Yow! Gotta love the Internet for this sort of thing. To think that we can see this show from more than 60 years ago...and bring back childhood memories is incredible. Thank you for sharing it!
Think God I was child when this was on TV..We did not own a TV.. I would go next door to watch at my best friend house and watch. And after all of these years he's still my best friend and next door neighbor....
Stubby Kaye was the perfect host! He was a pro and he could sing too...a real pro. As a kid I would watch this show on Saturday Mornings then get ready to go bowling in the VFW Boys league a few blocks away. What a great childhood memory! I would not trade it for the world!
Charlie said Stubby Kaye weighed 260 pounds on his game of uh, "Guess Weight"? Okay well that was a hurtful thing to say. Why didn't he just say he didn't know and forfeit his money 💰 that round?
This is so awesome! I watched it every week! Such great memories. The theme song was always in the back of my mind. The wonders of You Tube! Only 57 years later!
I wonder.. uh, how did this man start out as a game show host sir? Do you remember if he worked at any carnivals? Or a circus, before he was the host of Shenanigans? His attire for the show reminds me of a ride operator at a carnival.
I was 7 when this show aired the Saturday line up in 1964 Shenanigans soupy sales super car and then 2yrs later came Batman the 60's was a great time to be a kid I'm 65 now and the world doesn't make sense anymore.
I was 4 when this was on. I loved it. I could remember the theme song tune but not the words, except for the word "Shenanigans". I had no memory of the great Stubby Kaye being the host! What a fun time to relive this memory... twice this week already!
I was 8 and 9 years old at the time; the target audience. I loved the show and I bet my parents hated it--although they hid that fact. I haven't seen this since it aired in 1964-65. Thanks for the unexpected flashback!
Heatter-Quigley's slightly revised version of their life-sized "VIDEO VILLAGE" TV board game (CBS, 1960-'62)- especially "VIDEO VILLAGE JUNIOR EDITION", seen on CBS' 1961-'62 Sarurday morning schedule {with Monty Hall as host, and Kenny Williams as "Kenny the Cop"}. This was essentially an "extended commercial" for sponsor Milton Bradley's board games. Only two kinescopes of the series are known to exist; this is the *other* one.
So fun seeing this again! It was as enjoyable as I remembered as a kid. The corresponding board game for the show was also a lot of fun! The little girl contestant here was so show business savvy she even knew to fake laugh at Stubby’s cornball jokes!
This sure looks like it was done live in real time. Anybody know for sure? My old buddy Bob McAllister did a show that also went from a local NYC show to national and it was all done live. The local version went on for FOUR HOURS for a while! I didn't become friends with Bobby until much later, so I never saw the show which was called "Wonderama," but he had some great stories about it. In this show, Stubby must have worked seriously hard. It's only a half-hour, but imagine keeping that personality and enthusiasm going non-stop (especially if it WAS, in fact, shot live) with so much ad-libbing. What a pro! I wish I had known him. He almost stole the show in some movies he did.
@@maryannpastorino8586 I only ran across Sonny once, and it wasn't much of a conversation. Bobby and I were pals, though. Who knows HOW many times I told him that it was time to quit smoking. At least he THOUGHT about it every time. I was as much angry as sad when it finally took him down.
Stubby was great with the kids too, making each one feel good about their chances and never embarrassing them or causing them to be uncomfortable like Bozo sometimes unintentionally would.
I remember and enjoyed watching the show. Milton Bradley made all kinds of great board games that millions of people play. Who doesn't own some right now?
This was a reworked children's version of "Video Village", from the same producers (Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley). I believe it ran for two seasons (1964 until 1966); I think the second season was in color.
"Shenanigans"was first seen as a local kids tv game show on WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC back in the early 1950's..Bob Quigley(who would co-produced the ABC TV Network version of the series with Merrill Heater)was the series first mc.
Remember the theme song, but not the show itself. We had Time Bomb, and for such a simple concept, had a blast (tee hee) with it, played it almost every day.
Man that theme is catchy. Co-written by Barry De Vorzon (S.W.A.T., Nadia's Theme from The Young and the Restless, and Simon & Simon). Credited as Barry Devorshon.
Kenny The Cop was played by Kenny Williams, who was the off camera announcer of Heatter-Quigley game shows from the early 1960's through the early 1980's.
