MPB | A Lifetime of Children's Programming

[lewkev]

hey thats Thelma from good times 1:57

[19GuyBri]

I have three VHS's of The Clyde Frog Show. If I could get someone to transfer them to DVD I would post them. They bring back memories.

[homercrowley]

MSPB is now offering copies of The Clyde Frog Show and About Safety. Mine are in the mail.

[homercrowley]

@homercrowley, mine...are...in...the...may-ye­ll...

[homercrowley]

and by Sunday, I will have

sought like Icarus, to fly too high-

and far too lonely than I ought

to kiss the sun of east and west

and hold the world at my behest-

To hold the terrible power

to whom only gods are blessed-

and to have watched the discography of Clyde Frog.

[vanhouten64]

A friend of mine wrote to MPB requesting copies of old Clyde Frog episodes. They sent him (for free) some film reels, which I suspect are the original copies of the episodes!!

[Lupton2000]

Was 1973 the earliest year the copyright dates appeared on the Mississippi ETV programs?

[MSPublicBroadcasting]

@Lupton2000 I'm not sure - I'll try to find out and update you here

[Lupton2000]

@MSPublicBroadcasting Thanks. Lately I had been enquiring about Project Survival. I recall that there was no copyright date on that show (not even the teachers manual to that show that I looked at a kid had a date). I had suspected that 1971 would have been the year it was made. I sure loved that show:)

[MultiStarkindustries]

Clyde Frog was the best.

[Apokalypez]

Geee Brewsterr! Wonder Wombat!

[marcocap21]

I loved the Clyde Frog Show!!!!!!! I agree with everyone here, please show any type of video.

[MrBoomboombamalam]

mpb made a dvd. To see if there are any available copies call 601-432-6683.

[Lupton2000]

Does anyone have any recollection of Project Survivial?

[johnnyafairbanksak]

@Lupton2000 Of the nearly 40 children's programs they have done over the last 40 years, Project Survival is nowhere in MPB's vaults. That, or they might have done what every other broadcaster did in the '70s: destroy the tapes.

[Lupton2000]

@johnnyafairbanksak Thanks. Somehow it does not surprise me that ETV would destroy the tapes once the show was deleted from the schedule. Project Survival was a big budget show for ETV (especially for circa 1973).

[steelmag9]

Thank you for this clip! I had a great time remembering all of those shows from my childhood in Greenville, MS (WMAO-channel 23/channel 9 on cable)

[sydonabike]

I liked it when the roman candle blew up in clyde's hand. Anyone seen that one ?

[throbbinnut]

I really wish the original Clyde Frog shows were available in some format, somewhere. But I think someone emailed a reply to me back in 2008 that "...there are Rights issues." Oh well. A tiny sliver of my childhood sits in a coffin for the next 50 years while people argue about who owns it. That's just perfect. So all I get to remember about the show is that somebody had breakfast glop on their shirt when they got to school and somebody else made fun of them for it. And that wasn't nice.

[Sealord75369]

lol kyle ripped clyde frogs head of in "tonsil trouble"

[johnnyafairbanksak]

By the way...I have the same video with the ORIGINAL music intact if you want me to upload it.

And Mrs. Cabobble's Caboose was produced by NPT (Nashville Public Television), not MPB. I also recall "About Science" not having a copyright date as well, but "About Safety" (which introduced us to Clyde Frog) had a 1973 date.

[homercrowley]

@johnnyafairbanksak yes.

[0TastesLikeChicken0]

Me and Artimus Clyde Frog gonna save Selma Hiyak from the big metal spider.

Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki! Fresh cowboy from the west side.

Regards, James West (Cowboy & Rap Star)

[eRealist]

Clyde Frog > Chuck Norris

[LocoLobo79]

Wasn't there a show with an elderly lady, singing and a train? I can't remember the name for the life of me, but we used to watch it every morning in kindergarten.

[OohMitch]

@LocoLobo79  mrs. Cabobble's Caboose

[Lupton2000]

I figured that Project Survival had to have been done from 1971 to 1973. 1974 was the earliest copyright date on ETV programs. Project Survival didn't have a copyright date.

[Lupton2000]

Does anyone remember Project Survival? If so what year was it? It had to have been in the mid-70s. I LOVED that show. Remember Kadet Evor and all the blue men?

I remember part of that song:

Project Survival

We must save our lives

That is our purpose

In order to survive

If anyone has videos of that show, please post them:)

[Bobaklives]

nice clip. enjoyed the musical selection

[thefellasmusic]

0:42, Bring back Clyde!

[AnyMajorDude777]

Bring back Clyde Frog for me and my soon to be daughter. I'll send money or whatever it takes. Godbless

[ShadetreeMortician]

You need to release Clyde Frog on DVD. Or at least re-run them all on late-night feeds, along with Just Around The Corner, The Write Channel, Pennywise, the short story films, etc. Also other shows like InsideOut, Physics Demonstrations, etc. Mississippi ETV had some great shows that desperately need to be revived.

[marybokkon]

I concur. Please release Clyde Frog! I would love to show him to my son. :-)

[ClydeFrog1234]

Thanks for posting this...I was tired of telling everyone my name didn't come from South Park. Now I have proof;)

[johnnyafairbanks]

Except for The Write Channel, Media Mania, Geoscout (both from Cringevision), and the entire Tomes and Talismans series, there are not that many videos of MPB instructional shows on YT (especially the aforementioned Clyde Frog). They've produced more of these than anybody else in North America (sorry, TVOntario)!

[johnnyafairbanks]

And living in Mississippi from 1989-91, I didn't even know MPB did so many of these shows...though that psychedelic Mississippi Center for Educational Television ident from their early years -- if anyone has it, PLEASE put it on here!!! -- was such a trip!!

[myjollyboy]

The world needs Clyde the Frog.

Please find videos of the show, especially the episode when he falls off the pile of books.

K

[Jolefay]

I would love to see a collection of "Clyde Frog Show" seriously...SOMEONE ANYONE.

[OleDiz]

Don't forget John Maxwell as Ice Cream Man on Pennywise.

[jeffconn]

Are all these programs produced by Mississippi ETV?

[MSPublicBroadcasting]

Yes, all of those programs were developed by MPB.

[jeffconn]

Ok, you MUST give us more clips of these shows. The youth of today do not have the pleasure of watching Clyde Frog! ;-)

[deezinr93]

This is Brilliant! Thank you for this! Thank you!