Former
Indiana based kids TV host/performer Johnny Andrews moved to WRCA
(WNBC) TV Ch.4 in NYC where he began hosting Ch. 4's "Sunday Schedule".
"Sunday
Schedule" was a variety show where Mr. Andrews would entertain his
viewers with songs, piano numbers, stories, games, interviews with
guest performers and personalities and engage in witty banter with
Paul Ashley's puppets.
The show
also featured news for kids presented by WRCA TV's resident newscaster
Lee Hall.
Mr. Andrews
continued "The Sunday Schedule" until WRCA cancelled the show on Sunday,
April 19,1959.
Undaunted,
Johnny Andrews went onto become the third host/performer of WRCA's
"Hi Mom!'/"Family Show". (the first hosts/performers of the series
were: Shari Lewis, who hosted the show from August 15, 1957 to March
20, 1959 - and ventriloquist/entertainer Jimmy Weldon. Weldon would
say "Hi Mom" weekday mornings on Ch. 4 from Monday, March
25, 1959 to Friday, July 17, 1959.)
Johnny
Andrews would entertain and inform his young viewers on "Hi Mom"/"Family!"
weekday mornings on WRCA from Monday August 17, 1959 to Friday August
28, 1959.
Johnny
Andrews hosted one more kids show, "The Johnny Andrews Show", seen
weekday mornings on WOR 9 in NYC from Monday, October 1, 1962 until
Ch. 9 ended Johnny Andrews children's TV concerts on Friday, December
29, 1962.
WOR TV
Channel 9's veteran staff announcer Joe King hosted his own kid shows.
Starting
on Monday, September 14, 1959 Joe King was seen Every weekday evening
in "King Of Adventure". Segments on craftmaking, hobbies, stories,
games and interviews with guest performers were featured between reruns
of old movie serials and sci-fi films.
Channel
9 ended Joe King's TV adventures on Friday, November 13, 1959.
Joe King
hosted reruns of the nationally syndicated TV western series "The Adventures
of Wild Bill Hickok" beginning Monday evening, January 4, 1960.
Set against
the backdrop of a Sheriff's office and dressed in western garb, "Sheriff
Joe" King would entertain and inform visitors to his Sheriff's office
between the "The Wild Bill Hickok" reruns which starred Guy Madison
as Marshall Wild Bill Hickok and Andy Devine as his bumbling deputy
"Jingles".
Ch. 9 closed
down Sheriff Joe's office on Friday, July 8, 1960.
Former
Indiana based kids TV host/performer Johnny Andrews moved to WRCA
(WNBC) TV Ch.4 in NYC where he began hosting Ch. 4's "Sunday Schedule".
Joe
King
