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Action Figures and Funnies

Don't Touch That Dial for November 7, 2026: Action Figures and Funnies. 9 pieces (songs and theme tunes, vintage commercials and promos): Main Title - The Flintstones, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Weber's Bread and more, with Ricky Voltage. In this episode: 0:00 Stupid Potato 0:12 Don't Touch That Dial opens: Ricky Voltage welcomes you 1:24 Main Title - The Flintstones (1961) 3:20 Rocky and Bullwinkle (commercial) 3:29 Weber's Bread (commercial, 1968) — A 1968 TV commercial for Weber's Bread featuring the Peanuts characters from Charlie Brown's All-Stars, offering baseball tips on fielding, batting, and pitching collectible with bread packages. It is one of several Peanuts-themed bread commercials from the 1960s. 4:30 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 4:39 Peanuts (TV theme) — The Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz has been adapted into films, television shows, musical theater productions, and video games. These adaptations have brought the characters from the original comic strip to audiences across multiple media formats. The list includes works spanning various entertainment industries over many years. 7:00 Looney Tunes (1986) 7:37 Rocky and Bullwinkle (TV theme, 1959) — The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends ran on ABC and NBC from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, featuring the serialized adventures of a flying squirrel named Rocket J. Squirrel and a moose named Bullwinkle J. Moose produced by Jay Ward Productions. The main villains in their stories are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, who work for the dictator Fearless Leader, with supporting segments including "Dudley Do-Right", "Peabody's Improbable History", and "Fractured Fairy Tales". 9:09 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 9:18 Peanuts (commercial, 1984) — The source text is about Peanuts, the American comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000 and became a large media franchise. Across 17,897 strips, it reached about 355 million readers in 75 countries and was translated into 21 languages. It is considered one of the most influential comics ever and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. 9:50 Tiny Toons (cartoon opening) 10:51 Linus & Lucy — "Linus and Lucy" is an instrumental jazz standard written by Vince Guaraldi that serves as the main theme for Peanuts animated specials and is named after the characters Linus and Lucy Van Pelt. The piece was first released on Guaraldi's 1964 album Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, but became widely known through the A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack in 1965. The song is now one of Guaraldi's most recognizable works and has become the signature melody of the Peanuts franchise, frequently played on Christmas music radio stations. 13:47 Ricky Voltage signs off 14:44 More free classic radio at stupidpotato.com Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 62 free 24/7 channels and 191 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

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Don't Touch That Dial for November 7, 2026: Action Figures and Funnies. 9 pieces (songs and theme tunes, vintage commercials and promos): Main Title - The Flintstones, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Weber's Bread and more, with Ricky Voltage.

In this episode:

  1. 0:00 Stupid Potato
  2. 0:12 Don't Touch That Dial opens: Ricky Voltage welcomes you
  3. 1:24 Main Title - The Flintstones (1961)
  4. 3:20 Rocky and Bullwinkle (commercial)
  5. 3:29 Weber's Bread (commercial, 1968) — A 1968 TV commercial for Weber's Bread featuring the Peanuts characters from Charlie Brown's All-Stars, offering baseball tips on fielding, batting, and pitching collectible with bread packages. It is one of several Peanuts-themed bread commercials from the 1960s.
  6. 4:30 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato
  7. 4:39 Peanuts (TV theme) — The Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz has been adapted into films, television shows, musical theater productions, and video games. These adaptations have brought the characters from the original comic strip to audiences across multiple media formats. The list includes works spanning various entertainment industries over many years.
  8. 7:00 Looney Tunes (1986)
  9. 7:37 Rocky and Bullwinkle (TV theme, 1959) — The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends ran on ABC and NBC from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, featuring the serialized adventures of a flying squirrel named Rocket J. Squirrel and a moose named Bullwinkle J. Moose produced by Jay Ward Productions. The main villains in their stories are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, who work for the dictator Fearless Leader, with supporting segments including "Dudley Do-Right", "Peabody's Improbable History", and "Fractured Fairy Tales".
  10. 9:09 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato
  11. 9:18 Peanuts (commercial, 1984) — The source text is about Peanuts, the American comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000 and became a large media franchise. Across 17,897 strips, it reached about 355 million readers in 75 countries and was translated into 21 languages. It is considered one of the most influential comics ever and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
  12. 9:50 Tiny Toons (cartoon opening)
  13. 10:51 Linus & Lucy — "Linus and Lucy" is an instrumental jazz standard written by Vince Guaraldi that serves as the main theme for Peanuts animated specials and is named after the characters Linus and Lucy Van Pelt. The piece was first released on Guaraldi's 1964 album Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, but became widely known through the A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack in 1965. The song is now one of Guaraldi's most recognizable works and has become the signature melody of the Peanuts franchise, frequently played on Christmas music radio stations.
  14. 13:47 Ricky Voltage signs off
  15. 14:44 More free classic radio at stupidpotato.com

Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 62 free 24/7 channels and 191 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

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