WGN Channel 9 - Bozo's Circus (Complete Broadcast, 6/15/1978) 📺 🤡
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- Here's another complete broadcast of an edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9 from its heyday when it ran Live every weekday at 12 Noon, Bob Bell was Bozo, Roy Brown was Cooky, Frazier Thomas was the ringmaster, Garfield Goose (and Friends) was seen at the open, Ken Benge is the juggler, and the Bozo Big Top Band provided the accompaniment.
Accept no substitutes on where to watch this episode! Insist on only FuzzyMemories-brand Bozo postings with the lock-in freshness watermark. 😄
Includes:
Frazier beginning the festivities by introducing the cast, greeting the audience and leading into Snooper & Blabber cartoon, "Prince of a Fella' " [1960] (only opening titles and closing sequence shown; rest of cartoon edited out to avoid copyright blockage)
Cooky attempts to play the tuba as Bozo advises him, then finds an old newspaper inside horn and reads an article about a man who fell 100 feet from a well (and lived to tell about it) from behind a wall as Bozo works with tuba to remove who he thinks is inside
Commercials for:
Forever Yours candy bar (a Milky Way knockoff)
Keds New K Shoes
Grand Prize Game, to be played by Jim, 7, and Elizabeth, 6 ($16 in Bucket #6), with at-home players Kathleen Verba, 8, of Berwyn (for Elizabeth) and Tommy Armen (sp?), 2, of Kokomo, IN (for Jim) (Frazier notes that starting next Monday (6/19/78) Bucket #6 will include a special prize - a giant stuffed Bear - Baloo from The Jungle Book)
Commercials for:
Speed Burners (each sold separately) - from Mego
Ronald and the McDonaldland gang to appear June 17th at 10am and 2pm at McDonald's, Route 59 at Fox Valley Center in Aurora (voiceover by Merri Dee)
Ken Benge performing juggling trick with tennis racquets (to tune of "Java"), a magic trick with rope and handkerchief, working with juggling rings (to tune of "Spanish Flea") and with juggling clubs while blindfolded - twice (to tune of "The Impossible Dream")
Commercials for:
Post Super Sugar Crisp (with Sugar Bear as late-night trucker, voice of Gerry Matthews)
Farrah's Glamour Center - from Mego
Snickers bars
Zip-n-Flip - from Empire Toys
Skit involving Bozo, Cooky and Frazier taking turns on phone
Commercials for:
Post Super Sugar Crisp (repeat)
Micronaut Collection - from Mego (assembly required on Biotron and Hydro Copter, also features Space Glider - batteries not included)
"Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown" cartoon involving Wacky Professor's new invention - a hope chest
Another game involving David, Billy, Chris, Stephen, Gina and Debbie, out to find marbles in a haystack (or is that a giant pile of something else?) to put in malt glasses, the one with the most marbles in a glass getting first prize
Commercials for:
Hostess Cakes
Speed Burners (repeat)
Bozo and Cooky in some "fair and square contest" shenanigans involving a chalk board as Cooky vies to wield the baton and lead the Grand March at last
Commercial: Cocoa Puffs (Sonny hides inside piano to avoid going cuckoo) - with promo for sea searcher inside specially marked boxes
PSA for Big Brothers (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
Frazier ends another edition and signals for Bozo to lead Grand March as end credits run:
Bozo's Circus
(C) 1978, 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 - George Waschbusch
Producer - Allen Hall
Directed by Don Strukel
Bozo's Circus
Bozo the Clown - (C) Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation
Licensed & Distributed by Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation
First 10 seconds of Mid-Day Report with Merri Dee (reporting on President Carter visit to Panama at the point recording ends)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, June 15th 1978 within the 12:00pm to 1:00pm timeframe.
This video authorized by © Nexstar Media Inc. (WGN-TV) and Bozo™ & © Send in the Bozos LLC. Special thanks to George Pappas.
This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help! - Zábava
FINALLY WGN IS RELEASING THE BOB BELL EPISODES!!!!! I have been waiting my entire lifetime to see BOB BELL as BOZO again!
Glad to see full episodes of the Chicago version of Bozo getting posted online, Bob Bell is definitely is one of my favourite Bozo portrayals in my opinion.
