[78-L] Kukla, Fran and Ollie

[Randy Watts]

Do those shows still exist? How good was the CBC at hanging onto their video output?

Randy

--- On Sun, 12/19/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Kukla, Fran and Ollie
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, December 19, 2010, 4:52 PM
> I would buy the following if the CBC
> would put them out:
> 
> MADE IN CANADA..a hilariously vicious TV series written by
> and featuring Rick 
> Mercer, with Peter Keleghan and Leah (drool) Pinsent
> 
> JOSHUA THEN AND NOW..the full 4 hour version (maybe with
> the current renewed 
> interest in Mordecai Richler, someone will get his head out
> of his whatever and 
> suggest this one)
> 
> The GILBERT & SULLIVAN operettas directed in the 50s
> and 60s by Norman Campbell
> 
> dl
> 
> On 12/19/2010 5:46 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> > Do you really think kids would watch that stuff today?
> Or would it just be older
> > adults who watched the shows as kids?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Sent: Sun, December 19, 2010 4:40:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Kukla, Fran and Ollie
> >
> > I wish the CBC would get its act together and put out
> a lot of stuff on DVD.
> > They might even make money doing it.
> >
> > dl
> >
> > On 12/19/2010 5:30 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> >> I wish they'd put lots of episodes of the show out
> on DVD. They don't make
> > kids
> >> shows like that anymore....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >> Sent: Sun, December 19, 2010 4:22:39 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] Kukla, Fran and Ollie
> >>
> >> That was a big deal here for decades. For that
> matter, Mr. Rogers got his
> > start
> >> on television up in Canada. Friendly Giant used
> some good local jazz
> > musicians.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> On 12/19/2010 5:16 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
> wrote:
> >>> I was born in 1959 so I missed this show. But
> what I do remember watching on
> >>> local (Houston Texas) KUHT Ch 8 in the 1960's
> was a Canadian show call The
> >>> Friendly Giant. Anybody remember that one?
> Clips of it are on Youtube.....