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 RUclips 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!

Комментарии • 408

  • @WinterInTheForest
    @WinterInTheForest 6 месяцев назад +94

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

    • @patricksomerville738
      @patricksomerville738 5 месяцев назад +8

      I'm sorry to hear that

    • @WinterInTheForest
      @WinterInTheForest 5 месяцев назад

      @@sidekick4 Idiot.

    • @NsyShwl
      @NsyShwl 4 месяца назад +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

  • @RusstheTroubadour
    @RusstheTroubadour 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @RusstheTroubadour
      @RusstheTroubadour 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @donc7354
    @donc7354 6 месяцев назад +56

    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.

    • @Steven-s4k
      @Steven-s4k 6 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад +1

      @@Steven-s4k That's freakin hilarious. Is that really true??? LOLOL

    • @elaineewalt8137
      @elaineewalt8137 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@PianomanKY
      No..🙄

  • @Mark.G475
    @Mark.G475 6 месяцев назад +102

    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 6 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @MaryHartman-ei9pv
      @MaryHartman-ei9pv 5 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @Mark.G475
      @Mark.G475 5 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @ken_danerdiest1
    @ken_danerdiest1 6 месяцев назад +42

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

    • @RandemNJ
      @RandemNJ 5 месяцев назад +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 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @The_Plump
    @The_Plump 6 месяцев назад +53

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

    • @nastybastardatlive
      @nastybastardatlive 6 месяцев назад

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

    • @The_Plump
      @The_Plump 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +3

      Buwahahahaha!!!

    • @USMoxi
      @USMoxi 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @theylied1776
    @theylied1776 6 месяцев назад +122

    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 6 месяцев назад +20

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

    • @theylied1776
      @theylied1776 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@ronstille7924 I believe it.

    • @Mark.G475
      @Mark.G475 6 месяцев назад +15

      Only 3 years! 😂 It was usually 10 years.

    • @theylied1776
      @theylied1776 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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...

  • @cocochanelly5193
    @cocochanelly5193 5 месяцев назад +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 5 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @xerxestelevision6666
    @xerxestelevision6666 6 месяцев назад +27

    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 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @joeybaseball7352
    @joeybaseball7352 6 месяцев назад +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.

  • @MosEisleianRadio
    @MosEisleianRadio 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +17

    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

  • @JJJBRICE
    @JJJBRICE 6 месяцев назад +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 !

  • @GP40Milepost72
    @GP40Milepost72 6 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад

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

  • @kennethoats2322
    @kennethoats2322 6 месяцев назад +14

    When the show was still broadcast at noon.

    • @LRM724
      @LRM724 6 месяцев назад +2

      With my favorite Bozo

    • @retrowarehouse2554
      @retrowarehouse2554 6 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @rl4889
    @rl4889 6 месяцев назад +11

    Good times right here !

  • @Mike-ky9jz
    @Mike-ky9jz 6 месяцев назад +6

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

  • @blaket81
    @blaket81 5 месяцев назад +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.

  • @KennyRyman
    @KennyRyman 6 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @dhumbles5art
    @dhumbles5art 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @martykarr7058
      @martykarr7058 6 месяцев назад +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.

  • @shaygetz52
    @shaygetz52 5 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @michaellyle8769
    @michaellyle8769 6 месяцев назад +7

    Nice! Hope you have some Ray Rayner coming someday.

  • @ReedBrunson
    @ReedBrunson 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @KentKaliber
    @KentKaliber 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @JamesTomlinson2
    @JamesTomlinson2 4 месяца назад +2

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

  • @phillip-pv5cz
    @phillip-pv5cz 5 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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!

  • @josephgillespie571
    @josephgillespie571 6 месяцев назад +3

    One of the girls in the Buster Brown commercial looks like the girl from Airplane! who takes her coffee black, like her men 😄
    TV Pow was simply Shooting Gallery for the Channel F, the first cartridge-based video game system. They must have ditched it when the show stopped being live and moved to mornings in 1980.

  • @lesweizman388
    @lesweizman388 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @Zylork0122
    @Zylork0122 5 месяцев назад +4

    Not many dads in the audience.

    • @izzyakiva9437
      @izzyakiva9437 5 месяцев назад

      That’s because a lot of them were at work.

  • @iananderson50
    @iananderson50 6 месяцев назад +8

    Bozo stopped off for a few before work

    • @corybowman9583
      @corybowman9583 5 месяцев назад

      An alcoholic knows alcoholics.😅

  • @Shellinois
    @Shellinois 6 месяцев назад +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  6 месяцев назад

      This is from VHS - LP mode.

