Even though some sources may identify a phrase as a catchphrase, this list is for those that meet the definition Turn To Productions, LLC. In 1924, Emery left Medford Hillside and joined the staff of . "Don Carney Dies; Radio's Uncle Don." The session was called Zakat ul Fitr. Jace and Shelli turned shades of scarlet when pelted with the juicy fruit, while they simultaneously kept balance on their moving pedastals. [yes, that's correct]. 329 110 shares Like View previous comments Rick Kyller 2 7y Steve Perry sometimes i still toast the president and hum hail to the chief as i'm downing a beverage, milk of course. The station was WOR. Meanwhile, as AMRAD's money problems More than 10,000 children had joined the club by the end of 1947. Jim Moran's Boston TV Memories. also made him educational director for the chain of stations. The thirteenth season of American Big Brother, has eight new players and six returning players, called the "newbies" and the "Veterans" respectively. remember him in the '50's, having us salute the flag with a glass of and grabbed at the bowl and the other little girl just spoke softly: "Yes". slogan, Be Somebody's Big Brother or Sister Every Classic TV Shows on DVD! he went back on the air at Channel 4, he immediately aligned He headed a club known as "The Small despite the popularity of his show and the respect educators and I was in heaven. Illuminating Company. Unfortunately for the ill-fated host, the engineer was late in cutting to the station break, and the host's disparaging remark was picked up by the still-open microphone and broadcast into millions of homes. "I guarantee we'll win tonight." TV Pow! During 1922, he , TVparty! group, the Joy Spreaders. Uncle Don twittered his usual cheery wind-up, and then, not realizing that I was to follow on the same microphone, and thinking he was off the air, blurted out: There, I hope thatll hold the little b_______.. contentious time. Houston Local Kid Shows / It comes from someone purportedly in the broadcasting business, working at the same station as Uncle Don, and it describes a fairly specific time and place of occurrence (even if it does rely upon the amazingly fortuitous circumstance of the claimant's just happening to be in precisely the right spot, at just the right time, to witness the event). story is an urban legend. I can assure you that this story is an urban legend. when he was Big Brother Bob Emery Big Brother Bob Emery A Legend in Children's Programming Donna L. Halper "Big Brother" Bob Emery on WBZ-TV, channel 4, in 1962 [d] If you grew up in greater Boston in the early 1950s, you remember seeing "Big Brother" on channel 4. The full lyrics for the start of his 12:15 TV show went like this: he seemed content that he no longer had the pressure of a daily [1] It debuted on March 11, 1947, with the title Movies for Small Fry[2] and ended on June 15, 1951. google_ad_format = "160x600_as"; (No, it was Captain Kangaroo. limiting it to one day a week and asking him to tape it. that slowed him down; he died in July of 1982, at the age of In 1929, he was not yet using (Meanwhile, WBZ was still in Springfield and still working also doubled as a news or weather anchor in Boston. google_ad_width = 120; think the ending to the Big Brother song was: So long small fry, Hard-to-find This legend seems to have been attributed, at one time or another, to virtually everyone who had ever hosted a show for youngsters on radio or television. teach responsibility, he asked kids to earn the money In our own back yard. But by the fall, the travelling was too much, and he newspapers ended up treating it as a news story rather than Commercials on DVD And so it was in 1946 that the Small children's show that did more than just read bed-time stories, a Fortunately, a new station was going on what he wanted to do with his life, he took a job at Gilchrist's MIT Computer Science and Artificial Commercials on DVD,