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Who are these people? I am really confused.
 

The woman is Ricky Wertz who was a small time local Pgh TV celeb when we were kids. She may have hosted Tim's Jr. High Quiz or whatever it was called at the time. Tim, some help here?
 

The babe is Ricki Wertz - Pittsburgh TV goddess, host of popular kid's show Ricki and Copper (Copper was a dog) and also Jr. High Quiz. I'm not sure who the Poindexter is.
 

BTW Ian, you'll be thrilled to know I just taught Miranda the rule you used to title this post. Much to her mom's dismay she invokes it frequently.
 

Ricki and COPPER!!!! That, I remember. Oh, Copper was beautiful. I remember them crossing a bridge. Wow, thanks for that.

That's not Tim, though, despite the blinding similarity. Nice try, Ian. Tim didn't move to the area until 7th grade, and he wasn't 3 feet tall in 7th grade. As far as I know.

Jeez, it's like we're talking about some kind of missing legend or something. Tim, wouldja check in a little more often?
 

Sure looks like me, but I never had such a nice bowtie, though my mom did put me in Tabish set shit brown, bump toe Buster Browns one year.

Can somebody get Sherry to list all the WTAE, etc. newscasters, etc. from that era: Joe Dinardo, Paul ???,... for our enjoyment and edification?

btw, no one answered the trivia question about the biggest name to come out of Mister Roger's Neighborhood, besides MR himself.
 

Joe Negri?

When I first moved to Pittsburgh, I was at a stoplight and Fred Rodgers pulled up next to me. I waved to him. He smiled and waved back. Good neighbor, Fred.
 

My family saw Fred at Gullifty's one time. It was cooler than cool. I had several Duquesne friends who worked for Don Brockett (aka Chef Brockett) and met Fred through him. Brockett was quite the character and amazing. He had a great home in "The Hill of Squirrels" with tons and tons of rescue cats.
 

Hint: movie J9 starred in with Mel "sugar tits" Gibson; he's not the brother of the female lead....
 

Answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Keaton
 

A friend of mine worked the sound board for Mr Rogers Neighborhood while he was in college. He recounted some great behind the scene stories, including one on Michael Keaton.
 

WTAE newscasters...

Paul Long - remember he ripped up a picture of Johnny Rotten on the NEWS a few days before the Sex Pistols were going to play Pittsburgh. They never played the Burgh though as they had visa problems.

Don Cannon - who is still on PGH news on a different channel

Anyone remember the ramblings of GM John G. Conomikes? I didn't think so...

WPGH showed better stuff anyways. That's what I always tried to tune in way back in the pre-cable days. Great horror and science fiction movies on Saturday afternoons. Plus they were the only ones to televise Penguin hockey games.
 

>> Anyone remember the ramblings of GM John G. Conomikes? I didn't think so...

I don't remember the ramblings, but I remember the name. Loved channel 57, too.
 

Who ran Second City TV 11:00 on Saturdays? - when it was syndicacted from the CBC? I stumbled upon it by accident around 76 or 77. It took me the longest time to figure out what the hell it was. These were the true comedy gods.
 

I think that came with the newfangled thing, cable. My kids STILL can't believe we only used to have 4 channels.
 

I have come to believe that the Second City TV show was a main inspiration for our HS comic efforts. Monty Python gave us the absurd, but Second City showed us the common stuff that was just plain funny if you twisted it a little. SCTV was broadcast on WPGH on Saturday nights at 11pm and I thnk it was far better than the SNL crew of that same period - just after Belushi, Akroyd and Murray left. SNL devolved into a parade of sex and drug jokes that seeme lame. SCTV poked fun at small TV stations with unique characters like Count Floyd, Stan and Yosh Schmenge, Guy Caballero (who got an indie-rock band named for him), Crazy Hy, Edith Prickley, and of course the hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie.

Look who came out of SCTV....John Candy, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, Harold Ramis, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas...these people were inspired. Cut and paste into your browser:

http://sctv.org/intro.htm