Here are four web-footed reptiles seen around town:
On the Trinity River.
At the Museum of Science and History.
In Botanic Garden.
In the news. Mickey Mud-Turtle, as you recall, was a local television personality circa 1957-1962. He first appeared on Channel 11 with his co-star, the lovely Amanda Possum. Together Mickey and Amanda formed a reptile-marsupial theatrical pairing that has rarely been equaled since, not even on Dancing with the Stars. When Amanda left the act, Mickey moved to Channel 5, where he took as his co-star his sister, Michelle Mud-Turtle. (Channel 5 apparently had a lax policy on nepotism.) (Photo from Dallas Morning News, 1959.)
More on Mickey and Amanda.
I remember Mickey and his sister Amanda what a great
Act I was just a child when they started the act on channel
11 I will always remember Mickey and Amanda god
Bless them both
Those two indeed are a fond memory for our generation.
I think when Michelle sang “Boots,” Richard Clayton was in Los Angeles…Maybe the station there has footage (oh, yes, there’s a pun there)….
I found an e-mail address for Clayton a couple of years ago and wrote to him but got no reply. He would be about eighty-seven now.
Any video of Michelle Mud Turtle singing ” these boots are made for walking”? I looked everywhere! Ty?
Sharon, there must be some surviving footage, but I have not seen it. Nothing on YouTube, which usually can be counted on. KTVT surely has some if the current owners have any sense of history.