WGN Channel 9 - Ray Rayner & Friends [with Bozo!] (Promo, 1979) 🤡

Here's a (perhaps moderately confusing?) short commercial promo for Ray Rayner and Friends on WGN Channel 9 - BUT featuring Bozo the Clown (Bob Bell), advising kids to tune-in every school day at 7am. For Ray Rayner. Not Bozo's Circus. (until like a year later, then - err, nevermind) Cross-promotional action!
Bonus: Closing segment of Star Blazers which featured a preview of the next episode (voiceover by Phil Tonken). (Ntrivia: Princess Invidia later went on to found the world's most valuable publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of over $3.3 trillion.) Followed by the first moments of the ending credit sequence.
"WGN Television 9!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, October 29th 1979 within the 6:55am to 7:00am timeframe.
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[@Mark.G475]

Every morning before school, Ray Rayner, lunch Bozo, after school, Spiderman and Speed Racer! Great times in Lagrange and Hinsdale in the 1970s.

[@gregofthelake]

Oh my. Exactly the same for me. I own both Spiderman and Speed Racer on DVD.

[@Mark.G475]

@@gregofthelake me too! Where did you grow up?

[@kennethoats2322]

I remember mid-late 70's the Flintstones and Archie broadcast on WGN in the afternoon

[@gregofthelake]

@@Mark.G475 Lansing, Illinois

[@bryanloveseighties]

In the Summer months of my childhood, I watched Spiderman on WFLD and Speed Racer on WSNS.

[@mysticakhenaton1701]

I, like MOST Chicago kids was always LATE for school. watching Ray Rayner and Friends. LOL but boy, what I wouldn't give to go back to that simple time.

[@bornwisedistruction]

I missed all this by 1 year, any recollection of TV I had started about 1980. As of 1979 I was only 2 when this was aired, by the time I was 3 years old I knew that all the good stuff came on at around 5 am. And I would will myself awake to watch it I was a strange child for a long time I thought I had powers! 🤣

[@teresapflaumer5717]

I haven't seen Starblazers since 1979 on WTAF TV 29 Philadelphia!

[@wmbrown6]

In New York City, I remember WNEW-TV airing "Star Blazers" around 6:30 A.M. Seem to recall it coming on after "New Zoo Revue."

[@andrewweisneck1102]

​@wmbrown6 I don't remember Starblazers ever airing on WNEW 5 or being on earlier than 1980 or 1981.
I recall WNEW 5 and WKBS 48 airing Battle Of The Planets (G-Force) in 1979 and WTAF 29 airing Starblazers in the afternoon around 1980 or so.
When I came home from school in 1979, I watched Dennis The Menace on WKBS 48 and Spectreman on WTAF 29.

[@paulahinckley4980]

Ray Rayner was my ultimate favorite. I was so sad when he retired.

[@jesusnodal8948]

I miss those days of being a kid!! Watching this stuff in the morning!! Good era to be a kid!!

[@rocketdog2723]

Thanks for sharing these time capsules

[@JohnHillRSNStudios]

Star Blazers! Loved that cartoon back in the day!

[@525Lines]

WGN playing starblazers at 6 in the friggin' moring. And yes, I never missed it.

[@bryanloveseighties]

I was born at the end of 1975 so I was 3 years old when this promo aired. Unfortunately, I had to wait for the school bus at 7:00 A.M. so I couldn't watch Ray Rayner, let alone Bozo. The only chances of me watching them both were in the Summer months.

[@525Lines]

A promo right after the farm report and before Starblazers and the Morning News with Bob Bell.

[@bornwisedistruction]

Orion Samuelson Wow, I remember the farm report its funny what the brain holds on to...

[@Dan-hc1ow]

Ray Rayner until 8, then switch over to Captain Kangaroo for a few minutes, then the mad dash to the bus stop two streets over. Good times.

[@3dsmaxrocks699]

I don't understand the 3.3 trillion dollar company thing at all. You're saying the voice actor owns a trillion dollar company?

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Look up the company Nvidia. Just a joke on the character’s name.