Hi Pat , I was 5 and you are so so right , those times were so gentle and sweet , patient and loving, and I miss it so, how angry and frustrated everyone and everything is now. It is truly heartbreaking.
I grew up in the 1960s and I watched Captain Kangaroo almost every morning! Captain Kangaroo taught me how to tie my shoes in a segment with Bunny Rabbit!
I remember watching the Captain while having breakfast before leaving for school. I especially remember the Kellogg’s Rice Krispies train, Tom Terrific cartoons, ping pong balls falling from the ceiling, loved Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose. So many memories for a 1960’s kid reliving a precious part of my childhood. Such a wonderful time before the world fell apart.
One of the reasons I was into trains as a kid...into my teens starting with Lionels and ending with N gauge...when I was around 9-10 I had an HO layout my dad built me that pulled down from the wall around 12 feet long...great memories...
@jamesm.3967 you didn't watch The Captain eating Kelloggs PopTarts. They weren't invented then. Flosted Flakes when The Captain was on. After 1964 you had some PopTarts.
I was thinking back then that they would have certainly found a cure for all those pesky ads and commercials during the show by this time... but I guess not. A ringing banana phone isn't even safe. :(
there is: the captain kangaroo show. sesame street (both recent and old episodes) electric company and READING BOOKS. keep kids of drugs and by drugs i mean TECH.
Always woke myself up to go downstairs and watch Captain Kangaroo. Everyone else would still be sleeping. What a wonderful show. Dancing Bear, Mr. Greenjeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, and never forget the stick figure cartoons of Tom Terrific. Wonderfully paced, Keeshan would just talk to the kids as if he were there in the room with you. I'm 70 years old yet I remember the show like it was yesterday. And oh, loved how the show's theme song would stop the moment Captain hung up his keys.
"Puff, the Magic Dragon" has always made me cry...back then when I was a 7 year old and more so, as the lyrics became more poignant, as the years went by...
Bob Keeshan and Mr. Rogers did what was probably the first inter-network crossover, appearing as guests on each others' series. They just thought kids would enjoy it and would find it comforting to know they were friends.
Do you remember: Herkimer the Homely Doll, Alice visiting the palace to watch the changing of the guard, how you had to wake Grandfather clock? And so much more! The show was great! I wish kids had something like this now-a-days. It was fabulous for developing a child's imagination!
I was 7 at the time and remember this episode specifically. Because it boggled my mind how he ate the banana and didn’t know he ate a phone. Crazy how young minds process information. Watching the moose one more time trick him into saying the words that dropped the ping pong balls, made my day.
I so remember that the "barn" that Mr. Green Jeans worked in was so open and airy, having so very little siding on it. It seemed so very illogical, way back then, when I was a little child, that the barn could not be very warm inside.
I used to watch this show when i was a kid. Seeing it again made me smile and brought back amazing memories of penny candy and staying outside with friends riding bikes and not coming home until the street lights came on
Love Captain Kangaroo! I haven't seen this in 50 Years! So good for children and adults too that grew up with this special show! Wish they had this type of program for children today! God Bless it!❤
Looking back at the date of its airing, I can remember three major life events of the time: 1) it was two months before my 6th birthday; 2) it was 2 1/2 months before, “…one giant leap for mankind.”; and 3) it was 3 months before we moved from Detroit, Michigan to Tombstone, Arizona. Despite my young life going through major stressers of the time, I still remember one daily calming influence for me: Captain Kangaroo.
This version of the Treasure House set was my favorite, during the '60s. By 1970 or 71, they moved into the cheapified set. I was horrified, and things were never the same again. I didn't expect to see another episode from this time frame, since very few exist. I hope that more can be unearthed and shown again, especially where they show The Missing Paint Mystery specials.
Remember when we were kids in the 60's? We had no idea that maga freaks existed. We had faith that we had faith in our America. Oh well. at least I'm old enough to not care anymore.
We watched him every morning before going off to elementary school. He was OUR generation's version of Sesame Street. So many sweet memories...where did the years go?
I so enjoyed hearing the into theme song again!! It immediately brought me back to being five yrs old on a weekday morning at 6:00 am sharp sitting on my knees in my “toughskins” about two feet from the TV set (remotes weren’t invented yet) sainting for breakfast and to start school. 1960 Alameda California!
