As Terrance and Phillip would say, fart jokes are the lowest form of comedy.
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Not only would kids of today not enjoy it, there was a reboot (back when reboots were rare) in the mid 1970s and we didn’t enjoy it either – “The New Howdy Doody Show” (1976-1978).
NTSC: Never Twice Same Color. To be fair, it got much better by the late 1970s.
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As long as we are excavating old TV, anyone else remember the cartoon Captain Sticky? He was “the caped crusader with a peanut butter gun!” I think it was part of captain kangaroo, but maybe it was just on at the same time. Rochester, NY, 1965ish.
Then there is the horror show of Andy’s Gang…
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Is that cat (and the accompanying rat)…alive? The whiskers on the rat were twitching and that would be some world-class animatronics for that time.
(Side note: even the kids in the audience looked simultaneously bored and creeped out by the Jesus song.)
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Alas both the cat and mouse were alive.
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What can I even say about that? Sigh.
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Yikes! That is like an animatronic Andy Devine. What a comedown for him. And are the cat & rat stuck in weird puppet suits with just their heads sticking out? The second verse of the “Jesus Loves Me” dirge was bad enough but I absolutely could not finish watching “Froggy the Gremlin.” Ten types of terrifying. Thanks for posting! No wonder we are the way we are!
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BTW…apparently Romper Room was done with various local hosts…super cheap production & plenty of product placement. (I remember those romper balls & tippy clowns being available in stores.)
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Yup. Our local host even recruited her son to play Do-Bee (not pictured here).
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I remember before Sgt. Billy, Pablo and Cactus Pete were on Boomtown. And let’s not forget—no matter how much you’d like to!—Willie Whistle on ch. 38
and Captain Boston on 56.
@abutilon We had Miss Jean on Romper Room during at least part of the 60s here. 
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One of the more popular shows when I was growing up was Brakeman Bill. Every week it included a group of kids, church group, Cubs and Brownies, etc. Even as a kid I didn’t like it because the sock-puppet donkey would kiss the girls no matter how much they didn’t want to.
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In 1987 my family took a trip to Lake Okobiji in Iowa. It rained the whole week, so we just stayed in the cabin and watched TV. The Oliver North congressional hearings re. the Iran Contra affair were taking up most of the airtime, so we mostly watched this local kids program called Captain 11. Does anyone else remember this?
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In moving harnesses. No suit.
Children’s Television: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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