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Skyshale033 Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been
6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around
1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do
remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in
72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of
a cave talking to a little girl Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show? YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate
Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of
other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an
antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was!
I don’t think it was WTSF though. Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show? Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know
exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in
‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel
58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me
see what I remember. It took place in Candle cove, and it was about
a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the
Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too
easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name.
Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel
58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged.
It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh.
I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model,
to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too. do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always
told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where
the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause.
YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and
the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really
tall, narrow teeth. ’kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show? i honestly, honestly thought the villain was
pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick,
Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think
that meant he had only one eye. But yeah, the villain was another marionette.
The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously
could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of
nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his
glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s
skin?? mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show? yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t
open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why
does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at
the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN” Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show? I’m so relieved that other people remember
this terrible show! I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream
I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters
were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just
screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming,
screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I
woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033 Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing
in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember
seeing what you described. they just screamed. Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show? Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember
seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening
so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the
last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it
back on. mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show? i visited my mom today at the nursing home.
i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered
a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked
why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona
go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch
dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”