Synopsis
An episode of the children's television program Winky Dink and You, in which viewers drew on a plastic sheet placed over the TV screen to help the cartoon hero. It is often called the first interactive TV show.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 28 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 50s
- 50's
- 1950s
- 1950's
- Fifties
- Pop Culture
- Innovative
- Unique
- Creative
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Very Creative · BoopBoopaddoop · 2011-02-08
Very Creative it seems that was the interactive toys of the 50s. now they use all technology but once crayons were the populer items. the voice cast is pretty amazing aswell if i must say so myself with Mae Questel as Winky Dink alongside jack barry.
★★★ · Mae Questal · DeTrixsta · 2018-07-29
As for this show, it held a contriversal memory of encouraging the kids to draw on their TV screens! (I hasten to add; most kids did not have the kit...) I well remember Jack Berry from the original "The Joker's Wild"-- the voice of Mae Questal was often heard in cartoons of the 1930's & beyond. She was Betty Boop & Olive Oyl...Little Audrey....etc. she would later be remebered as "Aunt Bluebelle" for Scott towels TV commercials & even later still, National Lampoon's "Christmas Vacation". She made an appearence at the international Sons of the Desert convention in 1985 where she sang Helen…
★ · Difficult to watch? Yes. And harder to listen to... · Eklectic1again · 2013-03-24
I'm trying to imagine the suffering of the adult host presenting this show. Wow. Interactive, yeah, but I'm glad my childhood missed this one by about ten years. The Shirley Booth sound of the voice would've sent hypersensitive kid me running out of the room. Adults pretending to be children always sounded especially awful to me. Some things, although clever for their time, are better off lost in the ozone! I'd heard of this show and the magic screen and all, but until now hadn't seen it...understand, I'm truly glad it's here for viewing, historically, but...wow. This thing survived and Ernie…