Froggy the Gremlin and Lecturers 

These episodes with Froggie and guests were some of my favorite moments in my 1950's childhood.

My father always used to say to us "Plunk your magic twanger Froggy!" He recently passed and this is a memory I will always remember. Thank you for posting this...I now know its origin. All I remember him saying is that it was from a show when he was a kid♥️

When I was a small child, about 3 or 4, I used to watch this. I had rubber "Froggies". They were my first toys!

Never missed one show as a four year old. Parents didn't have to worry about what was on TV in the fifties. Andy was the best and Froggy, Midnight and the Gang ruled our world. Cost for the studio and show probably in the hundreds but brought millions of laughs to kids like me.

Seeing and hearing Froggy again made me ridiculously happy. Kids really don't grow up. Thanks for the memory. Cindy lu

Still makes me LOL! What fun it must have been for the actors!

Just cracks me up. Foggy was years ahead of his time. This must have been a great show.

My late father turned me on to this classic series! Thanks dad.

loved Froggy as a kid. He was so awesome. he was , he was

I can see why kids back then loved this show. Very funny and entertaining; even today.

PLUNK YOUR MAGIC TWANGER, FROGGY! A totally bizarre kids show that I remember very well as a totally bizarre Kid myself. Thanks a zillion for posting.

I remember this. We used to watch it religiously every Saturday morning. I had literally pissed myself more than once. You must take into account that this was the mid 50's. I don't see this passing any ratings today. It would make the P.C. crowd howl in protest!

Oh, thank you, thank you for posting this. I'm 71 and still find this almost unbearably funny.

Thank you! I think I just realized what a profound impact this show has had on my life. I'll be forever grateful to Froggy and his creators.

what a great character I'm 75 and I happen to catch this brought back memories I couldn't stop laughing I thought I was a kid again but this humor is funnier than any age used to watch it New York City back in the fifties

Love how Froggy interjects, and the lecturers just take up from there.

All of us who grew up on the early days of TV , will never forget the Geniuses of Children's programming in the 50s & 60s. We heard from a Howdy Dooty fan , but Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger and Winky Dink & You ! , also were fun . Then there was Shari Lewis and LambChop or Paul Winchell & Gerrry Mahoney , ventriliquists and who could forget Farfo & Jimmy Nelson , Nestles Chocolate commercial ! Then Clarabell magically became Captain Kangaroo with Tom Terrific and Manfred Mann the Wonder Dog's Adventures. Then the Villans like Crabby Appleton ,The meanest man in the World or Mister Phineas T Buster the tight wad , not even to mention Kukla ,Fran & Ollie. I'm sure you will find some of these great characters from those days way back when, here on YT ...Its not really becoming a 2nd Childhood for us Seniors but never finishing our First ! I still love Good Animation and Classic Cartoon Character , What's up Doc? !

I do remember Smilin Ed. He was a heavy set man with white hair and I believe he wore glasses. He would sit in a chair and take out a large story book, open it and begin to read. At that point, the show would cut to whatever serial they would be showing that day. When he passed away, Andy Devine replaced him and the show became "Andy's Gang". I watched it without fail. I absolutely loved Froggy the Gremlin and Midnight the black cat. I actually thought Midnight said "nice" and remember asking my mom if cats could really speak because Midnight did.

Nice to go back to a better time and place ❤❤

My wife wouldn't believe such a show existed so I had to show her. I met Andy Devine when I was a kid when he was on the Wild Bill Hickock Show. Hiya, Kids. Hiya Hiya Hiya

we loved this bizarre little show.

70 years old now and haven’t seen anything funnier .

I only wish more of the Froggy bits were available. For me, as a young boy, they were the highlight of the show and I loved it when Froggy would torment the "Lecturers" and then laugh, ha, ha, ha, in his croaky voice while dancing back and forth on top of the grandfather clock. I just couldn't get enough of him.

I'd wait all week to see Froggy!

Froggy was my hero! Still funny as hell, 60 years later. Froggy Rocks!

I watched this religiously as a child, and loved it! Froggy was so funny! That fat guy is the great Billy Gilbert !

I was absolutely fascinated with the characters on this program as a kid. Froggy was my favorite and I had a duplicate toy of him my mom bought for me. Midnight the Cat supposedly spoke. She said "Nice". I thought she could actually speak and recall asking my mother if cats really could speak because, after all, Midnight could. The program was sponsored by Buster Brown Shoes. "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe". Here's my dog Ty (?), he lives in there too".

Froggy was my first crush......I loved that little demon:). Brings back so many memories. Thanks!

Awesome! Undoubtedly the greatest character in television history. A totally perverse influence on a entire generation. Don't trust authority figures kids, they're all morons. I wish there was more of these on line, but this one will do.

I love the show with Froggy the Gremlin. He is so cute!

Thank you for posting, childhood laughs, good days

I am 77 years old and I remember that this show used to be on the radio in 1949, before it was on TV.. Midnight, Froggy and Squeaky, I remember from the radio.. I was about 8 years old at that time..

Wow! Thanks for this post. I remember Andy's Gang too.

Bless you-tube! I never thought I would ever see much less hear Froggy plunk his magic twanger again. I too would mimic the whole hah, hah and Hiya, hiya, hiya routine for ever. I also can understand why I became such a rebel and couldn't respect authority. Healthy for kids of the 60's. Now we understand.., 'down with the establishment'.

These are hysterical!

We didn't have a TV, so I had to watch this at a friends house on Saturday mornings.

