your town's locally broadcast TV shows from when you were growing up

this is from late '70s nyc. i was just reminded that it existed; now all the trauma is coming back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6wWgFHBBi0&feature=share

on the other end of the spectrum, the uncle floyd show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzXpnVgbjpg

i was in brooklyn, but manhattan cable was all-time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REhT0AIbg8M

After Bozo (who was almost but not quite local), probably the most prominent local kids' television personality when I was young:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvntRV_cZV4

A little before my time, but I remember him making later appearances outside of his usual "haunts":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwCIHqW3QSo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9rrTGvhx0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Cleveland's longtime weekend late-night movie hosts, Big Chuck & Little John:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqI5_RA-o4s

("Big Chuck" Schodowski was a producer who had worked on the Ghoulardi show, and took over in an on-air capacity after Ernie Anderson moved to California.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqI5_RA-o4s

Superhost! A Saturday-afternoon staple on independent station WUAB-TV channel 43.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewJcTRSrVzY

I can't find any clips of her own show, "The One O'Clock Club," but print and broadcast news legend Dorothy Fuldheim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntFMWAUYt3E

Linn Sheldon's "Barnaby," which aired on Cleveland TV for 33 years!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgqfjNImmaI

And, of course, the aforementioned Ghoulardi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gWAAit4WPE

i remember watching a thing called "third shift with zig" p regularly of which there are only 3 mentions of on google before me typing this.

dont remember it entirely but he was a ned raggett-ish lookin guy prob in his mid 20s, answered letters that ppl wrote in, played videos maybe? idk this was prob early 90s in central ct

locally produced commercials from when i was in junior high are priceless; after 5:36 it gets hip. "now appearing at the Imperial House"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmX_SlcXJ_I&feature=related

hang on for the Kwik brothers at the end. King Kwik was like a low-rent version of 7/11

Paul Dixon was on Channel 5 weekday mornings at 9:00. lots of hijinx w/the all-female studio audience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5qFhXnoXBY

Bonnie Lou on Ch 5's weekly country show Midwestern Hayride. it was better in the 60s when it was B&W. used to watch w/my dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwrdnaY0Z8U

^^^ all 3 from Cincinnati btw

Tupelo's NBC affiliate has a country/gospel/chat/community announcements show that dates back to 1957 (Weds. nights), took a long break, and then restarted in 1978 every weekday morning at 6. The hosts were a couple named Buddy and Kay Bain. (Buddy was a Corinth deejay who'd done a bit of A&R work with the Rock n Roll Trio.) Buddy died in 1997 and Kay kept the daily show going for a while, but she's old as the hills and it's back to once a week, Saturday mornings at 6.

1980 in full swing with Buddy and Kay: http://youtu.be/3nGCNjXRU5o
2010, Kay solo: http://youtu.be/NMM4Ci-PcN4
Buddy Bain and "Kay Wayne," single on Meteor Records from early '56, "Can We Live It Down": http://youtu.be/vpVSOguiljo

I tried to scrounge up some video of Heck Harper's local kiddie show, or that all time classic: Portland Wrestling live from the Portland Armory. These both appeared on KPTV, the same channel that famously showed Perry Mason reruns daily from noon to 1pm for about 35 consecutive years.

Oh man not childhood but there was a stripper lady who had a show on NYC public access that we used to watch in college. She was totally nuts.

Paul Dixon's show ran on DuMont for a few years in the early Fifties. I gather that it centered more around lip-syncing than comedy at that time. (The first network show still exists, but it doesn't seem to be on either Youtube or archive.org.)

WPIX as well. Loved Joya : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qA_-oPw-qU

i was gonna say that, growing up in the middle of NJ during the late 1970s/early 1980s, we really didn't have any locally broadcast TV shows (except the local shows from either NYC or Philly). but then i remembered Uncle Floyd, though sadly there isn't an awful lot of him on Youtube -- but here's a small taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4--K0V0gU&feature=related

and though it isn't really a show per se, but i bet lotsa people who watched WPIX in the late 1970s will remember this quite fondly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BkmQ54bYW4

I won tickets to Action Park (RIP) via a big win on TV PIX haha!

Apparently, people outside Ottawa came to hear about this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gtqk0bXfkA

Man, wotta blast from the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cbPjWtTOuY

Looks like WOW! broadcast out of DC, but the station must've had some range because I remember watching it in Virginia Beach.

Now I have to wrack my brains for more stuff. One of the few instances where living a million different places as a kid might have some utility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOqOOppFoX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFsz6-Pn0w

did not realize how much of my local tv growing up was presented by dorky guys w/beards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWyCkIyUK6Q

This one always amused me because my mother was acquainted with the co-host Marilyn Turner and would talk about what a bitch she was. Yet my mom still watched it every day.

Oh man not childhood but there was a stripper lady who had a show on NYC public access that we used to watch in college. She was totally nuts.

Robyn Byrd? she was still on a couple years ago, scary

I loved the Magic Garden. I still have my Magic Garden record.

Carole was the original Sandy in Grease!

Steampipe Alley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsF6zzX8MDk

Eye in the Stuffing on Steampipe Alley. Mario Cantone does a Sammy Davis Jr. impersonation, and a kid has to find a toy eyeball in a pan of stuffing without using her hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFH5Ljgmr2Y

NKOTB!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bNQaoGDIqo

Oh man not childhood but there was a stripper lady who had a show on NYC public access that we used to watch in college. She was totally nuts.

Robyn Byrd? she was still on a couple years ago, scary

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:32 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yep, that's the one. I just looked her up and it seems she was in the og Debbie Does Dallas and that her show is still on in NY! O_O

When I was a kid, this guy literally sat in front of the camera overnight and talked and read books, as if he told the station: hey, I'll get the lights and lock up when I'm done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dh6G3ka3lfjI&rct=j&sa=X&ei=YC82UNvbHMeJ0QGn9YDICg&ved=0CEoQuAIwAQ&q=laird+brooks+schmidt&usg=AFQjCNGsc3djmlg-XbHUFascQPx1IZwd4w

The eclectic neo-surrealistic discourser one-man group thinker specialist ombudsman for the brain." ^^

Also, for folks who try to reconcile Prince coming from Minnesota...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYXmUOasgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBy9SwfgebY