Apparently Winchell tried to obtain syndication rights to this Metromedia-taped 1968 series in the '80's. There were 288 surviving videotapes. Metromedia was losing the battle, and in-turn, burned them all.
@musicom67 Spite and treachery will defeat virtue and skill every time. This was a magnificent show, and Paul Winchell was a Genius!
He played Count Drink-a-Lot, and all the other guys. Practically a one man show.
He was a graphic artist, ventriloquist, man of a thousand faces, and stage magician and business entrepreneur. Besides Jerry and knucklehead he voiced the characters Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Tigger, and a host of others too numerous to mention.
I used to look so forward to watching this when I got home from school. In fact the first time I heard Tigger's voice I knew it was Paul Mitchell because I knew his voice so well!!! Great program...wish my kids had this simpler, more innocent programming.
I wonder who did the instrumental music - it turned up on the 1970s Los Angeles syndicsated Bugs Bunny series "Bugs and Buddies" and on an Officer Byrd LAPD ad.
I wonder you did the instrumental music - it turned up on the 1970s Los Angeles syndicsated Bugs Bunny series "Bugs and Buddies" and on an Officer Byrd LAPD ad.
And everyone can thank that crooked and biased B-! Mr.John Kluge..the former head of WNEW TV/Metormedia TV foe destroying Poor Paul Winchell's tv shows and forcing Paul to sue the miserible B-! for instigating creative sabotage.
wathched this as a kid growing up in LA, it was the best, It was sponsored by Jack in the box and Paul and jerry would talk to a drive in speaker clown they had on the set, one of the first drive thru's.
My brother and I never missed one. It would have us rolling around the floor giggling! Someone destroyed all the film of the shows because he wouldn't sell out for syndication. That's a tradgedy. People don't even have a clue what they missed with this show. It was above and beyond great. At 55 years old, I would give anything to have them all on CD.
I grew up in Southern California, but first we lived in small town, Santa Maria, CA till 1965, with only 2 or 3 TV channels. When we moved in August of 1965 to Anaheim, we stayed in a motel across from Disneyland till our house was ready. That first night at 6 pm in the motel, on KTTV-channel 11 in Los Angeles, I saw this show, Winchell-Mahoney Time, for my first time, at age 10! Great memories.
I have searched for this song for forty years. When I moved to California not on person my age remembered this show or theme song. Thank you for posting it! Wow what memories!
I can't *believe* I got to hear the theme song again. Unfortunately, now, as when I was a kid, I still can't make out the line after "Put on our happy faces." Anyone? Anyone?
BTW, at 1:20 the title card misspells "Mahoney." Sheesh!
@BobLiebermanComedian NOPE....Still to this day, do not know what they're saying..when I was I kid I just improvised that part! :-) Great days being a kid then!
My name is Scott and I was forever teased by the theme song..."Scotty Wotty do do" and this became my nickname when I was a kid. All the kids on the block used to hang out and watch this show every day, it was one of our favorites during the late 60's.
My name is Scott and I was forever teased by the theme song..."Scotty Wotty do do" and this became my nickname when I was a kid. All the kids on the block used to hang out and watch this show every day...
Oh man, that was crazy!!! The opening sort of has a Rowan & Martin Laugh-In feel. This aired the year I was born, so this gives me a good idea of the world I was born into.
@RealAgentOfSHIELD same year my brother was born. you missed a great show ; )
speaking of my bro., he went to the big aplle comic-con yesterday. lee majors charged 60 bucks for an aoutgraph and 70 for a picture with him! talk about inflaton!
This brings back memories of growing up in New Jersey when Channel 5 showed Winchell-Mahoney Time in the early evening. It was hilarious and I never thought I would see this show again because Metromedia erased the tapes, prompting Paul Winchell to sue the company and he won his case, netting himself millions of dollars. But we'll always remember the secret password Scotty Wotty Doo Doo.
And JM ended it with 'All you have left is a stick' and burst into tears.
While PW got pissed off over buying a lemon just because the dealer gave free lollipops. Sounds like he got that from Laurel and Hardy with 'He threw in a bag of nuts.' Ahhhh, those were the good old days of DECENT kids' TV.
The show, which was a sequel of sorts to Paul's NBC's Saturday morning series of the mid-'50s (although the main segments were taped WITHOUT a live studio audience), aired on Metromedia's flagship station in New York, WNEW-TV, weeknights at 6pm in the 1965-'66 season, right after "THE SANDY BECKER SHOW". The first season was in black and white; local stations inserted their own cartoons during the show. Only 17 episodes, including this RARE videotaped edition, are known to exist today.
In 1986, Winchell sued Metromedia (which by then was about to be purchased by Fox Television Stations as the foundation for the new Fox Network) over syndication rights to 288 surviving videotapes of the show. Metromedia responded by destroying the tapes. Subsequently, a jury awarded Winchell $17.8 million.
