[5] Following graduation, Homme took a job with the University of Wisconsin State Radio Station WHA.

[6] Homme was married to Esther Eleanor Anderson and had four children: Richard, Ann, Ruth and Peter.

[10] Homme approached the program director of WHA radio, which was in the process of developing a television station.

Kinescopes of early episodes caught the attention of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and production of the program moved to CBC Television's Toronto studios in 1958.

CBC produced and aired The Friendly Giant until 1986, and it was later run in syndication on Canada's YTV.

Using a tight cover-shot and a loose close-up might have violated the newly established rules of television, but in this case it worked.

Homme always kept the giant character somewhere in the shot to emotionally reassure his preschool audience and to minimize the jarring effect of appearing suddenly.

He first purchased a recorder while stationed in New York City during his military service to give him an inexpensive and portable instrument during his travels.

[15] Bob Homme was the model in a number of paintings by his friend and Canadian artist, James Lumbers.

Homme's likeness was used in the images of grandfather types in these paintings such as "Lucky Strike" and "Gone Fishing."

In one painting of a honky-tonk piano player called "Billy Nine Fingers," Bob and Esther are one of the couples sitting at a table in the foreground.

He and fellow Rotarian Wally Reid formed a group called "Time Share", performing music in area retirement and nursing homes.