Captain Kangaroo never had a studio audience Keeshan insisted on talking directly to the children watching at home and making each one feel special. Green Jeans, the Banana Man, and Slim Goodbody, the show imparted lessons to its young viewers with the gentle, guiding tone of its star. Through a quirky cast of characters, like the nature-loving Mr. By 1955, CBS had offered him his own show.Ĭonceived by Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo entertained millions of children from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running children’s television program of its time. It wasn’t long before Keeshan was running around a stage as the mute Clarabell, delighting children by spraying his boss in the nose with a seltzer bottle. “I wanted to be a lawyer.” During school, however, he returned to his gig at NBC, where by chance he sat near Buffalo Bob Smith, the future Howdy Doody creator. “Nobody plans a career in television,” he once said. Bill, taking classes at the University’s former campus on lower Broadway. When World War II ended, he attended Fordham on the G.I. He enlisted in the Marines shortly thereafter. Keeshan got his first taste of the television world as a high school student in 1944, when he landed a part-time job as an NBC page. As the Captain, Keeshan earned five Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and one National Education Award during the show’s nearly 30-year run.
That respect and admiration for our youngest citizens informed all of Keeshan’s work, from his early days as Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, to his own celebrated Captain Kangaroo, to his later work as a children’s author and advocate. Undergraduate School of Education, Class of 1951Įmmy and Peabody Award-Winning Children’s Educator and Entertainerīob Keeshan once said that in creating his beloved Captain Kangaroo program, he operated “on the conviction that is composed of young children of potentially good taste, and that this taste should be developed.”
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