Here's a list of all the existing kinescopes of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.  (Kinescopes were made, essentially, by filming a television monitor during a live broadcast.)

    Though the Kuklapolitans began their daily show in 1947, "kines" (KINN-eez) were not made until 1949, after the show went national.  Viewers around the country would see each kine weeks after the episode had been broadcast live to the cities linked by the NBC coaxial cable.  That's why the episode entitled "Kine Christmas" was filmed on November 16, 1949 - so each station around the country could air it before Christmas.
 


 Kukla, Fran and Ollie aired at 6 p.m. Central Time each weekday evening for a half-hour, until November of 1951 when it began airing from 6 to 6:15.   Beginning in the fall of 1952, it aired once a week on Sunday, at 3 pm.

 
 

    In 1954, the show moved to the ABC network.  No films of these shows exist, perhaps because by that time network shows could be broadcast live to the entire country, eliminating the need for kines.  Fortunately, by that time much of Burr's best work had been preserved in these films.

    Only a few of these shows have been transferred to videotape for public viewing - if you'd like to vote for KFO to be released on DVD, click here!

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1949

February
24 Babysitter Show
28 Back From Richmond - River Boat

March
7 Income Tax
8 Transcription Show
9 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

April
11? High-brow, Low-brow, Middle-brow

- Summer Vacation -

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August
8 Opening Show
9 Luggage Arrival
10 Fletcher's Lecture
11 Return of Buelah Witch
12 Whaling Pageant
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15 Birthday Party
17 Lemonade
19 Summer Theatre
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22 Amusement Park
23 Ollie Leaves But Returns
26 Symphony
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29 Kinescope Show
31 Kukla's Date

September
1 Fletcher Sorts Mail
2 Railroad Fair
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5 Labor Day
6 First Day of School
7 Ollie's Old Trouble
8 Film Test
9 Country Fair
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13 Hospital Show
14 Contributions to Courier
15 Arabian Nights
16 On Wisconsin
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19 Milwaukee Was Fun
20 New Price
21 Sleepy Time
22 Soapy Opera
23 Western (Which Way Did He Go?)
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26 Mme. Ooglepuss Loses Wig
27 Sealtest
28 How To Take A Cue
29 Tooey Talk
30 Fixing Carpet and Hopscotch Polka

October
3 Getting Out New Issue of Courier
4 Library Day
6 Ice Cream (with Dave Garroway)
7 Packing for Washington and Russ' Wedding
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17 Back Home Again
18 Ollie's Recipe
19 Fashion Show
20 Buelah Witch on Moon
21 Homecoming (with Gene Rayburn)
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24 United Nations Day
25 Burr Tillstrom in Commercial
26 Swan Lake
27 Ollie's Interview
28 Buelah Witch Prepares for Halloween
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31 Halloween

November
1 Guest - Milton Caniff
3 Junior League Show
4 Ollie Readying for a Date
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14 Sadler Wells Ballet
15 House Hunting
16 Kine Christmas
17 Gift Day
18 Old Memories and Old Songs
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21 Fran's Birthday
22 Ice Cream Stand
23 Thanksgiving Day Pageant
24 Thanksgiving Day
25 Glockenspiel's Employee Day
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28 4-H Club
29 Fred Waring Day
30 Kukla Kiddish

December
1 Salute to Utica
2 French Lesson
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5 Salute to Television
6 Burr Tillstrom Sells Ice Cream
7 Martin Kane, Private Eye - Martin Dragon, Private Tooth
8 Balancing Budget
9 Water Glasses
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12 Press Day - Getting Courier Together
13 Cecil Bill's Geiger Counter
14 Hobby Show
15 Everyone Eats Sealtest
16 Cactus Jim - Copper Canyon
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19 Three Billy Goats Gruff
20 Making Christmas Tree Stand
21 Christmas Pageant
22 Christmas Decorations
23 Christmas Eve
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26 Christmas Presents
27 Real Gay
28 Hansel and Gretel
29 Ice Cream Snow Man
30 New Year's Eve

