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Related: About this forumFor those of you who remember Captain Kangaroo, check out the beginning of this video
Watch what happens at the beginning here. Very neat. (Hint: You'll see some folks you'll recognize.)
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For those of you who remember Captain Kangaroo, check out the beginning of this video (Original Post)
ificandream
Oct 2023
OP
i heard on NPR that on d day his job was a flag man directing ships + shit.
pansypoo53219
Oct 2023
#4
Srkdqltr
(7,659 posts)1. That made me smile. A who's who of the time. Lovely to remember them all.
BigmanPigman
(52,241 posts)2. I saw him on Murphy Brown with Barbara Boxer in 1994
LudwigPastorius
(10,790 posts)3. Alan Sues?
There's a blast from the past.
pansypoo53219
(21,722 posts)4. i heard on NPR that on d day his job was a flag man directing ships + shit.
murielm99
(31,433 posts)5. That was fun.
Thanks.
sl8
(16,245 posts)6. List of celebrity names
From the description of another Youtube video:
https://m.youtube.com/ watch?v=QYhPy14dTGA
[...]
Jason Merrick (an expert on Captain Kangaroo) identifies the people as; Marcia Wallace, Lynn Redgrave (as Miss Dandelion), Mary Tyler Moore, Stu Kerr, Bob Newhart, Dick Shawn, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Dinah Shore, Fred Rogers, Roberta Peters, Betsy Palmer, The Hudson Brothers, Stubby Kaye, Margaret Hamilton (as a Fairy Godmother), Pearl Bailey, Alan Alda, Chad Everett and James Daly from Medical Center, Imogene Coca, King Friday, Isabelle Sanford, William Shatner, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Julie Harris, Gene Rayburn and Johnny Olson, Richard Dawson, Fanny Flagg, the cast of The Bob Newhart Show, Sandy Dennis, Eli Wallach(as Trader Eli), Allan Sues, Dick Shawn (as E. J. Fussy), Celeste Holm (as Mother Goose), Lucie Arnaz, Larry Linville, Artie Johnson, Gwenn Verdon (during her second appearance) and her cat Fattrick, Peter Bonerz, Alan Arkin, Edie Adams (as Little Red Riding Hood), Cher, Edward Villella, Earl ' The Pearl' Monroe, Gary Burghoff, Lady Elaine Fairchilde, Clifton Davis, Godfrey Cambridge, Suzanne Pleshette, Doug Henning and Anne Jackson.
ificandream
(10,511 posts)8. Thank you.
I didn't recognize all of them.
burrowowl
(18,018 posts)7. Kick