Like most kids who grew up in the OKC area and who's parents didnt subscribe to cable, the UHF stations were my entertainment haven of sorts. I have fond memories of watching many programs. I remember even before FOX took over KOKH.....(I think it was 1988). I sort of regarded the VHF channels as more adult-oriented, and especially CBS, which, back inthose days seems like its target audience was those over 65 yrs of age. I remember this guy named Arlo on KAUT-43. When I talk to others about Arlo, everyone seems clueless to whom I am referring to. I also used to watch Double Dare, hosted by Marc Summers, and FunHouse, hosted by JD Roth. American Gladiators was another good show I watched a lot. I also would wake up occasionally at around 2am in the morning, and one of the stations (I forget which)'had reruns aired of late 70s female rollerderby.

I remember many of those years quite fondly, although I admit I don't remember Arlo on 43. I remember KOKH went by the moniker of "Keep Our Kids Happy" while I was always looking out for one of the stations - 34 I think it was - to air Star Trek reruns in the afternoon after KOCO dropped them.

At one point, I think KAUT was only part-time regular signal, and at 6pm would scramble their signal for an odd duck pay service called "VUE."

Heck, I remember that by the time cable TV rolled through our neighborhood, we thought that litle black set-top box that had, what, 35 channels was the be-all, end-all of tv :)

I remember a '90s hip-hop music TV station called "The Box." I think it was on Channel 19. I also remember WB34 and UPN 43.

We had the first television on our block. This was 1952 or so. Anyone remember 3D Danny and Foreman Scotty?

We had the first television on our block. This was 1952 or so. Anyone remember 3D Danny and Foreman Scotty?

Years ago at the little Flower church carnival Danny Williams used to deal blackjack.

We had the first television on our block. This was 1952 or so. Anyone remember 3D Danny and Foreman Scotty?
Unfortunately I remember that very well. I never cared much for either of them.

Was it channel 43 that had a local dance show back in the 80s?

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Unfortunately I remember that very well. I never cared much for either of them.

How could you not like Foreman Scotty??

As kid, I got to be on the ol Circle 4 ranch *twice* and it was an awesome OKC kid memory. That was back when local TV production was a big deal, and WGN up in Chicago had kind of led the way with its local Bozo the Clown show. Other local stations emulated it, and "Foreman Scotty" was a huge hit back in the day.

I remember Cannonball, Xavier T. Willard (Danny Williams) and all manner of games they'd play to win prizes. You had the "Friendship Wheel" and "Polka Dot," and a plain old mail-in drawing where I won a Channel Master transistor radio that I still have to this day. I also won a toy drum called a "Liberty Drum" that my father hated, intercepted, and destroyed before I ever got to play with it. Yeah, my dad was that kind of person. Probably still is for all I know. When he was a kid, he shot his dog. Seriously. But that's another thread.

Anyway, the highlight of Scotty's popularity back then was when they were fighting a "villain" known as "The Count" (also played by Danny Williams), and he would try to "break in" to the show and threaten the Circle 4 ranch. Scotty then transformed his ranch set into a "Control Center" that, in retrospect, looked like the bridge of the starship Enterprise - even with a "teletransporter" - where he'd control whether he'd run segments of "Laurel and Hardy" movies, Bugs Bunny cartoons, the works. He provided "encoded" messages for the kids that you could only decode if you got the Circle 4 code card they distributed at the State Fair with the secret "Double Thumbs Up" symbol when they were doing the show live from the Fairgrounds - and there was a monstrous crowd around the stage that day. Great, great memories of a time for local television that will, sadly, never return.

Considering what passes for kids entertainment these days, I'd take a heavy dose of Foreman Scotty in a heartbeat. At least they didn't treat the kids like suferating, drooling morons, which most youth-themed TV does today.

Was it channel 43 that had a local dance show back in the 80s?

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Yes, and one or two of my friends used to go to WhiteWater or the studio routinely to be on it. Wasn't my thing, but they sure enjoyed it.

How could you not like Foreman Scotty??

As kid, I got to be on the ol Circle 4 ranch *twice* and it was an awesome OKC kid memory. That was back when local TV production was a big deal, and WGN up in Chicago had kind of led the way with its local Bozo the Clown show. Other local stations emulated it, and "Foreman Scotty" was a huge hit back in the day.

