Mal and Jo describing their experience attending Winter Carnival in Quebec City in 1966. Mal loved winter and winter activities. Jo went along (but you may hear about cold feet). Our family took regular winter vacations, going north into ski country. Of course this year (2021) Quebec City is...
Steve Allen was in the studio for an interview. One of Mal’s heroes. Wish we had the tape of this one.
In the 50s the family took a vacation at Aspen. One evening we went to Toklat for dinner. In this recording from around 1968 Mal and Jo remember Stuart Mace the owner of Toklat at Aspen, now part of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. Mal always had an...
Here is a video That IBA prepared to honor Mal. He gave this talk in 1995. The award was given in June 2009 when Mal was 89 and no longer as spry. This link shows you others who have been given the broadcast pioneer award. The video above was...
Mal and Jo Bellairs at the mike for their On the Go show.
Mal, Jo and kids at Arthur Godfrey’s desk – WCBS New York, 1966.
On Tuesday, Mal’s guests include Ed Ames and Helen Gurley Brown. Also, apparently, the Bellairs kids bought everything for sale at FAO Schwartz on 5th Ave. Greatest toy store ever.
Mal makes it through discussing women’s sex lives with Gurley Brown and Ames sings “Try to Remember” from The Fantasticks.
Godfrey pitches Lysol, diet pills and breakfast bran cereal.
Mal went long – announcer says the program was edited to meet time requirements. Or maybe Helen said too much.
First 15 minutes of Music Wagon on January 21, 1959. Mal Bellairs, the Boyd Twins, Hal Carton, Billy Leach, Paul Rogers. A snowy day in Chicago. School closings. Survey – what do you gals want in your house? Porky Panico, Big Boogie.
In 1954 Mal was doing some TV. This is audio from the show “Close Up” that he hosted. The audio is from the “pretty little girl” sketch. If I recall correctly, Dad did this sketch wearing a zoot suit. I think this show may have been a favorite of his. He kept the artwork slides for this sketch on the walls of his home, even when he moved to Woodstock, 60 years later. You can tell from his reading that he was having a good time.
I have no idea how long the show was on the air; not long I suppose. Close Up was an early evening variety show. Shortly after this he went back to radio to stay.
Here are handwritten notes Mal made when preparing to talk about his work. (If you have heard his talk you understand he never typed a word.) Interesting things he mentions that you may not hear in the talk — His first job in on the air was a commercial...
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