Today we complain about a thousand channels but nothing on, but back in the 70s there were only 3 or 4 stations and Sunday morning you either to watch this goofball or some religious programming. I hated this show when I was a kid.
Yep, I remember this very well. It used to come on Sunday mornings on WABC here in New York (Channel 7) IIRC at about 11:00 a.m. It was a cool show for its day, showing you all kids of interesting things. Chapin was a good host. And as for those Peter Max graphics, all I can say is - GROOVY!
Just rememberin' Tom Chapin's character and mustache on ABC Sunday Mornings is so memorable. I know Tom's mustache is shaved off but I always will still have Mine! LOL 1970's 4 LIFE!!!!
Tom Chapin is a hero because he stopped kids from going out to play and taking a ride to where ever he took us to and he educated us of reaching the stars learning about people places and things we had never seen taking us to places we had never been and haven't been there since it breaks my heart that's its gone but thanks to you tube not forgotten I'm came of time of Flower Power People don't lose it they called them smelly drug attics wonder who starved the cause and gave them the Drugs Love!
Hey, I totally remember this, but to be honest, it was one of the educational shows we'd watch when there was absolutely nothing else to watch. Catchy tune that came back to me instantly though.
When I was a kid (and we couldn't afford cable) and we got like TWO stations, I loved this show! I was devastated when they cancelled it! Not only could I not belive they Never aired it again... I have up to this point NEVER found anyone else who remembered it as well! ( think part of it was that for some reason I remebered the title as 'I Wish I Were A Fish!' ???) Thankyou for vindicating my memory!
My brother and I loved to watch this show as kids, just to see Tom Chapin do the songs he did every week. I heard originally, it was going to be James Taylor, but that fell through, and they got Tom. Good things cause he was perfect for the show and wrote great songs too.
The ending animation looks like something the early MTV did many years later. Thanks for posting this rare piece of TV history!
Hazerswoude... stop complaining. I swear you are the type of person that sniveles about the stupidest things. Read the other comments,95% positive. Similarities to another song you used to listen to while smoking dope, doesn't constitute a rip-off. Regarding the quality, pay attention. It was the early SEVENTIES! Ever see yellow submarine? The content is what was important,, you obviously weren't paying attention to that. MD
Wow! I was beginning to think that maybe I dreamed this show... none of my friends remember it. (What a shame!) The 70's were definitely the golden age of kids shows, and we were so lucky to grow up back then! Thanks for posting this!
I loved this show as a kid too - great footage on how things worked, and way cool Fillmore-esque graphics. Tom was years ahead of Discovery Channel. Another interesting note, Tom was little brother to the late folk singer Harry Chapin (big hit was Taxi).
OMG i havent seen this since I was 6! I have wondered for years what this show was called! I remember this opening well but no one ever knew what i was talking about when i tried to describe it. Didnt they show how things were made or something?
I grew up in Utah and as a young kid both Make A Wish and Schoolhouse Rock "rocked" my Saturday mornings. Sadly, not one of my friends or family can remember this show. What's wrong with all of these people? When I found this video it immediately took me back to my childhood...what great memories and what a great show!!
Oh man!!! I had such a crush on Tom Chapin when I was a little girl. I didn't learn until years later he and Harry were brothers. I still think Tom's a babe!! I miss the show alot.
I loved this show. and what's not to love about Tom Chapin.. I had a total crush. It is weird because I swear no one I know has ever heard of this show.
This show brings back a lot of bad memories. First, the title song rips off Badfinger's "Come and Get It". Secondly, it always signaled the ending of the Saturday morning cartoons. Thirdly, the production quality is crap and I wouldn't be surprised if the flashing animation and rapid chane of imagery induced numerous epileptic fits.
Burnt orange shag rugs, every shade of poo brown imaginable, and Make a Wish. This represents everything bad about the seventies to me.
Yes, I'm a blast at parties. Glad I could win that bet for you.
I'm thankful it's posted (I did, after all, search for it), because I like freedom of information. And I appreciate the other videos supplied by this poster (Run Joe Run. Dang. You can't dig up an unconscious memory like that in years of therapy.)
Anyway, bottom line, crappy production quality, poor execution. I'll give you good intention and sentiment.
Haven't met a single person that ever heard of this great show. I loved this when I was a kid. So cool to find that others really do know of the show. SBK
sign up for the Tom Chapin email newsletter and his list of concerts ... hubby and i went last year to a children,s concert of his. We were the only adults there without any kids but we had a blast ... tom was terrific and his new CD of kids songs is wonderful. He met the kids beforehand ... sat and talked to them; signed autographs ( free of charge) ; we also bought his family's tribute to Harry ... it was awesome
I loved this show when I was little and thought I was the only one. It was intelligent, engaging, and fun. Anyone know if there are plans to release it on DVD? If only...maybe I'll "make a wish"
I remember this show when I was a kid on Saturday. This was the days when shows made you think and weren't dumbed down to the lowest common denominator...
