"The last I looked, there was a farm report and a rerun of 'Circus Boy'."
Brooke Collins
'BANACEK'
"FLY ME... IF YOU CAN FIND ME"
"FLY ME... IF YOU CAN FIND ME"
Miss Collins was talking about Hangston, Nevada's TV programming. And a farm report and the televersion of an actual TV show were offered as proof that the local TV schedule was indeed a vast landscape.
The mention of 'Circus Boy', which was a real TV show in our world, is not a Zonk.
From Wikipedia:
Circus Boy is an American action/adventure/drama series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1958. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960.
Set in the late 1890s, the title of the series refers to a boy named Corky. After his parents, "The Flying Falcons," were killed in a trapeze accident, young Corky (Micky Dolenz – billed at the time as Mickey Braddock) was adopted by Joey the Clown (Noah Beery, Jr.), and the whole Burke and Walsh Circus family.
The young boy quickly found a role with the circus as water boy to Bimbo, a baby elephant whom Corky would come to consider his pet. Riding Bimbo's back, Corky dealt with adolescent problems, and helped the show's adults including Joey, owner/promoter Big Tim Champion (Robert Lowery). and head canvasman Pete (Guinn Williams), keep the circus successful as the traveling show moved from town to town each week.
From Wikipedia:
Circus Boy is an American action/adventure/drama series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1958. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960.
Set in the late 1890s, the title of the series refers to a boy named Corky. After his parents, "The Flying Falcons," were killed in a trapeze accident, young Corky (Micky Dolenz – billed at the time as Mickey Braddock) was adopted by Joey the Clown (Noah Beery, Jr.), and the whole Burke and Walsh Circus family.
The young boy quickly found a role with the circus as water boy to Bimbo, a baby elephant whom Corky would come to consider his pet. Riding Bimbo's back, Corky dealt with adolescent problems, and helped the show's adults including Joey, owner/promoter Big Tim Champion (Robert Lowery). and head canvasman Pete (Guinn Williams), keep the circus successful as the traveling show moved from town to town each week.
Corky and Joey the Clown and all the other members of the Burke and Walsh Circus were all historical figures whose lives were given the small screen. treatment. So the TV show 'Circus Boy' was about the real life of Corky. What we see however, is the real-life story of the Burke and Walsh Circus. But what people in Toobworld would see if they watched 'Circus Boy' on TV would be totally different in look, perhaps even in style, from what we've seen.
Everybody knows who starred in that televersion of 'Circus Boy', right? Corky was played by Mickey Braddock. But he gained worldwide popularity as a member of the Monkees under the name of Mickey Dolenz. And this was true even in Toobworld, where Mickey Dolenz has a televersion. And who confirmed that in Toobworld? Mickey Dolenz again.
Everybody knows who starred in that televersion of 'Circus Boy', right? Corky was played by Mickey Braddock. But he gained worldwide popularity as a member of the Monkees under the name of Mickey Dolenz. And this was true even in Toobworld, where Mickey Dolenz has a televersion. And who confirmed that in Toobworld? Mickey Dolenz again.
'THE MONKEES'
"MONKEES AT THE CIRCUS"
"MONKEES AT THE CIRCUS"
'Hey, I haven't been to a circus since I was a kid, man."
Mickey Dolenz
Mickey Dolenz
And that circus was the fictional one which was put together for the TV show in which he starred.
So in case I got you confused - it's not you, it's me - let me sum up:
People in Toobworld watch a recreation of the events surrounding Corky the Circus boy's life.
People in the Real World watch that actual life.
BCnU!
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