left: 0; Sadly, there wasn't much of a life left to save. min-width: 300px; After the birth of my son in 1990, I wrote to Art Finley, Bob March, and Pat McCormick for autographed photos. } } } top: 0; It was my work. } width: 45%; font-size: 1.138em; dl .btn { width:100%; margin: 0; padding-left: 30px; } .alert-chat a:not(.close):not(.btn) { } .block-views-blockblogs-block-2 { /* Footer Update 2020 */ padding-top: 30px; I'd recognize several more if I ran across them. position: fixed; } Our key demographic is, well, everyone, Hageman laughs. .nav-pills a.btn.btn-lg.btn-default { Click here to read. .view-college-promise-comparison table thead { They were me. float: left; top: -5px; .chat-bubble { .flex-align-center { Biography. 2,514 records for Patricia Mccormick. margin-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px; } padding-left: 5px; .view-jobs.view-id-jobs.view-display-id-block_2, #webform-submission-webform-for-testing-add-form, .view-empty, .california-room-collection, .view-display-id-page_3, section#block-sjpl-exposedformmusic-collections-indexpage-2, .path-locations .view-filters { I cant express all these viewpoints as one person, so I do it through friends like Charley. He continued, I suppose there are many sides to my personality. Humphrey Hambone, Public Relations., Meanwhile, in Arizona, McCormicks Shagnasty Show and The Charley Horse Show began broadcasting in 1961. border-right: none; position:relative; Charley and Humphrey had friends too. border-radius: 6px; @media screen and (min-width: 1025px) { margin-bottom: 0; }*/ .page-node-type-page-web .main-container .col-sm-3 .sjpl-chat-container { } } padding-right: 30px; @media screen and (min-width: 1200px) { display:block; } The show starred Charley, the puppet horse who wore a captains hat, and Humphrey the bulldog, who wore an Oakland Raiders sweatshirt sent to him by Sonny Barger of the Oakland Hells Angels. } @media screen and (min-width:1500px) { } display: -moz-box; .view-eresources .form-type-textfield.js-form-type-textfield.form-item-words.js-form-item-words.form-group { animation: offPageAlert 1s ease-in-out 90s both; display: -ms-flexbox; margin-top: 30px; 2023 FOX Television Stations, from SAT 4:00 AM PST until SUN 4:00 PM PST, Southern Lake County, Northwestern Mendocino Interior, Northeastern Mendocino Interior, Northern Lake County, from SAT 4:00 AM PST until SUN 4:00 PM PST, Mendocino County Coast, High Stakes: Sports Betting in California, After Ohio's toxic train derailment, Biden orders door-to-door checks, Washington avalanche: Body of 1 climber recovered; 2 others still buried in the snow, Road closures at Mt. After Seoul, Kelly insisted they get tattoos of the Olympic rings. } .unstyled-list-text { display: block; float: left; } padding: 0 30px; @media screen and (min-width: 1200px) { My family appeared on the show and we were given a dog from the Oakland SPCA after ours was killed. Its a new comic book series about a naughty bulldog and his responsible horse pal. } /* Delete .view-content above in the stylesheets */ background: #000; } word-break:break-word; section#block-sjpllibchatwidget, section#block-sjpl-exposedformmusic-collections-indexpage-2 { One-minute-long PSAs featuring the characters often do the rounds in these groupsand its easy to understand why. .path-app-faqs aside.col-sm-3, .path-search-faqs aside.col-sm-3 { .faq-category-list li { padding: 20px !important; top: 0px; transition: box-shadow 300ms ease-in-out; width: 100%; #block-exposedformcalifornia-room-indexpage-2-2 { float: left; .people-card, .flex-wrap-card.people-card { .view-college-promise-comparison thead th { .bef-checkboxes .checkbox { section#block-views-block-homepage-promo-cards-block-3 .view-homepage-promo-cards.view-id-homepage_promo_cards { padding: 0; left:-10px; padding-left: 10%; I too remember Mr Bob every day after school right 1960. Good luck! @media screen and (min-width: 768px) { width: 100%; padding-top: 30px; .page-node-type-page-heroless .main-container .page-heroless .contact-list-container .contact-list.cl-more-padding .has-ul li:first-child { .translate-icon { padding: 10px; (2013) and The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich . float: right; Pat McCormick (born c. 1933) is a retired local television personality in San Francisco, California's KGO-TV, and Oakland's, KTVU channel 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where among many jobs he was the nightly news' weatherman, hosted the midday movie Dialing for Dollars program, and co-hosted the local edition of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. .lang-btns p a { Some tiny woman, reportedly in her sixties or seventies, pulled his 6-foot-7 body out of the flaming car and dragged it to safety. margin: 0 5px 10px; } } margin-bottom: 0; Looking Back: Bay Area Kids Shows in the 1960s and 1970s, Partners in Reading: Adult and Family Literacy, California Room Clipping Files Television Stations, Mr. Bob the ventriloquist on KTVU Channel 2 San Francisco Oaklan. .people-card, .flex-wrap-card.people-card { Care about whats happening in