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	Kukla, Fran, and Ollie @ Toonarific Cartoons
		Kukla was a bald puppet with a big nose and a high voice (whose name incidentally means "doll" in Russian).
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie was a freewheeling, easy-paced show that featured a memorable cast of colorful characters.
		Simultaneously, from 1969 to 1971, Kukla, Fran and Ollie was revived for PBS.
	www.toonarific.com /show.php?show_id=2002 (318 words)

	Meet the Kuklapolitans
		Fran said she thought a post-mortem might be funny---everybody could be very sweet at first, she said, and wind up battling.
		Ollie modestly admits to being the star of the show, but his claim is sometimes disputed by admirers of Kukla, the other puppet principal.
		Kukla is not entirely sure just what he is; once Fran told him he was a blessing, and although he settled for that, the question of identity still bothers him occasionally.
	www.richsamuels.com /nbcmm/kptns.html (2586 words)

	Kukla, Fran and Ollie
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie was the first children's show to be equally popular with children and adults.
		She was the first to mention Ollie's mother and prompted Tillstrom to create the character for a future show.
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie was revived for two season (1969-1971) for PBS, and from 1971 to 1979, the Kuklapolitans and Allison served as hosts for the Saturday afternoon CBS Children's Film Festival.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/K/htmlK/kuklafrana/kuklafrana.htm (904 words)

	Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie was an early television show using puppets, originally created for children but soon watched by more adults than children.
		The program was renamed Kukla, Fran and Ollie (KFO) and transferred to WNBQ (the predecessor of Chicago's WMAQ-TV) on November 29, 1948.
		Fran was Fran Allison, a radio comedian and singer who was usually the only human to appear onscreen, filling the role of big sister and cheery voice of reason as the puppets engaged each other concerning their foibles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie (629 words)

	Allison, Fran
		Fran Allison is perhaps best known for playing the warm-hearted human foil to the Kuklapolitan Players, a troupe of puppets familiar to almost every viewer in the early days of U.S. television.
		Allison appeared with the puppets on the children's program Kukla, Fran and Ollie, which aired regularly from 1947 to 1957, and in subsequent reunions in the late 1960s and mid-1970s.
		Born in Iowa, Allison began working as a songstress on local Waterloo, Iowa radio programs and eventually moved to Chicago in 1937, where she was hired as a staff singer and personality on NBC Radio.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/A/htmlA/allisonfran/allisonfran.htm (710 words)

	TV ACRES: Puppets & Puppeteers > Kukla, Fran & Ollie
		Each program began with Kukla Fran and Ollie singing "Here we are...Yes, by gum and Yes, by golly, Kukla Fran and Ollie..." The secret to the show's charm was the special chemistry between puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison who treated the puppets like real people.
		Kukla's best friend Ollie originally didn't talk, but with the premiere of "St. George and the Dragon" at the RCA exhibit of the New York's World Fair in 1939, you couldn't keep him quiet.
		In March of 1985 Burr Tillstrom made an appearance with Kukla, Fran Allison and Ollie at the Museum of Broadcasting in New York City.
	www.tvacres.com /puppets_kukla.htm (444 words)

	Celebrity Fan Letters to "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"
		All my friends whose critical judgement I respect are intensely devoted fans of Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and I knew about the fame of your show almost as soon as the formal critics, and I followed the story of its battle for space and all the other grim problems that went along with that.
		When the coaxial cable was hooked in, and Kukla, Fran and Ollie arrived on the Atlantic coast, I happened to hit channel 4 in passing and paused there.
		Fran is a charmer - would love to see more of Burr Tillstrom - maybe Kukla and Ollie could work him some nite.
	kukla.tv /fan.html (1848 words)

	Kukla, Fran and Ollie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie was fantastic as long as it was live and ad-libbed (1947-57).
		FRAN was (don't laugh) comparing steaks with KUKLA, OLLIE and some other blonde woman whose name I don't recall (I'm not sure they even identified her).
		Kukla was cute, too, one of the few clowns from my childhood that didn't terrify me. The program was for children but not insulting to adults.
	www.jumptheshark.com /k/kuklafranandollie.htm (1659 words)

	Kukla, Fran and Ollie Frequently Asked Questions
		KFO's first run ended in 1957, but the Kuklapolitans were on the air in one form or another until the mid 1980s.
		Burr was born on October 13, 1917 and Fran was born on November 20, 1907.
		Bufforfington, Perry Porpoise, Hubert Skunk, Herbert Hare, Felicia Rabbit, and of course, Fran!
	kukla.tv /faq.html (518 words)

