This started out as a conversation with friend Tim in which I was trying to establish his experiences relative to my own. The discourse descended into 'Do you remember...' and one of the objects in question was Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
The resulting Google turned up a very delightful webby and I highly recommend streaming the Mikado bit.
There was a glimmer of a neuron firing in my childhood viewing which told me those characters were actually speaking of matters beyond my comprehension. It seems that in at least this one instance those twinges of perception were right.
While many remember Kukla, Fran and Ollie as hosts of the CBS Children's Film Festival, their original series (1947 - 57), was actually watched by more adults than children. This first show counted Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Tallulah Bankhead and Adlai Stevenson among its many adult fans, and had sponsors like Life magazine and Ford Motor Co., who surely weren't trying to reach children. How did this happen? Click here to find out!
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