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A segment from the "underwater" adventure series DIVER DAN (1960), featuring Diver Dan (played by Frank Freda), Miss Minerva the mermaid (Suzanne Turner), and an assortment of marionette-style fishes (all voiced by Allen Swift). The series was cowritten by Joseph Bonaduce, the father of PARTRIDGE FAMILY cast member Danny Bonaduce. (This film is in Public Domain.)
Read about DIVER DAN and Chicago kids shows such as GARFIELD GOOSE, ELMER THE ELEPHANT, RAY RAYNER AND FRIENDS, KIDDIE-A-GO-GO, GIGGLESNORT HOTEL and SUPER CIRCUS in the book THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHICAGO CHILDREN'S TELEVISION available from Lake Claremont Press at www.lakeclaremont.com

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@scottfergsuon3975 2 года назад

Wow...I haven't seen one of these since I was about 4. Minerva was gorgeous.

@DavidLS1 Год назад

I remember being afraid of the Baron.

@Dafydde 13 лет назад

Where else but RU-vid. This really dates us who identify with Diver Dan. Hearing the character voices really takes one back, like smelling fresh crayons. Thanks for the memory lane.

@eblackadder3 2 года назад

Wow, I haven't seen this in around 55 years when I was little growing up in southern California! I wish I was a kid again, no problems, no worries...

@EndingSummerwithRalph 9 лет назад

Puppet shows were a blast growing up in the 1960's!

@TheRealLorenzoRoss 10 лет назад

I love that Trigger Fish is smoking a cigarette underwater.

@StevenErnest 7 лет назад

I know, that's hilarious. Plus, they don't allow any portrayal of smoking on kids' shows anymore.

@bozsongz3652 6 лет назад

Poor bastard, he died of gill cancer.

@whisky2roxy 6 лет назад

I thought it was emphysema

@misterwhitman4368 5 лет назад

That confused me at the time!

@statesideqsod 4 года назад

He looks like a Sheepshead fish

@mehermusic2154 3 года назад

& the barracuda sounds like Bela Lugosi. Awesome !

@lisardofaustralia 11 лет назад

Yep this actually made it to New Zealand. I'm now in my fifties and I get goose bumps to see this again.

@HelenLuick Год назад

I,M IN MY 70S N I REMEBER EACH EPISODE

@barbarahiggins5536 10 лет назад

This is how I fell in love with mermaids. Miss Minerva rocks!

@pgroove163 2 года назад

I had a serious Jones for her

@LDiamondz 2 года назад

Same here! ❤

@jennyhiggons9933 Год назад

Ya gotta love that one of the fish has a cig dangling from his mouth. That would NEVER happen today! I loved this show when I was a kid.

@Kealiiaumoku55 10 лет назад

Any one besides myself ... Remember ... Diver Dan?

@johnrobinsoniii4028 9 лет назад

+Christopher Preston MEEEEE!!!!! I remember him....I was seven-and-a-half years old.

@ronmccann7552 9 лет назад

+Christopher Preston Very well ! Even at 7 yrs. old I thought Minerva was hot and wanted to see her and Diver Dan meet.

@mokilechat 8 лет назад

+Christopher Preston Absolutely! No one else in my family remembered this, and I was so happy to see it!

@unclebillmusic 7 лет назад

Early 60's ! Minerva was BEAUTIFUL !! I LOVE THE SONG !!!

@elderlypoodle9181 7 лет назад

Christopher Preston Oh yes!!!!! I showed this to my younger friends. They said " Now we know why you are so weird " HA !

@spideraxis 11 лет назад

How I loved watching this show as a young child.

@rnrbunt 13 лет назад

WOW...thought I was the only one on the planet who remembered Diver Dan.

@Dafydde 11 лет назад

Oh my gosh. Lived in Highland NY when this was on. All B and W, I'm afraid. Still, it's nice to share some space here with people who remember this long lost kids' program.

@nerdy989898 15 лет назад

wow! this show is one of my earliest tv memories. so amazing to see it again after all these years. i remember being fascinated by this when i was like 4. thanks a lot for posting it.

@bratschmom 17 лет назад

Love it. Takes me back to So Cal, in the early 60's. So innocent were those day. Did anyone notice the gangster fish was smoking a cigarette? I love Miss Mannerva. Love the opening and closing song too!

@Sang1957 14 лет назад

WOW! Have not seen this stuff since I was a kid! 1960... I would have 3 years old. Still remember it tho, good old Baron Barracuda!

