Here’s the skinny from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoupySales#Charactersontheshow
Clyde Adler, a film editor at Detroit’s WXYZ-TV, performed in sketches and voiced and operated all puppets on Sales’ show in Detroit in the 1950s and in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1962 and in 1978. Actor Frank Nastasi assumed the role of straight man and puppeteer when Sales took the show to New York from 1964 to 1966.
Here’s the skinny from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoupySales#Charactersontheshow
Clyde Adler, a film editor at Detroit’s WXYZ-TV, performed in sketches and voiced and operated all puppets on Sales’ show in Detroit in the 1950s and in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1962 and in 1978. Actor Frank Nastasi assumed the role of straight man and puppeteer when Sales took the show to New York from 1964 to 1966.
The puppets were:
White Fang and Black Tooth (both dogs)
Pookie the Lion
Hippy the Hippo