I totally remember this. Thanks for letting me be little again, when things were so uncomplicated. If the economy was bad, we didn't know it. If our world leaders and big company execs were bad, we didn't know it. *sigh*
I remember the animated hamburger-looking thing (ha ha). Ahhhh....the 70's. Nice times. I was probably six or seven......Why can't I make a time machine?
I really loved all the whimsical, creative twists and turns this show took every episode. It was all about "possibilities", and these lessons came back to me time and again all throughout my life, much to my benefit.
O M G !!!!!! I don't believe i saw this again after all these years !!! i remember this as a kid as well !, now i really feel old ! Thanks for posting....GOOD JOB !!
I seem to remember this being a children's "how to" type of show. I was only about 5 or 6 years old when this was on. Seems they would bring you into a gumball factory, or show you how basketballs were made. that kind of thing. I also remember it being on at around 11:00am on the east coast.
No...this show was a kind of poetic pop-culture show; where Tom would give a word or expression and expand it to "all the possibilities" ; for instance, he might take the word "flight", and show birds, rockets, astronaughts, old film of Chaplin trying to be a chicken Mickey Mouse in Plane Crazy; or whatever...this was simply the GREATEST children's show EVER made!!
I was about 6 when this show was on the air, and I vaguely remember that it was a children's "how to" type of show. A marble factory tour, gumball production, things like that. I'm not 100% sure, but I could be in the right area.
Does anyone remember another show, also on Sunday mornings around the same era, with the word "Rock' in the title and talked about various things...I remember one of them was how a 'bill became law.' That one was parodied on the Simpsons episdode where Lisa goes to Washington..
@70sKidVid -You mean the one had a song that went: "I'm just a Bill, I'm only a Bill and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill..." & had the "bill" sitting on the steps that explained how Bills got passed? It wasn't a show it(what I'm thinking of)was actually 1-2 minute quickie stuck between(at approx 28 past or 58 before the hour)and between commercials. Great, fun, well put together and educational. We need things like that NOW that are entertaining and educational. Watched them with my daughter..
This is one of my earliest memories of childhood. I loved this show but can barely remember the content. I guess I'll have to "make a wish" that these shows are released somehow! I'd love to see them now as an adult. And what a great theme song.
I very much remember this program. It came on Sunday mornings in the South and it impacted me. Great song, easy lyrics, and a very real message. The graphics were standard of the day. Peter Max influenced a great deal of art during this day, both print and video. Search "Peter Max" and you'll understand.
I do a long running blues radio show on a college station in MA and I've played Tom's song "Shovelin'" when it gets snowy. I do
remember this show and intro (I'm 46). Brother
Harry's W.O.L.D is another fave of mine. At least in this part of the country, it's not often heard on oldies radio. Either the owners don't want people to think the call letters of their station are WOLD (you know,
This was a great show especially for its time. I spoke with someone through Tom Chapin's web page a couple years ago about the availability of recordings of the old shows. They said at that time the network (ABC I think) was holding it in a can in a warehouse with no plans to do anything with it. Shall be launch a grass roots call to the network to create an "Make a Wish" DVD. In th meantime Tom Chapin continues a his performance career for both children and adult audiences around the country.
Oh ... my... ...God!! I have thought about this show here and there for decades. Threw in a search for it and what do you know?!! Now I AM convinced you can find ANYTHING on youtube! :)
This clip brought tears of happiness. I adored Tom and Make A Wish, watching it just before getting my own self dressed and walking to elementary school. Mom would already be at work at the hospital, my older sister would be gone to high school, so I had the house to myself for a little while and Make A Wish was part of my world. The moment this clip started I was back in my mom's house and singing the theme---I had not sung it in nearly 50 years. Love you bunches, Tom! You were my bro, my hero!
I loved Make A Wish-it was a nature/science how made by ABC News(!?!?)with a hippy twist. It seems silly now, but as a 2nd or 3rd grader, I really felt safe and comfortable in with all that peace and love stuff. I really thought that's how the world worked. The music was great. Harry Chapin's brother Tom was really earnest and wholesome.
Even remembered most of the words. How on earth did you get this?!?
One of those shows that teach you even though you don't realize it. Thank you 70sKidVid!.
You wouldn't happen to have another program from the same time period "Hot Dog!" that featured Woody Allen, JoAnn Worley & Johnathan Winters now, would you?
If you check my other videos, you can find the opening and closing to the pilot, as well as one of the regular episodes. At least one full segment was uploaded by someone else, too.
I remember watching this show when I was a kid. I loved the beginning and end credits with all the music and colors. I could never figure out why there was the sound of a strong wind at the beginning and the end. I haven't seen this since it was on tv. I wish it was available on video or dvd. Brings back alot of good memories. Thanks for posting.
I share the same sentiments as all who are thankful for a little blast from the past. I loved this show, too. Thought Tom was a cutie. It was a positive message. We need shows like this!
If only kids today had this to watch, maybe they wouldn't be so busy killing each other, then posting it on YouTube. This was definately a great show. Almost like Yellow Submarine and capn Kangaroo rolled into one.
does anyone remember a show like this that use to come on singing "do you believe,you believe ,you believe in magaic ? cause i believe ,i believe i belive that i do ?
