Her mom's favorite - any chance that it would be on repeats on tv or Squirrel named Sherlock - he would do anything for peanuts (if I'm rememberingĪ little girl of my own I would love to have her see the show that was We loved it when they would get out the storyboxĪnd start singing as they got ready to do a mini-play. Sister and I LOVED the show The Magic Garden. I would love to get a copy of their music and or videos or any memorabilia. That's about all I can remember, however, Was always trying to get Paula and Carole to give him some. Sure what his purpose was, but I do remember he loved peanuts and he Had several floors and a doorbell so that he could hear if someone wasĪt the door, which Paula and/or Carole frequently were. Go over and open the trunk and inside there were masks belonging toĪ story (The Three Little Pigs, etc.) which the women would then actįor Sherlock, the hot pink squirrel puppet, he lived in the tree which It's theme song." The answers are here, they're all in here, thereĪre no locks on story box, the story box, etc." Paula and Carole would Very tall sunflowers growing and a steamer trunk called the "Story box".Įvery show the lid of the story box would open and close in time to Beyond the tree off to the left there were Of course Paula and Carole told the joke out loud and theĭaisies giggled and shook. Of giggling daisies grew and every time they had a new joke they began The tree was giving something to Paula and Carol it always played it's (For some reason the episode in which the tree gave the women On and the tree also gave them something special for us to learn about Tree also lowered swings made out of vines for Carole and Paula to sit In a garden with a big magic tree which was Sherlock's home. Song," which is where I learned to say hello in other languages. Carole and Paula opened the show by singing the "Hello Straight, brown hair worn in two pony-tails with the elastics down below Had long, straight, black hair parted in the middle and Paula had long, Was my absolute favorite show! The show starred two women, Paula andĬarole, as well as a hot pink squirrel puppet named Sherlock. To be congratulated for recognizing the importance of keeping these
Of two long-time traditions - the ChristmasĪirings of Laurel and Hardy's 'March Of The Wooden Soldiers' and Magic Garden special broadcast came after the station's 2001 revival Twenty- six yearsĪfter the last episode was shot, it is still as modern as tomorrow."
" The Magic Garden defies the passage of time. With a stage show, most recently they performed at the South StreetĪ quote from WPIX program director Julie O'Neil on the station's website: & Paula still occasionally tour the New Jersey and New York area together (Here's a clip from the show from You Tube.) Up with the show, this program in particular generates a lot It was an historic occassion for NYC locals who grew Starring the original hosts, Carole Demas and Paula Janis on Thanksgivingĭay, 2002 at 1 PM. New York City revived one of their most popular children's programsġ1 broadcast a retrospective of The Magic Garden with new footage I definitely will need to check them out to relive an aspect of my childhood.Thanks to Mike Taylor for the screen captures! They've released DVDs with whatever has survived on tape from the original episodes from the show. (This is all starting to sound like a drug-induced trip.) The funniest part was that no sooner did I see the news article that I was suddenly able to sing the entire opening theme song, which begins like this: "Here in the garden of make believe / the magical garden of make believe / where flowers chuckle and birds play tricks / and the magic tree grows lollipop sticks." Paula and Carol are now in their late 60s and still performing together. And there was the ever ridiculous, peanut-snorfing Sherlock the pink squirrel. There was the Chuckle Patch, planted daisies that had jokes written on their leaves, and when the girls read the jokes aloud, the daisies would giggle. There was the Storybox, a magical trunk that would open and close on its own (you could see the wires!), and when they would open it, there were costumes inside and they would act out a story based on whatever they found. There was always folk singing with Paula playing the guitar and Carole leading the (unseen) children in song. There's a sense of innocence and simplicity in it that I think children's shows have lost. Looking back, I realize now how low-budget and campy it was, but I loved it. The show was on in the 1970s on a local channel here in the New York area. When I was young, I absolutely loved this show. I just had a blast from the past! The New York Times has an article and video clip about one of my all-time favorite childhood television shows, The Magic Garden.
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