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Keith Butkovich	Kidbits	Lead	[-]
Posts: 41 (03-31-02 9:33 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad Does anyone remember this kids show? It was created around 1982, and taught kids about science. The host was Gary Ed Koch (or something like that). It was on channel 4 for years early Saturday morning in reruns. I remember one experiment he did where he put three baseball bats together to make a stool. Any memories?
thephoneman	Re: Kidbits	#1	[-]
Posts: 119 (04-01-02 1:09 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	sponsered by the detroit science center. Yeah he had on hell of a hair do. i caught that show a few years back (i think on channel 4) at like 4:30am.
The Brain That	Kidbits	#2	[-]
Posts: 83 (04-01-02 8:24 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think his name was Gary Ed Mach. They played the same ones over and over. Another show on Channel 4 from about the same time was "Ask a Silly Question." They used to rerun that one a lot as well. One winter morning in 89 or 90, I had the show on and they were rerunning a show from years earlier-complete with an events calendar talking about stuff that was happening that summer week in 84.
Unregistered(d)	Kidbits	#3	[-]
Posts: 0 (04-01-02 10:16 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Does anyone remember when they used to run Warner Brothers cartoons in between the Kidbits? The show was on for an hour. I think this may be the way the show originated. Gary would set up the experiment, get to a "dramatic" point, break for a cartoon, then, after the cartoon, would conclude the experiment. It was a good show with or without the cartoons.
TV Horror Host	Re: Kidbits	#4	[-]
Posts: 2959 (04-01-02 3:12 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hmm, now I know I used to see this but so far it just isn't ringing a bell. I'll keep thinking... Happy Haunting! Keith Milford Vintage Detroit TV & Movie Board
Keith Butkovich	Re: Kidbits	#5	[-]
Posts: 41 (04-01-02 8:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, Mach sounds right. I don't know what I was thinking with Koch. I wonder what Gary is doing now.
erikolsen	Re: Kidbits	#6	[-]
Posts: 32 (08-06-02 8:46 AM) Recurring Character Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yep--I first remember the show as being "The Bugs Bunny/Kidbits Hour", with announcer Ted Anthony attempting an uncomfortable Bugs impression. For each of the greater scientific categories they covered, there were always five segments. This leads me to believe that either Kidbits aired as a ~5 minute weekday program, or was intended for such a use. WDIV was airing it up until a few years ago, as simply "Kidbits", with all five of a "week's" segments filling a half hour. Ted Anthony once again voiced the beginning of the show; this time as himself, and this time only in very generic "Today on Kidbits...", "On the next Kidbits feature..." announcements. What's Gary Ed Mach doing now? No clue. I saw someone in a Budweiser ad circa 1982 that could have been him, and if you look him up on IMDB, his name comes up in a couple of made for TV movies.
johnnyufo	Re: Kidbits	#7	[-]
Posts: 10 (08-06-02 1:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gary Ed Mach lived right near me in Royal Oak, (many years ago, and after he had made KidBits), I remember me and my friends would walk past his house humming the Kidsbits theme, He chased us away once, He wasn't such a nice guy to live near.
drkoolbreeze	He seemed so waykewl on TV!!!!	#8	[-]
Recurring Character Posts: 243 (08-06-02 5:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Isn't that how it always is? Man, that must have been traumatic for you... kinda like Mr. Rogers threatening to call the cops on you (as a kid, of course) for invasion of privacy because he saw you walking down the street singing, "It's a beaut-i-ful day in this neigh-bor-hood!" Kool Can't we all just get along?
drkoolbreeze	Ted Anthony...	#9	[-]
Recurring Character Posts: 243 (08-06-02 5:32 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	the man's a voice-over institution... got his start as a deejay on an excellent oldies station, WHYT, back around 1980. He worked with Paul Nicholas...an openly Christian deejay...and Ron Tabernot...who also went on to do voice overs for local TV commercials, as well as do a stint on HoneyRadio...the first big Detroit Oldies station (Sidebar: my favourite deejay on that station? Richard D. Haase...with his "Top 12 at 12...counting down the top hits according to CKLW for August 6, 1968! ) Can't we all just get along?
erikolsen	Is it Gary?	#10	[-]
Posts: 32 (08-07-02 6:33 AM) Recurring Character Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad Here's a still from the 1982 Budweiser ad, featuring someone who is under suspicion of being Gary Ed Mach... www.qptv.com/images/isitgary.jpg
johnnyufo	Re: Is it Gary?	#11	[-]
Posts: 10 (08-07-02 12:30 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is NOT Gary Ed Mach, growing up near him I would spot him a mile away. I looks like him, but...no way, way to handsome(?)