I third that. These shows are a forgotten oaprt of Winchell--he's only remembered for the largely crappy era of animaiton he was involved with, but he was the voice of TIgger, too and these puppets. Background music wise, they're closer to his studio Hanna Barbera';s pre-Winchell theme (tune, as I referred to, at 1:27--)
@PeerlessPaavo - And possibly early to mid-'67, if based on the logo used by Los Angeles' KTTV at the time. (Metromedia stations didn't adopt the famous proprietary sans-serif "Metromedia Television Alphabet" font until August of that year.)
Apparently Winchell tried to obtain syndication rights to this Metromedia-taped 1968 series in the '80's. There were 288 surviving videotapes. Metromedia was losing the battle, and in-turn, burned them all.
musicom67 3 months ago
@musicom67 Spite and treachery will defeat virtue and skill every time. This was a magnificent show, and Paul Winchell was a Genius!
He played Count Drink-a-Lot, and all the other guys. Practically a one man show.
He was a graphic artist, ventriloquist, man of a thousand faces, and stage magician and business entrepreneur. Besides Jerry and knucklehead he voiced the characters Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Tigger, and a host of others too numerous to mention.
dynagravitomagnetic 2 months ago
I used to look so forward to watching this when I got home from school. In fact the first time I heard Tigger's voice I knew it was Paul Mitchell because I knew his voice so well!!! Great program...wish my kids had this simpler, more innocent programming.
Cynthialovesmusic100 4 months ago
Was an incredibly "doo doo" time to be named Scott! FYI Thanks , Paul!
laaxe 4 months ago
Boy I'm old!
MightyMite76 5 months ago
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I wonder who did the instrumental music - it turned up on the 1970s Los Angeles syndicsated Bugs Bunny series "Bugs and Buddies" and on an Officer Byrd LAPD ad.
SteveCarras 5 months ago
I wonder you did the instrumental music - it turned up on the 1970s Los Angeles syndicsated Bugs Bunny series "Bugs and Buddies" and on an Officer Byrd LAPD ad.
SteveCarras 5 months ago
Wow... I hadn't seen or heard that since I was a really little kid. Thank you
Randyr3 7 months ago
The prop master on "Winchell/Mahoney Time!"was former "Little Rascal"..Tommy("Butch")Bond.
TheStanbabe 7 months ago
@TheStanbabe Tommy Bond '' Iove to singa''
1952kid 6 months ago
He is Dick Dasardly and Garginell
pictureisup1 7 months ago
And everyone can thank that crooked and biased B-! Mr.John Kluge..the former head of WNEW TV/Metormedia TV foe destroying Poor Paul Winchell's tv shows and forcing Paul to sue the miserible B-! for instigating creative sabotage.
TheStanbabe 8 months ago
wathched this as a kid growing up in LA, it was the best, It was sponsored by Jack in the box and Paul and jerry would talk to a drive in speaker clown they had on the set, one of the first drive thru's.
jgc760 9 months ago
My brother and I never missed one. It would have us rolling around the floor giggling! Someone destroyed all the film of the shows because he wouldn't sell out for syndication. That's a tradgedy. People don't even have a clue what they missed with this show. It was above and beyond great. At 55 years old, I would give anything to have them all on CD.
magprob 10 months ago
I grew up in Southern California, but first we lived in small town, Santa Maria, CA till 1965, with only 2 or 3 TV channels. When we moved in August of 1965 to Anaheim, we stayed in a motel across from Disneyland till our house was ready. That first night at 6 pm in the motel, on KTTV-channel 11 in Los Angeles, I saw this show, Winchell-Mahoney Time, for my first time, at age 10! Great memories.
I think it was on for about 2 or 3 years.
keca1430 10 months ago
I have searched for this song for forty years. When I moved to California not on person my age remembered this show or theme song. Thank you for posting it! Wow what memories!
AnberlinAMV 11 months ago
I can't *believe* I got to hear the theme song again. Unfortunately, now, as when I was a kid, I still can't make out the line after "Put on our happy faces." Anyone? Anyone?
BTW, at 1:20 the title card misspells "Mahoney." Sheesh!
BobLiebermanComedian 1 year ago
@BobLiebermanComedian NOPE....Still to this day, do not know what they're saying..when I was I kid I just improvised that part! :-) Great days being a kid then!
tonybklyn 11 months ago
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ehd116 8 months ago
@BobLiebermanComedian "Put on our happy faces/ You gotta yell and tell them who you are! Hip! Hip!"
Not that I have superior hearing - I just remember another recording that Paul Winchell made of this theme song.
SamBuddwing 7 months ago
@SamBuddwing : Thank you!!!
