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Early Television for Iowa's Children Becky Wilson Hawbacker Masthead Logo The Palimpsest Volume 75 | Number 2 Article 4 4-1-1994 Early Television for Iowa's Children Becky Wilson Hawbacker Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.uiowa.edu/palimpsest Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Hawbacker, Becky W. "Early Television for Iowa's Children." The Palimpsest 75 (1994), 68-86. Available at: https://ir.uiowa.edu/palimpsest/vol75/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the State Historical Society of Iowa at Iowa Research Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in The alP impsest by an authorized administrator of Iowa Research Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Early Television fo r Iow a’s C hildren by Becky Wilson Hawbaker The day ivas hot and humid, and the sticky air was filled with the smell of grilled bratwurst and Maid-Rites. There were bands and bunting to celebrate the small central Iowa town s centennial in the 1970s, but for the croud of children milling about, the event was a pilgrimage to pay homage to a local hero and Iowa cultural icon. The children s excitemen t, including that of my seven-year-old brother and me at age eight, built to a crescendo as we saw the approaching lemon-yellow Volkswagen van until the cartoon dog on the side and heard the loudspeakers announce, “Floppy lues arrived/” My brother and / left that day with an autographed picture ofFloppy and his friend Duane Ellett (the picture was proudly hung in my brothers room even in college), two Floppy t-shirts that we wore until they were too frayed to be used even as rags, and the feeling that we must be very special for Floppy to visit us in this town. It was an experience on par with meeting the President or the Pope. LOPPY, as any true central Iowan knows, was nei­ ther a politician nor a religious leader, but a pup­ pet. Floppy was not just any puppet, however; Floppy and Duane Ellett were the co-hosts of sever- 68 THE PALIMPSEST DUANE EUETT COUECTlON DES U Duane Ellett and Floppy (back right) pose with guests January 3, 1978, on set used from 1976 through 1982. Dog mask (lower left) was a Floppy souvenir from the show and State Fair. "TV screen” sign promoted Ellett’s popular kids’ show on WHO-TV. DUANE ELLETT COLLECTION SHSI (DES MOINES) Wilson Hawbaker The day was hot and humid, and the sticky air was [died with the smell of grilled bratwurst and Maid-Rites. There were bands and bunting to celebrate the small central Iowa town s centennial in the 1970s, but for the crowd of children milling about, the event was a pilgrimage to pay homage to a local hero and Iowa cultural icon. The children's excitement, including that of my seven-year-old brother and me at age eight, built to a crescendo as we saw the approaching lemon-yellow Volkswagen van with the cartoon dog on the side and heard the loudspeakers announce, “Floppy has arrived!" My brother and I lefi that day with an autographed picture of Floppy and his friend Duane Fllett (the picture was proudly hung in my brother 's room even in college), two Floppy t-shirts that we wore until they were too frayed to be used even as rags, and the feeling that we m ust be very special for Floppy to visit S f ! ® » us in this town. It was an experience on par with meeting the President or the Pope. Duane Ellett and Floppy (back right) pose with guests l o ppy , as any true central Iowan knows, was nei January 3. 1978. on set used from 1976 through 1982. ther a politician nor a religious leader, but a pup Dog mask (lower left) was a Floppy souvenir from the pet. Floppy was not just any puppet, however show and State Fair. "TV screen" sign promoted F Floppy and Duane Ellett were the co-hosts of sever Ellett’s popular kids’ show on WHO-TV. 68 THE PALIMPSEST al cartoon shows broadcast by WHO-TV in The 1950s are often referred to as the Des Moines from 1957 to 1987, and friends “Golden Age” of television—a time of experi­ and heroes to thousands of Iowa children mentation and excitement for both broadcast- who watched the shows after school and on ers and those receiving the broadcasts on weekends. The Floppy Show is one example national and local levels. Local Iowa stations among many children’s television programs followed at least one important lesson already produced in Iowa beginning in the 1950s, learned by national networks: Children were including The House with the Magic Window an important group of television viewers, and and Canyon Kid. These local shows shared