WGN Channel 9 - Bozo's Circus (Complete Broadcast, 9/10/1979) 📺 🤡
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- Here's the complete Live broadcast of an edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9 from when it was still in its prime. Bob Bell is Bozo, Roy Brown is Cooky, Frazier Thomas is the ringmaster, Garfield Goose and Friends are along for the ride (although we don't see him in this episode except for the intro), and juggler Paul Bachman is at center ring, all backed by the Bozo Big-Top Band.
Includes:
WGN-TV station ID (voiceover by Merri Dee) (music snippet of "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker had to be muted to avoid CZcams copyright blockage)
Frazier kicks things off with the open, followed by his interactions with the audience, Bozo and Cooky singing "Hi, Neighbor," their hands getting stuck at one point and trying to avoid Frazier's seltzer shpritzing
Commercials for:
McDonald's (Ronald takes a trip on a treehouse elevator which stops at weird floors) (with voiceover promo for appearance at Rensselaer, IN parade for September 15th by Merri Dee)
Buster Brown "Shhhhs" shoes (featuring the little girl from Airplane! who liked her coffee black - Michelle Stacy) (ending voiceover by Merri Dee)
Bozo's TV Powww! game, with Lisa Eddingfield, 9, of Aurora on other end of line, with plugs for Apple radio, Careers board game, 7up and Schwinn SX-100 Motorcross Competition bike
Frazier asks who's their favorite clown, leading to "Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown" cartoon about filming a Western
Grand Prize Game with Jeff, 4, and Candy, 9-1/2 ($32 in Bucket #6!) with at-home players Greg Briese, 5-1/2, of Madison, IL (for Jeff) and Barb Root, 11, of Dubuque, IA (for Candy)
Commercials for:
Cheerios (with stick-figure acrobat)
The Barbie Dream House Colorforms set - from Mattel
In center ring, Mr. B, Clown Prince of Juggling, (Paul Bachman) juggles to BozoBand Instrumentals of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", "Alley Cat," and ?? first with balls, then with bowling pins and round objects, and finally jumping rope while on a unicycle
Promo for The Groovie Goolies (misspelled as "Groovy Goolies") for 4pm (voiceover by Carl Greyson)
Commercials for:
Honey Nut Cheerios
3 Musketeers [audio had to be muted to avoid copyright blockage]
Post Alpha-Bits Cereal
Cooky laments his having to water elephants with a bucket, then Bozo and Frazier go over the basis of bike safety with a bike, and Bozo, with a book on hypnosis, hypnotizes Cooky to carry out mischief
Augie Doggie cartoon "Ape to Z" [1960] [cartoon had to be mostly edited out to avoid Copyright blockage]
Frazier assembles Ryan, Kim, Kevin(?), Michelle, (?), Timmy, Rosalyn and Ann to play bean bag toss (hot potato game) by process of elimination, and winner gets P.E.G.S. (Parker Electronic Game System) from Parker Brothers
Promo for Sgt. Bilko for 5pm (ending voiceover by Carl Greyson)
PSA - "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires" (with match burning in slow motion)
Commercial: Adler Planetarium, John G. Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum in Chicago's Grant Park
Frazier concludes this edition by signaling for the Grand March, over which the end credits are displayed as Bozo with the baton leads the audience members who file out of the studio:
Bozo's Circus
(C) 1979, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
Starring Bob Bell, Roy Brown, Frazier Thomas
The prizes awarded on this show were furnished in consideration for the promotional value of the prizes.
Musical Director - Tom Fitzsimmons
Asst. Director - Barbara Shikami
Producer - Allen Hall
Directed by Don Strukel
Bozo's Circus
Bozo the Clown - Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation
Licensed & Distributed by Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation
First 40 seconds of Mid-Day Report with Merri Dee:
- 32-year-old parolee confesses to starting Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958, and she explains how WGN News got the scoop on that; first few seconds of first in a series of reports from producer Alex Burkholder before recording ends (if you'd like to see a more complete version of one of the WGN reports from this story, go here: • WGN Channel 9 - John D... )
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 within the 12pm to 1pm timeframe.
