Stupid lil' idea i had:
NetNostalgia Forum - Television (local)
Skyshale033 Subject: Woody's roundup local kid's show? Does anyone remember this kid's show? It was called woody's roundup and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1949 or 1957. I lived in the Bay Area at the time. I don't remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 57. Woody's roundup…was it about cowboys? i remember a cowboy marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? YES! Okay I'm not crazy! I remember Woody. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was some horribly stretched dool, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn't belong on the body. I don't remember what station this was! I don't think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_1990 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? Sorry to resurrect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think woody's roundup ran for only a couple months in ‘51, not '49. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember. It took place in woody's roundup, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with cowboys. The horse was called Bullseye, and Woody wasn't a very good cowboy because he was too cocky too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don't remember the girl's name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was jessie.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned Bullseye and channel 58. I remember it's teeth were way too large for it's mouth and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? ha ha i remember now too. ;) do you remember this part skyshale: "you have…to go…INSIDE."
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That's what the horse always told Woody when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Bullseye's face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful. You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a guy with a big chin and weird ass teeth?
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? i honestly, honestly thought the villain was woody. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_1990 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? That wasn't the villain, the puppet with the chin. That was the villain's sidekick, bad bart. He had a cowboy hat too, But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The prospector. I can't believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? jesus h. christ, stinky pete. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when Stinky pete showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty prospector wearing that brown top hat and overalls. and his poor quality glass eyes. christ almighty.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? Wasn't his hat and clothes all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children's skin??
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? yeah i think so. remember his mouth never opens. i remember the little girl said "why doesn't your mouth move?" and stinky pete didn't look at the girl but at the camera and said "TO KEEP IN THE GAS"
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show! I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. Jessie was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? i don't think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? maybe i'm manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_1990 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? Oh God. Yes. The girl, jessie , I remember seeing her shake. And the prospector screaming through his still unmoving mouth, mouth slowly ripping open. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn't have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Woody's roundup local kid's show? i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was little in the early 50s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remembered a kid's show, woody's roundup. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said "because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i'm gonna go watch woody's round up now mom' and then you would tune the tv to static and just watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little cowboy show."
