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 TH-cam 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.
    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. We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape). 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!

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  • @RusstheTroubadour
    @RusstheTroubadour 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    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.

    • @RusstheTroubadour
      @RusstheTroubadour 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      5:20 Ronald McDonald was portrayed by King Moody ( 1969-85).

    • @RusstheTroubadour
      @RusstheTroubadour 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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.

    • @JJJBRICE
      @JJJBRICE 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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 .

    • @JJJBRICE
      @JJJBRICE 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      At 48:26 the WGN announcer , the attractive and charming Merri Dee did this after she was targeted for kidnapping and murder attempt .

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @Mark.G475
    @Mark.G475 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    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!

    • @BrianUnderwood-q5u
      @BrianUnderwood-q5u 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Loved seeing the Cubs and Sox scores on the chalk board every morning on Ray Rayner ❤

    • @MaryHartman-ei9pv
      @MaryHartman-ei9pv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We had a very similar schedule Mark!!!😂😂😂😂❤ Except, I got on my yellow Schwinn 10-speed!!!

    • @Mark.G475
      @Mark.G475 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MaryHartman-ei9pv Yellow, cool! In Third grade 1973 I got a brown Schwinn 10 speed! Where did you grow up?

    • @MaryHartman-ei9pv
      @MaryHartman-ei9pv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @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!!🤣♥️💯

    • @Moweems2-ot2mn
      @Moweems2-ot2mn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Mr. Ned, Frazier Thomas, Garfield Goose, Cuddly Duddly, Hardrock Coco and Joe, Susie Snowflake, Romper Room with the charming Miss Elizabeth, etc.

  • @WinterInTheForest
    @WinterInTheForest 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    My sister played the buckets during this season. Wish I knew which episode. She's gone now.

    • @patricksomerville738
      @patricksomerville738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I'm sorry to hear that

    • @WinterInTheForest
      @WinterInTheForest 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sidekick4 Idiot.

    • @NsyShwl
      @NsyShwl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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

  • @donc7354
    @donc7354 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    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.

    • @user-bx8nn5rl5w
      @user-bx8nn5rl5w 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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 😂😂😂

    • @PianomanKY
      @PianomanKY 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@user-bx8nn5rl5w That's freakin hilarious. Is that really true??? LOLOL

    • @elaineewalt8137
      @elaineewalt8137 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@PianomanKY
      No..🙄

  • @xerxestelevision6666
    @xerxestelevision6666 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    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.

    • @elaineewalt8137
      @elaineewalt8137 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or a television, for that matter...📺 🖥

  • @cocochanelly5193
    @cocochanelly5193 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    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! 🥰🫶🏼

    • @eyetech08
      @eyetech08 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's awesome!!! I miss being a kid too!!! This show brings back so many memeories!!!

  • @ken_danerdiest1
    @ken_danerdiest1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I've not seen a classic Bozo's Circus in a good long while. Thanks, Fuzzy!

    • @RandemNJ
      @RandemNJ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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

    • @ken_danerdiest1
      @ken_danerdiest1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RandemNJ Not until the fall of 1980 when it moved to the morning time slot.

  • @theylied1776
    @theylied1776 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

    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.

    • @ronstille7924
      @ronstille7924 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I was born there and my bought me tickets when I was born and they were for when I was 7🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @theylied1776
      @theylied1776 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ronstille7924 I believe it.

    • @Mark.G475
      @Mark.G475 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Only 3 years! 😂 It was usually 10 years.

    • @theylied1776
      @theylied1776 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@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.

    • @Mark.G475
      @Mark.G475 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      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...

  • @JJJBRICE
    @JJJBRICE 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    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 !

  • @The_Plump
    @The_Plump 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    Bob Bell was in full Krusty the Clown mode by this time.

    • @nastybastardatlive
      @nastybastardatlive 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Krusty was a decade or more after this. Krusty was inspired by Bozo. How does anyone not know this?

    • @The_Plump
      @The_Plump 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@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.

    • @moretoknowshow1887
      @moretoknowshow1887 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Buwahahahaha!!!

