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Kukla, Fran and Ollie

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303: 479: 466:, Kukla and Ollie complain about having to follow the two singers performing "There's No Business Like Show Business". Ollie says, "There's no business like television, either." Kukla replies, "Well, it's so young." Ollie says, "Yes. Whenever will it grow up? Maybe tonight. Maybe tonight." The program attracted an audience of 60 million viewers. Forty years after the broadcast, television critic 253: 31: 508:. In this context, their conversations were restricted to a brief introduction, commercial segues and a summary of the film, and could only provide a hint of what had made KFO so popular. Many people know the troupe only from this filmed show and their later taped series for 1201: 264:, a radio comedian and singer who was typically the only human to appear on screen, filling the role of big sister and cheery voice of reason as the puppets engaged each other concerning their foibles. The design style of puppets was that of 1194: 324:
evoked not only loyalty but also a deep belief in its characters from regular viewers. Fans became so attached to the show that, when it was cut back to 15 minutes in November 1951, letters of outrage poured into NBC and
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kinescopes on a regular schedule, beginning with the earliest surviving episode. The stated goal is to eventually make all of the surviving episodes from the original series available and free to view online.
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meaning "my little doll". It also exists as a loanword with the same meaning in Bulgarian, Russian and Albanian, as well as in Turkish with the meaning of "puppet". Kukla's name came from the Russian-American
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s humor relied on building a relationship between its characters and the audience over time. The humor was quite tame by the standards of later comedy. There were few laugh-out-loud jokes per show;
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After the original series ended in 1957, Tillstrom continued to search for a place for the Kuklapolitans, doing a daily five-minute show for NBC, and even appearing on
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network and returned to the 15-minute daily format (7:00–7:15 p.m. ET) until the last regular program aired on August 30, 1957, a continuous run of nearly ten years.
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The series' music was written and performed by Jack Fascinato, who first accompanied the troupe on solo piano and later conducted the show's small orchestra.
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was released on Fran's birthday, November 20, 2010, by The Burr Tillstrom Copyright Trust. It was the first release of the original series, and contains 20
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can claim a number of television firsts, including the first ship-to-shore telecast. The first publicly announced network broadcast of a program using the
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network broadcast of the show took place on January 12, 1949. It aired from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. Central Time, Monday through Friday from Chicago.
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once wrote that Tillstrom was "helping to save the sanity of the nation and to improve, if not even to invent, the quality of television."
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ran as a weekly program on Sundays (3:00–3:30 p.m. CT). They also began a weekday radio show in October 1952. It was then picked up by the
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was first released on DVD on August 11, 2009. Five episodes that were shot in color between 1969 and 1971 were released in a box set.
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gentleman; Doloras Dragon, Ollie's younger cousin; Mercedes, a bratty grade schooler, Ollie's mother Olivia, and a number of others.
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The puppet cast included "Kukla", the earnest leader of the troupe; "Ollie", or "Oliver J. Dragon", a roguish one-toothed
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starred, interacting with puppets, Kukla and Ollie (and sometimes other puppets) whose puppeteer was the show's creator,
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in 1986 for his many contributions to the medium. Tillstrom influenced and mentored many later puppeteers, including
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recalled the broadcast as both "a landmark in television" and "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s".
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Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series
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was the replacement 15-minute program and received considerable vitriol by angry
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was the creator and only puppeteer on the show, which premiered as the hour-long
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stagehand who spoke in an unintelligible "tooie talk"; Colonel Crackie, a
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is the Greek word for "doll"; Greek people often address young girls as
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in Chicago for a series of live performances in the early 1980s.
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among its many adult fans. The show had sponsors like
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