Now that's fantastic television right there that you will never get back😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😊 I love how they're both trying to hold it together and they're cracking up like crazy
I definitely remember watching this. Who could ever forget the golden 70s?❤❤ The best years Of My life😃😀🙂😉❤️
Yes same here some of the greatest memories of my life were from those days I miss them now more than ever before.
Love seeing episodes of Bozo get posted. I end up smiling the whole time! 🙂
This will be fun. I had just turned 8 when this one aired so I probably actually watched this one. Every so often, Bob Bell and Roy Brown would get to laughing, like they cracked each other up, and it was funny.
Because they were drunk as skunks! 🤣
They also told sly jokes that were often risque.
Fun stuff. I grew up during the Joey D'Auria era of the Bozo show. It is interesting to finally see how the show was during Bob Bell's era.
6:03 "Lower!" And off the rails it goes! Love when they crack each other up!
Thank you for posting this. What a fun trip back in time.
There’s a really good chance that I watched this.
In 1969 I met Bozo the Clown 🤡 when I was 2 year's old at a Shopping plaza called Dealy Center in Honolulu, Hawaii with my Mom and Dad and I always watched Bozo's Big Top on TV but to meet him in person was horrifying to me, I screamed and clung on to my Mom as she was holding me and he was coming towards me with that gaping smile and his arms outstretched that must of been a nightmare for the guy dressed up as Bozo having to deal with kid's like me 🤣🤣
I'll never forget, I got to meet Bozo when I was about 4 or 5 at a carnival. He gave me a big hug! I was really shy but I was so excited!
I miss ray, I watched so many bozo shows an out right loved them!
Love Bozo's Circus ,with Bob Bell playing Bozo.
I love an remember all of these old commercials too.
It's really nice that you are able to upload these old episodes. I know you have a library of old Bozo shows, and shows from Chicago in general. I'd love it if you would post episodes from different eras of the show. My earliest memories of Bozo was seeing the Red "In-the-Round" set. I know there was a different introduction for that version and there was no Grand March at the end. I would like to see what a complete episode from that era looked like. Also, to this day, I have been wanting to see Bob Bell's last show as Bozo the Clown in its entirety. The archives at the old Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago had that episode, but it cuts off right when the final sketch started, which was a huge pie fight! Finally, my most coveted sought after episodes were the earliest episodes with Joey D'Auria portraying Bozo and Frazier Thomas was still a part of the show until his sudden death in April of 1985. Since they only got to work for about six months, there are few episodes so whatever episodes are out there are a rare find. Anyway, thank you for all the hard work you do preserving these Chicago classics!
I LOVED THE RED SET!!!! Do you have any links to episodes with the RED set?
Bozo scared me as a kid and petrifies me now. I hate clowns! 😱🤡
8:46 forever yours was introduced in the early 1930s and discontinued in 1979.
It was re-introduced in 1989 as Milky Way Dark
In the early 2000s it was renamed Milky Way Midnight and is still available.
24:14 Gerry Matthews as the voice of Sugar Bear.
He voiced the character for nearly 40 years.
42:14 King Ding Dong and Twinkie The Kid were voiced by Allen Swift known for voicing various characters on King Leonardo and His Short Subjects ( aka The King and Odie) and Underdog.
I liked that. They were a couple comedic geniuses. Thank you for the episode. I hope you start releasing more episodes; I'll watch them all.
17:15 - The juggler's first music is "Java", a tune that was used by the Muppets, and as the closing theme of the classic BBC children's show, "Vision On".
His second music is the "Galop Infernal" (AKA "The Can-Can") from Offenbach's opera, "Orpheus in the Underworld".
His third music is Herb Alpert's "Spanish Flea". also used as the theme-tune of "The Dating Game".
His fourth music (after "Chopsticks") is "The Impossible Dream", from "Man of La Mancha".
Look forward to it.
Bozo sounds like he smokes 2 packs of PallMall unfiltered every day. 😆
Yeah and a couple of shots of Jack Daniels during their breaks.😅
This song is “Java”
GREAT I LOVE 💗 THIS❤
KEEP FINDING BOZO AND POSTING ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I remember those Forever Yours candy bars shown here! They were my favorite. They tasted just like the Milky Way Midnight bars do now. My dad used to buy them!