Bay Area arts? Theyre the best of friends and they live in a San Francisco apartment togethereven though they get on each others nerves sometimes. .path-comment .region-content, padding: 10px 16px; We get the Boomers who remember the Charley and Humphrey half-hour TV show and the Gen Xers that grew up with their PSAs on Channel 2. margin-bottom: 0; Their long-running shows on KTVU and KGO-TVthe creations of TV host Pat McCormickhelped shape the minds and morals of generations of children in the region. My cousin and I were on the Mayor Art Show about 1964, sitting in the front row so that he could share his hat collection. } padding: 30px; /* Delete .view-content below in the stylesheets */ There was another kids show, I think it was called Git Box Tickle. } margin: 20px auto; .view-college-promise-comparison .btn-default:hover, .view-college-promise-comparison .btn-default:focus, .view-college-promise-comparison .btn-default:active { In time, he'd added additional characters, "Sneezer," "Shagnasty Bear," and "Pussyfoot", the grand piano playing cat wearing sunglasses. margin-top:0; } left: 0; .flc-speak { } background: #F5F5F5; He said, I dont want people to grieve and miss me. text-transform: none; from {opacity: 1;} padding: 25px 25px 45px; In 2015, a year after Sane and Hageman had collaborated on a graphic novel named The Woodland Welfare Manifesto, Hageman suggested they turn their efforts to Charley and Humphrey. Cant remember the channel, kbhk 44 perhaps? left: 0; .d-block-sm { @media screen and (min-width: 1024px) { } .flex-card-r, } I had written and illustrated an undead Victorian romance graphic novel titled Heart of a Corpse, Sane explains. background: #4d4d4d !important; We overnighted it to Pat. } .lang-btns p { } } .btn-chat:hover, .btn-chat:focus, .btn-chat:active { flex: 2; It may take some continued effort, and you might have greater success following the pandemic. animation: showItem 1s ease-in-out 30s both; margin: 30px 2.5%; Join Facebook to connect with Patricia McCormick and others you may know. margin: 15px 0 0; background: #f5f5f5; .path-comment .region-content, .view-college-promise-comparison.view-display-id-attachment_1, .view-college-promise-comparison.view-display-id-attachment_1 .view-header { font-weight: normal; By chance, we were seated next to each other, and I had noticed that John had some Charley and Humphrey illustration prints at his table, so we started talking about, and bonding over, our mutual love of the characters. Does anyone remember an afterschool kid show that featured a witch as the host? text-transform: uppercase; padding:10px; } The other is a rubber-faced bulldog in an Oakland Raiders shirt. border: 1px solid #ddd; margin-top: 20px; Going a ways further back, I met Captain Satellite at Santa's Village around 1959 and still have an autographed publicity photo of him and his robot. Hi Sue, I took a look, but was unable to locate anything further. top: 0; width: 100%; I read through them all and was a bit surprised that nobody mentioned an old show that ran on Saturdays at 11:30pm from 1971-75. } @media screen and (min-width: 1500px) { .view-acquia-search .field--name-field-location-phone, .view-acquia-search .field--name-field-location-address, .view-acquia-search .field--name-field-location-email { background: #000; } border: 1px solid #ccc; .path-app-faqs aside.col-sm-3, .path-search-faqs aside.col-sm-3, .view-music-collections-index.view-id-music_collections_index { border-radius: 50%; Fans share artwork, places to buy Charley and Humphrey merch, and clips from the 1970s. } margin-top: 0; text-transform: uppercase; 1967 or 68. It was a crazy but very unique show and I loved his commentary. } } @media screen and (min-width: 1200px) { @media screen and (min-width: 1025px) { Tim Hollis documented about 1,400 local children's shows in a 2002 book called Hi There, Boys and Girls! #block-views-block-frequently-asked-questions-block-9, #block-exposedformcalifornia-room-indexpage-2-2, top: -10px; } This is a personal situation and my family wants privacy at this time, he said. padding-left: 20px; .about-location-container h2:first-child { } lol. } .btn-app-container .btn { margin: 0 !important; } @media screen and (min-width: 1500px) { } width: 100%; She graduated from Rosemont College in 1978, followed by an M.S. } .page-node-type-page-web .main-container .col-sm-3 .sjpl-chat-container { But Wayne Walker at KPIX from 1973-95 never covered the local schools. .views-field-field-news-subtitle h3, .news-release-date, .news-release-contact, .news-release-header { . They received a warm welcome right off the bat. .chat-cards .card { Still love the stooges! .aspires-no-cta { His preferred moniker was the boys., McCormick and his characters enjoyed decades of popularity. My father, William word Hillary edge had a kid show, briefly, called the Marshall ward show. padding: 3px 20px 3px 10px; } (KTVU) - KTVU personality Pat McCormick says hes alive and well, despite reports of his passing. } } fieldset#edit-field-college-compare-value--wrapper { Dressed as a Cowboy of course with his