1969 was a big year for the Captain. A couple months after this, CBS went all-out for the upcoming moon shot and sent Keesham to NASA for segments with engineers and astronauts, showing kids nationwide what it was like in the lunar module. When Armstrong landed on the moon in July, a lot of us felt like we'd been there already.
Thank you so so very much for a full episode of Captain Kangaroo. I have not seen a full episode in years. I loved the treasure house when I was a kid and never missed a show. Back when TV was fun. When I lived in California I worked at a photo lab in Encino. The guy that played Mr. Green Jeans was a regular customer, but unfortunately never when I worked. Such great memories.
God…I do remember this very episode with Cosmo Allegrehetti and the puppets…FUN FACT:…the singer of The Puppet Song was none other than the legendary FRANKIE AVALON
The puppet segment was one of many that were recurring, so you might not have seen it on this specific episode. I remember it too, but I know I did not see it on this episode because by 1969, I was going to school and had to leave home before Captain Kangaroo started.
I loved Mr Green Jeans and Captain Kangaroo and I cannot remember the puppets names but I have seen every single episode that they put on the air. Captain Kangaroo and Mr Rogers I used to love both of those guys I'm an old man now good job keep up the good work.
Started watching Captain in 1958. I used to watch it before school. Often would eat my breakfast as I watched. I always wanted a Grandfather clock because of this show. Still never owned one. LOL
I loved this man when I was a little kid,....I have to say, he "rocks' his double chin, and looks adorable. Where in my case, I look like crap,....with mine. I was born in 1953, and I'm 68 now. I so wished I could have had my own "Bunny Rabbit",.....too bad my parents didn't appreciate small, fuzzy, cute animals. Instead I had several stuffed animals, that I loved dearly, as if they were alive. Hard to believe this was still being broadcast in 1969. I was in junior high, and that summer, I smoked my first joint. Ha!
Baby boomers had everything good and decent when they were kids. There parents were actually grown ups and followed and lived by standards Then their spoiled boomer kids blew it. Now the small sub culture of the 60s is mainstream. And it’s accepted degeneracy, nihilism, Marxist ideology and gender confusion is rampant. I feel for kids today.
I grew up with the captain in the 60's. While watching this it reminded me of some old videos of the Ernie Kovacs show. Ernie was a huge influence in early TV. I think Ernie influenced many TV shows in the early days including Captn Kangaroo. I feel sorry for the kids today. The kids today have no idea how much TV sucks today compared to TV 50 years ago.
Wait, you use the word "dreck" in english? Learned something new today. (Till now i had never seen or heard that word being used outside of the german language.)
One day, back when I was in grammar school, I was getting ready for school and Captain Kangaroo was on the TV. I heard a nice song on it that caught my attention (It's at the 24:15 time mark). I kept that song in mind from that day and never forgot it. Many years later, I tracked down the song on RUclips. It was about a puppet maker who wanted to see and hear his puppets to sing and play. The song was sung by Franky Avalon. I was glad to hear it again but wanted to see the show that I saw it on. I looked at a lot of Captain Kangaroo episodes but didn't find it. A few weeks ago I came across this video and went through it and, low and behold there it was at the very end of the show. Others have posted about the song on RUclips and also mentioned that they saw it played out on a KC episode a long time ago. Thanks JeffSabu for this and RUclips for a lot of other finds from the past.
What a sincerely kind man. We need more people like this in the world. People will say that the world has changed and it's a more dangerous place now which is true but it's only because they fear being kind and assuming others will be sincere and kind is naive and dangerous but it's being fearful that's naive. Always do your best and be nice, friendly, sincere, and kind cause the world needs that.
Thanks for posting. Good chance I watched this back then. I was six and hadn't started school yet. I did that fall. But until then I watched Captain Kangaroo every morning. IIRC, it came on about 8 am. After I started school I don't think I watched it much. Those were very innocent times and its good to go back and watch something like this in order to remember what was once precious.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching captain kangaroo and Mr. cartoon I so much miss my childhood and family especially my mom and dad who have already passed… I miss my grandparents….. I even miss the old school lunches….. If anyone young is reading this.. I hope you hear me when I say…. Cherish life and everything about it…. Time passes way too fast….
