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Also among the toons, or so I've heard, was Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, created by Terrytoons. Can anybody cite a source? Trekphiler 00:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Manfred the Wonder Dog was a sidekick to Tom Terrific, as the story notes. In my Captain-watching years, I never saw him in his own cartoon. - DavidWBrooks 00:53, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Mentioned in a song in Pulp Fiction

The first time I heard about Captain Kangaroo was in the song "Butch" sings to himself when he goes back to fetch his watch from the appartment in the Pulp Fiction movie by Quentin Tarantino. Maybe it's worth mentioning here?

I think it definitely is worth mentioning as this was also the first time I'd ever heard about the show. I was surprised it hadn't already happened so I started a "popular culture" section and mentioned the reference in there. --Thoughtcat 08:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Not sure how relavent or truthful a statement about "numerous people born after 1960" not knowing what Captain Kangaroo was is. I was born in 1975, but watched his show until its cancellation.141.156.31.249 17:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Theme Song Lyrics

I seem to remember the theme song having lyrics like,

   "Good Morning Captain, Hello how d'you do?
   Wake up the sunshine, it's a brand new day for you"

or something to that effect. I can't google the lyrics to confirm this.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:A2Z|A2Z]] ([[User talk:A2Z|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/A2Z|contribs]]) 23:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC).


So far, http://www.vnews.com/06012004/1787480.htm and http://lowesboards.sportingnews.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/189000495/m/318103357 are the only sites I can find to support my recollection of the theme song lyrics. Is this enough confirmation to justify editing the article?

A2Z 00:25, 11 May 2006 (UTC)


The lyrics to "Good Morning, Captain" are as follows"
   "Good Morning, Captain
    Won't you come on out and play?
    Wake up the sunshine and share this friendly day.
    Good Morning, Captain,
    It's A smiling song we sing 
    'Cause we're happy to see you
    and the good times that you bring.
    Hey, good morning, hello, how do you do?
    Good Morning, Captain (repeated twice)
    Good Morning, 
    Wake up the sunshine
    and share this friendly day."
Thanks for the lyrics. I think the lyrics quoted in the article is confusing the show's theme song with the lyrics for the Picture Pages segment, which goes somehting like:
         "Picture Pages, Picture Pages,
          Now it's time for Picture Pages,
          Time to grab a crayon or a pencil.

          Picture Pages, Picture Pages,
          Now it's time for Picture Pages,
          Time to have Bill Cosby do a Picture Page with you"
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm quoting from a distant memory.--A2Z 19:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


User:A2z Are you fairly sure of the lyrics you posted? I mean no disrespect whatsoever, but I seem to recall the lyrics more like the earlier poster with ""Good Morning Captain, Hello how d'you do?" I could certainly be wrong because that is actually all I remember of the lyrics. It could well be I'm getting confused with the chorus part of the song. Wish I could find a video of the show and see. But regardless thanks for posting the lyrics to both of the songs you did. CK brings back a time and place that only exist now in my mind. I never cared for Mr. Rogers, but CK was King.Bad S Mini (talk)MG —Preceding comment was added at 08:35, 24 November 2007 (UTC)



[edit] Merge proposal

The entire Wake Up with the Captain article almost duplicates what's already found in this article. I suggest we just make that article redirect to this one. hateless 05:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes. - DavidWBrooks 10:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] possible add to Special Guests

I know the Dancing Bear made appearances on Andy Williams' show/specials, late 60s and/or early 70s. Might be worth a mention. I don't know if Williams appeared on KK in turn.

-- The Bear on the Andy Williams show was not Captain Kangaroo's Dancing Bear. The Andy Williams bear was played by Janos Prohaska. He also played the Horta in the Star Trek episode "Devil in the Dark"

[edit] sentence unclear

"Captain Kangaroo was a children's program which aired weekday mornings on the United States television network CBS from 1955 until 1984, then moved to the American Program Service (now American Public Television, Boston) to air syndicated reruns of past episodes in 1992."

CBS 'til '84, "then" moved to another network 8 years later? "Then" suggests the move was immediate. I'd fix it but I don't know if was airing anywhere during those 8 years.

...and I remember seeing latter day reruns on PBS.