trusty dalmatian dog "Rowdy". He did not want to discuss what happened, but said he was devastated that he shared the news and was truly sorry to his fathers fans. #views-exposed-form-frequently-asked-questions-page-2, .no-search { Dr. Patrick McCormick, Professor of Religious Studies, earned his Masters of Divinity and Theology from Mary Immaculate Seminary in Northampton, PA. clear: both; I'll keep my eyes open though, and that's great that you got to be on the show! [1] While working at ABC-TV in Los Angeles, McCormick pitched a children's program to a CBS affiliate in Fresno, California, and went on the air there in Spring 1959 with Charley (inspired by Dennis Weaver's character Chester on Gunsmoke) and his sidekick Humphrey. .view-acquia-search .field--name-field-hero-image img { .show-chat-bubble { float: left; Her the best movie is Sold. } font-weight: bold; Though McCormick has said in interviews he left his characters behind because he was all TV-ed out, he also admitted to SF Gate in 2008 that he missed Charley and Humphrey just as much as the public does. padding-left: 5%; I can say Im so proud of my dad and Judy for doing what they did for the kids. display:none; 2 in Oakland), and Charley & Humphrey with Pat McCormick (KTVU ch. Hi JeffAre you the Jeff that married Theresa W and worked at Data General? clear: both; float: left; McCormick left to take an ABC network job in New York from 1964 to 1966, then returned to the Bay Area and, in 1967, renewed "The Charley and Humphrey Show" at Channel 2. } I think he was a known personality in SF, maybe a critic or journalist, who started doing this. .people-card, .flex-wrap-card.people-card { padding-right: 0; } padding: 30px 0; These short TV segments remain a perfect encapsulation of how McCormicks characters so deftly used goofy humor to help children learn, think independently, and do the right thing. } padding:0; padding: 8px; .view-homepage-promo-cards.view-id-homepage_promo_cards .attachment.attachment-after, .view-homepage-promo-cards.view-id-homepage_promo_cards.view-display-id-page_1 .view-content { padding-left: 10%; @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { } } Nov. 3, 1974. box-shadow: 7px 9px 14px rgba(0,0,0,0.4); } padding: 3%; p.farsi { .path-music-index-search .col-sm-3 { If you are the Jeff I knowhope all's well. color: #3f4444; Pat McCormick (born c. 1933) is a retired local television personality in San Francisco, California's KGO-TV, and Oakland's, KTVU channel 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where among many jobs he was the nightly news' weatherman, hosted the midday movie Dialing for Dollars program, and co-hosted the local edition of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Pat graduated from Oskaloosa High School with the class of 1967. .blog-comments h2 { } right: 15px; remove on Oct 4. .member-apply-icon { } In addition to introducing the cartoons, the Oakland Tribune reported, they give brief news reports adapted for little ones; a nice idea.. .page-node-type-blog-lang .col-sm-9 { } padding: 30px; display: flex; I think it was on channel 36. If the count was, for instance, 3/top, the host would start at the top of the slip of phone book and count three numbers down from the top and call the resulting number. margin: 5px 0 0; @media screen and (min-width: 1755px){ } display: flex; width:100%; display: -ms-flexbox; .js-form-item-field-hours-sunday-value { I don't recall Kippy the Cop, and was not able to find any references to him on Google. Charley and Humphrey have always had a good, positive message with the kind of snark people of all ages can enjoy.. Take care! height: 0; background: #fff /*#F5F5F5*/; KTVU (Channel 2) weathercaster Pat McCormick, one of the most popular and enduring television personalities in the Bay Area, will retire at the end of May. } } The calls were made during commercial breaks while the afternoon movie was being screened. .alert-chat { /*.blog-comments article .links.inline.list-inline, .path-comment .region-content article .links.inline.list-inline { margin-bottom: 10px !important; Your title is correct and a Google search shows Bay Area television listings in February and June 1964 issues of the Oakland Tribune through newspapers.com (sorry, we don't have access). } .view-homepage-promo-cards.view-id-homepage_promo_cards .attachment.attachment-after .views-element-container .views-element-container:active { .form-item.js-form-item.form-type-radio.js-form-type-radio.form-item-worksroom-setup.js-form-item-worksroom-setup.radio { width: 100%; float: left; } Subsequently lol. } flex-direction: column-reverse; } .view-homepage-promo-cards.view-id-homepage_promo_cards .view-homepage-promo-cards.view-id-homepage_promo_cards { } header #block-sjpl-quicklinks { .faq-dt { margin-top: 20px; } width: 230px; .path-music-index-search .col-sm-9 { padding-right: 10%; She is a celebrity journalist. } #views-exposed-form-volunteer-of-the-year-block-1 .form--inline { According to Wikipedia, McCormick is now approximately 88 years old. color: #333; Somewhere around there as far as I know.