He is the cutest guy on television ever! And he is such an awesome dude and I really want him to live forever! If you want this super awesome adorable dude to live forever, raise your hand.

DVD is so timeless. It's wonderful this has been preserved. There he is in the mid-1950s, just like today. Amazing man.

I just hope he lives forever.

I am so in love with this guy! He was so cute in this video. He still is today. I have a celebrity crush on him.

The concept of a live host/performer..talking with cartoon characters(or in this case..a unique form of puppetry)..that appear on a TV set in the living room of a private house..and have conversations with the show's mc..was revived..years later as"The Surprise Show"with Hank Stohl and Morey Bunin's "Aniforms"on WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC in 1965.

So lucky to have him, his 2 books are great btw.

As of December 4, 2019, Terrytoons and it's related characters and library are now owned by ViacomCBS!

Ir should be pointed out that Terrytoons kept going--CBS hired young lion Gene Deitch from UPA to run the studio and bring some prestige that the studio never had (Terry always said that if Disney was Tiffany's, he was Woolworth's). Deitch and the new staff he brought in with the veterans made some shorts that had some good things in them but were not completely successful (except for "Tom Terrific," the ultra-low budget but highly imaginative series made for CBS' "Captain Kangaroo"). It should be pointed out that the Terrytoons veterans were already unhappy because they thought Terry was going to sell the studio to them. Deitch and Bill Weiss, Terry's business manager who had wrangled an "executive producer" credit from CBS, warred incessantly and eventually Weiss fired Deitch and took over production himself, with some of the old characters back, a lot of new characters for TV like "Deputy Dawg" and "Hector Heathcote" and budgets lower than even the cheapskate Paul Terry would allow. The studio kept plodding on through the 60s until theatrical distributor 20th-Century Fox said they could make more money re-issuing shorts and the studio shut down in 1969. Weiss continued to work for CBS (and after 1971, for Viacom when CBS spun off their syndication and licensing operations to the new Viacom) supervising licensing of Terrytoons characters until his retirement.

If this had been the first Terrytoons show on television after CBS bought the studio, Mighty Mouse probably would have been dominantly featured in this series. But since Mighty Mouse already was on TV, Terrytoons picked the next-best-known characters for this series.

This is a cool early appearance! Did you know that Dick Van Dyke did not have a big break until Bye Bye Birdie on stage in 1960?

@bobbyfrancis8957

2 жыл бұрын

Molly Lea- I guess you read Dick Van Dyke's autobiography, like I did? Carl Reiner saw him on Broadway in "Bye, Bye Birdie". Later, Disney saw him in the movie version.

The shorts were as followed, 1950's Cat Happy, 1939's The Orphan Duck, 1950's Wide Open Spaces and 1947's Flying South. Granted not in this order. But all four shorts were featured in the episode.

Repeats of "THE LONE RANGER" were on CBS' Saturday afternoon schedule at the time (while it aired in prime-time on ABC); "TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS" appeared at 11:30am(et); "MY FRIEND FLICKA" aired on Friday nights at 7:30pm(et) {"48 hours from now"}.

Thanks for these shows. Fantastic, Barry, and I really appreciate it!

This is about a year after Dick left WDSU-TV, New Orleans for CBS Radio and TV. HAPPY belated 90th, Mr. vanDyke!!!

@fromthesidelines

6 жыл бұрын

He was signed to a contract by CBS in 1955; the first show he did for them was replacing Jack Paar on "THE MORNING SHOW" (opposite NBC's 'TODAY SHOW", at 7am) until HE was replaced by "GOOD MORNING!" {with Will Rogers Jr.} in 1956. Then, came "CBS CARTOON THEATRE", and a few other "assignments", until his contract ended in 1957.

@danielpowell482

3 жыл бұрын

Happy belated 95th!

I never knew Dick Van Dyke hosted old Terrytoons in 1956.I remember Terrytoons on SatAM television in the late 50s-but I guess I was too young wher this was on.(I was born in late 1954.)Thanks for showing these classic cartoons .

This had one major problem. It competed with ABC-TV's, "Disneyland" and got clobbered. Wednesday nights - 7:30p.

@389383

3 жыл бұрын

So that's why I don"t remember it!

@bobbyfrancis8957

2 жыл бұрын

How do you expect me to remember? I was only 1 year old in 1956!

@OofusTwillip

8 ай бұрын

That's probably why it was sustaining (no sponsors).

This just goes to show how long it took DVD to become the big star of the 1960s . Many years working various radio and TV jobs , mostly in the south after being an radio person in the service before he hit it big . During this time his singing and dancing talents were hidden .

He is just so cute when he does a magic trick with that egg. How does he do that?

Wow, what a find!

