The Sandy Becker Show (1955– ) User Reviews

Unusually handsome, bright, and charming

[margot · 9/10 · 3 January 2007]

George Sandford Becker was a very different sort of kiddy-show host. He played radio's "Young Doctor Malone" as well as providing voiceovers for countless television ads and Saturday morning cartoon characters. Unlike most voice artists and kiddy hosts he was really good-looking, young and stylish. Very bright and culturally aware, too, with a manic humor and talent for mimicry that would have fit in very well in the 70s-90s of Robin Williams and Dennis Miller. Sandy was too subtle and sophisticated for the 50s-60s. Ah me, most of his work is lost, beyond those cartoons and commercials, and a few video and kinescope snippets of him clowning around for the cameramen.

One of the Best Children's TV Shows

[Alfriend · 8 April 2006]

Sandy Becker was a kindly, hysterically funny and multi-talented performer who hosted "The Sandy Becker Show" from 1953-68. He was a comedian who played a variety of oddball characters from the silent Norton Nork to the crazy Hambone. He also was an incomparable puppeteer who created wonderful characters and voices by himself that are equal to the terrific Muppets. My personal favorite puppet character was the grumpy old man "Geeba-Geeba" who actually starred as "Scrooge" in Sandy's own version of "A Christmas Carol". Sandy's humor was "out there" for the time and he was also just a kind man who loved what he did and really seemed to love children. It really came across. He even had his pet dog, "Schotzy" in the show and Schotzy (there were actually a few of them over the years) didn't do anything special, she was just a sweet happy mutt who laid around and wagged his tail when Sandy spoke to him. Odd, silly, but fun like we were in Sandy's living room. Good memories.

An Adult for Kids

[Grendel1950 · 4 May 2023]

I may be the only kid in America in the 1950's who didn't watch Captain Kangaroo, because he was on at the same time as Sandy Becker, and I wouldn't miss Sandy for anything. Marvin Mouse was my introduction to classical piano music. I didn't know what sauerkraut was, but I knew Geba Geba owned a factory that made it. Bosco was the number one chocolate syrup, but I used Cocoa Marsh because that's what Sandy advertised ( mom wouldn't buy Giroux Grenadine Syrup). I saw my first snake courtesy of Massepequa Zoo and Kiddie Park. I can still hum "That Happy Feeling". And of course, the classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Sandy was never over the top, didn't wear outrageous makeup and spoke to kids as real people, not as cartoons. He was an adult for kids. God Bless Sandy Becker.