Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:08 PM |
| Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM. |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:08 PM |
I know exactly what show you mean, Crystoh. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice. |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:09 PM |
| Thank you CanyrsLevius!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked. |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:10 PM |
| haha. Do you remember this part crystoh: “you have…to go…INSIDE.” |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:10 PM |
sorry about the random "crystoh" in there
siggy automator hates me |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:11 PM |
Ugh Crystoh, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth. |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:12 PM |
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then. |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:13 PM |
| jesus christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty. |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:13 PM |
| Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin?? |
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BestEgg
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:14 PM |
| You two sound like robots who got punched in the face with nostalgia. |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:14 PM |
| yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN” |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:15 PM |
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:15 PM |
| Whyy copy and pasting a creepy pasta |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:16 PM |
| i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode. |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:16 PM |
| No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show. |
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KyleT
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:16 PM |
Oh my god.
That Candle Cove...
I'm having a breakdown.
It was the freakiest show I've ever seen in my life, and wait.
Wasn't it in Black and White or Color? I really don't know. |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:16 PM |
| maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed. |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:17 PM |
| Oh God. Yes. It was an episode. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on. |
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KyleT
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:18 PM |
Memories have received back into my mind.
I do remember that part where all of the characters are screaming. It wasn't even an episode.
No plot, no storyline, no conflict. It's just screaming for 10 minutes, then it was cut off. |
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:19 PM |
i visited my mom yesterday at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
we shouldn't talk about this anymore. i'm not saying any more about this terrible show. |
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KyleT
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:20 PM |
Hey, guys.
Sorry to restart this old thread.
But I found a Betamax tape, having the label
CANDLE COVE ALL EPISODES.
Can you please tell me what the heck is going on? |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:20 PM |
yeah, this is creeping me out. let's not. |
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Crystoh
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| 21 Nov 2012 03:21 PM |
okay so now there's nothing left to tell so i'll just say it
me and canyrs were reciting (copy/paste) the Candle Cove creepypasta origin
you can search the screaming episode on youtube
but i cant even watch a few seconds it's scaring the crap out of me
/rant |
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