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Excerpt from 100 Years of Buffalo Broadcasting. Broadcasting live from the Erie County Fair is a tradition that dates back to the earliest days of TV in Buffalo, and Meet the Millers—starring turkey farmers Bill and Mildred Miller—were regulars at the fair all through the 50s and 60s.
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Buffalo in the '50s: Channel 4's 'Meet the Millers' starts its 21-year run. Steve Cichon. Feb 19, 2020 Updated Feb 22, 2021. 1 of 2. Bill and Mildred Miller on the set of WBEN-TV's...
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Of course Buffalo Bob Smith was a local guy, and his national Howdy Doody Show was one of the most popular shows on TV anywhere in the late 40 and early 50s. But along with Howdy Doody, Buffalo’s first TV station, WBEN-TV Channel 4, brought Buffalo’s first locally created kids’ shows. MORE:Remembering WBEN-TV’s Visit With Santa (And Forgetful the E...
Rocketship 7
When Dave Thomas wasn’t hosting Dialing for Dollars with Nolan Johannes and Liz Dribben, he was palling around with Promo The Robot and Mr. Beeper. Rocketship 7 was a must watch for many Buffalo kids through the 60s and 70s, before Dave Thomas blasted off for a new job in Philadelphia in 1978. And Dave Thomas wasn’t the only Dialing for Dollars connection to Rocketship 7. It was relatively easy for Dave to change from his Rocketship 7 jumpsuit into his “count and amount” clothes, but it was a...
Commander Tom
Another salubrious kids show on Channel 7 starred All-American weatherman Tom Jolls as Commander Tom– who took to TV wearing the bright red jacket of a Canadian Mountie. He performed with his puppet pals which early on, were mostly made from his kids’ old stuffed animals. Some of those puppets, which the Commander voiced himself, included Matty the Mod, a young and energetic, though not too bright alligator; Cecily Fripple, a sensitive and gentle thing of questionable age who tries to recaptu...
The Jungle Jay Show
Jay Nelson was a disc jockey on WKBW Radio, but is perhaps best remembered as the host of Channel 7’s Jungle Jay Show. He wore a pith helmet and a leopard print jacket while playing old Tarzan clips when kids got home from school. The shtick was so popular that even after he left Buffalo for his native Canada to work at CHUM Radio in Toronto, he continued calling himself Jungle Jay, and continued wearing the pith helmet. The show was just as popular north of the border as it was in Western Ne...
Channel 2 has had a few popular locally produced kids’ shows through the years. Maybe most popular was Channel 2’s weatherman Bob Lawrence as Captain Bob. He did local cut-ins during two wildly different programs. At first, he entertained kids during Channel 2’s playback of old 1930s Three Stooges shorts. Captain Bob also hosted the local presentat...
Back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, there were probably a dozen different versions of Romper Room you may have seen on Buffalo television screens. There were nationally syndicated versions, as well as shows that were produced in Toronto and Hamilton. But on two different occasions, for short periods of time, there were Buffalo-produced Romper Room shows...
We’ve been looking at local kids TV over the past week, and while they weren’t 2,4, or 7, most of us spent plenty of time watching 5,9, and 11, because there were plenty of Canadian Kids shows we loved. Mr. Dressup and his tickle trunk filled with costumes for him and puppets Casey and Finnegan was an iconic program airing on CBC for more than 40 y...
Aug 16, 2019 · August 16, 2019 ·. Follow. Flashback Friday - RARE FILM taken in 1970 of WBEN-TV's, Ch. 4's "Meet the Millers" from the Erie County Fair. Bill & Mildred Miller were hosts of a popular local telvision program that ran from 1950 to 1970, “Meet the Millers” on WBEN-TV (now News 4 WIVB Buffalo) was one of the most popular local television ...
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Jan 20, 2007 · Before we leave channel 4’s afternoon line up, does anyone remember “Meet the Millers?” But I think my favorite show, was broadcasted every Saturday night on channel 4 – I believe at 7:00pm.
