I had a thing for Lucy Van Pelt. My sexuality and gender remain ambiguous to this day.
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Naw, Lucy was so meeeean. She and Violet were such queen bees.
Marcie, now, was smokin’. Only time in my life I remember feeling jealousy was at the end of Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!) when Marcie was playing tonsil-hockey with her new French boyfriend.
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Hodgepodge Lodge ran in the NYC area, and I remember Miss Jean and her parrot!
I recall an episode where she got testy with a kid who was fooling around with a snowball-tossing toy while the group walked in the snow. It kind of impressed me that she wasn’t taking shit from the kid.
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I loved Miss Jean. My dad worked at the station, which is why I found out about the auditions. Amazingly, he managed to salvage a couple of the tapes when I was on the show and it is weird as an adult watching your 8-year-old self, I’ll tell ya.
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This was my adult-crush when I was a boy. I never watched Charlie’s Angels much*, but I do remember watching a fair bit of The Rookies. She was the real brains of the C-A trio, yes?
*I was about 9 when my family was in Denver visiting friends during the first season.
I remember I wasn’t terribly interested at the time because there was a really sweet/cute girl that lived behind them on the other side of the block. She dragged me off to show me her dad’s Playboy magazines while my younger brothers played with her younger brothers. I still laugh about this memory, because my mom had said I wasn’t ready to watch Charlie’s Angels or Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman at the time.
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I probably would have been obsessed with Emmy Jo as well, but never saw that show. I can think of a couple of crushes I had when I was little. Hiroko Sakurai from Ultraman
And Charmian Carr.
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I don’t know of any current ones…
We had Mister Toot (based in Duluth, MN) when I was a kid.
I forgot about his paddle…
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Cool story, bro. I, too, masturbated to attractive television personalities.
Maybe I can clear that up for you you’re a sub and lucy is your Dom.
Is it possible that Freddy the Frog was redesigned in later seasons? I honestly don’t recall his face being so floppy and horrifying.
Really, he’s like a frog version of that clown bed that Homer made for Young Bart.
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Hum, perhaps this show was the inspiration for ‘Meet the Feebles.’
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I was more into Johnny Crawford, even if he was a tad young at that point. Well, so was I.
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Kelly MacDonald.
Maggie Smith
And let’s not forget two of the most beautiful men on the planet, Ian McKellen.
And Christopher Lee.
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That would have been never for me. I loathed Romper Room. Cap’t Kangaroo was only slightly better.
Wonderama was also shown on other MetroMedia* stations, so I remember watching it in the DC area. (and now I’m humming the exercise song)
*MetroMedia stations were the ashes of the old Dumont network. Later, they formed the core owner operated core of the Fox network.
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I remember The Hodgepodge Lodge! I grew up in Maryland in the late 60s and 70s.
Actually, I remember the name “The Hodgepodge Lodge,” but nothing about the show itself.
My wife and I wrote several episodes of what surely would have been a classic faux “local children’s show,” complete with dubious morals, unsettling characters, and rock-bottom production values.
Who, Sabrina Duncan? Yes, she was the smart one of the bunch. Well, I mean, they were all smart, of course, but Brie was the smartest.
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You know that only makes us want to hear more, right? Especially Unsettling Characters.
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Anjelica has her offbeat charms, but Carolyn Jones has that sweet angelic face in the sexy black dress. It still slays me…
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“Go you chicken fat, go away! Go, you chicken fat, go!”
Interesting network history. NYC’s Channel 5 did indeed become the Fox affiliate.
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There was the old crank in the union suit, the owl puppet (!), the hobo, the orphan, the overly dramatic moralizer who kept launching into song, the town’s wormlike benevolent monster…
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