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Here's an episode of a show I watched every Saturday morning when I was twelve — Mighty Mouse Playhouse, which probably lasted on CBS longer than its ratings warranted for a simple reason: It was produced by the Terrytoons cartoon studio and that studio was purchased by CBS in 1955.  So it cost the network just about nothing to run Terrytoons and they even made a few attempts at programming them in prime time.

This video contains the original commercials and they're probably the best part of it. There's a commercial I must have seen seventy-eight skillion and a half times for Beefaroni. There's a spot in there for Kellogg's Froot Loops which then was a relatively new product…with Mel Blanc doing the voice of Toucan Sam and Lucille Bliss as the little toucans. Later on, Sam got the voice of Ronald Colman as imitated by Paul Frees and later, by Maurice LaMarche imitating Paul Frees imitating Ronald Colman. These days, Sam just sounds British and kinda boring.