I grew up with Captain Kangaroo. The show was the longest running network children's show of all time The good Captain, played by Bob Keeshan, could be seen on CBS from 1955 until 1984. Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum played sidekick Mr. Green Jeans, joining Cosmo Allegretti's hand-puppets Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit in the Captain's Treasure House.

This tape is from 1980, when the show was on the verge of being cut to a half hour by CBS and moved from  its 8:00 am timeslot to make way for the 'CBS Morning News.' The series was re-titled 'Wake up with the Captain' and came on at 7:00 am, later moving to 6:30.

A year later, the show left the weekday morning schedule altogether and began running for an hour on Saturday and Sunday Mornings starting at 7:00. In 1984, CBS cancelled the Captain, and Bob Keeshan brought the show to PBS where it ran for six more years.

Bob Keeshan died in 2004 at the age of 76.

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