#sonny fox

[thebarroomortheboy]

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN DAY 23: THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN'T (1966) | dir. Rossano Brazzi

[petiteclover]

Bobby appearing on the children’s television program “Wonderama” with host Sonny Fox in 1965.

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“He loved talking with the kids. I use the word “with” advisedly, cause a few of us talk “at” kids, most of us talk “to” kids, very few people talk “with” kids. He listened, he had conversations with them, not just speeches to them. He really was a shy man but he loved being with the kids.”

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— Wonderama host Sonny Fox on Bobby’s numerous appearances on the program

[the-ram-67]

Anyone for Stickball? 

Children are filmed at leisure around New York City in this unedited silent footage shot for the WNEW children’s TV series Wonderama in the early 1960s. (Host Sonny Fox is briefly seen talking to fans from the back seat of a car at the start.) Simply put, the film takes the viewer back to another time when life was less complex than it is now, and no spoilers (aside from stickball) will be given as to what awaits you. 

Watch it here.

[lookwhereyagoing]

Sonny Fox, who hosted the Sunday morning children’s staple Wonderama in the 1960s, died Sunday in Los Angeles of Covid-19-related pneumonia. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his official website. As host of the four-hour, New York-based Wonderama from 1959-67, Irwin “Sonny” Fox was one of era’s most popular kid-show hosts, exemplifying the

Sonny Fox Dies: Host Of Long-Running Children’s Show ‘Wonderama’ Was 95

Some of you here may remember Sonny. I thought he was hilarious and fun, even if I didn’t understand everything he was doing. RIP, Sonny. Ya done good.

[oldshowbiz]

[benmattlin]

Part 14 of "Miracle Boy”

Two weeks later my photo appears in the Daily News, another paper my family never gets but we do this time. I don't pay attention to the words under the picture, but Alec tells me it says Santa cares about Jerry's kids. I have trouble understanding the phrase "Jerry's kids" because, for one thing, I've never met Jerry. I'm even invited to appear in the New York studios during the next Labor Day telethon, but still never meet Jerry. I meet the hosts of TV's Wonderama, Sonny Fox and Bob McAllister, at a later fund-raising event, but that's about as exciting as it gets. When I'm eight, I pose for a full-page magazine ad "standing" in uncomfortable leg braces under the caption, "If I grow up I want to be a fireman." If? My life expectancy is normal. Mom and Dad and Dr. Spiro have told me so. Sure, I want to be famous but don't spread lies about me! Besides, I don't want to be a fireman. It's someone else's boyhood fantasy, someone who can walk and climb, perhaps, but not mine. I want to be a superhero, a police detective, a starship captain, a brilliant scientist like Dr. Quest on Jonny Quest, but never a fireman. I keep my fingers crossed behind my back as the camera clicks. I visualize a secret laboratory and computerized panels in an attempt to communicate by E.S.P. my true desires. Afterward I tell Mom I want to quit being a poster child. She asks if I'm sure but offers no further objection.

The truth is, I'm beginning to recognize that I'm not particularly interested in being able to walk.

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