Soups Sales was very popular with teens in the early sixies. The first time I saw him on TV was at a cast party at our choir teacher's house. The party began right after school and all the kids were surprised when Miss Brocaw wheeled a TV into the living room and turned on Soupy Sales. Miss Brocaw was quite a character. Every Halloween she would tell how she had married a French officer in Paris on October 31, 1946. She'd end the story by saying she soon found out that her dreamboat treat was actually a dirty trick.
Soupy Sales came across the black and white screen as such a lovely, gentle man. It made it all the more sweet that "The Soupy Sales Show" really annoyed my mother.