TFTP Kids: Openings for "Captain Kangaroo" from CBS (1960s & 1980s)

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Length - 0:47 (top), 0:56 (bottom)

"Captain Kangaroo" was a very long-running kids' program on CBS that lasted for thirty years from the mid-1950s through the mid-1980s, long enough that the show's viewers at the end of its run were the children of the viewers who watched it towards the beginning of its run. Bob Keeshan played the Captain, who in the program's earliest years was portrayed as a sort of custodian (and a somewhat gruff one) of what was called the "Treasure House". By the '70s, the character of the Captain had softened and become more of a grandfatherly or avuncular figure and the Treasure House locale of the show had become the "Captain's Place".

Above are two opening sequences from "Captain Kangaroo", one from probably about the early-1960s, the other from the late-1970s or early-1980s. Apart from the fact that the early one is in black-and-white and the later one in color, the two sequences show a consistency in the playful nature of Keeshan's portrayal of the Captain, what with the opening and closing of many tiny doors in the larger door in the 1960s opening and the clips of many different scenes from the program in the later opening. Both openings show the program's basic set as it had evolved: a counter (behind which puppets, especially Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit, could appear) flanked by shelves on one side and a grandfather clock on the other.