Bonnie: Yes, of course, I remember Super Circus. It came on Sunday afternoons about 4:00 in 1950-52. At least I remember watching it after Sunday dinner. Mary Hartline was the band director; Claude Kirchner was the ringmaster. And I do remember Scampy the clown. But there were two other clowns, I'm pretty sure: Nicky and Cliffy. One of the reasons I remember it is that I was picked out of the line of kids waiting to enter the Civic Theater one Sunday afternoon for the live broadcast. Three or four of us were called later, during the show, to the stage to assist the magician as he "floated" a table magically. Did anyone remember to mention Uncle Johnny Coons, which came on weekdays at noon. When I came home from school for lunch I used to watch it before it was time to hop on my Schwinn and head back to school. > > >Message: 4 >Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 10:58:38 -0500 >From: Bonnie <bselig@gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] Early Chicago Television >To: cook-co-il@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <463CA9AE.8030909@gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Does anybody remember Super Circus - a kids program that may have been >on daily. I went to school with one of the clowns - I think on the show >his name was Skampy - in real life he was Alexander Dobrich. Many of >the performers from the show lived in a trailer park within the >boundaries of my Park Ridge school district. I think one of the other >performers was Mary Hartline. >Bonnie > >-- > >Jo Daviess Co, IL RAOGK Volunteer www.raogk.org > Find A Grave County Keeper www.findagrave.com > >Visit my Genealogy Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/4zq7z > > > > > > -- Patrick J. McCann, Jr. Dallas, TX CRESCIT SUB PONDERE VIRTUS