I remember a song from the show "I'm just a little petunia in an onion patch." I met the guy who did Dancing Bear, Mr Moose and Bunnyrabbit. He was a patient in the hospital where I worked. He said he left the puppets in the house he had sold back east. I told they they should have gone to the Smithsonian. or at least be sold. He was not a very friendly man.
Cosmo "Gus" Allegretti played Dennis the painter as well as Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and other puppets. I've heard he was not pleasant to be around.
Reminds me of the scene from Scrooged - Bill Murray takes the part of a Dog just to get into an act he hates just to get with a particular producer - and other scripts too that depicts the actors who are puppeteers are really quite the opposite of the characters they play. The Mary Tyler Moore Show had an episode like this too about a clown character who was quite nasty in real life. GOOD lesson to learn about how easily Hollywood hypnotizes audiences into believing actors ARE the characters they play.
My Nana, me, my high chair, soft boiled eggs & Captain Kangaroo. Fond memories as a pre-K in Michigan in the late 50s early 60s. 💗 Later years kids were at that 📺 every weekend for Sir Graves Ghastly!!😱👀
Let's not forget Hugh Brannum who played Mister Green Jeans among others. And Cosmo Allegretti who created and played Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, Mister Moose, Grandfather Clock and many others. 😊
Mr. Greenjeans too! I used to watch this every morning before I was old enough to go to school. My bowl.of cereal, my faithful dog. Such a special time!
i loved capt. kangaroo. when i was 4 i really thought what i saw on tv was all real and i thought all of the characters including the puppets were real. the show was like 'comfort food' or 'comford tv' for me long before the phrase had been coined and long before i knew i needed to seek out anything for comfort. . may 5th of 69 i would have just turned 7 a couple of months prior and first grade was winding down. i probably missed the ep. back then due to school unless it was rebraodcast during the summer months. oddly even though the show ran for decades much of it is lost forever. very few whole episodes remain intact. in the early or mid-70's cbs suffered a major fire. the sets of barnaby jones, the waltons and capt. kangaroo were greatly damaged. the tone and the look changed drastically. perhaps the shift in tone transpired before that. i always liked the show, but the 60's sets and tone are the ones i truly love since i witnessed them first hand as a child.
I certainly watched my share of Captain kangaroo and Mr. Green jeans and all those ping-pong balls falling from the sky all over the counter. And I had to pour my favorite, a tall glass of chocolate Nestlé‘s quick mixed in milk.🥛 My father was a milkman, so we always had plenty of Jersey Guernsey, extra rich milk in glass bottles from Borden’s dairy and I wouldn’t watch that show without having plenty of it :) Yes growing up in the 60s and 70s were pretty awesome.
They used to play Captain Kangaroo on the TV in the day room a lot. But, I never really watched it as I was trying play a game of Solitaire with a deck of 51 cards. Frustrating times indeed!
I just watched one from 56 and they didn't have bunny rabbit or mr moose yet🐱🐱. I was so disappointed id have to leave for school in the middle of captain kangaroo. I at least had kindergarten in the afternoon. Watched it from the beginning. It was such an exciting show for little kids..😊
One of my favorite shows growing up. To bad our kids get the crappy stuff they have now. Even worse since kids programming is now programming them to be confused about who they are and to be victims. At my house they get old shows and guess what...they really like it.
My parents' red Persian cat was on the show. Mom told me how Mr. GreenJeans had orange face makeup and whispered "Catnip!" behind the camera to get our cat to meow. I have no idea how to find this episode!
I think the year was 1972 and I was attending the University of Cincinnati. I was up early this particular morning to do some studying while the frat house was quiet. As some background noise I turned on the tv in my frat room and turned the volume down low. The tv happened to be tuned to Captain Kangaroo. Shortly he had a guest, Robert Moog, the fellow that developed the Moog synthesizer. Fascinating stuff. I didn't accomplish much studying but the segment with Moog was great.
I forgot a lot of the characters like dancing bear, grandfather clock. Bunny rabbit until I saw some episodes on RUclips. I remembered Mr. Green Jean's and Mr. Moose but it was such a long time ago that my memory faded a bit until I watched them on RUclips then it all came back.
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I'm 65 yrs old sitting here watching this like I was 9yrs old again. Miss those days.❤❤❤
I'm 77 and doing the same. I watched this show every morning in 1957 when I was in the 3rd grade.
