Groovy 1970 TV show about surfboard manufacture, with Woody Allen and Jonathan Winters
This 1970 episode of the kids' show HOT DOG demonstrates surfboard manufacture with much groovy graphics and sound, cosmic ruminations on hanging ten, and hilarious cameos from Woody Allen and Jonathan Winters. Gorfulator notes, "This was made by 'HOT DOG,' a TV show I remember because the production company HQ was in my hometown of Burlingame, CA. They were a spinoff venture of Lee Mendelson (Charlie Brown cartoons) who were right around the corner." Link (Thanks, Gorfulator!)
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Yes, gems like the Soupy Sales Show, a kind of deranged Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood that began in Detroit in the early '50s and ended up at WNEW in New York City in the mid-'60s, featuring lots of wacky improv:
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I'm whistling the bouncy little tune right now! Before I even look at it!
How is the Banana Splits a local show? They were a vehicle for a series of Hanna Barbera cartoons like Atom Ant.
Captain Kangaroo, Howdy Doody, the Mickey Mouse Club and other skit plus education plus cartoon shows were national shows as early as the 1940s. Don't forget similar national kids' radio shows also existed in the 20s and 30s.
Soupy Sales was national in the late 60s/70s.
These shows don't feel local to me.
Local shows that got larger exposure include The Magic Garden, The Rapid T. Rabbit Show and Steampipe Alley out of NYC and Pancake Mountain from DC. Banana Splits ain't one of them.
Was Hot Dog related to the magazine of the same name, often lumped together with analogous '70's kids magazine Dynamite!? If so, it would seem to me that the magazine did better than the show, at least in long-term cultural penetration.
HOT DOG! WHOA! I remember these...!
When I was a kid, in 1st and 2nd grade, I think, if we were good all week, on Fridays we got to watch a HOT DOG movie. AND, if we had been EXTRA good, the teacher would treat us to watching it backwards after we finished watching it (which was usually hilarious because almost all HOT DOG movies involved manufacturing and/or people eating things, both of which are very funny in reverse to kids of grade school age).
If you enjoyed this, may I recommend you go check out this post from Mark Evanier's excellent blog, newsfromme.com, where he writes a little about the history of Hot Dog and shares another clip with Woody and Jon.