It always is dear. That's because childhood USUALLY is a magical innocent time. Going back to a point in history wher e only white men had rights is a huge step backward. Time only goes one way. I was 5 when this show aired, and I'd love to see my 27 yr old mother Again. But I'll wait for Heaven.❤
I grew up in the 1960s and I watched Captain Kangaroo almost every morning! Captain Kangaroo taught me how to tie my shoes in a segment with Bunny Rabbit!
there is: the captain kangaroo show. sesame street (both recent and old episodes) electric company and READING BOOKS. keep kids of drugs and by drugs i mean TECH.
Hi Pat , I was 5 and you are so so right , those times were so gentle and sweet , patient and loving, and I miss it so, how angry and frustrated everyone and everything is now. It is truly heartbreaking.
I remember watching the Captain while having breakfast before leaving for school. I especially remember the Kellogg’s Rice Krispies train, Tom Terrific cartoons, ping pong balls falling from the ceiling, loved Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose. So many memories for a 1960’s kid reliving a precious part of my childhood. Such a wonderful time before the world fell apart.
One of the reasons I was into trains as a kid...into my teens starting with Lionels and ending with N gauge...when I was around 9-10 I had an HO layout my dad built me that pulled down from the wall around 12 feet long...great memories...
@jamesm.3967 you didn't watch The Captain eating Kelloggs PopTarts. They weren't invented then. Flosted Flakes when The Captain was on. After 1964 you had some PopTarts.
Always woke myself up to go downstairs and watch Captain Kangaroo. Everyone else would still be sleeping. What a wonderful show. Dancing Bear, Mr. Greenjeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, and never forget the stick figure cartoons of Tom Terrific. Wonderfully paced, Keeshan would just talk to the kids as if he were there in the room with you. I'm 70 years old yet I remember the show like it was yesterday. And oh, loved how the show's theme song would stop the moment Captain hung up his keys.
Bob Keeshan and Mr. Rogers did what was probably the first inter-network crossover, appearing as guests on each others' series. They just thought kids would enjoy it and would find it comforting to know they were friends.
I was thinking back then that they would have certainly found a cure for all those pesky ads and commercials during the show by this time... but I guess not. A ringing banana phone isn't even safe. :(
I was 7 at the time and remember this episode specifically. Because it boggled my mind how he ate the banana and didn’t know he ate a phone. Crazy how young minds process information. Watching the moose one more time trick him into saying the words that dropped the ping pong balls, made my day.
Love Captain Kangaroo! I haven't seen this in 50 Years! So good for children and adults too that grew up with this special show! Wish they had this type of program for children today! God Bless it!❤
Do you remember: Herkimer the Homely Doll, Alice visiting the palace to watch the changing of the guard, how you had to wake Grandfather clock? And so much more! The show was great! I wish kids had something like this now-a-days. It was fabulous for developing a child's imagination!
"Puff, the Magic Dragon" has always made me cry...back then when I was a 7 year old and more so, as the lyrics became more poignant, as the years went by...
Looking back at the date of its airing, I can remember three major life events of the time: 1) it was two months before my 6th birthday; 2) it was 2 1/2 months before, “…one giant leap for mankind.”; and 3) it was 3 months before we moved from Detroit, Michigan to Tombstone, Arizona. Despite my young life going through major stressers of the time, I still remember one daily calming influence for me: Captain Kangaroo.
Remember when we were kids in the 60's? We had no idea that maga freaks existed. We had faith that we had faith in our America. Oh well. at least I'm old enough to not care anymore.
This version of the Treasure House set was my favorite, during the '60s. By 1970 or 71, they moved into the cheapified set. I was horrified, and things were never the same again. I didn't expect to see another episode from this time frame, since very few exist. I hope that more can be unearthed and shown again, especially where they show The Missing Paint Mystery specials.
I used to watch this show when i was a kid. Seeing it again made me smile and brought back amazing memories of penny candy and staying outside with friends riding bikes and not coming home until the street lights came on
I so remember that the "barn" that Mr. Green Jeans worked in was so open and airy, having so very little siding on it. It seemed so very illogical, way back then, when I was a little child, that the barn could not be very warm inside.
