I remember Sandy Becker!!! lol! Loved his show, along with Soupy Sales. I was born in 1954, and grew up watching the Mickey Mouse show, Captain Kangaroo, (I still can hum/whistle the theme song, lol!) Sandy Becker, Chuck McCann, Soupy Sales, there was such great childrens entertainment programming on back then. Now, its all just crummy, cheap animation cartoons. Nothing like the classics I grew up with.
Kudos to wlhardy below. I thought I was losing my mind. The theme song That Happy Feeling, which I always loved, I said to somebody it was from his Norton Nork skit. For some reason, I thought I dreamt that name up. I remember that like it was yesterday and I was only like 4 or 5 years old when I watched him. He was off the air by the time I was in first or second grade. I grew up in North Jersey outside of Newark.
Sandy Becker was the best children's tv host out there, ever. It was so obvious he was a caring adult who didn't talk down to us and made us feel that, even though scary things happened, that everything would come out alright in the end. I wish there was someone out there who could draw kids in in this relaxed and intelligent manner nowa
When I visited my mother's parents in northern NJ in the early-mid 1960s, I loved watching the local children's programs out of NYC--Birthday House, Soupy Sales, Paul Winchell, Chuck McCann, Wonderama, and the Sandy Becker Show. I really don't remember anything about the show except a character called Norton Nork & the theme song "That Happy Feeling," but I think of being young & carefree & just enjoying what was on the TV--compared to the garbage now. I wish these shows were on reruns.
Anyone out there remember a contest on the Sandy Becker show called ''Catch Max"? A lil striped prisoner would run across the screen.My mom thought I was nuts till she spotted him. No one my age remembers this?
I agree with you that there are no human beings for kids to be entertained,informed and educated on tv today.In the old days..we really talented,creative and caring people on tv..who knew how to entertain and inform kids..inbetween the rerunning of films.
I worshipped Sandy as a kid, and somehow my mother arranged for me to be one of his "special guests". Oh, those were the days. I wanted so much to grow up and have my own "telebishion prograng", just like K. Lastima!
these were the best of times....getting up on a Saturday morning ..watching all the NY locals...lived in Great Neck and actually met Sandy and his wife at the grocery market and he did his voices for me..Met Sony Fox at his studio when he had Robert Kennedy on while he was running for office....was with a group of kids from Sands Point School...wonderful days...thank god for them.
We people from the 1950/60 club know what this is all about,and the feelings we get from it. Was'nst it great. We watched early TV live, its just not the same these days. Kids dont have the morning cartoons,and Saturday and Sunday all cartoon and kids shows. WE HAD IT GOOD!
Dear 1952 Kid, You forgot to add"The Three Stooges FunHouse"with "Officer Joe"Bolton from 5:30 to 6:00 P.M. and "The Popeye Show":With "Captain Allen"Swift.Both shows were on WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC.And both are still remembered to this day.
Weren't Popeye and (Dick Tracy cartoons ["Calling Joe Jitso...calling Joe Jitso!"] hosted on WPIX by "Captain Jack McCarthy?" (Six bells) BTW, I got my first real lesson in mortality approximately 1965 when Moe Howard visited OJB live on the air. I anticipated seeing a wise-cracking angry man with a soup-bowl haircut, but Moe was actually older and frailer than my 65-year old grandfather. So those old cars, telephones, and clothes were not movie props, but images and people from a bygone era.
I just bought a vhs tape from a flie market for a dollar, Johnny the Giant Killer, a full 80 minute movie 1950 France, US version 1953 , VHS version 65 minutes 1984. This was shown in a serialized version on Merrytune Circus, with my old pals Claude Kirchner and Clownie. What a great find.
I also loved The Sandy Becker Show as a kid! I still remembered the opening music to his show, and thought that it would remian in my memory forever until I saw this particular video! Thanks so much for posting it, as it brought back such great memories about the late 1950's!!
1958 TV Guide ; 8;00 am Sandy Becker Cartoons . 8;30 am Sandy Becker Show , 6;30 pm Sandy Becker Looney Tunes Show . Monday - Friday . Sunday was Wonderama with Bill Britten at 10;30 am . And of course all on channel 5 WNEW NYC. I just cant leave out Terrytoon Circus with Claude Kirchner and Clownie at 7;00 pm WOR 9 NYC , Monday - Friday. After Terrytoon Circus it was bedtime for me. For years it was the last show i watched before bedtime.
