Barker Bill's Cartoon Show
- Barker Bill's Cartoon Show
Barker Bill's Cartoon Show was the first network television weekday cartoon series, airing on CBS from 1953 to 1956. The 15 minute show was broadcast twice a week, although some local stations showed both episodes together as a single 30 minute show.
Barker Bill was a portly circus ringmaster with a long black handlebar mustache and dressed in the traditional costume - a fancy suit with white gloves and a top hat.
The show was hosted by a stationary picture of the Barker Bill character with an off-camera announcer introducing the cartoons. The show featured old black and white cartoons obtained from Terrytoons. These were mostly older cartoons from the 1930's, like "Farmer Al Falfa" and "Kiko the Kangaroo", not the more current and better known series such as "Mighty Mouse" and "Heckle and Jeckle".
Barker Bill did not appear in cartoons, but was briefly featured in a newspaper comic strip series (1954).
Terrytoons was the first major animation studio to give television a license to show it's library of old black and white cartoons. The Barker Bill series was so successful, that that CBS offered to buy the Terrytoons studio, including it's production facilities and library of cartoons. Paul Terry accepted the offer and retired in 1955.
This brought well known Terrytoons characters Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle and others to television, replacing the Barker Bill series in 1956. The color cartoons were originally broadcast in black and white, but were still suitable when television switched to color and continued to be part of CBS programming until the 1980's.
The older cartoons from the Barker Bill show were re-packaged for syndication under various titles, including "Farmer Alfalfa and His Terrytoons Pals" the "Terry Toons Club", and "Terry Toons Circus".
Trivia
Barker Bill appears on the cover of the Nintendo game Barker Bill's Trick Shooting and closely matches the character from the television version.
External links
* [http://www.toontracker.com/terry/terry2.htm Terrytoons on CBS]
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