@KatradioNY 15 лет назад

This show..Diver Dan...along with Sea Hunt..inspired me to become a scuba diver! We were squirts when this was on TV! Love it!

@lorraineserviss5419 11 лет назад

Remember this.. I loved this show

@ToonORama 17 лет назад

In Chicago, DIVER DAN was also seen on RAY RAYNER AND FRIENDS, a weekday-morning cartoon showcase. Good old Ray--weekday mornings aren't the same without him.

@sherriesteele-petty2998 2 года назад

True that!

@m.oriley7700 2 года назад

Ray Rayner and Garfield Goose. We Chicago (actually I lived in Lake Forest) kiddies had it so good.

@privatsitazen 2 года назад

Lol. It was great! I used to still watch Ray when I first started working! Every morning while getting ready!

@1952kid 15 лет назад

I think most of us remember this in black and white. I have color programs from the 1960's and turn the color off on my tv,to watch them as i remember them. Thanks for putting this video on.

@Wordwoman54 13 лет назад

Always LOVED this show. The theme song even stuck in my head all these years. Go, DIVER DAN!

@geofbrit59 9 лет назад

Now there is a blast from the past! Haven't seen or thought of this in 50 years.

@mimisbabygirl1 13 лет назад

OMG'SH, I had forgotten about this show!!! What a blast from the past!! Thanks for the memories...

@ChicagoSouthDan 10 лет назад

When I was a kid in Chicago, Diver Dan was one of my nicknames.

@Bfoots1952 11 лет назад

Big fan of this show back in 1962. An after school treat. I could draw and I would make up stories of Diver Dan and Minerva and the rest of the gang and illustrate them. Whatched this show in Atlanta, GA on channel 11. In my Diver Stories, Minerva the mermaid and Diver Dan do finally meet after epicsode when the Baron and Trigger Fish kidnap Minerva. Thanks for posting. Brings up childhood memories--will be 61 in August.

@carollambies4281 6 лет назад

I loved this show as a kid.. Look at the fish with ciggie,My Bro in law had a crush on Minerva too.

@zudemaster 7 лет назад

This makes Clutch Cargo look like a masterpiece.

@sherriesteele-petty2998 2 года назад

LOL

@whisky2roxy 5 месяцев назад

Clutch Cargo was a masterpiece.

@interstellarconundrum4774 4 месяца назад

Yikes! I find it hard to believe I used to watch this. I love it.

@junkdeal 11 лет назад

I remember Ray Rayner! Especially the joke segment, and one joke in particular! "What did they say when they hung Tojo?" "There's a Nip in the air!" Can you imagine that on television today?!!

@KeithE4 4 года назад

Not now, but Rayner deserves a break. He was a POW in Germany during the war, and jokes like that were still fresh in people's minds in the 1960s, and were not considered offensive.

@junkdeal 4 года назад

@@KeithE4 My, my, how the world does change!!!` I kinda miss the old way!

@nealbradleigh5069 3 года назад

Part and parcel for the post-war culture at the time. The noted journalist STUDS TERKEL noted how the national culture rationalized its xenophobia, polluting even the creative arts. Listen to old radio broadcasts and hear CLARENCE NASH (the voice of DONALD DUCK) working OT on shows like BURNS AND ALLEN to cartoons for DISNEY ( i e "DER FURHER'S FACE). See if you can access the creations of the WB for the war effort as well. Odd, no interment camps for millions of German-Americans, while Jaoanese-Americans were reduced to second-class citizens (their children soldiered on to make their marks in society, such as the design of GM's most iconic design, the CORVETTE STINGRAY (LARRY SHINODA) and to "boldly go where.blah blah (GEORGE TAKEI)

@kae4466 6 лет назад

i remember seeing this in southern california in my youth.:)

@postatility 14 лет назад

This show was surprisingly entertaining and kinda' hip,in an innocent way.And Miss Minerva was waaay hot in 1960,and still is in 2010.

@lisardofaustralia 12 лет назад

I have been trying to find this series, because as a child over 45 years ago in New Zealand I absolutely loved it, thank you you tube for bringing back my memories.

@jackhillty 17 лет назад

another 100 years of technology will never replace the gloriously insane production values of Diver Dan. I've long suspected that the reason you never see Miss Minerva and Diver Dan in the same scene is because they're played by the same actor.

