Tape is dead ???

[Herb Sevush]

[Tim Wilson] “The whole idea of a franchised character is phenomenal to me. Even the Wikipedia entry is mind-boggling – over 200 Bozos around the world. “

Romper Room, with the Do Be’s and the Don’t Be’s, was also a franchised show in the late 50’s early 60’s, with different hosts in every city.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Lynette Gilbert]

[Chris Harlan] “The Chicago show was supposed to be terrific”

My older sister when, but by the time I was old enough to go, the wait list was 8 years. I work for a zoo, and I found tapes from 1985-1987 where they had animals on the show every few weeks. It was definitely a find, and something that would be gone forever if I’d just thrown out the box they were in (they were poorly labeled).

[Lynette Gilbert]

[Herb Sevush] “Romper Room, with the Do Be’s and the Don’t Be’s, was also a franchised show in the late 50’s early 60’s, with different hosts in every city.”

I had no idea that Romper Room was franchised! I loved that show.

[Tim Wilson]

Great memory, Herb!

Although it was syndicated rather than franchised, I think of New Zoo Revue along these lines because it ran after shows like Bozo and Captain Kangaroo in my market. I think that was fairly typical in most markets.

Doug and Emmy Jo (Emily in real life) were married in 72, and are still together as the owner of Laguna Productions in Las Vegas — commercials, corporate, docs and the like. Classic COW stuff. While I haven’t seen Doug post in the COW, others at Laguna pop in now and again.

I was “too old” for this kind of thing at the time, but boy howdy, I really enjoyed it.

Tim Wilson
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou

The typos here are most likely because I’m, a) typing this on my phone; and b) an idiot.

[Craig Seeman]

My then girlfriend, an Emmy Award winning news editor was Mr Do Bee one morning in NYC (WOR-TV 9). She walked in to do her morning news shift and the producer ran up to her in a panic that the regular Mr Do Bee was sick and they needed a replacement immediately.