@@Dr.Pepper001 me too. Green Jean's & Bunny Rabbit were my favorites.
I was 10 and loved watching his show….oh innocent, gentle times where have they gone?
I was 10 in 69 saw it every morning
Yep! I kinda shivered at how far we’ve gotten from innocence!
I was 8 at that date. LOL
Lost in a Brandon world now🌎
Hi Pat , I was 5 and you are so so right , those times were so gentle and sweet , patient and loving, and I miss it so, how angry and frustrated everyone and everything is now. It is truly heartbreaking.
I grew up in the 1960s and I watched Captain Kangaroo almost every morning! Captain Kangaroo taught me how to tie my shoes in a segment with Bunny Rabbit!
Yup me too
Same!
That’s so sweet!!
Clearly, Captain "Kangeroo" didn't teach you how to spell! 🤣
me too
I remember watching the Captain while having breakfast before leaving for school. I especially remember the Kellogg’s Rice Krispies train, Tom Terrific cartoons, ping pong balls falling from the ceiling, loved Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose. So many memories for a 1960’s kid reliving a precious part of my childhood. Such a wonderful time before the world fell apart.
It did'nt fall apart, we simply grew up.
I had a big stuffed dog named Manfred the Wonder Dog. I think I got it in 1959 and i still have it. I can't hear to throw it away.
I had pop tarts and instant oatmeal.😊
One of the reasons I was into trains as a kid...into my teens starting with Lionels and ending with N gauge...when I was around 9-10 I had an HO layout my dad built me that pulled down from the wall around 12 feet long...great memories...
@jamesm.3967 you didn't watch The Captain eating Kelloggs PopTarts.
They weren't invented then. Flosted Flakes when The Captain was on.
After 1964 you had some PopTarts.
I was born in 59... The Cap'n was my favorite show...it was a much more pleasant world back then I'm sad to say...
Me too. Watched him every morning....
I was also born in '59 and watched him every morning....
He spoke & joked with kids, almost as equals. This is why I adored him :)
I was 11 at the time this aired. I never expected to be watching it again 53 years later. And it still makes me laugh. 😄
I feel the same way.
I was thinking back then that they would have certainly found a cure for all those pesky ads and commercials during the show by this time... but I guess not. A ringing banana phone isn't even safe. :(
I was 11 as well.
I turned 11 in 1969. Loved the scene with the ping-pong balls.
Indeed
I loved Captain Kangaroo 💕. I wish there was something this good and wholesome for the kids to watch today.
Bluey ❤
there is: the captain kangaroo show. sesame street (both recent and old episodes) electric company and READING BOOKS.
keep kids of drugs and by drugs i mean TECH.
@@hypnotherapycw sesame st was my kids show.
Wish there was something good and wholesome for adults. Have to watch shows from the 80s
@@fladave99 um...you could always...cough cough READ A FUCKING BOOK...cough cough
Always woke myself up to go downstairs and watch Captain Kangaroo. Everyone else would still be sleeping. What a wonderful show. Dancing Bear, Mr. Greenjeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, and never forget the stick figure cartoons of Tom Terrific. Wonderfully paced, Keeshan would just talk to the kids as if he were there in the room with you. I'm 70 years old yet I remember the show like it was yesterday. And oh, loved how the show's theme song would stop the moment Captain hung up his keys.
Yes. Indeed
That's when I learned almost as much from this show as I did in school. Always put me in a good mood right before school.
The theme song is calld"Puffin' Billy". If you research it you can use it on your phone. I use it as a morning wake up!
you forgot Mr. Moose
@@johndigiacomo7926 PTSD
Mister Moose and the pingpong balls were always my favorite part of the show...LOL 😁👍👍👍
This brings back awesome memories! I loved Captain Kangaroo!
I loved this show. I never missed it as a kid.
Captain Kangaroo was the best in my opinion!
Me too. It added such gentleness to a turbulent child's life and hellps me to understand how I came to be who I am today. Grateful
I also loved Mr. Green Jeans. The song, Puff the magic dragon. Lots of great childhood memories!
I was sad when Mr. Green Jeans died.
@@tncorgi92 Me too. I cried.
