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I remember this from the mid-to-late 1980s. It was on the CBN and USA networks. It would be on in the afternoon when I got home from school, then in the 1990s, I had to miss it because I had to work. I bought several episodes from collectors. There was an episode I remember, but I think it's a Nelson Mandela Effect Experience. The Mystery ace at the end of the show was Howard Hughes. The first song played was Leavin' on a Jet Plane. The contestant, a black man in a dark Navy uniform witrh the rank of "Major", rang in with the correct song title, but not the correct name. He said, "Pontius Pilate!", and everyone started laughing, even the contestant, and Ron Ely couldn't stop for awhile. I'm not sure if that was a real episode or not. Another thing: Was there ever a contestant named Bill Ware who kept winning, or is that a Nelson Mandela Effect, too. I kept hearing his name mentioned. The show was a Name That Tune-like game show. The first round showed the contestants pictures and the band played musical clues that went along with them. The second and third rounds didn't have pictures, but just played musical clues. The final round had one picture of a famous person, that started with a baby picture, and musical clues were played. I was sorry to hear that Ron Ely had a stroke a while back and can't talk.

I remember watching this on PTL back in the 80s. It was on Saturdays. I watched it along with Captain Hook and Gospel Bill. There was a cartoon on the show that was very sad. A bird is sitting in a tree with other birds when birds fly up to him and start bullying him. One breaks his glasses and he starts to cry. When a blue bird flies up to him, he says, "Please don't hurt me.", but the bird wants to be his friend, and reads The Bible with him. I've looked, but can't find this anywhere. It must have been a Nelson Mandela Effect Experience. Even though some episodes are on YouTube, i'd like to see the complete series released on dvd.

I can still remember watching Dusty's Treehouse with my dad. It was just after we got cable. I can still remember some of the characters: Scooter Squirrel, Maxine Crow, and Stanley the Spider, my dad's favorite character. I'm not sure if there were any more or not. Two episodes I can remember clearly. In one, he was making a stamp with the initials "R.S." on it, for Robert Scott. My parents were going to name me that if I had been born a boy. In another, he was very sick with a cold and was telling his friends to stay "10 feet away" (HMMM. *that* sounds familiar, but it's only 6 feet away!). Too bad Stu Rosen is dead. He died a year ago today.

This was my favorite TV show growing up. I watched it along with Pinwheel, You Can't Do that on Television, and Special Delivery. I would get mad when my mom wanted me to get out in the fresh air and play or ride my bike, or I'd have to go to school and miss it. I have a whole list of favorite episodes, but my favorite has to be, Today's Special: Live on Stage. I remember that I didn't get to watch it all when it first aired because I had to go out with my parents and was too young to be left home alone. I finally got to watch it a few years ago when I got the whole series from a collector. It's also on YouTube, and I watch it every now and then. It's a shame that it was never officially released on DVD. I don't know if it ever will be or not, I'm not sure who owns the rights to it. There are a few episodes on YouTube, but not the complete series.

I heard about this great man back in 1986 when my family and I were getting HBO for free because the cable company couldn't decide whether to charge customers for it or not! We watched a show called Great Performances when we saw him; he did shows for HBO back in the early 1980s, when these shows were filmed. Later on, after his death, The Red Skelton Show and the Red Skelton Hour were shown on PBS, and we watched the shows on Saturday Night. I still enjoy the shows and watch them every chance I get. My favorite guests were Peter Lorre (who called him, "Red Skeleton"), Vincent Price, Ed Sullivan, and Boris Karloff. My favorite character is Freddy the Freeloader. It's a pity he's gone now. If I were running things, good people would live forever and have eternal youth. I liked it that his comedy was clean, but he did sneak in a little "dirt" every now and then which was funny, not like this "comedy" nowadays. I love watching the YouTube shows about him, especially Johnny Carson and Dini Petty.

My dad turned me on to this film in 1986 when I was 10 years old because he got tired of me watching The Muppets Take Manhattan ad nauseum on HBO! Unfortunately, my family and I had to watch it during a PBS TeleFund (gag!) ! He told me he wanted me to see a *real* musical. He'd seen it when it came out in theaters in 1962. I loved it from the first time I saw it. It got so that every time it came on TV, my family and I would watch it. I was surprised when I found out that Meredith Willson had written the music for the movie and the 1957 stage show; the music was Rogers and Hammerstein worthy! The remake was good, but Matthew Broderick just doesn't have the "OOMPH!" that Robert preston had. The only one that comes closest is Craig Bierkos.

I remember watching this show for the first time in 1989, but don't remember which channel it was on, Nick-at-Nite, maybe? I know it came on at 11pm in my area. My favorite guests were Peter Falk, Danny Kaye, and Truman Capote. I still can't get over that "prophetic" episode, though, about President Reagan in 1988! I think the Nickelodeon TV show, You Can't Do That On Television, got the inspiration for the locker jokes from Laugh-in's joke wall.

I've only seen one episode of this show, and it was great! It was from January of 1965 and had Boris Karloff as a guest. I got that episode from a collector in Florida. I don't know if any more episodes of this show exist or not, which is a shame, because it was probably a good show. I hope it's released on dvd someday. It probably had too much competition from the other variety shows on during that era, which is why it didn't last.