After commenting on
Eric Beheim’s very nice “Super Circus” series yesterday and reminiscing about my
remembering “Circus Boy,” I did a little digging about the Circus Boy series and
discovered it was rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960. It is
that series that I remember trying to catch on Saturday mornings and not the
original 1956-58 prime time airing.
Set in the late
1890s, the title of the series refers to a boy named Corky. After his parents,
"The Flying Falcons," were killed in a trapeze accident, young Corky (played by
Micky Dolenz later of the TV show and singing group The Monkees fame but billed
at the time as Mickey Braddock) was adopted by Joey the Clown (Noah Beery, Jr.),
and the whole Burke and Walsh Circus family. He is “water boy” to the young
elephant Bimbo and otherwise participates in the behind-the-scenes life of the
circus. The entire 49 episode series is available online in a 10 CD boxed set
for about $35.
Buckles, what do we
know of the elephant that played Bimbo? There are suggestions on the Internet
that it came from Jungleland.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
From Dick Flint
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I have always wondered why the show was named Burke & Walsh, which name had been used in Chad Hannah. Any ideas?
They probably used stock footage from CHAD HANNAH and kept the name so it would match the wagons seen in the old footage.
Eric: That's possible but Burke & Walsh was not the primary show in the movie but an opposition outfit and I'm not sure how many shots there were showing wagons so lettered. Any volunteers to watch the movie and check that out?
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