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1950

January
2 Salute to Philadelphia
3 Ollie's Milkshake Mixer
4 Announce Trip East
5 Hot Fudge Sundae and Plans for Home
6 Mme. Ooglepuss' Club Date Rehearsal
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16 New York, New York
17 New York Party
18 Last Day in New York
19 Philadelphia
20 Camden
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23 Unpacking
25 Newsreels of New York
26 Ollie and Strange Sounds
27 Gypsy Show
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30 Boom Boy
31 Fletcher's Date

February
1 Salute to First Ford Day
2 Ground-Hog (Hawg) Day
3 Award Day
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6 Dentist Office
7 Ollie in Talent Directory
8 Plan to Drive to Cincinnati
9 Planning a Party
10 Going to Cincinnati
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13 Cinderella
14 St. Valentine's Day
15 Fletcher - Ad Man
16 Spike Jones
17 Art Exhibit
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20 Twenty Questions
21 Dog Day
22 George Washington's Birthday
24 Fran's Return
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27 Kukla and Ollie Lose Voices
28 Ollie - Sound and Glasses

March
1 Schedule Day
2 Easter Baskets
3 Salute to Memphis
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7 Buelah's New Jet Broom
8 Salute to Spring
9 Zither Day
10 Miss Coo-Coo Disrupts the Playhouse
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13 Dancing Lesson
14 Let's Bake a Sunshine Cake
16 Suggestion Box
17 New Yorker Article
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20 Milton Caniff (Peter Cottontail)
21 Fran as Secretary and Mme. Ooglepuss' Mink Coat
22 Band Show
23 Stage Scenery
24 Music Maestro
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27 Tree House Plans
28 Fitting Clothes
29 Godfrey, Crosby and Como
30 Joe Lockwood's Testimonial Dinner
31 April Fool

April
3 Gardening
4 Spring Show
5 Ollie's Thinking Machine
6 Ollie's Spring Hat
7 Pinafore
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10 Opera Show
11 Belated St. Patrick's Day
12 Shakespeare vs. Musical Comedy
13 Milwaukee Civic Progress Week
14 Taking the Census
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17 Boxing (with Dave Garroway)
18 Miss Witch Day
19 Baseball
20 Boy Astronomer (with Dave Garroway)
21 Kukla's Night at Actor's Club (with Dave Garroway)
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24 Museum Show
25 Fletcher's Garden Hints
26 Girl's String Trio
27 Mail Mix-up
28 Going to Benton Harbor

May
1 Kuklapolitan Dance Band
2 Fletcher's Chance to Finish Lecture
3 St. George and the Dragon
4 House Hunting
5 Circus Show
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8 Favorite Operatic Roles
9 Spoon Day
10 Hospital Show
11 Restaurant Business
12 New Orleans Salute
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15 Spring House Cleaning
16 Ollie's Hair-Do
17 Toscanini
18 Fletcher Breaks Pot
19 Going to Detroit and Cleveland
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22 Railroad Show
23 The Legal Show
24 Northwestern Show
25 Uke Lesson
26 Rhythm Band Day
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29 Tally-Ho Day
30 Preparing for Vacation
31 Picnic Day

June
1 Kukla is Silly Day
2 Two Commercials Today
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5 Art Show in Paris
6 4th of July
7 Mikado
8 Post-mortem of the Mikado
9 Let's Have a Carnival
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12 Summer Theatre
13 Mercedes' Growing Pains
14 Vacation Worries and Ford Station Wagon
15 Preparing for Trip
16 Fran Off to New York
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26 Welcome Home Fran
27 Doloras Meets the Family
28 Puppetry Festival Show
29 Packing for Vacation
30 Going on Vacation

- Summer Vacation, 1950 -

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August
28 Back Home From Vacation
29 Buelah Witch Arrives
30 Mme. Ooglepuss and the Colonel Return
31 Fletcher Rabbit and Cecil Bill Arrive

September
1 Nantucket Whaling Pageant
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4 Labor Day Picnic
5 First Day of School
6 Doloras Comes Back
7 Paying Summer Bills
8 On the Way to Atlanta
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11 Doloras' Education
12 Oliver Dragon - Television Consultant
13 County Fair
14 Committee Meeting
15 Fran - Girl Photographer
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18 Ballet Day
19 Art Elkins - 20 Years with NBC
20 Night Club Circuit
21 Fran and Buelah Witch Make Up
22 Buelah Witch and Mme. Ooglepuss Make Up
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25 Salute to Ohio
26 Fixing the Floor
27 Cinderella
28 Fall Fashion Show
29 Oliver Dragon - Disk Jockey

