Kirchner and a large, Circus-type Brass Band.
#SUPER CIRKUS TV#
Unlike so many other TV Shows (most in fact)originated in New York (Radio City) or Los Angeles (Television City), good old Claude Kirchner (Ringmaster)and Company were Broadcast Live, from Chicago, "that toddlin' town!" The Cast was composed of the aforementioned Human Bean Pole, Mr. The irrefutable evidence was perfectly clear.
(having been Born in Chicago Lying In Maternity Hospital, located on the Campus of The University of Chicago). There was a special affinity that we had in our household for "SUPER CIRCUS", and young as I was then, this connection was perfectly clear. So it then We saw the rise of such shows as the CBS TV's "SEALTEST BIG TOP"(1950-57) on Saturday Morning's and Sunday Afternoon's "SUPER CIRCUS"(1949-56), shown over ABC TV Network. The best and worst aspects of TV are the two sides of the same coin! So, TV was here and the Execs, even then being the unimaginative bean-counters that they were, and are, wanted their own Circus. We simply mean that by virtue of its mass communication powers, over-exposure proves to be the real problem. As for the downside, It is the same thing! Yes it is. Like anything else, the exposure on "the Tube" enhanced recognition, familiarity and fame of any act in any branch of the showbiz industry. This development was felt by the live Circus World (the "legitimate" Circus, if you will) in two directly opposite ways.
#SUPER CIRKUS PROFESSIONAL#
In addition to introducing a vast portion of the public to Athletic/Entertainment/Morality Plays that we call Professional Wrestling, TV programming sought identification with and exploitation of the long existing world of Circus. In the 1940's, with the End of World-wide hostilities and the Defeat of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and their little buddy Satellite Nations, the rise of television came to the forefront in matters of modern culture. At one time, in the period of time between the World Wars, traveling circuses, carnivals and the like, probably numbered in the hundreds in a Depression shackled, 'New Deal' America alone. The use of canvass tents and virtual cities on wagons are as much of a subject of popular fiction as they were of their own World. So it comes as no surprise to any Buffs of the Big Top or any genuine Historians that the World of Sawdust, the Exotic and All Superlatives is so deeply ingrained in our own History and Collective Psyche of the Modern Western Civilizations of Europe and the Americas. The arrival of such an entertainment in town was a highly anticipated event, possibly being numbered among the truly great moments in any year of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. In addition to providing a sort of 'vulgar' entertainment for the common man, the Medicine Shows, Wild West Shows and Circuses, provided contact with the Big Cities "back East" for so many "frontier" towns in the Middle West and Western United States.
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