WGN Channel 9 - The Bozo Super Sunday Show - "The Hobgoblin March!" (1996) 🎃

From its waning years (relegated to once-a-week on Sunday mornings), here's the annual Halloween tradition on the Bozo show, the "Hobgoblin Parade" (usually referred to as the "Hobgoblin March") as presented by what was by this time entitled The Bozo Super Sunday Show on WGN Channel 9, hosted by Joey D'Auria as Bozo the Clown.
[NOTE: The music accompanying this parade (in living stereo) - entirely from synthesizer as performed by Professor Andy, having long ago ditched the live three-piece 'Big Top Band" that was the show's mainstay in its heyday - is mostly played backwards since it uses a rendition of a Disney song, namely "Be Prepared" from "The Lion King".]
(This was also one year before the show's format became "educational," owing to new FCC edicts on children's programming on broadcast television.)
Among the characters the kids (and some of their parents) marching out include Darth Vader, G.I. Joe, Spider-Man, a couple Peter Pans, Jason from "Friday the 13th," Snow White, a green M&M, a blue M&M, a red M&M, a rainbow-haired Bulls player (Dennis Rodman we can assume), a flapper, a princess, a ninja, an Easter bunny (on Halloween?), a bridesmaid, Thomas the Tank Engine, a couple Indiana Jones, the red Power Ranger, a firefighter, a firefighter witch, The Riddler from Batman, a geisha, a Bears player, a 1950s-era poodle skirt girl, a chef, the Statue of Liberty, a pirate, the Grim Reaper, a wizard (a pre-Harry Potter "traditional" one), a couple traditional stripe-suited prisoners, Captain Kirk from Star Trek, a gangster, Jim Carey's character from "The Mask", a muscleman, a dragon, a court jester, a cowboy, a sorceress, Rainbow Brite, a Native American, another Bears player (QB Steve Walsh, with a helmet), Dracula, and assorted ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, witches, skeletons and various supernatural beings intermixed with animals (including a few of the cat family, especially a black cat), and other "everyday people."
Bonus:
"We'll Be Right Back" bumper (voiceover by Jim Cutler? - accompanied by "Ghostbusters" theme)
Commercials for:
Fruit by the Foot watermelon flavor (from Betty Crocker)
Dancin' Suzie Stretch doll (from Irwin)
Pattie doll (from Rosie & Friends line)
Fruit String Thing strawberry flavor (from Betty Crocker)
Return bumper (voiceover by Jim Cutler?)
Bozo (with Rebecca dressed as a traditional red devil) introduces "The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky" segment (with some of the opening titles shown)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 27th 1996.
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Jim Engel Collection.
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[@chipdrusano]

Those kids are probably married and have their own children now.

[@royalsfan]

The oldest kids are in their late 30s now

[@patricklee4316]

Or divorced!

[@troynov1965]

My older brothers were on the Bozo show before I was born back in the early 60s. My dad was stationed in IL back then ( we were army brats). Wish I could find footage of it.

[@bobbillings]

Hey how about start doing a dual upload to an alternative site that won't copyright claim. I would pay a monthly patreon for that since all your uploads now days have everything scrambled.

[@petermoran2832]

WGN should bring back the Hobgoblin Parade on its
Morning Show this year.

[@Foxonian]

I know you are playing the music backward to avoid a strike, but somehow it makes this seem perfectly creepy.

[@wmbrown6]

Kinda matches the mood of that march, dunnit?

[@bobsebring2819]

theres something hokey when it's local.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I'm sure.

[@ken_danerdiest1]

The Hobgoblin march was the best ever.

[@jond2728]

That was genuinely terrifying.

[@joeypieper6384]

Happy Halloween!

[@niteowl5223]

Backward music and old clowns - not weird at all!!

[@ToyGuruMan]

Copyright

[@christiangonzales7429]

I wish they would rerun this show somewhere.

[@dokc6996]

Ya me too

[@roybroussard800]

The voiceover for the program's Bump-to-Break and return bumper was Doug Paul.

[@wmbrown6]

Now that you mention it . . . there are some similarities, but quite a few differences, between the two in their voices, especially the quality and timbre.

[@dokc6996]

Thanks for posting this bro, you rock!

[@glenbard07]

I was Superman in 1996. Too bad I didn't see any here.

[@royalsfan]

Bozo was a weekly show at this point, and you can tell the producers were pinching pennies.

[@wmbrown6]

And walking on eggshells (or would that be skating on thin ice?), given what regulations would come down the pike the next year.

[@genefogarty5395]

All I see is UHF when I watch this, lol!

[@ToyGuruMan]

Except it was on nationwide cable

[@darrylh1971]

Fuzzy: Do you have the 1994 Bozo Hobgoblin March?

[@galaxyn3214]

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