There she is, Madame Ophelia Oogelpuss, encased in glass and part of an ongoing exhibition at the Chicago History Museum. Her famous puppet friends, Kukla and Ollie, are not on public display. They ...

How painful to see "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" consigned to somebody's slapped-together Internet list of "Forgotten TV Shows." Forgotten? Not by untold thousands for whom the adventures of Kukla, Fran and ...

On the influential puppet show Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Kukla, Fran and Ollie was created by Burr Tillstrom (1917–85), a talented Chicago-based puppeteer who dreamed of bringing his beloved art form to ...

January 13, 2010 (CHICAGO) "Kukla, Fran and Ollie was one of the first smash hits in television history. It was a puppet show. Burr Tillstrom was the puppeteer. Fran Allison was the up front ...

Kukla, Fran and Ollie is an early American television show using puppets, originally created for children but soon watched by more adults than children. It did not have a script and was entirely ...

TV’s children’s hour is largely a desert of western films and spaceship serials. But for the past four years, Burr Tillstrom’s Kukla, Fran & Ollie (weekdays 7 p.m., NBC) has flourished in this desert ...

A happy childhood is a dangerous thing. It can lead one to make awfully discouraging comparisons once well into adulthood. It can inspire an ironically sorrowful longing for a much less complicated ...

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