[edit] Banana Man

The section on Cosmo 'Gus' Allegretti mentions the Banana Man. But the link provided takes one to a completely different Bananaman (one word), a cartoon about an apparently somewhat clutzy superhero.

I remember the Banana Man would come out in a large, elaborate costume and start taking bananas and other fruits, including a watermelon or two, out of the pockets. He'd also take out these folded boards that he'd unfold and assemble into a miniature train. He'd put the fruits in the train car, then he'd sit on the engine and ride off.

He never spoke. In a high-pitched falsetto, he'd go "Oh, Oooh, WOWWW!" Now and then he'd go "EEEEEEEeeeeeee," still in falsetto, dropping an octave in the middle.

Some time ago I read (on the Web--that's all I remember) that his costume was so complicated he couldn't clean it. Over the years, they'd refilm the skit from time to time--new set, or whatever. On the days when they'd film it, everybody who didn't absolutely have to be there would take the day off, because the costume smelled so bad.

Stephen Kosciesza 140.147.160.78 15:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Tha Banana Man was played not by Cosmo Allegretti, but by Sam Levine.
Here is a link to a history of the Banana Man: http://facweb.furman.edu/~rbryson/BananaMan/index.html
I have vague childhood recollections of seeing Banana Man on Captain Kangaroo too, Stephen. Thanks for providing that web site. Quite an interesting, eccentric character. The info on that site is a bit disorganized, so it's hard to put together a coherent vision of the guy from it. Sounds to me like our Banana Man (or Banana Men, if I gather correctly) deserves his own article. --Rizzleboffin 17:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Don't want to take credit I don't deserve. The correction about Cosmo Allegretti versus Sam Levine, and the link to the Banana Man site isn't from me. I don't know who put that in. I'm adding an extra indentation to keep the thread clear. 140.147.160.78 21:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza

[edit] Ludwig

As a Brit who remembers the Ludwig cartoon I was surprised to see no standalone entry for it. As I recall, Captain Kangaroo wasn't shown in the UK so it seemed right that Ludwig should have its own entry, so I cut out the explanatory text from the Cartoons section and used that as the basis for a new Ludwig (cartoon) entry. --Thoughtcat 09:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original theme music--heard in Doctor Who??

The theme music to the original Bob Keeshan series, the "Puffin Bill" instrumental, was used in a late episode of "Doctor Who." I was startled to hear it, and I always wondered how that came to happen; was there some connection, or was it just a coincidence?

It was a Sylvester McCoy (the seventh Doctor of the regular TV series--the last before the series went on hiatus, so it was years after the original Captain) episode. The Doctor and his then-companion Ace landed in their space/time vehicle in a bus holiday resort in Wales in the late 1950s. The background music was what I knew very well as the Captain Kangaroo theme. 140.147.160.78 19:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza

[edit] Slim Goodbody

Didn't the Slim Goodbody live-action shorts air as part of Captain Kangaroo at one point? I have a storybook LP that has "as seen on Captain Kangaroo" (with a picture of Bob Keeshan) emblazoned on the cover. - Pennyforth 20:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't the reference to him in the article cover that? - DavidWBrooks 21:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I missed it before, my bad. - Pennyforth 21:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
No - good; you asked. Bad is slapping something into the article without checking. ... And I can one-up your Slim Goodbody storybook LP. I've got a couple of Captain Kangaroo LPs from my youth, including Mr. Green Jeans explaining the meaning of "Waltzing Matilda" to a confused Captain. - DavidWBrooks 21:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


I liked the film footage of the Macy's Thanksgiving parade that he would sometimes show. Does anybody know the song that he would play while showing this clip?

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Captain Kangaroo.jpg

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[edit] Confused Timeline

This needs to be fixed: "aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from 1955 until 1984, then moved to Public television when the American Program Service distributed the program with some newly produced segments which were integrated into reruns of past episodes from 1986 - 1993."

I don't think episodes from 1986-1993 were in the past in 1984, but that is what this sentence leads one to believe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.147.67.22 (talk) 21:42, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some citations needed

This is a nice article, clearly written by knowledgable people who like their subject. It definitely could use a handful of in-article references to various sources.

24.130.11.114 (talk) 03:17, 29 March 2008 (UTC)