Nobody understood kids and interacted with them better than Stubby Kaye, except maybe Danny Kaye. Must be the last name! I never missed this show on Saturday mornings!
I don't think I ever saw this when originally broadcast, but then it wasn't aimed at 13-year olds. Yes, it's Video Village (hosted by Monty Hall and Jack Narz) for kids, pretty much. I enjoyed Stubby Kaye in _Guys and Dolls_ and on _Stump the Stars_ on TV. He does a great job here.
I have this show on my dvds sets of the game shows from the 1950s and the 1960s. Mine was in color from 1964. It had Stubby Kaye as the host. It was a lot of fun to watch. Why isn't this episode in color?
A better kid-vid host by far than Monty Hall (Video Village Jr). These kids were either actors on the side or really well trained before the show in portraying happy enthusiasm. The 'auction' stunt was also used in the adult Video Village, and was the basis of Monty Hall's subsequent career.
I love it. Even though it was just a glorified ad for Milton Bradley board games, and nothing but base consumerism that they grew the baby boomers for (the older I get the more I see how everything post WWII had to do with a huge social experiment, mostly on Americans. But it was an awful lot of fun. The bad part came when the Boomers became hippies and then got guided by Dr Timothy Leary and the "tune in, turn on, drop out" hallucinogenic generation and we got controlled to be socialist consumers, for some weird reason, by people like already very influential types, like Soros. No joke.
I remember this show I am 63 now which means I was quite young! Boy does time fly!
Yow! Gotta love the Internet for this sort of thing. To think that we can see this show from more than 60 years ago...and bring back childhood memories is incredible. Thank you for sharing it!
Think God I was child when this was on TV..We did not own a TV.. I would go next door to watch at my best friend house and watch. And after all of these years he's still my best friend and next door neighbor....
Stubby Kaye was the perfect host! He was a pro and he could sing too...a real pro. As a kid I would watch this show on Saturday Mornings then get ready to go bowling in the VFW Boys league a few blocks away. What a great childhood memory! I would not trade it for the world!
He was great as Nicely Nicely Johnson in "Guys and Dolls"
That's so cool 😎. I am too young to have known this show but it is very funny how they advertise all of Milton Bradley's older games in it, right?
Charlie said Stubby Kaye weighed 260 pounds on his game of uh, "Guess Weight"? Okay well that was a hurtful thing to say. Why didn't he just say he didn't know and forfeit his money 💰 that round?
I'm grateful to whoever was involved in preserving these. SO MANY kids shows have no surviving examples today. Just lost to time.
This is so awesome! I watched it every week! Such great memories. The theme song was always in the back of my mind. The wonders of You Tube! Only 57 years later!
One of my favorite Saturday morning shows! Great to see it again!
Oh my gosh yes!
I wonder.. uh, how did this man start out as a game show host sir? Do you remember if he worked at any carnivals? Or a circus, before he was the host of Shenanigans? His attire for the show reminds me of a ride operator at a carnival.
I was 10 when this show aired I watched it every Saturday morning wishing that I could get on Shenanigans. Thanks for the memory.
Ditto!! Great memories
I was 7 when this show aired the Saturday line up in 1964 Shenanigans soupy sales super car and then 2yrs later came Batman the 60's was a great time to be a kid I'm 65 now and the world doesn't make sense anymore.
If you were 7 in 1964, then you would be 66 or 67 now depending on what month and day you were born. You would not be 65 now. The math doesn't add up.
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If it's one Saturday Morning show I fondly remember as a child, it was this!
I was such a fan of this show when I was 5.
I never missed it when I was 5.
Loved the show as a kid. Started my life long love of game shows. Picked up the board game today in an antique store.
Loved this show and also owned the boardgame when I was a kid.
Still have the game.
The board game was a lot of fun!
Hadn't heard that earworm for almost sixty years, and kind of missed it. Now I'm good for another sixty!
I was 4 when this was on. I loved it. I could remember the theme song tune but not the words, except for the word "Shenanigans". I had no memory of the great Stubby Kaye being the host! What a fun time to relive this memory... twice this week already!
Loved this show.
Remember watching with my sisters.
Got the home game for Christmas.
Show was ahead of its time.
Omg...this was my favorite show when I was a kid...I ever missed a show✔
I was 12 years old and I loved watching this show and was so jealous of the kids who got to participate!
