The Uncle Floyd Show – revisited!
December 4th, 2020 by Mr. C
The Uncle Floyd show came back alive again like fresh hot lava slowly oozing from a dormant – sleeping giant volcano last Tuesday! Uncle Floyd and long time producer and collaborator of Floyd’s, Scott Gordon started hosting a live viewing session of Uncle Floyd show episodes including the commercials and of course a live performance from special guest band! During the live viewing party, Uncle Floyd mentioned that there were approximately 6399 Uncle Floyd shows taped and that 5000 of them are gone forever. He didn’t want to get into the specifics of how they were lost but anyway that you slice it, that’s very sad and unfortunate. The Uncle Floyd Show is a piece of history that needs to be preserved in some form or fashion! On this particular night, Floyd & Scott re-ran the episode from November 30th, 1979. It was a trip seeing some of the old characters especially Oogie!
Now before you look at the hideous low-fi screenshots that I captured from the show below, let me explain to the young bucks who aren’t familiar with the plaid wearing NJ superhero and the phenomenon of what the Uncle Floyd show was. The Uncle Floyd show was an off the wall comedic – variety show who’s targeted audience were children & young adults alike but Floyd’s humor, ragtime piano playing, & outrageous skits along with live guest band performances on the show appealed to adults as well! The wacky cartoonish characters on the show like Netto, Skip Rooney, Mugsy, & Charlie added some spice too! Wait, did I leave out, Oogie & boxy!? The Uncle Floyd show ran from 1974 to about 1995 on UHF / 68 local public TV from what I remembered in the NJ/NYC area. Uncle Floyd Vivino and Scott Gordon are hosting virtual viewing parties of old Uncle Floyd Shows on Tuesdays at 8pm EST for the month of December but with the good feedback & viewership from last weeks show, I hope it continues on to 2021! So far the first and 2nd showings are hot tickets! Next Tuesday at 8pm EST, Floyd & Scott will show an episode from February 18, 1980 . Get your ticket for this viewing here before it sells out! ~> Tix for Uncle Floyd show on StageIt.com
Commercials from the Uncle Floyd show on November 30, 1979!
Tags: oogie, scott gordon, uncle floyd show, variety show
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