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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
EAN: 0826663107982
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Shout! Factory
Manufacturer: Shout! Factory
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Shout! Factory
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 06, 2008
Running Time: 570 minutes
Sales Rank: 7022
Studio: Shout! Factory
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Product Description:
Some dreamed of a chance to be in the Peanut Gallery of Howdy Doody. Some begged their parents for a dog just like Lassie. Many wore cowboy hats to watch The Roy Rogers Show. In the 1950s, television was new and thrilling. Looking back, these shows had a significant impact on the children of the first television generation and helped to shape the medium as it increasingly became a part of our culture. Hiya Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning is a collection of the best kids' shows from the infancy of the genre. 4-DVD Box Set including 21 classic shows: Kukla, Fran And Ollie, Howdy Doody, Flash Gordon, Lassie, Annie Oakley, Ding Dong School, Time For Beany, The Paul Winchell Show, The Roy Rogers Show, Captain Z-RO, The Rootie Kazootie Club, Winky Dink And You, Super Circus, Andy s Gang, The Cisco Kid, Sky King, The Magic Clown, Kids And Company, Juvenile Jury, The Pinky Lee Show & Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - old Saturday AM shows
Ah nostalgia, even for the young. Great to see the prototypes of so many contemporary characters.
All I'm missing is my flannel jammies.
Rating:  - Mostly unwatchable
First of all, how about some truth in advertising? Many of these shows are so obscure, and with good reason, that it is a ripoff putting them on here. A couple of foreign-made sci-fi shows - "Flash Gordon" and "Captain Z-RO" are particularly bad. Also, some shows from the early, early 50s, and even the 1940s, are jaw dropping in their awfulness - "The Magic Clown", "Kids and Company" and "Super Circus" fall into that category.
Next, some shows which might be remembered fondly by boomers are not well-represented here. The episode of "Howdy Doody" is from its very first years, and does not include Chief Thunderthud, Princess Summerfall Winterspring, Dilly Dally, etc. The "PInky Lee Show" is also from its very early days.
Particularly bad are the puppet shows - "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" is OK, but "Rootie Kazootie" and "Beany and Cecil" (another early incarnation, pre-Stan Freberg) are terrible.
Next category is shows that stunk then, and stink now - Ding Dong School, Winky Dink and You, Juvenile Jury.
Finally, I'd say that the exciting Westerns hold up pretty well - Roy Rogers, Annie Oakley, and Sky King are all winners.
Nostalgia value? It is humorous to see how sponsors dominated the show's content, with the kids in the "Peanut Gallery" for "The Magic Clown" all chewing on "Bonomo's Turkish Taffy" and wearing fezes.
Overall, pretty bad.
Rating: - Great Children Shows of Yesteryear
If your a baby boomer this is the DVD for you it features 21 great children's shows from the Golden Age of television. The funny thing was I remembered the exact episodes of shows I had long since forgotten. I bought another DVD at the times called Andys Gang but don't buy that it is only one show and that show is already on Hey Kids. Hey Kids is a wonderful journey back to when the world was much more simple and a lot more fun.
Rating: - Great nostalgic trip down memory lane !
Hiya Kids! What a great nostalgic trip down memory lane!
Our family was regular consumers of many early TV shows -- so proud that we got a grainy, black-and-white picture on our Philco with the far-fringe antenna and rotor on the roof. Early TV brought magic into our home. Whether it was Howdy Doody, the great old westerns, the magic of(and later, the young woman featured in) Super Circus, we were transported far from our rural home in North Carolina into worlds we'd barely imagined. Hiya Kids is a super flashback to those days -- the pictures are still grainy, the plots are still corny, but the magic on the Hiya Kids discs are well worth the few dollars and the time spent. Score one for the Peanut Gallery!!
Rating:  - Simply awful
Just a massive disappointment. Each episode was worse than the next. And if you're an Andy's Gang fan, you'll really be disappointed.
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