Loved this show....I always wanted to be on Popcorn Playhouse. My Mom didn't drive until she was 30 & my Dad was already at work. Unfortunately...never made it...although, I knew alot of my friends who did get on the show. :)
I do not know why this show came into my head while at work today? Haven't thought about it in literally decades. Couldn't remember the name of the show, or the hosts name - - good old google to the rescue, only took a few mins. to find it. I lived IN Cold Lake at the time there was only 1 channel on the black and white t.v. and this show came on just around the time we got home from school. Never missed it!
These old snippets are gold because there isn't much of it around. being a kid myself until the I always tuned in to just see the cartoons and then the nuggets sifted out of the sandbox !
It it unfortunate that none of the episodes of "Popcorn Playhouse" are available today. I wish I could see my cousin and I when we were on, way back when. I understand, though, that no one then thought that it was worth the expense to keep the recordings. Now, many decades later, I suppose that even less people care.
I stayed home from school that day when Ed Kaye introduced Eric Neville onto Popcorn Playhouse . I think it was in 1963 ..I was 12 years old I stayed home from school because I was recovering from many bee stings from the night before
I got to dig in the gold mine twice! I remember kids would get the afternoon off school who were going, and the rest of us would be so jealous. I’ll never forget Muskeg the Moose and all the Popeye cartoons.
I was a faithful viewer of this show. Many, it seemed, a time my parents tried to get me on the show, but to no avail. Too many kids ahead of me. What did I want to be when I grew up? I wanted to be on "Popcorn Playhouse"! |:-(
Hi I just wanted to reply to this clip in reference to the children who described their aspirations. My twin brother was the child who wanted to be a fire truck and I wanted to be a mad scientist. He went on to get a master’s degree in theatre and I was a biologist, then physiotherapist so I guess I am the closest to meeting my childhood dreams, but who knows he may have portrayed the truck in a play.
Holy shit! I remember being on the show, it was my little brothers birthday so he got to go up and throw a styrofoam snowball at some kind of pegboard for a prize. I was sittin in the litltle red bleachers with the rest of the kids. I guess there might be a few seconds of old video in the CFRN vault of me at 5 or six years old. Wow it would be freaky to actually see it.
When I was little my family lived in Grandview for two years and I never got on the show either. I can still hear the klonk klonk sound the sieve made as Klondike Eric sifted the gold nuggets out of the sand for the lucky kids. Good times.
They had a quota for how many kids each birthday kid was allowed to have on the show with them. So in at least one case - birthday boy chose which two kids would have to watch from the green room. Nice popularity contest behind the scenes
I just had a family friend come over who said he was on the show. She said he said he wanted to be a fire truck then I searched this video to try to figure out what the show was exactly. I laughed so hard then the guy said ".... Some kids said they wanted to be a fire truck." Well I can say I know the kid who said he wanted to be a fire truck XD
I was one of those kids who said that he wanted to be a firetruck, and I didn’t realize until a couple of years later why that was funny or incorrect. My parents taught me a riddle to ask Muskeg, and I didn’t understand it until several years later: What’s black and white and “red” all over? I didn’t remember red being a common colour on newspapers, so I was confused and obviously didn’t get the red/read homonym connection at that age. BTW, how many other kids wanted to be a firetruck?
You may wanted to be a fire truck, but I believe this comment was referencing my brother and I. He stated that he wanted to be a fire truck and then I stated I wanted to be a mad scientist (which seemed to set Ed off a bit). I believe it was in the late 60’s (68 or 69) and we where a handful as we were about 4 or 5 at the time. I will share your comment with my brother though so he knows that he was not the only child with dreams of becoming a fire truck.