I was ten years old when this aired. I still remember the words to the theme song. Thanks for the memories! 😢
Loved this show and could never think of the name of it, so glad I found this! Weird hearing them describe a game for boys and one for girls!😂
Loved this show, and the board game. Thanks for posting!
Amazing how Stubby could keep this whole thing going! I'd be confused as hell!!! LOL
I loved this show! A friend of mine had the board game, and we played all the time.
Ah, the innocent days of being a kid in the sixties. I miss them.
Me too.
And how!
I was 8 and 9 years old at the time; the target audience. I loved the show and I bet my parents hated it--although they hid that fact. I haven't seen this since it aired in 1964-65. Thanks for the unexpected flashback!
This show is probably best remembered for host Stubby Kaye's uttering of "Ready, Presser, Press!" at the beginning if every turn.
Stubby was sure funny. The Perfect host!
Marvin Acme in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".
So awesome. Thank you for posting. Transcendent.
Another new episode of Shenanigans! Thanks for posting.
I loved this show! My best friend had the game and we played all the time! Thank you for posting this!
I LOVED the show as a kid!!! My sister got the board game eventually:)
Heatter-Quigley's slightly revised version of their life-sized "VIDEO VILLAGE" TV board game (CBS, 1960-'62)- especially "VIDEO VILLAGE JUNIOR EDITION", seen on CBS' 1961-'62 Sarurday morning schedule {with Monty Hall as host, and Kenny Williams as "Kenny the Cop"}. This was essentially an "extended commercial" for sponsor Milton Bradley's board games. Only two kinescopes of the series are known to exist; this is the *other* one.
You're welcome! 😃
I watched "SHENANIGANS", too. It was entertaining enough- even without the plugs for the Milton Bradley board games.
Kenny "the Cop" Williams went on to be the announcer for the original version of "The Hollywood Squares".
Another great Heatter-Quigley production!
Yes, Kenny was HQ’s announcer for all their games for about 20 years.
Loved watching it growing up. My younger granddaughters love playing the home version which I still have after all these years.
This is probably the best thing that existed in the 1960s.
I had the Shenanigans board game.
I watched this show when it was on TV.
I don't know who was having more fun...the kids or Stubby Kaye and Kenny Williams😊
So fun seeing this again! It was as enjoyable as I remembered as a kid. The corresponding board game for the show was also a lot of fun! The little girl contestant here was so show business savvy she even knew to fake laugh at Stubby’s cornball jokes!
Remember, my sister had the game and my brothers and I playing it. And watching the show.
This sure looks like it was done live in real time. Anybody know for sure? My old buddy Bob McAllister did a show that also went from a local NYC show to national and it was all done live. The local version went on for FOUR HOURS for a while! I didn't become friends with Bobby until much later, so I never saw the show which was called "Wonderama," but he had some great stories about it. In this show, Stubby must have worked seriously hard. It's only a half-hour, but imagine keeping that personality and enthusiasm going non-stop (especially if it WAS, in fact, shot live) with so much ad-libbing. What a pro! I wish I had known him. He almost stole the show in some movies he did.
Yes, it was Wonderama. First it was hosted by Sonny Fox and then later Bob McAllister.
@@maryannpastorino8586 I only ran across Sonny once, and it wasn't much of a conversation. Bobby and I were pals, though. Who knows HOW many times I told him that it was time to quit smoking. At least he THOUGHT about it every time. I was as much angry as sad when it finally took him down.
Same thing with Rod Serling , dead at 50. @@mjemigh3304
Stubby was great with the kids too, making each one feel good about their chances and never embarrassing them or causing them to be uncomfortable like Bozo sometimes unintentionally would.
I remember and enjoyed watching the show. Milton Bradley made all kinds of great board games that millions of people play. Who doesn't own some right now?
Memories of going to visit me grandparents in S. Boston watching this.
A funny game show for kids. Decades before Nickelodeon got into game shows. 👦👧
Thank you very much for posting this video!! I love it!! 😀
Good old local TV shows. Love the teenager rock 'n roll shows with miming bands
This was a reworked children's version of "Video Village", from the same producers (Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley).
I believe it ran for two seasons (1964 until 1966); I think the second season was in color.
"Shenanigans"was first seen as a local kids tv game show on WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC back in the early 1950's..Bob Quigley(who would co-produced the ABC TV Network version of the series with Merrill Heater)was the series first mc.
