There she is, Madame Ophelia Oogelpuss, encased in glass and part of an ongoing exhibition at the Chicago History Museum. Her famous puppet friends, Kukla and Ollie, are not on public display. They ...

TV’s children’s hour is largely a desert of western films and spaceship serials. But for the past four years, Burr Tillstrom’s Kukla, Fran & Ollie (weekdays 7 p.m., NBC) has flourished in this desert ...

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO)-- A Chicago TV series from the 1950's is being digitized, with the Chicago History Museum showing episodes the week between Christmas and New Year's. "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" ...

A happy childhood is a dangerous thing. It can lead one to make awfully discouraging comparisons once well into adulthood. It can inspire an ironically sorrowful longing for a much less complicated ...

How painful to see "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" consigned to somebody's slapped-together Internet list of "Forgotten TV Shows." Forgotten? Not by untold thousands for whom the adventures of Kukla, Fran and ...

Kukla, Fran and Ollie is an early American television show using puppets, originally created for children but soon watched by more adults than children. It did not have a script and was entirely ...