programs aimed at children were a necessary common characteristics, yet were unique component of any broadcast schedule. Across expressions of larger trends, and they cap­ the nation, as new local stations began broad­ tured the hearts of thousands of Iowa chil­ casting, nearly each and every one developed dren and adults. some kind of children 's show. As they did. they imitated the success of nationally televised children’s shows like Howdy Doody, Small Fry GENERATION before this visit to see Club, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Floppy, television was in its infancy in At the same time, local stations were con­ Iowa. In the early 1950s, for example strained by the economic forces inherent in Woodrow and Kathryn Wilson were commercial broadcasting. As Jack Kuney, the first on their block in Perry, Iowa, to pur­director of several nationally televised chil­ « chase a television set, ensuring instant popu­dren's shows, reflected, “There were no lines larity for their children. Although the chil­ drawn that made the ground rules for kids’ dren's viewing was restricted (their Aunt programming any different than they were for Helen thought that shows like Superman were “against God”), the now-adult Wilson children recall with nostalgia and surprising detail the FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 8 :55—News 4:00—Guest of Honor 1 shows they grew up with, and can remember 9:00-Ding Dong 4 :15-Gabby Hayes 1 all the words to the Howdy Doody theme song. School 4:30—Strike it Rich 9:30—Ask Washing­ 5:00-Magic Window 1 Forty years have not dimmed Iowan s' memo­ ton 5:15—Beat Clock 1 10:00-Schooltime 5 :45-Televisit ries of early television. 10:30—United Na- 6:00-Capt. Video 1 1 D € SM O IN E S REGISTER There were an estimated 7 million televi­ tiohs 6:30-Those Two 3 11:00-Bride & G’m 6:45—News Car’van sions in America in 1950, with 13,000 in the 11:15-Love of Life 7:00-RCA Show ll:30-Search for 7 :30—MyFriend Omaha/Council Bluffs area, 6,344 in the . Tomorrow Irma 2 Davenport area, and 3,500 in central Iowa, 12:00-12 O’clock. 8:00-Farm Facts 2 Whistle 8:30—Racket Sq’d according to surveyed distributors. At that 12:15-News 9 :00-Boxing 2 time, most Iowans could tune in to only one 12:30—Garry Moore 9 :45—Greatest Fights l:00-To be ann. 10:00-Reporters’ 7 1:30—Guid. Light Digest c or two stations, including WOC-TV in l:45-To be ann. 10:15—Football Davenport, KM TV and WOW-TV in 2:00—Big Payoff 10 :310-Life is Worth 2 :30-Mike & Buff Living Omaha/Council Bluffs, and WOI-TV in .Ames 3:00—Kate Smith ll:00-Robert Mont­ (which first broadcast in 1949 and 1950). 3:30-United Nations gomery 3 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13. 3 Occasionally—on a clear night when the 12:30 -To T)e ann. 6:00-20 Questions 3 1 4 :00—Industry on 6 :30—CiSco Kid 3 antenna was in just the right position—Iowans S Parade 7 :00-All Star Revue 3 4:15-This Week in 8:00—Show of Shows could receive transmissions from stations fur­ 1 Pictures 9:30-Hit Parade ] ther away (Kansas City or Minneapolis, for 4:30—Roy Rogers 10 :00—Sports 3 5:00-Strike it Rich 10:15-Wrestling example). Although a number of Iowa invest­ 5:30—This is Your 11:00—Film Theater ment groups clamored for a piece of the tele­ Life 3 vision action, they were thwarted for several years by a Federal Communications In 1952. viewers had a range of choices on WOI-TV Commission (FCC) freeze on approval of sta­ (Ames)—from Racket Squad to Farm Facts, Magic tion applications until the FCC could set uni­ Window to Captain Video, Guiding Light to Ask form standards and resolve technical issues. Washington, Kate Smith to Roy Rogers. 70 THE PALIMPSEST DAVENPORT DCHOCRAT AND LEAD€B{ 1 0 - 1 ^ 4 9 P 1 3 OF TELfVTSJOU SECTION) The Russell H. Schwartz family, above, and “hundreds of [other] families in Davenport and the Quad-cities have been watching test patterns on Station WOC-TV for the past month,” says the Davenport Democrat and Leader, October 18, 1949 in a 24-page “television section.” Davenporters waited “with happy anticipation for the beginning of regular programs" on October 3 I. Across the nation, Americans were poised for the arrival of television in their communities. See map on back cover for U.S. cities with stations four months later. adults'. No program was useful unless it was children’s shows joined forces to make two or saleable.” That economic reality was tempered three of these ingredients inevitable in every by the thrill of working live and the creative local children’s show.
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