Sonny Fox, who hosted the Sunday morning children’s staple Wonderama in the 1960s, died Sunday in Los Angeles of Covid-19-related pneumonia. He was 95.
His death was confirmed by his official website.
As host of the four-hour, New York-based Wonderama from 1959-67, Irwin “Sonny” Fox was one of era’s most popular kid-show hosts, exemplifying the local flavor that markets across the country had adopted. Wonderama was produced at New York’s Metromedia-owned Wnew-tv Channel 5, and also aired in other Metromedia markets including Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Cincinnati and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The show’s mix of cartoons, celebrity guests, magic tricks, art lessons, spelling bees and Fox’s slapstick humor entertained the kids in the live studio audience as well as TV viewers across the nation. Wonderama ultimately would run from 1955-77, again from 1980-87 and in 2017.
After leaving the show — he was replaced by another longtime host,...
His death was confirmed by his official website.
As host of the four-hour, New York-based Wonderama from 1959-67, Irwin “Sonny” Fox was one of era’s most popular kid-show hosts, exemplifying the local flavor that markets across the country had adopted. Wonderama was produced at New York’s Metromedia-owned Wnew-tv Channel 5, and also aired in other Metromedia markets including Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Cincinnati and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The show’s mix of cartoons, celebrity guests, magic tricks, art lessons, spelling bees and Fox’s slapstick humor entertained the kids in the live studio audience as well as TV viewers across the nation. Wonderama ultimately would run from 1955-77, again from 1980-87 and in 2017.
After leaving the show — he was replaced by another longtime host,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Doctor Who isn’t the only show that finds lost episodes. Earlier this month, Wpix, channel 11 in New York City, announced that they they had unearthed the long-lost Magic Garden Christmas Special, which will be broadcast today for the first time in 32 years.
The master tapes for the episode were found in a storage vault that had literally been forgotten about for over twelve years. The building alerted the station to its existence, and upon inspection, found a treasure trove of archived footage in a variety of formats. In addition to the Magic Garden special, they’ve uncovered decades-old news reports, and a pristine master copy of the locally-legendary Yule Log broadcast from the eighties. The station gives a peek into the vault in a piece prepared for their news broadcast. They continue to pore through the huge collection of footage, and sharing results of its findings on the twitter feed @WPIXArchives.
The master tapes for the episode were found in a storage vault that had literally been forgotten about for over twelve years. The building alerted the station to its existence, and upon inspection, found a treasure trove of archived footage in a variety of formats. In addition to the Magic Garden special, they’ve uncovered decades-old news reports, and a pristine master copy of the locally-legendary Yule Log broadcast from the eighties. The station gives a peek into the vault in a piece prepared for their news broadcast. They continue to pore through the huge collection of footage, and sharing results of its findings on the twitter feed @WPIXArchives.
- 12/25/2013
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
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