Professor Kool aired on WMAR-TV

WMAR-TV

WMAR-TV, channel 2, is the ABC affiliate television station in Baltimore, Maryland, owned by the broadcasting division of the E.W. Scripps Company...

 in Baltimore

Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

 on Saturday mornings from 1967 to 1978 and was hosted by Stu Kerr

Stu Kerr

Thomas Stewart Kerr, more familiarly known to audiences as Stu Kerr , was a Baltimore, Maryland, television personality who developed and hosted a number of programs on Baltimore television from 1952 through the 1980s...

. It was a children's show featuring different kids each week. One feature on the show was the kids singing the following song to the tune of Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells

"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...

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We like school
We like school cause it's lots of fun.
Singing, laughing, playing games,
Blues are on the run.
We like school we like school,
Love to hear the bell.
For our teacher Professor Kool
Let's give him a great big yell !!!

Professor Kool had a nemesis Miss Spiderweb who was played by John Ziemann. After Professor Kool went off the air, Stu Kerr

Stu Kerr

Thomas Stewart Kerr, more familiarly known to audiences as Stu Kerr , was a Baltimore, Maryland, television personality who developed and hosted a number of programs on Baltimore television from 1952 through the 1980s...

was on a show called Caboose, which featured a young puppeteer named Kevin Clash, better known today as the man behind Elmo.