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Photo, From The Washington Post, 8/22/99
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Several
behind-the-scenes puppeteers on the Ranger Hal Show
eventually
graduated to bigger and better careers.
While
screenwriter/director Barry Levinson ("Diner", "Rain Man") attended American
University, he operated puppets Ossie, Marvin Monkey and Dr. Fox
as a
WTOP-TV Assistant Director Trainee for $50 a week.
Newsman
Max Robinson also worked Hal's puppets before moving to the
evening
anchorperson's chair at TV-9 and then at the ABC-TV network.
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The
Sunday Star TV Magazine, 10/3/65
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by Jack Maier)
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In
the 10/3/65
"D.C.
Studios" column of
The
Sunday Star TV Magazine,
TV-columnist
Bernie
Harrison wrote:
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"WTOP-9's
Ranger Hal observes that puppet Marvin Monkey is well suited for the remainder
of the TV season... Hal was swamped with clothes for Marvin after noting
his seedy costume on the air and appealing to small-fry
viewers
for help."
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Hal
with guests Lassie and Timmy (Jon Provost) from the 1960s.
From
a tribute to Ranger Hal in the Journal Newspapers. (Donated
by Jack Maier)
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In the
early 1960s, Ranger Hal teamed with U.S. Forest Service mascot
Smokey
Bear (voiced by Jackson
Weaver) to produce an educational
phonograph
record for children all over the U.S..
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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
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