Snipets - "A Smile to Brighten Someone's Day" [with Meeno Peluce] (1977)

Here's another vintage Snipets segment, albeit one with the original "patchwork" logo, and ending title card featuring the Kaiser Broadcasting logo: "A Smile to Brighten Someone's Day."

This one features child actor Meeno Peluce, who would hit it big about 5 years later with the NBC time-travelling series, "Voyagers!".

This was one of nine Snipets segments produced by Stephen Fisch, a freelance producer, during December of 1976.

Here, Meeno plays a skipping, carefree lad, doing various good deeds including giving a newspaper in front of a doorstep to an old man, smiling and waving at various neighbors, and ending up brightening the day of another heretofore glum kid, who then joins him merrily skipping along.

"Smiles are friend-makers." (voiceover by??)

Trivia Note: The elderly man seen starting at 00:10 and the older woman seen starting at 0:32 are the grandparents of producer Stephen Fisch - Barney Aviron and Jean Aviron

Celebrity Contact Note: I e-mailed Meeno Peluce to verify that it really was him in this short and to ask if he had any recollections of it - this was his response, "Sure looks like me. But I don’t remember “Snipets” and the only thing I did before Starsky & Hutch was a Kellogs [sic] commercial that my God-father directed when I was 4." (via e-mail, 10/16/2017)

The 1970s Were Awesome Note: If you look carefully you can see Meeno is wearing a "Hawaiian Punks" Wacky Packages T-shirt.

Ending Snipets title card with Kaiser Broadcasting logo (1977 copyright date) (voiceover by ??)

This first aired on all Kaiser Broadcasting stations in Spring 1977, and would be aired periodically after Field acquired said stations through that company's early 1980's implosion.

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