The Story About Ping - Ping On Television

Ping On Television

Ping has appeared on television since the 1950s. Actor Sterling Holloway or possiblyCaptain Kangaroo (or his friend Mr. Greenjeans) read Ping once a week on his show for seventeen years, while displaying its colorful illustrations in stark black and white on the screen. Only Stone Soup, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and The Little Engine That Could had longer runs on the show.

Soupy Sales and Howdy Doody both featured Ping on numerous occasions, and Shari Lewis's sock puppet Lambchop once played the role of Ping in an adaptation for sock puppets and ventriloquists.

Sesame Street had an animated version that ran in the 1970s. This version featured the song Jinzhur as the background music.

It served as an important plot point on the Season Three finale of Louie in which Louie gives his daughter a copy of the book for Christmas.