October
2 Who's on the Cable
5 Apples Today - Mother Goose
6 Dragon Prep Rally
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10 Ollie's Chemical Set
11 Destination Moon
12 Columbus Day
13 Our Third Anniversary
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16 Concert Day
17 Doloras and Buelah Witch
18 Round Table Discussion
19 Everybody Feels Good Today
20 Fletcher Loses His Pumpkin
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23 Crooning Contest
24 United Nations Day
25 Ollie's Would-be Biography
26 Ollie Swallows Bird Whistle
27 Sweet William Gives His All
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30 Angie
31 Halloween

November
1 What to Do for H. Allen Smith
2 Oliver Dragon- Interior Decorator
3 As You Like It
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6 Happy Mother Goose (with Milton Caniff)
7 Election Day
8 Back from Detroit
9 Special Sound Effect
10 Working at Glockenspiel's Department Store
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13 Dragon Prep Football
14 Quiet Day
15 Bohemian Girl
16 Ollie the Model
17 Getting Ready for Christmas Shopping
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20 Fran's Birthday
21 Ollie's Culture Corner
22 Day Before Thanksgiving
23 Thanksgiving Day
24 Getting Ready for Minneapolis
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27 Water Glasses - Skater's Waltz
28 Frannie's Speech - print no. 4
29 4-H Day
30 Like the Old Days

December
1 Welcome to California
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4 Re-Salute to Los Angeles
5 Tennessee Waltz
7 Fran's Slip Cover
8 Oliver Twist
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13 Indian Pageant
14 Bewzie's Little Wonder Cookie Cutter and Cooker
15 Cecil's Serenade
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18 Ollie's Fairy Tale Production
20 Winter Carnival Day
21 Rehearsing Christmas Pageant
22 Getting Ready for Christmas
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25 Christmas Day
26 Exchanging Christmas Gifts
27 Hansel and Gretel (Boy's version)
28 Cecil Bill Gets New Piano
29 Mme. Ooglepuss and Buelah Witch's Glamorous Night

TOP
1951

January
1 New Year's Day - Ollie's Fountain of Youth
2 Kukla Sings "The Cuckoo"
3 Trip to Florida
4 Ollie's Model Agency
5 Kuklapolitan's TV Gym
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8 Getting Ready for New York
9 Who's Going to New York?
10 Ford Production Line
11 The Great Decision
12 Packing for New York
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15 New York
16 Second Day in New York
17 Who's Going to Sit with Doloras?
18 Ollie's Memoirs (In New York)
19 Ollie Decides to Come Home From New York
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22 Buelah Witch Comes Back
23 Mme. Ooglepuss' Aria
24 Helping Fran While She is Sick
25 Kukla's Surprise Party
26 Ollie's Weather Report
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29 Frozen Pipes at the Kuklapolitan Theatre
30 Mme. Ooglepuss and Col. Crackie Get Engaged
31 Ollie's Club Date Auditions

February
1 Doloras Gets Her First Tooth
2 Ground Hog Day
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5 Ollie's Old Records
6 More Wedding Plans
7 Buelah Witch Almost Tells Mercedes How Mme. Ooglepuss Did It
8 Life Magazine
9 Old King Cole
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12 Robert Q. Kukla on "The Show Must Go On"
13 Getting Ready for Wedding and Valentine's Day
14 St. Valentine's Day
15 Ollie's George Washington Birthday
16 Fran Leaves for Los Angeles
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19 Robert Q. Lewis - Bobsie Visits
20 Robert Q. Lewis - Bobsie Q. Lewis' Second Day
21 Doloras Gets a Bath
23 Miss Coo-Coo Drops By
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27 Getting Ready for Dinner Party
28 Mme. Ooglepuss Faced with Decision

