I remember watching episodes of Diver Dan on the Ray Rayner show, here in Chicago back in the mid-to-late Sixties---just before heading off to school. LONG time ago...LOL. Thanks for the post----I don't ever recall seeing the very 1st episode. If memory serves, Diver Dan and Miss Minerva never actually met face-to-face during the entire series.
I grew up in the 50's in New Jersey and Diver Dan was a favorite on the Sandy Becker show. What a great memory! I always wanted to be the beautiful Minerva!!
MAN!! DOES THIS TAKE ME BACK!!!! I WATCHED THIS SHOW WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG. ALWAYS WONDERED HOW THE BARRACUDA WAS ABLE TO SMOKE A CIGARETTE UNDER WATER. LOVE THIS!!! MANY THANKS FOR THESE VIDS!!!👍❤️
@@rozziec.3197 👍 Sometimes I think to myself, "am I really remembering my past correctly"? And BAM!! Something like this comes along and proves that you WERE young once, and your memory is better than you thought. This was exactly as I remembered it from when I was like 5 or 6 years old! Makes me s little misty. Another obscure one I found was "Colonel Bleep". Bizarre little space cartoon from the same era. You might want to check it out. Cheers!
I've been doing some nostalgic research on things that I'm remembering from my childhood in the 50s and diver Dan was one of them oh much to my freaking delight was I able to find this on TH-cam and now I remember Baron barracuda and Minerva the mermaid take me back take me back
I'm at home with my grandsons watching Spongebob and I was reminded of this show. I was 11 when it first aired so I didnt watch very long. It was interesting for the time. Clutch Cargo, too.
I was just watching this video and didn’t realize while watching the ending credits that Diver Dan was written by Danny Bonaduces dad Joseph Bonaduce, how wild
This was about 2 or 3 years before my time BUT I have to say that from a PRODUCTION design viewpoint - you can tell that there were passionate anc CLEVER artistic people behind this . Truly. P.S. That one timid fish is the voice of Felix Flankin from the movie "Mad Monster Party" (1969).
Every episode was a tour de force for Allen Swift -- the incredible voice actor who did every single voice except Minerva's! His talent rivaled that of the great Mel Blanc. I don't believe it's possible to pay any voice actor a higher compliment.
Please don’t forget Dayton Allen, Lionel Wilson, Casey Kasem, Michael Rye, Bob McFadden, Ted Knight, Jane Webb and June Foray who were incredibly talented voice over actors too.
I remember this show when I was a kid in Ohio where I spent one school year, when I returned to the Rocky Mointain region they didn't have this show, I always remember the diver but never the name of the show.
Hi Steve, I was so intrigued by your question, that I wanted to do a blog post on it. childrensmediaarchive.blogspot.com/2020/05/brian-cartoons-and-diver-dan.html Still not sure if they made another kids show, but it is an interesting story.
Hello, I have a few more episodes of Diver Dan that I may upload in the near future. "The Magic Door" is a very scarce TV program even though it ran for 20 years. The Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago has at least one episode, but is their 25th anniversary special, and it is not in their online collection. Hopefully footage of this and other early Chicago kids shows will be found by the Museum of Classic Chicago Television, or the Chicago Film Archives.
Diver Dan's adventures were nearly 5 minutes each so they could be easily incorporated by local TV host into their programs. I don't know for sure if Ranger Hal (assuming you mean Ranger Hal of WTOP, Washington, D.C.) was one of them. There was no mention of "Diver Dan" at the kidshow.dcmemories.com in the Ranger Hal section, but that doesn't mean he didn't show them. Also, I haven't found anything on "Diver Dan" and Capt. Kangaroo; but you have me curious.
I think I remember sitting down in front of the TV, watching Uncle Al, Diver Dan, and Captain Kangaroo back to back. So maybe it was included with CK. This was in Cincinnati.
I was crushed when I found out this was staged. I thought it was the first reality show. I was a toddler back then with droopy poopy drawers, sorry bout the graphic details!
Diver Dan and then Commander Cody and from there, Marvel comics...the world has no idea the utopia it missed, the paradigm it fumbled and instead we got SNL and Sam Smith and Biden.
I was 7 years old and I went to the school library and got book on scub diving and that is all I wanted to do and the teacher yelled at me and said Do you school work Eddie Jewish bous dont go scuba diving
Haven't seen this in 60 years !
