Axel and His Dog premiere, August 5, 1954 The Early Years The experimental 1954 color broadcast
Axel and his Dog photo album
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Axel and His Dog premiere, August 5, 1954
This is a photograph of the premiere episode of Axel and His Dog. Don Stolz, who played Axel’s dog, Towser, is in the left foreground wearing the “paw” that was the only part of the mutt that viewers ever saw. Clellan Card as Axel appears to be speaking to the audience at home, as he […]
Axel and his Dog
Watercolor illustration copyright by Marc Johnson. (Pssst! Click on the picture to see a whole bunch of Axel photos.) On Thursday August 5, 1954, Axel and His Dog starring Clellan Card premiered on WCCO-TV (Channel 4) in Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota. Axel, a wacky Scandinavian, had been a staple of Clellan’s radio act since […]
TV Junior Special Birthday Issue – Oct 1959
TV Junior was a TV Guide for young baby boomers published during the late 1950s. The monthly magazine carried articles about network programs such as Howdy Doody and Dennis the Menace, as well as activity pages that were often tied to local kidvid personalities. This must have required many different editions of the mag […]