This video authorized by © Nexstar Media Inc. (WGN-TV) and Bozo™ & © Send in the Bozos LLC. Special thanks to George Pappas and John Lavalie.
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I'm 69 years old, grew up in Chicago. Like most kids of that era, we all loved Bozo Circus. This was amazing to see as for a show that was on the air for nearly 40 years, complete episodes are extremely rare to find. I enjoyed every minute of this. Thank you for posting.
Did you see the little kid that lost and said " ahh cr@p ! " And Bozo said now , now , that's a Bozo no no " and the kid flipped him the bird and said " cram it clowny " hilarious 😂😂😂
@@user-bx8nn5rl5w That's freakin hilarious. Is that really true??? LOLOL
@@PianomanKY
No..🙄
I was on it in 1971!!! I was living in Lagrange IL. Ray Rayner in the morning, Bozo during Lunch, WFLD 32 after school Speed Racer, Spiderman. Then outside on my blue Schwinn typhoon!
Loved seeing the Cubs and Sox scores on the chalk board every morning on Ray Rayner ❤
We had a very similar schedule Mark!!!😂😂😂😂❤ Except, I got on my yellow Schwinn 10-speed!!!
@@MaryHartman-ei9pv Yellow, cool! In Third grade 1973 I got a brown Schwinn 10 speed! Where did you grow up?
@Mark.G475 At that time, we were in Melrose Park, they had this beautiful Schwinn bike shop in Hillside. It's so funny because I could not make up my mind what color my mother wanted to kill me she's like please make up your mind it was between the yellow, orange, baby blue and brown!!🤣♥️💯
Mr. Ned, Frazier Thomas, Garfield Goose, Cuddly Duddly, Hardrock Coco and Joe, Susie Snowflake, Romper Room with the charming Miss Elizabeth, etc.
My sister played the buckets during this season. Wish I knew which episode. She's gone now.
I'm sorry to hear that
@@sidekick4 Idiot.
I'm sorry to hear that 😢❤ glad you were able to remember the good times by watching this show.. but what do you mean you played the buckets? This is my first time ever watching this show and I'm curious.. would love it if you elaborated on that day 😇 would be nice to hear a behind the scenes story
I've not seen a classic Bozo's Circus in a good long while. Thanks, Fuzzy!
I thought it was called "The Bozo show"?
I mostly remembered it I'm assuming was syndicated when my cable company at the time had WGN network (I think that's what it's called) and it was out of Chicago. I lived on the east coast
@@RandemNJ Not until the fall of 1980 when it moved to the morning time slot.
This episode aired live.
RIP
Ned Locke ( Ringmaster Ned)
Bob Trendler ( Orginal band leader)
Bob Bell ( Bozo)
Roy Brown( Cooky)
Ray Raynor ( Oliver O. Oliver)
Don Sandberg ( Sandy The Clown)
Frazier Thomas
Marshall Brodien ( Wizzo).
And Merri Dee.
5:20 Ronald McDonald was portrayed by King Moody ( 1969-85).
31:11 The Groovie Goolies originally aired on CBS Saturday Mornings during the 1970-71 season.
31:41 The Honey Nut Cheerios Bee was voiced by Arnold Stang ( 1979-92).
The original voice of Top Cat.
Ditto to great entertainers . And most of the youngsters who attended this show in 1979 are in their late forties and early fifties by now .
At 48:26 the WGN announcer , the attractive and charming Merri Dee did this after she was targeted for kidnapping and murder attempt .
@@JJJBRICE - Her story has always to me sounded similar to, but in specifics were way different from, WNEW Channel 5 (New York) announcer Tom Gregory (a.k.a. "Metromedia Man") who, early in his career, frequently appeared on-camera as well as doing off-camera announcing work - but after a vicious mugging late one night/early morning after his shift ended where he was slashed so much in the face he required 200 stitches, his duties at the station would forever after be confined to the latter (off-camera V/O).
But as to that R.I.P. list . . . isn't Paul Bachman also among them, or is it my imagination? And I.I.N.M., it was about 7 - 8 years from that incident of Ms. Dee's that this was on.
