Recreation of Quick Draw McGraw Commercial spot

This has been on YouTube for a few days..I combined a Quick Draw Mc Graw Photo slide with the vintage 1960's WEWS Station ID to create a promo-station ID, voiced by the late Ron Penfound-This would be just before 12 Noon Friday,May 24, 1963..The Quick Draw slide would probably have been in Black and White, as Channel 5 didnt have many programs in color till 1965..

More of Captain Penny-1963

Here is the next 20 minutes of the Captain Penny Noon Show from May 24, 1963-Included in this segment:

Sealtest Commercial with "Mr. Cool"
Cartoon-Twinkles and The Rubber Raft-King And Odie
Ad-Frosty O's Cereal
Cartoon-The Hunter-King and Odie
Ad-Big G Goodness Pack
Comedy segment with Professor Yule Flunk (Jim Breslin)
Part of "Funny Manns" short with Cliff Norton



Tried to find slides appropriate to the content-About as close as you'll come to the "real" content without finding the actual video..Thanks to friend Dan O' Shannon for the audio clips..

More WEWS 1963-Captain Penny Noon Show

Here is more audio from WEWS-May 24, 1963-Captain Penny Noon Show..The first 10 minutes or so of audio-Including The King and Odie Cartoon and a live commercial for Sealtest Ice Cream Products..Courtesy Dan O' Shannon

WEWS Noon News-1963-YouTube

Here, from the previously announced WEWS audio, is about 10 and a half minutes from Friday, August 24, 1963. Heard are Paul Wilcox Noon News, Ron Penfound with a station ID and a Quick Draw McGraw Commericial. Slides serve to illustrate the audio somewhat, though I am still not that good at it..Thanks to Dan O' Shannon for providing the audio content..A slightly longer (about a minute) version of this is on Facebook

"Miss Barbara" passes away..

TV Guide February 1956-Not generally known or remembered is that "Romper Room" got its start in Cleveland at WXEL Channel 8 in 1955-56..I believe I read somewhere that Miss Pat Ryan Dopp may have been the teacher then..Notice the then-popular coonskin cap from Disney's "Davy Crockett"




Early publicity photo of the Lovely Miss Barbara-1958-Courtesy clevelandseniors.com


The famed "Magic Mirror" Courtesy clevelandseniors.com


Original Caption:
1962-Joint celebration- two WEWS kiddie personalities celebrate anniversaries this week. Ron "Captain Penny" Penfound enters his 10th year in broadcasting and Barbara "Miss Barbara" Plummer enters her 5th year. Penfound started his broadcasting career as a Lamar, Colorado radio announcer and Barbara answered a WEWS television announcement requesting auditionees for a Romper Room teacher and soon became "Miss Barbara." She's seen Monday thru Friday 9:30-10:00 A.M. on the Sunday Show and WEWS "Romper Room" (and has "graduated" 500 youngsters in the last 4 years), and Penfound is seen on the Noon Show Monday thru Friday at 12:10, the Five O' Clock Show, Monday thru Friday at 5 and the 2 hour Saturday show, 10-12 Noon Sats."--

Miss Barbara and Captain Penny both were at TV 5 roughly the same time-Captain Penny 1957-71 and Miss Barbara from 1958-71-Photo courtesy Cleveland Memory Project

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Mrs. Barbara Plummer. Known as "Miss Barbara" the morning teacher to hundreds of thousands of Northeast Ohio youngsters in the franchised "Romper Room" school..Mrs. Plummer died Saturday, March 20 at the age of 80 from the effects of cancer and pneumonia..survived by her husband, Mr. Gordon C. Plummer, two children and two grandchildren..

After a brief run in 1955-56 on WXEL-Channel 8, WEWS-Channel 5 acquired the Romper Room Franchise starting in 1958 with Norwalk native Mrs. Plummer as teacher..and aired Romper Room all the way till 1971..Mrs. Plummer was also very active in civic and community groups throughout her time in Cleveland..Our condolences to the family at this time..

Here is a link to The Ohio Media Watch coverage of the story, which is where we first heard about it last night..

http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-no-particular-order.html

WEWS Channel 5 coverage..

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/entertainment/%27%E2%80%98romper-room%27s%27-miss-barbara-passes-away

Cleveland Plain Dealer Obituary:

http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-b-plummer&pid=141049782


Cleveland Seniors profile-Nicely done:

http://www.clevelandseniors.com/people/missbarbara.htm

In addition to "Romper Room" Miss Barbara also occasionally did the weather forecast, sub-hosted for "Paige Palmer" and was "Story Lady" on "Captain Penny"




Interview with Barbara Plummer-WEWS 50th anniversary..




Don Webster memories..at 6:01 Barbara Plummer does the current weather replacing Susan Davies for the segment..

New-Found Blog-Michael J. Hayde

I'm always on the lookout for new blogs and websites about classic television, whether it be local or national in scope. Just found a new (to me) blog called Better Living Through Television. (Who remembers that as an early TV Land slogan?)

The blog is authored by Michael J. Hayde, known as a TV historian and author, who has written books on the histories of Jack Webb/Dragnet and The Adventures of Superman..He also had contibuted Commemtaries to some of the Adventures of Superman DVD set and has appeared on Sirus/XM Radio with Old Time Radio Host Greg Bell.


Here's the link to his blog, which currently is on a series about the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis split:
http://betterlivingtv.blogspot.com/

Micheal J. Hayde's website:with information on his books:

http://www.michaeljhayde.com/

Great New Local TV find..

Copy of the "Classic" TV 5 station ID Logo from the 1960's-From a screencap of the opening to "Cleveland Comedy Company" a 1980 WEWS limited series..

Good morning:
I am pleased to announce that One of the friends of Cleveland Classic Media has found a real gem regarding local tv-Five and one half hours of WEWS-TV 5 audio from Friday, May 24, 1963..From just before 9AM-2:30 PM..Including all station breaks and commercials..Included programs:

8:58 Weather from sign-on News-Paul Wilcox
9AM Western Reserve Telecourse
9:30 Romper Room-Miss Barbara Plummer
10AM Paige Palmer Show-with Paul Wilcox as co-host
10:45 Cleveland TV Classroom
11AM General Hospital
11:30 Seven Keys-Jack Narz
Noon-News-Paul Wilcox
12:10 Noon Show-Captain Penny
1PM One O Clock Club
2:30 Opening (30 seconds) of Jane Wyman Theater..

This person has graciously allowed me to have a copy of the programming..My thoughts from listening to it..

The 12:00 News-Paul Wilcox could fit 15 news stories and 2 commercial breaks in 10 minutes..That doesnt happen today..

One O Clock Club..Bill Gordon really ran the Show-He was the "traffic cop"..Could think on his feet-And he was so funny..Dorothy Fuldheim interacted with Bill some, but not as much as youd think..

Captain Penny-He could fit a lot in 50 minutes-The "heyday" of Kids shows-Did live commercials..

Romper Room-Miss Plummer kept the show moving-Those kids were probably tired at the end of the half hour..

My plan at some point is to share some of this here and/or possibly Facebook or YouTube..Let me stress it may take some time to do with editing, etc..This was great to listen to-A virtual "time machine" of Cleveland Television..