March
5 Fran's Welcome Home
6 Ollie and Ollie Virus
7 Moving Day
8 Wedding Presents
9 Kuklapolitans Reprise Song Contest
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12 Girl's Trio Recording
13 Kukla's Bad Day
14 Planning the Shower
15 Expense Account Day
16 Getting Ready for St. Patrick's Day Parade
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19 Committee Investigation
20 Goodbye to Sealtest
21 Spring Pageant
22 Making a Kite
23 New Clothes
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26 Planning the Shower
27 Tide - First Day
28 Mountain Folk Story
29 Ollie Goes to the Dentist
30 Msr. Josef's Birthday Party

April
2 Growing Pains
3 Ollie's Contracting for Repairs
4 Fran Allison - Girl Conductor
5 Take Off Pounds Sensibly
6 Little Small Town Girl
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9 Kukla's Busy Day
10 Romeo and Subject
11 Award Dinner
12 Col. Crackie Shaves his Moustache
13 Singing Lessons
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16 Ollie Wins the Song Contest
17 Baseball
18 Orchids Today
19 Am I Getting Through to You?
20 Old Movies
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23 Miss Coo-Coo Comes Back
24 The Great Mail Mystery
27 Ballet School
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30 Kuklapolitan Courier

May
1 Setting the Date
2 Trip to the Caribbean
3 Ollie Misses Dragon Retreat
4 Quiz Kids
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7 Ollie Has Joined the Ballet
8 Ollie Comes Back
9 Lullabye of Broadway
10 Fran Allison - Girl Life Photographer
11 Die Fledermaus
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14 RCA Service Contract Contest
15 Engagement Off and On
16 Traveling Band
17 Fletcher Tries to Plan a "Life" Garden
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22 Getting Ready for Uncle Frank
23 Going on a Picnic
24 Beulah Has an Attack
25 Getting Fran Ready for New York
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28 Dragon Goulash
29 Ollie's Air Conditioner
30 Kukla and Ollie Singing
31 Ollie and His Facets

June
1 The Girls Get Back
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4 Fran Tells How She Made Records
5 Mme. Ooglepuss  Shower
7 The Day Before the Wedding
8 The Wedding Day?
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11 Kukla's Quiet Day
12 Buelah Witch Does Tide Commercial
13 Ollie's Show Boat
14 Mercedes' Candle Problem
15 Col. Crackie and Mme. Ooglepuss Come Back
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18 Ollie Builds Score Board for Fran
19 Ollie Goes to Eye Doctor
20 Mercedes' Prom
21 Kukla Plans to Go to Europe
22 Mercedes' Graduation
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25 Getting Ready for Europe
26 Checking List for Vacation
27 Tanglelochen
28 Ollie's Seasick Remedy
29 Saying Goodbye for the Summer

- Summer Vacation, 1951 -

TOP
August
27 Back Home
28 Everyone But Buelah Witch Is Back
29 First Day for Nabisco
30 Buelah Witch Returns

September
3 Ball Game and Lemonade
4 Opening the Cable to the West
5 School Days
6 Buelah Witch Recounts the Summer
7 Buelah's Day
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10 Ollie's Grey Hair
11 Jack's Birthday
12 Ollie Gets a Safe
13 Hit Parade
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17 Ollie's Memos
18 Buelah Gets Her Glasses
19 Raking Leaves
20 Ollie's Palmer House Routine
21 Into the Congo
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24 New Album Kick-Off
25 Looking for a Replacement for Kukla
26 County Fair
27 Story Telling for Doloras
28 Love Song in Paris

October
1 Carmen
2 Ollie Goes to Orthodontist
3 Let's Have Dinner at Home
5 Salute to NBC
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8 Ollie's New Tooth
9 Revilo Nogard Concert
10 Buelah Witch Makes Hat for Fran
11 Columbus Day 1951
12 Happy Birthday
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17 Fran's "Today Was Just Another Day"
18 Welcoming The Princess
19 Indian Summer Pageant
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22 Service Contract Contest II
23 Fletcher Rabbit, Straight Man
26 Dragon Prep Homecoming
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29 Tooie Talk
30 Fran Solos