@kb6kgx 17 лет назад

I loved the cigarette in Trigger's mouth, and the moustache and glasses on "The Baron".

@kendallsquare7575 11 лет назад

THIS REALLY BRINGS BACK CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. I WATCHED DIVER DAN ALL THE TIME. I WAS IN ST. LOUIS.

@ValJonesDaO 7 лет назад

OMG this used to sooo be my show!!!

@margaretobrien3652 7 лет назад

I can remember going to school was right after Diver Dan "Let's go" my mom would say. I don't remember a whole lot but Maundie the sea monster keeps lurking in the back of my mind.

@elderlypoodle9181 6 лет назад

Margaret O'Brien Yes!!! Had to leave for school when the ending came on. I wanted to stay home and live under water 😂

@chuckwagon5518 Год назад

Always loved the smoking fish!

@MonsterMenagerie 14 лет назад

This was syndicated in serial form that played on local kid's shows like Sheriff John in Los Angeles. I haven't seen this in over 40 years! Thanks for sharing!

@cuddzilla 17 лет назад

Thanks for posting this. I've asked many from the Chicagoland area if they remember this and everyone says no. Great memories from early childhood!

@privatsitazen 2 года назад

I m from Chicago ( city ) and I definitely remember it!

@1952kid 15 лет назад

Those wonderful days, as a child of the early 1960's. After school shows,they dont do that anymore. After a hard day in 5th grade,we took the edge off with these shows. We had our own TV hosts, and only 7 channels,so we all watched the same things. I like to think of it as the Sandy Becker Era. I was there watching these shows just like you. It was great.

@kevins.butler3402 4 года назад

I prefer to think of that era in NYC Kids tv..as the era..when tv was occupied by a rare and extinct creature:The Human Being..1952 Kid.

@pwwatson8888 13 лет назад

I grew up on the North Shore. I was terrified of Baron Barracuda and the music but I was 6. Yes the Mermaid is timelessly beautiful. Great days - that and Captain Kangarro - better days.

@debbieflorio4357 4 года назад

I remember Diver Dan! I tell people about it, but no one knows it. I was like 5 and Diver Dan was my first TV crush, pretty weird since you never really get to see his face.

@chels01e 13 лет назад

OMG Diver Dan!!! I loved this!!!

@videosallnight 7 лет назад

I was just short of 3 years old when show debuted. It's amazing I still remember it.

@CatalinaThePirate 8 лет назад

Ha, good ol' Diver Dan! I once wanted to be a commercial (hard hat) diver because of him. This was an entertaining show for me when I was growing up in a 'burb of Chicago, back in the '60s. d8^)

@kevinstewart1228 8 лет назад

I miss those days

@elderlypoodle9181 7 лет назад

CatalinaThePirate Yes!!! we had just moved from Illinois to California. watched before going to school.

@millerdlv541 6 лет назад

Catalina The Pirate Same here, I grew up in Morton Grove, must have been around '64, probably watched on WGN.

@Nezmund 6 лет назад

Grew up in Des Plaines in the 60's. As I recall, they would show Diver Dan on Ray Rayner and Friends weekday mornings.

@SteveCarras 4 года назад

I used to watch this in early and mid 1960s..I have the theme,mIIRC:)

@daviddonaghy7568 4 года назад

I loved him. I've never seen it in color before. We never had a color tv.

@sailorette1 16 лет назад

Toonarama, Thank you for posting this. I have not seen it in years. Now I can share it with my kids...

@Micki1958 15 лет назад

I grew up on Ray Raynor, Bill Jackson and Bozo's Circus. This was a gret find for me! Believe me, in the 1960's this cartoon and Clutch Cargo were the best!! Diver Dan never saw Miss Minerva. The tension was always there if they would meet or not. It was great to be a kid in Chicago when Ray and Bill and Bozo were on TV.

@PassatDoc 14 лет назад

I never saw it on tv, but once for my birthday I received a "Diver Dan board game", which was basically a tug of war game between Diver Dan and a giant octopus. You would roll the die and advance or regress a certain number of spaces. The octopus could win or Dan could win. I enjoyed the game without knowing it was based on a real tv show. Must have been a mainly Chicago show, but it became a Milton Bradley board game.

@sherriesteele-petty2998 2 года назад

Wow.... Never knew there was a board game.

@favorsham 16 лет назад

My mom says this was my fav show when I was about 3, all I remembered was the title. Ariel, eat your heart out!

