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December 8, 1984. ( 1984-12-08) Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for 29 years, from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day. [ 2][ 3] In 1986, the American Program Service (now American ...
Bob Keeshan was born to Irish parents [ 3] in Lynbrook, New York. [ 4] After an early graduation in 1945 from Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York, during World War II, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, but was still in the United States when Japan surrendered. He attended Fordham University on the GI Bill.
Tom Terrific is a 1957–1959 animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's television show. [1]Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo), Tom Terrific was made as twenty-six stories, each split into five episodes, with one five-minute episode ...
74. Music & the Spoken Word [ note 4] Syndicated. October 1949. present. 4,951 (as of August 4, 2024)[ 2] Longest-running non-news television program, the longest-running variety show, the longest-running religious television program, and the longest-running entertainment program in American television history. 72 years.
Other names. Lumpy. Years active. 1951–1984. Hugh Brannum (January 5, 1910 – April 19, 1987) was an American vocalist, arranger, composer, and actor known for his role as Mr. Green Jeans on the children's television show Captain Kangaroo. During his days with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Brannum used his childhood nickname "Lumpy".
December 17, 2000. ( 2000-12-17) Adventures from the Book of Virtues is an American animated children's television series based on the books The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories, and The Children's Book of Virtues, both by William Bennett, who served as Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan. [ 1]
Robert M. Colleary (1929 – January 8, 2012) was a Peabody and Emmy Award -winning comedy writer and producer who was best known for his writing for more than two decades for Captain Kangaroo. He also wrote for M*A*S*H and Barney Miller, and was a producer for Benson and It's a Living .
The Brian Hibbs version of Kangaroo is a master hand-to-hand combatant and is at the peak of his physical condition. He has also worn a suit of armor that conveys the following attributes: enhanced strength, agility and endurance, the ability to leap great distances, a pouch-level cannon, and a semi-prehensile tail.