Woodrow the Woodsman was a local children's television program host in Cleveland and Detroit from 1961 to 1972, and again in 1997 to 2000.
[2] He branched off with his own show, "Woodrow," in 1961, and remained with Barnaby on Saturdays in "Barnwood Playhouse," moving to Detroit in 1966 shortly after the station was sold.
Remarkably, Conroy still had all of his original props and costumes in his basement, including the puppets who were regular characters on the show: Tarkington Whom Owl, Voracious the Elephant, and Freddie the Alley-Croc.
The puppet characters were voiced by fellow Cleveland actor Lawson J. Deming from 1961 to 1966,[2] and Canton native Thomas E. Grove from 1997 to 2000.
Deming went on to portray the popular horror movie host Sir Graves Ghastly for 15 years on Detroit television.