Anybody remember Winky-Dink (sp?)? It was a 1950's TV show-

[rzemanfl]

you had a plastic sheet that went over your TV and when Winky-Dink needed a door to escape, you'd draw him one-stuff like that. When I thought about cuckoo bananas's speech next week I found myself wishing I had one of those so I could draw horns and shit on him because I can't imagine sitting and just watching the asshole.

[Warpy]

1. I remember using waxed paper and crayons

to draw all the stuff on the screen and then my mother getting all bent out of shape because I'd cadged a sheet of "her" waxed paper.

Ah, the 50s.

[CBHagman]

2. Yes, I remember they re-ran it in the late '60s.

And an interactive feature for Bush speeches (and DeLay speeches and Rove speeches and Barbara Cubin speeches, etc.) would be most welcome. Horns, tails, ugly little mustaches for everybody. :evilgrin:

[rocktivity]

3. It was closer to the 70s

And if you didn't have to plastic coating, the show looked so stupid that "winky-dink" became an urban slang expression for anything of inexcusably poor quality.

:headbang:
rocknation

[rzemanfl]

5. The 1970's spots were a resurrection of the show that started in

1953 (trust your elders, besides I looked it up). Are you mixing up "rinky dink" (meaning Mickey Mouse) and winky-dink?

[rocktivity]

10. What? Nobody noticed that the show sucked the FIRST time???

Where I grew up, "Mickey Mouse" was slang for childish or superficial. Winky-dink and rinky-dink were used interchangably, but it suggested a kind of moral laziness; that one had not even attempted to give their best effort.

:headbang:
rocknation

[rzemanfl]

11. In 1953 anything for kids that was on your TV automatically did

not suck, it was a miracle of modern science and better than the test pattern that was on a good part of the day. Lots of folks still did not have TV's and lots of places had no reception.

[rocktivity]

12. I'll re-phrase the question, your honor

Didn't anyone notice that both television AND children had gotten just a wee bit more sophisticated by the 70s?

:headbang:
rocknation

[rzemanfl]

13. They only had to sell the piece of plastic and the crayons once.

Then if the kids were too sophisticated, they already had their money. The screen and crayons, way back in 1950's, cost 50 cents which was real money in those days.

Fear of radiation from early color TVs did the revival show in according to: http://www.toontracker.com/winky/winky.htm

[tibbiit]

18. That is so true!

People born past 1965, maybe even 1975 (first round of cable tv to middle america?)have no idea what tv was like in those days.
I loved--loved--loved winky dink, but then I was very young:)
(I also loved!!! davy crocket and howdy doody too)
tib

[FlaGranny]

34. No doubt that today's

little tykes would also love Howdy Doody. Five and six year olds really "got" the show. It was never over their heads. I remember the kids actually screaming with delight.

Unfortunately, I have no recollection of Winky Dink, must have been on the same time as Willie the Worm.

[kskiska]

35. Kids have gotten jaded. I loved Winky Dink in the 50s

and had a Winky Dink kit to draw all the doors and ladders and stuff. Then there was Super Circus, Rootie-Kazootie, Fran & Ollie, & Andy's Gang.

Anybody remember Jon Gnagy, the TV artist? He showed, step by step, how to draw using several basic shapes (cubes, cylinders, spheres, etc.). I had a Jon Gnagy kit, which included a pad, charcoal pencils, graphite sticks. A few years ago I came across this same kit in Toys-R-Us.

[annabanana]

4. now THAT would be fun!

some clingy add ons too..

[rzemanfl]

6. What were those called? My kids played with them in the 1970's.

[rzemanfl]

14. Color forms. n/t

[El Supremo]

7. No, but I "inky dink" every time I watch * talk. n/t

[bluestateboomer]

8. It was originally live TV in the early 50's

My expert friend tells me there are several Winky- Dink websites.:bounce:

[rzemanfl]

9. It was a cartoon, but there may have been a narrator that

introduced them. I tried to get a picture of him to post but they won't allow you to link to it.

[rzemanfl]

15. Yes there was. The best website I saw on this was

http://www.toontracker.com/winky/winky.htm

[sevendogs]

16. I watched it

Drew on the plastic. But the program wasn't nearly as good as Howdy Doody. I was actually in the Peanut Gallery for that show. Sometime close to my 5th birthday. They gave out prizes at the end, including a little loaf of Wonder Bread, one of their sponsors.

That was fun. My mother took me into the City for the day (we lived on Long Island) and I saw the big statue in Rockefeller Plaza.

Ah, the 50s.

[rzemanfl]

27. Yeah, Joe McCarthy and the "red menace" reminds me of now. nt

[kskiska]

36. My parents took me to see Clarabell

who was making a personal appearance at Sears-Roebuck in Stamford, CT. I was so overcome with embarrassment (I was very shy) they had to take me out before I got to meet him. I always envied those kids in the Peanut Gallery.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

17. No don't remember winkie dink

Do you remember Andy Panda?
that is when T.V. was only on a few hours a day.

[rzemanfl]

28. Sure, and Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Garfield Goose, etc. n/t

[tsuki]

19. Yep, I 'member. Not a bad idea when watching Faux.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. Yup, I remember Winky Dink

He was a cartoon character whose body was shaped like a star.

And the show started in the 1950s, because I would have been too old for it in the 1970s.

[kentuck]

21. Do you remember Pinky Lee?

Next to Howdy Doody, that was my favorite. :)

[El Supremo]

25. Yes, And I can...

rub my tummy and pat my head at the same time! Can you?

[annabanana]

33. Yoo Hoo, it's me My name is Pinky Lee

now it's stuck in my head..
(laugh like a billy-goat)

[eleny]

22. I had one!

Amazing that my folks got me the stuff since they didn't do that kind of thing. I loved it. Wasn't the screen sort of greenish? Maybe not. Anyhow, I loved it and I like your idea. It would easy to make one yunno!

[Sacajawea]

23. Yup! I LOVED that piece of plastic and the crayons!!!

Also have fond memories of Rin Tin Tin. And I have memories of a show about a doctor - Ramar of the Jungle (?) - in Africa. Anybody else remember that one?

[tibbiit]

24. How about Bosco Cartoons?

I still remember how he ate a sandwich:)
tib

[sevendogs]

32. I vaguely remember that one

We had a TV quite early on...I even remember my mother watching the conventions and being for Adlai Stevenson back then. I do remember a doctor and Africa, but don't remember the name. I could google it. Maybe later.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. Winky Dink caused me one of my first 'serious' punishments

We had a brand spanking new DuMont television. It had channels 1 through 6, all with presets, and then between 6 and 7 a free tuning area that was labeled FM, and then channels 7 to 13. NO UHF. Tiny screen.

On comes Winky Dink. Little Stinky The Clown (me) had no plastic and no magic crayon, but Little Stinky The Clown **did** have Crayolas. Just an 8-pack. But that's all it took.

The result was a week with no TV. And in that week, the Winky Dinky plastic and magic crayon arrived. :)

[rzemanfl]

29. From some of your rants I could tell you had some time in on the

planet. It takes time to be able to vent like that.

[ngGale]

30. Winky-Dink was my first TV experience...

I'll never forget it. Maybe the DU could come up with a Winky-Dink type kit we could use for butthole. Good idea, Skinner - I'd buy one.:loveya: We need some relaxation compliment's of the DU. :silly:

[HamdenRice]

31. Winky Dink ... and you/ Winky Dink ... and me ...

I even recall the theme song. I did not get the special mail order kit, but my Mom gave me some plastic wrap to put on the TV and some crayolas and it worked just as well!