Captain 11
Longest-running children's show hosted by a weatherman in Sioux Falls.
Captain 11 was an after-school children's program broadcast on channel 11 from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, hosted by station weatherman Dave Dedrick in a yellow-trimmed blue pilot uniform and hat. The show featured cartoons, children introducing themselves as the Captain's crew, birthday kids working a control panel, and the closing freezeberg game. It ran for over 41 years, becoming the longest continuously running children's television program in the United States.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- children's program
- Starring
- Dave Dedrick
- Country
- United States
- Seasons
- 41
- Runtime
- 30 minutes (with commercials)
- Company
- KELO-TV
- First aired
- 7 March 1955
- Last aired
- 28 December 1996
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History
He passed away in Sioux Falls on January 22, 2010, at age 81. The show's set and other items now reside at the State Historical Museum in Pierre.
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