Emine kitirik biography

The prompt for Week 6 of 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & Historyis Radio and Television:

What was your favorite radio or television show from your childhood? What was the program about and who was in it?

I remember two local Houston children's television shows from my childhood:  Kitirikand Cadet Don.  Probably just about anybody who grew up in Houston in the 1960s remembers these two shows, both on ABC affiliate KTRKChannel 13:

Kitirikwas on in the afternoons from 1954 through 1971.

The station's logofeatured a black cat (since they were the unlucky number 13) and a contest came up with her clever name by putting i's between the station's call letters. It had a live audience full of birthday parties and Scout troops.  Bunny Orsak played Kitirik.

Capitalizing on Houston's identification with NASA and the space program, Cadet Donwas on in the mornings from 1959 through 1968.  He had a puppet buddy named Seymour ("see more") from the planet of Kata