Iconic Gamer Show Announcer Johnny Olson As a Kids Show Host?

Yes! Poor Johnny Olson got his career started at the long lost Dumont TV Network where one had to be versatile in order to cover a lot of assignments with just a few people. A lot of stars got started there- Olson, Dennis James, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Arnold Stang, Jacquiline Susann to name a few. All certainly learned some humility (except maybe Gleason) at Dumont. Johnny Olson drew hosting duties for Kids and Company, a dreadful show hosted by Red Goose Shoes that even made kids look annoying. Olson mechanically goes through the motions here obviously hoping that another career opportunity will come along. As game show afficianatos know, he landed on his feet! Watch for yourself.

Crusader Rabbit, Hoppity Hooper, Rocky & Bullwinkle

Fans of Jay Ward will love to go down memory lane with the Hi Tops IPTV channel of TV4U.Com. Only here can you find a sampling of Crusader Rabbitt, the original animated TV star, the long forgotten Hoppity Hooper, and the legendary Rocky & Bullwinkle. When Fractured Flickers makes its debut on Hi Tops shortly, that will enhance this comic genius' portfolio even more. You can get Hi Tops TV directly at hitopstv.com as well. These wolrks are even funnier now that we are more 'mature'!

Tobor The 8th Man is Back!

Astro Boy was first, then Gigantor. They were odd looking and black & white, they sounded different than the normal cartoons we watched. The came Speed Racer and we were fully engulfed in the Japanimation craze that remains to this day. The 'forgotten' show from Japan was Tobor The 8th man. Of course Tobor is robot spelled backward, but most kids had that figured out pretty quickly. After having not seen the show for decades I ws amazed that I could sing along with the song's open the very first time I saw it on Hi Tops TV.Com, the classic kids channel on TV4U.Com. Lots of fun!

Clutch Cargo Lives!

Everyone growing up in the 1950's and 60's would come home after school to their favorite local kiddie show host, who invariably served up a potpourri of Popeye cartoons, Three Stooges vignettes, and often a cartoon serial called Clutch Cargo. What made Clutch Cargo so much fun was that even kids knew that there was something amiss in the production value of the show. First of all, it added new dimensions to the word limited in the phrase limited animation. Secondly, instead of drawing a few extra pictures, the producers superimposed actual lips onto the characters to save money. Now, 50 years later, the shows remain kitschy and just as much fun to revisit. We had a low threshold level back then for buying into kids entertainment- trying something like that now would be unthinkable. But one thing is for sure, Clutch Cargo is now an icon.....