This was sunday morning kids tv. I remember the show comming on at about 11am on ABC it was very visual....Has anyone got some long clips of Wonderama, It was on before this show on what's now the FOX network (Metromedia)
Thanks for posting this! This was probably my single favorite show as a kid and I've never found any DVD or video copies anywhere. Would love to see much much more!
wow - this brings back memories and feelings of being a young teenager hanging on every word. "i make a wish a cloud to be . . but did i forget any possibilities ? " wow that triggers feelings of youthful imagination and hope for the future.
I'll join the many voices in saying 1) thanks so much for posting this, 2) I've been wanting to see & hear this for decades, and 3) I, too, had a crush on Tom. So charming! And I, too, would love to see a show like this on the air now, something to inspire kids without all the obnoxious commercialism that's so rampant today. Thanks!!
Thanks 70sKidVid for posting. Every now and then this song would come to mind after first watching this show around '76 when I was in college. I never thought I'd be able to hear this tune again, but thanks to you and for youtube.
Is the series available on DVD??? I absolutely loved this show, that is until it devolved into a Bicentenial educational program late in its run. Tom was a great host. The entire show was very surreal, funny and informative. Thanks for posting this rare gem. ~Jon
Wow, fantastic, thanks for posting this! I've been trying to revive my memories of this great show (which basically taught free-association creativity) for years :-) If you have more of this, please consider posting it!!!
Tom Chapin is the younger brother of Harry Chapin. I used to watch "Make a Wish" back then when I was already in High School. Then I managed to find Tom's first solo album - it was so lovely, I actually connected with his music much more than to Harry's. I used to sit and work out some of his songs on the guitar. In summer of 1980 I finally heard him live and met him at the Toronto Folk Festival, he was a very down to earth guy. Thanks for posting this!!!
Even though I was well beyond Saturday morning cartoons by the time this show came out, I watched it faithfully. It was an outstanding show. Thanks so much for posting this.
Just another "Thank you" for posting this vid. Have been looking for this for decades. Isn't it strange when, after 30 years or more, the words just popped straight back into your head? Aged about 11 or 12 I would try and follow Tom's chord changes. Great memories!!! Thanks
back in the 70's we had shows that were not justcommercials for crap
emmers57 2 weeks ago
am part of the the make a wish foubndashin and meeting smosh :)
omgitspedobear 1 month ago
Today we complain about a thousand channels but nothing on, but back in the 70s there were only 3 or 4 stations and Sunday morning you either to watch this goofball or some religious programming. I hated this show when I was a kid.
daithi1966 2 months ago
This is the kind of hippie shit we watched as kids back in the 70's after the cartoons before american bandstand and soul train
emmers57 2 months ago
Did you ever wish you'd see this show again?
motorbiker63 2 months ago
How many little brats were wishing they were "a piece of glass"?
How many hits of acid was this guy on?
Harry Chapin's less talented brother?
Cat's in the cradle and a piece of glass
Where on the set can I score some hash
Flyin' to the moon with my crap guitar
Drop a lid and go faaaaaaar....
And make a wish
vboston 2 months ago
Harry Chapin's brother.
6470mark 4 months ago
BUT U DID IT TWO TIMES.MUST LIKE!!!
bugfarmery 6 months ago
Yep, I remember this very well. It used to come on Sunday mornings on WABC here in New York (Channel 7) IIRC at about 11:00 a.m. It was a cool show for its day, showing you all kids of interesting things. Chapin was a good host. And as for those Peter Max graphics, all I can say is - GROOVY!
paktype 7 months ago
great memories of my childhood
thank you for posting - please post more!!!
speedformercy 8 months ago
This dude was. Puffin Stuff. If you know what I mean
DrSlick138 8 months ago
Wow! Many years since I thought of that show!
TerryGini 8 months ago
Men to go back to looking like Tom Chapin. Natural all the way.
mikey42 8 months ago
I would of love to have heard Lynn Kellogg sing that intro song.
This was a pretty good show.
RatBatSpiderCrab 8 months ago
I wish I was Halle Berry's personal scratcher ... make it so, Tom !
JerichoDitch2 10 months ago
Make A wish that this is released on DVD !
bikebeerrun1960 11 months ago
What's to dislike, for Pete's sake? I miss the 70's. Einstein said that "time travel is perfectly possible." This was a very nice show.
casestudyification 11 months ago
Ah, Tom Chapin, where did those days go to?
TIPTON340 1 year ago
This brings back memories...
bi2lcu2s 1 year ago
ABC Sunday Mornings were memorable!
CorporalPitts 1 year ago
ABC Sunday Mornings were memorable!
CorporalPitts 1 year ago
Just rememberin' Tom Chapin's character and mustache on ABC Sunday Mornings is so memorable. I know Tom's mustache is shaved off but I always will still have Mine! LOL 1970's 4 LIFE!!!!
