Look up, way up! Its the Friendly Giant,Rusty & Jerome. How many mornings were we fixated to this show,with "Early One Morning" playing in our ears. The Friendly Giant appeared on CBC TV from 1958-85,though it began on radio in Madison Wisconsin in 1953. Friendly would lower the "draw bridge" for us and put out "One little chair for one of you, and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in, and for someone who likes to rock, a rocking chair in the middle." Soon Jerome would poke his head in the castle's window and Rusty would pop out of the sack and the show would be rolling with a script that was mostly ad libbed. Bob Homme aka Friendly was the show's creator ,was actually from Stoughton Wisconsin moving to Canada in 1958. Rod Coneybeare was the voice and puppeteer of Rusty & Jerome and more that 3000 episodes of Friendly Giant were done by the time the show was cancelled. In 1998, Bob Homme was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Governor-General Romeo LeBlanc traveled to Bob's home in Grafton Ontario to present him with the Order in person. Accepting the honor, Homme said, "I'll always remember this day as a perfect cap of 30-odd years of just having a wonderful time simply being friendly." Homme had become a Canadian Citizen,and died in 2000. Follow the link below and visit with the Friendly Giant.
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