The 70s at 7

How many of remember waking up early Sunday mornings to catch Wonderama starring Bob McCallister for like 3, 4 hours on KTTV? How badly I wanted to be a member of the studio audience of that show, alas, it was filmed in New York City. Here's a clip of that show with a staple feature of the show, the snake can game. 70s kids shows like this would be WAY too slow for the ADD generation of today.



Then later in the 70s, Wonderama moved to ABS as a hipper, faster paced version of itself, Kids Are People Too, named after McCallister's closing theme song on Wonderama, and aimed at the same kids who watched Wonderama but who were now teens. Sadly creative differences led to McCallister's departure and after the first season he was replaced by Michael Young. However the upside of the change was that taping of the show moved to the former KABC studios on Prospect Avenue in Hollywood and yours truly (finally!) attended a taping in 1979 featuring guests Eddie Money and Suzy "Chapstick" Chaffee.