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and Keshan held it against his own industry for three decades. His education degree mattered here. He built20:54
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the program around the idea that the bond between grandparents and children was one of the warmest relationships in21:01
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family life. Television, he believed, should borrow that warmth. It should not shout at children or treat them like21:09
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noise machines waiting to be excited. So the show had no audience of screaming children driving the rhythm. It did not21:17
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rely on prizes. It did not race from one loud moment to the next. It offered21:23
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stories, guests, animals, cartoons, songs, puppets, and long stretches of a21:30
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man speaking calmly into a camera as though the child watching at home deserved his full attention. The lessons21:38
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were clear. The show taught self-esteem, tolerance, sharing, and patience. It did not make a spectacle [music] of those21:47
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values. It placed them inside ordinary moments. Keshan also became one of the strongest [music] public critics of21:55
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children's television. He opposed violence in programming made for children. He opposed the commercialization of children as an22:04
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audience. That put him in a difficult position because he worked for a commercial network whose business depended on advertising. He was respected anyway.22:15
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Captain Kangaroo won three daytime Emmy awards for outstanding children's entertainment series in 1979, 1983, and 1984.22:26
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Keshan personally won outstanding performer awards in 1982, 1983, and 1984. The strange part is [music] that22:35
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those honors arrived at the same time the network was taking his show apart.22:40
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The conflict at the center of his career is simple and uncomfortable.22:44
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Commercial children's television in the United States depended on one basic fact. The child watching was not the real customer. The advertiser was.22:55
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Programs existed to gather young viewers for companies selling cereal, sugar, and toys. That business model pushed23:04
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television toward louder sound, faster cutting, more action, and by the 1970s23:10
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and 1980s, cartoons that worked almost like long commercials for toy lines.23:16
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Kishan publicly opposed that system while working inside it. He had the background to speak with authority. He23:24
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had a degree in education. He had the ratings history. He had decades of experience. His argument was that23:33
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children deserved programming made for them with care rather than programming aimed at them as buyers in training. He23:41
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believed networks had duties beyond sales. CBS tolerated his position for a long time and that deserves some credit.23:51
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The network kept a gentle, critically loved, ratings poor weekday morning program on the air for 26 years while24:01
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the man at its center criticized the industry that paid him. Then morning television changed and the numbers24:08
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became too powerful to ignore. What CBS [music] did to Captain Kangaroo between24:14
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1981 and 1984 shows how a network can kill a program without making one24:22
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dramatic announcement. Until 1981, Captain Kangaroo had been an hour-ong weekday morning show since [music] 1955.24:31
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It was interrupted only by major news events, including CBS's 3 days of continuous coverage after the Kennedy [music] assassination in 1963.24:41
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Then CBS decided morning news needed more space. The network wanted to expand CBS Morning News and The Captain's Hour24:49
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was sitting in the way. In September 1981, the show was cut from [music] 60 Minutes to 30. It was renamed Wake Up with the Captain and moved to 700 a.m.25:02
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One account says it was also moved into a much smaller studio. At the start of 1982, [music] it was moved again, this25:09
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time to 6:30 a.m. In some markets, it aired as early as 6:00 before many preschool children were awake. On 1st of25:19
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October 1982, it left the weekday [music] schedule completely and became a weekend show. It returned to an hour25:26
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[music] on Saturday with a repeat on Sunday. In the autumn of 1984, it was cut again to a Saturday half hour. Four25:34
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reductions in 3 years turned a national institution into a [music] program slowly pushed out of view. Each move had25:42
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a business explanation. Together, they formed a clear ending. This happened while the show was winning Emmys and25:49
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while parents and educators were defending it in public. There was also a personal shadow over those years. On25:56
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11th July 1981, Bob Keshan suffered a severe heart attack moments after stepping off a plane at Toronto Pearson26:04
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Airport. He had traveled there to accept a children's [music] service award. He underwent triple bypass surgery and26:11
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received around 5,000 Getwell messages while he recovered. The same year he nearly died while accepting an award for26:19
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serving children, CBS began cutting apart the show that had made him beloved. When his contract expired in26:25
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December 1984, Keshan left. People close to the story described him as tired of CBS's constant reductions. The final CBS26:35
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broadcast aired on 8th December 1984, 9 months short of the show's 30th anniversary.26:42
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The business reason was not mysterious.26:45
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Morning television had become some of the most valuable territory in daytime broadcasting. NBC's [music] Today had been on the air since 1952.26:54
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ABC launched Good Morning America in 1975 [music] and it succeeded. Those programs delivered adult viewers and adult27:03
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viewers mattered more to advertisers selling cars, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and airline tickets.27:10
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CBS was losing that morning news battle and needed the time. Captain Kangaroo had a different audience. [music] It served children and children were worth27:19
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less to advertisers at that hour, especially on a show whose host openly criticized advertising to children. The27:27
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program was not pushed aside because [music] it was bad. It was pushed aside because the hour became more valuable as27:34
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news. That is why the [music] parents, educators, Emmy wins and cultural importance could not save it. To the27:42
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sales department, the problem was not emotional. The problem was arithmetic.27:48
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Even then, Captain Kangaroo did not vanish completely. By 1987, repeats were airing daily on many PBS stations. In27:57
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the early 1990s, 65 heavily edited versions were produced by adding new captain [music] segments to old28:04
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material. Those episodes brought the total count to 615. Keshan hosted CBS Story Break afterward.28:13
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He wrote books. He kept speaking about children's media and remained one of the most quoted voices on the subject for28:20
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the rest of his life. Hugh Brennham died in 1987, 3 years after the show ended.28:27
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He had played Mr. Green Jeans for the entire 29-year run. Cosmo Aliggretti, the performer behind Bunny Rabbit, Mr.28:35
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Moose, Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock, Dennis, and many others, died in [music] 2013. Bob Kishan died on 23rd of January28:45
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2004 in Windsor, Vermont at the age of 76. The record he left behind is unusual28:52
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and probably permanent.Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and for the restoration of the Church.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
-- Dr. Seifert, regarded as one of the greatest living Catholic philosophers, founding Rector of the International Academy of Philosopher & friend of John Paul II, to Cardinals: INVESTIGATE FRANCIS' HERESIES, VALIDITY BEFORE THE CONCLAVE.."If Francis is found guilty of heresy or apostasy, then: - His cardinal appointments would be invalid" [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/dr-seifert-philosopher-personal-friend.html]
-- Are the Cardinals who will participate in the upcoming conclave authentically appointed & morally justified in voting, or will the shadow of Francis's possible illegitimacy cast itself over the next papacy? [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/are-cardinals-who-will-participate-in.html]
-- 5 Dubia Questions for 1P5's Steve Skojec & All faithful Catholics especially Francis is definitely Pope Cardinals, Bishops & pundits [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/06/5-dubia-questions-for-steve-skojec.html]
Francis Notes:
l– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1
– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the [J6] DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.
Pray an Our Father now for America.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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