1957 WONDERAMA BAMBURGER DEPT STORE ON DVD at TVDAYS.com CLASSIC TV SHOWS

[TheStanbabe]

Dear WayneScott,When you appeared on "The Sandy Becker Show"..was this his weekday morning or weekday evening series?

[TheStanbabe]

I wonder who won"The Herb Sheldon Name It?"contest?

[jenzeppelin]

Oh my God, I would have grabbed A LOT of things in those precious five minutes...for the contest...

[RetroToledo]

@jenzeppelin I remember Nickelodeon doing something similar to that with their "Toy Run" sweepstakes back in the 80's.

[LastTree]

COCOMarsh!

[1952kid]

I was five in 1957 when this was on TV .. I had that Kenner Girder and Panel set. After watching this, i found a few on ebay.and bought the one i had. What an incredible feeling it was opening the box and touching the red girders ,that i havent had in my hands for over 50 years. What was surprising was the amount of time and care i needed to build a stucture as an adult. Then i remembered how we wanted toys back then to take alot of time up in winter,like building models.

[Waynescott1]

I was on The Sandy Becker show in 1959 and Wonderama in 60 and again in 63

[1952kid]

Please tell us more about you being on the shows, u were one lucky kid !

[NYBredBamaFed]

As someone who wasn't even born when this was on television, can somebody tell me how long this show ran on TV in NY? It looked like a great show to find out what types of toys you can get.

[ClarkieDude]

Toy City seems like a lot of fun--the opportunity of my life!

And the Christmas drink looks delicious!

It just seems like Christmas was a lot more fun back then. Of course that was long before the advent of personal computers and gaming consoles.

It's a shame that young people today don't take advantage of actually using their imaginations and exercising (rather than allowing themselves to lay around and choose to let entertainment seek them out, instead of the other way around).

[RetroToledo]

@ClarkieDude I feel that's what happened as well.

[143AC]

Dear Jerry, I didn't get all of the names of the hosts of

"Wonderama!"..they were Sandy Becker,Herb Sheldon..Bill

Britten,Sonny Fox,Bob McAllister,Alana Brown,Dwight

Williams,Bobby Clark,Pam Potillo,J.D.Roth,Laura

McDonald and Claude Brooks.

[143AC]

Dear Jerry,

The first host/performer Of Wonderama was Sandy Becker.

The other hosts/performers were Herb Sheldon,Sonny Fox,

Bob McAllister,Alana Brown,Dwight Williams,Bobby Clark,

Pam Potillo,J.D.Roth,Laura McDonald,Claude Brooks.

[143AC]

The theme music for Mr.Herb Sheldon's version of Wonderama was also used on The Uncle Al Lewis Show.

[Juliaflo]

I remember hearing that music on The Uncle Al Show.

Pop quiz--Sometime in the late 1960's or early 1970's, a young boy appeared on this show. Put on your scrubs and name that actor.

[stokepogue]

George Clooney

[Juliaflo]

Oh, heavenly hash. You guessed it.

[1952kid]

I just purchased that Kenner girder and panel set,1962 set, i had to have it again!,

[143AC]

The actual name of the comedic character that

Bob McAllister..Wonderama's fifth and last adult host And

performer played was Zip Code.

[143AC]

Herb Sheldon was the second host of WABD/WNEW/

WNYW TV Ch.5 NYC's Wonderama..the first mc was

Sandy Becker.

[anthony1962]

Bamberger's (Newark) used to also produce a 20 minute TV promotional spot beginning on Thanksgiving afterrnon (the traditional start of the holiday season) featuring all of the year's newest and most popular toys for Christmas. It was called "Toyland Express" then "Santa's Workshop" and was usually seen on WOR-TV,, WPIX, and WNEW during the afternnon and early evening hours right up until Christmas Eve.

[jerry550]

Herb Sheldon was great. So was Coco Marsh This is even before Sonny Fox and Zip Codes.

[143AC]

I remember watching Herb Sheldon's last NYC based

kids tv shows on WOR TV Ch.9 from 1959 to 1962. Even then..he really knew how to entertain and

inform the kids.

[Juliaflo]

So do I. (Uh-uh, don't try to guess my age, LOL).