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Captain Kangaroo
American children's television series
Captain Kangaroo | |
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Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan), left, | |
Created by | Bob Keeshan |
Written by | Howard Friedlander |
Starring | Bob Keeshan Hugh Brannum |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 29 |
No. of episodes | 6, |
Production location | CBS Broadcast Center |
Running time | 60 minutes / 30 minutes |
Production companies | Robert Keeshan Associates Marvin Josephson Associates |
Network | CBS |
Release | October 3, ()– December 8, () |
Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for 29 years, from to , making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.[2][3] In , the American Program Service (now American Public Television, Boston) integrated some newly produced segments into reruns of past episodes, distributing the newer version of the series to PBS and independent public stations until
The show was conceived by Bob Keeshan, who also played the title character "Captain Kangaroo", and who bas
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Picture Pages
American educational television program
For the British television programme, see Picture Page.
Picture Pages is a – American educational television program aimed at preschool children, presented by Bill Cosby—teaching lessons on basic arithmetic, geometry, word association and drawing through a series of interactive lessons that used a workbook that viewers would follow along with the lesson.[1]
Picture Pages was created by Julius Oleinick and started on a local Pittsburgh children's show in with the Picture Pages puzzle booklets given away at a supermarket chain. It debuted as a national segment of the Captain Kangaroo show in (then directed by Jimmy Hirschfeld[2]), in which Captain Kangaroo would do the lessons on his "magic drawing board". Bill Cosby took over hosting the segments in , presenting the lessons with a marker named "Mortimer Ichabod Marker" (M.I. for short), which was topped with a cartoon figure that played musical notes whenever he drew with it.[3]
When the Captain Kangaroo show left CBS in , the Cosby-era Picture Pages series was rerun as an interstitial program on Nickelodeon from to
The show also aired in Canada on the YTV cable network.
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