Uncle Bill Reads the Funnies
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Uncle Bill Reads the Funnies was a local Sunday morning children's television show on KAKE-TV
in Wichita, Kansas
. The show was hosted by Bill Boyle, who would read the color comics section
of the Sunday Hutchinson News
.
Alongside Bill was Woody, a wooden dummy who Uncle Bill would ventriloquist as they read the paper. Next to Woody was Zippy, a fuzzy mystery monster hand puppet who didn't speak, would duck under the kitchen table to bring up a variety of props, and engage in zany antics related to the strip that Uncle Bill and Woody were about to read or had just read.
The show appeared to have been done in the KAKE-TV's "kitchen" studio setting.
Boyle was a minister at various local churches of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
. The characters would deliver a light-hearted moral lesson to the children after the reading of each funnies strip.
KAKE-TV
KAKE, channel 10, is an ABC-affiliated television station based in Wichita, Kansas. The station is owned by Atlanta, Georgia-based Gray Television...
in Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...
. The show was hosted by Bill Boyle, who would read the color comics section
Sunday comics
Sunday comics is the commonly accepted term for the full-color comic strip section carried in most American newspapers. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies....
of the Sunday Hutchinson News
The Hutchinson News
The Hutchinson News is a daily newspaper serving the city of Hutchinson, Kansas in the United States. The publication was awarded the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service "for its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment of the...
.
Alongside Bill was Woody, a wooden dummy who Uncle Bill would ventriloquist as they read the paper. Next to Woody was Zippy, a fuzzy mystery monster hand puppet who didn't speak, would duck under the kitchen table to bring up a variety of props, and engage in zany antics related to the strip that Uncle Bill and Woody were about to read or had just read.
The show appeared to have been done in the KAKE-TV's "kitchen" studio setting.
Boyle was a minister at various local churches of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
The Christian Church is a Mainline Protestant denomination in North America. It is often referred to as The Christian Church, The Disciples of Christ, or more simply as The Disciples...
. The characters would deliver a light-hearted moral lesson to the children after the reading of each funnies strip.