Yes it was Officer Joe Bolton, also Capt Jack and Chuck McCann had afternoon shows on PIX, I will never forget those shows.
Got to meet Chuck McCann in 1967 when I was in the Hospital. He came out to Southside Hospital and saw the kids, He did a dead on impersonation of Maxwell Smart.
I miss WPIX and I am sorry I will not be able to see the special, I hope it comes out on DVD.

How about Officer Joe Bolton? Wasn’t he on PIX? I believe I remember, but am not certain, that when JFK was shot, and every channel suspended normal programming for news coverage, Officer Joe did coverage of the event for kids. Does anyone else remember this?

From central CT, we could get 5, 9, and 11 from New York with varying clarity depending on how long we spent tweaking the antenna. As things got built up more, we lost reception on them, only to get 9 and 11 back when cable came along.

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The Hal Roach era Rascals were priceless. I suspect you can probably find them on DVD now. I think I might go look them up.

I miss seeing The Little Rascals and The Adventures Of Superman after school got out.
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It was Transformers & GI Joe for my generation.

I kinda miss those days too. At least Ch. 11 kept the New Years Honeymooners marathon.

The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade hosted by Jack McCarthy, for 41 years no less. Priceless. And as Cap’n Jack. RIP

YES! YULE LOG! I actually DVR’d the Yule Log from Channel 11 this year and ran it all day on Christmas night when we opened presents — they had brought it back after the tape was mislabeled and lost for many many years.

I actually prefer it over the yule log I found on one of the HD channels… just not the same.

Don’t forget the Yule Log

Somewhat after our time, Steve, they had an afternoon kid’s contest with a rudimentary video game (and I mean really rudimentary). The kid would say “PIX” for the video game to do what it was supposed to do (I don’t know, drop apples into a basket? It was something that the kid had to time his call on). So that’s one more memory of WPIX.

or how about when Scooter would talk about seinfeld (cause he had to do a promo for it)…man i miss those days even tho the yankees sucked