Chickenman Radio Series

[pinkcuppycake1223]

When I was a kid, Chicken Man used to scare the shit out of me so bad, I used to jump on top of my dresser!!!! It's not so bad right now because i'm drunk!!!! It still scares me sometimes. :) Tracy "TREE" Owens

[catcheez]

WIP ....in Philly use to play this in the early seventys .....Cool

[wildfyrechris]

I remember listening to Chickenman on AFN Radio in Germany when I was in the Army...I tried to never miss an episode..

[Westyrulz]

Used to Luv listening to this on the school bus!!

[brabon1]

before radio was corporate and pure crap

[z250B]

I listened to Chicken man on 3YB before school.

[rbbailey1944]

We used to get Chicken Man on AFVN Radio in Vietnam. We'd literally put the war on PAUSE to listen to an episode.

[brabon1]

@rbbailey1944 i think this is what made mr orkin the most proud. that he was able to bring some happiness to all the guys serving in the nam

[cveen81]

Thanks for posting this. I was introduced to CM when I was a kid in the mid 80s. Still funny today.

[thebikerdiva]

more great memories

[joefilm]

Have not listened to CM in years! Thanks for posting. Awesome animation too!

[pdm1289]

I listened to this before school, or if we missed it, during the evening rebroadcast. We listened to it on KEWI 1440 AM - Topeka, Kansas.

[WayKewlTammi]

I heard this on WCOD in Hyannis beginning in 1979. He was also called the Capon Crusader.

[brun5491]

This is great! i would love to have just the audio, like it was when i was a kid. But this is great!

[rickmbari]

He looks like Richard Nixon

[Liteninbug]

LOL thanks for the memories!!!!

[themoose1975]

wnhu in new haven runs this, and the tooth fairy quite often. You can listen live on their website.

[ropeyarn]

Not funny. Dick Orkin's best work was the Tooth Fairy series which preceeded Chickenman.

His radio ads are mixed. He did a good set for Time magazine.

All of his radio work uses that same door open/closed sound. His signature.

[planetiowa]

I've been a fan since the spring of 1966 when KSTT of Davenport, Iowa, ran the series. Those few minutes every day made the last few months of high school and the first few months of college that much more enjoyable. There have been periodic announcements about animated shows and movies, but nothing yet.

[terry1919]

I remember Chicken Man I think WFBQ aired it in 1975 or it could have been WIFE I suppose some one there can tell us oh BTW great video...

[GravelGrunt]

I listened to Chickenman 40 years ago in Vietnam. Loved it! :)

[harveyseries]

Just noticed the complete series is currently for sale on e bay

[kh2hbTV]

LOVED Chickenman - Listened on AFN-Europe, SCN-Panama and FEAN-PACAF

He is EVERYWHERE!!!

Thanks for the laughs when I could use them! You don't know how much you helped so many people far from home.

[himycatisdead]

This was kind of written like the Rocky And Bullwinkle cartoon style. My brother once sent away for a sweat shirt from a Cleveland radio station that played Chicken Man every morning around 7.30.......I loved that show!

[musicmandon1]

So this is how it all began for the white-winged warrior. Many funnier episodes, but this was the start.  Funniest--the Chicken missile, or the "Shtunkinna ray gun" which produces an effect not unlike that of a Darviset and an Ambien taken together. Not recommended.

[gomezy3k]

Yeah that had some great lines... Been a while but I kind of remember the first program has something like this in it..... (in first of two costumes the store has left) "Excuse me sir, are you a hardened criminal?" "Uh yeah" "Does this costume strike terror into your heart?"  "No you look like a big adorable bunny rabbit" (Kiss)... "Clerk wrap up the chicken."

[fjbutch]

3 that didn't like it were born around smoko last friday...

[fjbutch]

We used to listen to this back in the sixties in Aussie as a family at breakfast time.....fantastic fun....