"Puff, the Magic Dragon" has always made me cry...back then when I was a 7 year old and more so, as the lyrics became more poignant, as the years went by...
Bob Keeshan and Mr. Rogers did what was probably the first inter-network crossover, appearing as guests on each others' series. They just thought kids would enjoy it and would find it comforting to know they were friends.
Do you remember: Herkimer the Homely Doll, Alice visiting the palace to watch the changing of the guard, how you had to wake Grandfather clock? And so much more! The show was great! I wish kids had something like this now-a-days.
It was fabulous for developing a child's imagination!
Yes,lol, my brother used to sing that at me, good time 🤣🤣🤣
I was 8 when this aired, and had been watching the The Captain since I was old enough to be aware of what a TV show was. A treasured memory.
I am very lucky to grow up when I did. I still believe in being good.
I was 7 at the time and remember this episode specifically. Because it boggled my mind how he ate the banana and didn’t know he ate a phone. Crazy how young minds process information. Watching the moose one more time trick him into saying the words that dropped the ping pong balls, made my day.
This is a National Treasure.
Tell that to a ‘woke’ progressive.
My favorite was Mr. Green Jeans because of all the animals he brought to the show.
I loved Mr Greenjeans too!
I so remember that the "barn" that Mr. Green Jeans worked in was so open and airy, having so very little siding on it. It seemed so very illogical, way back then, when I was a little child, that the barn could not be very warm inside.
If I could give this 10,000 likes, I would. So many wonderful memories from this now 58 year old grandmother. ❤️ 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 ❤️
Show your grandkids the show you grew up on. I'm a 64 baby too.
These were my favorite years of the Captain...
What a childhood treasure for those of us in the 1960s and '70s ❤️
I remember my younger brother and I watching Captain Kangaroo in 1967 and 1968
Its been over fifty years since I last saw an episode of the Captain Kangaroo show. Thanks for the memories.
Little ten year old me was right there watching everyday!❤
I used to watch this show when i was a kid. Seeing it again made me smile and brought back amazing memories of penny candy and staying outside with friends riding bikes and not coming home until the street lights came on
Exactly!!!👍
Love Captain Kangaroo! I haven't seen this in 50 Years! So good for children and adults too that grew up with this special show! Wish they had this type of program for children today! God Bless it!❤
Captain Kangaroo was a national treasure! Dr. Tim Rasico
Looking back at the date of its airing, I can remember three major life events of the time: 1) it was two months before my 6th birthday; 2) it was 2 1/2 months before, “…one giant leap for mankind.”; and 3) it was 3 months before we moved from Detroit, Michigan to Tombstone, Arizona.
Despite my young life going through major stressers of the time, I still remember one daily calming influence for me: Captain Kangaroo.
This version of the Treasure House set was my favorite, during the '60s. By 1970 or 71, they moved into the cheapified set. I was horrified, and things were never the same again. I didn't expect to see another episode from this time frame, since very few exist. I hope that more can be unearthed and shown again, especially where they show The Missing Paint Mystery specials.
I had my pastina or oatmeal every morning with Captain Kangaroo and the gang. What pleasant early childhood memories!
I was 4yrs old and this show was magical.
I was 6 years old at the time, this is Captain Kangaroo as I remember. Thanks!
I was 15 and watched him every day!
What a blast from the past. I was 11 too. This is what we watched pre Sesame Street.
16 yrs old.
I was 6, too, and loved our Captain!
Remember when we were kids in the 60's? We had no idea that maga freaks existed. We had faith that we had faith in our America. Oh well. at least I'm old enough to not care anymore.
We watched him every morning before going off to elementary school. He was OUR generation's version of Sesame Street. So many sweet memories...where did the years go?
64 baby here I watched Captain, Sesame and Rogers
@@elizabethmencia6027 Born in '57, so by the time Sesame Street came to be, I was heading off to Junior High School...
@@elizabethmencia6027 Same for Mr. Rodgers...
Same as you 1964 Baby,watched all those along Zoom, Electric Company, Schoolhouse Rock@elizabethmencia6027
I was 4 yrs old. Captain Kangaroo was a huge part of my morning show line up while my siblings were at school.
