Ray Will always be the steward of my grade school years. Just a GEM.

I miss Ray! Feels like I'm watching a video of a family member who passed. We used to watched him daily.

@525Lines

Жыл бұрын

You and me both. Every morning growing up. The start of the second cartoon was my signal to walk to school in my elementary years.

So wonderful to see him in the seventies jumpsuit compete with the notes attached to him...

@525Lines

2 жыл бұрын

Dude invented post-it notes and gets no credit.

What a telling clip,even 15 years later Ray is as fun and personable as ever(even with the duck!),while Sarat and his wannabe co-host are as fun as was watching paint dry.I can only imagine nobody else showed up when they auditioned,they remind me of that other Chicago snorefest George Wendt...but Ray Rayner was one of a kind,a gem!

@525Lines

Жыл бұрын

Fox Thing in the Morning was a good show. And while they didn't have the chemistry of WGN, for a few years there, it was the thing to watch in the morning.

I left my hometown Chicago 40 years ago for the same reason.

@525Lines

2 жыл бұрын

Chicago has some rough winters, that's for sure.

It must have been that winter of 78-79 when I remember Ray's starting and the set is empty. Then, Ray walks on and he has shaving cream on his face and he's still shaving. "Ol' Ray got in late and still has to shave, kids." When Chicago gets snow, it gets it good.

Priceless!

I miss Ray.

@525Lines

5 жыл бұрын

I do, too. He was just such a real and genuine person. I'm sure more adults watched the show than kids. I keep looking for that clown song from the Boz, Gar, and Ray special on KZread. I'd love to see that again.

@tytrehalf5354

5 жыл бұрын

@@525Lines Watching him in the 60's on his 4 WGN kids shows, it is hard to believe he was a WWII POW for 2-1/2 years.

@525Lines

5 жыл бұрын

@@tytrehalf5354 He was in the POW camp that inspired the movie The Great Escape. Also, one time, trying to promote some Buck Rogers shorts they were going to show, he came on camera with a flight cap and a leather jacket. I figured that was his Air Corps gear.

@tytrehalf5354

5 жыл бұрын

His job for the escape at Stalag Luft III was disposing of the tunnel dirt. Prior to the escape he was transferred by forced march to another POW camp. It was at this camp that he was liberated by Patton's troops. There are a few interviews of him talking about his POW camp experiences. It was in the camps where the entertainment/acting bug bit him. He and Cuddly Dudley read my letter on the air. He sent a post card reply. He was the best.

@525Lines

5 жыл бұрын

@@tytrehalf5354 He once mentioned he had written a chapter in a book about TV and I was trying to track down the book. This is before the internet. I found someone at WGN that would pass on a note to Ray on my behalf. Ray actually sent me a brief handwritten note about it.

Thank you for sharing this! I used to have this interview on vhs but not sure what happened to it. Your video is in better quality than mine.

@525Lines

7 жыл бұрын

I got a whole DVD of his appearances. i think I got them all. You can only post a little on here.

@TimBurVlogs

7 жыл бұрын

Cool!

At 3:05 hes like "dumb broad"

@525Lines

6 жыл бұрын

Remember how Marianne Marciano would say "I saw the most interesting thing in the Sun Times." Then she tries to find the article and flips a page and flips a page and can't find it, looking slightly panicked. then goes, "I'll look for it later."

wgn-tv channel-9 chicago-illinois the home of the bozo-show weekday's on wgn-tv chicago's very own.

Oliver o'oliver on fox-news wait until bozo here's about this.

What an awful show that was. Bob Sarat had the personality of a ripped shoe tongue.

@525Lines

2 жыл бұрын

It was a bit awkward here and there but a bold experiment and the show was overall pretty good.

@frankcabanski9409

2 жыл бұрын

@@525Lines Nope. Awful. If it was an experiment, it failed.