This show was a real blast from the past with some terrific interviews, clips, and re-enactments. It not only brought back many childhood memories, but also added some very interesting back stories. It is not easy to compress a good 25 years of anything into 60 minutes, but even still, the omissions in this program were almost glaring at times. Chicago was pretty much overlooked with no mentions of Super Circus and Claude Kirshner, nor Kukla, Fran & Ollie. Chuck McCann was unquestionably the "dean" of NYC kids (and "kidult") shows and got a fine nod here, but Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox, and Soupy Sales were passed over. Then there was no mention of icon "Miss Francis" and Ding-Dong School. A very good effort in many ways, but oddly skewed away from 2 cities where kids' TV was really born. Let's hope Ken Burns or someone else revisits this subject in a 90 - 120 minute format.
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