Thank you!❤
Oh wow, it's amazing to see a Bozo episode from the day I was born.
Watch Cookie crack up turn his head after Bozo delivered an impromptu line.
One of the joys of vintage kids' shows is that so much of the content was improvised. You're watching the cast members having fun playing together, like overgrown children.
@@OofusTwillip When I saw Bozo live (years before this video) during the commercial breaks and cartoons, the cast did allot of improv not broadcast on TV. Those people were so multi talented. Miss good entertainment like this for adults and kids.
This is awesome I was blessed uk be on the Bozo show my mom took my brother and I in 1978
Hey - @9:04 I saw actor Michael Warren (who played, famously, Bobby Hill in Hill Street Blues) in the Forever Yours candy bar commercial. Meager beginnings :-).
Fun stuff! Thanks, Fuzz
It’s crazy to think that at the time the waitlist for tickets was ten years
That rope bit killed me 🤣😆🤡
I adored Bozo when I watched in the early to mid1960s. Hate that his name is used in slang to denote foolish people these days. He was warm and funny.
I haven't heard anyone called a bozo in 30 years lol Younger people wouldn't even know what that means
There is a Fair and Square contest where Cookie got to lead the Grand March because Bob Bell (Bozo) went blank on spelling out “Alphabet” on the blackboard. LIVE TV! True story!
Does anyone remember IMAGE UNION? It was a video shorts show on WGN(?)
I remember that just blowing me away.
I remember catching some of this and thinking it was Red Skelton.
Wowie Cant Wait
🤣🤣🤣 I remember watching this but I was very young I just realized they were both were cracking up 🤣🤣🤣🤣 watching as an older adult this is too funny 😁 hysterical 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like the guy in this Bozo with the yellow suit jacket. He's really good.
Looked like Jimmy McNicholl in the forever yours commercial too
Okay, we all know Empire Carpets, but I never knew that there was a different kind of Empire that makes toys. Somebody shed some light on Empire toys for me.
The famous Mike Stoklasa of Redlettermedia fame was a guest on this show when he was around 7 years old.
That had the shortest cartoon I ever seen.
See the description for why. (C).
16:29-16:57 that is very Local Rare of Ronald AD from 1978
Well, being from the Chicago land area, I learned something here. I always thought it was strictly a regional Chicago area only (except for maybe reruns) show. I did not know it was franchised out. One commenter says they saw it with a southern accent, lol. That would be .......unsettling lol. I suspect though that , that was only after it became a bigger hit and cable TV (opening up new channels). I know it originated in Chicago along with Ray Rainer whom I adored and still miss. Wish my kids had only Ray to tell the weather and entertain before school instead of today's crap (and internet). My understanding is that most of those shows were done live and never recorded so all that great wholesome talent and entertainment exists mostly just in the minds of us Boomers.
The Bozo television shows did not begin in Chicago. But the Chicago franchise did become the most successful and long-lasting one. The Bozo character had been around since 1946, long before the original Bozo voice actor, Pinto Colvig, first portrayed Bozo on live television in 1948. A decade later, the rights to Bozo and the other characters were turned into a franchised show for local TV station productions.
The first regular Bozo show debuted in Los Angeles, with Colvig's son stepping into his father's big shoes for the role. Followed quickly by local Bozo shows in Detroit, Washington DC, New York, Boston, Denver, Nashville, New Orleans, and Minneapolis in 1959. The Chicago version did not go on the air until the following year, in 1960.
@@carlg5838 - Then there was that '54 pilot which turned up here.
What perplexed me is how some kids could not hit the bucket. I dont know if i could either though
Oh God I would scream when this came on, I was 5 years old here. Ronald McDonald and Bozo together were like apostles from hell. Might have well been Satan as far as I was concerned, LOL ! 😂
Fuzzy: Will you upload someday to CZcams the July 1980 Bozo's Circus episode where Ray Rayner fills in for Fraizer Thomas?
Reminds me of the golden age of the Krusty The Clown show.
Cookie sounds like Paul Rubens aka Pee Wee Herman.