@heyitsbeej 16 лет назад

That's The Unicorn Song! They played it whenever the guy from Lincoln Park Zoo would visit the Ray Rayner show. "There was green alligators and long-necked geese; Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees; Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born; The loveliest of all was the unicorn"

@Piggy-Oink-Oink 2 года назад

why am i watching this i really need to examine my choices in life.

@fromthesidelines 14 лет назад

Allen Swift just passed away a few days ago (at age 86). God, what a talent! : (

@MissHolleyKing 11 лет назад

Diver Dan shorts ran as part of Felix & Diver Dan, a 30-minute children's show airing from January 4, 1960, to August 31, 1962, which also included Felix the Cat.[3] In Chicago during the 1960s, Diver Dan was regularly shown on the WGN-TV show "Ray Rayner and His Friends" even though Rayner would frequently read on-air letters from children requesting that he get other cartoons.

@ToonORama 17 лет назад

(To clarify...Harmon played a few other characters in those syndicated shows, but never appeared as Bozo--Bozo was played by Frank Avruch on the Boston show from 1959 to 1970--those syndicated half-hours are from 1965-67.)

@Synthetrix 14 лет назад

I used to watch these on Sheriff John's show. Mid 60s.

@ToonORama 16 лет назад

Some of the "Diver Dan" segments have been released on public domain DVDs by Alpha Video and East-West Video. I have seen the latter at Dollar Tree, so if there is one in your area, check it out. Alpha's DVD is on Amazon.

@chrismargarites8722 5 месяцев назад

What a great show.

@DouggieDinosaur 17 лет назад

that was pretty awesome - like "Finding Nemo" - not too shabby. I'm finding that every generation had it's great entertainment for kids.

@swamisMotelBand1 14 лет назад

thanks for posting

@ieatfood4lunch 16 лет назад

AHAHAHAHAAAA! My dad used to watch this show when he was like 7! "Hurry men!" hahaha but they go so slow, gosh this is just hilarious

@LAwoman1956 12 лет назад

I watched this back in the day and the baracuda creeped me out!

@angelicwolf909 4 года назад

I can't believe I grew up watching this stuff. Must have been Miss Minerva ...

@RagShop1 11 лет назад

Looks like this half episode was in color. Interesting.

@ToonORama 17 лет назад

Only the best! I have to wonder though, how that worked out for him, being underwater and all...

@CHARIOTEERDC 13 лет назад

OH MY GOD!!! Unbelievable! So COOL! Thanks. And even with Baron Baracuda!

@daliav-f8629 3 года назад

I was in love with Diver Dan when I was 6 years old, hahahaha.

@billkrutzsch6496 2 года назад

Baron Barracuda to Trigger Fish "call me Baron, stupid" Trigger Fish to Baron Barracuda "well ok Baron stupid"🤣

@TREYCEMONE 15 лет назад

Boy oh boy..I remember this from the 60's..I remember Baron Baracuda and Minerva the mermaid.. and of course Diver Dan..I saw it on the Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead show on channel 11 in Los Angeles they also hosted Tobar the 8th Man and I think Aquaman...I guess I'll probably find Gigantor on youtube also.

@javsmom 15 лет назад

my son loves old skool stuff like this

@ftsjr 16 лет назад

I was only about six, but I remember that I had a massive crush on Minerva the Mermaid.

@jsolari99 16 лет назад

I watched this on the Capt Sacto Show, KCRA in Sacramento. I must have been about 6, but I remember watching for the puppet strings.

@jordanscott4254 5 лет назад

I remember there was a show like this when I was kid in the early 2000s on nickeldon it was weird but cant remember if it was this or not

@dizyootum 15 лет назад

Me too Nerdy , I was 4 in 1960 the best time of life...

@MattTheLizard 14 лет назад

it is JUST LIKE THIS at the jetties in St. Andrews. Just like this!

@Bluesboybiggie 11 лет назад

Today is my 49th birthday. I haven't seen Diver Dan since I was probably five. Ray Rayner used to show it on his show on WGN Chicago.

@roberthill799 6 месяцев назад

God, how this show gave me the creeps almost 60 years ago. Don’t ask me why! Just a four-year old’s inexplicable sense of menace. And not just the villain fish. Dan scared me even more.