November
1 Gommy's Birthday
2 Milwaukee Trip
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5 Ollie Gets Organized
6 Planning a Christmas Card
7 Kukla Bakes Nabisco Graham Cracker Cup Cakes
8 Ollie Wonders If He Should Go To New York
9 Ollie Plans a Vaudeville Show
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12 Thinking About Christmas
13 Magic Spells
14 Operation Dragon Talk
15 Skip Kukla and Imogene Gundy
16 Mercedes Has a Crisis
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19 Announce 15 Minute Show
20 Fran's Birthday
21 Getting Ready for Parade in Detroit
22 Thanksgiving Day
23 Last Day in Detroit
- (Beginning on November 26, KFO aired from 6 to 6:15 pm Central Time)
26 First 15 Minute Show
27 Mrs. Ed Ogg and Stock Show
28 Ollie Wins First Prize at Stock Show
29 Ollie Tries to Find Out What Kukla and Fran Want for Christmas
30 Pontiac Show

December
3 Mme. Ooglepuss and Col. Crackie Come Back
4 Fran Does Christmas Shopping
5 Guppies' Gavotte
7 The Guppies Have Guppies
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10 Mexican Show
11 Doloras Gets Wrapped In Package
12 Fran Practices for Christmas Singing
14 Funds for Fran
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17 Quiet Evening at Home
18 Twelve Days of Christmas
19 Christmas Cards
20 Making Christmas Tree Stand
21 Christmas Medley
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24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas Day
26 Ollie Has Amnesia
27 Ballet Opening
28 Ollie's Snow Plow
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31 New Year's Eve

TOP
1952

January
2 Look Award
3 Buelah Witch Gives Herself a Permanent
4 Mme. Ooglepuss Gets a Permanent
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7 First Day in Brooklyn
8 Kukla's Family
9 International Theatre
10 Everybody Staying in New York
11 Last Day in New York
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14 Ollie Helps Kukla While Fran is Away
15 Page From Cousin Amanda's Diary
16 Lullabye for Doloras
17 Ollie Is Lonesome for Fran
18 Flashback-Flashback-Flashback
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21 Ollie Throws His Hat In the Ring
22 Dorothy Collins
23 Col. Crackie Makes Up to Mme. Ooglepuss
24 Apprentice Stage Hand
25 Ollie Still
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28 Fran is Back
29 TV Forecast Awards
30 Fran Tells About Fishing in Florida
31 Spanish Ballet

 

February
1 Operation Groundhog


4 Kukla Thinks of Going Away
7 Doloras Gets Singing Lesson
8 The Mikado
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11 Mr. Jenkins of Snuff Corners
12 Jose Greco
13 Ollie Has a Bad Dream
14 Valentine Kukla and Doloras
15 Milton Caniff
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19 Cecil Bill Gets a Birthday
20 Up in Old Lincoln Park
21 Bessie Bunnie for Dinner
22 George Washington's Birthday
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25 Ollie - Daddy to All the Kuklapolitans
26 Wheelbarrow Offer No. 1
27 Bell, Book and Candle

March
3 Ollie Wants a Ferry Boat
4 A.A.A.
5 Go Back Out West, You All
6 Guppies Gavotte
7 Bell, Book and Candle
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12 Science Fiction Ollie
13 Doloras' Loose Tooth
14 Getting Ready for Washington
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17 First Day in Washington
18 Second Day in Washington
19 Party in Washington
20 Fourth Day in Washington
21 Last Day in Washington
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24 One Thousandth Show
25 Bird Whistles
26 Wishing
27 Fashion Show
28 Making Birthday Cake

April
1 April Fool's Day
2 Mme. Ooglepuss Goes to the Opera
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7 Fletcher Plans to Do Bohemian Girl
8 Primary Day
10 Ollie Forgives Fran
11 Jack Not At Piano - Ollie Subs
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14 What Shall We Record
15 Be Candid With Your Candidate
16 Ollie Loses His Hair
17 Ollie Wears a Snood
18 Show in Columbus
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21 First Day in New York
22 June Lockhart
23 Modern Dance versus Classical Dance
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28 Fran Returns
29 Word Gets Around About Buelah Witch
30 Buelah Witch Returns

