Right you are. Some folks are saying we are remembering the wrong show, but I think Andy Devine and the others were copying Froggies's original schtick later in the '50s TV era.
My 69 year old memory card may not be what it once was, but I distinctly remember many Saturday mornings spent lying on the floor of my pal Eddie's front porch in Newark NY eating purple Concord grapes from his dad's backyard arbor and listening to Froggie the Gremlin on the Buster Brown Kids radio program. Also Grand Central Station, Jack Armstrong the All American Boy, Plastic Man, and a few others whose names have slipped my mind.
That was simple, classic Americana of that day and time, and life was good for this 4th grader and his pals on Saturday mornings.
If you want to hear them (not Buster Brown, but Jack Armstrong and some others) again you should check out http://www.rusc.com. I am going to make burn the programs on cds, then play them on my replica old time radio stereo. ;-)
"but I think Andy Devine and the others were copying Froggies's original schtick later in the '50s TV era."
Regarding Andy Devine:
Then he took over for Smilin' Ed and was the star of "Andy's Gang." Good-natured Andy didn't seem to mind Froggy's stunts. He'd end up laughing and saying, "You little rascal!" And Froggy answered: "You great big square!"
Through the 50's and 60's Andy enjoyed summer theater work and played "Captain Andy" in many productions of "Show Boat." His last major TV role was playing Hap Gorman on "Flipper." As he got older, Andy became more active in politics and social causes, joining the Board of Directors of the Boy Scouts of Orange County and joining the committee to elect Ronald Reagan governor of California.
And if you were 8 years old, in 1941, those were not exactly "peaceful" nor "calm" times.