There Were Some Strange Censorship Practices, Though
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While it may have seemed fine back then for the network to have a not-so-happy ending where a kid maybe died, one onscreen activity was a total taboo. “There was one thing, and this was great — we did 91 episodes of that show, and there are 91 campfires, and we never saw anyone lighting the campfire. You couldn’t show kids striking a match because they didn’t want to teach kids how to do that and risk some kids accidentally burning down their homes, I guess. We put the fires out plenty of times but never lit any.”
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Ryan Gosling Was Almost Part Of The Midnight Society
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If the young Gosling didn’t get the Mickey Mouse Club gig, chances are he’d have been part of the core storytelling group of the show. Of course, he did get to play a character in one of the show’s later episodes.