Sandy Becker Show WABD New York

[rolex452]

I met Sandy Becker in 1960 at a supermarket P/R gig for his show. He had grey hair even then, and I wondered why he didn't look just like the guy in the B&W TV show. But he was the biggest show biz figure in my life back then!

[fscap811]

My uncle used to have an Arnold bread route in the Peekskill, NY area back in the mid 60's and I helped him sometimes. Those cookies and even their bread was the best...really did taste like homemade.

[143AC]

Dear Flirken,

"Officer Joe"Bolton never hosted WPIX TV Ch.11 NYC's

"Popeye Show".."Capt.s"Allen Swift,Ray Heatherton and

Jack McCarthy mc'd the show.

[Graydood]

Watched him growing up, too. Notice how that well trained voice is so much like Dick Clark's voice?

[1975tooto]

These cookies he is showing were made of about 6 ingredients back then.Just the Basics!! Now if you look at the rappers of any snack you eat they have stuff in there that you can not pronounce!!The ingredredients take up half the wrapper, there are so many.

[javoman13]

it was nice show.

[143AC]

Sandy Becker's first two kids tv shows at WABD TV

Ch.5 in NYC were on weekday afternoons and later

on weekday mornings during the mid 1950's. This clip is from The Sandy Becker Morning Show.

[smdad]

Thank you so much for your Sharing of The Sandy Becker Show. It was a Childhood favorite of mine. Along with the Big Professor. Lenny Waller NYC

[Labaron26]

I can remember Sandy Becker long before his TV career, as an Actor on Radio Drama Shows in the late 40s, and he also did some comericals on radio..He was known for his deep voice....

[Nationsnotregimes]

1959???

[Janadu]

I remember his afternoon show. Norton Nork, the Big Professor, et al!! Thank you for posting this! Yes, life was so uncomplicated back then. The simplicity and the joy of having an adult that really seemed to care about the kids for whom he was performing. I also remember Chuck McCann, Officer Joe Bolton, Capt. Jack McCarthy, Sonny Fox, and, of course, Captain Kangaroo. It was great growing up a Bronx Brat!

[labambawatusi]

Norton Nork! Where is he? Who did Hambone, was it Soupy?

[meshachre]

Something hurts just a little remembering all this stuff that shaped my wacky personality. Can anybody tell me if they remember door shock singing to mr. base man -- i can't find it anywhere but guess we are lucky to find these clips.

[ClueSign]

"Norton Nork, you've done it again!"

[pmills48]

Thank you for posting these wonderful memories of the TV programs that I grew up with when I was a little kid in New Jersey. I remember 'em all, Soupy, Sandy, Chuck McCann, Andy Devine, Officer Joe and on and on. Thanks again.

[jili515]

My sister and I are Jersey girls who grew up in the 60's. We loved Sandy Becker...never missed an episode on Channel 5. We loved Geeba Geeba and catch Max. It was a weird show but we loved him!!!!

[newjerseybt]

I remember: Marvin Mouse playing the organ on a curved keyboard,Geeba Geeba and his Sauerkraut "plantation",Bosco chocolate syrup (which you can still buy),Maggio carrots, Twinkies,Bonomo Turkish taffey,John's Bargain store,a large headed puppet singing Mr. Bass Man after eating singing pills;sending in 5 lines on a paper; if Sandy couldn't draw a cartoon character from those lines you won a prize. Norton, Hambone. If the Big Professor couldn't answer a question you sent in, you won a prize.

[jb20092009]

How about the Marshmallow Fluff ads?

[castillianwagon500]

Where did you ever get this ? I remember Sandy at WNEW ch 5 advertising Magio Carrots and Massipequia NY Zoo and Kiddy Park. Such memories! Thanks for putting this up !

[pookerella]

This is older than WNEW. WNEW (which is FOX now) used to be the Dumont network in New York. They broadcast the famous "Captain Video and his Video Rangers" the one Ed Norton watched on the Honeymooners (also a Dumont production).

[143AC]

Dear CKC,

The character was known as "K. Lastima".

..not "Che Lastima".

[143AC]

Dear Cast,

Mr.Kirchner's NYC based tv cartoon shows

were never called"Claude Kirchner's Circus".

They were"Terry Tunes Circus"&"Merry Toones Circus".

[castillianwagon]

I believe it was later called the Claud Kirchner Circus. So many memories stimulated by this,  I was born & raised in N Y City and am 54 now.

[ckc1958]

Do you remember Norton and Che Lastima? I loved Sandy Becker!!!

[Ba4209]

Hambone, Hambone have you heard? :)

My brother and I loved Sandy. I've been thinking today about how essentially good he must have been. I don't ever remember an untoward remark and so much of his chatter was extemporaneous. Could any performer today speak so freely and with no references to the scatological or the base and coarse..

Thank you, Sandy. Thanks for all the fun.

[castillianwagon]

My uncle was a neighbor of his in Douglaston Queens.