This was from Sandy's morning show (1956); he also emceed WABD's early evening "LOONEY TUNES" show at the time [the station had bought Guild Films' black and white 1930-'43 Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes", with refilmed titles, in the fall of 1955, and programmed them until the mid-'60s].
I was wild about the Sandy Becker Show. He was sort of like the Johnny Carson for kids--urbane, funny, witty, and always in a coat and tie. Every Sunday watching him was special, and it's a real shame that TV now longer offers shows that let kids have fun being with grownups. He was kind of like a favorite surrogate parent...
I was there too, such strong feelings from this video. I miss it and Sandy Becker. We are lucky just to see these few videos, i honestly thought id never see anything for years on Sandy, and kept it alive in memory. Maybe it was better that way. Seeing it again makes it so hard to let it go, and realize these days are never comming back. It was a wonderful magic time called childhood. I keep comming back to see these,but i know i have to stop, it just hurts to much.
I remember the carrots.....OMG!
chasbro777 3 weeks ago
I remember Sandy Becker!!! lol! Loved his show, along with Soupy Sales. I was born in 1954, and grew up watching the Mickey Mouse show, Captain Kangaroo, (I still can hum/whistle the theme song, lol!) Sandy Becker, Chuck McCann, Soupy Sales, there was such great childrens entertainment programming on back then. Now, its all just crummy, cheap animation cartoons. Nothing like the classics I grew up with.
NJKatwoman 2 months ago 2
Kudos to wlhardy below. I thought I was losing my mind. The theme song That Happy Feeling, which I always loved, I said to somebody it was from his Norton Nork skit. For some reason, I thought I dreamt that name up. I remember that like it was yesterday and I was only like 4 or 5 years old when I watched him. He was off the air by the time I was in first or second grade. I grew up in North Jersey outside of Newark.
zickie2000 5 months ago
I loved Hambone.
chuggachuggawoowoo 5 months ago
Sandy Becker was the best children's tv host out there, ever. It was so obvious he was a caring adult who didn't talk down to us and made us feel that, even though scary things happened, that everything would come out alright in the end. I wish there was someone out there who could draw kids in in this relaxed and intelligent manner nowa
days.
Nellirubina 10 months ago
When I visited my mother's parents in northern NJ in the early-mid 1960s, I loved watching the local children's programs out of NYC--Birthday House, Soupy Sales, Paul Winchell, Chuck McCann, Wonderama, and the Sandy Becker Show. I really don't remember anything about the show except a character called Norton Nork & the theme song "That Happy Feeling," but I think of being young & carefree & just enjoying what was on the TV--compared to the garbage now. I wish these shows were on reruns.
wlhardy 1 year ago 2
Sandy was the best! And let's not forget Hambone, The Great Professor, Norton Nork and his famous dog, Shatzi!!!
37terraplane 1 year ago
1 person remembers! Thanks!
MZVIRB 1 year ago
@MZVIRB I remember it also. Weren't you supposed to call in after seeing Max to try to win a prize?
fscap811 5 months ago
I absolutely rememebr Catch MAx -- but would never have thought of it if you had not menitoned it. Thank you for that memory!
HLJaffe 1 year ago
Anyone out there remember a contest on the Sandy Becker show called ''Catch Max"? A lil striped prisoner would run across the screen.My mom thought I was nuts till she spotted him. No one my age remembers this?
MZVIRB 1 year ago
Dear Wingtips,
I agree with you that there are no human beings for kids to be entertained,informed and educated on tv today.In the old days..we really talented,creative and caring people on tv..who knew how to entertain and inform kids..inbetween the rerunning of films.
143AC 1 year ago
Dear Mr.K,
The host of"Wonderama's"first name is Sonny Fox..not Sony Fox
143AC 1 year ago
I worshipped Sandy as a kid, and somehow my mother arranged for me to be one of his "special guests". Oh, those were the days. I wanted so much to grow up and have my own "telebishion prograng", just like K. Lastima!
ccdesan 1 year ago
these were the best of times....getting up on a Saturday morning ..watching all the NY locals...lived in Great Neck and actually met Sandy and his wife at the grocery market and he did his voices for me..Met Sony Fox at his studio when he had Robert Kennedy on while he was running for office....was with a group of kids from Sands Point School...wonderful days...thank god for them.
MrK1usa 1 year ago
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143AC 1 year ago
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143AC 1 year ago
Does anyone here at "You Tube"know the title of this instrumential tune that is being used as "The Sandy Becker Morning TV Show's"first theme music?