Same here. Used to be shown during Romper Room in St. Louis. That theme has been stuck in my head for 60 years going.
Me too.
OMG, I have vague memories of watching this as a very young child. Wish we could go back to those times
Loved this show as a child so happy I can view it again.
I was about 9 years old when I watched Diver Dan. Take me back to 1961. Love to see my dad, mom, and baby brother.😊😊😊
One of my favourite shows in my early '60s childhood viewing, here in Australia!
The ocean is a far more sinister place than we imagine.
I remember watching episodes of Diver Dan on the Ray Rayner show, here in Chicago back in the mid-to-late Sixties---just before heading off to school.
LONG time ago...LOL.
Thanks for the post----I don't ever recall seeing the very 1st episode.
If memory serves, Diver Dan and Miss Minerva never actually met face-to-face during the entire series.
LOVED this show! Thank you for a trip down Memory Lane!
I grew up in the 50's in New Jersey and Diver Dan was a favorite on the Sandy Becker show. What a great memory! I always wanted to be the beautiful Minerva!!
Minerva was hot, I had my first boyhood Woodie when Minerva appeared.
That is CLEARLY Sandy (a la Mister wizard on TOOTER TURTLE to Swift's TOOTER TURTLE on KING AND ODIE!) as that German fish!)
@@frankperry1111 I lvoe Minerva Used to see this!
i was very small when this show came on. I remember it clearly.
Be 64 soon ..rite now im back in projects watchin sat tv ...time is fleeting
MAN!! DOES THIS TAKE ME BACK!!!!
I WATCHED THIS SHOW WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG.
ALWAYS WONDERED HOW THE BARRACUDA WAS ABLE TO SMOKE A CIGARETTE UNDER WATER.
LOVE THIS!!!
MANY THANKS FOR THESE VIDS!!!👍❤️
Me too 🤣🤣🤣
@@rozziec.3197 👍 Sometimes I think to myself, "am I really remembering my past correctly"? And BAM!! Something like this comes along and proves that you WERE young once, and your memory is better than you thought. This was exactly as I remembered it from when I was like 5 or 6 years old!
Makes me s little misty.
Another obscure one I found was "Colonel Bleep".
Bizarre little space cartoon from the same era. You might want to check it out.
Cheers!
I've been doing some nostalgic research on things that I'm remembering from my childhood in the 50s and diver Dan was one of them oh much to my freaking delight was I able to find this on TH-cam and now I remember Baron barracuda and Minerva the mermaid take me back take me back
i can remember this show as a little boy
Me too in the 60's...along with Gumby/ davey and goliath..magic scissors..damn.those were the honest days in NYC...😊
I'm at home with my grandsons watching Spongebob and I was reminded of this show. I was 11 when it first aired so I didnt watch very long. It was interesting for the time. Clutch Cargo, too.
Diver Dan is better than SpongeBob any day! Eat your heart out, SpongeBob!
I was eight years old when the show came on the air
These were the best-when we went to the beach we were always "looking for Diver Dan."
Right?? Loved this show!
Thanks for uploading this. Memories of what was are so much better (if you pay attention) than now.
In Chicago this was part of the Ray Rayner & Friends show Mon-Friday mornings.
I Remember this one watching it as a little kid..
I was just watching this video and didn’t realize while watching the ending credits that Diver Dan was written by Danny Bonaduces dad Joseph Bonaduce, how wild
Wow! Was Joseph a wise-cracking ginger?
Diver Dad it’s me Anna. I love diver Dad I love how you help me swim and it’s Honor.❤❤❤❤❤
This was on channel 55. I used to watch Diver Dan everyday after school.
Channel 55? I am curious about what station letters or region you watched "Diver Dan" on.
This show shaped my love for the ocean..It required imagination.
This was about 2 or 3 years before my time BUT I have to say that from a PRODUCTION design viewpoint - you can tell that there were passionate anc CLEVER artistic people behind this . Truly. P.S. That one timid fish is the voice of Felix Flankin from the movie "Mad Monster Party" (1969).
WTF??!!! I grew up watching this in the 60s, but forgot all about it.
Every episode was a tour de force for Allen Swift -- the incredible voice actor who did every single voice except Minerva's! His talent rivaled that of the great Mel Blanc. I don't believe it's possible to pay any voice actor a higher compliment.
