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PART TWO / St. Louis Local Kid Shows Part One I was looking
over your page on the St. Louis kids' shows, and I used to watch Corky
The Clown all the time back in the '60's. I remember going
back and forth between Corky and Eighth Man on Channel 11, and
sometimes Mom would want to watch Dark Shadows, so I didn't always get
to see MY two shows! ;) Great site. It really brings back the memories. I found this picture of Corky in the studio (it was on a site dealing with RCA Television equipment!). Corky's Colorama was the first locally produced color TV program in St. Louis (October 1966). This photo probably came from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (which owned KSD-TV) and probably dealt with this TV event. I hope this picture works on your site. - Ray Brammer
TVparty viewers respond: Saw in your
web site that you didn't know who played the Captain on Cookie and
the Captain that was shown on KMOX-TV (now KMOV) in the late '50's
and early '60's. I had the same problem, that's how I found your web site.
I broke down and called Channel 4 and asked them. I was told that the
Captain was played by Dave Allen (or Allan), and this strikes me as being Kid's TV historian Kevin S. Butler adds: Here's more info about the host/performer who played the kindly old skipper Captain 11 - he also MC'd KPLR channel 11's 'Three Stooges Showboat' - his name was Clarence Harry Fender. Fender began his career as a singer/actor and dancer in vaudeville before joining the cast of the original Broadway production of 'Showboat.' He did 'Showboat' for a time but walked out on the production and pursued other ventures, eventually becoming a performer in nightclubs, on radio and on TV. In the early 1960s, Mr. Fender was hired to host 'The Three Stooges Showboat' for KPLR TV 11 in the St. Louis, Mo. viewing area. In order to create the proper characterization for his viewers, Fender researched the many colorful showboat captains of the past to emulate. He choose a well-known skipper by the name of Samuel Langhorn Clemmens - best known to literary buffs as "Mark Twain" - adapting Mr.Twain's previous experiences on the river and creating an elderly gentleman's make up and showboat captain's costume for the show. Fender's Captain 11 and his comedy asistant Jo Jo The Cook (played by comic/character actor and dialectician Joesph Cusinelli) entertained and informed their viewers and studio audiences between the reruns of the Three Stooges films.
Mr. Fender was slated to play Doc Holiday in The Three Stooges' last feature film 'The Outlaws Is Coming' but, according to the Cox and Terry book, Fender's conflicting schedule prevented him from appearing in the movie. Fender and Cusinelli continued to take passengers on their fun-filled and informative treks to "Stoogeville" on 'The Three Stooges Showboat' until the show was cancelled around 1964. Fender left kid's TV after that for a much different career - that of a NYC police detective. During a
stakeout, Police Det. Fender and his partner were caught in an ambush;
luckily they survived but Fender gave up police work after that and returned
to St. Louis to work as a radio/TV broadcaster. Clarence Harry Fender passed away in 1995. Do
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Patches Another popular St Louis kids show was The Wranglers Club. It ran from 1955 to 1963. It was sponsored by Adams Milk. The show's host was named Harry Gibbs and he played a dairy cowboy named "Texas Bruce." - Thanks, Jim Struckel
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