Draw a cat with Capt. Bob part 1 

I loved Captain Bob! I loved to draw as a kid, animals, fish, dinosaurs, anything. I used to be transfixed watching how his rough lines eventually became so life-like. This is truly a wonderful childhood memory for me.

I grew up watching Capt. Bob on Boston TV. He actually lived up the road for awhile. These instructional programs always intrigued and inspired me as a child. No wonder I turned out to be a starving artist! Still think kids should learn basic drafting techniques, though, as Capt. Bob taught them.

Wow!!! What a blast from the past!! Loved Captain Bob. ❤

Its great to see the ole' Captain again! Loved watching him when I was a boy! A great childhood memory! We'll never see wholesome shows like this again, sadly!

As a kid, I remember this, as well as every other episode of this show. I was so mad when they stopped airing the show. I sent my drawings in and always hoped to see it hanging in his studio, as he would show them every once in awhile. Captain Bob taught me how to draw and educated me as well. I can hear his theme playing in my head now, as the show started and ended each week. Awesome, awesome memories!

Oh my god, i remember drawing or trying anyway early Saturday mornings on channel 56 in Attleboro Massachusetts, such awesome memories. Thank you for posting this.

Precious rare footage here. I always hoped to see one of my drawings when he showed viewer-submitted pieces. He created a love of drawing in many a kid, I imagine.

I used to love watching this early in the morning when I was a child in MA. I always marveled at how easily he made little decisive arcs when drawing.

Thank you so much for posting this video. I've looked for clips of this show for years because it was such an important part of my childhood. I used to get up before the sun every Saturday just to watch this show and draw with Captain Bob. I have very fond memories of those early mornings, silent house, all alone with my paper, pencil, and Captain Bob! I would love to see this show air again!

Drawing with Captain Bob was what one of the biggest reasons I came to love drawing. Thanks Captain!

I used to draw with Captain Bob every Saturday morning. Sent some in hoping to see them. It was my favorite show on Saturday morning. thank you for posting these. Brings back great memories.

THANKS FOR POSTING!!! This is great. I remember watching this back to back with Jabberwocky for years as a kid, first thing in the morning on Saturdays, before anyone else got up. Crunch Berries goes perfectly with this show. ; )

I started learning to draw recently at 48 years old. My husband remembered drawing with Capt. Bob when he was a kid. I had completely forgotten about this. It's a blast from the past and also an awesome tutorial. I can't wait to spend my day drawing a cat with a Capt. Bob. Also I find his Massachusetts accent comforting. Sounds like home.

This show for me is Martha’s Vineyard Memories of the early 1970s where I and my brothers grew up-before JAWS was filmed there and before all the tourists! This is where I first got my drawing lessons as a kid back in the early 70s and I became quite good, thanks to this man. It was called “The Nature World of Captain Bob” but everyone always called it “Drawing with Captain Bob.” This show was on early mornings before school @6:00 AM on Channel 56 out of Boston where the show originated. Each episode you’d learn to draw a new animal of some type-mammals, birds fish, reptiles, insects, etc. Captain Bob had such a soothing way about him for kids. He was the Bob Ross of Children’s Television. I’d get up early to sit in front of the TV with my paper and pencil. When I’d get to school I’d compare my drawing with those of the other two Artist/friends of mine in my grade at Tisbury School, Peter Hatt and Jeffrey Sayer who were both excellent drawers and would watch at their houses. Incidentally, this show absolutely influenced the creators of “Spongebob Squarepants” with the theme music and nautical scenery. Anyhow, I was always amazed by Captain Bob and how he methodically created a cool picture that I too could make in less than 20 minutes, and always with some Education on Nature. II was having Crab Bisque tonight and was reminded of this show. Thanks for uploading. 👨‍✈️ ⛵️

More please! I loved watching him early Saturday mornings while eating my Fruit Loops!

I used to love waking up early and catching this on the tv so I could draw along with him. I thought his accent was a real “sea captain” accent. I’m a 43 year old artist now

I was actually on the Captain Bob Show back in the early '60s. My mother sent in a few postcards with my information on it to the station (channel 5) and I got picked. As I recall there were only 5 or 6 kids on the show at one time. There were competitions amongst us kids, and I won the Bubble Blowing contest for having blown the biggest bubble! I won some sort of paint-by-number painting kit. The show was filmed on a Thursday afternoon and then televised early (7AM) on Sunday morning. I felt like a famous celebrity the following Monday morning when my classmates would tell me they saw me on TV. 😊 After the filming, my mother and I were walking out of the television studio when someone from the Bozo the Clown show came over and asked me if I wanted to be on that show which was about to start filming live! I said sure, and then I went on that show. They were like some 50 kids on that show and I guess I sort of got lost in the crowd. None of my friends and classmates could recall seeing me on that show. After the show I left disappointed because I didn't get picked for a chance to win any prizes. 🙁 All-in-all... it was a great learning experience!

I'm in my early fifties and my sister is in her mid and we would get up early on Sunday mornings and draw with Capt. Bob.....my sister could do what Bob did but my pictures sucked!!!!! I use to get so pissed!!!!! I am no Lance Wilder!!!!! But I loved Capt. Bob. The music open and close always made me feel like I was on a ship with him. Young minds!

Thank you, Thank You, Thank You .... I can't wait to share this with my daughter

Dude, No Way. I watched this religiously when I was a kid. I sent my drawings in hoping to see them on his wall and stuff. If I were to have to draw an eagle to this day, I would draw it like I saw on Captain Bob. great post

I would have been lost by circle number 3...never got the hang of drawing, but still loved Captain Bob :)

This really brings back memories!