I still live in Chicago (west suburbs) This brought me back & couldn’t go but cry a lil for my childhood nostalgia! Me & my sister used to make our own bozo bucket games & our prizes would be our own stuffies! TY for this! 🥰🫶🏼
That's awesome!!! I miss being a kid too!!! This show brings back so many memeories!!!
I used to run home from school at recess so I could watch Bozo! This is awesome! I had no idea Our Lady of Angels was intentionally started (during the newscast at the end). Thank you for sharing this gem! Jimmy Lee in Chicago
In May 1975 I attended a live broadcast of Bozo's Circus with my classmates from college . One of the classmates was the son of a WGN VP . I remember how the guys in the control room were cheering the youngsters to do well playing the grand prize game !
Kids today have so much content available to them. They simply couldn’t comprehend having 3 or 4 channels to watch and being grateful for what’s on them.
Which also means that all kids have something different they like. So there is not common topics to have conversations about. Thus less social interaction as a result.
Or a television, for that matter...📺 🖥
I was 11 years ago when this aired and in 6th grade. My school let us go home for lunch, so I likely saw this when first broadcast. Ah, memories.
Bob Bell was in full Krusty the Clown mode by this time.
Krusty was a decade or more after this. Krusty was inspired by Bozo. How does anyone not know this?
@@nastybastardatlive I’m very well aware about Bozo inspiring Krusty. The Bob Bell era specifically. By 1979, Bob Bell was in full on Krusty mode.
Buwahahahaha!!!
Haha Crusty. I remember BOZO I can’t believe this is on
When we first moved to chicago, my mother tried to get tickets to The Bozo Show and our neighbors laughed at us. We quickly found out there was about a 3-year waiting list.
I was born there and my bought me tickets when I was born and they were for when I was 7🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ronstille7924 I believe it.
Only 3 years! 😂 It was usually 10 years.
@@Mark.G475 yep, in our case it was 3 years. There are people that are going to claim 5 years, 7 years, and 10 years.
I was on it in 1971, we were living in Lagrange. Friends of the family finally got tickets but the kids were teenagers, they said no way. I was in first grade so it was perfect. Great times Ray Rayner, Bozo, Family Classics, Garfield Goose, BJ and the Dirty Dragon...
I would watch this at my grandmother's house. She had cable tv, we didnt. She lived on the street behind us. I wanted to be on the Bozo sow so bad, I'm from Texas lol
I was on this show in 1963 and got picked to play the Bozo buckets of which I missed the third one. It was surreal to go WGN studios and be there live. Good memories
OMG i watched this show on WGN from Louisville KY! I adore it so much to this very day!
Thank you for this. I was a little child when this aired, probably even saw this broadcast because this was around the time I discovered the Bozo’s Circus. Full old episodes from this era are hard to find. Great transfer here. Two-inch Quad? Anyway, TV Powwww was wretched. Got to enjoy it Downstate on Peoria’s 25 too during my afternoon cartoon. Bob Bell as Bozo was a treasure. The whole show gelled here led by Frazier Thomas, and the Grand Prize Game - which my sister and I played at home with Tupperware. Thanks for the Fuzzy Memories. WGN Channel 9 is among the greatest television stations ever.
This is from VHS - LP mode.
New York sister station WPIX' equivalent was TV PIXXX. It was all off-camera, either Ralph Lowenstein or Bill Biery guided children on the phone to say "Pix!" whenever such early video games were being played. This was usually in-between cartoons such as "Tom & Jerry" or "Mighty Mouse" or "Heckle & Jeckle."
WGN-"World's Greatest Newspaper."
@@elaineewalt8137 - While its New York sister station, WPIX, got its name from the slogan of its original owner, the New York Daily News - "New York's Picture Newspaper."
We would begin seeing Bozo here in Kentucky when our cable TV began carrying WGN in 1981. What was funny even though it was received via a satellite feed the cable company fed WGN to us on cable channel 9. We only had 12 cable channels at the time so we did not have a set top box. The VHF tuner on the TV itself was all we needed channel 2-13 and there was always something on to watch!
I am from Kentucky I remember being in daycare and watching bozo every afternoon on WGN back in 1988!
