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October 13, 1947. ( 1947-10-13) –. August 30, 1957. ( 1957-08-30) Kukla, Fran and Ollie was an early American television show using puppets. It was created for children, but was soon watched by more adults than children. It did not have a script and was entirely ad-libbed. It was broadcast from Chicago between October 13, 1947, and August 30 ...
Fran Allison. Frances Helen Allison (November 20, 1907 – June 13, 1989) was an American television and radio comedienne, personality, and singer. She is best known for her starring role on the weekday NBC -TV puppet show Kukla, Fran and Ollie, which ran from 1947 to 1957, occasionally returning to the air until the mid-1980s.
In 1975, Kukla, Fran and Ollie began another run on television with 13 new episodes. In 1977, The Kukla and Ollie Retrospective Stage Show tours began, a creation of the Artist-in-Residence program at Hope College. In 1978, Kukla, Burr and Ollie joined the Broadway cast of Side by Side by Sondheim, a revue of Stephen Sondheim songs.
The program was hosted by 1950s television act Kukla, Fran and Ollie, a.k.a. puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and actress Fran Allison. Kukla, Fran and Ollie were dropped from the series in 1977 and the program was renamed CBS Saturday Film Festival.
Whereas other 1950s children's series were appreciated by adults for their tender wit—such as Burr Tillstrom's puppet show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"—or were presented for educational value—such as "Ask Mr. Wizard", a science show—the Howdy Doody Show was strictly aimed at pleasing children, which it did to dizzying excess. With an ...
Ernie in Kovacsland aired July and August 1951 on NBC as summer replacement for Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Take a Good Look game show aired October 22, 1959, to July 21, 1960, and October 27, 1960, to March 16, 1961, on Thursdays 10:30-11pm ET on ABC; Silents Please March 23 to October 5, 1961 on Thursdays 10:30-11pm ET on ABC; References
Hand in Hand is a 1961 British drama film about the friendship between two young children, one a Roman Catholic boy about nine, the other a 7-year-old Jewish girl. Filmed in the summer of 1960 under the title "The Star and the Cross", Hand in Hand. Although ABPC's distribution arm in the United Kingdom, Warner-Pathe Film Distributors, screened ...
Don McNeill's Breakfast Club. Don McNeill's Breakfast Club was a long-running morning variety show on NBC Blue Network / ABC radio (and briefly on television) originating in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted by Don McNeill, the radio program ran from June 23, 1933, through December 27, 1968. McNeil's 35½-year run as host remains the longest tenure for ...