Engineer Bill

LA Kids Show

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Entertainment

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[YaHashaWha]

You are right it was KHJ #9 not KCOP#13

[volleybri02]

my dad used to watch this when he was a little boy.

[Petemonster62]

@Petemonster62 Athearn did discontinue making the freight car kits but they are still available at train shows. Classic Toy Trains magazine did an article on Engineer Bill. He first brought in some of his HO scale trains when he started the show. Bill wanted to get larger trains that would show up better on TV. He first contacted Lionel about sending some O gauge trains, but they declined. Bill had a friend at a hobby shop furnish the American Flyer S gauge train layout.

[PassatDoc]

@mrtimetime: Engineer Bill (aka Cartoon Express) was a television program in the afternoon (after school) for children. The theme was model railroads. Sometimes kids would bring an engine or decoration that they had built themselves. One or two children would serve as guests who sat next to the host. Cartoons would be shown in addition to the dialogue between Engineer Bill and the guest children.

[PassatDoc]

I saw this show from San Diego. A rooftop antenna in a flat topographic area (no hills/mountains) could pull in signals from LA, 120 miles away, and long before cable arrived. What always puzzled me, as a three year old viewer, was why none of the guests on the show ever came from San Diego. Always from LA or its suburbs. I probably had only a vague notion of where LA was, nor did I appreciate that most parents wouldn't want to drive their children three or four hours to LA just to be on a show.

[Pauken11]

@PassatDoc Yup, I remember going to the kitchen to get my glass of milk to play "red light, green light." Good times.

Jim, now 61, born in Pasadena

[roblimo]

Wow. Takes me back. Engineer Bill was the first TV show I was on, along with my older half-brothers Greg and Eric, who were visiting from Bremmerton, WA. I must have been about 4. Later I was also on Sheriff John and then, while in first grade at Clifford Street Elementary School, I hit the L.A. kiddie show big-time: Art Linkletter. Many years later, when the Bill Cosby "Kids Say the Darndest Things" show was on the air, I was invited - but the kinescope from my appearance wasn't usable. :(

[mrtimetime123]

is this a movie or tv show ?? thanks

[Keleigh3000]

I loved this show as a kid. My mother used to have a favorite Italian restaurant in North Hollywood who's owner/chef loved to dote over all the kids that came in. He had 'Engineer Bill' on the jukebox and would always play it for me, after the appropriate amount of feigned reluctance, of course.

[iwait4u]

Doodling drawin or painting, when ever i come across some random squiggles and marks, the Engineer Bill drawing exercise is never far behind them. I have lived to be five years old 11.8 times since back then