For those members here who are too young to remember the wonderful Don Herbert in his multi-year run ( starting in the late 1950s ), here is a 3 minute clip.
If you get bored with our endless prattle about this and that obsessive slice of audio, check out his full-length shows from back in the era when broadcasters actually acknowledged that their licenses were not "rights" but privileges.
How Do You Hear Where A Sound Is Coming From? - Mr. Wizard's Quick Quiz - YouTube
If you get bored with our endless prattle about this and that obsessive slice of audio, check out his full-length shows from back in the era when broadcasters actually acknowledged that their licenses were not "rights" but privileges.
How Do You Hear Where A Sound Is Coming From? - Mr. Wizard's Quick Quiz - YouTube
Mr Wizard was about my favorite TV show back then.
Yeah, I'm that old.. 😉
Even if I already knew what he was talking about I still found him entertaining and informative....and he did not need any overblown graphics or productions.
The kids on the shows were not actors...... he was actually teaching them..
I assumed that it was that show/Don Herbert that "The Big Bang Theory" parodied with the "Professor Proton" character played by Bob Newheart.. 😀
Yeah, I'm that old.. 😉
Even if I already knew what he was talking about I still found him entertaining and informative....and he did not need any overblown graphics or productions.
The kids on the shows were not actors...... he was actually teaching them..
I assumed that it was that show/Don Herbert that "The Big Bang Theory" parodied with the "Professor Proton" character played by Bob Newheart.. 😀
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Ditto. I'd rush home from school to watch him, him and Soupy Sales.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs
Don't know which affected my personality more.
I watched Mr. Wizard like all good American Kids, along with Hopalong Cassidy, Tom Corbet and the Space Cadets, and Industry on Parade!
I actually seen Soupy live at NY City's Paramount Theater when Soupy MCed a rock concert there when I was sill in High School .
One off many performers on the bill was the Hiollies, when Graham Nash was still with them. 🙂
Thank the various deities that I'm not the only one who used to get up early to watch this.
When I bored of the Indian head I'd peer into the ruby jeweled pilot light on the base of the TV. I'd imagine I was looking into the flight deck of a space ship.
Joking aside, Of all the shows mentioned, Industry on Parade affected me the most. It inspired me with a passion to design and make stuff that does stuff.
The thing that affedted me the second most was the hugely present and graphic WWII footage. Things that perhaps a five year old shouldn't see. When Schindler's List came out one couldn't help but think, "What's with all the plump bodies."
The thing that affedted me the second most was the hugely present and graphic WWII footage. Things that perhaps a five year old shouldn't see. When Schindler's List came out one couldn't help but think, "What's with all the plump bodies."
On Cheech and Chong's Big Bambu album, at the beginning of a long sketch spoofing TV shows, Cheech drops by Chong's pad and asks what he's watching. Chong replies, "I don't know, it's a movie about Indians, but it's really boring." Cheech says, "Hey man, that's not a movie, man. That's a test pattern, man!" Chong answers, "Far out." A test tone is audible in the background.
I always liked Mr Wizard when he dipped the bananas into the liquid nitrogen then used them to hammer nails.
We had a Jesuit scholastic in the physics department who would do that with hot dogs -- got pork all over the lab.
Mr. Wizard and dry ice did not mix in our new grade school when one of the 6th graders chucked a couple pieces in the toilets.
That reminds me of the old WWII documentary show'/series "Victory At Sea" that ran 1952-1953
It was another one of my favorites and gave me an early understanding of the horrors of war..
http://youtu.be/6ausVC2NhAo
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My Father was a great fan of Victory at Sea and would watch every program. During the War he had been assigned to teach knot tying to the sailors at Mobile, Alabama while waiting to ship-out to the Pacific Theater. He was an Airframe and Propulsion Inspector for the Army Air Corps. To make a long story short, he was on a shipboard detachment assigned to follow up the infantry on the invasion of the Islands. They would get the crated aircraft to shore and uncrate, assemble, mount the engines, etc., and then get them ready to be flown. My Dad was the one that did the final inspections and test flights (P-47s) before they were signed off and turned over to the regular crews for combat duty. Then they were off to await another "Island-Hopping" invasion as they worked their way across the Pacific.
I remember thinking how my Father and Douglas MacArthur must have worked hand in hand to win the war!!
I remember thinking how my Father and Douglas MacArthur must have worked hand in hand to win the war!!
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As the starter of this thread, I say THANKS HUGELY for the wonderful responses.
Forgive me for mentioning just two programs among those years of broadcasting: Industry on Parade and Victory at Sea.
Solidly top-tier writing, camerawork, and music by Americans educated in their art, and survivors from Great Depression hardship.
Forgive me for mentioning just two programs among those years of broadcasting: Industry on Parade and Victory at Sea.
Solidly top-tier writing, camerawork, and music by Americans educated in their art, and survivors from Great Depression hardship.
I had forgot all about that show, When you said Mr.Wizard I was picturing the other guy in the sweaters... Mr. Rodgers.
That reminds me of "Captain Video" 🙂
It was another one of my favorites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Video_and_His_Video_Rangers
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