Sandy Becker - Soupy Sales - Fred Scott Interview - Part 1

[ratpackvips]

Does anyone know what year these interviews are from? Thanks

[gmonet46]

These guys, remember, were making about $175 a week, if I remember right. They, as Soupy sez, did it all..nearly. So when you see the class WNEW hired, you have to wonder how could this all have ended? I mean the stuff on now is better? Thanks, from a Wagner College, Staten Island, student of 1964.

[KatradioNY]

These gentlemen are three of my TV Heroes from the 60's!

Neat interview!

[chalomirof63]

I moved to NYC in 1957 at age ten, and "Uncle" Fred Scott and Sandy Becker were the one-two punch every evening at 6-7 PM with their Looney Toons. As for Soupy .... well, what can you say!! (Clyde Adler was the original White Fang, Black Tooth, etc., before Frank Nastasi!) Stewart Klein was also the greatest! Thanks for these memories "Sandysoup"!

[toncuz]

I never see Little Miss Loverly the chicken from Soupy Sales or Chuck McCann

[Stoned69]

RIP Uncle Fred Scott who just passed last week.

[louienye]

R.I.P. Uncle Fred Scott (1920 - 2008)

[pattiecake11]

This was great fun to watch. In 1965 and 66 I was part of the "gang" that watched Soupy's show live in the studio from WNEW every day during the summer months. He was and still is the greatest person of our time. He was ALWAYS kind and generous to all his fans. He is a wonderful entertainer and human being.

[boxr4]

Thanx for bringing back great memories.Soupy,a kids favorite clown,Diver Dan and Mr. Bones,Geeba Geeba,etc with Sandy,The Fred Scott show (what a great voice,he did all the station breaks on wnew)and who could forget playing "Simon Says" with Sonny Fox on "Wonderama"!GREAT CREATIVE TALENTS!Great stuff for a kid! Todays programmers should take a lesson from them! Before they're all gone!

[143AC]

Dear Wm.Finch,

Soupy's Detroit,Mi./L.A.,Cal based kidult tv comedy

show was originally titled:"12 O'Clock Comics".

Later on it was titled"Lunch With Soupy Sales"

and finally"The Soupy Sales Show!".

[BassGuyGG]

What year is this interview from?

[143AC]

Dear Cast, This was produced around the summer of

1984. This was on a late sunday night talk show

"Off The Set!". This was used to promote Ch.5's tv tribute"40 Years Of

Fine Tuning!".

[Ba4209]

loved sandy becker!!

[solshne]

These shows were so fun & crazy. Live tv was very different from what we have today. Growing up in the 50's it was a great time to be a kid.

[triumphanator]

I watched Soupy on Channel 7 WXYZ Detroit, although I lived sixty miles away on the Canadian side. As a child who was sick quite a bit, Soupy was one bright spot in my day. I remember being 5 years old, it was time for Soupy, and I couldn't get the right channel. My mother was on the phone and I went frantic. She was so ticked off that when she got off the phone, she turned the TV off! No Soupy Sales that day! Worst day of my life!

[jupiterdog]

Any idea when this interview was filmed?

[kingpong1]

I fondly remember watching "Lunch with Soupy Sales" with my late father where every week or a least sporadically, the tv audience heard a knock at the back door and a celebrity would come in a get hit with a pie in the face. I'm not sure, but I seem to remember Frank Sinatra getting hit.

[143AC]

Dear NJ to TX, Sadly..there are no videotape or kinnie film

clips of Sandy Becker as"Norton Nork".

[castillianwagon]

Fascinating show ! When was it produced ? Any one know ?

[143AC]

When Ch.5 became WNYW TV Ch.5?

Ch.5 did another live kids tv show with

"DJ Kat"the wise cracking but loveable

cat puppet in 1987.

[143AC]

Sonny Fox now works for a tv advocacy group

and he's writting his memiors.

[BigDAS]

Lunch with Soupy Sales, the last time I laughed so hard. Nowadays, it's back to 'Reality', what a downer!

[GoulashFor10]

Brings a tear to my eye remembering some great times in my childhood. What a tragic day it was when dirtmonger Rupert Murdoch absorbed WNEW-TV5 and all the other Metromedia stations so he could foist on our kids and grandkids the infuential mindless crap today! R.I.P., Sandy and best of life to come, Soupy and "Uncle Fred."

[meredithi]

Not quite. Believe it or not all of these daily live kids shows ended in 1968. Wonderama lasted until the late 1970's. All long before Mr. Murdoch.

[wmfinch]

History of the show

The show originated in 1953 from the studios of WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. Beginning in October 1959, it was telecast nationally on the ABC television network. In 1960, Soupy moved to The KABC TV Studios in Los Angeles, California.

[JoeT13]

I used ti watch Soupy Sales on WCHS in Charleston, WEST VIRGINIA. He would show two "Little Rascals" shorts, and advertise "Jello", with weird squiggly sounds, as the "Jello" vibrated... WOW such fond memories.

[bdicat]

Thanks for showing this. My idols growing up and surley great seeing them again. Sandy was one of the funniest guys I knew. Soupy, well worked with him at WNBC and Fred, well he never drew a picture from my five lines I sent in. Thanks again for the great vid

[NJtoTX]

Love it. Does anyone know of any clips of Sandy as Norton Nork?

[143AC]

I enjoyed seeing this interview and

the memories of Sandy,Soupy And Mr.Scott. Thanks For The NYC Kids Memories!

[BastardfromtheBush]

Yeah. What happened to Sonny Fox? All these guys were YouTubers before the originators of YouTube were even born.

[tegoblue]

Holy cow. Sandy Becker. How could I forget that name? How many hours did i sit in front of that box. Soupy telling kids to send in dollars. Sonny Fox on Wonderama. Geez they all look good, pretty much the same. I used to find all of it very entertaining.

[dominique777]

I was truly mesmerized by The Sandy Becker Show!

[GrifinMil]

Thanks for posting. Haven't seen Sandy Becker since I was on Wonderama. Very cool.

[robertmilisits]

This was my childhood!

[capnquirky]

Sandy Becker was my absolute hero.

[joeyjojo4]

Loved all three guys. Role models and almost heros. Amazing memories. Thanks for posting.

[stus3]

What is this, 1980s? I remember all these guys from WNEW back in the old days. Man, I loved Sandy Becker and Soupy!

[NEPatriot]

This was 1984, when channel 5 had their "40 Years of Fine Tuning" Campaign. Classic stuff all around!

[wmbrown6]

That Soupy clip looked like one of the few to survive on videotape rather than kinescope. Quite good, though.