Our readers talked about this last week . . . Accordingly . . . Here's a, rare, worthwhile write-up from the newspaper:
Virtually every baby boomer who grew up in greater Kansas City has lost a surrogate parent. Torey Southwick, who, with his puppet sidekick Ol’ Gus, held down the highest rated children’s show throughout the 1960s on KMBC-TV 9, died last month at age 94 in Bethesda, Maryland. While the self-effacing Southwick always played it down, he was either the direct model for Roger Miller’s 1965 hit song “Kansas City Star,” or at least representative of the superstar local kids’ show hosts of the era.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Farewell, Torey Southwick and Ol' Gus. You were Kansas City kids' best friends on TV | Opinion
The "Torey Time" children's television show was wildly popular on KMBC-TV 9, attracting three times as many viewers at "Captain Kangaroo."
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