	The Kukla, Fran, and Ollie Mikado
		This is a very heavily adapted performance of The Mikado by Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, that appeared on NBC television in 1954.
		Kukla is Nank-Poo, and Ollie is Ko-Ko (though he wears a headdress that seems to be based on Fancourt's Mikado costume).
		Coincidentally, there is a Kukla, Fran and Ollie exhibition at the Chicago Historical Society {http://chicagohs.org/KFO/KFO.html) at which a friend of mine saw a portion of the Mikado Dress Rehearsal episode.
	www.concentric.net /~oakapple/gasdisc/mikkukla.htm (370 words)

	Kukla Fran & Ollie fans? - Muppet Central Forum
		I know KFO is available on vidoe and DVD and one of these days I really shuld try to lay my hands on some.
		Anyway, I'm a Kukla Fran and Ollie fan (could you tell?) As for the DVDs, apparently they are being held up because the person who owns the rights lost money on the videos, and doesn't want to do the same by releasing DVDs.
		Ollie the Dragon was the only puppet with a mouth that opened and Burr did not really do "lip sync".
	forum.muppetcentral.com /showthread.php?t=3140 (1023 words)

	TV ACRES: Children's Show Hosts - Fran Allison (Kukla Fran & Ollie)
		The secret to the show's charm was the special chemistry between puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison who treated the puppets like real people.
		Reportedly, Fran never looked at the puppets back stage so she could always retain the fantasy that the puppets were alive.
		While freshman at the University of Chicago in 1936, Kukla derived his name from an encounter with Russian ballerina Tamara Toumanova whom upon seeing the sweet little puppet exclaimed "Kukla", an affectionate Russian word for doll.
	www.tvacres.com /child_kuklafran.htm (641 words)

	Burr Tillstrom, Creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie
		The curator and his son Nick Samuels with Burr Tillstrom and Kukla and Ollie.
		I therefore took Nick to work that Saturday so he could see his television friends in the flesh (unfortunately, Fran Allison was ill at the time and did not appear in "Crisis at the Egg Plant").
		Read the Kuklapolitan Chronology, a summary covering the period 1947-1957, the first decade of Kukla, Fran and Ollie on television.
	www.richsamuels.com /nbcmm/burr.html (437 words)

	Christmas Adventures of Kukla, Fran and Ollie - 12/17/50 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Both Fran and Kukla thought there was nothing like a good old-fashioned Christmas tree and the rest of the Kuklapolitans agreed.
		Kukla had tried to reach the top of the tree with the star but the ladder wasn’t quite high enough so Buelah put it on with the help of her indoor broom.
		Fran was standing in the doorway stringing cranberries and kept reminding Cecil Bill to hold the ladder good and steady.
	users.ultinet.net.cob-web.org:8888 /~kfo/adv4.html (572 words)

	The CBS Children's Film Festival with Kukla, Fran and Ollie
		When I first created this website devoted to Kukla, Fran and Ollie, I immediately began to get emails about The CBS Children's Film Festival, and the films shown during its run.
		Well, thanks to some incredible research by a fan of the show, we now have info on all the films that were aired on the series.
		Fran is definitely speaking to children, in an almost educational way, something that rarely happened on Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
	kukla.tv /cbs.html (4563 words)

	Kukla, Fran and Ollie Collectibles
		Unlike other puppet shows, "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" never put much effort into marketing toys of the characters.
		In fact, there were very few KFO products of any kind - no lunchboxes, greeting cards, calendars, etc., were ever sold.
		When "Kukla and Ollie" returned to the air in 1961, Burr began to appreciate the value of merchandising and found ways to market toys, including hand puppets.
	kukla.tv /collect.html (144 words)

	Ollie - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		the Ollie Impossible, a variant trick first performed by Rodney Mullen
		Ollie Fliptrik, the main character in an eponymous comic strip about skateboarders
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie, The classic TV show.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ollie (77 words)

	Kukla, Fran and Ollie
		Joined by their front-of-stage friend Fran Allison, the Kuklapolitans—Oliver J. Dragon, Buelah Witch, Cecil Bill, Madame Ooglepuss, Fletcher Rabbit, Colonel Crackie, and Kukla himself—were welcomed into hundreds of thousands of American homes on network television shows of a variety of lengths and formats in the 1950s.
		Working without a script, the cast of Kukla, Fran and Ollie improvised conversations about everyday life laced with humor, astute commentary on current events, original music, and perennial features.
		Adams, Rosemary K. “Here We Are Again: Kukla, Fran and Ollie.” Chicago History 26 (Fall 1997): 32–51.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/697.html (171 words)

