Winky Dink and You (2/3)

Winky Dink and You was an early childrens' interactive television show. Its interactivity made it innovative for the time. Apparently viewers could purchase Winky Dink kits which contained a magic window that clung to the television screen with static electricity.

Children drew on the window with magic crayons while watching the show. Hosted by Jack Barry, the program aired on Saturday mornings on CBS and ran from 1953 to 1957.

Does anyone remember this program?

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[mmarshellos]

hey is the voice of winky dink, the old aunt that brought the green jello with cat food on top and wrapped up the cat in Christmas Vacation.........

[hwy61media]

LOL. I don't know.

[cherrypizza]

Way to make kids feel inadequate for not having the kit

[hwy61media]

The old pressure sale!

[quantazelle]

My mom told me about this concept... totally ahead of its time. AND: you needed to buy and add-on just to play. Consumerism, anyone?

However, I think the magic in this is that kids who thought this was magic didn't understand what was REALLY going on (fake it and pretend that the kids controlled it).

Still, one of the first RPGs / video games / fantasy games, etc. Too bad it just faked the whole thing.

[Kohdok]

You know what? I'm tempted to do a Let's Play of this.

[143AC]

I found out from Mae and Mr.Allen that Mr.Barry was not a nice guy in real life.

Jack Barry was an angry man with a mean,foul letter word mouth. And God Help You..if you did anything to get on his bad side.

[jaddison1112]

My gosh drawing a tobacco pipe on a childrens show .... people would have a fit now ... I remember this show .... you bought a plastic screen at the store to go over your TV screen, and then you drew on the TV. i remember hearing about many kids who drew right on their TVs .... Lots of pissed off parents. .... Ah the 1950s ....

[swaters]

@cherrypizza that was the idea. My father got me some grease pencils and a dish towel until I could save up enough for my own kit.

[swaters]

This was a brilliant program - a lot of us first learned to draw this way. Too bad there's nothing like it available today.