Here are some wonderful clips posted by the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. I believe these date to 1974 or 75. Bob Keeshan, known to kids everywhere as Captain Kangaroo, was in the Twin Cities, probably on a promotional tour. He spent some time at the CBS affiliate, WCCO and filmed some promos for the morning […]
Here’s a look at a 1967 postcard from WCCO, signed on the back by Clancy and Willie. It’s signed “to Jennifer.”
Back in 2000, Tony Ducklow hosted his own kid’s show in Minneapolis called Captain McCool and Friends. The show was broadcast on several community access channels in the Twin Cities. Tony grew up watching Casey Jones and Clancy and Willie, and the Captain McCool show was an homage to those earlier programs. In 2001, Allan […]
Our friends over at TCMediaNow.com have a regular podcast called Flashback. The most recent podcast features WCCO’s Allan Lotsberg and Bud Kraehling. Alan talks about the early days of the Clancy and Willie show as well as creating Vivian Vulture on the program. Bud talks about working with Dave Moore and preparing the weather […]
John Gallos is best known to viewers as Clancy the Cop on the long running Clancy and Willie show on WCCO television. His career spanned more than 40 years at WCCO and included news, public affairs, and religious programming, in addition to children’s shows. Gallos was born in 1923 and grew up in Minneapolis. He graduated […]
In 1964, WCCO-TV issued a seven-inch record that featured Axel’s famous version of “The Night Before Christmas” on one side, and “Close Call for Santa” starring Clancy the Cop and Willie Ketchem on the other. Both sides were produced by Allan Lotsberg (Willie Ketchem), who also wrote the Clancy & Willie story. Clellan Card […]
I was visiting the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in St. Louis Park, MN today and happened to run into Allan Lotsberg, better known to all of us as Willie Ketchem from Clancy and Willie.
Here’s a clip from the last week of the Clancy and Willie show. I’m not sure who posted this, but it’s a great clip!
This card is from c. 1959 This card dates to 1961 The back side of the 1961 card
In August 1959, John Gallos premiered as a new character: Clancy the Cop. This first version of Clancy is now often referred to as Clancy the Keystone Cop, to distinguish him from the later better-known Clancy. Gallos borrowed some of the vocal mannerisms of Bob Hope’s foil Jerry Colonna for this character (“Aahhh, yes!”). This […]