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 Skyshale033

 (Skyshale):Does anyone remember episode 34?

 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. (If you were 7 around that time, you are now 50 years old, THE MORE YOU KNOOOOOOOW) 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? (No, it was about ruining a good team and show, oh wait thats Teen Titans Go) i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl

 Skyshale033

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 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 (Should that be two words?), 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 (Pfft, was one of the characters names Johnny or Bi-Han) or something. Think it was Janice.

 Skyshale033

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> Thank you Jaren!!! (Thats how you do exclamations correctly people, not all caps) 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. (Laughingstock:blubblublublgulub) It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn (Can anybody tell me who that is?) 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.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> mike_painter65

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> ha ha i remember now too. ;) do you remember this part skyshale: "you have…to go…INSIDE." (Enter Sexual Joke here)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> Skyshale033

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> 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.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth. (Sounds like Robotnik’s thin cousin)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> kevin_hart

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> Jaren_2005

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> 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.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can't believe what they let us watch back then. (Am I the only person seeing the Skin Taker being a badass)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> kevin_hart

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? (An epic one) 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.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> Skyshale033

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> Wasn't his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children's skin?? (So he’s Leatherface’s long lost uncle? Twice removed)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> mike_painter65

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> yeah i think so. remember 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" I’m BATMAN *in that voice*

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> Skyshale033

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show! (Not as bad a Breadwinners)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> 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. (They all saw Ctrl-Alt-Del The Animated Series)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> kevin_hart

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> i don't think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> Skyshale033

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> 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. ( I hate filler episodes)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> kevin_hart

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> maybe i'm manufacturing the memory because you said that (I have that feeling as well), but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> Jaren_2005

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> 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. (2spooky4me SPOOPY SKARY SKELETONS) 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.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"> mike_painter65

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt;"> 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 You were a psychopath back then, we used electroshock therapy to make you forget about it) 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 gonna go watch candle cove now mom' and then you would tune the tv to static and just watch dead air for 30 minutes. It was boring you had a big imagination with your little pirate show." (OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!)

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> I love this story. The suspense is constantly rising until the end. The twist is one of the best twists ever. Even the misspellings work cause its a forum post, nobody is going to type normally on a forum. I’d watch the show. The Skin-Taker sounds badass. I love this story.

If you guys want me to riff a story, message me on my account. It can’t be a story Dorkpool riffed unless it was a older riff such as Sonic.exe or a infamously bad story. See ya later.