TV From the Days of Yore

Kenneth Burns has a post today which mentions a TV show from his childhood. After reading it, I went to YouTube in search of some clips of programs from my own childhood growing up in Chicago.

Here's a scene which I recall well from a show called Gigglesnort Hotel. Bill Jackson owned the titular hotel which was populated by an array of zany characters. In this clip, Jackson help Blob prepare for a date.



And then there was Son of Svengoolie who did gags during breaks in showings of old and really bad horror movies.





Any readers from Chicago have other favorites? Did Madison have any locally-produced programming like this?