[tnnokomis]

where can i find more - I too listened in Miami in the late 60's  with romie young( ?)

the big "kahoona"

[RoseanYoksi]

Try latin women **busizz4me.info**

[videoholiccollection]

Chicken-Man used to air on Cleveland's WIXY-1260 back in 1966 and '67!

[pullom19]

I can't believe I found this. I used to listen to this every morning getting dressed for school. Thanks for the post

[MrBanditoss]

Is this the "Golden voice" from Ted Williams???????

[gomezy3k]

I have an old LP (for you youngsters that was what came way before CD's) of the Chicken Man episodes... It has about 12 or so different episodes... "I don't know who he is but I do know this....." "Every night will be Saturday night, we will have tourists coming out of our ears..." "I am here to fight crime and/or evil where ever it may lurk..."

Love that show...very funny...

[RJRanke]

@gomezy3k

I had that album.How well I remember the stories like The Flying Saucer,A Romantic Flight,Just Testing or So This Is Gary!I first learned who was behind the series from the album and found out more about Dick Orkin(who I met years later),Jane Roberts(later Jane Runyon)and Jim Runyon(DJ in Cleveland from 1970 until his untimely death in 1973).

Well!What will the Commissoner do when he discovers the Winged Warrior can't save the world because his mother wants him to do an errand?

[swanbrown]

oh, man! I LO0ve this series! thanks for this. great animation, too. just the thing for fighting crime (and / or) evil.

[CaptainGoofysstash]

Do you also have the Chickenman episodes with The Beautiful Lady From The Land of Upopidow? ("...for if you go to the shoe store on Monday morning, my simply little shoeclerk, SHTICK will get you.")

[RJRanke]

@CaptainGoofysstash

SHTICK stands for Secret Henchmen To Injure Crime Killers.Fortunately for Chickenman,the agents of SHTICK were fumblers as much as he was.:-)

[sorenlarrington]

He's everywhere! He's everywhere!

[Demonridesthemoon]

BUCK BUCK BUCK BUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!

[CodyRecord]

From the mid sixties, Announcer is Jim Runyon who is probably the funniest guy I think I ever knew. The woman's voice is the traffice girl at the station. She was known only as trooper 36, 24, 36. Dick Orkin is the voice of chickenman and as it says wrote all the matierial. Orkin went on to be the most successful radio pitchman on the 80's. Runyon left the station and returned to his home in Cleveland. He died there in the 70's.

[RJRanke]

@CodyRecord

The name of the woman in the series is Jane Roberts.In 1967 she married Jim Runyon and they moved to LA for a while.In 1970 Runyon returned to Cleveland,where he had been a DJ for a while in the early 1960s,and was a morning DJ until his death in 1973.

[CodyRecord]

@RJRanke Geeeez.  I lost track of him just before that. so I had no idea he married her. That explains a kind of cryptic email I received several years ago from Dick Orkin when I looked to see where he was.

[Maestrp37388]

I have this one on my iPod!

[hanksnow82]

WELLLLLLLLL

[radecon1111]

Great job kxok am 1960's st louis loved it

[ju118]

i remember listening to this as a kid in the early 90's on AFN when we lived in Germany. Brings back so many memories. HE'S EVERYWHERE, HE'S EVERYWHERE. LOL

[ortzinator]

so that's why my dad keeps saying "he's everywhere he's everywhere!"

[M450N23]

this was on AFN in the late 70ies! I loved it! :D

[murky2]

I listened to this as a kid in Hawaii back in the 70's. (He's everywhere, he's everywhere!) Love the "WEELLlllll" that the announcer says at the end of every episode. Great radio voice.

[mezzogiorno123]

I was stationed in Vietnam in 1969. Listened to this all the time. The Vietnamese I knew especially loved it! Great show!

