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MBR. DRESSUP 23 years and he‘s still going strong More than two decades ago, as Canadian children sat huddled in front of their television sets watching their favorite program and its gentle, softâ€"spoken host, assuredly none thought that 23 years later their own children would be watching the same show in 1967, not even Mr. Dressup (a.k.a. Ermie Coombs) guessed that his show â€" with the tickle trunk, the tree house, and, of course, Casey and Finnegan â€"â€" had such staying power By Deborah Crandall But whatever quality the show possesses (and even Coombs is not sure what that is), Mr. Dressup has delighted two generations of young children, with very little in the way of change since the day it went on the air and on the road (Continued on EZ2)