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LIVE TV A Kid Show Reunion iM 3ltgtltg Zimti FrU Oct 1,1976 -Part IV 27 23 mers retired to the makeup room. There were scattered reminiscences. Colvig recalled a western character he portrayed in the early '50s. "That was Buck Sureshot," he said, "and the PTA just hated me. I used rotten language, there was a lot of violence I suppose I set the western back 50 years Weldon paced the floor with Webster Webfoot on his arm.

"You have to start all over again, boy," he told the duck. And the old days continued to flow. "You know, there really is a place for all of us on television," Bill Stulla said earlier. "Parents need help more than ever. I meet people, 30-year-olds with kids of their own, who remember Red Light, Green Light.

They're good kids and I helped raise them. Something must have registered." On into the night, the taping continued. It's hard to say what kind of effect this show will have on its young audience. But you can bet that a lot of 30-year-old kids will understand. They wouldn't miss it for the world.

Animated Classic Due Oct. 23 "Master of the World," based on a Jules Verne story, will be presented Oct. 23 on CBS to launch a Famous Classic Tales series of animated specials on the network. The hour-long program recounts the adventure in 1848 of a government agent who flies a balloon over a Pennsylvania crater to investigate a series of strange eruptions. sire to come back on the air.

Bill Stulla isn't so sure. The kids grow up too fast today," Stulla said. "When I was on. I could hold kids up to the age of 9. Today if another Engineer Bill came along, he'd have them until they're around 5.

They're too sophisticated. "But the thing I suppose I regret more than anything else is that their childhood isn't as happy." Stulla continued. "These used to be the beautiful years in a child's life imaginative, believing years. Now, it goes by so quickly." Jimmy Weldon added: "The children have no heroes today. When we were on, we talked about the good things, the little fun things.

Now, there's no fantasy, no dreams." Minding Mom and Dad "I think what we tried to do was to be honest with the children." John Rovick said. 'Teach them to have good manners, mind their moms and dads. But that direct approach has disappeared." There was a satisfaction in the way things were done back then. "We never tried to fool the kids," Frank Herman said. "We did things with them.

I taught them tricks, Tom Hatten taught them drawing. You could have fun with an old broken roller skate. You could do millions of things with a piece of string." Edmiston added: "You look at Sheriff John and Engineer Bill, they raised kids. Check back and see what we did with education. Through our characters, we could teach any subject and make it enjoyable.

The kids had a personal friend on television." The time for taping was close at hand and the perfor- ing the '50s, particularly when he hosted an afternoon show between Hatten's Popeye and Colvig's Bozo, was a series of imaginative puppet characters, particularly that used car salesman of a buzzard, Ravenswood. Jimmy Weldon, the inimitable Webster Webfoot on Channel 13. also performs on cartoon shows. However, he has spent most of the last decade delivering motivational lectures for such companies as UCB and Carnation. Skipper Frank Herman, whose Cartoon Carousel aired on KTLA from 1955 to 1965, went from there to a late-night talk show in San Diego and then to cable television with Teleprompter.

Currently, Herman is a sales representative for a novelty company that manufactures magic tricks. Herman occasionally performs his own magic act in nightclubs. Red Light. Green Light Engineer Bill Stulla, on KHJ Channel 9 from 1954 to 1966. went directly to a brokerage firm in Encino.

With Engineer Bill, you remember Red Light, Green Light. This was a game played with a glass of milk drinking it on a signal from Stulla's sidekick, Freight Train Wayne. If you drank it down, you were an engineer, too. Although most of his fellow performers profess the de Continued from First Page Hatten said. "We had done a special on the character of Popeye a while back and it was very successful.

Then, of course. KTLA had all of those old Popeye cartoons in the vault." Hatten's original run on Popeye was from 1956 to 1964. Since its demise, he's worked as a writer on several network game shows, did occasional jazz promotions and commercials. The Popeye show, which also airs weekdays at 3 p.m., will soon bring back the children's peanut gallery that was so much a part of the old series. Hatten, who looks remarkably the same as he did 20 years ago, believes the time is right.

"I don't care for the Saturday morning stuff that kids are exposed to today," he said. "It just isn't much fun adventures and evil scientists and that's about it. There doesn't seem to be the care that was involved with the old shows." The Electronic Nursery For those of us who grew up in Los Angeles during the our childhood memories are invariably linked to television. We were, after all, the first generation in the electronic nursery. And we did have a special relationship with the people who brought us our afternoon cartoons.

They talked to us. We learned how things worked. They invented games. These were friends you could count on. But in the mid to' late '60s.

most of the shows had run their course. Syndicated reruns, teen-age dance parties and the magic of videotape had rendered them obsolete. The simple, direct touch was no longer in Most of the performers stayed in television: Sheriff John Rovick, whose Lunch Brigade was a noontime religion on KTTV Channel 11 from 1952 to 1970. remains at KTTV as a staff announcer. Sheriff John was a gentle dose of law-and-order.

Mind your parents. Eat good food. Take naps in the afternoon. But always laugh and be happy. It always ended on the bright side.

Bozo the Clown Vance Colvig. who was Bozo the Clown from 1959 to 1966 on KTLA. does cartoon voiceovers, occasional acting appearances and commercials. Colvig's father was the original Bozo, and they once had shows which were shown opposite each other in the early '50s. Walker Edmiston, active in local television since 1949 with Time for Beanie, is a cartoon voice on many of the Sid and Marty Krofft shows, portrays the lizard-like Al-trusian on XBC's Land of the Lost and has had several good feature roles on television, notably in the TV film.

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