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Things from archive.org, the website that seeks to collect all of the everything. Not affiliated with the Internet Archive. Click here for archives. Click here for a random post.
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Cartoon Town aka BJ's Bunch aka The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show (Videos, 1968-1974)

You can watch multiple episodes of this Chicago local children's TV show (and an episode of its successor Gigglesnort Hotel) here. (If the player isn't working yet, the video files can be found under 'DOWNLOAD OPTIONS').

The incomplete multi-part episode can be viewed in full on this YT playlist.

You can watch a documentary about the show here.

You can se my post about the host's 1983 Thanksgiving special here.

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Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs (Book, Tim Hollis, 2001)

You can digitally borrow it here.

(Video search tip: when searching for any of the shows it mentions, if the show's title isn't enough, try adding the city and/or state.)

Above: Jim and Jane Henson and a drawing by Carroll Spinney (Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch) of his short-lived local TV puppet character.

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Ding Dong School - two episodes (Videos, 1953/~1952-1956)

You can two episodes of watch this show, starring early educational television icon Frances "Miss Frances" Horwich, here.

Includes the infamous Peanut Butter Lettuce and Banana Sandwich Episode.

A bunch of vintage audio recordings featuring Miss Frances can be found here.

Above: the Peanuts strip from August 30, 1955.

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The Letter People (Videos, 1974-1976)

You can watch it all here. A documentary about the show is soon to be released.

(Tip: each item is a different upload of the whole thing; the third has one of the videos out of order below the rest, and the fourth is missing the first twenty episodes.)

Mister X always gets things all wrong, as you can see - and under him, those are Card People, not Letter People. Mister X's pictured design is his original 60's design, also pictured here (and also, here, which also has all the main songs - including the untelevised Q, R and X songs). As for the Card People, I'll get to their Letter People connection in a couple of days...

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GamePro TV (Videos, 1991-1992)

You can watch a bunch of episodes of it here.

You can see my post about the magazine the show was based on, with its link to a ton of issues (with their countless fascinating ads for everything from the famous to the obscure) here.

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Computer Chronicles: Women in Computing (Video, 1985)

You can watch it here.

The game pictures in the first screenshot is Cave Girl Clair, which you can play in your browser here. The woman in the second screenshot is Corinne Grimm, the artist of Robot Odyssey and the original Reader Rabbit.

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