Favorite Jungle Series
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GSPdude — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 07:16 AM)
Time for Adventure
Could you be thinking of I Search for Adventure? It was a documentary series in the mid-50s. I haven't been able to find a complete episode guide, but it ran the kind of stuff that Frank Buck would have made and I wouldn't be surprised if he was in a few episodes.
http://ctva.biz/US/Documentary/JackDouglasDocumentaries_01_ISearchForA dventure.htm -
NewtonFigg — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 11:49 AM)
It took some doing, but I found it on a TV listing page. No info about the show, just the listing. Sunday, March 16, 1952, was my guess of about the time it would have been on. Good guess. Here is the entire list of morning programs on TV in NY on that date:
9:45 (4) Children's Theatre
10:00 (4) Time for Adventure
10:30 (4) Children's Hour
10:45 (11)Let's Go Places
10:55 (11)TV Chapel
11:45 (4) John Gnagy
The good news is that I should be able to quickly get back to that page which has the complete TV listings for the week of March 16th in case anybody is curious about what else was on. -
Thor-Delta — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 02:03 PM)
If you do post the schedule, please post it on my schedule thread:
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000157/nest/215114156
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NewtonFigg — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 03:34 PM)
The trouble is I can't print the page or save it. Maybe eventually I'll figure something out but, in the meantime, I'll have to handwrite what I see on the screen and type that as a post. If you have a particular date or time you're interested in, let me know, but transcribing a page of small print is a bit much.
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Thor-Delta — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 07:05 PM)
Fair enough. It takes me quite a while to type out a TV listing. If you can give me a link to the page, I could type it out myself.
American TV listings are the hardest because of the longer broadcasting hours (compared to UK and Australia during the 1950s) and the large amount of short-hand used by the newspapers.
UK listings are the easiestfew programming hours during the 1950s (and even 1960s), and fewer stations compared to a place like New York City.
EDIT: I will type out the listing myself. I have nothing better to do. I don't feel like playing video games at the moment, I have already watched a TV episode ("The Jane Froman Show", Bonnie Scotland episode).
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NewtonFigg — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 08:33 PM)
The page is available gratis to subscribers to the NY Times. You can buy individual articles if you're not a subscriber. So far, I've been able to print the page, but it's so tiny it's illegible and, if you magnify it, it gets too blurry to read. I'll try to further refine the process tomorrow.
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Thor-Delta — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 11:53 PM)
Unfortunately, long links create a lot of trouble on IMDb. IMDb adds spaces and such to them that muck them up. Getting them to work takes a lot of effort.
If you want to see the page, try here:
http://tinyurl.com/ng226wl
A different page on the site mentions that "Uncle Bob" Callan was the emcee of the series you are interested about:
http://tinyurl.com/phge3p2
See section "Talk of the Town on TV seen living up to its name", towards the bottom of the article.
From the sound of it, it seems that it was a local series. For example, an article in one other newspaper mentions that "Uncle Bob Callan, host of the WNBT television program, "Time For Adventure," will be on hand to greet youngsters at Playland":
http://tinyurl.com/mq7jsxw
See article "Steve Allen and Bride at Playland Monday"
However, a TV listing from 1951 mentions Bob Shepard as the "story teller" (see
http://tinyurl.com/qdlszaz
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stevendick-32107 — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 11:10 AM)
I actually remember Time for Adventure. I believe the host was Bob Callan. The show ran until 1955 or 1956. Each week there was a serial chapter and a drawing from a drum for a Schwinn Bicycle and two other prizes. The show also had a live kids studio audience.