I remember Cannonball, Xavier T. Willard (Danny Williams) and all manner of games they'd play to win prizes. You had the "Friendship Wheel" and "Polka Dot," and a plain old mail-in drawing where I won a Channel Master transistor radio that I still have to this day. I also won a toy drum called a "Liberty Drum" that my father hated, intercepted, and destroyed before I ever got to play with it. Yeah, my dad was that kind of person. Probably still is for all I know. When he was a kid, he shot his dog. Seriously. But that's another thread.

Anyway, the highlight of Scotty's popularity back then was when they were fighting a "villain" known as "The Count" (also played by Danny Williams), and he would try to "break in" to the show and threaten the Circle 4 ranch. Scotty then transformed his ranch set into a "Control Center" that, in retrospect, looked like the bridge of the starship Enterprise - even with a "teletransporter" - where he'd control whether he'd run segments of "Laurel and Hardy" movies, Bugs Bunny cartoons, the works. He provided "encoded" messages for the kids that you could only decode if you got the Circle 4 code card they distributed at the State Fair with the secret "Double Thumbs Up" symbol when they were doing the show live from the Fairgrounds - and there was a monstrous crowd around the stage that day. Great, great memories of a time for local television that will, sadly, never return.

Considering what passes for kids entertainment these days, I'd take a heavy dose of Foreman Scotty in a heartbeat. At least they didn't treat the kids like suferating, drooling morons, which most youth-themed TV does today.

Well said, SD! The 3DD and FS serial dramas would seem pretty goofy today, but really were pretty ambitious productions for a local TV station. And they did it all without the advanced video technology available today (IIRC, a lot of it was shot on 16mm film). I can't imagine a local station attempting anything like them today.

SD,
VUE! It was pretty neat in it's day, line-of-sight antenna on my roof and porn after 9:00 if I'm not mistaken.
C. T.
At one point, I think KAUT was only part-time regular signal, and at 6pm would scramble their signal for an odd duck pay service called "VUE."

Heck, I remember that by the time cable TV rolled through our neighborhood, we thought that litle black set-top box that had, what, 35 channels was the be-all, end-all of tv :)

SD,
VUE! It was pretty neat in it's day, line-of-sight antenna on my roof and porn after 9:00 if I'm not mistaken.
C. T.I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that a station owned by Gene Autry would broadcast porn...

Jim,
I'm not sure how to take your comment. Should Mr. Autry be wearing a black hat instead of a white one? I wasn't aware of anything, but there's a lot of things I don't know!
C. T.
I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that a station owned by Gene Autry would broadcast porn...

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Was it channel 43 that had a local dance show back in the 80s?

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The rythym pit by kj103 at frontier city was on fox 25

I remember arlo on 43, he looked like the principal at my school, and then there was Ranger Roger on 25, when i was a little bit younger, 34 had a cartoon gopher right between cartoons, and it always says Go For it 34, ahhh memories.

I remember watching The Benny Hill Show.

KAUT had that kids safety slogan they aired for a while " Be a KAUTious kid"

Ohhh...wow....Ranger Roger....I totally forgot about him. I forgot what he used to even say or do when he came on the air. Most of my schoolday afternoons went like this: Transformers, GI Joe, Heathcliff, DuckTales, TailSpin, Street Frogs, Karate Kat, Voltron, MASK, SilverHawks. I used to sometimes wake up early enough on school day mornings before the bus arrived and watched Fat Albert.

How could you not like Foreman Scotty??

As kid, I got to be on the ol Circle 4 ranch *twice* and it was an awesome OKC kid memory. That was back when local TV production was a big deal, and WGN up in Chicago had kind of led the way with its local Bozo the Clown show. Other local stations emulated it, and "Foreman Scotty" was a huge hit back in the day.

I remember Cannonball, Xavier T. Willard (Danny Williams) and all manner of games they'd play to win prizes. You had the "Friendship Wheel" and "Polka Dot," and a plain old mail-in drawing where I won a Channel Master transistor radio that I still have to this day. I also won a toy drum called a "Liberty Drum" that my father hated, intercepted, and destroyed before I ever got to play with it. Yeah, my dad was that kind of person. Probably still is for all I know. When he was a kid, he shot his dog. Seriously. But that's another thread.

Anyway, the highlight of Scotty's popularity back then was when they were fighting a "villain" known as "The Count" (also played by Danny Williams), and he would try to "break in" to the show and threaten the Circle 4 ranch. Scotty then transformed his ranch set into a "Control Center" that, in retrospect, looked like the bridge of the starship Enterprise - even with a "teletransporter" - where he'd control whether he'd run segments of "Laurel and Hardy" movies, Bugs Bunny cartoons, the works. He provided "encoded" messages for the kids that you could only decode if you got the Circle 4 code card they distributed at the State Fair with the secret "Double Thumbs Up" symbol when they were doing the show live from the Fairgrounds - and there was a monstrous crowd around the stage that day. Great, great memories of a time for local television that will, sadly, never return.