@Lester2955 14 лет назад

Thank you for posting this. What a great show. I agree with Bob Cronley, we learned from bad examples. The fish was Trigger, a "hench-fish" and we all knew we shouldn't be like him. At the time teachers would actually smoke in the classroom. We loved some of the teachers, but we didn't want yellow, smelly teeth like them. It was called judgement......not the thought police.

@bd001217 16 лет назад

I think someone said (either on this thread or on another Diver Dan page) that this particular episode could have been a pilot. I believe that the regular series was filmed entirely in black & white. The pilot ep was filmed in color for the purposes of shopping the series around

@prosodiclearning 3 года назад

The height of Aussie sophistication ....BTW Diver Dan loved the Mermaid...but later said "i couldn;t get Mynerve up !

@xMaxydoodlex 14 лет назад

Com[are this to the cartoons now, im absoloutly in love with this show. My grandma wqas talking to me about it

@mezatopia 14 лет назад

I remember this Judy.... You dug up a good one. The vicious Baracuda. lol

@MarkSchuster-ym3iy Год назад

Diver Dan was a puppet show controlled by strings above. Miss Minerva was a beautiful mer maid. Trigger fish got a cigarette hanging from his mouth lol.

@Lifeflame5 15 лет назад

wow I remember watching this on Garfield Goose on WGN in Chicago. I loved it, and I was also a fan of (I am sry for the misspelling) Jacque Cousteau too.(I am still a fan of him and his work and his sons and the rest of th Calypso)

@ToonORama 17 лет назад

I found this interesting. There is a Bozo coloring book published by Western Publishing in the early 1960s, which has the drawings of the Harmon animated Bozo and other characters like Butchy and Belinda...plus Oliver O. Oliver, Sandy and a ringmaster who looks a lot like Ned Locke! (All characters from WGN in Chicago.) It shows up on ebaY all the time. It has a purple cover.

@ToonORama 17 лет назад

I believe a company called "Nostalgia Family Video" released a series of public domain VHS tapes (from B/W prints of films originally made in color) but I have no idea how comprehensive it was. I think they released 5 or 6 tapes. Maybe it might be in there.

@jameschoron6434 11 лет назад

Tacky, low budget? Yes. But so much fun for us kids of the 50s akd 60s.

@sherriesteele-petty2998 2 года назад

LOL

@darrellreid3172 2 года назад

I thought that this show was recorded by CBC studios in Toronto, I may be wrong.

@SenorZorrozzz 16 лет назад

I watched Diver Dan on Ch. 5 in NYC. But I never saw a color show until now. Was the series shot in color? Who has the masters?

@BenAliGtor 11 лет назад

Ray was a POW during the Second World War, held in the American camp of Stalag Luft III (of Great Escape fame).

@ToonORama 17 лет назад

If Frank Freda had a hand in the writing, he didn't receive screen credit for it--at least not under that name. The credited writers were Joseph Bonaduce and Ron Ronszel.

@MrDanielwilliam 9 лет назад

Miss Minerva was pretty hot, wunder whats she's doin these days ???

@donmiller2908 6 лет назад

She's pushing up daisies

@alienalajna Год назад

I'm 72 and I have a couple of Spong Bob t shirts. One thought led to another, and I had to check out DD - and Miss Minerva, who has lost none of her charm. I love the low production values - fish obviously on wires, or held from off-camera. I love Baron B's Bela Lugosi voice, and Trigger's amazing underwater cigarette. I was always hoping that something would develop between Miss Minerva and Diver Dan, though I suppose it would have to remain platonic.

@MrPrincetrumpet 11 лет назад

I had a crush on Miss Minerva.

@krisrhood2127 3 года назад

I remember this show in Philadelphia

@gt40mk21 12 лет назад

I remember this too - in my memory it was a Gerry Anderson (Supercar, Thunderbirds, etc) series, but clearly it is not. I read about it on Wiki - it looks like underwater because they shot through an aquarium, apparently. But yeah, this is one of those weird one-off American series from the 60s, period-low in production values, that until the internet remained in our minds as shows that we weren't *quite* sure if they actually existed - or if we dreamed them . . . Clutch Cargo, Colonel Bleep,

@ToonORama 17 лет назад

Hey, calm down, you two! New Shimmer is a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

@mikeaustin1 16 лет назад

Why is it that the cheesiest cartoon shows had the coolest tunes? To this day I remember Diver Dan like it was yesterday. I also loved the filming through fish tanks! And they got paid for this! LOL!