May
1 Ollie Has Big Show Ideas
2 Last Night in New York
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5 Back Home Again
6 Kukla As Delivery Boy
7 Mme. Ooglepuss and Her New Wig
8 Camera Practice for the Team
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12 Mrs. Dragon Organizes the K.P.
13 Azalea Queen
14 Bells Arrive
15 Ollie Goes Shopping with Mrs. Dragon
16 Buelah Witch is Miss Sweet Gherkin
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20 Mrs. Dragon Sings Harmony
21 Mrs. Dragon Does Bird Whistles
22 Frontier Days
23 Goodbye to Maggie MacNamara
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26 Ollie Goes Fishing for 442 Fish
27 Bell Ringing Again
28 The Electronic Violin
29 Putting Doloras to Bed
30 Memorial Day

June
2 Planning a Lawn Party
3 Kukla and Cecil Bill Build a Teeter Totter
5 Mme. 0. Shakes the Building Singing
6 Fran Goes to Cedar Rapids
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10 Much Confusion
12 The Good Old Days
13 Fletcher Rabbit Plans to Go Away
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16 Mrs. Dragon Goes Home
17 Buelah Witch, Sound Man
18 Ollie Gets Organized
20 Buelah Witch Goes to the Aragon
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23 Ollie Gets His Cyclotron
24 B.W. Practices on Street Car
25 Paul Pooken Schalgl Visits
26 B.W. Has Trouble with Paul
27 Last Show Before Summer Vacation

- Summer Vacation, 1952 -

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(Beginning in the Fall of 1952, "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" aired on Sundays from 3 to 3:30 pm CST.)

August
24 First Day
31 Second Show

September
7 Back to School
14 Lemonade 2
28 Show for Tallulah

October
5 The Sunday Papers
12 Fifth Birthday
19 Ollie's Voting Machine
26 Halloween

November
2 Homecoming Game for Dragon Prep
9 Doloras Almost Leaves Us
16 KFO Visits in Cleveland
23 Thanksgiving

December
7 Mikado
14 Christmas Tree Stand
28 Go Go Get Your Man

TOP
1953

January
4 Return of Miss Coo-Coo
11 Ollie Produces "E Grilch Ge Dunk Dunk"
18 Recital Day
25 June Lockhart and New Line

February
1 Getting Ready to Go to California
8 First California Show
15 California and Dennis Day
20 "Dennis Day Show" with KFO
22 Last California Show

March
1 Back From California
7 Fran Late for Show
8 Ollie Has Picture Taken of His Tooth
15 Colonel Crackie's Day
22 Kaltenborn Interviews Ollie
29 Easter Bunny with Fletcher

April
5 Jose Greco
12 In New York

May
3 Circus Day
10 Arrival of Mrs. Dragon
17 Ollie's Zither
24 Dressing for Opera
31 Preparing for Boston

June
7 Kinescope Show
21 Last Show of the Season

- Summer Vacation, 1953 -

TOP
September
13 County Fair
20 Doloras' First Day at School
? Ollie and the Hornets' Nest

October
18 Halloween

November
1 Homecoming - 1953
8 Mrs. Witch Rents Her Gingerbread House and Comes to Visit
22 Before the Town Hall Concert
29 Welcoming Ollie Home From Triumphal Concert in New York

December
6 Making the Christmas Tree Stand
13 Cecil Bill Tries to String the Cranberries

TOP
 1954

January
3 Fran as Contestant in "Miss VUHF" Contest
10 Ice Carnival Show
31 This Is Your Life?

February
7 At The Wild West Picture Show
21(?) "The Mikado" Dress Rehearsal
28 Fletcher Rabbit Sings "Never Any Mail"

March
14 St. Patrick's Day Show
21 Fashion Show
28 French Festival

April
4 Dorothy Collins - New York
11 Fletcher Rabbit's Egg Machine
18 Mercedes is Home for Easter
25 Ollie Dreams of a Hospital and Check-up

May
2 Mrs. Dragon Comes To Visit
9 Hansel and Gretel
23 Mrs. Dragon Helps to Organize the Kuklapolitans
30 Plans for Kukla's Vacation

June
6 Madame Ooglepuss Tries To Reduce For "Bohemian Girl"
13 Last Show of Season

 


Additional shows:

Dec. 27, 1954:  Kuklapolitan Ball

April 10, 1955:  Bunny To Bunny - KFO Easter Show

October 7, 1956:  Steve Allen
 
 

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