As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children’s programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. There were exceptions: Chuck McCann, who read the funnies to us on ...

He claimed to have taken about 20,000 pies in his face over the course of his career and was a TV icon to the Baby Boomer generation. There’s word from New York that Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman in ...

An outrageous kids show (that adults could appreciate too) with a wacky host, puppets, sketches, blackouts and songs. This mayhem maven started in 1953 on a station in Detroit before going national on ...

DETROIT — Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. Sales ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Soupy Sales, a pioneer of slapstick television comedy who once estimated he had taken 20,000 pies in the face, died on Thursday night in a New York hospice, the Detroit Free ...

Shor, he says, “does a terrific job of chronicling Soupy’s early days in television, especially those important Detroit years…where he created some of his most memorable characters. Shor makes a ...

DETROIT (AP) -- Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died.