Captain Kangaroo Passes Away

[digitalghost]

Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained generations of youngsters as TV's walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo and became an outspoken advocate of less violence and more intelligence on children's television, died Friday at 76.

Link [story.news.yahoo.com]

[lawman]

I was 4 when he first came on. Almost makes me want to cry.

lawman

[brucec]

Yeah, Captain Kangaroo and Mr Rogers in one year. Sad!

[pendanticist]

When I was a child, and living with my Grandmother for the summer, I used to watch the Captain Kangaroo Show every morning.

(I especially loved Mr. Moose as well as "Tom Terrific and Manfred the Mighty Wonder Dog".)

Good-bye old friend....

[AAnnAArchy]

I honestly thought Captain Kangaroo had already passed away. I'm also really surprised that he was so young. I thought for sure that when I was a kid, he was already in his 70's.

After Mr. Rogers going too, please don't anyone tell me that anything happened to Hobo Kelly (http://latvlegends.com/HoboKelly/hobokelly.htm) - as a kid, I loved her. Until just today, I couldn't figure out why most of my online friends had never heard of her, but I now realize that her show was just in Los Angeles.

[hannamyluv]

I think the fellow who played Mr. Green Jeans went a year or two ago.

All the childhood heros are leaving us. I wonder sometimes if my kids will ever lament the passing of one of theirs. As far as I know, cartoons don't really die. Well, I suppose they do have TeleTubbies and Barney. *cringe*