I’ve been posting a lot of material about Axel over the last few months. I never saw Axel when I was a kid as I was only 3 when he passed away. The first time I had ever head of Axel was when I saw this TV special on WCCO, Channel 4 back in the […]
Harry Jones was the director of Axel and His Dog during its entire run from 1954 to 1966. He also directed most of WCCO-TV’s other children’s television shows, as well as a variety of other programs. Here WCCO-TV film editor Claude Heisch and director Harry Jones are perhaps going over the day’s programming. It was […]
Another look at some of the people who helped produce Axel and His Dog: (left to right) Ray Hurd (engineer), Clellan Card (Axel), Don Stolz (Towser and Tallulah), Harry Jones (director), and Bill Dietrichson (set designer).