I remember Andy Williams singing with a bear in a skit 'andy and the Bear' which I believe came from Andy Williams own show or specials.
I vaguely remember Tom Terrific, so we are at late sixties, early seventies.
Anyone recall an older variation character like Tom Terrific that the Captain used to talk to? An animated character on a screen and he was like a head with two little arms and two little legs and a little tuft of hair.
when he would get startled that hair would fly up in the air and do a flip or something. Kind of a Barney Rubble type character.
My sister said it was Dennis, but we used to see this guy (may have been Dennis) and he was in front of a black background and he would do mirror tricks and all while music played.
One bit had him in four images, screen split into four quarters and in each square, Dennis was hilighted in a different shade; one red, one green, one blue, one yellow.
And in each square he had a different musical instrument, so of course to a kid, this made these four different fellows.
He wore a striped shirt, suspenders and like a clown hat, and his face was apparently painted white, so that was why I never recognized it as Dennis.
DECADES later, I am listening to an obscure, easy listening station and lo and behold, that tune they 'played' from the skit with the four clowns came on the radio. No idea what it was called, I just sat and listened.
Oh, I loved my captain, and that I had to miss him and go spend the day with some shrewish old cow and recite her alphabet for her, still boggles my mind to this day.
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