CorporalPitts 1 year ago
Tom Chapin is a hero because he stopped kids from going out to play and taking a ride to where ever he took us to and he educated us of reaching the stars learning about people places and things we had never seen taking us to places we had never been and haven't been there since it breaks my heart that's its gone but thanks to you tube not forgotten I'm came of time of Flower Power People don't lose it they called them smelly drug attics wonder who starved the cause and gave them the Drugs Love!
stragniato 1 year ago
Hey, I totally remember this, but to be honest, it was one of the educational shows we'd watch when there was absolutely nothing else to watch. Catchy tune that came back to me instantly though.
bellier20 1 year ago
One of those shows that made Saturday mornings great when I was a kid.
Kirke182 1 year ago
When I was a kid (and we couldn't afford cable) and we got like TWO stations, I loved this show! I was devastated when they cancelled it! Not only could I not belive they Never aired it again... I have up to this point NEVER found anyone else who remembered it as well! ( think part of it was that for some reason I remebered the title as 'I Wish I Were A Fish!' ???) Thankyou for vindicating my memory!
dukes0916 1 year ago
I despised every miserable second of this show.
ElHombreConDosOjos 1 year ago
This show was really groovy!
63gstone 1 year ago
Thanks for this, this was one of my favorites *sniff sniff*
Hugs;
~*~aNg~*~
mochawitch 1 year ago
You Bet! Mr.Chapin! I wish that you were still doing this educational kids tv..but the days of"Make A Wish"are over.
143AC 1 year ago
Children's Programming Produced by ABC NEWS?
I noticed the same vibe from Discovery '68 and '71
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newscaster13 1 year ago
Man, I remember this from when I was between the ages of 5 -11. Great show!
greyson911 1 year ago
Far Out!
rhondapsison 1 year ago
"this has been a presentation of abc news" .........i always liked that
this aired when i was 11, me and my friends at school were really bad and we would refer to this show as "take a crap"
pdx12000 1 year ago
I watched this as a little kid in the 1970s. My brother and I used to sing along with Tom Chapin and drive everybody crazy. Very groovy.
brooke050870 1 year ago
I loved this show.
likew0wman 1 year ago
I loved this show.
likew0wman 1 year ago
I loved this show.
likew0wman 1 year ago
Shit i remember this show back in 71
bud4207 1 year ago
this was such a COOL show
Staszu13 1 year ago
Great show! "Trippy" format turned kids on to learning.I found album he made;"Life is like that"released in 1976 on Fantasy Records.
bikebeerrun1960 1 year ago
tune in, drop out!
hippojuice23 1 year ago
"just let go fly highhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"....and nake a wish,,,
parkman35 1 year ago
I grew up with this as a child in the seventies. I miss it. Is it on DVD yet? I hope so. I loved this on Saturday mornings.
silentmoviemusicfrk 1 year ago
I don't get it.
Sponsored by ABC?
a gag/prank right? lol
yoohoo909 1 year ago
Now, if only someone had full episodes to load....this show was my very favorite childhood memory!
Shoknifeman 1 year ago
Oh wow. I've been Googling for this for years. I never thought I'd find it. Great stuff.
The seventies live on forever!
UglySean 2 years ago 9
Take a look at Make A Wish "Bull" Animation...it's a clip from the original show.
workfairy 2 years ago
"Anything you want to trrryyyyyy"........love the way he sings that.
VIEWTUBE00000 2 years ago
My brother and I loved to watch this show as kids, just to see Tom Chapin do the songs he did every week. I heard originally, it was going to be James Taylor, but that fell through, and they got Tom. Good things cause he was perfect for the show and wrote great songs too.
The ending animation looks like something the early MTV did many years later. Thanks for posting this rare piece of TV history!
Johnfern99 2 years ago
Hazerswoude... stop complaining. I swear you are the type of person that sniveles about the stupidest things. Read the other comments,95% positive. Similarities to another song you used to listen to while smoking dope, doesn't constitute a rip-off. Regarding the quality, pay attention. It was the early SEVENTIES! Ever see yellow submarine? The content is what was important,, you obviously weren't paying attention to that. MD
madmangtr1 2 years ago
Wow! I was beginning to think that maybe I dreamed this show... none of my friends remember it. (What a shame!) The 70's were definitely the golden age of kids shows, and we were so lucky to grow up back then! Thanks for posting this!
horta1701 2 years ago
I remember seeing this show on TV every Sunday morning> I liked it too. I wonder if this series has been released on DVD yet, or if it will be?
garywayne1966 2 years ago
I loved this show as a kid too - great footage on how things worked, and way cool Fillmore-esque graphics. Tom was years ahead of Discovery Channel. Another interesting note, Tom was little brother to the late folk singer Harry Chapin (big hit was Taxi).
tonelogman 2 years ago 2
OMG i havent seen this since I was 6! I have wondered for years what this show was called! I remember this opening well but no one ever knew what i was talking about when i tried to describe it. Didnt they show how things were made or something?
mx94racer 2 years ago 2
I loved Make a Wish. And no one I know has ever heard of it.
meemsluvsu 2 years ago
I grew up in Utah and as a young kid both Make A Wish and Schoolhouse Rock "rocked" my Saturday mornings. Sadly, not one of my friends or family can remember this show. What's wrong with all of these people? When I found this video it immediately took me back to my childhood...what great memories and what a great show!!
orion373 2 years ago 2
I remember watching it here in New Zealand back in the mid 70s.
boomshanka 2 years ago
Oh man!!! I had such a crush on Tom Chapin when I was a little girl. I didn't learn until years later he and Harry were brothers. I still think Tom's a babe!! I miss the show alot.
bumblebeebattv 2 years ago 2
I loved this show. and what's not to love about Tom Chapin.. I had a total crush. It is weird because I swear no one I know has ever heard of this show.
meemsluvsu 2 years ago
I remember this show growing up back in NJ, esp the Peter Max graphics!
