‘Time For Beany’, 1950

Time for Beany was an American television series, with puppets for characters, which aired nationally from 1950 to 1955. 

‘Principal characters were Beany, a plucky young boy; Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, who claimed to be 300 years old and 35 feet 3 inches tall; Beany’s uncle, Captain Horatio Huffenpuff, familiarly called Uncle Captain; Dishonest John, the villain; and Tearalong the Dotted Lion.

‘Albert Einstein was a fan of the show’

- Wikipedia


All images by Allan Grant

Thank you to LIFE Archive

1 comment to ‘Time For Beany’, 1950

  • EricW

    The man with the wavy hair working the sea serpent puppet (Cecil) is Stan Freberg, who would release a series of very successful comedy records throughout the 1950s before revolutionizing the use of humor in broadcast advertising from the 1960s forward. I’m pretty sure the shorter guy operating the kid in the propeller beanie (Beany, of course) is Daws Butler, here still a few years away from being the voice of Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, and a few hundred other Hanna-Barbera characters.

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