Soupy Sales - Complete Show 1965 - Part 01

Pieces of this show have been posted to YouTube previously... here's the complete show (minus commercials) in three parts.

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[Barry I. Grauman]

In 1965-'66, Soupy and WNEW-TV taped 260 episodes (one year's worth) of his show for syndication through Screen Gems/Columbia. Most stations showed them on 16mm kinescope film (those who didn't have videotape machines). This is one of those shows.

[sandysoup]

This is great news - where are the other 259 shows? 16mm tends to survive where video does not...

[midnightcaller200]

I had a Soupy Sales lunch box I wish I still had it also had a lost in Space, and Batman lunch box

[Orsley]

Kids & teens loved it because of the anarchy of it, the looseness and the vaguely subversive quality compared to everything else on TV at the time, when even kids' show hosts wore a jacket and tie. Its appeal was strictly of its time, but at the time it was brand new, an off-the-cuff, anything-goes style we had never seen on TV. At least I think that was it, and I was addicted to Soupy and his puppets from his 1962 ABC network show through the New York show on channel 5 and his 1978 show in LA.

[gmonet46]

I all but forgot the into to the show, with the Marquee...great find! Only in New York!

[toncuz]

I never see Little Miss Loverly the chicken from Soupy Sales or Chuck McCann

[DoctorJK3]

Thanks for providing the video! I'm glad someone has connection in the broadcast industry otherwise our childhood memories would be lost forever!

Great job!

[mrsticks28]

I worked in Los Angeles and saw Soupy there before he came to NY. Told my friends about him, and 6 months later he's in NY. Great stuff. Ernie Kovacs was another early television giant. He's where Laugh In came from. And don't forget Spike Jones!

[Barry I. Grauman]

At the time this first aired, Soupy was on Channel 5 [WNEW-TV] at 3:30pm(nyt) weekdays, 'jersey', followed by Chuck McCann at 4, then Sandy Becker at 5, and "WINCHELL-MAHONEY TIME" at 6...there were 260 taped half-hours seen on Channel 5 that were syndicated during the 1965-'66 season, 'solshne' [also on 16mm kinescope film for those stations that didn't have videotape facilities]. When the series ended, WNEW erased the master tapes to reuse the tape stock; 75 of the "kinnies" DO exist...

[ligetispaghetti]

Yeah...No Kiddin' I was just curious, having seen him on games shows throughout the 70's. I'm gettin' the feeling none of this was written out. Kinda reminds of when I was around 12 or so and me and my freinds would record ourselves on a hand held cassette player messing around. Right, nothing here to actually hate...

[CORPSVIDS]

I wish I knew what the laughs were about, I kept waiting and... nothing. Dont hate Soupy but surely dont get it.

[Beth Naji]

Soupy you are awesome!