Play "Hanna Barbara's World of Super Adventure" already!!!

wow those were the days..I think Jasper said "scupper my uppers" and wow..remember herkimer kiwi,and the adventure they had going to machu pichu? thanks for making me remember

I just read a lot of the replies below it is so funny to see that a lot of us shared the same events and feelings.......getting up early to watch rabbit ear television on Saturdays.....I always thought it was Sundays but oh well. Put on ch 5 and yes get our favorite Cereal before we would draw!!!! We had a roll of drawing like a Paper towel roll thick and my older sister would rip off a piece for me and her and she would eat tricks and I would eat frosted flakes or raisin bran. Or whatever I picked out in the supermarket that week. Probably the one with the prize. Thanks Capt. Bob!!!!

Love that “Bahston” accent!

I loved Capt Bob.

God bless you people who have and post this material. Seriously. It's nice to know that all of this is up here, and that my childhood won't fade into oblivion.

loved watching this guy!! learned many a trick from him. trying to get my 5 year old into watching.

Captain Bob would of been 100 years old this year. RIP Captain Bob.

I think I watched all the same shows as you. LoL I loved "Star Blazers", "Force Five". I remember Saturday mornings with "Jabberwocky" too, though I didn't like that show too much.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I have been searching for episodes of this show for years!

Strong memories of Sunday mornings. I always drew with him, had paper and crayons ready to go night before. I think this was on at 5am no one else was up

Scupper my uppers

I was just a little thing watching Capt Bob, I still can't draw for shit but I can still whistle the tune.

Met him a few times in or around Abington, MA. He was always very friendly. Big part of my childhood was getting up and drawing with him.

Captain Bob saw the good in even "the worst" drawings. It was very funny, and very deep!

Thank you so much for posting this. It's even better than I remember from grade school. He's most likely one of the reasons I've got a BFA now. Too bad there's no DVD set. I still have a polar bear drawing I did with him back in the day.

My mum still has a ton of my Capt. Bob drawings! After my uncle died recently they found a panda that I drew with him CB. I messed and erased his head so many times I had to put it on a separate sheet of paper, cut it out and scotch tape it onto the head. I looked forward to Capt Bob every Sunday am. 'Scuppah my uppahs' I remember from an extended episode about some cartoon character he created, which strayed from his typical animal and landscape subjects.

He was awesome. Never hung up my drawings for the world to see my talents so I hung up my paintbrushes forever and eventually founded Facebook. Oh, man were his Christmas specials creeeepy, though.

He invented the Zoltan arcade fortune teller apparently

please post more if you have them. I am an artist today because of him - Thank you ever so much for this.

😂 I remember watching David and Goliath than captain Bob followed by my Saturday morning cartoons 😏 can’t forget creature, double feature 😉😎

Does this bring back the memories! I remember this in the early 80's late 70's real real early on saturday morning

I wonder how many people are working in art related fields because of shows like this?

Wow! I remember this show I was little now I'm 50 lol

So mellow on Saturday morning It went - eat cereal - watch captain Bob - play G I Joe - some cartoons - then the three stooges yep those were the halcyon days my friends

He lived in Norwell when I was a kid in the 70s. This show was on early!

LOL, he did not cheat, he would tell the viewers to keep drawing during the break because he was.

the real BOB ROSS!!!!!

I think the cartoon your talking about was The Herculiods....It's got some great music....These two shows are some of my first memories...

Ch. 5 was still airing tapes of this show into the 1980's. Hope they haven't erased 'em.

I used to get so frustrated as a kid, as much as I liked his shows. It was like it was hard enough to keep up with him, but then to make matters worse, he would draw during the break and then would totally lose my place.

Actually? "Capt.Bob"Cottle's version of"The Ruff & Reddy Show"debuted on The NBC TV Network on Saturday morning:September 29,1962..Pebey.

Good news, Capt Bob watchers! An archive of his Nature World programs has been saved, and some are watchable online. Look for the titles with a little camera next to them - then get out your pencils and crayons and get drawing! collection.oldfilm.org/Search/Works?search=%22captain+bob%22

Does anyone remember the intro to this show? Was there a fisherman’s dock and house with water and some boats? Thank You!

Ah, but - watch part 2! Now did Capt. Bob cheat and add stuff during the break? Not in this episode! What you really mean is, he was too fast and you couldn't keep up with him. Which was probably the case with a lot of frustrated kid artists.

@BlurryBear I think (can't prove) it was "scuttle me uppers" - that was what Jasper said in moments of stress, and he said it a lot, on the old Capt. Bob. pre-Nature World show. It's fisherman talk, I guess.

It was on at something like 5:30am on the south shore. I never really finished a drawing. He'd come back from commercial and the darn thing would be 75% done and you're like..what the heck! There was another show after it I think called Barbapapa. I specifically remember these blobs would come together to form the sail of a boat either during the intro or end of the show. Am I crazy? I can't find an english version of the show. then weekdays.. star blazers, force five, battle of the planets ;)

I always hoped to see one of my drawings on Capt. Bob. Only to find out years later that my mom never even sent them in. They sucked so bad that she didn't want to waste a stamp, but didn't tell me how awful they were so as to not hurt my feelings! LOL I still like to doodle......and I still suck big time at it. Oh well, my talents lie elsewhere.

I never knew this show was in color! I loved this show more than any cartoon and still have the flounder I drew from one of Captain Bob's shows. does anybody know if there are other episodes that have survived? Thank you so much for posting this

why is is it that youtube doesn't have a whle bunch of these? I could only find this one. And google has barely anything on him. :-(

This brings back so many memories. Do you have any more Captain Bob videos?

I always hated when he'd continue working on the drawing during the closing credits. I always wanted to know what the hell he was adding to an already finished drawing!

What's the name of the effect where the edges are duplicated vertically?