How many of you remember the Wallace and Ladmo Show? In the 1950s, local television station KPHO began airing a live audience children’s television show featuring the zany antics of Wallace and his sidekick Ladmo along with a host of characters interspersed with Hanna Barbara cartoons. The Wallace and Ladmo Show became the longest running daily, locally produced children’s television show in history, airing its first episode on April 1, 1954 and last episode on December 29, 1989.
In addition to the television shows, the cast performed skits throughout Arizona, appearing at fairs, movie theaters, shopping malls and Arizona’s iconic Legend City them park. The popular appeal of the show reached millions of children during its 36 year run, and ties generations of Arizonans together.
Now you can help save this valuable treasure. The Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park has the last remaining broadcast quality video tape from The Wallace and Ladmo show. The 63 2-inch quadruplex video tapes were originally aired on The Wallace and Ladmo Show. Two-inch quadruplex video tapes do not have a long shelf life. To save these last remaining video tapes, we need your help to raise money to transfer the tapes to digital format and to store the digital files.
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can team up with the Arizona Archives Alliance (AzAA) in an effort to raise money to save this valuable Arizona treasure. AzAA is setting up a special account to collect money to pay for digitizing and storing the last broadcast quality episodes of the show. You can either send a donation by filling out this donor form and mailing your donation to AzAA, or by following the link to the AzAA Paypal account and donating there.
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