TheBassgurl 2 years ago
Supervised by Al Brodax, of "Yellow Submarine"!
Julian9ehp 2 years ago
I remember watching this on Sunday mornings while waiting for my sisters getting ready for church
yearinyale 2 years ago
This is Tom Chapin, Harry Chapin's little brother. He's still with us, but his two brothers are now gone.
I used to love this show. Sunday mornings on ABC. It often was bumped for sports.
bobjfs 2 years ago
Does anyone remember a show called serendipity?? with Rudy......???
MrMini63 2 years ago
Looking back, it seems like a show designed for five yr olds on acid - but heck, it was the 70s - hah!
No one I talk to ever remembers this show - now there is proof!
(it was just a bad flash back - hahaha)
DestinyInNOLA 2 years ago
This is Harry Chapin's brother! Remember that Chapin sang "Taxi" and "Cat's in the Cradle" in the mid-1970's and died a tragic death.
sgatesam 2 years ago
So great to find this! No one that I know ever heard of this show [from my childhool] and here on YouTube I am in great company!
benaleyner 2 years ago
This show brings back a lot of bad memories. First, the title song rips off Badfinger's "Come and Get It". Secondly, it always signaled the ending of the Saturday morning cartoons. Thirdly, the production quality is crap and I wouldn't be surprised if the flashing animation and rapid chane of imagery induced numerous epileptic fits.
Burnt orange shag rugs, every shade of poo brown imaginable, and Make a Wish. This represents everything bad about the seventies to me.
hazerswoude1 2 years ago
Damn, hazers....bet you're a blast at parties. Sorry it brings pain to you, but I'm grateful it's on here. Good memories for some of us...
SportTrac45 2 years ago
Yes, I'm a blast at parties. Glad I could win that bet for you.
I'm thankful it's posted (I did, after all, search for it), because I like freedom of information. And I appreciate the other videos supplied by this poster (Run Joe Run. Dang. You can't dig up an unconscious memory like that in years of therapy.)
Anyway, bottom line, crappy production quality, poor execution. I'll give you good intention and sentiment.
hazerswoude1 2 years ago
Bad vibes man. Bad vibes.
GreatBigChangeComin 2 years ago
Blast from the past! I loved this show. Thanks for finding and posting this, I remember this and Big Blue Marble.
wattzoo 2 years ago
My dad and I used to watch this on Sunday morning.
Thanks for the memories.
RackEmPunk 2 years ago
I haven't heard this since I was a kid in the early '70s. It brings back a lot of Sunday morning memories. Thanks for posting this gem!
thenewhorizons 2 years ago 2
Haven't met a single person that ever heard of this great show. I loved this when I was a kid. So cool to find that others really do know of the show. SBK
tk975791 2 years ago
And I thought no-one else remembered this - Saturday mornings after swimming, Make A Wish and tea and toast.
Back in the days when Keenan and Kell weren't even twinkles in Satan's eye, and kids were still supposed to use thier brains.
JohnWoodthorpe 2 years ago
I love this song.
I even figured out the chords on my guitar.
beerborn 2 years ago
Just out of curiosity, did this show inspire the idea of the "Make a Wish" foundation?
pbanta62 2 years ago
sign up for the Tom Chapin email newsletter and his list of concerts ... hubby and i went last year to a children,s concert of his. We were the only adults there without any kids but we had a blast ... tom was terrific and his new CD of kids songs is wonderful. He met the kids beforehand ... sat and talked to them; signed autographs ( free of charge) ; we also bought his family's tribute to Harry ... it was awesome
ladyarwen3 2 years ago
TV is such crap these days! Shows like this one instilled positivity and made you think.
They need to bring back the Television Code and shows like this one.
jpx08 2 years ago
Excellent. Does anyone remember a Sunday afternoon show in the early 1970s called "Serendipity", hosted by Rudy Medina?
solariscyberdeliko 2 years ago
I remember that show well. They used to show it on NBC I believe on Sunday mornings. They would ride around LA in a van visiting things around town.
Synthetrix 2 years ago
I loved this show when I was little and thought I was the only one. It was intelligent, engaging, and fun. Anyone know if there are plans to release it on DVD? If only...maybe I'll "make a wish"
rtrevdrk 2 years ago
I remember this show when I was a kid on Saturday. This was the days when shows made you think and weren't dumbed down to the lowest common denominator...
groundhog713 2 years ago 3
Good God I loved this show and I thought I was the only one. On a Sunday morning.
