Patches & Pockets

Patches & Pockets was a Saturday morning television show that aired for over eighteen years in Toledo, Ohio on TV channel 11, WTOL. The title characters were a brother and sister pair of rag dolls played by Bev Schwind and Sue Donner, respectively.

The rag dolls lived in a toy box with their large stuffed red dog. They went about their day with children on the set and having misadventures in the studio "Neighborhood" or at various sights in the Toledo Metropolitan area. (Toledo Public Library, Toledo Zoo, etc.). One of the rag dolls would inevitably get in some trouble and they would find a way to work through the problem. It was a morality show with Patches (Female Rag Doll) having a dilemma or Pockets (Male Rag Doll) creating mischief.