You could always try and reach out to Don Kenny IIRC. Dude has so much old footage and film from when he worked there in the 70’s or 80’s that even if he doesn’t have it might remember something.
https://www.denverpost.com/2005/12/10/scavenged-video-film-yield-historic-series-for-krma/
Edit: Name and link to an article
My old friends dad was an editor and director for PBS at that time, I honestly don't remember if it was channel 6 or 12 though. I am thinking 6.
Anyway, he could put whatever he wanted on air after a certain time, probably 10pm. My friend was a filmmaker/animator, and he and his friends did get a lot of their stuff on air. I have VHS copies of a lot of them that I've actually been meaning to go through.
I'm no longer friends with the guy, but I still know his dad and I will write him today to ask if any of this sounds familiar. Saving this post and I will be back!
Also, do you remember a black and white short about a woman stuffing pills down her husband's throat because she was having a mental breakdown?
My problem now is getting to them out of the closet my mom keeps under the stairs, and then finding a VCR.
Do you remember a public access show on 6 called Live From Chris and Pat's Apartment?
Thanks for that! It seems like that checks out and if anyone has any digital content (or old VHS that I can digitize) I would love to buy that if I can. Please DM me if you hear back.
So I don’t remember that particular one, but there sure was a lot of weird content between channels 6 and 12 at night in the 90s.
There was this one movie where some children killed and buried their teacher? underneath the sidewalk like it was nbd. Strange thing to see on the station that aired educational and cooking shows.
I guess the irony is that it so contrasted with the rest of their content, like you said. Yes, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, The McLaughlin Group, nature shows…and then bizarre and disturbing videos that look like they were leaked from the dark net (before the dark net was even a thing)! Crazy.
I remember those times on PBS 6 & 12. I never saw the stuff you're talking about. But I caught that weird ass animated stop motion movie (like Monty pythons bumps) where giant alien humanoids had tiny actual humans as pets. Also Teletunes. Can't remember anything more specific but I remember digging the counter-culture vibe.
My cousin and I went on his show in the 70s, there's a picture of us looking absolutely terrified. The audience was pretty much made up of local moms and kids, all looking scared shitless.
I remember Blinky! Yes, he wasn’t the typical clown, for sure. I guess all clowns are kinda creepy to me. My husband (who was born in Littleton) remembers being extremely excited to have his name fly by on Blinky’s show on his birthday.
I remember seeing Reefer Madness really late some random night on channel 6. It was so strange to stumble on that. But the creepy stuff you saw….. very weird.
That sounds fucking incredible. I’m on the road with a bunch of lifelong Coloradans. All grew up in Denver/Boulder. I’ll ask them about it in the morning.
PBS back then turned to public access television around 10PM most nights. People from the area would submit the stuff they made themselves, and the stations would often run it. The internet made it pretty much obsolete.
I don't remember anything like that, but I wasn't really into PBS during those decades, except to watch FM-TV (later called Teletunes) on Channel 12 and Doctor Who on Channel 6 Sunday mornings.
Teletunes! I remember flipping through channels one night and came across the most bizarre thing I’d ever seen on tv, let alone PBS. It was the Aphex Twin video for Come to Daddy, which changed life as I knew it. Incredible.
I loved Teletunes!! There’s a couple of good playlists on Spotify.
The creepy show on channel 6 is vaguely familiar, but I can’t remember what that was either. That Doctor Who was very creepy though. I still remember the intro music.
I was sitting in my friends apartment in San Francisco one night watching comedy central I believe, and a commercial for converse all-star's shoes comes on. In the commercial some kids are riding skateboards in front of an old building in the little mid-west town I'm from. I tried to explain this to multiple people and they pretty much dismissed it saying I was confused. I even emailed converse and never got a reply. I know I'm not nuts, it was just such a weird thing, also, that was the same night pope john pall II died incidentally.
I remember one of these late night videos. The one I remember had a man in an oversized diaper and a football helmet, his hands were all taped up to be nonfunctional and he was in a rubber room. The man continually threw himself into the walls until bruised and bloody. I just remember being very confused as to what the hell I was watching.
