I can't watch this intro with Frazier Thomas without tearing up. Chicago had the best broadcast television. A perfect weekend for me was Kung Fu Theater, Creature Feature, Monster Rally, Son of Svengoolie, Blondie and Dagwood, and Charlie Chan... you knew the weekend was over with Family Classics.

@525Lines

8 жыл бұрын

+theylied1776 That's right. They ran Sunday nights.

@theylied1776

7 жыл бұрын

killosama72 I know, I watch it every once in a while. For me it's not the same without Monster Rally on channel 44 and Creature Feature on channel 9 and the Son of Svengoolie on channel 32.

@wiredtvcraze

5 жыл бұрын

I grew up on these years ago.

@wiredtvcraze

5 жыл бұрын

@@@theylied1776 Creature Feature was it for me. The opening set the stage for what was to come.

@DUSTYBASS

5 жыл бұрын

We had it good....brings a tear to my eye too.

Frazier Thomas was a treasure and his hosting of Family Classics will always be missed.

All his movies were a piece of art. Just s shame the kids today will never know these.

@keyopronin4134

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, your statement is Gospel.

I FIND MYSELF WATCHING THE FAMILY CLASSIC INTRO EVERY NOW AND THEN 2 TAKE ME BACK TO THAT TYPE OF WORLD WE LIVED IN.

@keyopronin4134

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, I'm watching now & it put me in a time machine, I'm 8 yrs. old.🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have made it a point to watch these FC intros every Sunday before i watch a movie.It reminds of better days.Today im on my couch with a few of my cats, some hot tea, and we're watching Born Free. Great memories!

I always loved seeing Robin Hood on Family Classic. Good memories.

Family Classics was my "All-Time" favorite show!!! And Robin Hood was my favorite movie. Frazier Thomas was so good and incomparable at his craft. Oh to go back in time and sit on the frontroom floor in front of the T.V. and watch any of these movies again with my Ma & Dad!!!

@jimorastringfellow7721

4 жыл бұрын

Theme song was always i liked to here

Sundays were always family movie time at my grandparents home I wish WGN would replay Family Classics with Frazier Thomas again on Sunday's.

I wish these days were back again, this was good times watching these shows with your family.

God I miss this show, and this man.....Pure class.

Watching Frazier Thomas and Family Classic was always a pleasure I can not give it enough praise I was truly blessed to be raised in Chicago!

@richardherzog5405

6 жыл бұрын

David Dye It was a great time and it was always a great movie .

@wiredtvcraze

5 жыл бұрын

A memory treasured forever.

R.I.P.Frazier Thomas.He will be remembered,but not forgotten.

I can still hear the jiffy pop on the electric stove and sitting there with my two older sisters watching these Sunday after Sunday. Lake County Indiana circa 1963. Ahhh what wonderful years those were. Thank you WGN and Mr. Thomas wherever you are.

Yes me to cant keep from tearing up. This was the best back in the 80's.

This is what made my Sunday's worthwhile after church -

@christopherbayne9061

4 жыл бұрын

My brother from another mother!

family classics with family together and grandma's pot roast it was a great time .

@martywheat9726

3 жыл бұрын

It sure was !

I miss our Family Classic shows that we had here in Chicago. And I miss the host Frazier Thomas... Great shows...

A great time in my life

Always looked forward to Sunday afternoons on WGN...Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan, Movie Greats and then Family Classics...

Wow I remember this from the 80s. How in East Tennessee we got WGN I will never know but I got to watch this all Michael Jordan! So lucky

What an absolutely magical show.

Love them days when you can smell the roast and cornbread in the oven and its snowing out side the lights off in the frontroom everybody on the floor watching the mark of zerro them where the days

Sunday afternoon was the best

I grew up on this show.

For me it was way back in 1971. Lake Forest, Ill.

@oldrocker74

3 жыл бұрын

It was the early 1960's for me! Chicago, Ill.

The intro. With frazier thomas was soo good

WGN and Frazier Thomas provided us with the Greatest Childhood…

I was at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago where all the kids show sets are at and you can lean in and open one of those books. They're all old Chicago phone books that's been rebound.

Omg I remember this we use to go to my granny house on Sunday and spend the whole day and watch this bring tears to my eyes the good old days thank you fir sharing this❤

Omg… this is as close to a time machine as I think I’ve ever gotten. I can almost smell the carpet fresh in the shag carpeting as I’m lying on the floor, Dad stretched out on the couch, mom preparing dinner in the kitchen 5 pm Sunday evening on a cold winter night in 1978…

@Lockbar

Жыл бұрын

Your discription is perfect. I was there, too.

@davek5027

2 ай бұрын

Me too, guys. I got a tear just thinking about it.

I loved watching family classics as a kid

Have anyone ever found any classic movies Thomas hosted I so miss him.

Frazier Thomas is a Chicago TV Icon.

Robin Hood never got a better introduction

I also have "The Adventures of Robin Hood" on digital MP4, because the film was completely remastered and restored since it was released on DVD, but I remember "Family Classics" when I was a kid since I don't live in Chicago, but I remember seeing it on cable when WGN-TV (channel 9) was carried the feed elsewhere when it was called "Superstation WGN" when we live in Puerto Rico at the time. I also remember WPIX-TV (channel 11) also aired a slew of family films as part of the weekend block of movies including the "Saturday Afternoon Movie", "Sunday Afternoon Movie" and "Sunday Movie Special" alongside with comedy, drama, mystery and horror genres. There was also the "Channel 5 Movie Club" which was aired every weeknights on WNEW-TV where sometimes ran a family film each night, and then "Hollywood's Finest" as well. And also, there was WOR-TV (channel 9) sometimes aired some family films every night when it was part of the "Million Dollar Movie". This was long before cable came in like TCM and others.

I remember when Family Classics aired on Friday evenings at 6:30 pm

Do you have Bozo? Man seeing Family Classics from my childhood! Got any Garfield Goose and Friends? BJ and The Dirty Dragon? Zoo Revue?

I loved watching these at my grandma's house but if the Cub's we're playing forget it die hard Cub's fan and king kong Dave Kingman !

Alan Hale appears in this movie-I presume it was Alan Sr., who was Alan Jr's. dad. Of course Alan Jr. later became known to the world on TV as Casey Jones & Jonas Grumby, alias The Skipper.

Nice painting of Garfield Goose on the wall. Where's Romberg Rabbit ?

Was there different intro? I remember a window with blowing wind, and moving branches.....

You know Robin Hood-like the Lone Ranger ACTUALLY lived? No kidding, he lived around the time of King Richard The Lionhearted of England in the 12th century. 😊

Frazier Thomas was a treasure. Unfortuantely, I was never a fan of The Adventures of Robin Hood. It seemed silly to me. Also, the fact that Erroll Flynn was a cad, a sexist, a bigot, and a racist kept me away from watching his films.

@davek5027

2 ай бұрын

Calm down, Karen.