Thank you so much for downloading these "Froggy", videos. I am 70 y/o and this was one of my favorite shows. Every once and awhile when I entire a room that has people I know, the first thing out of my mouth is"Hiya kids. Hiya, hiya, hiya. Plunk your magic twanger Froggy!" Some remember.

Great memories!

In addition to these characters, I think there was Squeaky the Mouse. My brother and I watched religiously … I miss my childhood, it was such a happy time.

I’m 77 remember Froggy as a funny slap stick comedic puppet. Nothing sinister just funny.

Froggy still rocks!

I first learned of Froggy 2 or 3 decades ago, in "The Armageddon Rag" by George R.R. Martin. It was one of those stories of '60s radicals looking back from the perspective of the '80s. Froggy was the key inspiration. A character in the novel patterns his entire life after Froggy, calling him "the original anarchist." This show was before my time, and I didn't find out Froggy was for real until a few years ago. The novel was about a fictional rock band, and Froggy seemed just too radical to have been on TV in the conformist 1950s, so I thought he must be fictional too. Now that his video clips have surfaced, it makes me reflect on how they got this past the censors. The mindset must have been it's only a kiddie show and therefore of no consequence. To hear Martin and the sixty-somethings commenting here, Froggy planted the culture-jamming seeds that led to big consequences in the Yippie era.

"Alkali Pete"and the cop were both played by Bill Thompson..Bill is best remembered for his performing cartoon voice overs for Walt Disney and for Hanna/Barbera.

i have two remple froggies the ultra rare large one and the smaller 5 inch one.

Hilarious! Thanks so much for posting.

Goldilocks And The Three Stooges. That would make a great movie!

Goldilocks and the three stooges! I'd pay money to see that!

Froggy was the original troll. lol Well, gremlin, but still...

I just read "The search for Smilin' Ed" by Kim Deitch. Knocked my socks off when I found out this was a real show.

Hey- one of those guys is Billy Gilbert! I never knew he was on the show. I used to watch this in the early 60's, before the cartoons would come on.

I loved the episode where Midnight the Cat flies in an airplane. I always remember the kid who jumps out of his seat in the audience at the beginning of the show. Who was that kid??

Did Froggy ever say “people eat fish cakes”? Not certain.

I can't say I remember the sheriff pulling a gun on Froggy and blowing him away. You might say Froggy ended with a BANG. 🐸

You see he was a magic frog and could put words in people's mouths.

Froggy The Gremlin is now the base player in the band 'David Arvedon and The Psychopaths.'

You're right. I was there and watched it all unfold...kinda like a like a Sunflower.

Froggy was both badass with his sarcastic comments and underrated, since the 50's nobody has seen him nowdays. I wish he makes a cameo in Helluva Boss or Hazbin Hotel.

This is just the best!

Looked like June Foray - the voice of Rocky The Flying Squirrel and many others.

Special effects were probably better when Smilin' Ed and Froggy were on radio, since all the effects were in your imagination. I think the radio version is where I first ran into Ed McConnell and the Buster Brown show around the time that the TV version began. Andy Devine replaced Ed on TV when he passed away, which I remember finding both disturbing and confusing as a little kid. Confusing because Andy Devine was also Wild Bill Hickok's sidekick Jingles. Wikipedia and the old time radio researchers group are my memory refresher is on these things.

The trickster archetype in most basic form

I loved the Smilin Ed Show as a kid, especially Froggy Gremlin and Midnight the cat. In this clip, watch for Billy Gilbert with the Swiss outfit on. He was in a number of classic Laurel and Hardy comedies in the 1930's including the Academy Award winning "The Music Box". Watch how exasperated he gets with Froggy.

Watto: No, they won't-a! What? You think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks don't work on me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal!

THE VERY BEST... EVER!!!

Love it!!!!! Thanks

Loved Froggy and Midnight!

I believe that was Billy Gilbert making an appearance.

Plunk your magic twanger.

Did watch the movies think there were three and they played them over and over.

I could plunk my twanger back then, but now I'm too old

Amen, brother!

Froggy the Gremlin made me into an revolutionary

Buckner & Garcia got me here.

I had a Froggy Gremlin. He would be worth a lot 70 yrs later.

Froggy used to scare the crap out of me!

Froggy............... OG!!!

And they want to know why I am so fucked up!

You ought to read Armageddon Rock by George R R Martin from the year 1982

I have always thought that froggy the gremlin rivals if not exceeds the Jedi mind control. I put him up against the best of them. And he can vanish at will!

Who's The Cowboy's Name?

Froggy was the spiritual ancestor of Abbie Hoffman and other 60s rebels.

Whos the cowboy dude?

If I showed Froggy the Gremlin to my kids and grand kids they would freak out because it's not politically correct for them. To me me Froggy was a 'crack up riot'. Froggy smoked dope, took 'acid', ate peyote and magic mushrooms before any of us.

They left out Pasta Fazouli.........he was Froggy's best victim..........

wicked

I said that to a girl I used to date years ago, she told me I could' nt plunk her magic twanger, nor would she plunk mine!! Some girls just have a bad attitude!!

360, apparently you are as slow to pick up on satire as I am.

One of the weirdest kid shows ever.

Froggy scared the crap out of me. Couldn't watch him as a kid.

Family feud brought me here

Froggy formed my anti authoritarian personality.i never liked goody two shoes cartoon characters.

Trump looks a lot like Froggy.

I loved Midnight the Cat too ! But felt a little sorry for him cause he really got bounced around he was sorry of Hand held and would play the small piano and Meow !