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we may be young and not full grown but we have problems of our own doodoop-doodoo kids are people too. and tho we're small we do our best to do each thing just like the rest doodoop-doodoo kids are people too waka doo waka doo

It isn't easy going all day
winning and losing at the games that we play.
Doing our homework, learning in school
and trying to live by the golder rule
And so we hope you'll understand
And try to lend a helping hand
Kids are people too, yes they are!

Wasn't Bob McAllister the host of Wonderam??

Yeah, who was the "Wonka-Doo" guy? And what's with the LAME song he used to sing at the beginning of the show? Does anybody remember that besides me and the one other person that posted here?

Ok, maybe i'm a wet blanket that couldn't enjoy kids shows when i was a kid, but shows like this one were insulting for anyone to watch, unless you couldn't talk yet. They brought KISS on once, with the new drummer. I thought his makeup was lame, compared to Peter Criss'. And I had to wait all the way through the show to see this guy, with the fox makeup on, like it was some big unveiling. That was bad. And also, when they were going to have the" real" dracula on. I was expecting something a little more than a guy in a cape and pancake make up. The host asked him if he drank blood. But wait....it's Sunday morning isn't it? Dracula by all counts should be dead, burnt from the hot burning rays of the mid morning sun. And so, my own innocence was lost. I never trusted tv again after that.

Patti Smith interviewed as a "rock and roll poet" Instead of any Patti Smith lyrics, we were treated to her rendition of Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life"

When I watch the credits at the end of a show, I want to hear the end theme, not a voice over reminding us of that night's schedule. They sometimes talked over the credits of this one, and one time ABC went too far. Michael Young (I think he was the host at the time, or else it could have been Randy Hamilton) began to sing the closing theme and before he even finished the first line, the voiceover began. The announcer was SOOOOOO long-winded he continued after the closing logos went off and the fade to black. They had to show the ABC logo before they finally cut him off (in mid-voice, no doubt) to show local commercials. Had they not shut him up, he'd probably STILL be talking. I think they kept the end credit voiceovers to a minimum after that on "Kids Are People, Too," but it was ruined for me.

I remember loving this show when I was a kid because (through the perspective of the eight year-old I was,) it was the only "kid" show that didn't talk down to me. Until they got that yutz replacement host. The first incarnation had a host who wasn't a jerk to kids, but he wasn't smarmy and fake with kids either. The next guy didn't know what he was doing on that stage, and would constantly obliterate jokes. Can you imagine the dearth of talent it requires to tell a joke in front of an audience made up entirely of kids, and hear nothing after the punch line but crickets chirping?

"Dear Alex and Annie" was classic! Played with panache by underrated thespians Bing Bingham and Donna Drake...how's that for alliteration?

I thought this was the coolest show on Earth when KISS was on. But, it jumped for me the day I saw a skit where Danielle Brisebois (from Archie Bunker's Place) was writing a love letter to the host or something like that. I didn't mind missing the show to go to church on Sunday mornings after that.

The best host of this show was the versatile Michael Young,he was great with the kids in the audience and doing interviews. I think the best part of this show was that it reran Wonderbug,Magic Mongo,Superfriends,and Pink Panther episodes as filler for the 90 minute show!! My youngest brother ran down the stairs whenever I told him Wonderbug was on!!

The ONLY thing I remember about this show is that the guy playing Alex(Andy?) was named Bing Bingham. God only knows why that worthless fact has stuck in my mind for twenty years.

Michael Young was the dork, not McAllister. After he came on, it turned into a teeny-bopper fest rather than a real kids show. The segment everyone here is trying to remember is "Dear Alex & Annie" and it was advice to teens that supposedly wrote them letters about their problems, and Alex and Annie would answer the letter by singing a sappy little pop tune.

Wow, does this brings back some undusted memories! I can remember this being the late-Saturday morning real-life show (after all the cartoons), right around the time of Plastic Man and the ABC Saturday Weekend Special. After this came on, I was ready to go out and pop some wheelies on my banana-seat bicycle. Oooh, the nostalgia.

I remember this show aired late Saturday mornings. I'd come home and watch it after my peewee hockey games. First time I ever saw Arsenio Hall. He couldn't have been more than nineteen or twenty. He was a regular doing a little stand-up routine after the opening. He sucked back then too, and barely held his own even for a bunch of kids responding to applause prompts!