I've lived in Chicago my whole life. I was born 2 years after this aired. I remember making it to a Bozo show when I was a kid. My sister almost got to play the grand prize game.
I watched The Bozo Show all the time since I was a kid. Lot of memories.
Wow. I didnt discover Bozo until 84 when i was in the 2nd grade. We would watch it before school. They would show a few minutes of Transformers which became my favorite cartoon. By the time the grand prize game would end, we would have to leave for school. Great memories.
Thanks for posting!
Good times right here !
I grew up in Indiana...central area.
Loved watching Bozo every day during summer breaks.
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing this. 🙂
In NY we had another Bozo, Mr. Bill Britton. When I saw this vintage video it brought backfond childhood memories. Thank you.
Yes he was all over the country ..many folks didn't realize that Bozo was a franchise.😊
Another great find! Thanks!
A grand slam of a post! Thanks so much, Rick!!!!
I remember watching these guy's every morning before catching the bus to school. Awesome memories ❤️
❤ Memories.. so simple, yet perfect! .. This one aired one day before my 11th Birthday 🎉
This is such a treat. It saddens me to a level that most people would find laughable, that 99% of these classic episodes are forever post. I just wish I could watch them again. I wasn't even born for the first decade, so I've never seen those, and unfortunately probably never will 😢. And that makes me so sad.
❤❤❤ Thank you for this 🤗
OH MY GOD THIS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
KEEP EM COMING!!!!
When the show was still broadcast at noon.
With my favorite Bozo
That was an odd time though since kids were still in school, my guess is that kids would run home from recess or lunch to watch. Afterschool hours made more sense though.
I was 10 Years Old at the time when this Episode Aired in 1979! Love and Still Miss, Bob Bell aka Bozo, Roy Brown aka Cooky and Frazier Thomas aka 2nd Ringmaster! Miss The Special Guest Acts, Contests, Bozo Cartoons as well as The Grand Prize Game! Commercials and Local Ads really added a lot of Spice to the Show as well! It's A Golden Time and Era in my Life that I will always Treasure in Both My Mind and Heart! Thank-You For Bringing back to Life this True Gem! Thank-You For Sharing and God Bless!
We were able to see these in Michigan when cable tv was first brand new and we could get the Chicago Station.
The Chicago Station had all the good kids shows back in the 70's and 80's !
Nice hidden nostalgic treasure. Thank for posting... 🍺😎👍
My mother somehow got me on a waiting list to attend Bozo Circus live when I was 6. By the time I was 11 (and no longer cared about the show), we received tickets or whatever they were in the mail, so I went. Was surprised at how small the circus area was as compared to how large they made it look on TV. I don't remember much from the experience except shaking Cookie's hand and him calling me "My pal." I am 57yrs old, used to watch this every day during summer break from school, but I have absolutely NO MEMORY of that TV POWWW game.
Nice! Hope you have some Ray Rayner coming someday.
I'm of a completely different generation, but I love Bozo! it's so cool to see this, thank you for preserving history!
Watched this every morning growing up. I sent so many letters to go into the drawing! I had my own Grand Prize Game too.
Oh my god
I haven't seen him in 30 years
Loved watching his show in the morning before school
Automatically subbed✨♥️
I was on this show in fall of 1963 and got picked to play the Grand Prize game but I missed the 3rd bucket. We lived in Fox Lake and It must have been live because my dad said he saw me on the show. Those are good memories of going there and the whole experience was surreal just going to WGN studios.
OMG...cryin...THIS brings back soooooo many GOOD memories❤️❤️❤️❤️😁❤️❤️❤️
My family moved to Chicago from San Antonio tex.around 1961.i was about 13 .TV shows here were great.all we got in San Antonio was westerns ,Texas this and Texas that.garfield goose was the 1st show we saw .a whole new world opened up for us.
Ahh, local programming. That's something which has been lost in our transition from broadcast TV to cable to streaming. Did every major city have a favorite kid's show, a horror host, an independent UHF station with fun and quirky programming because they had time to fill and not much money?