Positive show. Wonderful. Bunch of shitty crap now on Saturdays. Shitty crap.
montey1 2 years ago
I remember watching this on Sunday mornings. Good memories!
kelime 2 years ago
Make a wish and you'll go far!!!!!
corfugirl528 2 years ago
Hey, I didn't know Dennis Eckersley sang and played guitar. lol.
kencoa 2 years ago
I don't know what this guy's on, but whatever it is, I want some!
mistofoles 2 years ago
Now I know where Tenacious D got their sound from :)
MontyPropps 2 years ago
I totally remember this. Thanks for letting me be little again, when things were so uncomplicated. If the economy was bad, we didn't know it. If our world leaders and big company execs were bad, we didn't know it. *sigh*
bellasola 2 years ago 11
I remember the animated hamburger-looking thing (ha ha). Ahhhh....the 70's. Nice times. I was probably six or seven......Why can't I make a time machine?
pazzensutra 2 years ago
I really loved all the whimsical, creative twists and turns this show took every episode. It was all about "possibilities", and these lessons came back to me time and again all throughout my life, much to my benefit.
CitizenKate 2 years ago
I remember this show very well. ABC needs to put it out on DVD!!
delosdmi 2 years ago
Yep, I remember this show, pretty vaguely however. Thanks for posting this.
paktype 2 years ago
I have vague memories of watching this on Sundays when I was a little kid.
I think "Superjail" on Adult Swim owes a little of its style to this show.
bribabytt 2 years ago
O M G !!!!!! I don't believe i saw this again after all these years !!! i remember this as a kid as well !, now i really feel old ! Thanks for posting....GOOD JOB !!
cjonyx 2 years ago
I remember when this came on in the early 70's on Sundays. It was on before all those sunday afternoon country music shows came on. LOL
Manongjojo 2 years ago
Ahh tom' s a great guy... sung with him a few times in Dublin... really nice:D
emhds 3 years ago
I used to love this show!
It is educational,-really helping kids think, creative, entertaining and FUN!
SInce I became a teacher I have wanted to get my hands on the old footage of this show.
I would love to see a remake of this show with today's technology! Can you imagine the possibilites?
nitrodeathblow156 3 years ago 2
What a great idea!!! Although, if the old show was on DVD, I'd be on it like a cat on a mouse!
Shoknifeman 2 years ago
It's amazing how much I remembered of this opening and closing.
cochranexyz 3 years ago
I seem to remember this being a children's "how to" type of show. I was only about 5 or 6 years old when this was on. Seems they would bring you into a gumball factory, or show you how basketballs were made. that kind of thing. I also remember it being on at around 11:00am on the east coast.
hilojack1 3 years ago
No...this show was a kind of poetic pop-culture show; where Tom would give a word or expression and expand it to "all the possibilities" ; for instance, he might take the word "flight", and show birds, rockets, astronaughts, old film of Chaplin trying to be a chicken Mickey Mouse in Plane Crazy; or whatever...this was simply the GREATEST children's show EVER made!!
Shoknifeman 2 years ago
I was about 6 when this show was on the air, and I vaguely remember that it was a children's "how to" type of show. A marble factory tour, gumball production, things like that. I'm not 100% sure, but I could be in the right area.
hilojack1 3 years ago
Does anyone remember another show, also on Sunday mornings around the same era, with the word "Rock' in the title and talked about various things...I remember one of them was how a 'bill became law.' That one was parodied on the Simpsons episdode where Lisa goes to Washington..
Lambtonboy 3 years ago
That was School House Rock.
70sKidVid 3 years ago
@70sKidVid Mutiplication Rock too!
chitrok1 1 year ago
@70sKidVid -You mean the one had a song that went: "I'm just a Bill, I'm only a Bill and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill..." & had the "bill" sitting on the steps that explained how Bills got passed? It wasn't a show it(what I'm thinking of)was actually 1-2 minute quickie stuck between(at approx 28 past or 58 before the hour)and between commercials. Great, fun, well put together and educational. We need things like that NOW that are entertaining and educational. Watched them with my daughter..
Crusader325 11 months ago
"Schoolhouse Rock" youtube it, and watch them all. Me and my husband still sing the songs to each other, and laugh.
babyz65 2 years ago
@Lambtonboy
Yes that was school House Rock.
Manongjojo 1 year ago
This is one of my earliest memories of childhood. I loved this show but can barely remember the content. I guess I'll have to "make a wish" that these shows are released somehow! I'd love to see them now as an adult. And what a great theme song.
sweetlorraine72 3 years ago
I very much remember this program. It came on Sunday mornings in the South and it impacted me. Great song, easy lyrics, and a very real message. The graphics were standard of the day. Peter Max influenced a great deal of art during this day, both print and video. Search "Peter Max" and you'll understand.
itsspideyman 3 years ago
I watched "Make a Wish" a lot when I was a kid.
RCmack 3 years ago
I made a wish but it didn't work. When I opened my eyes, this dude was still there..
mistofoles 3 years ago
Thanks for this memory! Great old show!
zestysauce 3 years ago
Loved this show! Played in the afternoons in Boston back then...loved the positive vibe, man!
rowerrunner 3 years ago
GREAT memories watching this as a kid! And I never forgot it. Great theme song, as well.
