WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics - "A Christmas Carol" (Opening, Breaks & Ending, 12/20/1981) 🎄 ❄️ 🎁
Ойын-сауық
Here's the opening, commercial breaks and ending from the Family Classics presentation of the 1938 Reginald Owen version of the Charles Dickens tale "A Christmas Carol" on WGN Channel 9, hosted by Frazier Thomas.
A little Christmas bonus will follow.
Includes:
Station ID / Merry Christmas from The Incredible Hulk in front of a store display (ending voiceover by Jack Taylor) (Incredible Hulk played by Bob Foal)
Family Classics open (with Christmas Tree included) with Frazier explaining how Dickens' novel created many holiday traditions we now take for granted
Opening title and bits of film segment 1
Commercials for:
Venture - "Save with Style" - 50% off all 14K gold chains
The Shower Massage by Teledyne Water Pik (ending voiceover by Jack Taylor)
Imperial Leather Factory Direct Sale at the Chicago Ampitheater - "You Can't Beat That"
Honey Nut Cheerios - "Gonna Tempt Your Tummy"
Bits of film segment 2 as well as a scene memorably featured in the promo for this episode of Family Classics every year as seen here: • WGN Channel 9 - Family... )
WGN silent "reverse zoom" station ID (inspired by the Superman film credits?)
Commercials for:
Center Video - sale on Atari 2600 video game system and cartridges (voiceover by Linn Burton) (posted separately here: • Center Video - "Atari!... )
Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn (Cooking Class) - "Makes the Best Better"
WLAK FM 94 - "Sounds of Lake"
Goldblatt's - Going Out of Business Sale
Bits of film segment 3, as well as on-screen lower-third station ID included at 8:35)
Promo for The Incredible Hulk reruns on WGN starting Monday, December 21st 1981 - "He's Coming To Town" (voiceover by Jack Taylor) - featuring the Hulk (played by Bob Foal) running around the Daley Center Picasso with a giant WGN logo ball
Commercials for:
Chicago Health & Racquetball Club - "We Wish You a Merry Fitness"
Sasson blouses and skirts / fashions / "designer fantasies" for girls (very similar but different ad posted separately here: • Sasson - "Take Off In ... )
Illinois 7-11-21 Instant Lottery (with $1M winner William E. Walker)
Frazier previews next week's film, "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" [1939]
Promo for Lou Rawls Parade of Stars (with Ed McMahon) (ending voiceover by Jack Taylor) (features production music "Design Award (B-2)" in background - • Design Award (B-2) - reverb added to promo to prevent KZread blocking)
Commercials for:
Eagle Discount Supermarkets (Xmas fruit baskets and gift certificates)
Zayre - 79-Hour Christmas Wrap-Up Sale
Red Lobster Shrimp
Bits of film segment 4
WGN silent "reverse zoom" station ID
Commercials for:
"Dancer" from K-Tel (record offer)
RC 100 cola
Clicker butane curling wand - from Gillette (ending voiceover by Floyd Brown)
Zayre (repeat from earlier)
First few seconds of film segment 5
At 17:23 a strange occurrence - after going into the standard Family Classics book bumper (albeit with no music), it appears the carrier for the station was momentarily cut before coming back on with the bumper shot again - this is not a recording edit - we have two different recordings of this and it is the same on both - not sure if there was supposed to be another commercial break here and they bailed out of it or what) After this they immediately continue on with the film...
Bits of film segment 6
WGN silent "reverse zoom" station ID
Commercials for:
Zayre (repeat again)
Eagle Discount Supermarkets (sale on Xmas baking goods)
Levi's Women's Wear
Shower Massage (repeat from earlier)
First and last few seconds of film segment 7 (The End)
Commercials for:
Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority (with Sammy Davis, Jr. at end)
The Eight Days of Chanukah - "History" with Henry Winkler, followed by commercial for Godiva Chocolates at Marshall Field's (posted separately here: • The Eight Days of Chan... )
Kodacolor II color negative film
Frazier again plugs next week's movie
Promo for Lou Rawls Parade of Stars (repeat from earlier)
Commercials for:
Zayre (repeat again??)
Golden Books - "I Grew Up With Golden Books!" (posted separately here: • Golden Books - "I Grew... )
Green Giant Steak & Green Peppers
Preview of "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell," followed by Frazier closing this edition - and informing viewers that Little House on the Prairie will not be seen tonight, and The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas will air in its place as a holiday special
Bonus: Bumpers, excerpts and breaks of the special:
Commercials for:
Pillsbury Sugar Cookies (with Paul Frees as Poppin' Fresh)
Barbie's horse, "Dallas" (Western Barbie doll sold separately) - from Mattel
Benylin cough syrup - from Parke-Davis
Folger's Instant Coffee Crystals (with "hidden camera" inside Blue Fox restaurant in San Francisco)
Bits of Act I
Commercials for:
Brach's Christmas candies
Kitty Litter brand kitty litter
Open of Act II
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 20th 1981.
