The DFW area had Mr. Peppermint and Icky Twerp for the local children’s broadcasting...along with Julie Bennell for the adult female viewers. The male adults back then were, working and not an audience during the weekdays...that was the fifties when most had a job to go to.
Yep, it was very "lady of the house" oriented with a block or two for the kidlets (KELO had "Captain 11," WOC - for a while - had "Captain Ken's Cartoon Showboat," and WHO had the perennially popular "Duane Ellett and Floppy"). A lot of the stations would show old movies after the noon news (or what passed for it), and our local station would show films that were often laughably old and/or obscure. If I was sick at home for a day and they showed an old Abbott & Costello film, that was cool, but some of the others, well…
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I never encountered “Slam Bang Theater” until its last, waning days in the 70s, courtesy of some wacky new thing called “cable-tv” which was introduced into our neighborhood, giving us our first conduit to Dallas. Primarily, I recall it showing an old 1940s Edgar Kennedy two-reeler, mixed in with the cartoons.