn't the only reason why we don't see a lot of those old 
> cartoons;
> Big Brother regularly ran :"Pow-Wow the Indian Boy" which included a 
> pretty
> fair amount of stereotyping.
>
> I had hoped that first the Cartoon Network and later the on-demand CATV
> services would allow some of those older cartoons to be brought back (if
> licensing could be worked out), but very few of them seem to have made it
> ... although they did bring back Dick Tracy and then  Hercules for a while
> on the Comcast on-demand service and I recall that Hercules was  very
> popular during Bob Emery's later program "Clubhouse 4"  I, of course, was
> banned from watching Hercules since it would get my brothers and I revved 
> up
> for a battle royale centered on the Chesterfield, and, being the oldest, I
> got to play Hercules and smack them around. We had already been banned 
> from
> watching Major Mudd and the Stooges over on WNAC for the same reason (I 
> was
> Moe) so then we were told to watch Bozo\