Hiya Kids, It's Andy's Gang!

[WEmip]

It's as trippy as it was when I was a kid!! Incredible!!

[adavidbujanda]

thats some fancy footwork

[BeatyAFI14]

WELL HIYA KIDS!

[herbrampe]

Good old Buster Brown shoes- Jesus, I found myself singing along with with him. Memories of the 50's

[jvcarmic]

No wonder we all turned out to be so interesting.

[bellsys1]

Television at its finest! Great memories of Andy's Gang.

[redheadedgolem]

Wow, Andy backed right down from that orangutan when he was caught winking at the audience.

[snaf123]

Omg. Is Harry the orang-utan real cause my auntie Kally works in a zoo for a part time job and she loves the different monkeys and the orang-utans love her!!!! If your wondering what she does in her other job, she is a riding coach and so is my mum and they both preform at the Yorkshire fair which is a BIG deal...

[jerseguy33]

thanks for this

[dboxer12]

Midnight sure looked like a real cat. But playing the violin......welll

[mistalizad]

Don't forget church or Sunday school!

[shanghaibenny2]

Is this where they got the idea for Harry and the Hendersons?

[ArnieDahl]

Man, what memories from Saturday mornings in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I loved this show andFfroggy; Hi ya kids, hi ya..... Black and white TV's and all the innocence of the day.

[riverpotato]

Cool daddy-o. That Harry is a real hepcat. Like real gone man. Can you dig it? I knew that you could. lol

[fabulbabe]

This is the most bizarre show, with the stock footage of the audience of kids spliced in and the shrieking dubbed into the whole soundtrack. This is crazy, man, crazy!

[olddude521]

Buster Brown was a midget. He was played by Jerry Marin, who played many movie and tv roles over his lifetime

[Boonchocks]

thanks asshole. this is why my dad is twisted in the head.

[rowbyrowby]

(This REALLY dates me!) When I was a kid my mother took me to NBC Studios on the corner of Sunset & Vine in Hollywood. I was in the audience and saw an episode of Andy's Gang performed. All I remember of the show is Froggy the Gremlin -- a tiny green figure on stage from where I was in the audience. It was the first TV show I ever attended. The historic NBC Studios on Sunset were torn down to be replaced by a Home Savings & Loan, when NBC opened their new color studios in Burbank. ...Rowby

[Juliaflo]

@rowbyrowby You are a lucky person, you are, you are.

Happy New Year.

[1952kid]

1955-1960 with host Andy Divine,my 1958 NYC TV guide shows this bieng on Saturday 8;30 AM on channel 4 . I watched it in those years. After watching an entire show, i had to find a Bugs Bunny cartoon to get back into reality. It still has that '' somethings not right here '' air about it.

[monkeyguitarist24]

I'd heard of this show spoken of as a legend of weirdness! I'm guessing at least part of it was live, maybe the opening and closing host segments and most was filmed and shown to a live audience? That's how Amos & Andy was done -- the show itself was filmed, but for broadcast was played before an actual audience to get the live reaction.

But of course, you can do just about anything with a Magic Twanger!

[riverpotato]

The Buster Brown seen here appears to have been a midget. Apparently, midgets were hired to portray the comic strip character as a marketing tool for Buster Brown shoes.

[volunteer9999]

omg, my hair is really gray now but I was a kid sitting in front of our black/white tv watching this LOL

[Juliaflo]

@volunteer9999 I did, too, but I have not gray hair. (I am past 21, LOL).

[all66books]

I read that the shows were filmed sans audience.

[hemming57]

I remember this show as a kid. Now that I look at it did Andy perform in front of a live audience or did they film the kids separately and edit them in?

[Juliaflo]

I believe it was edited, I do, I do.

[RxJohnTNT]

Hey, I got this tape to.. I bet that Froggy has something to do with this !!!

[ih8abortion]

Hey, this is the tape i have!