And now for this public service announcement...

[kshandra]

Coming to you from KTVU, now the Fox affiliate for SF/Oakland/San Jose, but originally independent. My family still quotes this one on a regular basis.

Other Charley & Humphrey spots:

Exercise

Hostility

Interruption

The Kitten

The Library

The Park

Think for Yourself

Edit: Whoops, cut has been applied, sorry!

Comments

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

Aw! I loved Charley and Humphrey--thanks for posting.

[kshandra]

One of my co-workers a few weeks ago responded to a Stupid Customer Story with "One thousand TWO dumb things to do!" and I about died laughing, I was so happy.

And check this out!

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I'm originally from the Bay Area & I remember these so well!

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Aw! These are adorable!

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Is this the station Pat McCormack (sp?) was on? Around 1980, the one I'm thinking of (and it was from Oakland) decided to be a super-station and get on the cable, so I was seeing it in northern Colorado. Old Pat hosted the afternoon cartoons, and I have never seen a worse kid show host. They'd play a game called "TV Pow!" where videogame-like graphics would be on screen and the kid at home (on the phone) had to yell "Pow!" to fire something. Pat would invariably say something like "Didn't do too well there, did you?" Way to make them feel better, jerk! If a kid who called in had an unusual surname, Pat would always remark "That's a funny last name."

It it was him, he deserved to have his lamp broken.

(So why did I watch? They had a great cartoon library! I planned my day so I'd get off work just before 4:00, and I'd get on my bike and race to join a couple of my friends, and we'd watch the cartoons — about 90 minutes of them — and Mr. Rogers. We were all really good at quickly reading small, hard-to-see Roman numerals that went by in a flash, from the titles of the cartoons.)

[kshandra]

That's the one!

Man, TV Pow was a stone bitch. Near as I can remember (and keep in mind I was ten at the time), Pat was actually sitting there with the console, hitting the Fire button whenever the kid said Pow, so it's really no wonder nobody did very well with it. He used to host Dialing for Dollars on the channel, and I imagine he never really "downshifted" his personality from the adults he dealt with on the phone to the kids.

He moved out of state after he retired, and has NO online presence at this point, unlike so many other afternoon hosts.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Hah! Charlie and Humphrey facilitated my first kiss. I used to watch it with my boyfriend in seventh grade.

I always heard Pat McCormack was quite the old boozer. Didn't he play the original Captain Satellite?

[kshandra]

No, it was Bob March...who went on to host Dialing for Dollars, which gets your McCormick number down to 2. ;-)

http://www.tvparty.com/lostSF.html

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Ooooops, you are correct. So which one was the lush? And wasn't Pat Montandon a cohost on Dialing for Dollars for a while? I'd forgotten all about "The count and the amount."