Sonny Fox, who hosted the Sunday morning children’s staple Wonderama in the 1960s, died died Sunday in Los Angeles of Covid-19-related pneumonia.
He was 95.His death was confirmed by his official website.As host of the four-hour, New York-based Wonderama from 1959 to 1967, Irwin “Sonny” Fox was one of era’s most popular kid show hosts, exemplifying the local flavor that markets across the country had adopted. (Wonderama was produced at New York’s Metromedia-owned WNEW-TV Channel 5, and also aired in other Metromedia markets including Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Cincinnat and Minneapolis – Saint Paul.)The show’s mix of cartoons, celebrity guests, magic tricks, art lessons, spelling bees and Fox’s slapstick humor entertained
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