Bozo the Clown (Pilot, 1954)
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- Long before he became a TV personality in cities like Chicago and Boston, Bozo the Clown was a fixture on children's records. Here is where the seeds for his later TV fame got started - a filmed pilot for a potential Bozo the Clown TV series, back when he was owned by Capitol Records and before Larry Harmon got his hands on the clown - played here by Gil Lamb. The format is a little different too from what we all know and love.
Includes:
Opening titles
Act I at the home of the Carlson family as Amy arrives in the living room for breakfast with her Bozo doll; Ramsey arrives with news that his prize hen is gone and blames Amy; in her room, Bozo comes to life and complains about her father pinching his arm; they then shrink to doll size, and venture out to ask a squirrel about Truesdale the dog's whereabouts and refers them to Oscar the Owl who's not so cooperative; Bozo's arrow leads them to Truesdale whom they ask about the hen
In the next act, Truesdale has been caught and sent to the pound; after making it to the animal shelter, Bozo paints himself invisible; while Amy deals with the dog catcher, one dog escapes and creates mayhem; after Truesdale escapes, he leads Bozo and Amy to where the hen is - in a henhouse, having had six chicks, much to Ramsey's relief (the hen has told Bozo and Amy that any time she lays an egg, he takes it away); the dog catcher arrives to recount his tale of dealing with the invisible Bozo, and this scene ends with her embracing her Bozo doll
For the finale, a sleeping Amy reminds Bozo that it's the end, and rearranges the blocks to spell it such, after which he too falls asleep
Ending credits:
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
Teleplay - Howard Harris
Format Created by Frank Fox, G. Carleton Brown, Hal Yates
Produced by Hal Roach, Jr.
Associate Producer - Sidney Van Keuren
Cast:
Bozo - Gil Lamb
Amy Carlson - Jeri Lou James
Henry Carlson - David Bruce
Martha Carlson - Aline Towne
Ramsey - Florenz Ames
Dog Catcher - Bob Foulk
Truesdale - Corky
Bozo the Clown Created by Alan Livingstone[sic] for Capitol Records, Inc. - Copyright MCMXLVI
Production Supervisor - E.H. Goldstein
Photography - Lucien Andriot, A.S.C.
Photographic Effects - Jack R. Glass
Film Editor - Thomas Neff, A.C.E.
Art Director - William Ferrari
Set Decorator - Rudy Butler
Assistant Director - William Forsyth
Sound - William Randall, Joel Moss
Copyright MCMLIV by Capitol Records, Inc.
Filmed in Hollywood by Hal Roach Studios
"Starring Gil Lamb as Bozo the Capitol Clown"
This was produced in 1954 (Bozo copyrighted 1946).
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Holy crap! Never knew about this! This version of Bozo is freaked out. Kind of had Twilight Zone vibes.
Yeah, I'm two minutes in and I could swear I'm watching a horror movie. Like no exaggeration, if I didn't know about Bozo the Clown, that's exactly what I'd think this was.
I’m not even supposed to BE HERE
Now I’ve got THAT to worry about!
After seeing that title card, I’m pretty sure plenty of parents decided that they were going to throw out their televisions
Why?
😂😂😂
I swear, all that was missing when that creepy clown doll first appeared was a Rod Serling narration…
That bozo doll is gonna give me nightmares later 😮
No kidding. That doll is nightmare fuel on steroids.
I want that doll. Probably worth a fortune now, assuming it still exists.
The WGN Bozo show was still going on in the early 1980s
Recorded live with a studio audience of children. My son was a faithful viewer.
He insisted I play the Grand Prize Game he would set up . He'd've been about 5 then
I was a single father. There were three of us, his daughter 3 years younger.
Here lil girl, take this pill…. 🤦🏻
Saw Bozo many times as a kid in the 90's, but seeing this is very interesting. Thank you for sharing this (& for the history lesson as well).
Boy these are some really uptight people! Dad needs to go along and take a chill pill ! The neighbor is a grouch!
I think society today could stand to be a little more “uptight”.
@@rickyjohnson6848 lol true point!
That little girl in this is still alive. Jeri Lou James. Her acting career never went anywhere, and appears to have quit acting in the 60s.
Maybe she will outlive Keith Richards.
"Bozo did the dub."
