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Chuck Jones the Magic Man hosted his own magic castle on KCOP channel 13 from 1963 to 1965. Featuring Felix the Cat cartoons, Chuck would attempt to get in at least three magic tricks a day for each show. They were always little story tricks for the kids because he felt it was easier for kid's to get into it that way. But in between the tricks and cartoons, there was a lot of silliness with the crew.

Mickey's Fun Park aired on KCOP-channel 13 from 1966 to 1969. Mickey Mudturtle and his sister were handled expertly by Richard Clayton who before coming to LA had a show in the Fort Worth, Texas area called Mickey and Amanda.

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Anyone remember Sleepy Joe?

Sleepy Joe was developed by Jimmy Scribner for the Mutual Radio Network in 1948, and in September a televised version debuted at 6:30-6:45pm, every day but Sunday and Wednesday on KTSL in Los Angeles. It was the pioneer local children's show on the Don Lee station, moving to KECA one year later, he continued the series at 6:45-7:00 pm Saturday and Sunday until December of 1949, when it was kinescoped for the network in October. In 1951, scribner syndicated a 15 minute film version of Sleepy Joe with puppets dramatizing his stories, supplying all the voices for the characters.

Scribner, a master of Afro-American dialect and a radio veteran was born in Norfolk, Virginia. After working in various radio stations in the east and mid-west, in 1945 he moved to Los Angeles to be on KHJ. Literally a one-man show, the versatile actor played an entire community of blacks in Chicazola, "way down south", eventually playing twenty-two different parts. "Uncle Remus" storytelling was just enjoying a resurgence due to Disney's success with "Song of the South".

Sleepy Joe premiered October 3, 1949. The last program aired October 28 1949.

This show was produced by Jimmy Scribner, who also acted in blackface as a rural spinner of yarns who also tended his corn patch and assorted small animals, including a dog, two ducks and a pair of de-skunked civets (!) Located supposedly in the deep south, he would spin his tales to a young girl named Gayle, played by Scribner's daughter Gayle Scribner. Telling tales, fables and legends about animals, he would sometimes ad-lib the entire story. Aimed at youngsters four to fourteen, Scribner cleverly interwove little maxims in the yarns, such as how brains can beat brawn.