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 6 месяцев назад

      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 5 месяцев назад

      WGN-"World's Greatest Newspaper."

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 5 месяцев назад

      @@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."

  • @moretoknowshow1887
    @moretoknowshow1887 6 месяцев назад +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!!

  • @mariofilippi3539
    @mariofilippi3539 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @mrexcelsior1414
    @mrexcelsior1414 5 месяцев назад +3

    Bless God allowing me to experiencing this in my youth

  • @daakrolb
    @daakrolb 5 месяцев назад +2

    Man America looked Great there…

  • @Deephouse_Gent66
    @Deephouse_Gent66 6 месяцев назад +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.

  • @giantslayer473
    @giantslayer473 5 месяцев назад +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

  • @normanhowe4938
    @normanhowe4938 Месяц назад +1

    Loved bozo . Cpt k ,Sesame St, reading rainbow, Mr.r, Bob Ross. ,barbar., tin tin, speed racer. rug rats. ,fragle rock ,cpt 11,you cant do that on television, saved b t bell , seventh heaven, little house, snorks, smurfs , just to name a few , Growing up.

  • @HotDiggityDogg
    @HotDiggityDogg 5 месяцев назад +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..

  • @33Donner77
    @33Donner77 5 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @Boomersdth
    @Boomersdth 5 месяцев назад +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

  • @davidscott3820
    @davidscott3820 6 месяцев назад +3

    Tis brings back good memories growing up in dekalb, illinois

  • @danieltecladistadorock5450
    @danieltecladistadorock5450 5 месяцев назад +1

    Aqui no Brasil teve a franquia do Bozo, e eu achava muito bizarro, mas nada se compara a isso.
    Recentemente fizeram um filme chamado "Bingo, O Rei Das Manhãs" que fala da história por trás dos bastidores. É um filme incrível. Não puderem usar o nome Bozo, então usaram o nome "Bingo", quem puder e quiser assista.

  • @CallardAndBowser
    @CallardAndBowser 6 месяцев назад +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 !

  • @GLING17
    @GLING17 3 месяца назад +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.

  • @JD-xt8cj
    @JD-xt8cj 6 месяцев назад +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

  • @tripplebeards3427
    @tripplebeards3427 5 месяцев назад +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.

  • @paulreynolds2569
    @paulreynolds2569 5 месяцев назад +1

    "A year's supply of Seven Up" Bring on that diabetes, please!

  • @paulreynolds2569
    @paulreynolds2569 5 месяцев назад +1

    That juggler makes me think of Benny Hill, somehow.

  • @ivabender3564
    @ivabender3564 6 месяцев назад +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!

  • @lords2112
    @lords2112 6 месяцев назад +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 6 месяцев назад +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.

  • @brianadams1318
    @brianadams1318 6 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @PearlKittens-dv1sh
      @PearlKittens-dv1sh 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @zang12x92
    @zang12x92 5 месяцев назад +1

    I wasn’t around when this was out I’m a early 2000s kid but seeing these old shows is incredible of how in a way things where better I find it funny tho right after a children’s show goes straight in on a murder case 😂 the 70s where something

  • @victorguzman6595
    @victorguzman6595 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @Shazam-yx5up
    @Shazam-yx5up 6 месяцев назад +1

    I remember when I met my girlfriend in 2005 when we had malls and arcades we were both winning the grand prize game all the time to get tickets for prizes

  • @ScottAlexander-k4j
    @ScottAlexander-k4j 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hi grown-up watching the Chicago Cubs Harry Caray holy cow on this channel

  • @nealwhaley63
    @nealwhaley63 6 месяцев назад +1

    Geez, Bozo, how many packs were you smoking a day?

  • @scottheierman4481
    @scottheierman4481 6 месяцев назад +1

    is one of the girls in the Buster Browns Shoes commercial, the same from Airplane? The, "I take my coffee black, like my men," actress? 6:16

  • @emersonlopez-cruz2029
    @emersonlopez-cruz2029 5 месяцев назад +1

    Did I drop acid and forget I did. This is freaky fun though🎉

  • @Kazuo1G
    @Kazuo1G 6 месяцев назад +1

    Okay, that one part of the one skit was unexpected. XD

  • @Anguilla2001
    @Anguilla2001 6 месяцев назад +1

    I was always afraid some kid would trip and fall going to play on of the games, then felt terrible if they made it up there but lost.

  • @BobbyBoca
    @BobbyBoca 6 месяцев назад +1

    Ahh look how clean the audience was .. It’s a shame how things changed !

  • @Seemsayin
    @Seemsayin 5 месяцев назад +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.

