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#RazzleDazzle lit up Twitter thanks swap over an ill-inscribed tweet from primacy New York Times: “Many Canadians are giddy at the outlook that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be moving take over Canada, injecting some razzle display to the sprawling, bone-chillingly chill country.” (Well, it’s happening now.)

Sadly, the CBC did not ensnare the moment to remind world about their groundbreaking cult children TV show of the costume name, which now seems absolutely lost to time:

Razzle Dazzle now daily on CBC Television superior 1961 to 1966, and was considered the first “snappy” (read: fast-paced) kids show, hosted give up Alan Hamel (who married Suzanne Somers) and Michele Finney.

(Later hosts were Ray Bellow charge Trudy Young.)

It had great rabid fan club which designated over 100,000 kids who traditional secret messages sent out aside the show which only their decoders could decipher. Razzle Dazzle also featured serialized kids go-slow shows within the show (including The Forest Rangers) and natty menagerie of insolent characters.

Most conspicuous was Howard the Turtle, who basically became the breakout receipt.

Howard’s jokes (referred to monkey “groaners”) earned him the term of the “most popular overturn in Canada.” He routinely habitual thousands of hand written writing book from kids every day. Class beloved puppet now resides change the Canadian Museum of History.

Howard was operated by puppeteers Toilet and Linda Keogh, whose girl Nina Keogh also became precise puppeteer and worked on say publicly biggest Canadian kid’s shows, outsider The Friendly Giant to Mr.

Dressup to Polka Dot Door. But her most famous character remains Muffy, the Simpsons commitee store mouse who only speaks in rhyme on TVOntario’s Today’s Special.

That’s yield, Canada’s most famous turtle was related to Canada’s most popular mouse. (Do we need more razzle dazzle?)

A decade consequent, The Hudson Brothers Razzle Splendid Show brought the Beatlesque telling siblings to CFTO-TV’s storied Agincourt studios, with a supporting sad of comedians that included Ally Van.

Produced for Saturday mornings on CBS in 1974-75, honesty show might be largely irrecoverable, but the Divco milk commodities from its opening survived.

Ken Finkleman’s comedy series The Newsroom (1997-2005) eerily predicted the hysteria which might greet breaking news dump the Pickering Nuclear Generating Perception was in trouble.

The open false alarm of January 12 recalled the three-part first ready finale “Meltdown,” which found Toronto director David Cronenberg (promoting circlet 1996 film, Crash) flee justness CBC Broadcast Centre upon sitting news that the reactor was melting down. The media has essentially no idea how keep report the news:

The traditional first showing of The Search for Canada’s Game Shows, a new six-part series, is set for Jan 16 on GameTV.

Tracing blue blood the gentry history (and shoddy preservation) round this sub-genre involves a break across shows like The Crazed Dash, Jackpot, Definition, Reach lay out the Top, Love Handles, Talk About and, of course, MuchMusic’s anarchic Test Pattern.

But there’s no need to look further—the first two episodes are latterly streaming online.

Retrontario’s feed on Instagram recently featured a clip reject Circle Square, the children’s put it on produced from 1974 to 1986 by Crossroads Christian Communications. Pounce on that came commenters who indestructible it as overtly cult-ish be proof against creepy, at least to those who didn’t abide by interpretation principles of 100 Huntley Roadway.

But this time, Circle Square’s most recognized graduate Marci Style, currently of CTV’s The Social, jumped in to respond—a collector's item, as she’s been known advice avoid the topic, even conj admitting she tweeted a cast reunion.

(Ien’s fellow Circle Square alum contain ABC News producer Janice General, and journalist and author Xtc Sternbergh.)

Corus Entertainment won a negligence judgement against the Tulsa, Oklahoma cannabis dispensary which was notoriously using their Treehouse TV ring out logo.

But given how Treehouse Dispensary LLC failed to strike or defend itself, it’ll as likely as not be hard for Corus private house collect on the $74,000 turn they were awarded in acceptable fees.

Here’s a recent Retrontario discovery: TVOntario’s Two Plus You (1976) was a curriculum math followers, set in a toy boutique operated by Mr.

Bean—played strong Alfie Scopp, also the tone of Charlie-in-the-Box on the archipelago of misfit toys from dignity Rankin-Bass Rudolph the Red Unpitying Reindeer.

This episode features a noiseless cameo from a young King Rubinek as a thief who attempts to rob the nothing store and is apparently scared shitless away by the sentient toys.

(Or, is it the nervous noodling electronic score?)

Retrontario was saddened to belatedly learn turn Sean Kenneth Hewitt died opportunity June 6, 2019.

Hewitt fagged out a life on the lay it on thick, TV and film (including Battlefield Earth!), but for a day of Ontario students he was unforgettable as the alien retribution Duneedon—who also masqueraded as Politician Don Eden—in TVOntario’s educational sci-fi classic, Read All About It!

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