Notice they didn't even get Bozo's creator's name right - Alan W. *Livingston* - later the guy who signed The Beatles, and whose career was every bit as colorful as the Bozo saga.
Had no idea Bozo went this far back, I remember watching the game show in the 80s.
Various local TV markets had their own versions of Bozo for their own local kiddie variety shows, but this is the first time that Bozo was used for the possibility of a sitcom in the 50s.
Thanks for this! The quality on this upload is much better than usual. Very impressive. Keep up the great work!
A clown giving a child drugs. It doesn’t get better than that!
I loved clowns from bozo to ronald mcdonald to ringling brothers to party clowns
I could see why this idea of Bozo the Clown would not fly as a children's sitcom
during the 1950s. Larry Harmon would have barfed at this idea.
It did all right when they swapped out the clown for a purple dinosaur, though...
This pilot of Bozo should have had Butchie Boy in it. Butchie Boy was
Bozo's sidekick.
Bizarre and I love it, laughtrack and all! Hal Yates and Gil Lamb worked together on a series of RKO two-reel comedy shorts and he'd go on to turn up in everything from The Andy Griffith Show to Disney features...even popping up in a Twilight Zone (is this that episode??)
IMDB doesn't list this amongst Lamb's credits.
Or those of the other actors and behind-the-scenes crew. I wonder if it even aired.
I thought I wanted to stop watching, but I couldn't. This is pretty bad. 👍👍👍💥💥💥
Not so bad …. Poor Bozo had some shoes to fill and carry the acid trip .
watchd this for years as a kid never seen this one
Never saw this type of Bozo Show as a child. We watched and went to see "Lunchtime Little Theater" with Uncle Ned, Uncle Bucky, and Aunt Dody.
THAT…is a Bozo no no.
Is that the same Bozo who also has a Brazilian version?
Never knew this existed. Cool premise. Could of been a fun show for kids today had television stayed wholesome and family friendly. Thanks!
There is a kid's show with basically the same premise, but executed way better, called Barney and friends.
Could've/could have.
"...wholesome and family friendly." That comment is coming from a cigar smoking Satan avatar. What a Bozo. 😂
Aww i thought this was the gameshow.
@@lemurianchick the one where he ran around in the circus tent and kids got prizes. I'm 46 this came out when my mom was 2. It's a little before my time. I know classic TV, but never knew of a Bozo show like this. I was aware of the cartoon and the kids show but not this. The Bozo I remember has like the pointed out red hair
CUTE
I bet a lot of people think this is wholesome.
This is a fantasy tv sit com pilot that was filmed at The Hal Roach Studios.
What the hell??? This was a kids show???
Sounds like that was the reason why this pilot never sold . . .
It was a pilot. And a mid one at that. When you had masterpieces on TV at the time like I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Andy Griffith, The Rifleman, Leave it to Beaver, etc, it is clear that this isn't as good. It had potential to be good with better writing and better actors. But this pilot isn't good.
The old Jayark Film Company cartoons of Bozo were far better than this 1954 pilot.
First mistake, no circusy music for titles.
This is great! Especially for a 50s pilot. Gil Lamb was a nice Bozo. He kind of reminded my of the scarecrow from the wizard of oz.
Watched the boxing show in the early 60’s ! He had great cartoons
3:45-4:00 Wouldn't it be neat to have one of your plush dolls or stuffed animals come to life when you said some magic words to it?
Like a teddy bear named Ted!
@@georgemarcouxjr6192Quite.
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Quite.
this reminds me of the urban myth about Bozo...It was broadcast live so there was no way to edit it ....a kid was trying to put together some kind of toy and it broke. The kid curses _"oh Gxxdamn it! " Bozo says: "Now that's a Bozo no no. " Kid says "Oh eat it Clown! " in another version the Kid says " Oh go blow Bozo!"... I met kids who swore up and down that they actually saw this...........
Bozo sounds drunk when talking to the girl with a face for radio. Help!
MeTV should reissue and restore this in color as part of This Bozo Pilot’s 70th Anniversary this year.
It wasn’t produced in color though
@@FuzzyMemoriesTVNeither was the first season of I Dream of Jeannie , The first 2 seasons of Bewitched, the Our Gang (aka Little Rascals) shorts, McHales Navy for example.
All of those were later colorized and broadcast.