I so enjoyed hearing the into theme song again!! It immediately brought me back to being five yrs old on a weekday morning at 6:00 am sharp sitting on my knees in my “toughskins” about two feet from the TV set (remotes weren’t invented yet) sainting for breakfast and to start school. 1960 Alameda California!
"Toughskins" were blue jeans, carried by, or a product of, the Sears Roebuck and Company, a catalog retailer.
OMG!! I loved this show as a small child! He was so great!!
This brings back soooo many memories!
Such as the barn that Mr. Green Jeans worked in, having so very little siding on it. Couldn't be very warm inside this "barn."
I was 11 when I watched this episode! What a wonderful gift to watch it again!
Oh my! This brings back such comforting and heartwarming memories.
"Captain Kangaroo" was an important part of my childhood-Thanks for posting!
Captain and Lone Ranger was and still is my favorite kids shows, watch them growing up
I use to watch this show when I was a little boy. Still love it!
8 o’clock every morning Monday through Friday. Wow…what memories that brought back!
What a great show. I watched every morning. I must have seen this one the day it first aired.
1969 was a big year for the Captain. A couple months after this, CBS went all-out for the upcoming moon shot and sent Keesham to NASA for segments with engineers and astronauts, showing kids nationwide what it was like in the lunar module. When Armstrong landed on the moon in July, a lot of us felt like we'd been there already.
You probably were it was done in a studio
I learned from Captain Kangaroo the type of person to be and from my father the type of person NOT to be.
Thank you so so very much for a full episode of Captain Kangaroo. I have not seen a full episode in years. I loved the treasure house when I was a kid and never missed a show. Back when TV was fun.
When I lived in California I worked at a photo lab in Encino. The guy that played Mr. Green Jeans was a regular customer, but unfortunately never when I worked. Such great memories.
Grandfather Clock always freaked me out.
Me too and for some reason I was scared of the Little Band!
Dancing Bear always freaked me out because he had no snout!
Grandfather Clock, yep, scary!
God…I do remember this very episode with Cosmo Allegrehetti and the puppets…FUN FACT:…the singer of The Puppet Song was none other than the legendary FRANKIE AVALON
The puppet segment was one of many that were recurring, so you might not have seen it on this specific episode. I remember it too, but I know I did not see it on this episode because by 1969, I was going to school and had to leave home before Captain Kangaroo started.
Those puppets scared me big time.
Isn't that wild! Thank you for posting this memory. I was 7 years old when this originally aired
I loved Mr Green Jeans and Captain Kangaroo and I cannot remember the puppets names but I have seen every single episode that they put on the air. Captain Kangaroo and Mr Rogers I used to love both of those guys I'm an old man now good job keep up the good work.
When the Captain goes to the bathroom after eating that banana telephone, he'll have a dropped call! 😆
Started watching Captain in 1958. I used to watch it before school. Often would eat my breakfast as I watched. I always wanted a Grandfather clock because of this show. Still never owned one. LOL
I loved this man when I was a little kid,....I have to say, he "rocks' his double chin, and looks adorable. Where in my case, I look like crap,....with mine. I was born in 1953, and I'm 68 now. I so wished I could have had my own "Bunny Rabbit",.....too bad my parents didn't appreciate small, fuzzy, cute animals. Instead I had several stuffed animals, that I loved dearly, as if they were alive. Hard to believe this was still being broadcast in 1969. I was in junior high, and that summer, I smoked my first joint. Ha!
Ha! (Cough cough!)
Baby boomers had everything good and decent when they were kids. There parents were actually grown ups and followed and lived by standards Then their spoiled boomer kids blew it. Now the small sub culture of the 60s is mainstream. And it’s accepted degeneracy, nihilism, Marxist ideology and gender confusion is rampant. I feel for kids today.
I grew up with the captain in the 60's. While watching this it reminded me of some old videos of the Ernie Kovacs show. Ernie was a huge influence in early TV. I think Ernie influenced many TV shows in the early days including Captn Kangaroo. I feel sorry for the kids today. The kids today have no idea how much TV sucks today compared to TV 50 years ago.
The look when the Captain says "Banana?"
This show is so much more superior to the dreck we have today.
dreck 🙂 don't you love that word? It's such a genteel, yet descriptive word. 😄
Wait, you use the word "dreck" in english? Learned something new today.
(Till now i had never seen or heard that word being used outside of the german language.)
