{"id":21564,"date":"2016-08-30T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21564"},"modified":"2016-10-29T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T11:28:57","slug":"august-30-1957-ten-years-of-kukla-fran-ollie-come-to-an-endat-the-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21564","title":{"rendered":"August 30, 1957&#8230;Ten Years Of &#8220;Kukla, Fran &#038; Ollie&#8221; Come To An End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 30, 1957&#8230;Ten Years Of &#8220;Kukla, Fran &amp; Ollie&#8221; Come To An End<\/p>\n<p>At the link is KFO creator Burr Tillstrom&#8217;s timeline of the shows milestones, starting with their October 13, 1947 debut as &#8220;The Junior Jamboree&#8221; on WBKB in Chicago, to their last show, which was also on WBKB.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richsamuels.com\/nbcmm\/kuklapolitans\/kuklapolitan_chronology.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.richsamuels.com\/nbcmm\/kuklapolitans\/kuklapolitan_chronology.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the five years that the show ran on NBC nationally, fan mail averaged 5,000 letters a day, and the show&#8217;s ratings rivaled Milton Burle&#8217;s and even Ed Sullivan&#8217;s at CBS. Be sure and click through the attached images&#8230;there is a surprise on one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the memories, Burr, Fran, Kukla and Ollie! By the way, KFO are also a big part of a post here from earlier today on an NBC color milestone, so visit the page by clicking on the blue EOAG text at the top left of this post. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1073036836067198\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/August-30-1957...Ten-Years-Of-Kukla-Fran-Ollie-Come-To-An-End-At-the-link\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1073036836067198\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162533_389_August-30-1957...Ten-Years-Of-Kukla-Fran-Ollie-Come-To-An-End-At-the-link\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1073041542733394\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 30, 1957&#8230;Ten Years Of &#8220;Kukla, Fran &amp; Ollie&#8221; Come To An End At the link is KFO creator Burr Tillstrom&#8217;s timeline of the shows milestones, starting with their October 13, 1947 debut as &#8220;The Junior Jamboree&#8221; on WBKB in Chicago, to their last show, which was also on WBKB. http:\/\/www.richsamuels.com\/nbcmm\/kuklapolitans\/kuklapolitan_chronology.html In the five years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,822,782,725],"class_list":["post-21564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-ed-sullivan","tag-nbc","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}