Soupy Sales - Complete Show 1965 - Part 01

[GregMcMahan]

That Soupy Sales lunchbox is the most valuable lunchbox collectible of all time, worth thousands, if not dozens of dollars!

[midnightcaller200]

I had a Soupy Sales lunch box I wish I still had it also had a lost in Space, and Batman lunch box

[gmonet46]

I all but forgot the into to the show, with the Marquee...great find! Only in New York!

[toncuz]

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

[DoctorJK3]

Thanks for providing the video! I'm glad someone has connection in the broadcast industry otherwise our childhood memories would be lost forever!

Great job!

[mrsticks28]

I worked in Los Angeles and saw Soupy there before he came to NY. Told my friends about him, and 6 months later he's in NY. Great stuff. Ernie Kovacs was another early television giant. He's where Laugh In came from. And don't forget Spike Jones!

[fromthesidelines]

At the time this first aired, Soupy was on Channel 5 [WNEW-TV] at 3:30pm(nyt) weekdays, 'jersey', followed by Chuck McCann at 4, then Sandy Becker at 5, and "WINCHELL-MAHONEY TIME" at 6...there were 260 taped half-hours seen on Channel 5 that were syndicated during the 1965-'66 season, 'solshne' [also on 16mm kinescope film for those stations that didn't have videotape facilities]. When the series ended, WNEW erased the master tapes to reuse the tape stock; 75 of the "kinnies" DO exist...

[CORPSVIDS]

I wish I knew what the laughs were about, I kept waiting and... nothing. Dont hate Soupy but surely dont get it.

[ligetispaghetti]

Yeah...No Kiddin' I was just curious, having seen him on games shows throughout the 70's. I'm gettin' the feeling none of this was written out. Kinda reminds of when I was around 12 or so and me and my freinds would record ourselves on a hand held cassette player messing around. Right, nothing here to actually hate...

[Orsley]

Kids & teens loved it because of the anarchy of it, the looseness and the vaguely subversive quality compared to everything else on TV at the time, when even kids' show hosts wore a jacket and tie. Its appeal was strictly of its time, but at the time it was brand new, an off-the-cuff, anything-goes style we had never seen on TV. At least I think that was it, and I was addicted to Soupy and his puppets from his 1962 ABC network show through the New York show on channel 5 and his 1978 show in LA.

[najishow]

Soupy you are awesome!

[tim13a]

If there were more Soupy , there would be world peace and an end to hunger.

[dalidog255]

I've met Presidents, Prince Charles, writers, & celebrities, but meeting Soupy when I was 15 was the thrill of my life!!!

[solshne]

I wonder if there are plans to transfer these shows to dvd. Probably a lot of these are missing, lost forever.

[KawhackitaRag]

oh boy! I already love the ragtime/honky-tonk theme!

[jerseyoldschool]

OMG!!! I was only 3 yrs old in 1965; this along with the Paul Winchell-Jerry Mahoney Knucklehead Clubhouse were my earliest memories of TV. Seem to remember that

the Winchell show came on right after Soupy on Channel 5. I also remember the early morning cartoons on WABC channel 7, especially the Puppetoons, the Little Rascals and some show called Billy Bang Bang. Jeez, what memories! Thank goodness for You Tube, the Internet and the smart people who made, saved & uploaded these videos!!!

[TIGREYZ1]

LOL! My mom used to be glued to the t.v. when Soupy Sales show came on--we came home from school for lunch to watch Soupy and my mom laughing in hysterics! Also, I thought Soupy was from Grosse Pointe, Mi.! Go Pookie and White Fang!

[143AC]

Dear Droppocket, I watch Soupy's kidult tv comedy shows

as far back as October 3,1959..when he was

on ABC TV Saturday afternoons with"Lunch With

Soupy Sales!"..everytime that I hear his theme music

"Flying Fingers"..I smile and I laugh!

[mtnroads]

He grew up in Huntington,WV (southside)-near Ritter Park. -Graduate of Huntington High School and Marshall University

[zwolfen]

Gotta remember- This was LIVE TV...a lot of ad lib and Soup had an amazing array of guests...pies and all.

[hcwilkinson71]

i can remember why this show stopped airing

soupy said, "send me pieces of that funny green paper from your parents wallets"

[zinnington]

I knew something was different when my parents started watching the show with us. This was absolutely the greatest thing in the world. It really was a wonderful time. We used to get in trouble in school doing White Fang impersonations.

[StewartSummers]

today..white fang would have his own line of clothes, beverages...film deals, etc. wrong era.

[RubyWraith]

That grunting...and those furry paws used to crack me up, but I didn't like the pie in the face. And that wiggling plate of Jello gave me Jello phobia for years.

[zaqwert777]

I have just the faintest glimmer of a memory of this show (I was 3 and 4 yrs old in 65 and 66). Seems like there was a catchphrase or something unusual that he would do. Maybe it was the pies in the face. But it might have been more. I don't know.

[ecbush]

Now I know why my mom couldn't stand it when I insisted on watching this.

[dkdudle]

Certainly remember Soupy especially for his 45rpm vinyl record of "The Mouse". Everytime my 2 year old sister heard the mouse she'd put her hands up to her ears and dance like a mouse. He sure had and has a big following. As well as other children show artist like "Chuck McCann" and "Diver Dan".