Thank you so so very much for a full episode of Captain Kangaroo. I have not seen a full episode in years. I loved the treasure house when I was a kid and never missed a show. Back when TV was fun. When I lived in California I worked at a photo lab in Encino. The guy that played Mr. Green Jeans was a regular customer, but unfortunately never when I worked. Such great memories.
I loved Mr Green Jeans and Captain Kangaroo and I cannot remember the puppets names but I have seen every single episode that they put on the air. Captain Kangaroo and Mr Rogers I used to love both of those guys I'm an old man now good job keep up the good work.
I loved this man when I was a little kid,....I have to say, he "rocks' his double chin, and looks adorable. Where in my case, I look like crap,....with mine. I was born in 1953, and I'm 68 now. I so wished I could have had my own "Bunny Rabbit",.....too bad my parents didn't appreciate small, fuzzy, cute animals. Instead I had several stuffed animals, that I loved dearly, as if they were alive. Hard to believe this was still being broadcast in 1969. I was in junior high, and that summer, I smoked my first joint. Ha!
Baby boomers had everything good and decent when they were kids. There parents were actually grown ups and followed and lived by standards Then their spoiled boomer kids blew it. Now the small sub culture of the 60s is mainstream. And it’s accepted degeneracy, nihilism, Marxist ideology and gender confusion is rampant. I feel for kids today.
I was 2 almost three. I don't remember this one,but I remember others and watched every weekday morning after my sister had left for school. I was envious of going to school until I realized I wouldn't get to watch the whole show.
i loved capt. kangaroo. when i was 4 i really thought what i saw on tv was all real and i thought all of the characters including the puppets were real. the show was like 'comfort food' or 'comford tv' for me long before the phrase had been coined and long before i knew i needed to seek out anything for comfort. . may 5th of 69 i would have just turned 7 a couple of months prior and first grade was winding down. i probably missed the ep. back then due to school unless it was rebraodcast during the summer months. oddly even though the show ran for decades much of it is lost forever. very few whole episodes remain intact. in the early or mid-70's cbs suffered a major fire. the sets of barnaby jones, the waltons and capt. kangaroo were greatly damaged. the tone and the look changed drastically. perhaps the shift in tone transpired before that. i always liked the show, but the 60's sets and tone are the ones i truly love since i witnessed them first hand as a child.
I grew up with the captain in the 60's. While watching this it reminded me of some old videos of the Ernie Kovacs show. Ernie was a huge influence in early TV. I think Ernie influenced many TV shows in the early days including Captn Kangaroo. I feel sorry for the kids today. The kids today have no idea how much TV sucks today compared to TV 50 years ago.
We watched him every morning before going off to elementary school. He was OUR generation's version of Sesame Street. So many sweet memories...where did the years go?
What a sincerely kind man. We need more people like this in the world. People will say that the world has changed and it's a more dangerous place now which is true but it's only because they fear being kind and assuming others will be sincere and kind is naive and dangerous but it's being fearful that's naive. Always do your best and be nice, friendly, sincere, and kind cause the world needs that.
Wait, you use the word "dreck" in english? Learned something new today. (Till now i had never seen or heard that word being used outside of the german language.)
Started watching Captain in 1958. I used to watch it before school. Often would eat my breakfast as I watched. I always wanted a Grandfather clock because of this show. Still never owned one. LOL
One day, back when I was in grammar school, I was getting ready for school and Captain Kangaroo was on the TV. I heard a nice song on it that caught my attention (It's at the 24:15 time mark). I kept that song in mind from that day and never forgot it. Many years later, I tracked down the song on RU-vid. It was about a puppet maker who wanted to see and hear his puppets to sing and play. The song was sung by Franky Avalon. I was glad to hear it again but wanted to see the show that I saw it on. I looked at a lot of Captain Kangaroo episodes but didn't find it. A few weeks ago I came across this video and went through it and, low and behold there it was at the very end of the show. Others have posted about the song on RU-vid and also mentioned that they saw it played out on a KC episode a long time ago. Thanks JeffSabu for this and RU-vid for a lot of other finds from the past.