143AC 1 year ago
@143AC
stereo770 4 months ago
We people from the 1950/60 club know what this is all about,and the feelings we get from it. Was'nst it great. We watched early TV live, its just not the same these days. Kids dont have the morning cartoons,and Saturday and Sunday all cartoon and kids shows. WE HAD IT GOOD!
1952kid 1 year ago
Dear CMans, "Police Chief Joe"Bolton hosted The UPA "Dick Tracy" TV cartoons on
"The Dick Tracy Show"from the fall of the 1961 to the summer of 1963. And..as I've said in in my previous post.."Captain Jack"hosted those "DC"
and "Popeye"cartoons briefly during the fall of 1964.
143AC 1 year ago
Dear CMans, Actually?
Moe Howard appeared with "Officer Joe"minus Larry and
"Curly Joe"in April,1967,April,1968 and July 2 & 3,1969. "Captain Jack"McCarthy screened The UPA "Dick Tracy"
TV Cartoons and "Popeye" movie and tv cartoons on WPIX TV Ch.11 during the fall of 1964.
143AC 1 year ago
Dear 1952 Kid, You forgot to add"The Three Stooges FunHouse"with "Officer Joe"Bolton from 5:30 to 6:00 P.M. and "The Popeye Show":With "Captain Allen"Swift.Both shows were on WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC.And both are still remembered to this day.
143AC 2 years ago
Weren't Popeye and (Dick Tracy cartoons ["Calling Joe Jitso...calling Joe Jitso!"] hosted on WPIX by "Captain Jack McCarthy?" (Six bells) BTW, I got my first real lesson in mortality approximately 1965 when Moe Howard visited OJB live on the air. I anticipated seeing a wise-cracking angry man with a soup-bowl haircut, but Moe was actually older and frailer than my 65-year old grandfather. So those old cars, telephones, and clothes were not movie props, but images and people from a bygone era.
cmans79tr7 1 year ago
I just bought a vhs tape from a flie market for a dollar, Johnny the Giant Killer, a full 80 minute movie 1950 France, US version 1953 , VHS version 65 minutes 1984. This was shown in a serialized version on Merrytune Circus, with my old pals Claude Kirchner and Clownie. What a great find.
1952kid 1 year ago
What a great kid's show. I watched it in the early 1960's, on WNEW 5 in New York. He was broadcast on weekday afternoons at that time.
ftsjr 2 years ago
I also loved The Sandy Becker Show as a kid! I still remembered the opening music to his show, and thought that it would remian in my memory forever until I saw this particular video! Thanks so much for posting it, as it brought back such great memories about the late 1950's!!
beatlebrian 2 years ago
1958 TV Guide ; 8;00 am Sandy Becker Cartoons . 8;30 am Sandy Becker Show , 6;30 pm Sandy Becker Looney Tunes Show . Monday - Friday . Sunday was Wonderama with Bill Britten at 10;30 am . And of course all on channel 5 WNEW NYC. I just cant leave out Terrytoon Circus with Claude Kirchner and Clownie at 7;00 pm WOR 9 NYC , Monday - Friday. After Terrytoon Circus it was bedtime for me. For years it was the last show i watched before bedtime.
1952kid 2 years ago
This was from Sandy's morning show (1956); he also emceed WABD's early evening "LOONEY TUNES" show at the time [the station had bought Guild Films' black and white 1930-'43 Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes", with refilmed titles, in the fall of 1955, and programmed them until the mid-'60s].
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
I was wild about the Sandy Becker Show. He was sort of like the Johnny Carson for kids--urbane, funny, witty, and always in a coat and tie. Every Sunday watching him was special, and it's a real shame that TV now longer offers shows that let kids have fun being with grownups. He was kind of like a favorite surrogate parent...
wingtips123 2 years ago
I was there too, such strong feelings from this video. I miss it and Sandy Becker. We are lucky just to see these few videos, i honestly thought id never see anything for years on Sandy, and kept it alive in memory. Maybe it was better that way. Seeing it again makes it so hard to let it go, and realize these days are never comming back. It was a wonderful magic time called childhood. I keep comming back to see these,but i know i have to stop, it just hurts to much.
1952kid 2 years ago
What happy memories this brings back..I loved waking up
to Sandy Becker's weekday morning kids tv show..(Crying)
My God How I miss him!
143AC 2 years ago 2