TOYLAND CASTLE (Castillo de Juguetes) is my first TV program.  I was Executive Producer/Writer on this, one of the first programs produced at WNJT - TV, the new PBS station at Trenton, N.J.

 

      
  Fernando the Toymaker is played by popular New York City radio entertainer Fernando Alvarez.  (1971)


      Puppet master for the show was the nationally famous Paul Ashley, creator of hundreds of characters including Rootie Kazootie, Gallipoochie Pup, and the villainous Poison Sumac.
Puppeteers were Angel Pineda, Jana Klenburg, and Salvador Levi.
Additional material written by Marta Celorio.
Permission to use his children's songs was granted by the famous songwriter/lyricist Irving Caesar.