Considering what passes for kids entertainment these days, I'd take a heavy dose of Foreman Scotty in a heartbeat. At least they didn't treat the kids like suferating, drooling morons, which most youth-themed TV does today.

Foreman Scotty was the best! Roger Miller wrote 'Kansas City Star' for Scotty.

My mornings was Mr. Magoo on Ch 9 - maybe even the last few minutes of either Wayne Liles or Bill Hare doing the Everegreen Farm Report - followed by Lola Hall, Bill Hare, and Tom Mahoney doing a news show called "The Early Beat," then Captain Kangaroo.

Among all the classic old cartoons and TV shows that have found new homes and life on 4,000-channel Cable TV, Mr. Magoo is conspicuously absent. This was a sillly, funny old cartoon back when we didn't have to worry about the Whims of the Perpetually Indignant, about the antics an old man who wouldn't wear his glasses and couldn't see straight, and lived with his Chinese houseboy, Charlie (Cholly). They'd also mix in cartoons about two guys that were, ostensibly, Mr. Magoo's cousins (?), Waldo and Presley, who were not exactly the brightest bulbs, but managed to get into different kinds of trouble.

I remember as I got older tracking what happened to Steve Powell (Foreman Scotty) once The Circle 4 Ranch ended production - fairly sure he went into real estate out in California, and heard he passed away several years ago.

That era, which also brought us Ed Birchall as HoHo the Clown (KOCO), Miss Fran (WKY and, I think, later/very briefly, KWTV), were all part of a golden age of local television that was, sadly, all too short. You'd never even conceive of a local station doing that anymore. And there were some pretty nice production values then - Hoho had his "Tempus Levitator" where they'd "green screen" him into a wall that "folded" into some interesting story, or the pretty complex sets they put together for the Circle 4 Command Center. Nothing cheap or half-baked about any of it.

Jim,
I'm not sure how to take your comment. Should Mr. Autry be wearing a black hat instead of a white one? I wasn't aware of anything, but there's a lot of things I don't know!
C. T.Actually I suspect that he never knew the details of programming at the station here; it was just one of several radio and TV stations that he owned in his later years, but that's where the call sign came from...

How could you not like Foreman Scotty??

As kid, I got to be on the ol Circle 4 ranch *twice* and it was an awesome OKC kid memory. That was back when local TV production was a big deal, and WGN up in Chicago had kind of led the way with its local Bozo the Clown show. Other local stations emulated it, and "Foreman Scotty" was a huge hit back in the day.

I remember Cannonball, Xavier T. Willard (Danny Williams) and all manner of games they'd play to win prizes. You had the "Friendship Wheel" and "Polka Dot," and a plain old mail-in drawing where I won a Channel Master transistor radio that I still have to this day. I also won a toy drum called a "Liberty Drum" that my father hated, intercepted, and destroyed before I ever got to play with it. Yeah, my dad was that kind of person. Probably still is for all I know. When he was a kid, he shot his dog. Seriously. But that's another thread.

Anyway, the highlight of Scotty's popularity back then was when they were fighting a "villain" known as "The Count" (also played by Danny Williams), and he would try to "break in" to the show and threaten the Circle 4 ranch. Scotty then transformed his ranch set into a "Control Center" that, in retrospect, looked like the bridge of the starship Enterprise - even with a "teletransporter" - where he'd control whether he'd run segments of "Laurel and Hardy" movies, Bugs Bunny cartoons, the works. He provided "encoded" messages for the kids that you could only decode if you got the Circle 4 code card they distributed at the State Fair with the secret "Double Thumbs Up" symbol when they were doing the show live from the Fairgrounds - and there was a monstrous crowd around the stage that day. Great, great memories of a time for local television that will, sadly, never return.

Considering what passes for kids entertainment these days, I'd take a heavy dose of Foreman Scotty in a heartbeat. At least they didn't treat the kids like suferating, drooling morons, which most youth-themed TV does today.

Forman Scotty was also my favorite show as a kid. Me and all my friends would watch it daily glued to the TV. I think they also had a Saturday morning version. Too bad they don't have all of those old shows on dvd out there.

The rythym pit by kj103 at frontier city was on fox 25

The one I'm thinking of was several years before Fox affiliates. I'm thinking of one around the '82/'83 era.

