Of course Jerry Dunphy said it on KABC--and I thought *he* was the model for Ted Baxter.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 1:10 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I forgot about Elvira on KHJ, we watched that too (I older than you, and > watching for more prurient interests no doubt). I know Dunphy moved around > too, but for me he is always associated with KNXT (“from the mountains to > the sea…” did he say that at KABC too?) > > My go to local newscasters were Tom Brokaw and Jess Marlow, and then of > course Tom Snyder. > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 8:13 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My childhood memories of the local station were mostly cartoon related. >> KTLA had the worst of the cartoons (looking at you, Popeye) as well as Tom >> Hatten hosting the Family Film Festival, which were the films that either >> didn’t have copyright because they were poorly dubbed international films, >> i. e. Pippi Longstocking or old and unrestored so copyright had expired, >> which meant they were free to air. They also had Knight Rider in daytime >> syndication. KCOP and KTTV had either a Cartoon Carnival or Cartoon Circus, >> which fluctuated between the Warner cartoons or the Tom & Jerry (and >> friends). But it was during my childhood that first run syndicated cartoons >> thrived, which included Transformers and GI Joe. KTTV had Robotech, which >> was to me a game changer. KTLA burned off Three Stooges. KHJ had Elvira, >> Mistress of the Dark. >> >> When we watched the news, it was usually KABC with Jerry Dunphy and Dr >> George. I know I watched the Challenger explode on KTLA because I was in >> Catholic school in West Covina at the time, and for some reason they could >> only pick up channel 5 at school. The article referenced the Rose Parade, >> which was only worth watching with Bob and Stephanie doing commentary. >> >> Honorable mention to KCET for everything from Huell Howser to Monty >> Python to Square One (and Mathnet) to Simon & Garfunkel’s Concert in >> Central Park to This Old House to the Frugal Gourmet. Because man cannot >> live by cartoons alone. >> >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 7:09 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So, this sent me to Wikipedia, which was oddly non specific about the >>> stations Putnam worked at. They do say that he anchored the news for all 4 >>> LA independent stations (KTLA, KHJ, KTTV and KCOP), but they don’t give the >>> years for each station. They do say that he was replaced by Hal Fishman in >>> 1975, without giving the station, but that has to be KTLA, which comes >>> close to my memory. >>> >>> For my sister and I, as kids, KHJ was for the Million Dollar movie (I >>> remember seeing “The Blob” for the first time, and also “Goldfinger”). KTTV >>> and KCOP were for cartoons and kid shows (I think Wonderama and Jerry >>> Mahoney were on KTTV), and also re-runs (Star Trek I think was on KTTV when >>> I was rushing home to watch it in syndication in the 70s). Also I think >>> Vince and the Dodgers were on KTTV when I was a kid, and Lakers in KHJ. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 1:41 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I remember Putnam at KTTV and KCOP, but not at KTLA, though I'll >>>> happily admit I'm wrong. >>>> >>>> L.A.'s independent stations were a mixed bag, at best. KTTV probably >>>> had the best film library, but also had Ben Hunter (he who inspired >>>> Carson's Tea-Time Movie*) constantly selling you-finish A-frame homes. KHJ >>>> took occasional risks (I remember one week they devoted to 50s programming, >>>> complete with commercials, playing it straight-faced), and had the Million >>>> Dollar Movie and Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, and monster movies on the >>>> weekend. KCOP was hopeless, with seemingly no budgets for anything and the >>>> worst house-made local commercials. KTLA was somewhere in the middle, with >>>> reruns, a good film library (mainly Goldwyn and what movies Paramount >>>> hadn't sold to Universal), Tom Hatten, and great news broadcast (I thought >>>> Hal Fishman and Stan Chambers were immortal), all subject to the whims of >>>> Gene Autry. >>>> >>>> (*Watching "Whew!" on Buzzr last week, they're finally up to the >>>> "celebrity" episodes and Carol Wayne was one of the guests. I was kind of >>>> surprised to see she really was that dim.) >>>> >>>> --Dave Sikula >>>> >>>> On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 5:59:40 PM UTC-8 PGage wrote: >>>> >>>>> The article skips from 1964 to 1979, which is most of the interval of >>>>> my experience with KTLA (I left LA in 1987, and my memory begins around >>>>> 1967). For me they were the home of Dick Enberg and the Angels, and old >>>>> movies to watch occasionally when the three prime time networks failed. >>>>> >>>>> But I can’t believe any history of KTLA, no matter how cursory, can >>>>> skip over George Putnam (Ted Baxter). I know he worked at most of the LA >>>>> independent stations, but for most of my childhood he was Channel 5. We >>>>> watched a lot of local news in my house, and LA had some pretty high >>>>> profile anchors in those days. 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