	5519. Bankhead, Tallulah. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If the programs I have seen, save for “Kukla, Fran and Ollie,” the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie was a popular television show of the 1950s starring Fran Allison and Burr Tillstrom’s hand puppets.
		At this point, Bankhead had never appeared on television; later, she would.
	www.bartleby.com /66/19/5519.html (106 words)

	Kukla, Fran, and Alan by Gary North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Half a century ago, the daily puppet show, "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" delighted millions of children and a lot of their parents.
		Although I was never a big fan – I was a "Time for Beany" partisan – I recognized early that Ollie the Dragon, with his one enormous tooth, was mostly toothless.
		I was reminded of Ollie this week when Alan Greenspan announced that the Federal Reserve System would raise the federal funds rate by.25 of a percentage point.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north283.html (2765 words)

	Kukla, Fran & Ollie Talk Politics
		Popular entertainment did not imply turning a blind eye to politics.
		In this 1950s clip from the popular children's show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Fran Allison listens with Oliver J. Dragon (Ollie) to election returns.
		The excerpt also points to the ongoing role of radio broadcasting amid the growing popularity of television.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/410103.html (79 words)

	Kukla , Fran, and Who? ... ... .. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		October 23, 2006: In thinking back to my adolescence during the Golden Days of telecommunications, I'm reminded of Burr Tilstrom (the hand puppeteer - and Fran Allison, known as hostess of Tilstrom's show and "Aunt Frannie" on Don McNeils radio Breakfast Club).
		The "Kuklapolitan players" were tasteful and conservative spokespersons for Double Entendre(sort of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's satirical comments) but these "Fifties" puppets could be taken on a children's or adult level.
		Kukla Fran and Ollie was broadcast from Chicago as was Zoo Parade, Breakfast Club, Super Circus and many other fine shows.
	walterstark.blogster.com /kukla_fran_who__.html (688 words)

	TIME.com: End of the Affair -- Sep. 9, 1957 -- Page 1
		When Burr Tillstrom's gentle Kukla, Fran and Ollie was chopped down from half an hour to 15 minutes six years ago, some 10 million fans proved they could be as loud as they had been loyal.
		The Washington Times-Herald asked: "Who's responsible for this brainstorm—someone who's mad at the human race?" The late Playwright Robert Sherwood moaned: "Calamity." Last week ABC's Kukla, Fran and Ollie, TV's second oldest network show (after Kraft TV Theater) went dark after a ten-year run, and all earlier sounds became mere whimpers.
		Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear to watch the puppets being shut away in their box.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,893651,00.html (588 words)

	Allison, Fran — Infoplease.com
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie: Tis the Season to Be Ollie (1970)
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie: Madame O's Merry Musicale (1970)
		Kukla, Fran and Ollie: Kukla Discovers America (1970)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0155333.html (64 words)

	Christmas Adventures of Kukla, Fran and Ollie - 12/24/50 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Kukla and Ollie were at the store checking the food list to make sure they had everything.
		Ooglepuss was busy with the turkey, Fran with the pies and Buelah with a large pot on the stove when the bunch rushed in from their errands — cheeks and noses rosy with cold.
		Then Fran and Kukla sang one together — a soft lovely one — a favorite of the theirs.
	users.ultinet.net.cob-web.org:8888 /~kfo/adv5.html (522 words)

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	Larry Smith Biography
		Larry was influenced by such well known performers as Burr Tillstrum of "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie", Bill Baird's "The Art of Puppetry", Sid Ceasar's
		Larry first met Burr Tillstrum, the creator of the "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" TV show, in 1955 at a National Day of Puppetry Festival at Bowling Green University, in Northwest Ohio.
		Creator of well known "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" television show.
	www.larrysmithpuppets.com /biography.html (825 words)

	The Dancing Sausage Web Journal: Six Degrees of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
		Anyway, I was reading an interview with Joel Hodgson, which is what I do when I'm depressed about my job prospects, because I'm so fascinated with how he's managed to reinvent himself a million times...
		and in this particular interview, he mentions he was influenced by the TV show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.
		The family legend, if I remember it correctly, is that my great-grandfather, Jules "Tony" Herbuveaux, was one of the people who helped get this show on the air, and I'd been under the impression it was a kids' show.
	twistedmatrix.com /~gus/dswj/arch/000725.html (247 words)

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