16:04 Wendell Craig voices the Speed Burners commercial.
This comment is from a guy who wishes TV stayed like this to this very day. No new TV networks, no morning news shows, just great kids shows made just for local independent VHF and UHF channels.
First I'd give anything to have the Fuzzy guy find a Bozo show where one kid actually made it to bucket 6 in the Grand Prize Game, even though that was very rare. Secondly, (and I'll try to keep this as G-rated as possible) when the girl made it to bucket 3, one of the prizes was a Charlie's Angels gift set. Bozo said, "Cooky has one of these" and Frazier said, "I'll bet he does". I guess even clowns like to fantasize over Charlie's Angels, too.
THE GREAT OLD DAYS .
That Hasbro Charlie's Angels dolls are worth $300 now
Now I know where the writers of The Simpsons got the idea for Krusty the Clown.
You are correct. Dan Castellaneta, Krusty's voice, is a Chicago native and deliberately based the voice on Bob's Bozo.
Krusty the Clown was inspired by J.P. Patches, the clown host of a local Seattle show. But Krusty's personality and situation are completely different from J.P. Patches, who was a very happy, successful, and beloved person. There's a statue of J.P. and his clown sidekick, Gertrude, in downtown Seattle. There are episodes of his show on CZcams.
Anymore updates
Cooky cheated again!!!
12:48 BERWYN !!!
15:30 that kid had problems
I didn't think Bozo was a regional show.
I’m from Chicagoland and I remember visiting Grandma in Tennessee as a kid. My sis and I found Bozo on TV there and we were rolling laughing because Bozo had a Southern accent. Not sure why we found it so funny. Anyway, that Bozo wasn’t our Bob Bell and we considered him an imposter!
It was a Franchise, Boston had one, Milwaukee briefly. WGN Chicago by far had the best!!
I think the Chicago one eventually became a national syndication in the 80s
Chicago had the longest lasting Bozo. WGN became a national superstation via cable in the late 70s, as the local Bozos were starting to phase out, thus why so many growing up in that era on only associate the WGN Bozo(s). By the early 90s, only a few remained, namely Grand Rapids and Philadelphia.
Is there a reason WGN isn't releasing Bozo/Ray Rayner/Garfield Goose full episodes in some physical or even streaming format?
Licensing with Warner Brothers? (They played a lot of early WB cartoons) Okay, omit the WB cartoons. Problem solved.
Very few exist in broadcast quality. Most of what you see is from home recordings.
Bozo's Circus was still live at this point... so why does Fraiser Thomas change his sportscoat so many times in an episode? In the taped episode days years later I thought the different color suit jackets was because they shot individual sequences in addition to full episodes, and those clip shows had several different taping days in an single episode. It's not like he got into a pie fight and needed to change, nor is it a chroma key thing. Maybe he just likes changing blazers multiple times an hour?
Maybe it's so he could deduct the cost of his entire wardrobe as a business expense. As long as he wore an item of clothing on the show, it was deductible as a business expense.
Or maybe it was because a sponsor gave him the clothes in exchange for him wearing them on the air, and a credit at the end of the show, thanking the sponsor (which is actually an advertisement for the sponsor).
16:30 McDonald's
I was 14 I was done with bozo
Innocent times
Is it me, or does the magician look an awful lot like Mark Hamill?
If you look from far away, there may be in Mr. Benge some slight resemblance, but . . .
I remember watching this high on LSD in high school
You should try watching the 1971 Canadian kids' show, "Hilarious House of Frightenstein" that way. (Many people did, at the time.) It features Vincent Price, and it's on CZcams.
So I don't know Bozo what was he a clown or something? You're a hung up on some clown from the 60s man
George, Bozo’s out, he’s finished. It’s over for Bozo!
OK just go fold your little balloon animals Eric...what kind of a name is that for a clown!
This has to be the worst Bozo I have ever saw I have liked a lot of Bozo"s but this one is the worst. I even like the black and white Bozo more. There was an obnoxious Bozo in Massachusetts that I saw I have watched Bozo recently and own episodes and they are still worth watching. Watching this Bozo at that time I don't think I would have liked Bozo.
I remember the bucket toss as Bucket Bonanza not the grand prize game, weird