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50's
Television
I've had bunches of visits this week from folks googling "Sargent Preston", which kept the thought of 50's television in my mind. I don't remember too many cartoons. There was Woody Woodpecker, but I remember him because my brother Grizzl blamed a crayon drawing on the wall on him. But I remember Howy Doody, The Lone Ranger, Fury, Sky King, Lassie (in many incarnations), RinTinTin, Sargent Preston, Roy Rogers (with Dale Evans, Pat Brady and his jeep Nellie Belle), Captain Kangaroo, and oh....here is where the cartoons were: The Mickey Mouse Club. Now there's a "this or that" question: Spin or Marty? And don't forget Cubby!

Fury was the "story of a boy and his horse". Joey was the boy who was adopted by Jim Newton, played by Peter Graves, who is the brother of James Arness aka Marshall Dillon. I used to hear my folks watching Gunsmoke (it was after our bedtime), and I'd wonder why Joey's dad was on that show.