Lunch With Soupy Sales began as a regional entry, airing as much as six days a week, in Detroit, in 1953. Two years later, the series went national on Saturdays, picked up by ABC, and gaining sponsorship, as you'll see, from Jell-O, which also sponsored Jack Benny's radio program.
The show format is a familiar one if you've seen later iterations from the 60's (WNEW) and 70's (syndicated). Soupy, some puppets (all voiced by Clyde Adler until Soupy left for New York in 1965), and lots of pies.
ABC pulled the plug on Soupy in the spring of 1961, but would welcome him back 15 years later as host of the short-lived Junior Almost Anything Goes.
Following is a sample episode from 1959. Mind the video quality.
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