TOD - Detroit had a lot of
local kids' programming in the '50s. Of the ones linked on this page, I especially remember Sagebrush Shorty, Poopdeck Paul, Wixie, Milky the Clown, Jingles, Captain Jolly, and, of course, Soupy Sales.
I also fondly remember Romper Room, Ding-Dong School, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. The Mickey Mouse Club was, in part, responsible for my father finally allowing a TV in our house in the first place. He'd come home from work to find my sister at one neighbor's house watching American Bandstand and me at another watching MMC. He decided to buy a TV to keep us home. Guess who became the biggest television watcher of all?