[musicom67]

Wow, spending a whole 2 minutes speaking silly to a bird! Amazing what the hosts had to do to s-t-r-e-t-c-h time.... oy!

[Kittywinston]

I won a Felix the cat sun pictures from this show. I was so in love with sandy becker I told my mother I was going to Marry him. My cousin and I did Norton Nork every thanksgiving making up our own skits.

[capnquirky]

Oh yeah. And a few weeks later I got a cardboard Mr. Magoo cutout signed by Sandy.  Of COURSE I don't have it now. A certain family member (MOM) tossed it.

[capnquirky]

I sent one of my lame drawings into the show and he said my name on the air. Mispronounced it, but hey, it didn't matter. It was the idol of my youth...Sandy Becker. Sigh.

[motonegros]

Back when America was still innocent.

[143AC]

I wish that there were more kinnie films

of Sandy's weekday morning WABD TV Ch.5 NYC

kids tv shows?

But?

There are no other kinnie films of his WABD TV

shows except this one.

[143AC]

This show aired in April,1957.

[143AC]

The name of Sandy's dummy puppet is

"Dorshak".

Mr. Kirchner's last name has no S

in it.

[143AC]

This show began as a weekday afternoon

show titled"Sandy Becker's Funhouse".

It later moved to weekday mornings

and it was retitled"The Sandy Becker

Morning Show".

[kageyfox]

This is so enjoyable!

I would love to see Dr. Gesundheit and his guest, the bald dummy singing Mr. Bassman.

[mrmom333]

WOW! I haven't seen Sandy Becker I was 9 or 10 years old. Too bad there is no "Terrytoon Circus" with Claude Kirshner on YOUTUBE.

Thanks for the memories

[binkle1]

I was terrified of that creepy silver clown on the Kirschner circus! Sandy was so intelligent, funny, and handsome, I was seven and wanted to marry him!

[ksol1460]

Google on "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" for Elizabeth Hand's tribute to Sandy

[Deborahwg]

I was a Jersey kid....and Sandy Becker was the best thing on that old television...thanks for the memories! Deb

[DaCrowz]

I see all the great NY kids show host mentioned in the previous post. But lets not forget OFFICER JOE BOLTON! Who could forget him introducing the Stooges shorts or talking to Dick Tracy on his "wrist radio".

For all of us from this era, we were blessed with great TV!

[flirken]

Don't forget Captain Jack McCarthy who took over from Officer Joe Bolton (or was it the other way around?)  I think one or both of them showed Popeye.

[buttonsbichon]

Thank you for this video...I was born in NY, lived in the Bronx til I was 7 when we moved to California....Nobody here I know has ever known who I was talking about when I said "Remember watching Sandy Becker when you were little?"...I didn't realize he was just broadcast in NY....How nice to see him again! At least we had Soupy Sales here on the West Coast...lots of fun watching that too!

[bdicat]

But Sandy was the real king now wasn't he.

[fromthesidelines]

I believe this particular excerpt was kinnied from one of his early morning shows in April 1956- at the time, WABD had just bought the black & white "Looney Tunes" cartoon library (featuring Daffy & Porky) from Guild Films, and they were used in heavy rotation on Sandy's show, as well as the early evening "LOONEY TUNES" show he hosted at the same time.

[StrongheartAngelBear]

I was on the Sandy Becker Show!!!!

[wmbrown6]

What year in April might this particular edition have emanated from? 1957 or '58? (WABD changed its calls to WNEW-TV in September of 1958, from what I've read.)

[rick2665]

how long do you think this show would last today?

[fluffyxdestroy]

You nailed it. The song was That Happy Feeling. It brings me right back to when TVs had only local network channels. The TV hosts HAD to be brilliant. Sandy, Chuck McCann-who dated my mom in Queens,NY-and Soupy of course. This is terrific. I saw sandy in person at Whites Dept Store when I was 5.

[boonton312]

Bert Kaempfert did the theme and several other songs used on the show. You can get his best of CD at Amazon

[wmbrown6]

Just wondering, what was the theme song and who recorded it?

[HobokenDave]

This is a TREASURE. THANK YOU for posting this.

[mrsgeo2004]

I was born and raised in Long Island New York and this brings back excellent memories of my childhood! Boy, those were the days, my friend. Sandy Becker was one of a kind! Many thanks for this!!

[ClusterBlip]

I was raised in New Jersey on Sandy Becker! I now live in Calfornia and no one has a clue about his billiance. Thank you sandysoup for bringing Sandy back to me!

[jerry550]

What an exceptional talent Sandy Becker was. It's great that these kinescopes have been preserved. Thanks for sharing.

[dominique777]

THIS WAS HAPPINESS TO ME!

[zaraphud]

Wow! This brigs back memories of when I was a kid. Too bad the picture could be better, but then it does kind of look like the reception on my old tv set back then. lol