BobLiebermanComedian 7 months ago
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Me too, I learned to embrace it though "like the boy named sue," what a great find thank you Mickey Bones
donnscottshetler 1 year ago
Me too I learned to embrace it though "like the boy named sue," what a great find thank you Mickey Bones
donnscottshetler 1 year ago
My name is Scott and I was forever teased by the theme song..."Scotty Wotty do do" and this became my nickname when I was a kid. All the kids on the block used to hang out and watch this show every day, it was one of our favorites during the late 60's.
scottyboy7260 1 year ago
My name is Scott and I was forever teased by the theme song..."Scotty Wotty do do" and this became my nickname when I was a kid. All the kids on the block used to hang out and watch this show every day...
scottyboy7260 1 year ago
Thanks for the great memories, who can forget Knuckle Head Smiff !
icemelongreen 1 year ago
I thought Scotty Wotty Doo Doo men't Scotty Wotty take a shit
Rollman1 1 year ago
In New York, WNEW-TV presented their A.A.P. pre-'48 Warner color cartoon library during the show (sure, I remember that!).
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Oh man, that was crazy!!! The opening sort of has a Rowan & Martin Laugh-In feel. This aired the year I was born, so this gives me a good idea of the world I was born into.
RealAgentOfSHIELD 1 year ago
@RealAgentOfSHIELD same year my brother was born. you missed a great show ; )
speaking of my bro., he went to the big aplle comic-con yesterday. lee majors charged 60 bucks for an aoutgraph and 70 for a picture with him! talk about inflaton!
tapthatt2012 1 year ago
This brings back memories of growing up in New Jersey when Channel 5 showed Winchell-Mahoney Time in the early evening. It was hilarious and I never thought I would see this show again because Metromedia erased the tapes, prompting Paul Winchell to sue the company and he won his case, netting himself millions of dollars. But we'll always remember the secret password Scotty Wotty Doo Doo.
howilu 1 year ago
what the hell is this??
retroguy1976 1 year ago
Second the "wow". Didn't think I'd ever hear that opening and closing ever again.
dyinglikeflies 1 year ago
@dyinglikeflies neither did i. this is the show i remember as a kid.
tapthatt2012 1 year ago
Where tf did you get a hold of this? I thought all of the WMT shows had been destroyed?
Hey, anyone also remember "When you get to the end of a lollipop"?
jb20092009 1 year ago
@jb20092009 "Pop goes your heart!!"
Cynthialovesmusic100 4 months ago
@Cynthialovesmusic100 Thanks. That's it.
And JM ended it with 'All you have left is a stick' and burst into tears.
While PW got pissed off over buying a lemon just because the dealer gave free lollipops. Sounds like he got that from Laurel and Hardy with 'He threw in a bag of nuts.' Ahhhh, those were the good old days of DECENT kids' TV.
jb20092009 4 months ago
The show, which was a sequel of sorts to Paul's NBC's Saturday morning series of the mid-'50s (although the main segments were taped WITHOUT a live studio audience), aired on Metromedia's flagship station in New York, WNEW-TV, weeknights at 6pm in the 1965-'66 season, right after "THE SANDY BECKER SHOW". The first season was in black and white; local stations inserted their own cartoons during the show. Only 17 episodes, including this RARE videotaped edition, are known to exist today.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
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@fromthesidelines Remember, they used to show pre-48 WB cartoons during each segment of the show.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 1 year ago
According to Wikipedia:
In 1986, Winchell sued Metromedia (which by then was about to be purchased by Fox Television Stations as the foundation for the new Fox Network) over syndication rights to 288 surviving videotapes of the show. Metromedia responded by destroying the tapes. Subsequently, a jury awarded Winchell $17.8 million.
Just WOW.
DanZero77 1 year ago
R.I.P. Paul Winchell
usa02 1 year ago
@usa02 I second that. Without the likes of Paul Winchell and Edgar Bergen, there would not have been a Terry Fator.
Juliaflo 6 months ago
@Juliaflo
I third that. These shows are a forgotten oaprt of Winchell--he's only remembered for the largely crappy era of animaiton he was involved with, but he was the voice of TIgger, too and these puppets. Background music wise, they're closer to his studio Hanna Barbera';s pre-Winchell theme (tune, as I referred to, at 1:27--)
SteveCarras 5 months ago
2:20 -- Looks like the date on this was 1967.
PeerlessPaavo 1 year ago
@PeerlessPaavo - And possibly early to mid-'67, if based on the logo used by Los Angeles' KTTV at the time. (Metromedia stations didn't adopt the famous proprietary sans-serif "Metromedia Television Alphabet" font until August of that year.)
wmbrown6 1 year ago 2
Scotty Wotty doo doo!
heine71 1 year ago