Apparently there are threads on French message boards where people confess their love of the program while admitting nightmares in their youth about the Talking Telephone and Mic-Mac the microphone.
I tried to order the DVDs but Amazon.fr is out of stock... This is my favorite episode- each one starts with the announcement of the day's Celebrated Object; today it is hairs, and the awesome dialogue from Groucha the cat cracks me up everytime:
"This little hair, Lola, I found on my coat. He was alone, abandoned. Hairs live in society in groups- pass me that brush please. Go now, my little one, go and rejoin your people!"
I've introduced my little one to it, and we have fun playing the 45rpm record and reading along in the accompanying book (remember record players? ). Still hoping that the DVDs become available again, the few episodes on Youtube are pretty poor quality.
Any other fans out there? Did this ever make it out of France?!