Pretty much! There's a couple good documentaries here where they go over all the horror hosts. But kids shows ...I know NYC had wonderama, philly had talent shows like al Albert and chief halftown and captain Noah.
Phoenix had Wallace & Ladmo for 35 years! It was awesome. Local kid shows died out when they banned hosts doing commercials. PBS did a wonderful special on local kid shows.
Yep. We all had our own clowns and singing cowboys and horror hosts or variations of the above. Many of us were audiences for the shows. Local channels used to be community focused. Deregulation in the 1980s gave us today's soullessness.
Growing up in Minnesota during this time a lot of our television programming came from Chicago.
Most of you who've seen the original "Night of the Living Dead" have seen our local host. Remember the TV reporter and station in the movie? That was Bill Cardille of WIIC (now WPXI), who as one of the "hats" he wore in real life was occasionally news reporter. But he's more famous as Chilly Billy, host of "Chiller Theater" from 1963-1984. Chiller's downfall began when NBC demanded that "Saturday Night Live" be aired at it's broadcast time rather than tape delay after Chiller. Then VHS nailed the coffin closed.
OMG - flashbacks! I loved this show.
I remember Bozo in the early-mid 80s on WGN via cable here in TX, Always wanted in on the Grand Prize Game, even sent in a postcard to win. Alas, I never won that Schwinn!!
Tis brings back good memories growing up in dekalb, illinois
And so the long saga comes to a satisfying conclusion. Congrats, Fuzzy.
I remember this show. 😍❤️
Oh boy I watched this in high school after I graduated I was studying all the time and used to watch it on Sunday .
Oh my God, I used to love this show. And I love.
The grand prize game. And I loved the grand prize. It was so exciting. And I was watching in my 30s. So much better than the price is right
A friendlier time when people could still be entertained and not scared by clowns.
I remember first getting cable, in the early 70's, and what it felt like to have a program on EVERY number of the dial. After years of UHF/VHF, rabbit-ear tuning for the broadcast stations (ABC, NBC, CBS, & PBS)... 12 (clear) channels felt like hitting the lottery.
I remember this show in the early 90s/late 80s playing on the family channel. One of my earliest childhood memories of any tv shows.
Bless God allowing me to experiencing this in my youth
would love to see more from them I grew up in the 80's and remember watching them a lot.
Loved watching this show in the early to mid 80s on cable TV.
Wasn't born yet but I do remember growing up, getting ready for school, sitting down and getting breakfast and watching WGN and Bozo early in the morning. I'm from the middle of nowhere texas but, I was definitely in Chicago for that hour of bozo. Lol
I watched this...everyday! Went to school with Roy Brown's kids! They were so cool!
This is Lord Wellington. My friend David " The Rock " Nelson was on this programme. Not this particular episode, but an earlier episode. He said they were in studio for it. These days he's a very accomplished maker of "Monster Movies" and has been back to WGN often. For the News. He played one such film with Us on there as well for Larry Potash and all the children called " Dinosaur Woman. "
We used to watch this before we went to school in the morning. I remember eating my cereal and watching the grand prize game!!! I can still remember the one little girl that was crying, saying pow pow pow…lol… because I don’t think she got one.
More of these, please!
I remember watching Bozo, I was born in Alton Illinois
Made my night!!
I was only able to watch these when we visited Grandma in New York each summer.
We would visit my grandmother who lived in South Alabama, and her cable system carried WGN, but ours in Middle Georgia did not. I would always get so mad because I didn’t understand why she got the Bozo show, and I didn’t at home, even though we were closer to Chicago than she was
I love Bozo the clown! It was a great hit in Brazil when it was aired by TVS, the Brazilian broadcasting TV, along with great cartoons. It was a great childhood.
I see the episode date, Sept 10, 1979. I think back to a pic I have (somewhere) of my 7th birthday at our home. My mom baked my favorite chocolate cake, put a big 7 in the middle, and there I am with my lil brother, 1st cousins, all smiles. Just 7 days before this episode, a moment captured. Simpler times, no cell phones, no division in the country. I love and appreciate my life, my 51+ years, and all my countless blessings. But I do recall and miss what was. Thank YOU Father GOD, for everything that is, was and will be the life of a single individual here on YOUR planet, passing through. Help me love my fellow man/woman, and forgive, forget all offences, quickly. In Jesus my savior, amen. David in Kentucky
Lots of fun. Got to go 3 times!! Ned Locke was the man though along with Bob Bell. Great memories ❤
I miss those days. I was almost four years old. Everybody is nice.
