Who is jp patches

What shared experience sparked our imaginations? Was it a lack of oxygen at the top of the Space Needle? Was it a bad batch of clams from Ivars? No, I think we all know whose fault it is! It's J. Two hours a day over years adds up to thousands of hours If you're still reading this should frighten you. To a child growing up near Puget Sound in the 60s and 70s, appearing on the J.

Patches show was one of the requirements of a full life right up there with visiting Disneyland. We will miss him here in the Seattle area.

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Edit page. See the full list. Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Every day for 23 years, Northwest kids would sit transfixed for two hours of shenanigans at J. Here is why he was so popular then and why his legacy goes on today. Chris Wedes grew up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and attended Humbolt High School and Macalester College where he was involved in school theater and the campus radio station.

Patches, but he left that station for another and the big shoes of Mr. Patches needed to be filled. Patches" in the morning, "Mystic Mountain" in the afternoon, and "Andy and Sport" on Sunday mornings.

Patches" should air both in the morning and in the afternoon, so after six months, "Mystic Mountain" became a memory. Patches Show" aired on February 10, It aired twice a day, six days a week for 13 years - and then went to mornings only for eight years, and finally to just Saturday mornings for two years. The final show aired on September 25, after about 12, episodes.

On January 9, , J. Patches was featured on an episode of "The Simpsons". Patches was having a birthday. A variety of human characters appeared on the show - mostly played by Bob Newman who joined the show, almost accidentally, in As a weekend film editor and floor director, Newman would hang out watching the taping of the show and one time spoke to J. Cise, Howard Huge and on and on. Announcer Man was heard but not seen and read the weather report.

He was played by Hal Willard. Other characters to appear on the show included Mr. Slick the guy who sold J. Rags, J. Patches' super alter ego. After the "J. Patches Show" went off the air, Wedes and Newman continued to make public appearances for another 30 years.