PANHANDLE PETE AND JENNIFER

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PANHANDLE PEAT AND JENNIFER was a puppet show which featured Jennifer Holt, 

an actress who had appeared in westerns with William Boyd  ( Hopalong Cassidy ), Tex Ritter, and Lash La Rue. The program appears to have been her last screen work.

Jennifer Holt was the daughter of Jack Holt. The character of "Fearless Fosdick" was modeled after Jack Holt, so this is related to a comic strip character that was popular at the time. Jennifer Holt herself became a comic book character when PANHANDLE PETE AND JENNIFER was made into a comic book*.

Reblogged from http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/

The dinosaur in this story appears to be the Sinclair dinosaur, which was used in advertising Sinclair gas. It even drinks oil, presumably because it needs to fuel it's firey breath. Gas and oil were considered to be related to dinosaurs because oil came from the decomposition of ancient things.

The Dinsaur also appeared on the television program.




Tim Holt ( brother, and a star of westerns ) was also a comic book character, sometimes appearing as a sort of superhero called "Red Mask". Tim Holt comics were published by Magazine Enterprises between 1948 and 1954.


Fearless Fosdick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_Fosdick

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2015/07/fearless-fosdick-meets-atom-bum.html

Jennifer Holt:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392450/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

Tim Holt Comics:
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1076

Redmask ( Tim Holt ):
http://www.toonopedia.com/redmask.htm

Sinclair Dinosaur:
https://www.sinclairoil.com/dino-history

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