Showing posts with label Kirby Grant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kirby Grant. Show all posts

Saturday, September 11, 2021

September 2021 Part 1 - This Month in Kids Media

It has been over a year since I posted a feature based on children's media anniversaries. September being the traditional fall season debut month makes it a great time to restart.
A cropped publicity photo of the cast of "Sky King". Image for Wikimedia Commons.

70 Years Ago - September 16, 1951. The television adaptation of radio's "Sky King" debuted on ABC-TV. The aviation western series would make iconic 1950s stars of its leads (above left to right) Kirby Grant Gloria Winters, and Ron Hagerty.


    (Above: A 1953 ABC promo for Sky King and other ABC Saturday Morning TV Series)

The TV Version of "Sky King" was to be a replacement for "The Magic Slate", another children's series sponsored by Swift Foods Peter Pan Peanut Butter.


(Above: Radio ad at the end of Mutual's "Sky King" for TV's "The Magic Slate" another program, sponsored by Peter Pan Peanut Butter).