[rosemhs]

Soupy was on Channel 5, then WNEW, in New York City in 1965-66, that is when I most remember him. I remember the "little green pieces of paper" New Year's Day show, so funny.

I wish all these B & W videos on Youtube could be collected on a new DVD, I would buy it so fast!

[spookyben]

White fang and (esp) Black Tooth were my heroes!!

[hognolia]

being in my 40's my brain is full of this,it was my babysitter,better than Magilla Gorilla though.

[sarahshevett]

Thanks so much..I was having a craving for some White Fang and there it was! I love the interwebs!!!

[fromthesidelines]

Soupy's first network TV series was his Saturday afternoon "LUNCH WITH SOUPY SALES" [12-12;30pm(et)] for sponsor General Foods, on ABC between 1959 and '61- only ONE videotape from that series is known to exist. Then, he hosted an early-evening Friday night show [7:30-8pm] on the network in early 1962 that lasted 13 weeks. Then, Soupy went to New York to appear on his daily WNEW-TV show in the fall of 1964....

[bteiv676]

I think he began in 1963 but I think the shows were originally on chanel 7 abc...then he went to pix (?)...next to Zackerly at Large he was my favorite after school show

[beagleman123456789]

Classic, way before his time!!!

[sneakerset]

Thank you chak...i just wasn't sure..Damn,good call!

[sneakerset]

At 4:40 wasn't that the theme to the Bold Ones?

[chakagar]

That was the theme to "Ben Casey" at 4:40.

Keep up the great stuff SandySoup!

[tvjeff53]

This episode of Soupy Sales is a classic I was 11 years old when this show was on he always made me laugh as a kid. White Fang and Black Tooth helped make the show what it was. Thanks so much Soupy for the happiness and humor you brought others as well as myself when you had your show, you were and still are the best.

[speak4you]

Great shit. Some of my earliest memories in life are watching Soupy. I still have an LP called "The Soupy Sales Show". Simply brilliant.

[antoniod]

I watched Soupy every day on Boston's Ch. 38 back 'round '66.

[mrmom333]

I still have my SOUPY SALES FAN CLUB button in my collection. Wonder if it's worth anything?

Soupy was the BEST at the time.

[PuppetMan57]

WOW COOL!

Can you or anyone upload Soupy singing, "My Baby's Got A Crush On Frankenstein"? :-)

[TECHKLEC]

WHITE FANG AND BLACK TOOTH! WOW!!

[binkle1]

I remember telling my Dad to drive faster as we went home from Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk, CT, so we could go home and see the very first Soupy Sales show! Must have been 1964. I even saw the infamous one where he asked us kids to go into our mommy's purses and send him the "green paper with the people's pictures on it!" He was off the air for a week and we were just miserable!

[droppocket]

I was watching Soupy in 1959. I'm sorry you missed so many shows

[fromthesidelines]

We know,'sandy', that WNEW-TV {Channel 5} erased virtually of all of Soupy's daily shows around the time he left the station in 1966- including the 260 syndicated episodes previously mentioned. The 16mm kinescope films of those shows, however, were left in limbo. According to Soupy, he tracked down someone who had 75 of those 16mm film prints, and he has them...waiting to be reissued.

[rosemhs]

75 shows are out there somewhere! I would pay to see them on DVD, no question. Does Soupy have a fan site or blog where we can start a petition? Soupy was indeed way ahead of his time, and still hilarious.

Thanks Rosemary

[fromthesidelines]

In 1965-'66, Soupy and WNEW-TV taped 260 episodes (one year's worth) of his show for syndication through Screen Gems/Columbia. Most stations showed them on 16mm kinescope film (those who didn't have videotape machines). This is one of those shows.

[sandysoup]

This is great news - where are the other 259 shows? 16mm tends to survive where video does not...

[GBbyC]

LOL Please show the ones of Soupy Sales get pies in the face when he opens his front door :)

Thank you :)

[InsomniacGirl]

Wow! Yes this sure does bring back memories! I remember Officer Joe Bolton too, LOL! Thanks for sharing, this was great :-)

[Oldcrotch]

I actually remember seeing this back then. Thank you so much for putting it here where everyone can enjoy it once more. I can't believe I'm seeing it, I thought I would never see another Soupy Sales show again.

[brendarox2006]

Boy, does THIS bring back memories!!!

[gli7utubeo]

Thanks a million! God Bless You Tube.

[Johnnynoir333]

You Tube is better than television.

[AstringOfPoloponies]

Luv it. I watched Soupy when I was a kid and loved him.And yes, MarkWasThere, officer Joe Bolton ! Thanks for posting this classic gem.

[meinkrys]

Another Detroit contribution to mankind

[wwffcc]

Detroit? These were done in NYC at WNEW (now Fox) channnel 5.

[markwasthere]

this was on after school, right before officer joe bolton

[bearcub410]

i was a very little kid but i remember this show i was born in 1963 so i remember him. i have not see this show until now , i do remember that i loved him. thanks soupy!!!!

[fluffyxdestroy]

Oh, the memories. The hippest kid's show in history. It was live, virtually unscripted and legendary. This was fun and your parents could run off for a half hour and find you glued to the exact same spot, it was so intoxicating. Better yet, I've met Soupy several times and he's very approachable and sweet. He's not in the best of health these days but he's chuggin' along.

[CrucieFiction]

Boy did I love White Fang and Black Tooth!