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The Wallace and Ladmo Show was a children's television show filmed by and aired on KPHO-TV (Channel 5) in Phoenix, Arizona. The show ran from April 3, 1954 to December 29, 1989, for 36 years, becoming one of the longest running children's television show in history (Sesame Street in 2006 will exceed the Wallace and Ladmo Show for honor of longest running children's television show).
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[edit] History
The television show It's Wallace aired on April 3, 1954 a show to showcase cartoons for KPHO. The show was hosted by Bill Thompson, who created the character of Wallace Snead when he appeared on the "Golddust Charlie Show", and aired on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6:30PM. Within a few episodes, Ladmo, played by Ladimir Kwiatkowski, had joined the cast to complement the children's humor of Wallace. Soon after, Pat McMahon joined the cast and brought with him a list of characters that entertained children.
In 1968 the show was renamed Wallace & Company and again in 1970, to its now famous title, The Wallace & Ladmo Show. In 1973, the time slot of the show split with a morning and afternoon show but taping of the two shows was still in the afternoon so children could attend the audience after school.
The show ended with the final taping on December 29, 1989. By that time the show had won nine Emmy awards, as well as countless others.
The show is currently run in syndication on KAZT-TV (Channel 7 in Prescott and Channel 27 in Phoenix) at 5:30PM.
[edit] Ladmo Bags
Not long after the addition of Ladmo, the Ladmo Bag appeared on the show. The Ladmo Bag was a prize won by children in the audience for various on stage performances or through a lottery by sitting in the lucky seat in the audience drawn during that show. Originally the Ladmo bags were large paper grocery bags and they were filled with lots of candy and junkfood, but as the show progressed, the Ladmo Bags were in smaller paper grocery bags but still stuffed full of candy.
To diehard fans and collectors, an authentic Ladmo Bag from the original show can be worth a considerable amount of money. However, very few of these bags still exist intact, as most children that won the prizes consumed the candy inside.
Ladimir Kwiatkowski, the actor that played Ladmo, died from cancer in 1994. However, during special events in Arizona, particularly the Arizona State Fair, that honor the show, Ladmo bags are still won by the those attending.
[edit] Plays
In recent years there have been, to date 2, plays written with a third still in production. The first play follows Wallace, Ladmo, Pat and Mike Condello as they struggle to hold the show together when Pat and the parody band "Hubb Kapp and the Wheels" are offered a record deal with Capital Records. The second play deals with the death of Ladmo from cancer. The first play was performed 2 times at the Herberger Theatre in downtown Phoenix, with several celebrities showing up as Time Machine guests, including Arizona native Alice Cooper. The plays were all written by Ben Tyler with input from both Wallace and Pat.
