A Day With Doodles

[fubleduck]

3:55) That sound effect was what drew me to the show, plus the fact that I found that kind of slapstick amusing back then @ kidneygarden age.

[pomeroy40144]

Loves this. Nice banjo work. Wonder who that was?

[loverosesbabyv]

I loved this show when I was little. It was shown on my local network. Thanks for posting this. It brings back a lot of memories.

[41TPB]

Fresh out of film school I cut many of these 136 shorts in SF. We never saw any of the TV finishes; they were not broadcast locally. Doodles was a good guy & very smart. He even wrote medical essays under an aka. We had many adventures together in and out of studio. Once a toxic chemical used for a smoking wig got outta hand. The cutting crew baled out the back window as Doodles and the camera crew ran for the front door. BTW, the sound on this sample is late, about 24 frms. outta sync.

[DJCOJO]

Everything about this makes me smile......such a happy memory of my childhood.

[vccstudents]

Cast Doodles: Doodles Weaver

Everybody Else: Doodles Weaver It's too funny this was Sigourney Weaver's uncle!

[BronxNYE206St]

RIP Doodles

[BronxNYE206St]

Please post more Doodles if you have it.

[Nickcat5]

This was SO BAD,It was GREAT!!! always Loved 'Day with Doodles"!!

[Kholm65]

awesome what a great childhood memory thanks!

[ridgerunner721601]

I had seen Doodles Weaver in bit parts of movies and TV shows over the years, but had no idea he was this funny.  How sad that a man with this much talent should end up committing suicide. God have mercy on his soul.

[143AC]

Between Ms.Weaver and her uncle Mr.Winstead("Doodles")Weaver..­Mr.Weaver was and still is the better performer.

[horarwgt]

"A Day With Doodles" was syndicated in 1964. "The Doodles Weaver Show" was a similar half hour of silly gags aired by NBC in 1951. In 1957-8, Doodles turned up again as a regular on NBC's "Club Oasis" variety series. He made more than 100 film and TV appearances between 1936 and 1981; his last as a studio guard in "Under The Rainbow." "Nothing means anything when you're in pain," he said in 1981. "I have a nice house and an income but not a thing to live for." Two years later he shot himself..

[Shawnster65]

I remember watching this as a child of

6 in 1970..the piano music always stuck with me thru the years, and what a pleasure it's been to see and hear tis again after all these years.

The end credits also--I never forgot Doodles being bitten by the alligator, or when the hand comes out of the box and growls at him.

At 45, I still laugh myself silly seeing this, but my eyes are very moist knowing that he killed himself all those years past. What a waste..

[143AC]

Dear Jaysne, No.."Capt.Jack"McCarthy never showed" A Day With Doodles Weaver"..Ms.Carol Corbett showed those films on"The Mighty Hercules Show"/"The Carol Corbett Show".

[143AC]

I wonder who did the vo narrations for"The Day With Doodles

Weaver"tv film comedies?

[outdotheant]

Doodles did this very well, and he was funny.  Too bad he committed suicide, according to Wikipedia.

[BDP62]

Amazing. I never thought I would see one of these again. Thank you for posting!

[tat2doc]

I remember Doodles Weaver and he also had 2 books published. I had them as an early teen but have since lost them over the years.

[fromthesidelines]

"Doodles" Weaver started out as a movie actor in the late '30s, and eventually became a key member of Spike Jones and His City Slickers from 1946 through '51...WPIX-TV in New York originally showed these on Carol Corbett's mid-day show in 1965 {along with "The Mighty Hercules"}, and finally during "The Little Rascals" (mostly as "filler") in 1972-'73...

[BenAliGtor]

Poor guy died of a self inflicted gunshot wound.

[sakara18235]

gumby shorts, davy and goliath shorts, doodles shorts, little rascals shorts, 3 stooges shorts, and even serial episodes, were shown on kids daytime tv back then.

[divewave]

i hear he was a benifactor of the weaver chicken empire!1

[divewave]

Was he Autistic??? poor bastad...

[143AC]

Dear Farnsworth, "Officer Joe"Bolton never showed "Day With

Doodles Weaver"films on tv NYC based kids tv

shows..Ms.Carol Corbett screened the films on

her version of Ch.11's"Mighty Hercules TV Show".

[Jaysne]

I grew up watching NYC tv and saw Doodles, but don't remember Carol Corbett. There was another kids' show host named Captain Jack McCarthy--perhaps that was the guy who showed them instead of Joe Bolton?

[Sctmpsn]

I've been been waiting for 40 years to see these again! In Seattle it was the long running J.P. Patches (Google J.P., a Seattle legend) on KIRO channel 7 that aired these in the afternoon. They were all silly like this one, but the great Doodles facial reactions, intentionally stupid disguises and the priceless narrations had this ten-year-old ROTFL and waiting for these every day! Post more if you got 'em, these are priceless clips from a lost era in children's television.

[fromthesidelines]

This was a series of five-minute "live-action cartoons" [in the style of the MGM "Pete Smith Specialties"] produced in 1964, with Winstead 'Doodles' Weaver (as "Himself" and "Everybody Else") usually demonstrating how NOT to handle everyday occurances...including being a temporary salesman in a sporting goods store!

[Farnsworth31]

Doodles Weaver is WAY up there along with "The Little Rascals", "The Marx Brothers", "Officer Joe Bolton" and later Mel Brooks and the Zucker brothers...all who would warp my mind from childhood into adulthood. Thanx for sharing and please POST MORE DOODLES!!!

[Howlinblind]

did you know he played a postman on The Andy Grifith show? He was also the dockman in the Hitchcock movie

The Birds

[zebonaut]

Doodles Weaver is the uncle of SigourneyWeaver?!!!!????!??!

How frakkin fantastic and funny is that?

[UglySean]

It gets better than that - Did you know that Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are actually SISTERS? Oh the surprises in show biz. Then again Cheryl and Russel Crow apparently aren't related. No matter how the last name is spelled. Oh, and remind me never to go into the store in this video.

[wildnites558]

*AND*....Charlie Weaver, who was a perennial favorite on the Hollywood Squares gameshow in the '70s was the grandfather of Rosanna Arquette.

[UglySean]

But Susan (Sigourney) has a smoking body, especially when I first discovered it in Alien. Doodles doesn't but he was funny as hell and I wish he were alive today.

[planthi80]

oh, god a moment from my childhood. we need more of these. how did you get them and who has them? thanks for the posting~!

[UglySean]

Childhood? Where was YOUR childhood? A person could only be so lucky. I never saw this before.