Or maybe Rifftrax would riff this video.... 😉😂-JW
Now I've got THAT to worry about. (Rifftrax contact me for a copy of the film) 🙂@@jenniferwebster8026
This is great. I never knew this film existed till now 🤡 we're all in ITs dead lights now.
TRY TO POST THE EPISODES OF BOZO FROM 70/80S WHEN IT WAS REALLY GOOD ❤❤❤
They've been lost to time.
@vashtikelly6837, it was unfortunate that many TV networks all over the world "wiped" (erased) videotape back then. It was common practice since videotape was expensive and executives didn't want to "waste money" preserving and storing thousands (if not millions) of reels. Attitudes changed by the 1980s, when the concept of syndication made repeat showings very lucrative. Many beloved TV programs were partially or totally lost (including the entire DuMont network library, which was unceremoniously dumped into the Hudson River when there was no buyer for their catalog of work).
I can't unsee this.Ahhhhh!🤡
Nobody likes clowns except clowns. But everyone loves Bozo!
The little girl and her Bozo doll reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode
Bozo was so 😎 cool
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You're hung up on some clown from the 60's, man!
This is terrifying…
It's not so bizarre. Remember Calvin & Hobbes? It has a Wizard of Oz feel about it. Kinda funny. The girl is great. And I don't think 1950s audiences would be as freaked as today's audiences, who are offended by everything. In any case, it is just one of a zillion pilots not picked-up.
Thank you. This is oddly self-aware in ways that you don't often see, like when the little girl talks about eating the hen's eggs and the hen clucks in horror. Then there's the drug-taking, and the sequence where the little girl and Bozo do the right thing, and after getting a bad result, decide to lie and scheme, which gets the good result. Not hard to see why somebody decided to shelve it.
Was this story ever on one of the many Bozo records Capitol put out?
Also, it's incredibly boring. It's only interesting because it's old, and because we know how popular Bozo would become as a live variety show.
I never thought clowns were scary. Now I see why so many do.
Whys some parts of this actually funny XD
What a nice fact based family. Un like today
What’s a fact based family? 😂
What ever happened to the bozzo the clown cartoons there was one with Belinda baking they poem about beat the batter better but the butter was bitter on a rainy rainy day then there wad always crocks chasing after him
I had a Bozo record with that Belinda batter bit as a song!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Qué miedo
Nightmare the clown 🤡
I watched Bozo on Saturday mornings down in the southeast, WGN? 1980s. Throw the ping pong ball in the cups as far as you can and you win a prize for each one and as far as you get after talking to the audience of kids and pies in the face with the shorter clown. I guess I have fond memories? Even though Muppet Babies was hands down my favorite at that age. Muppet Babies was genuinely funny and entertaining. My previous comment stands: "I thought I wanted to stop watching, but I couldn't. This is pretty bad. 👍👍👍💥💥💥" I enjoyed every minute of this mistake. lol Older clown guy only revealing himself in a young girl's bedroom that gives her pills that seem to make both of them hallucinate. I think Daddy was right on this one. Did the writers do anything else this weird?
The only reason why this is interesting in 2024 is because this somehow survived for 70 years, and is still in fantastic watchable condition. Which is rare for a successful TV show of the time, let alone a pilot. I'm assuming this was in someone's private collection, and they stored it in perfect conditions, because it was clearly well taken care of through the decades.
22:57 - SEVEN chicks.
It's interesting to realize how subversive this pilot episode would have seemed to some people had it been developed in, say, the 1980s.... 😏
(Who would've looked more closely, beyond the surface observations of disobedience, drug use, etc. -- remember, the '80s were when people said "Just say NO" -- and saw that this was basically a suburban American version of Alice in Wonderland?)
I'm scared Mommy. Scared!
I'd much prefer seeing Joey D'Auria Bozo
I'm sure there are older generations who would prefer to see Bob Bell as the clown. But . . . yeah, I get what you're gettin' at.
@@wmbrown6yeah Bob Bell was my Bozo. He was who Hank Azaria based Krusty on, and Garfield based Binky on.
No need to have the words "the clown" after Bozo.
Ozzy & Harriet & .....Bozo!
Nothing creepy about a young girl hanging around a guy in a clown suit
creepy guy little girls room wearing false eyelashes different times for sure
I do not like clowns at all. Watching bozo, the clown scares the hell out of me.
That's not at all creepy.