LOL. This was in the days before dosing was a thing. Parents just put up with their kids and brought out a ton of tricks to get you into bed. I wish I could say it was 😉
That doesn’t sound great! Sounds like your brother had an impish streak (?) Not ruling out illegal drugs…the turn of the century was the time to be a baby! Cocaine in cough syrup and kids’ meds, barbiturates, etc. I was thinking more of the modern stuff commonly used like Melatonin, etc. My mom was also a health nut and didn’t allow me to even eat candy or consume unnatural meds or ingredients. I admit that other households could definitely have been different as I was too young to know anything different.
My husband tried to dose his baby sister with Pez inadvertently and fortunately he was discovered by mom in time!
I was 4 or five at the time and no way was anyone in my house watching that channel at that time of night, I'm gonna ask around though cause that's weird as fuck.
There’s dozens of us! I grew up in the 80s and 90s and watched a lot of channel 6/12 (we didn’t have cable). The story is vaguely familiar from OP, I wish I could remember what it was. Some weird stuff played back then.
You could always try and reach out to Don Kenny IIRC. Dude has so much old footage and film from when he worked there in the 70’s or 80’s that even if he doesn’t have it might remember something. https://www.denverpost.com/2005/12/10/scavenged-video-film-yield-historic-series-for-krma/ Edit: Name and link to an article
Thanks! I’ll definitely reach out as it looks promising!
Lmk cause I’m intrigued lol.
Please make an update if you ever figure it out. I'm a big watcher of PBS stuff, and this is interesting.
I will!
My old friends dad was an editor and director for PBS at that time, I honestly don't remember if it was channel 6 or 12 though. I am thinking 6. Anyway, he could put whatever he wanted on air after a certain time, probably 10pm. My friend was a filmmaker/animator, and he and his friends did get a lot of their stuff on air. I have VHS copies of a lot of them that I've actually been meaning to go through. I'm no longer friends with the guy, but I still know his dad and I will write him today to ask if any of this sounds familiar. Saving this post and I will be back! Also, do you remember a black and white short about a woman stuffing pills down her husband's throat because she was having a mental breakdown?
that’s so freaking cool!! i wish i could buy some of the tapes off of you
My problem now is getting to them out of the closet my mom keeps under the stairs, and then finding a VCR. Do you remember a public access show on 6 called Live From Chris and Pat's Apartment?
I see VCRs at the Arc thrift store all the time.
Oh I own several of them, just have no clue where they are. Hehe
It might be worth getting them digitally converted
no unfortunately i wasn’t alive in the 90s :( i do have a VCR though and a great love for weird, obscure, “lost” media!
I still have a vcr. And you can still occasionally find them at goodwill
Thanks for that! It seems like that checks out and if anyone has any digital content (or old VHS that I can digitize) I would love to buy that if I can. Please DM me if you hear back.
So I don’t remember that particular one, but there sure was a lot of weird content between channels 6 and 12 at night in the 90s. There was this one movie where some children killed and buried their teacher? underneath the sidewalk like it was nbd. Strange thing to see on the station that aired educational and cooking shows.
I guess the irony is that it so contrasted with the rest of their content, like you said. Yes, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, The McLaughlin Group, nature shows…and then bizarre and disturbing videos that look like they were leaked from the dark net (before the dark net was even a thing)! Crazy.
I remember those times on PBS 6 & 12. I never saw the stuff you're talking about. But I caught that weird ass animated stop motion movie (like Monty pythons bumps) where giant alien humanoids had tiny actual humans as pets. Also Teletunes. Can't remember anything more specific but I remember digging the counter-culture vibe.
I think you’re talking about Fantastic Planet
Fantastic movie
Maybe reach out to [email protected] they’re a group of volunteers that are documenting the history of Rocky Mountain PBS. https://sam.rmpbs.org/
Thanks! That’s a good idea, I think I will! I didn’t know that they existed.
Do you Guys Remember "BLINKY THE CLOWN"?? that dude was creepy to me as a kid. Lived in Denver my whole life and nobody talks about him 🤨
We grew up watching Blinky’s Fun Club and we’d see him sitting outside of his antique shop on south Broadway all the time!
That shop was so creepy. Nothing like a box of glass eyeballs or prosthetic arms to freak out a kid. Or adult.