    • @USMoxi
      @USMoxi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha Crusty. I remember BOZO I can’t believe this is on

  • @MosEisleianRadio
    @MosEisleianRadio 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    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.

  • @jimmylee2678
    @jimmylee2678 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    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

  • @GP40Milepost72
    @GP40Milepost72 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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!

    • @justman4891
      @justman4891 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am from Kentucky I remember being in daycare and watching bozo every afternoon on WGN back in 1988!

  • @blaket81
    @blaket81 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.

  • @phillip-pv5cz
    @phillip-pv5cz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

  • @0tt0z
    @0tt0z 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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!

  • @I_WANT_MY_SLAW
    @I_WANT_MY_SLAW 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @dhumbles5art
    @dhumbles5art 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I watched The Bozo Show all the time since I was a kid. Lot of memories.

  • @ivabender3564
    @ivabender3564 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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!

  • @Mike-ky9jz
    @Mike-ky9jz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I grew up in Indiana...central area.
    Loved watching Bozo every day during summer breaks.

  • @victorguzman6595
    @victorguzman6595 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember watching these guy's every morning before catching the bus to school. Awesome memories ❤️

  • @mariofilippi3539
    @mariofilippi3539 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In NY we had another Bozo, Mr. Bill Britton. When I saw this vintage video it brought backfond childhood memories. Thank you.

    • @GrannieLee
      @GrannieLee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes he was all over the country ..many folks didn't realize that Bozo was a franchise.😊

  • @Shellinois
    @Shellinois 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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.

    • @FuzzyMemoriesTV
      @FuzzyMemoriesTV  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is from VHS - LP mode.

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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."

    • @elaineewalt8137
      @elaineewalt8137 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      WGN-"World's Greatest Newspaper."

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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."

  • @KentKaliber
    @KentKaliber 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    OMG i watched this show on WGN from Louisville KY! I adore it so much to this very day!

  • @Deephouse_Gent66
    @Deephouse_Gent66 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @rl4889
    @rl4889 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Good times right here !

  • @mrexcelsior1414
    @mrexcelsior1414 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Bless God allowing me to experiencing this in my youth

  • @kennethoats2322
    @kennethoats2322 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    When the show was still broadcast at noon.

    • @LRM724
      @LRM724 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      With my favorite Bozo

    • @retrowarehouse2554
      @retrowarehouse2554 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @JamesTomlinson2
    @JamesTomlinson2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I could direct this show for eternity and be happy. That would be so much fun.

  • @sechampagne
    @sechampagne 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’m 36 and remember watching this as a kid. I loved it. Just watched an episode with my 8yo and he liked it too!

  • @giantslayer473
    @giantslayer473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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?

    • @pika23
      @pika23 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @wilsonscott2370
      @wilsonscott2370 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @OuterGalaxyLounge
      @OuterGalaxyLounge 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

    • @mkeolver
      @mkeolver 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Growing up in Minnesota during this time a lot of our television programming came from Chicago.

    • @martykarr7058
      @martykarr7058 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

  • @deacongrooves
    @deacongrooves 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A grand slam of a post! Thanks so much, Rick!!!!

  • @michaellyle8769
    @michaellyle8769 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Nice! Hope you have some Ray Rayner coming someday.

  • @CallardAndBowser
    @CallardAndBowser 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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 !

  • @TheRobinRedbreast
    @TheRobinRedbreast 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I was a kid and bozo circus came on I was glued to the TV. I got a chance to visit the studio and sit in the audience once. Those cups for the grand prize game were very very very small. I don't know how they made them look so large on TV but they really were tiny. It was a fun experience and I'm happy I had the experience.

  • @sinjun1973
    @sinjun1973 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Watched this every morning growing up. I sent so many letters to go into the drawing! I had my own Grand Prize Game too.

  • @leonelquintanilla479
    @leonelquintanilla479 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @ouzelle
    @ouzelle 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm of a completely different generation, but I love Bozo! it's so cool to see this, thank you for preserving history!

