Time for Beany facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Time for Beany
Characters from left to right: Beany, Captain Huffenpuff, Dishonest John, Hopalong Wong, Honey Bear, Cecil.
Created by	Bob Clampett
Starring	Daws Butler Stan Freberg
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	15 minutes
Release
Original network	Paramount Television Network
Original release	1949 – 1955

Time For Beany is an American children's television series, with puppets for characters, which was broadcast locally in Los Angeles starting on February 28, 1949 and nationally (by kinescope) by the improvised Paramount Television Network from 1950 to 1955. It was created by animator Bob Clampett, who later reused its main characters for the animated series Beany and Cecil. The show won three Primetime Emmy Awards for best children's show.

Popular culture

• The Animaniacs segment "Pinky and the Brain" paid homage to the show. In the episode "Puppet Rulers", Pinky and the Brain had a puppet show called "The Meany Show" featuring Meany and Treacle (both voiced by Maurice LaMarche), as part of an unsuccessful scheme to gain loyal devotees in the distant future. Pinky and the Brain are mice in Einstein's laboratory during 1954, and the episode references Albert Einstein as a fan of Time for Beany.
• Science fiction writer Larry Niven created an alien race he named Pierson's Puppeteers. The creatures are so called because they have two one-eyed heads on the ends of tentacle-like necks, giving them a faint resemblance to Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent. A member of this race plays a major role in Niven's novel Ringworld. Niven also gives the show brief mention in the novel Lucifer's Hammer which he co-wrote with Jerry Pournelle.

Videography

• Bob Clampett's Beany and Cecil: The Special Edition (Image Entertainment, 1999) (4 episodes)