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IT WAS TIME FOR BEANY BACK IN MY DAY!

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Time For Beany is a children’s television series, with puppets for characters,
which was broadcast locally in Los Angeles starting on February 28, 1949
and nationally (by
kinescope) by the improvised Paramount Television
Network
from 1950 to 1955. It was created by animator Bob Clampett,
who later reused its main characters for the animated series Beany and
Cecil
. The show won three
Primetime Emmy Awards for best children’s
show.

The Butter Rum Cartoon: TIME FOR BEANY AND CECIL

Stan Freberg talks about Bob Clampett's "Time for Beany" on the ...
Voice artist Stan Freberg was one of the puppeteer’s on the show.

Time for Beany (1949-1954)


Pictured from left: Daws Butler and Stan Freburg behind the wall.

Newspaper ad for personal appearance of Stan Freberg, 1951.  Freberg was the voice of Cecil The Seasick Serpent on the show "Time For Beany".

Acclaimed satirist Stan Freberg dies at 88
Stan Freberg (Stanley Friberg) (August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015)

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ANOTHER SHOW FROM THE MEMORY FILE

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You Asked for It is a human interest television request show created and
hosted by
Art Baker. Initially titled The Art Baker Show, the program
originally
 aired on DuMont /ABC networks  between 1950 and 1959. Later
versions of Later versions of the series were seen in 1972,  1981, and
2000. After ABC canceled the original show in 1959, various revivals
have aired in the decades since. One of the sponsors was Skippy
Peanut Butter along with Studebaker Automobiles.

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Art Baker (Arthur Appleton Shank)
(January 7, 1898 – August 26, 1966)

Baker was a film, television and radio actor.

Skippy Peanut Butter Ad From 1960 - YouTube

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WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?

Adam-12 - DVD PLANET STORE
From left: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord). Milner died September 6, 2015 of heart failure at age 83.

Actor Kent McCord (Kent Franklin McWhirter) is best known for his 
role as Officer Jim Reed on the television series
Adam-12. The
show ran from September 21, 1968, through May 20, 1975 on NBC 
and helped to introduce police procedures to the general public.  

Kent McCord | Kent McCord Picture #13381243 - 267 x 400 - FanPix.Net
Kent McCord will be 78 September 26.

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‘’HEY MISTER DILLON”

SLIDESHOW: Dennis Weaver's characters ranged from Dodge City to ...
Dennis Weaver as Chester Goode on Gunsmoke — Old Chester was
part of the Gunsmoke cast from 1955-1964 on CBS television.

One of Chester’s most noticeable features is his stiff right leg — the cause
of which is never explicitly stated, though it’s implied that he was injured
during the Civil War. In an interview conducted four years before his death,
Dennis revealed that he invented the character’s disability during his
audition.
 

Gunsmoke (1955)   Photos with Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, Dennis Weaver
From left: Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, and Melburn Stone.  

CTVA US Western - "Gunsmoke" (CBS)(1955-75) James Arness
James Arness (James King Aurness) starred as U.S. Marshal Matt
Dillon.
 

Gunsmoke' actor Dennis Weaver dies – Orange County Register
William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006)

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HE WAS KNOWN AS THE SINGING COWBOY


TV’s "The Gene Autry Show" premiered on CBS July 23, 1950 with
91 episodes aired. 


Pat Buttram (left) as Gene’s side kick "Pat".

SCVHistory.com | Obituaries | Gene Autry, American Entertainer ...
Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry

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