My dad used to watch this when he was little and he told me about this show...I loved it so much I learned how to play the songs on the recorder! I’m so upset I wasn’t born in this generation.
The Friendly Giant is the best TV show ever. I've talked to dozens of harpists across Canada and they all tell me the same thing... that Early One Morning is always their most-requested song. And that's simply because, for kids from 9 to 90, it's "The Friendly Giant Song."
This was the show that inspired me to be a harpist. Not this particular episode, I remember it from its black and white incarnation from the 60s, but it was good ol' Rusty with his miniature gold harp that impressed itself on my 5 year old brain
The ending is so incredibly sad... it like those old days when you were having such a good time you didn't want to leave, and you would cry when you had to go.
Great show for kids. This is what they need to see more of. Real people making real facial expressions and gestures and having conversations. Not all the digitally animated crap they put out there these days.
This brings back great memories of being a young child. Wonderful! Does anybody else notice that Jerome the Giraffe sounds a lot like actor Jeff Goldblum?
I had forgotten that they could change the seasons on the way to Friendly's castle! Love the snowplow clearing the road. Rusty played the harp; I had completely forgotten...Jerome was such a character...great, beautiful music...where are today's shows like this? Ones that appeal to all ages, have cozy live-action, never talk down to the kids, and make everyone feel that there's still beauty, fun, gentleness, and security in the world. Perhaps a second or third wave of children's TV will come to succeed Friendly, Mssrs. Rogers and Dressup, Frightenstein, et.al.
I just watched this episode, the first one I've watched since we saw the last one nearly thirty years ago when my kids were little. It is still my favourite kid's show of all time.
Thanks so much for uploading this!. Years ago I wrote to the CBC asking them to release "Friendly Giant" to DVD so I could show my daughter. Never heard back. Too busy cutting programming and jobs, i suppose. Nice to see this again after all these years. Thanks again!!
OMG....I about forgot about this show till this video, I don't know why as I used to watch this along with Mr. Dressing and Rodgers. I loved this show...I now remember wanting my dad to build me a small city so I could pretend to be a giant...lol...thanks for this and bringing back an old memory!!
In what turned out to be the final episode, Gerome became insanely angry and ate Rusty. After that, they couldn't get insurance coverage and shut down.
