Junior Showtime

I heard recently that this Show had been unearthed some time ago and is awaiting the finances to be restored for subsequent DVD release.

This Show will hold a great deal of nostalgia for those of us over the age of 40. It featured Child Stars that were very entertaining to see, and I can recall vividly as a child and early teen myself, running in after school and playing outside to watch this in its regular teatime slot!

It featured dancing, singing, novelty acts and the like; something that is definitely lacking in our modern-day world - more's the pity...

Great stuff!

I went to a recording of two episodes which I believe were produced by Jess Yates of Paula fame. This was at the City Varieties in Leeds ("Good Old Days"), and Jack Wild was in the second show, probably the most legendary of all the performers they ever had. We all got a stick of rock and Yates raised his hat when he wanted applause. I also wonder whatever happened to Bobby Bennett who was the host that Sunday night. He wasn't in the show when Katherine Aponowycz appeared in later years when they didn't have a live audience, and he seems to have disappeared from the record books. My school class had a chance of going to a later recording as well but I wasn't drawn from the hat.