Dang, I remember watching channel 14, UHF, in the 60's. It was mostly
local programming however there was a really cool silent movie comedy
called "Who's the funny Mann"? I don't know who it was but it was
funny.

This was around 1967.

Forman Scotty was also my favorite show as a kid. Me and all my friends
would watch it daily glued to the TV. I think they also had a Saturday morning
version. Too bad they don't have all of those old shows on dvd out there.
You're right on. Monday thru Friday was Foreman Scotty and the Circle 4
Ranch. I was on the show 2 times. I never won the Nix-O-Billy horse shoe
but my next door neighbor did.

At any rate, the Saturday morning Foreman Scotty show was a recap of
the previous week.

I remember sitting in the doctors office, circa 1959, and watching 3-D
Danny!

Thanx for the memories.

I remember Arlo so well! He seems to have been all but forgotten. I can't remember what exactly the content of his show was without some prodding, though. I remember he would do crafts and science type things, or maybe someone did them with him.

I recall so well that he broadcast a show on Christmas of 1988, whether taped or live -- "...it's Christmas Sunday...!" in that slow, gentle voice of his.

Does anyone remember for sure which OKC station carried this? I've been trying to remember. If it was one of the big 3 it was late at night. This is one of my all time favorite comedies and was very unique because it had no studio audience and no laugh track.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2UpaekiGg

It has one of the all time classic lines at the end of this segment.

"I can't talk right now. I'm on the phone."

On Sunday mornings I remember watching Laurel and Hardy on UHF
channel 14 in the 60's. There was another program that was a silent comedy.
The announcer would say, "who's the funny man?". It wasn't Harold Lloyd or
Buster Keaton.

My parents had cable, then antenna vision, then C-Band Satellite in the living room only so we had to settle for UHV and VHF in bedrooms.

Summers were great because they would do Godzilla Week, Giant Creature Week and all kinds of themes on 34 and 25. We watched Bizarre, Three Stooges, Benny Hill, Pink Panther, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, GIJOE, Thundercats, Master of the Universe, Voltron and then Saturday Nights were GLOW Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling and WWF, Midsouth Wrestling and World Class Championship Wrestling. There was even a local show called the Tall Paul Show from Paul Meade Insurance.

I also remember Trust House Theater and the local commercials were pretty funny.

Penny Auto Parts "Ya'll Got One of These." The guy at the counter would catch the part. My favorite one was when the customer pushed a motor in and this box flew in knocking the clerk out of the way.

BearWood Furniture "Cover your eves that furniture's naked".

KOCO carried "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."

NWCGuy,
I forgot about AntenaVision, it was what we had after VUE.
C. T.
My parents had cable, then antenna vision, then C-Band Satellite in the living room only so we had to settle for UHV and VHF in bedrooms.

Penny Auto Parts "Ya'll Got One of These." The guy at the counter would catch the part. My favorite one was when the customer pushed a motor in and this box flew in knocking the clerk out of the way.



Oh yes. I can't remember my favorite variant of those commericals verbatim, but it went something like "My crankshaft won't crank, my carburetor won't 'car', and my pistons won't---

[announcer] Penny Auto Parts! Located at Such-and-such".

Do I remember something about "Uncle Max's Mad Movies? Also, the rudimentary way they censored some of the movies they played on the weekends, by merely turning the sound down for a profanity (most of which these days are within community standards) or somehow placing a black blob, as if someone's finger was placed over the lens of the film chain, to obscure nudity.

... Penny Auto Parts! Located at Such-and-such".
I don't remember the commercials but I used Penny Auto Parts for years.
They always had whatever I needed. Another parts store I liked was Chief.

What were the call letters of channel 14? This will be in the late 60's.

Nevermind. I just found this! From June 25, 1966.

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I just found this Klpr ad.

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I remember seeing this in the Sunday TV Guide of the Oklahoman.

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Jack Beasley! I'd forgotten all about him. That was really a neat era in OKC's TV history. Sunday mornings, there was a "Sunday School" type show, probably on WKY-TV with a Miss Jane. She'd always read letters from the young viewers the ended with "a hug and a kiss and a hug and a kiss." Can anyone help me with the details? (Sorry, this isn't about UHF specifically. I'm easily sidetracked.)

They were proud of the shows in color (C), weren't they!

I love this. The stations are 4, 5, 9, and after 4pm, 14. The Saturday morning
"Foreman Scotty" program were the episodes of the previous week.

Ya gotta love it.


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