Sally Baker
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Sally Baker is a retired American
children's television program personality. After a career working in television news as a weather girl
, she hosted the live-action children's show, Hobo Kelly, which first aired on KTTV
in Los Angeles in 1965, and later aired on KCOP in the same city, until 1973.
She was the creator of another children's live action show called The Froozles, also known as The Land of Frooze, which aired on KHJ (now known as KCAL-TV
) channel 9 in Los Angeles from 1970-78. The Froozles featured a pig-tailed, tomboy character named Muffin and her puppet friends, who were made to resemble children of different ethnicities. A recurring skit on the show featured a different set of moppy-haired puppets of a simpler design telling jokes through doors in a wall à la Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
.
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children's television program personality. After a career working in television news as a weather girl
Weather Girl
Weather Girl is a 2009 comedy film. The film stars Tricia O'Kelley, Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer, Enrico Colantoni.-Plot:A Seattle morning show weather girl, after learning her boyfriend has cheated on her, freaks out on-air and is fired...
, she hosted the live-action children's show, Hobo Kelly, which first aired on KTTV
KTTV
KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. Serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, KTTV is a sister station to KCOP , Los Angeles' MyNetworkTV station...
in Los Angeles in 1965, and later aired on KCOP in the same city, until 1973.
She was the creator of another children's live action show called The Froozles, also known as The Land of Frooze, which aired on KHJ (now known as KCAL-TV
KCAL-TV
KCAL-TV, channel 9, is an independent television station in Los Angeles, California, USA, owned by the CBS Corporation. KCAL-TV shares its studio facilities with KCBS-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.-Digital...
) channel 9 in Los Angeles from 1970-78. The Froozles featured a pig-tailed, tomboy character named Muffin and her puppet friends, who were made to resemble children of different ethnicities. A recurring skit on the show featured a different set of moppy-haired puppets of a simpler design telling jokes through doors in a wall à la Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...
.