Am I the only one that thinks this show needs a remake
That's true, but it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it was in the 1960s.
I was only 7 years old in 1964, but we didn't get this show on our tv.
I remember this show. In fact, I got the board game version for Christmas when I was a kid.
I remember watching this when I was a lass. I loved it!
IM 60 AND I never ever heard of this its crazy to think the kids in this are like 70 now lol
Remember the theme song, but not the show itself. We had Time Bomb, and for such a simple concept, had a blast (tee hee) with it, played it almost every day.
this is the timeline that i wish was 2021.
nice job showing this.
Kenny Williams great announcer
Man that theme is catchy. Co-written by Barry De Vorzon (S.W.A.T., Nadia's Theme from The Young and the Restless, and Simon & Simon). Credited as Barry Devorshon.
I loved this show as a kid.
Loved this show!
Kenny The Cop was played by Kenny Williams, who was the off camera announcer of Heatter-Quigley game shows from the early 1960's through the early 1980's.
i'm 65 and remember this show and Mr Wishbone and hobo Kelly
Nobody understood kids and interacted with them better than Stubby Kaye, except maybe Danny Kaye. Must be the last name! I never missed this show on Saturday mornings!
And Stubby never had children.
I remember this show
I don't think I ever saw this when originally broadcast, but then it wasn't aimed at 13-year olds. Yes, it's Video Village (hosted by Monty Hall and Jack Narz) for kids, pretty much. I enjoyed Stubby Kaye in _Guys and Dolls_ and on _Stump the Stars_ on TV. He does a great job here.
I have this show on my dvds sets of the game shows from the 1950s and the 1960s. Mine was in color from 1964. It had Stubby Kaye as the host. It was a lot of fun to watch. Why isn't this episode in color?
Program-length commercial - the first infomercial? It worked on me - I had the box game!
Time Bomb. Try to market that game today.
Stubby Kaye looks more like a carnival or a circus barker than a mayor.
I never saw this show as a kid..where was I?...he reminds me of Jackie Gleason
Jonathan Winters
Wow...where did the time go...
* Kiddy version of Video Village! ☺
Passed away from lung cancer
Shenanigans was a child’s version of the Adult game showvideo village.
His wife Angela is still alive and living next door to me in Formby
What a fun game! Those are great prizes. Wonder what the kids ended up trading for?
September 26, 1964 -
December 18, 1965
Oh yeah on saturdays , along with the Beatles cartoons , some across the block even had the game . And then it was gone ! Most of the kids went HUH?
Stubby kaye is a great host
A better kid-vid host by far than Monty Hall (Video Village Jr). These kids were either actors on the side or really well trained before the show in portraying happy enthusiasm. The 'auction' stunt was also used in the adult Video Village, and was the basis of Monty Hall's subsequent career.
Passed away from lung cancer in 1997
I watched this silly show when I was a kid. 😅
Before my time but a lot of fun. I'll bet they sold a lot of Milton Bradley games. I Time Bomb was the only game I recognized.
loved the shanninaghoul
Is this is the 1st ever episode of Shenanigans?
Was this ever in color?
Was it ever in color? I seem to remember color
ABC hadn't gone to color shows in 1965....when Price is Right moved from NBC to ABC it reverted to B &W after being in color on NBC.
ya know when you wipe out the enemy you win the game
Those kids are on Social security now!
Soooo?
@@kathieh536 Sooooo...time marches on!
Kookie Chicks i resemble that game!
Sounds like a baby music
He played Marvin acme and roger rabbit gets framed for his murder
Imagine if this show were to get a modern reboot.... We'd need a real joker to be the host... someone like maybe Jim Carrey.
NEED THE RULES
nubuddy mentinz baloun and sword a damacleez haz about swifty...blme it on syryain cap petz chaise
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I love it. Even though it was just a glorified ad for Milton Bradley board games, and nothing but base consumerism that they grew the baby boomers for (the older I get the more I see how everything post WWII had to do with a huge social experiment, mostly on Americans. But it was an awful lot of fun. The bad part came when the Boomers became hippies and then got guided by Dr Timothy Leary and the "tune in, turn on, drop out" hallucinogenic generation and we got controlled to be socialist consumers, for some weird reason, by people like already very influential types, like Soros. No joke.
BRING IT BACK, ALREADY!! HIRE THE GREAT ZUCCHINI AS HOST.
Onseys
I watched this. 😅
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