In the 80’s when we used to get the Chicago feed for WGN in Fort Worth, I watched Bozo.
I was born in 1986, so I did remember watching Bozo every morning before school.
Time to Tone down the news. And Bing these show back on the Air....
I hope others come up more full episodes. It's a shame that most of them weren't saved. This certainly is a treat.
"A years supply of 7-up" - that sums up the 70's..
this show came out almost a month after I was born I remember growing up watching it early early in the morning before going to school ... what a much better time it was back then .... bozo , mr rogers neghiborhood , all the cartoons to many to mention , video power in the late 80s , etc a lotta good shows ...
Wow crazy i remember this in the 80's and it was interesting
when i was a kid i watch Bozo on tv ,,i love this show ...
AND those local/regional commercials?!?! Fantastic!
I wasn't even a year old yet when this episode was on
I remember watching Bozo and the gang in the 80s on WGN when we got cable.
Growing up outside Chicago I watched Bozo every weekend. I got to meet Cookie when I was 3 years old and got a picture with him
Can you post more eps? I've been looking for these eps for YEARS! Thank you!!!
I'm not 'Fuzzy', but I'm sure it's all contingent on any approval from WGN and the Bozo rights holders.
we lived in Chicago 2 blocks away from wgn... my brother and sister got picked to do the bucket #6...my sister made it to bucket 5 a d my brother jay..made it to bucket 6...he passed away when he was 16..hit by a freight train....man it be nice to find the show where he was on it and won...I get 0 info in finding The episode..with him and my sis...the good old days...
I lived in that area for 15 yrs( from mid 70's to the 80's). I couldn't get home at lunch fast enough so i could watch it( i lived across the street from school.
I was born and raised in Chicago Il. I was 5yrs old when I use to watch The Bozo Show,I'll never forget the Grand prize game, My favorite clown was of course 🎈🎪BOZO!🤹🎪 🌟🙏R.I.P. to all the clowns.🙏
Loved Bozo growing up...then Baltimore got its own clown, Stu Kerr as Professor Kool's Fun School.
I lived in Gary Indiana and I've been to a few Bozo shows when I was a kid I even was picked to play the Gran Prize Game I made it all the way to bucket number 5 didn't win everything but I had fun playing the game.
I was there 2 times in 79 (My cousin got sick so I took his place the 2nd time, tickets were hard to get back then and never wasted lol), the arrow landed on me when they were searching for a Girl but I got a small cameo on TV lol Great times and memories.
Dear God! That juggler is AMAZING! 😱🤯
I have not seen this in so long I am from Detroit. It was on in the morning.
Awesome
Mannnn... A lifetime supply of 7up!!! That's crazy!! Prizes back in the day weren't no joke! Nowadays they don't do that kinda stuff... Also, I wish that we had the quality of the things in the old days still around today. Everything is cheap and easily broken now. Meant to be replaced... Back then things were made to last..
I got to watch this on snow days in the morning
i was born in 76.. but i remember the BOZO SHOW in the 80's... n i remember seeing the build n the BOZO snig as we was on the highway going ti Detroit to my Grandmas wedding in 85...
Man i got go get a big blow of cereal n add a big spoon of sugar n Milk
I loved Bozo. As a kid in Illinois, you dreamed of being on this show. Cooky The Clown was my favorite character. My grandmother loved Frazier Thomas on "Family Classics"...those we the days.
I was 6 month old! man this makes me feel old.
I grew up with the bozo show, from Chicago and I'm 55 years old, wow!!!!!
I can't believe that I came across this, back in a time when everything seemed okay..
IIRC Bozo originated on this station, and since it started before cable was wide spread, the concept was franchised, and practically every city with a UHF station had a Bozo show.
I never had the opportunity to see it in person, but I never Missed a episode on TV