I’m a 57 dad and this has me grinning ear to ear.
I remember laughing hysterically at the peek a boo at the beginning as a small kid.
I was 5 so I know I was watching this! Oh captain my captain. Dancing bear was my favorite ❤️.
Mine too, I used to dream of dancing with him.
A rare episode with James Wall as Mr. Baxter.
He's also stage manager for captain kangaroo since 1962.
As a kid in the '60s, I called Mr. Green Jeans "Mr. Cream Cheese"!
The Puppetmaker song was always my favorite as a little girl. I'm beyond thrilled to finally find it again. ❤
One day, back when I was in grammar school, I was getting ready for school and Captain Kangaroo was on the TV. I heard a nice song on it that caught my attention (It's at the 24:15 time mark). I kept that song in mind from that day and never forgot it.
Many years later, I tracked down the song on RUclips. It was about a puppet maker who wanted to see and hear his puppets to sing and play. The song was sung by Franky Avalon. I was glad to hear it again but wanted to see the show that I saw it on. I looked at a lot of Captain Kangaroo episodes but didn't find it. A few weeks ago I came across this video and went through it and, low and behold there it was at the very end of the show. Others have posted about the song on RUclips and also mentioned that they saw it played out on a KC episode a long time ago.
Thanks JeffSabu for this and RUclips for a lot of other finds from the past.
Gupetto from Pinocchio
Grew up watching Captain kangaroo ? Ooooh the memories❤️👍
I just wish we had the whole hour. And maybe a couple dozen episodes. I'd pay handsomely to turn time back like that!
Oh my gosh ❤❤❤ ! Every 60s kid watched! ❤❤❤
One of THE BEST memories of my young self❣️🥰😪
What a sincerely kind man. We need more people like this in the world. People will say that the world has changed and it's a more dangerous place now which is true but it's only because they fear being kind and assuming others will be sincere and kind is naive and dangerous but it's being fearful that's naive. Always do your best and be nice, friendly, sincere, and kind cause the world needs that.
I was 8 when this man passed away. My parents and grandparents tell me about this man, wonderful man!😢
Thanks for posting this. I was a huge fan of the Captain when I was a kid. So good to see it now as I saw it then.
Thanks for posting. Good chance I watched this back then. I was six and hadn't started school yet. I did that fall. But until then I watched Captain Kangaroo every morning. IIRC, it came on about 8 am. After I started school I don't think I watched it much. Those were very innocent times and its good to go back and watch something like this in order to remember what was once precious.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching captain kangaroo and Mr. cartoon I so much miss my childhood and family especially my mom and dad who have already passed… I miss my grandparents….. I even miss the old school lunches….. If anyone young is reading this.. I hope you hear me when I say…. Cherish life and everything about it…. Time passes way too fast….
I remember a song from the show "I'm just a little petunia in an onion patch." I met the guy who did Dancing Bear, Mr Moose and Bunnyrabbit. He was a patient in the hospital where I worked. He said he left the puppets in the house he had sold back east. I told they they should have gone to the Smithsonian. or at least be sold. He was not a very friendly man.
Cosmo "Gus" Allegretti played Dennis the painter as well as Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and other puppets. I've heard he was not pleasant to be around.
He's the guy playing the puppeteer in the song near the end of this clip.
Reminds me of the scene from Scrooged - Bill Murray takes the part of a Dog just to get into an act he hates just to get with a particular producer - and other scripts too that depicts the actors who are puppeteers are really quite the opposite of the characters they play. The Mary Tyler Moore Show had an episode like this too about a clown character who was quite nasty in real life. GOOD lesson to learn about how easily Hollywood hypnotizes audiences into believing actors ARE the characters they play.
Wow. I hope whoever bought that house recognized what was in it
Mr. Moose rules.
Loved that 'puffin Billy' every morning and the captain and friends!!😊
I was born on May 5, 1969. I loved the captain!
I keep picturing John Candy doing this...
My Nana, me, my high chair, soft boiled eggs & Captain Kangaroo. Fond memories as a pre-K in Michigan in the late 50s early 60s. 💗
Later years kids were at that 📺 every weekend for Sir Graves Ghastly!!😱👀
Let's not forget Hugh Brannum who played Mister Green Jeans among others. And Cosmo Allegretti who created and played Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, Mister Moose, Grandfather Clock and many others. 😊
Mr. Greenjeans too! I used to watch this every morning before I was old enough to go to school. My bowl.of cereal, my faithful dog. Such a special time!