NostalgiaBob 3 years ago
Won an Emmy for 'Outstanding Informational Children's Series" and also a Peabody.
Thanks for sharing this!!
mconnollyil 3 years ago
I do a long running blues radio show on a college station in MA and I've played Tom's song "Shovelin'" when it gets snowy. I do
remember this show and intro (I'm 46). Brother
Harry's W.O.L.D is another fave of mine. At least in this part of the country, it's not often heard on oldies radio. Either the owners don't want people to think the call letters of their station are WOLD (you know,
the ones with ratings books) or, for DJs,
the song "hits too close to home"..._
foxvermont 3 years ago
I had a crush on this guy when I was a kid.
carolesmagicworkshop 3 years ago 2
They had to be stoned out of their gourds when they made the cartoon part!!
selatik1 3 years ago
i remember this song so vividly,but i forgot what the show was actually about!
flairboys 3 years ago
This was a great show especially for its time. I spoke with someone through Tom Chapin's web page a couple years ago about the availability of recordings of the old shows. They said at that time the network (ABC I think) was holding it in a can in a warehouse with no plans to do anything with it. Shall be launch a grass roots call to the network to create an "Make a Wish" DVD. In th meantime Tom Chapin continues a his performance career for both children and adult audiences around the country.
11281949 3 years ago
Okay, that just catapulted me back into my hang ten shirt with plaid flaired slacks. Where do people find this stuff! It's far out and funky.
Fromorion 3 years ago
Oh my! I thought I imagined seeing this show as a kid but I didn't imagine! This brings so many memories as a kid.
CadillacL 3 years ago
My God!
I haven't seen this clip in years!
Thanks for bringing back"Make A Wish!"
to us all here at "You Tube!".
143AC 3 years ago
One of my absolute favorite shows as a kid!
king7wood 3 years ago
Oh ... my... ...God!! I have thought about this show here and there for decades. Threw in a search for it and what do you know?!! Now I AM convinced you can find ANYTHING on youtube! :)
Barndancer61 3 years ago 4
This clip brought tears of happiness. I adored Tom and Make A Wish, watching it just before getting my own self dressed and walking to elementary school. Mom would already be at work at the hospital, my older sister would be gone to high school, so I had the house to myself for a little while and Make A Wish was part of my world. The moment this clip started I was back in my mom's house and singing the theme---I had not sung it in nearly 50 years. Love you bunches, Tom! You were my bro, my hero!
KojiRecords 3 years ago 2
Truly a favorite tv shows from our far off youth.
newrochellephoenix 3 years ago
I was too young to appreciate this show when it was on the air. If it was on now I'd really tune it.
vladtheimpaler15th 3 years ago
WOW! What a pleasure to see this again! It's been too long since I've seen this! :) And it was a good show too!
AlbieGray 3 years ago 3
I loved Make A Wish-it was a nature/science how made by ABC News(!?!?)with a hippy twist. It seems silly now, but as a 2nd or 3rd grader, I really felt safe and comfortable in with all that peace and love stuff. I really thought that's how the world worked. The music was great. Harry Chapin's brother Tom was really earnest and wholesome.
earthboy25 3 years ago 4
Yep, I remember it fondly too. Been looking for the theme tune pretty much since I found youtube
Vinnymonster2 3 years ago
I knew this show really existed and I wasn't just dreaming!
TheRebel2007 3 years ago
I actually totally forgot about this show, but I remember it now. I use to watch it on Sundays, IIRC.
I had no idea that Tom Chapin hosted the show, either.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago 2
Wow! I was just thinking of this show!
Even remembered most of the words. How on earth did you get this?!?
One of those shows that teach you even though you don't realize it. Thank you 70sKidVid!.
You wouldn't happen to have another program from the same time period "Hot Dog!" that featured Woody Allen, JoAnn Worley & Johnathan Winters now, would you?
destroyan14 3 years ago
If you check my other videos, you can find the opening and closing to the pilot, as well as one of the regular episodes. At least one full segment was uploaded by someone else, too.
70sKidVid 3 years ago
I remember watching this show when I was a kid. I loved the beginning and end credits with all the music and colors. I could never figure out why there was the sound of a strong wind at the beginning and the end. I haven't seen this since it was on tv. I wish it was available on video or dvd. Brings back alot of good memories. Thanks for posting.
broughham 3 years ago
Thank you for putting this online! I was looking for the MP3 of that GREAT song. But this is even better. Those were the daze...
snorky500 3 years ago
What was THIS guy on?!
