Taped in September of 1981, here is the opening to the Captain Kangaroo show, aka “Wake Up with the Captain” when they had a new set – from WJKW-TV8, Cleveland. The voice-over at the beginning is of course the late Howard Hoffman.
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wow blast from the past… I use to love watching PBS in the morning b4 school and Captin Kangaroo was the stuff back then
@UncleJoe41Dice You miss Mr. Cream-Jeans…. or was his name really.. “Masterbater Green jeans???????? hee hee
MR Cream-Jeans was really a porn star in the old days! Hung like a horse and ready to drill deep into any woman on the drop of a hat! They changed his name to Mr Green-jeans here to protect his former life….
Captain Kangaroo & Mr. Green Jeans were badass when i was a kid!
“gay light” ????
@DoinaSambaFan AMEN to THAT, D.S.F.!!!
@vladimir998 Sad to say, in the minds of most of TV’s network execs, it’s either money talks, OR, they must have some stupid cock-and-bull notion that’s just plain old school, let’s cash in on crappy no-brainers on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel.
HELLLLLOOOOOO OUT THERE! OLD SCHOOL IS CLASSIC AND IS TIMELESS, AND KNOWS FULL DARN WELL HOW TO BE ORIGINAL, PERIOD, END OF SUBJECT
This was my mother’s thing! She’s 41 now, and she remembers these. lol She agrees, it’s all crap on now a days
The robot is Cookie Puss!!!!!!!!!!!!
@jasonsr3 it’s Beamer…
I miss Captain Kangaroo! What a good show that was!
Who owns the rights to Captain Kangaroo and the few episodes that have been saved?
my mom sayed that this was her favorite show ever hahahahahah
I cannot say that I have watched every episode of this classic series, but judging from this segment, they had reached the “jumping the shark” point by now. :-/
@MondoBeno Also CBS and their stations wanted weekday mornings by that time to be just like the Today Show or GMA. They’re still trying to this day.
Oh THAT’s Mr. Green Jeans.
That’s the guy who voiced ORKO, playing the computer!
Now I guess we know what he did before He-Man.
“The Beemer”! LMAO!!
Ewww… I liked the old theme song so much better.
Amen..
This show went off the air around 1984 because of a lack of sponsors.
Bon Keeshan refused to allow any child-targeted advertisement unless it was educational or constructive toys, like Boggle, Scrabble, Speak-n-Spell, Lincoln Logs, and Playdough.
I am 90s kid but I adore things like this from the 80s..
I think for everyone its different; vladimir998 you shouldn’t feel sorry for everyone.
its mr green jeans!!
in the early 80′s did they think computers made random synthesizer sounds
I had stopped watching Captain Kangaroo before the 80′s. What a shame they felt the need to make those changes. The Captain was using a “Mr. Merlin” to beam Dennis in!