I was 5 at this time. The only thing I remember is the Captain and the moose lol 😂
I was 1 day old when this aired 👶🏻...but watched him all throughout the mid-late 70s 😀
I was only a few hours old. Loved the captain.
@@josmbrake Well...I was born at 10pm at night on May 4, 1969....this probably aired in the morning. So I was probably about 12 hours old too 😆
I watched this episode when it first aired. I was four.
24:15 I've been searching for this part forever, haunting me, I always remembered this all these decades. Thank you!
i loved capt. kangaroo. when i was 4 i really thought what i saw on tv was all real and i thought all of the characters including the puppets were real. the show was like 'comfort food' or 'comford tv' for me long before the phrase had been coined and long before i knew i needed to seek out anything for comfort. . may 5th of 69 i would have just turned 7 a couple of months prior and first grade was winding down. i probably missed the ep. back then due to school unless it was rebraodcast during the summer months. oddly even though the show ran for decades much of it is lost forever. very few whole episodes remain intact. in the early or mid-70's cbs suffered a major fire. the sets of barnaby jones, the waltons and capt. kangaroo were greatly damaged. the tone and the look changed drastically. perhaps the shift in tone transpired before that. i always liked the show, but the 60's sets and tone are the ones i truly love since i witnessed them first hand as a child.
I certainly watched my share of Captain kangaroo and Mr. Green jeans and all those ping-pong balls falling from the sky all over the counter. And I had to pour my favorite, a tall glass of chocolate Nestlé‘s quick mixed in milk.🥛 My father was a milkman, so we always had plenty of Jersey Guernsey, extra rich milk in glass bottles from Borden’s dairy and I wouldn’t watch that show without having plenty of it :) Yes growing up in the 60s and 70s were pretty awesome.
Mr. Baxter did not join the show until 1968.
I was 3 and probably was plopped in front of our black and white tv watching this. What memories this brings back!
Beautiful man. Thank you captain for entertaining all of us. We love you. RIP❤
Talk about a flashback!
They used to play Captain Kangaroo on the TV in the day room a lot. But, I never really watched it as I was trying play a game of Solitaire with a deck of 51 cards. Frustrating times indeed!
Remember to say PLEASE and THANK YOU.
Yep! Me too! Just before school! He always had nice Christmas 🎄 decor! Washington DC 1960’s.
Oh I Love 💘 this show me and my oldest daughter watched it when she was tiny
I was 4 years old watching this episode back in the day.
I just watched one from 56 and they didn't have bunny rabbit or mr moose yet🐱🐱. I was so disappointed id have to leave for school in the middle of captain kangaroo. I at least had kindergarten in the afternoon. Watched it from the beginning. It was such an exciting show for little kids..😊
One of my favorite shows growing up. To bad our kids get the crappy stuff they have now. Even worse since kids programming is now programming them to be confused about who they are and to be victims. At my house they get old shows and guess what...they really like it.
I agree. Let children be children.
My parents' red Persian cat was on the show. Mom told me how Mr. GreenJeans had orange face makeup and whispered "Catnip!" behind the camera to get our cat to meow. I have no idea how to find this episode!
How did your cat get chosen??
The episode may or may not exist. Do you remember the year or specific date?
I think the year was 1972 and I was attending the University of Cincinnati. I was up early this particular morning to do some studying while the frat house was quiet. As some background noise I turned on the tv in my frat room and turned the volume down low. The tv happened to be tuned to Captain Kangaroo. Shortly he had a guest, Robert Moog, the fellow that developed the Moog synthesizer. Fascinating stuff. I didn't accomplish much studying but the segment with Moog was great.
I forgot a lot of the characters like dancing bear, grandfather clock. Bunny rabbit until I saw some episodes on RUclips. I remembered Mr. Green Jean's and Mr. Moose but it was such a long time ago that my memory faded a bit until I watched them on RUclips then it all came back.
And the Magic Words are STILL
"Please and Thank You".
It was my parent's anniversary the day this aired and they were having me at the time. I was born a few months later.