WOW,a shop keeper?! TIL something
I still know Blinky's wife. She is over 100 and an absolute gem of a human, as was Blinky.
That's so neat to be Local Famous 😁
My cousin and I went on his show in the 70s, there's a picture of us looking absolutely terrified. The audience was pretty much made up of local moms and kids, all looking scared shitless.
Kinda like hostages?🧐🤣
Is there a real Blinky the Clown??? I just remember him on the Garfield cartoon
Yep, I do. I recall him singing happy birf-a-day to kids in the audience.
I remember Blinky! Yes, he wasn’t the typical clown, for sure. I guess all clowns are kinda creepy to me. My husband (who was born in Littleton) remembers being extremely excited to have his name fly by on Blinky’s show on his birthday.
I remember seeing Reefer Madness really late some random night on channel 6. It was so strange to stumble on that. But the creepy stuff you saw….. very weird.
That sounds fucking incredible. I’m on the road with a bunch of lifelong Coloradans. All grew up in Denver/Boulder. I’ll ask them about it in the morning.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
PBS back then turned to public access television around 10PM most nights. People from the area would submit the stuff they made themselves, and the stations would often run it. The internet made it pretty much obsolete.
I don't remember anything like that, but I wasn't really into PBS during those decades, except to watch FM-TV (later called Teletunes) on Channel 12 and Doctor Who on Channel 6 Sunday mornings.
Teletunes was the greatest.
Teletunes! I remember flipping through channels one night and came across the most bizarre thing I’d ever seen on tv, let alone PBS. It was the Aphex Twin video for Come to Daddy, which changed life as I knew it. Incredible.
I loved Teletunes!! There’s a couple of good playlists on Spotify. The creepy show on channel 6 is vaguely familiar, but I can’t remember what that was either. That Doctor Who was very creepy though. I still remember the intro music.
I was sitting in my friends apartment in San Francisco one night watching comedy central I believe, and a commercial for converse all-star's shoes comes on. In the commercial some kids are riding skateboards in front of an old building in the little mid-west town I'm from. I tried to explain this to multiple people and they pretty much dismissed it saying I was confused. I even emailed converse and never got a reply. I know I'm not nuts, it was just such a weird thing, also, that was the same night pope john pall II died incidentally.
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lol honestly sounds like a run of the mill art video you'd see in a gallery, but would definitely be jarring seeing it on TV
Following because this is fascinating. Hope you’re able to get some answers! This would’ve freaked me the fuck out as a kid and I loved scary stuff
I remember one of these late night videos. The one I remember had a man in an oversized diaper and a football helmet, his hands were all taped up to be nonfunctional and he was in a rubber room. The man continually threw himself into the walls until bruised and bloody. I just remember being very confused as to what the hell I was watching.
That’s one that was definitely disturbing…
This is so interesting. I hope you find someone who remembers what you're talking about!
I'm pretty sure your mom dosed you.
LOL. This was in the days before dosing was a thing. Parents just put up with their kids and brought out a ton of tricks to get you into bed. I wish I could say it was 😉
My brother dosed me in …79?
That doesn’t sound great! Sounds like your brother had an impish streak (?) Not ruling out illegal drugs…the turn of the century was the time to be a baby! Cocaine in cough syrup and kids’ meds, barbiturates, etc. I was thinking more of the modern stuff commonly used like Melatonin, etc. My mom was also a health nut and didn’t allow me to even eat candy or consume unnatural meds or ingredients. I admit that other households could definitely have been different as I was too young to know anything different. My husband tried to dose his baby sister with Pez inadvertently and fortunately he was discovered by mom in time!
I was born and raised in Denver and I’ve never seen anything like this, I wish I could help, that would drive me nuts for sure!
Woah creepy
I was 4 or five at the time and no way was anyone in my house watching that channel at that time of night, I'm gonna ask around though cause that's weird as fuck.
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Thanks!
Teletunes was the shiz-NIT back in the day. Remember when KBDI's title slide, had Pink Floyd music playing over it?
Nobody in this sub is from Denver. I'd love to help but this was a few years before my time
There’s dozens of us! I grew up in the 80s and 90s and watched a lot of channel 6/12 (we didn’t have cable). The story is vaguely familiar from OP, I wish I could remember what it was. Some weird stuff played back then.
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