Family-Friendly Destination Wonderama is Back

[brooklynite]

Source: Huffington Post

If you happen to be of a certain age, you are familiar with former Sunday morning staple Wonderama, an unprecedented weekly interactive game show extravaganza where kids and tweens gathered en masse, often with their parents, for just plain fun and entertainment. No childhood at the time was complete without Wonderama.

Now, almost 40 years later, this slice of television history is back in a new one-hour syndicated version of Wonderama produced by Chuck Armstrong (Community Auditions - Star of the Day) and anchored by the Tribune Broadcast Station Network.

Hosted by David Osmond of the beloved Osmond clan, Wonderama debuts with a kickoff special exclusive to New Yorks PIX11 on Christmas Day, Dec. 25th. This new version will feature a new look; an emphasis on art, music, dance, television, film, sports, cooking and politics; celebrity guests like Tony Dovolani from Dancing With the Stars, boxing champion Evander Holyfield and country music star Michael Ray; and a clearance list in primetime fringe blocks in 13 initial U.S. markets effective on Jan. 7, 2017 (with multiple brand extensions on key digital platforms).

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Debuting on WNEW-TV in New York (now WNYW) on Jan. 1, 1955, and ultimately airing in five other Metromedia owned stations in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Kansas City and Cincinnati, Wonderama was slapstick fun and pure entertainment. Coupled with some of the coolest prizes you could ever imagine winning at the time, Wonderama featured memorable songs (anyone over age 50 still probably knows the lyrics to The Aardvark Song); groovy dance contests; magic demonstrations; celebrity guests like The Jackson 5, Roger Daltrey, David Cassidy, Jodie Foster and Ann B. Davis from The Brady Bunch; art instruction; spelling bees; exercise segments (Exercise! Exercise! CMon, everybody, do your exercise!); learning games; and so much more.

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[Javaman]

1. why do I have this feeling it will be nothing like the original

meaning, a safe and fun environment that stressed health and education while having fun crazy guests on.

everything has an agenda now to brainwash kids into being robots.

[Egnever]

2. Odd never heard of it

Must have been on during my lost years.

[TeamPooka]

3. Bob McCallister, Kid's Are People Too. I loved the show and sat in the audience once. nt

[meow2u3]

4. I remember watching Wonderama when I was a kid

I also did jumping jacks in my living room along with the kids on TV, sang along to "Kids Are People, Too", etc.

I bet this Wonderama won't hold a candle to the original. They don't make'em like they used to IMHO.

[melman]

5. Wackadoo Wackadoo

[SeattleVet]

6. Ah, the old Sonny Fox show...

I didn't like it as much after Bob McAllister took over.

But, 'the beloved Osmond clan'???