The Kids Korral with Don Marvin (guest: George Reeves) Pay attention, kids! We're selling product up here!   Clark Kent in Tulsa.

(from Guestbook 224) Darren Marvin said:

I recently saw this web site. Noticed my father's picture on the Other kiddie shows area. I have that same picture as well as others with George Reeves. My mother was LoRene Washburn Marvin, she was Miss Oklahoma 1954, I believe.

She went to school at Tulsa U with John Chick, always talked about him, being in school plays and such. My parents met at Channel Six in the fifties, my father told me about his kids show, being announcer, salesman, whatever, meeting my mom at Channel Six.

My mother's father was Sheldon Washburn, started first Dr. Pepper bottling plant in Tulsa, north of downtown.

Thank you for paying respect to my father, also great web site.

Thanks, Darren, and it's our pleasure. Frank Morrow mentioned your mom in GB 23.

(from Guestbook 151) Dave Harmon said:

Just reading the "Other kiddie shows" page and saw the bit where George Reeves visited the Kids Korral show.

Several years ago, I remembered Reeves visiting Barnard Elementary school and the memory was so hazy that I thought it might not have happened at all. I called a Tulsa friend who was there at the time and he remembered Reeves' visit to Barnard.

I don't know but I'll bet that his visit to the schools and the show was during the same trip to Tulsa. This must have been about '51 or '52. Not sure of the year.

Anyone else remember seeing Reeves? If so, what year was that?

George Reeves' "Superman" is the first show I can remember watching (although my parents tell me I liked "Pinky Lee".) My mom made a Superman cape for me from a bed sheet, with a red "S" sewn on. I had to be cajoled into taking it off to be washed.

(from GroupBlog 218) The webmaster said:

Hey kids! Watch several episodes of George Reeves' "The Adventures of Superman" online for free at Superman TV on AOL Television. Recommended episode: "Panic in the Sky".

Jack Larson and Noel Neill, this series' Jimmy and Lois, have cameo roles in the current "Superman Returns", now showing at the Admiral Twin Drive-In.

KOTV's "The Don Scott Show"

Is "Don Scott" Foreman Scotty of later OKC fame?	Maybe so... (courtesy of Kathy Shaw)

Steve Powell ("Don Scott" and "Foreman Scotty")
(courtesy of Roland Austin)

(via email, 7/10/2004) Bruce said:

Regarding the photos posted of Don Scott and whether that was Foreman Scotty in a later incarnation, I think it must have been him.

I clearly remember one time on the Foreman Scotty show when he was going around chatting with a few kids in the audience at random as he always did. A boy piped up, "I know your real name!" Scotty put the mike over and said, "What's that?" The boy answered, "Don Scott!" I don't remember Scotty's exact reply but I recall that it was some kind of affirmative, which is why the memory stuck.

If Don Scott were also a stage name, however, I'm not sure if Scotty would have taken the time to explain that since he always moved around from kid to kid in a big rush and almost never traded more than one or two remarks.

7/8/2006: I just discovered Foreman Scotty's Kids, a blog by Lisa Powell, Steve's daughter.

Here is a letter from Foreman Scotty at the Circle 4 Ranch, courtesy of Kathy Shaw.

7/14/2007: Lisa Powell says, "Of note: The sketches that Kathy sent in, and on
the Wranglers Club promo, were done by my dad!"

See and read about a token from the Circle 4 Mystery Mine.

(from Guestbook 95) Greg Leslie and his brother Lance with
Foreman Scotty (Steve Powell).

Boyce Lancaster, Sr. as "Circus Jim" at the Tulsa State Fair, 1959. Bozo can be seen several elephants back. Boyce, Sr. attached a note: "Believe it or not, I rode that elephant 6 miles! I did a lot of standing up after that." (courtesy of Boyce Lancaster Jr. and Sr.)

The Bozo Show (with Doug Montgomery as Bozo the Clown), featuring the limited animation sensation, "Clutch Cargo".

Bozo's storylines had continuity over the breaks. He might be exploring a haunted house when a hand would reach out from behind a door, just before a commercial or cartoon, sending shudders through kiddie viewers. 

Clutch Cargo (IMDb) was given a big build-up before he arrived in Tulsa on our local version of the Bozo Show. "Watch for Clutch Cargo", "Clutch Cargo is coming"...we didn't know who or what they were talking about.

Of course, faithful Bozo fans would watch whatever was put on the screen, and Clutch was no exception. Clutch Cargo proved to be an adventurous writer and pilot, who invariably got into hot water with his (ward?) Spinner, his dog Paddlefoot, and their pal, Swampy (voiced by Hal Smith, later to become "Otis", the Mayberry town drunk).

The most notable thing about Clutch Cargo was the Synchro-Vox™ animation system it employed. The animation was the simplest possible, except for the lips, which were eerily life-like. In fact, they were real human lips, with lipstick added to match the cartoon colors. Conan O'Brien is the most notable employer of this method today.

As a charter member of Clutch's club, I possessed a secret decoder. Messages given at the end of the show were clues to the plot of upcoming shows (5 per storyline). Decoded, they were almost as baffling; the thrill came from the decoding process itself.

The theme and background music were rendered by a spare flute and bongos. The flutist was Paul Horn, then a noted jazz musician, who later recorded atmospheric meditation albums inside the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid (here's a free MP3 track from the former at Amazon.com). No wonder the music was so good!

If you would like to watch a video clip of Clutch in "action", check out this Toon Tracker page.

My club membership kit included this certificate, a membership card and a secret decoder.

Read about The Lone Ranger's visit to the Tulsa State Fair in the 80s from readers Lowell Burch and Jim Back!