In the manic world of Icky Twerp, somebody was always getting conked on the noggin or falling off a ladder or knocking over a painstakingly assembled grocery display. Bill Camfield as Icky Twerp

The action was relentless. Stuffy bosses bawled out hapless underlings. Sidekicks in gorilla masks skidded onstage and off, played banjos, beaned each other with umbrellas. Icky sprang to life 50 years ago on KTVT-TV (Channel 11) with the premiere of the homegrown kids' show Slam Bang Theater, whose silver anniversary will be celebrated in Fort Worth next month.


- bill 8-29-2009 6:01 pm





add a comment to this page:

Your post will be captioned "posted by anonymous,"
or you may enter a guest username below:


Line breaks work. HTML tags will be stripped.