WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics - "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (Opening, 12/30/1984) 📚 🎄 🎁
Ойын-сауық
Here's the opening moments of the Family Classics presentation of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" [1944] as aired over WGN Channel 9. The host is Frazier Thomas; this aired over three months before his untimely death from a stroke on April 3rd 1985. As such, this was Frazier Thomas' last Family Classics Christmas season.
Includes:
Station ID, with Bozo (Joey D'Auria) and Cooky (Roy Brown) wishing "Season's Greetings"
Show open, with Frazier introducing and describing the film; followed by first 23 seconds of film opening titles before recording ends
"With the exception of a few of the leading characters, it bears little resemblance to the original 'Arabian Nights' story."
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 30th 1984.
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. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. 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!
Пікірлер: 37
Frazier Thomas and Family Classics. A real class act. Great Sunday afternoon memories from better times.
Every damn time I hear this theme song it makes me feel like I am still that 6-year-old kid on Sunday Night. Frazier Thomas was a big part of my childhood.
@MattRichardsonX
Жыл бұрын
Sunday afternoon, no? Sunday night would have been "When Movies Were Movies".
I miss this show and RIP Frazier Thomas.
Good times on Sunday afternoon. This program was my introduction to movies. I lived in La Grange and Hinsdale in the 1970s, 80s.
💜 Well, that's not my Bozo (Bob Bell), but that's my Cookie 🤗 I love hearing the Family Classics intro with Frazier (Garfield Goose) Thomas 😥 makes me a little teary-eyed.
Love that introduction.
Fun fact: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (the famous story the film gets its title from) wasn't originally part of One Thousand and One Nights. It (along with the story of Aladdin) was a later addition included in Antoine Galland's French translation of the tales who himself heard it from a local Syrian storyteller named Hanna Diyab.
Bozo & Cookie🎄 & That Theme....Throwback Hard📺
Brings back so many great memories, growing up.Thanks for sharing
Thanks for bringing back that piece of childhood and family life from days gone by.
I wish they would bring back family classics
I always knew the Beastie Boys were fans of Family Classics with Frazier Thomas.
Family time!!
I was hoping that this was going to be the entire movie! Oh well.....
@FuzzyMemoriesTV
Жыл бұрын
Blocked, sorry. :-(
@nataliewilliams9741
Жыл бұрын
Me too.
I watched Bozo the clown .This is cool
@pernelldh
Жыл бұрын
We do miss Bozo, Cooky and Frazier. WGN-TV isn't the same without them.
That opening to Robert Osborne TCMmmm… whoops… I mean, Frazier Thomas and Family Classics, really brought back memories. Thank you!
after F.T. passed away, Roy Leonard took over as host. Sadly, it eventually ended. Shouldn't have been that way. That classic had more value than 99% of most of what is still on tv today! Even if WGN were to broadcast old reruns of it, it's better than most current television!
@OldBittyGrandma
Жыл бұрын
Current television is not entertaining. It’s all about maneuvering the herd.
@Leadeshipcoach
Жыл бұрын
Agreed!👍
That was the last Family Classics of 1984, a week later would be the 1st Family Classics of 1985.
You never see good television like this anymore
They tried reviving the show briefly with Roy Leonard, but it wasn't the same.
Fact: "Moviescope" is the theme for WGN-TV's Family Classics composed by English composer, Dennis Berry.
I just clicked because I saw Bozo
Family Classics was developed/ created by Fred Silverman and Frazier Thomas in 1962.
When hearing this, you knew it was time to eat dinner, maybe dessert, get ya clothes ready for school, double check your homework, take ya bath and prepare for the week lol
❤❤
I was always hoping the _Texas Chainsaw Massacre_ movies would be shown on _Family Classics With Frazier Thomas..._ ☹
@wmbrown6
Жыл бұрын
You must _really_ have a sense of humor there . . .
@bryanloveseighties
Жыл бұрын
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was not for families.
@MattRichardsonX
Жыл бұрын
Would have had to be a book first, no?
1:16 is the start of the film, but it doesn’t have the Universal “Glass Globe” logo. The DVD and Blu-Ray releases doesn’t have the “Glass Globe” at all, it just starts with the 1997 Universal logo with URL and the start of film. The movie is on DVD and Blu-Ray, and it’s not available on Peacock.
Lame 50 years ago. Still lame. Those are phone books, by the way. At the broadcast museum I reached over and opened one of the books. All phone books.