TV Horror Host	kidbit's themesong (doo doo doo, do do doo doo doo...)	#12	[-]
Posts: 2959 (03-28-03 4:46 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	[This post by, iron def, moved here by Moderator] Hmm. I saw a few posts here regarding Kidbits, and it's host, Gary Ed Mach(?) I was wondering if anybody familiar or involved with the show could answer a long standing question for me. The theme song- I remember it well, I used to hum it as a kid- Was the version on the show produced for the show? Inspired by The Crown Heights Affair's "Dreaming a Dream" or "Always There" by either Ronnie Laws or Wood Brass & Steel? Were these songs popular on the radio at the time, what was the deal? I assume the theme song was inspired by one of these songs, and a version was produced by some musicians- If anyone has any information about this, or who made the song, or even how and why it happened- it would put to rest a long time question. I believe I owe my interest in jazz/funk/soul/disco, etc. to this childhood experience, and would love to know the story behind this. cheers john
gjamieson	KidBits/Gary Mach	#13	[-]
Posts: 23 (04-18-03 3:39 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gary Mach lives here in Port Huron these days, and he's very involved in the Port Huron Civic Theatre. I saw him in a production at McMorran Place last fall. An acquaintance here in town knows him, and I'm trying to get an "interview" with him, maybe some behind-the-scenes on KidBits !!! BTW, the Bud commercial looks something like him, but I'm not positive.
ES1975	Kidbits/Gary Mach	#14	[-]
Posts: 140 (04-24-03 7:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I wonder if he has any copies of the show? Or if he knows if WDIV does?
gjamieson	Re: Kidbits/Gary Mach	#15	[-]
Posts: 23 (04-24-03 3:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm sure WDIV would have them. I know they were shot on 1" videotape, and the video library at Channel 4 is very complete.... "And NOW. ladies and gentlemen...."
19 Seven TV	Kidbits	#16	[-]
Posts: 20 (05-12-03 9:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Heh...remember those little commercials they used to run, even though everyone knew it was still part of the show. "There's a smart way to watch TV!"
Ghastly Gary	Re: Kidbits	#17	[-]
Recurring Character Posts: 680 (05-13-03 8:26 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, I do. The PSAs were produced by NBC and featured actor Lenny Schultz. One spot I recall featured animation at the beginning. I'll mention the visuals in parentheses. In the spot Lenny says "When a cartoon cat (cat is drawn) chases a cartoon mouse (mouse is drawn, then cat chases mouse) into cartoon wall (mouse crashes through brick wall followed by cat through wall leaving silhouettes of themselves) we find it funny because it's make believe. But when a real cat (live action Lenny being chased by unseen roaring ferocious big cat) chases a real person into a real wall, (Lenny crashes into wall and falls with a thud). So remember, walls aren't made with pen and ink, they're made with real bricks. (shows brick and drops it onto his unseen foot and whinces in pain) Remember, there's a smart way to watch TV. " (long shot of Lenny holding his painful foot and skipping with one leg).
Unregistered(d)	Kidbits	#18	[-]
Posts: 0 (07-15-03 4:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is freaky, but I actually remember the theme music to the show. It was simple and just had some background singers (gospel/urban) going do-do-do-do-do-do... do-do-do-do-do-do (I didn't ask for these memories to stay with me). There was also a commercial they would run where they would show special effects then some wise guy would say "Hey, there's a smart way to watch tv." Brent
Demonbabies	Re: Kidbits	#19	[-]
Posts: 11 (06-01-06 4:40 AM) Recurring Character Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	They used the intro to the song Always There by Wood, Brass & Steel...which was a cover of a Ronnie Laws song.
garyedmach	Kidbits LIVES	#20	[-]
Cameo Posts: 1 (02-24-08 5:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad OK, although a few years have passed, here I am, alive and well. and back on TV. Time to set a few things striaght. First I did live in Royal Oak, but I never chased any kids down the block for whistling the Kidbits theme. (Puhleeze!) Second, I did live in Port Huron and did some shows with Civic Theatre. I would have been easy to find since I am a licensed attorney, and also served on the City Council for two years. Look me up on the State Bar website. Anyway, I am back on TV (cable Public Access) with a new science show for kids called "SciEngiMathePloration." The show is sponsored by the Engineering Society of Detroit (www.esd.org) and is shot entirely in the field by volunteers. We are on about 40 cable stations around the State and are starting to get picked up by out of State systems. We won a Philo Award last summer, and are submitting for the National Cable Access awards this year. We might even get into European TV this year.

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