(%^~
mediamadman747 3 years ago
Make a wish, and you can be anything you have
wanted to be - allegedly. I have just posted
13 30-minute episodes of Make a Wish on YouTube. Catch them all!
braingun64 3 years ago
I share the same sentiments as all who are thankful for a little blast from the past. I loved this show, too. Thought Tom was a cutie. It was a positive message. We need shows like this!
muggleduchess 3 years ago
If only kids today had this to watch, maybe they wouldn't be so busy killing each other, then posting it on YouTube. This was definately a great show. Almost like Yellow Submarine and capn Kangaroo rolled into one.
snorky500 3 years ago 2
does anyone remember the show like this that started with "do you believe in magic"?
lotr333 3 years ago
That was "Mission: Magic" with Rick Springfield. You can find the intro on YouTube...it was a Filmation cartoon from 1973.
haveajam 2 years ago
does anyone remember a show like this that use to come on singing "do you believe,you believe ,you believe in magaic ? cause i believe ,i believe i belive that i do ?
lotr333 3 years ago
WOW!!! this is amazing! I remember this show i use to always watch as a kid....memories....
lotr333 3 years ago
This was sunday morning kids tv. I remember the show comming on at about 11am on ABC it was very visual....Has anyone got some long clips of Wonderama, It was on before this show on what's now the FOX network (Metromedia)
reemix21 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this! This was probably my single favorite show as a kid and I've never found any DVD or video copies anywhere. Would love to see much much more!
YvesDropper 3 years ago
wow - this brings back memories and feelings of being a young teenager hanging on every word. "i make a wish a cloud to be . . but did i forget any possibilities ? " wow that triggers feelings of youthful imagination and hope for the future.
thanks !
moogkorg 3 years ago
Thank you. I have had the hardest time convincing people that this show existed at all.
SailorBarsoom 3 years ago
Animation by Fred Mogubgub
asteriskpix 3 years ago
I'll join the many voices in saying 1) thanks so much for posting this, 2) I've been wanting to see & hear this for decades, and 3) I, too, had a crush on Tom. So charming! And I, too, would love to see a show like this on the air now, something to inspire kids without all the obnoxious commercialism that's so rampant today. Thanks!!
kiraboo 3 years ago 3
Thanks 70sKidVid for posting. Every now and then this song would come to mind after first watching this show around '76 when I was in college. I never thought I'd be able to hear this tune again, but thanks to you and for youtube.
slinscome 3 years ago 2
This was Sunday morning. This was a wonderful memory. Please put on DVD!
elwoodcox 3 years ago 2
...this made me flat out cry....It took me back so fast, I was a kid again!! Time for "Kids Are People Too!" next...
-dbigdog1956
dbigdog1956 3 years ago 2
good heavens i remember this. i saw it in school i think it was 4th grade. thanks for a great memory, this is so neat!
mlh217 3 years ago
Great childhood memories. I would love to see more.
watapain 3 years ago
Is the series available on DVD??? I absolutely loved this show, that is until it devolved into a Bicentenial educational program late in its run. Tom was a great host. The entire show was very surreal, funny and informative. Thanks for posting this rare gem. ~Jon
FlyingHorseKnuckles 3 years ago 2
AT LAST! Can we get it all up here please? I have been craving this FOR YEARS!
Ten thousand THANKS
Billy Beyond NYC
billybeyond 4 years ago
Wow, fantastic, thanks for posting this! I've been trying to revive my memories of this great show (which basically taught free-association creativity) for years :-) If you have more of this, please consider posting it!!!
synthforhire 4 years ago 2
In my heart!!! I used to listen to his CD's all the time when I was little!
Byronbabes 4 years ago
where is tom chapin now?
plyg 4 years ago
He still continues to perform around the country,
Davidt33 4 years ago
good show ,i mostly watched it because of the music
harlan1988 4 years ago
Saw Tom and Harry sometime while I was at Union College 1979-83. Great concert. I think both were involved with NYPIRG, Ralph Nader's organization.
fairalways 4 years ago
It had to be 1981 or earlier. Harry was killed in a car accident in July of that year.
RadicalJones27 3 years ago
Whatttttttt,
I truly hate to hear that
reemix21 3 years ago
Tom Chapin is the younger brother of Harry Chapin. I used to watch "Make a Wish" back then when I was already in High School. Then I managed to find Tom's first solo album - it was so lovely, I actually connected with his music much more than to Harry's. I used to sit and work out some of his songs on the guitar. In summer of 1980 I finally heard him live and met him at the Toronto Folk Festival, he was a very down to earth guy. Thanks for posting this!!!
elimarcus 4 years ago
Even though I was well beyond Saturday morning cartoons by the time this show came out, I watched it faithfully. It was an outstanding show. Thanks so much for posting this.
Saltygal 4 years ago
Thanks for posting this 70skidvid
I remember this entertaining/educational show quite fondly as a kid, but most of the people my age can't recall it when I mention it to them.
The host Tom Chapin is Harry Chapin's brother right?
TVFREAKMAN 4 years ago
Yes, Tom is the late Harry Chapin's brother.
Davidt33 4 years ago
WOW!!!! I really haven't heard this since the 70's... I use to watch this show Religiously!! thanks
Jazzy9964 4 years ago
My wish is that I could have the part of my brain that remembers this removed.
cornbruiser 4 years ago
This was a great show and very educational. I wish they had more shows like this today.
blujay01 4 years ago
Just another "Thank you" for posting this vid. Have been looking for this for decades. Isn't it strange when, after 30 years or more, the words just popped straight back into your head? Aged about 11 or 12 I would try and follow Tom's chord changes. Great memories!!! Thanks
tortybits 4 years ago