Produced by my Father Michel Grilikhes

The CBS Cartoon Theatre was one of my all-time early-childhood favorites. This was one of the many classic animated television series airing on the Tiffany Network for many years through the decades.

@Musicradio77Network

6 жыл бұрын

Yep! "CBS Cartoon Theatre" was his first attempt at an anthology series with just Heckle & Jeckle, Gandy Goose, Little Roquefert, and Dinky Duck. It was hosted by Dick Van Dyke, and it was his first attempt at a TV show, but that didn't last long. The show was cancelled a few months later. Mighty Mouse was not on this show, because the character would appeared on "Mighty Mouse Playhouse", not this one. Shortly after this show got canned, the "Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon Show" premiered that fall and moved to Saturday mornings.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Sunday afternoons, to be exact, at 1pm(et). It was only then did the series find a regular sponsor: Sweets Company of America's "Tootsie Roll".

He's so cute and I have a crush on him. Why does he make me nervous sometimes?

@worldinsights930

4 жыл бұрын

He's tall and has a baritone deep voice.

I even liked "Diagnosis Murder." Maybe I am one of the few.

I'd trip over ottomans with him any day.

tom and manfred were regulars on captain kangaroo in fact h&j were too spent many a morning watching and waiting for my dad to get readf to drop me off ar school on his way to work such good memories

Yikes! That was my introduction to Dick Van Dyke!

The title music was "borrowed" from the score of a 1942 Terrytoon, "Ickle Meets Pickle".

@Musicradio77Network

6 жыл бұрын

Like the title music which was borrowed from another Terrytoon called "Sno' Fun" with Heckle & Jeckle, and used it for the "Terrytoons" show which was shown overseas in the 1970's. I remember seeing that intro on a Spanish TV station since the 1980's.

I have a celebrity crush on this guy, but please don't tell my aunt. When I was only 2 1/2 years old, my aunt told me that I was too old for celebrity crushes and gotta take life more seriously. Seriously, can anybody ever say such a thing to a child?

Sis and I had Heckle & Jeckle comic books all over the house....looking at this now though, I'm rather partial to Dinky Duck & Gandy Goose! (Sweet!)

None of us alive in 1956, but dick van dyke was alive in 1956 & today(2023).

8:32 "See this egg..."

The next year, he nearly got the job as host for the price is right.

A very interesting compilation of different and several old style cartoons. Highly recommended.

I always call this guy Homie.

5 years later, CBS would add yet another horse to its stable. Mister Ed was brought to you by Studebaker!

Maybe the sponsors thought prime time was too late for the target audience.

Cartoon Theatre brought to by Lucky Strike cigerettes

"CBS Cartoon Theater is a Film Presentation". God forbid it should be videotape. I think film was getting freaked by tape back then!

@jeffmissinne3866

7 жыл бұрын

Filmed shows were identified as film back then to distinguish them from live broadcasts. There were many live local cartoon theatre shows on TV then, with various cowboys, clowns, and spacemen as hosts; but it would have been all but impossible to make a show like this, with the host intreracting with the cartoon characters, either live or with the crude tape technology available then. It had to be done on film.

@Musicradio77Network

6 жыл бұрын

It was shot on film, not videotaped, because videotape did not come out yet by the late 1950's and into the 1960's.

Sweet!

Just discovered you, just got to say "Thank You"...

Were most cartoons with animals as featured players? I thought it was funny here to have a horse with guy feet!

No commericals because it was a "sustaining program" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustaining_program

@fromthesidelines

7 жыл бұрын

CBS could NEVER sell the show to advertisers in prime-time (what sponsor was going to compete against "DISNEYLAND" that summer?). However, it reappeared on Sunday afternoons- WITHOUT Dick Van Dyke and any "live" segments- that fall, as "THE HECKLE & JECKLE CARTOON SHOW". Tootsie Roll initially became a regular sponsor.....and the series eventually moved to Saturday mornings by the mid-1960's.

For the time, it looks very good indeed. And dick is incredibly young in this, and is an excellent host.

28:00

They ran this up until 1960.

@fromthesidelines

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, this appeared for only 13 weeks during the summer of 1956. As previously stated, CBS was unable to sell it to a sponsor......UNTIL they eliminated Dick, and repackaged those cartoons with a new animated opening/closing title {and bumpers} as "THE HECKLE AND JECKLE CARTOON SHOW" that fall [on Sunday afternoons at 1pm(et)]. Sweets Company of America- Tootsie Roll- signed on as sponsor, and it lasted several seasons.

@richardranke7878

7 жыл бұрын

I remember(at least in my area)The Heckle and Jeckle Show following Mighty Mouse on Saturday mornings. I was 3/4 and a regular viewer.

12:26-12:32 The father rooster should feel more like a rat or a skunk than a jackass.

26:10 An important & timeless message for RAGBRAI nation and beyond...

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