  • @chicagoallstarwrestling6489
    @chicagoallstarwrestling6489 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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. "

  • @33Donner77
    @33Donner77 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A friendlier time when people could still be entertained and not scared by clowns.

  • @KennyRyman
    @KennyRyman 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Time to Tone down the news. And Bing these show back on the Air....

  • @vashtikelly6837
    @vashtikelly6837 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OH MY GOD THIS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
    KEEP EM COMING!!!!

  • @macwyll
    @macwyll 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really liked seeing this show again, but the best part of watching this was seeing Merri Dee again!

  • @alitlweird
    @alitlweird 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What an entirely different generation today.
    This show was so wholesome.
    I want that America back.

  • @jackdemus7890
    @jackdemus7890 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Another great find! Thanks!

  • @moretoknowshow1887
    @moretoknowshow1887 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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!!

  • @Seemsayin
    @Seemsayin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @lords2112
    @lords2112 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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...

    • @davet9142
      @davet9142 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @tripplebeards3427
    @tripplebeards3427 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @theedxqboi
    @theedxqboi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I miss those days. I was almost four years old. Everybody is nice.

  • @joerules829
    @joerules829 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In the 80’s when we used to get the Chicago feed for WGN in Fort Worth, I watched Bozo.

    • @michaelewing4515
      @michaelewing4515 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was born in 1986, so I did remember watching Bozo every morning before school.

  • @hailmaryrecordings8255
    @hailmaryrecordings8255 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an amazingly clean copy!
    Absolute treasure.

  • @hellhound1389
    @hellhound1389 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @paulweber2440
    @paulweber2440 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was only able to watch these when we visited Grandma in New York each summer.

  • @GLING17
    @GLING17 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm proud to say that I grew up not far from Chicago and I have been to the three places shown towards the end of this video. The Adler Planetarium, The John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum.

  • @phillip-pv5cz
    @phillip-pv5cz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @RCenal
    @RCenal 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh my god
    I haven't seen him in 30 years
    Loved watching his show in the morning before school

  • @markk.5637
    @markk.5637 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I watched this...everyday! Went to school with Roy Brown's kids! They were so cool!

  • @TheTVsTim
    @TheTVsTim 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And so the long saga comes to a satisfying conclusion. Congrats, Fuzzy.

  • @shaygetz52
    @shaygetz52 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Loved Bozo growing up...then Baltimore got its own clown, Stu Kerr as Professor Kool's Fun School.

  • @bryanfarish9296
    @bryanfarish9296 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wasn't even a year old yet when this episode was on

  • @davidscott3820
    @davidscott3820 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Tis brings back good memories growing up in dekalb, illinois

  • @ladyrachel13
    @ladyrachel13 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember this show. 😍❤️

  • @BackroomsSlayer
    @BackroomsSlayer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @jdre1976
    @jdre1976 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "A years supply of 7-up" - that sums up the 70's..

  • @spindalis79
    @spindalis79 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I grew up in Central Illinois, so of course we had WGN. I recall watching this show quite a bit in the mid-80s. My favorite segment of the Bozo Show was, undeniably, the Grand Prize Game.

    • @ArthurIdis-c7k
      @ArthurIdis-c7k 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      $50 bill in the 6th bucket. Them old $50's had style, class.

  • @animalyze7120
    @animalyze7120 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was a full grown adult still watching Bozo in the 90's.

  • @JD-xt8cj
    @JD-xt8cj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember when we applied for tix, my brother hadn’t been born yet. When we finally got them, we wore worried one of us would have to sit out, but they let my brother sit on my mom’s lap the whole time

  • @LadiAnt
    @LadiAnt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤ Memories.. so simple, yet perfect! .. This one aired one day before my 11th Birthday 🎉

  • @Noway673
    @Noway673 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I use to watch this show as a kid.I was probably 10yrs old.Those kids in the audience was probably my age at the time.Now those kids are grandmothers and grandfathers now in 2024.

