JP Patches

a bit from the classic JP Patches show.

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Entertainment

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• JP
• Patches
• seattle

[DennisGW10]

Kids anywhere but the Pacific Northwest have NO IDEA what they were missing growing up by not having J.P. to wake up to, eventually to come home from school to, and even have his "Magic Carpet Ride" on Saturday mornings. He is THE icon of Northwest television...say what you will, but J.P. is REVERED around here. For those of you who don't know, there is a statue of J.P. and Gertrude in the Fremont area; it's unveiling drew a crowd of THOUSANDS when it was unveiled. J.P. will live FOREVER!

[kwgthacher]

JP was a hoot! The "I C U 2" TV set - my gosh, he got away with some stuff back then ... and then there was " I.M. RAGS" - scared me to death at age 5!

[chuckiejay]

@recoverfromhydro Me, too!! That was 43 years ago. Drat, I feel OLD!!!!!!

[herrmitt1414]

Always wanted to see his basement...when he opened the door and it shook with the oogah oogah chucka! A life mystery lol

[kellycarterholzhaus]

I watched JP Patches, as a child in Kamloops, BC, Canada. Loved him! He was such a blast! Happy Retirement on this date JP Patches. We will miss your one of kind brand humour

[Tunnelfish2]

I used to work at a company where my supervisor was a friend of Chris Wedes and I was invited over for a dinner party to meet him once. The look on his face was priceless when I told him my sister was a "Patches Pal", but I was a "Boris Buddy". It made up for the time my sister got to see him do a show but Mom kept me home because she thought I was too young to be there.

[DennisGW10]

@Bradyhousetour I don't think it was a Canadian creation...Chris Wedes actually took over the character in Minneapolis where it was created by another broadcaster and brought it to Seattle in 1958. It was seen in B.C. because people there could get it either on a Vancouver TV station or, more likely, KVOS in Bellingham, which like Seattle's KIRO was a CBS affiliate at the time.

There is a decent Wikipedia page about J.P. that tells a lot of his history...

[Bradyhousetour]

@DennisGW10 I think it is so fascinating how our childhood shows should become such objects of nostalgia. I watched just a clip or two on here of JP Patches, and I can definitely see what I missed. I'm envious. Great stuff. They just don't make children's programming like they did when we were young! I think it's interesting too that it was a Canadian creation. It makes sense for you, then, having lived so close to the border that you would have received Canadian programs.

[DennisGW10]

@Bradyhousetour I feel bad for you, at least in your childhood. Chris Wedes, who played J.P., is now 83 years old and battling incurable blood cancer that is thankfully in remission. When he does meet his maker, which hopefully won't be for MANY years, the city of Seattle should have a funeral procession through downtown...if I had to guess, it wouldn't surprise me if one million people showed up. I know I would go, as would many of the people I grew up with. He is our childhood hero!

[420blazeman1]

I sure miss being a kid. loony tunes, jp patches, speed racer. the new age is depressing! remember when TV was free? channel 12 was the canadian channel. they played alot of cartoons. i wish the PNW would go back to the old ways.

[Bradyhousetour]

@DennisGW10 This show sounds wonderful! But I wouldn't go so far as to say that all kids in the ENTIRE Northwest grew up with this lovable show. I grew up in Oregon (which is still the Northwest), and I'd never heard of JP Patches until tonight. And I was an AVID television watcher all through the 70s and 80s. Here in Oregon, our hero was a local Portland show called "Ramblin Rod," which featured 20 or 30 local kids as guests and showed old cartoons.

[SenhordoBonfim]

The quality of this video used to be just fine. I wonder what happened?