"The Balloon Goon" was a hosted children's show with Sterling Brewer on WVTM-TV and WAPI-TV in Birmingham, Alabama between 1956 till 1957.

A hosted children's show with Sterling Brewer on WVTM-TV and WAPI-TV in Birmingham, Alabama between 1956 till 1957. Visiting children would sit in a set filled with inflated balloons, and pop one to signal the start of a cartoon. Brewer's sterling reputation was based on his long career as a newscaster. Between Fall 1958 - fall 1960 Brewer went on to host the horror movie series "The Unknown".—Paul Gerard Kennedy