[mikecanyouplay]

Oh yeah, If you want to hear more Chickenman, check out my show on friday nights, 7 to 9 pm CST. kkfi.org and we play 1 episode every friday night along with lots of rare 60s and 70s tunes. My dad worked for WHB in KC in the 60s and they played C Man daily ! I have the whole collection and even met Dan Orkin recently and he was happy to hear we keep the show on the air ! Tune it in ! Mike in KC

[mikecanyouplay]

Hey guys, LOVE that Chickenman.

[gladeator1]

in 1968 I listened to this series on WQAM in Miami.

good memories.

[fjbutch]

Weeeeell !, .. doesn't that bring a tear to a glass eye !!

[fjbutch]

Terrific show ...we all loved it back then.....bring it back radio stations ....

[lifestudent55]

Oh man, that brings back memories from listening to Chicken Man on the Armed Forces Radio Network.

[deloreanfan81]

awesome!!! listened to this all the time as a kid...shout out to KIOA Des Moines

[markess48]

@deloreanfan81 The first time I ever heard this was also on KIOA in the fall of 1966. Chickenman was an awesome series.

[vandywilliam]

This was also a big hit on a number of Florida stations, including WALT (Tampa), WQAM (Miami) and WAPE (Jacksonville). And I still have a Chickenman record album.

[vegaslover777]

I remember listening to this show on the radio in the late 60's. It was absolutely HILARIOUS!!!

My younger brother and I used to laugh every time they said Chickenman's secret weapon: the Geshtoonkida raygun!

[Janster59]

Wonderful! Thanx from a KXOK listener......

[dandydonaldo]

He was big on KXOK in St. Louis.

[RTBC2]

This is such a great memory from my childhood. My dad was program director for the radio station that aired Chickenman and I still have a Chickenman album and bumper sticker.

PLEASE put more of these on they are great!!!!!!!!!!!

[WisconsinMom]

LOL...used to listen to this in the 60's. In fact I still use "he's everywhere, he's everywhere" to this day when it fits the situation!

[CaptKundalini]

Oh. My. God! I used to listen to this show back in the 1960's. LOL!

THANK YOU!

[BhamSouthern60]

What a fabulous and worthwhile effort! I have often tried to visualize these characters, and couldn't have imagined it being done better. Great job, and keep 'em coming. Long live ChickenMan!

[markess48]

This is great. Do some more !

[jojo4NZ]

I am in New Zealand and remember the laughs this show gave me then. More PLEASE?

Basteele

[nubs1946]

The commission needs a distressed oak desk with a yellow phone. Thank you for bringing back The Feathered Feeder.

[SammySamIAm2]

Can I PAY you to make more Chickenman? Or even post more Chickenman in only audio format? I would, you know. Seems to defeat the purpose but I'm telling you.... I love this show. It was one of the bright sparks of my dark adolescence on Q107 in Toronto. Please post more, and make a quasi-old person happy!

[MrOrkin]

@SammySamIAm2

Thanks for your comments. So you know, Chickenman episodes are available on itunes, Amazon, etc

[davedworkin]

Great job on the animation! You've put new face on Chickenman!

[hallexlynn]

i love chicken man i heard it last yr and it was awsome

[TaleSpinr]

When I was in Germany, as an Army Brat, everyone I knew quoted and was a fan of Chickenman. 25 years later I still remember, "he's everywhere, he's everywhere."

[stoneponey45]

I was an Army Brat living in Germany too when I heard that program. AFN radio/American Top 40 - home away from home in Germany and yes - Chicken Mannnn! LOL - love the memory - thanks for posting!

[jimtypes]

Make more videos. Make more videos....you are getting very sleeeepy.....

[jwjeffrey]

I use to listen to this in Wisconsin on WCFL. Too bad they don't make stuff like this anymore.

[sp5moe1]

In VietNam, 1970, I used to wake every morning with ChickenMan on AFVN (Armed Forces VietNam radio)

I miss it.

[C603032]

Lol. My dad asked me about this and I told him it was probably not there (I'd never heard of it before and it soudned lame) good timeing.

Its actualy kinda funey in a 60s kind of way...