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Skyshale033

Subject: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Does anyone remember this kid's show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don't remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4 P.M.

mike_painter65

Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

It seems really familiar to me...I grew up outside of Ashland and was 9 years old in '72. Candle Cove...was it about pirates? I remember a pirate marionette at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl.

Skyshale033

Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

YES! Okay I'm not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn't belong to the body. I don't remember what station this was! I don't think it was WTSF though.

Jaren_2005

Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Sorry to resurrect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove for only a couple months in '71, not '72. I was 12 and watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.

It took place in Candle Cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn't a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don't remember the girl's name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.

Skyshale033

Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Thank you, Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.

mike_painter 65

Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Ha ha, I remember now too. Do you remember this part, skyshale: "you have...to go...INSIDE."

Skyshale033:

Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?