"Ranger
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Broadcast
live
six-days-a-week
from
WTOP-TV's
"Broadcast
House"
Upper NW DC studios,
with
puppets, skits,
bits,
cartoons and
educational
short subjects.
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(Donated
By Tom Buckley, WUSA-TV)
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A
Saturday Birthday Party Show.
From
Hal Shaw's WTOP-TV Biography.
(Donated
By Tom Buckley, WUSA-TV)
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The
program
featured
in-studio
youngster
participation
on Saturdays
only,
as the
Ranger's
Saturday
show
was
always a
full-blown
"Birthday
Party".
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Tom
Fielding clearly recalls a particular
Ranger Hal show: "Good Friday 1964".
"Local
elementary students voted the prettiest girl in their school
for
Easter Princess... the winners to appear on Ranger Hal."
"Sandy
LaMond was by far the prettiest girl in Hyattsville Elementary School
and
was easily voted by the students as our Easter Princess. I had a secret
crush
on Sandy
(revealed here for the first time) and even though I tuned in
to the
show every day, on that Good Friday I watched with special interest."
"A cartoon
Easter Egg was superimposed on the screen. As Hal read each
Easter
Princess' name, and the school where she was from, the cartoon egg would
appear
to break open and reveal the Princess, apparently within the egg. Hal
interviewed
each girl, and I believe each got an Easter basket of goodies."
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The
"Ranger Hal" show
was
the brainchild of
Channel
9 Program Director
Jim
Silman in association
with
Hal Shaw from a pilot that Silman had developed called "Lookout Billy",
(according to a telephone interview conducted
with
Silman in 2001.)
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Jim
Silman in the WTOP-TV Control Room
(1955
Photo Courtesy: Dave Statter)
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According
to Frank Scheer,
"The
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company (with
sponsorship
by the Falls Church Junior Woman's Club)
ran
these charter trains from Alexandria to Possum Point, Virginia and
return;
they'd sing music en route, give out candy, and give the kids a thrill
with a train trip in some heavyweight RF&P coaches."
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Bill
Elvin in the 10/3/91
Great
Falls Current - McLean Providence Journal wrote:
"Hundreds
of youngsters on
the
train would sit waiting
for
the magic moment ...
when
Ranger Hal himself
would
appear".
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(Quote
donated By Jack Maier)
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Ranger
Hal and Ozzie led "Little
Folks
Train" rail excursions.
(These
tickets were owned
by
Mr.
Frank Scheer.)
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"Whatever Happened To Those Kiddie Show Hosts?" by Trisha Katson, 1977,
George Mason U. Phoebe Magazine, (Courtesy John Ahmad & Jack
Maier)."Gag"
ad: Skip McCloskey from 1963 AFTRA Directory. Kine stills: Tom Buckley,
WUSA-TV. Thanks to Jack Maier, Tom Fielding, Dave Statter, Gerald
Owens,
Frank Scheer, Steve
Moore &
Dave Hughes'
DCRTV.com
Airtimes from Washington Post & Evening Star. |
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