Our thanks to Tom Fumo for saving the tape!
Пікірлер: 63
I'm 66 years old now and I have just turned 10 again. I loved watching Family Classics with Fraser Thomas. The opening song was so beautiful.
@edwynnkelley136
6 ай бұрын
I'm 53 myself. This, too, has made me revert back to a 10 year old sitting in the house on an early Sunday evening listening to the opening theme and Frazier.
@kennethoats2322
6 ай бұрын
Sundays with Frasier Thomas, and then Monday thru Friday on Bozo's Circus... the best of times. 💙💯
@markhuber8345
6 ай бұрын
55 yo here.. memories of watching Frazier on the floor of my grandparents house on the zenith…. Space command.. lol❤
O that song just took me back 40 years! What good memories sitting on the floor watching family classics!
I used to adore WGN.
Nice little treat for us to enjoy. 🎄🎁🎅
Aw, this brought back such wonderful memories. Frazier Thomas! ❤And the hulk! 😄
I was 5 years old when I first saw this, and I still love to watch it every year. Reginald Owen was hilarious….such good memories. ❤
I was 12 years old, Glad I grew up in the 70's and 80's
I miss the old time Chicago tv. Grew up way south of Chicago. But if we had good weather and got the antenna turned just right we got a few stations.lol or just channel 3 out of Champaign 😢
Thanks Fuzzy. Family Classics was co- created by Frazier and Fred Silverman ( whatever happened to him 🙃) in the early 60s. Zayre would be gone less than a decade later. It sold its department stores to Ames. It would rename itself TJX Companies after it's sub division T J Maxx. The voice of the Cheerios Bee was provided by Arnold Stang ( best known as the voice of Top Cat). Merry Christmas 🎁🎄🧑🎄
Hearing that opening music and listening to Frazier Thomas introduce the movie fills me with warmth. I never missed that show as a kid.
Always Miss The Good ‘Ol Days ❤️
@PRHILL9696
6 ай бұрын
We all do
Thank you for this!! Would watch Frasier on Bozo then Sundays on Family Classics!!
Omg, every Sunday, this was the family time. Dam, I miss those days. Thank you for posting this so many good memories I have
Thank you. A thousand times, thank you!!! Please do more of these (intros and commercial breaks) of any programs, weekend theater, late movie, etc, etc, but especially Family Classics.
Family Classics 🥰🥰 This brings back very cherished memories of me da! I am 57 years old now and me da passed away in 1987. 😢
I used to look forward to the Family Classics show ❤. I don't remember there being so many commercials though.
I remember watching this every year you can't have christmas without a Christmas carol how I miss Fraser Thomas I remember on Garfield Goose and freinds the year thry went to England in search of king Arthur it was a vacation he and his family went on but shared it with us rest in peace
@thadtheman3751
6 ай бұрын
It was in search of the Holy Grail, and I would love to see those episodes/
@pamczech5984
6 ай бұрын
@@thadtheman3751 thank you so much I barely remember it but my mom was reading me a book on king Arthur at the time I must have been around 8 but I don't think I'll ever forget seeing the grave stone of king Arthur
Back in the day by Auntie Mary's, I'm 5 yrs old again...just the music, puts me back at our Sunday dinners! 😢 Great days, great TV! 🙏❤️ #thewonderyears
My mom(now 70) thinks Tom Skilling or Dean Richards should be the new Frazier Thomas
@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In
6 ай бұрын
I Agree with her.
@Oldsmobile57
6 ай бұрын
For sure Dean Richards
Thanks for sharing, such Great Memories, it’s like going back in time.
OHHH, how I miss GOLDBLATTS!😢😮😢😢😟☹️🥺😔
Watching clips of Family Classics and just the intro song alone always takes me back to being a little boy watching Family Classics at his grandparents house before dinner. My question is what's the name of the intro song?
Thank you so much for posting this video! It is so much fun to watch. Especially at 15:08: K-Tel records Take Your Time Do it Right by the SOS Band and Don’t Stop the Music. I went to Spotify and found these songs. ❤
The Bear That Slept Through Christmas with Casey Kasem was neat too!