  • @vintagetubeamplifiers
    @vintagetubeamplifiers 6 месяцев назад +3

    Just days before my 11th birthday.

  • @I_WANT_MY_SLAW
    @I_WANT_MY_SLAW 6 месяцев назад +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.

  • @trishaself3187
    @trishaself3187 4 месяца назад +1

    whats funny is, that even during that time even the adults were into it when it was just a tv show for kids.

  • @userOmi-sensei
    @userOmi-sensei 5 месяцев назад +1

    Remember this show but not sure was a re-run because was in 1990.

  • @CoolCoollovesbabydolls
    @CoolCoollovesbabydolls 5 месяцев назад +1

    Crazy that the kids in the background are either old or dead

  • @joerules829
    @joerules829 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @michaelewing4515
      @michaelewing4515 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @TimfromMKE
    @TimfromMKE 5 месяцев назад +1

    I had that same Spider-Man shirt that kid had on.

  • @Agent_WOLF99
    @Agent_WOLF99 5 месяцев назад +1

    upload a few 80s versions that is the ones i use to watch before school

  • @nope24601
    @nope24601 6 месяцев назад +2

    It was a simpler time.

  • @theedxqboi
    @theedxqboi 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @jdre1976
    @jdre1976 5 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @cal593
    @cal593 5 месяцев назад +1

    Ooooohhhhh OK krusty the clown makes so much more sense now.

  • @eltedioso
    @eltedioso 6 месяцев назад +3

    Wait until we get Bozo Dubbed Over

  • @davefoley2825
    @davefoley2825 6 месяцев назад +1

    Lisa now has diabetes thanks to her 7UP!

  • @mistervacation23
    @mistervacation23 6 месяцев назад +1

    Who is Bozo? What was he a clown or something?

  • @99Getrdone
    @99Getrdone 6 месяцев назад +1

    I grew up watching bozo the clown

  • @jsmith6436
    @jsmith6436 5 месяцев назад +1

    This show looks terrifying!!!

  • @RoyManwarren
    @RoyManwarren 5 месяцев назад +1

    I was nine years old when I was the Bozo show

  • @leonelquintanilla479
    @leonelquintanilla479 6 месяцев назад +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.

  • @benbrown3532
    @benbrown3532 6 месяцев назад +1

    Do you have the one with a young Phil (CM Punk) Brooks?

  • @tyronebiggims1613
    @tyronebiggims1613 6 месяцев назад +2

    Believe it or not most of the guys on the show were in the mob or connected ..True fact,,

  • @bjulianlm
    @bjulianlm 5 месяцев назад +1

    Make Clowns Great Again

  • @KalElvis
    @KalElvis 6 месяцев назад +2

    Awesome

  • @Josh-le6lu
    @Josh-le6lu 5 месяцев назад +1

    A year's supply of 7up...

  • @TheRstsniper
    @TheRstsniper 5 месяцев назад +1

    Not one person of color on the show lol

  • @Nerdy_Chuck_E
    @Nerdy_Chuck_E 6 месяцев назад +2

    It was such a great idea to make the Bozoputer later on in the show so that way picking kids for the Grand Prize Game would be much easier. Imagine if picking kids with the arrow went longer in this episode, maybe it could go almost 4 minutes!

    • @someguy23475
      @someguy23475 6 месяцев назад +1

      It went just a shade over two minutes which is too long. I couldn’t imagine lasting four.

  • @vashtikelly6837
    @vashtikelly6837 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @deacongrooves
    @deacongrooves 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @WEPDRabbitEarsTV
    @WEPDRabbitEarsTV 6 месяцев назад +1

    Can you post more eps? I've been looking for these eps for YEARS! Thank you!!!

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 6 месяцев назад

      I'm not 'Fuzzy', but I'm sure it's all contingent on any approval from WGN and the Bozo rights holders.

  • @dentoldani3460
    @dentoldani3460 5 месяцев назад +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.

  • @MaryMartinez-ob2mk
    @MaryMartinez-ob2mk 5 месяцев назад +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.🙏

  • @williamwilliams293
    @williamwilliams293 6 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @mjcurrey
    @mjcurrey 5 месяцев назад +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

  • @pika23
    @pika23 6 месяцев назад +1

    My husband used to watch this i was too young. I was born in 78 and we didnt get wgn. I was always wondering what the show was like, but never saw it until RUclips. I did read about it in uncle johns bathroom reader, that people woyld put tbeir nee borms on a list foe tickets

  • @professorsouthside
    @professorsouthside 6 месяцев назад +1

    I miss Bozo...