Sonny Fox, the beloved kids television host who connected with children on the New York-based Sunday morning program “Wonderama,” died Sunday in Los Angeles of coronavirus-related pneumonia, his website confirmed. He was 95.
Fox hosted “Wonderama” for four hours every Sunday, and the show was celebrated for the way it engaged children, featuring everything from cartoons to games that kids could play along with at home. In 1959, Fox was hired to replace Bill Britten and Doris Faye as the host of “Wonderama” on the Metromedia station Wnew-tv, Channel 5 in New York.
Fox remained with the show until exiting in 1967 to co-host an adult talk show for Channel 5 in 1967.
Fifty years later, he said was still getting emails “from my kids who are now in their 50s, and some of them are quite extraordinary,” he said in a 2008 interview with the Television Academy. “One came from a young man who said,...
Fox hosted “Wonderama” for four hours every Sunday, and the show was celebrated for the way it engaged children, featuring everything from cartoons to games that kids could play along with at home. In 1959, Fox was hired to replace Bill Britten and Doris Faye as the host of “Wonderama” on the Metromedia station Wnew-tv, Channel 5 in New York.
Fox remained with the show until exiting in 1967 to co-host an adult talk show for Channel 5 in 1967.
Fifty years later, he said was still getting emails “from my kids who are now in their 50s, and some of them are quite extraordinary,” he said in a 2008 interview with the Television Academy. “One came from a young man who said,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- Variety Film + TV
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