Let's not forget Hugh Brannum who played Mister Green Jeans among others. And Cosmo Allegretti who created and played Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, Mister Moose, Grandfather Clock and many others. 😊
Thanks for posting. Good chance I watched this back then. I was six and hadn't started school yet. I did that fall. But until then I watched Captain Kangaroo every morning. IIRC, it came on about 8 am. After I started school I don't think I watched it much. Those were very innocent times and its good to go back and watch something like this in order to remember what was once precious.
My Nana, me, my high chair, soft boiled eggs & Captain Kangaroo. Fond memories as a pre-K in Michigan in the late 50s early 60s. 💗 Later years kids were at that 📺 every weekend for Sir Graves Ghastly!!😱👀
God…I do remember this very episode with Cosmo Allegrehetti and the puppets…FUN FACT:…the singer of The Puppet Song was none other than the legendary FRANKIE AVALON
The puppet segment was one of many that were recurring, so you might not have seen it on this specific episode. I remember it too, but I know I did not see it on this episode because by 1969, I was going to school and had to leave home before Captain Kangaroo started.
This episode aired on the day I was born. I love Captain kangaroo. I watched him in the 70s growing up and I really wish I could have had something like this for my kids. I really needed this today. What a blessing!
I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching captain kangaroo and Mr. cartoon I so much miss my childhood and family especially my mom and dad who have already passed… I miss my grandparents….. I even miss the old school lunches….. If anyone young is reading this.. I hope you hear me when I say…. Cherish life and everything about it…. Time passes way too fast….
1969 was a big year for the Captain. A couple months after this, CBS went all-out for the upcoming moon shot and sent Keesham to NASA for segments with engineers and astronauts, showing kids nationwide what it was like in the lunar module. When Armstrong landed on the moon in July, a lot of us felt like we'd been there already.
I certainly watched my share of Captain kangaroo and Mr. Green jeans and all those ping-pong balls falling from the sky all over the counter. And I had to pour my favorite, a tall glass of chocolate Nestlé‘s quick mixed in milk.🥛 My father was a milkman, so we always had plenty of Jersey Guernsey, extra rich milk in glass bottles from Borden’s dairy and I wouldn’t watch that show without having plenty of it :) Yes growing up in the 60s and 70s were pretty awesome.
I loved watching this show in the late Fifties and early Sixties. It was one of my favorite shows, along with Roy Rogers, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and The Twilight Zone. Grandfather Clock scared me enough to give me the fantods! A talking clock with a real face! The stuff of nightmares! But I loved the rest. The Captain was so kind and gentle.
They used to play Captain Kangaroo on the TV in the day room a lot. But, I never really watched it as I was trying play a game of Solitaire with a deck of 51 cards. Frustrating times indeed!
I forgot a lot of the characters like dancing bear, grandfather clock. Bunny rabbit until I saw some episodes on RU-vid. I remembered Mr. Green Jean's and Mr. Moose but it was such a long time ago that my memory faded a bit until I watched them on RU-vid then it all came back.
I tried to never miss this show in the mornings,and Saturday was cartoon day where you eat high sugar cereal and bounce off the walls for the rest of the day.
I remember a song from the show "I'm just a little petunia in an onion patch." I met the guy who did Dancing Bear, Mr Moose and Bunnyrabbit. He was a patient in the hospital where I worked. He said he left the puppets in the house he had sold back east. I told they they should have gone to the Smithsonian. or at least be sold. He was not a very friendly man.
Cosmo "Gus" Allegretti played Dennis the painter as well as Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and other puppets. I've heard he was not pleasant to be around.
Reminds me of the scene from Scrooged - Bill Murray takes the part of a Dog just to get into an act he hates just to get with a particular producer - and other scripts too that depicts the actors who are puppeteers are really quite the opposite of the characters they play. The Mary Tyler Moore Show had an episode like this too about a clown character who was quite nasty in real life. GOOD lesson to learn about how easily Hollywood hypnotizes audiences into believing actors ARE the characters they play.
