Sandy Becker Show WABD New York

Effortless, easy-going brilliance from Sandy Becker, the New York kid show host. This clip will make you wish we still had Brick Oven cookies in the pantry and Sandy back on the old black and white Sylvania Halo Light. An announcer and radio actor ("Young Dr. Malone") before he became every New York kid's best friend, Sandy is still remembered with great affection. Want to re-visit your youth? The sweet simplicity of Sandy's show will bring a shock of recognition, a smile, and maybe even a tear. This clip hails from the days when Dr. Allen B. Dumont still had his initials on the station's call letters. Look for Marvin Mouse in Part 2.

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[smdad]

Thank you so much for your Sharing of The Sandy Becker Show. It was a Childhood favorite of mine. Along with the Big Professor. Lenny Waller NYC

[binkle1]

I was terrified of that creepy silver clown on the Kirschner circus! Sandy was so intelligent, funny, and handsome, I was seven and wanted to marry him!

[rolex452]

I met Sandy Becker in 1960 at a supermarket P/R gig for his show. He had grey hair even then, and I wondered why he didn't look just like the guy in the B&W TV show. But he was the biggest show biz figure in my life back then!

[fscap811]

My uncle used to have an Arnold bread route in the Peekskill, NY area back in the mid 60's and I helped him sometimes. Those cookies and even their bread was the best...really did taste like homemade.

[jb20092009]

How about the Marshmallow Fluff ads?

[143AC]

Dear Flirken,

"Officer Joe"Bolton never hosted WPIX TV Ch.11 NYC's

"Popeye Show".."Capt.s"Allen Swift,Ray Heatherton and

Jack McCarthy mc'd the show.

[flirken]

Don't forget Captain Jack McCarthy who took over from Officer Joe Bolton (or was it the other way around?) I think one or both of them showed Popeye.

[Graydood]

Watched him growing up, too. Notice how that well trained voice is so much like Dick Clark's voice?

[1975tooto]

These cookies he is showing were made of about 6 ingredients back then.Just the Basics!! Now if you look at the rappers of any snack you eat they have stuff in there that you can not pronounce!!The ingredredients take up half the wrapper, there are so many.

[labambawatusi]

Norton Nork! Where is he? Who did Hambone, was it Soupy?

[javoman13]

it was nice show.

[143AC]

Sandy Becker's first two kids tv shows at WABD TV

Ch.5 in NYC were on weekday afternoons and later

on weekday mornings during the mid 1950's. This clip is from The Sandy Becker Morning Show.