  • @MaryMartinez-ob2mk
    @MaryMartinez-ob2mk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.🙏

  • @lesweizman388
    @lesweizman388 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    here in sf, we didnt have a bozo
    had to go to sacramento to see their local bozo on tv

  • @martykarr7058
    @martykarr7058 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @user-cq3cv5ls6p
    @user-cq3cv5ls6p 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @ReedBrunson
    @ReedBrunson 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This Bozo broadcast will turn 45 on Tuesday September 10th.

  • @dentoldani3460
    @dentoldani3460 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My late parents had decent jobs, so we got cable tv in Cedar Falls, Iowa in 1979. I was 7.
    I'll always remember watching The Bozo Show on WGN channel 9 and the cup toss.
    If the kid got far enough, they got a crispy new $50 dollar bill.

  • @brianadams1318
    @brianadams1318 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is why gen x is the best we were not afraid to say hi neighbor

    • @PearlKittens-dv1sh
      @PearlKittens-dv1sh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄early millennials too you silly goose

  • @bluesquirrel3919
    @bluesquirrel3919 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤❤❤ Thank you for this 🤗

  • @gsnfan
    @gsnfan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This show was a gold mine for WGN. You don't see good television like this anymore. Especially the really good cartoons shown. Not too violent, but funny.

  • @porscheguy3820
    @porscheguy3820 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I tried for years to get on the program when I was a kid. I never missed it.

  • @Boomersdth
    @Boomersdth 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @armurano5093
    @armurano5093 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bozo was my nickname in elementary school I was so mesmerized by him.

  • @joeybaseball7352
    @joeybaseball7352 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Simpler times. You couldn't do this today. Imagine the uproar it would cause picking a boy and girl. The they/thems would cancel it.

  • @kellenfurter
    @kellenfurter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I grew up in SC and it was like Bozo was just down the street. He was like our Howdy Doody. But better! 😊

  • @TheEnforcer1963
    @TheEnforcer1963 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember as a kid back in the 1970's discussing the infamous "Cram it, clown" incident with the neighborhood kids. This was years before we knew anything about urban legends.

  • @nakiashelby6413
    @nakiashelby6413 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @kevine8736
    @kevine8736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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 ...

  • @DannyFloyd-yx5up
    @DannyFloyd-yx5up 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh boy I watched this in high school after I graduated I was studying all the time and used to watch it on Sunday .

  • @williamwilliams293
    @williamwilliams293 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Im from NW Indiana and i remember being 7 years old and my class went to Bozos Circus. Dont remember alot about it butbi do remeber thinking the room it was flimed in looks alot smaller in person.

    • @Mickey.SilverStaXXX
      @Mickey.SilverStaXXX 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Born and raised up around Lafayette myself. I used to watch Bozo on WGN all the time. I was about 8 during this ones' time. Also had Cowboy Bob, Janie, Capt Kangaroo, Sammy Terry, Son of Svengoulhi. Would give anything to go back to then instead of clown world nowadays.

  • @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854
    @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice hidden nostalgic treasure. Thank for posting... 🍺😎👍

  • @morepowerr
    @morepowerr 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    would love to see more from them I grew up in the 80's and remember watching them a lot.

  • @mjcurrey
    @mjcurrey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @MrStayOnTop5683
    @MrStayOnTop5683 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @thomastherriault8632
    @thomastherriault8632 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My Aunt is a bright redhead and managed to get tickets to the show, my Aunt and cousins were sitting near the front, Cookie pointed out my Aunt's red hair and said it was Bozo's mother. 😂

  • @KalElvis
    @KalElvis 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome

  • @jamesskinner7185
    @jamesskinner7185 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a handy and catchy name to call every other driver you see on your way to work each morning!😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @HotDiggityDogg
    @HotDiggityDogg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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..

  • @MaryHartman-ei9pv
    @MaryHartman-ei9pv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh my gosh, we loved Bozo!! We tried so hard to get tickets we ordered them in 76 we did not get them until 1980!! 😂 So by that time... I was on my way to high school and I didn't want to go to Bozo!! The best days ever!!!❤