Wow watching this brings me back to my childhood watching A Christmas Carol(1938) version every Xmas Eve on Channel 9 thank you so much for posting this
Just turned 59, but it was wonderful to take a trip back to a simpler time. I had to laugh at the Red Lobster Shrimp commercial! What timing! Thanks!
This movie that you’re seeing is a 1938 holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” with Lionel Barrymore and it was unrestored. The DVD and Blu-Ray of this movie which was part of the “Warner Archive” series contains this movie which was fully restored and digitally remastered. WNBC-TV (channel 4) in New York City ran this movie back in 1996 where it contains the colorized version of this movie.
@FuzzyMemoriesTV
6 ай бұрын
Lionel Barrymore wasn’t in this one
@wmbrown6
6 ай бұрын
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV - Didn't Lionel, for years, do radio productions of that? But I agree with you . . . R.I.F. (Reading Is Fundamental).
1970s living in Lagrange and later Hinsdale, watching classic movies on the very large Zenith console TV.
I miss that man.
Very cool seeing such an early version. I am trying, however, to bring to people's attention that I've discovered Charles Dickens wasn't the original author of "A Christmas Carol." He merely watered down and commercialized a story written by Americans Mathew and Abby Whittier. It was originally even more powerful.
June Lockhart is one of the Cratchit children and she is still with us. 98 years young ! Merry Christmas everyone !!
@FuzzyMemoriesTV
6 ай бұрын
The kid who played Tiny Tim is still alive as well. 😊
@betterd9160
4 ай бұрын
That’s amazing.
Seasons Greetings from the Hulk.....never thought that I'd hear that..
42 years ago, TODAY. 12-20-23
Unintentional funny segue at 22:55: from the shot of the eight candles on the lit Menorah to a candle being lit for Godiva Chocolates!
Back when WGN was local and good. Before this WGN America crap
30:21 The Folger’s guy is Bryan Clark, who later got a lot of gigs playing Ronald Reagan.
16:06 Butane-powered portable curling iron, so you can curl your hair while riding in a taxicab. The 80s really had its own unique fashion priorities..
Does anyone know the name of the music piece that serves as the intro of the Family Classics?
@FuzzyMemoriesTV
6 ай бұрын
It’s an old piece of production music named “Moviescope” and composed by Dennis Berry.
@DanBriggs3000
6 ай бұрын
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Thank you🙂
This was really chopped up by Fuzzy Memories. The tv spots seemed more important than the movie plot. I would have loved to have seen this movie in its entirety again…
If you think about it Atari was expensive
I’m 11 again! (I’m 67)
HULK SMASH!
I note WGN had the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. There are those who like Alastair Sim's "Scrooge" from 1951. I don't know if 'GN's sister station WPIX aired "A Christmas Carol" back in the day. But, I guarantee you, PIX will air the Yule Log, dating back to 1966. But in 1989, it got cancelled. In 2001 after 9/11, the Log was brought back and has gotten even bigger! The Yule Log will be back from 9:00 AM-1:00 PM (EST) and again from 4:00-5:00 PM (EST). And PIX will air Laurel and Hardy in March of the Wooden Soldiers from 1:00 PM-3:00 PM (EST) I do know that a look at WGN's scheduled for XMAS 2023 will be... Christmas Mass at Mercy Home 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Bozo, Gar & Ray: WGN TV Classics 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Bozo's Circus: The 1960s 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Bozo's Circus: The 1970s 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WGN-TV at 75 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Too bad WPIX did ALMOST NOTHING for its 75th.
@wmbrown6
6 ай бұрын
During this period, which Chicago station had the 1951 Alistair Sim "Christmas Carol"?
Americans are always so quick to claim credit for inventors and creators, and to completely rewrite their biographies, to suit American agendas. Alexander Graham Bell wasn't American. He was Scottish, with a strong Scottish accent. He lived in Canada for many years, and did his preliminary work developing the telephone, at his home in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The house is the Bell Homestead Museum.
@wmbrown6
6 ай бұрын
That's not the only misconception. Because of that film, the phone for years was referred to as "Ameches" because of who played the Scottish-born, Canadian-American inventor in the pic - Don Ameche. Fun fact: He was the second president of the National Geographic Society from 1898 to 1903. One of his daughters would go on to marry Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor - another longtime fixture of "the Geographic," serving as editor from 1899 to 1954 and as president from 1920 to 1954; one of the offspring from that marriage, Melville Bell Grosvenor, was president and editor from 1957 to 1967.
First
Man that dude they got to play The Hulk must have been freezing.
We need full episodes of family classics