And Paul Frees as well.
@@kurttoy5035 wow three voice actors I'm impressed
Please don’t forget Dayton Allen, Lionel Wilson, Casey Kasem, Michael Rye, Bob McFadden, Ted Knight, Jane Webb and June Foray who were incredibly talented voice over actors too.
@@Kimberley-Z And Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Arnold Stang, Daws Butler, etc.
You know Miss Minerva got interested when the fish said Dan had a long snake.
I have not seen this in years,
Then, just to get us ready for real life, Combat!
Diver Dan’s tombstone appeared in an episode of Spongebob Squarepants, cameo style.
From Clutch Cargo to Diver Dan (Garfield Goose and Friends Only)
TAKE A SHOT WITH YOUR EYES DOWN, GAZE INTO THE WATER, DIVER DAN, DAN, DANNNNNN
I remember this.
Me,too. Sandy Becker as the German fish and Allen Swift as all of the other fish.,.,.
I remember this show when I was a kid in Ohio where I spent one school year, when I returned to the Rocky Mointain region they didn't have this show, I always remember the diver but never the name of the show.
Great post Thanks !
The also late Allan Swift also narrates!
As Seen on Ray Rayner and His Friends
I wonder what happened to BRIAN CARTOONS, seemed they ONLY existed for that one show.Used to watch in 60s to early 70s.
Hi Steve, I was so intrigued by your question, that I wanted to do a blog post on it. childrensmediaarchive.blogspot.com/2020/05/brian-cartoons-and-diver-dan.html Still not sure if they made another kids show, but it is an interesting story.
@@ChildrensMediaArchive16 thanks jmust read ans posted!
Hi can you find anymore Diver Dan? Or
The Magic Door? It was played on wgn in Chicago in the very early 60.s. 📺 ??
M. Elgin Illinois.
Hello, I have a few more episodes of Diver Dan that I may upload in the near future. "The Magic Door" is a very scarce TV program even though it ran for 20 years. The Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago has at least one episode, but is their 25th anniversary special, and it is not in their online collection. Hopefully footage of this and other early Chicago kids shows will be found by the Museum of Classic Chicago Television, or the Chicago Film Archives.
AROOM ZOOM ZOOM AROOM ZOOM ZOOM COME THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR WITH ME
As Seen on Garfield Goose and Friends
How did Triggers cigarette stay lit under water lol
Wasn't this shown with Capt Kangaroo, or Ranger Hal?
Diver Dan's adventures were nearly 5 minutes each so they could be easily incorporated by local TV host into their programs. I don't know for sure if Ranger Hal (assuming you mean Ranger Hal of WTOP, Washington, D.C.) was one of them. There was no mention of "Diver Dan" at the kidshow.dcmemories.com in the Ranger Hal section, but that doesn't mean he didn't show them. Also, I haven't found anything on "Diver Dan" and Capt. Kangaroo; but you have me curious.
In So Cal, it was on Sheriff John’s Lunch Brigade. That show along with Hobo Kelly were the best!
There was also Bill Gormley, Capt Fudd, Romper Room.
After morning kinder garten I remember marvel super heros, roger ramjet
I think I remember sitting down in front of the TV, watching Uncle Al, Diver Dan, and Captain Kangaroo back to back. So maybe it was included with CK. This was in Cincinnati.
I was crushed when I found out this was staged. I thought it was the first reality show. I was a toddler back then with droopy poopy drawers, sorry bout the graphic details!
My little brother cried when he found out that clowns were just men in makeup. He thought they were born that way.
Diver Dan and then Commander Cody and from there, Marvel comics...the world has no idea the utopia it missed, the paradigm it fumbled and instead we got SNL and Sam Smith and Biden.
Diver Dan sounds exactly like Professor Membrane
It’s me do you know me? I am the girl on and if you know me, I would love to see you because my name is Arnold.Honor❤❤❤❤
I was 7 years old and I went to the school library and got book on scub diving and that is all I wanted to do and the teacher yelled at me and said Do you school work Eddie Jewish bous dont go scuba diving
Typical 50s-60s stock music.//.
It’s me do you know me? I am the girl on and if you know me, I would love to see you because my name is Arnold.Honor❤❤❤❤