The Candy Apple News Company is a locally produced children's television series that premiered on Friday, February 2, 1979 at 8:00pm[1] on WCAU-TV Channel 10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[3] Between 2006-2011 WCAU occasionally ran a show called Out of the Vault[4] that featured Candy Apple News Company,[5] although it's unknown how many episodes were shown.
In the show, a small human cast interacted with puppets in an old-fashioned, small-town storefront office which operated as a feature service distributing items of children's interest to television, radio and newspapers.
He was joined by his assistant C.B., played by Mary Margaret Myers, and a staff of puppets; a bat (Boris) worked as book reviewer, a mole (Morgan) was a researcher, and a cuckoo (Alistair) was the timekeeper.
Other Candy Apple regulars included puppet Sparks O'Sullivan and a vintage 1930s talking radio that acted as show narrator.