I'm almost 64 and I still miss him on Family Classics.

@pernelldh

3 жыл бұрын

We all miss Frazier Thomas.

@maureencora1

3 жыл бұрын

Hear-Here!!

@pamczech5984

3 жыл бұрын

Great man

@Ron20003

2 жыл бұрын

OHhh every Sunday afternoon. We were taught the classics by Frazier Thomas. I loved my childhood

@tedmccarron

Жыл бұрын

I saw one of the books they showed for Family Classics at the WGN Museum of Broadcast in Chicago years ago. I think it might have been Sinbad the Sailor or one of those classic books that went with the movie. As usual the book was red with beautiful gold lettering saying the name of the book for the movie we were watching. When I looked at it closely however I noticed that the book looked like it had been spray-painted red and then the gold lettering had been painted on top of that. When I opened the book to look inside it's pages I found out it was a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

I'm 56 years old, but when I see this I feel like I am 10 years old again.

@maureencora1

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@musicmamma

Жыл бұрын

Me too! I'm 57. We lived in River Grove, then to Elmhurst.

@boomer3150

Жыл бұрын

@@musicmamma We were in Chicago...129th and Parnell, on the Little Calumet R.

Watched this as a child. Being from suburbs of Chicago, this is and always will be near and dear to my heart. All the cute characters on that show were so cute and adorable. Sweet memories! Thank you!

@nycsguy

Жыл бұрын

I watched this as a child too. I watched from Niles, but not Niles Illinois, but Niles Michigan! About 90 miles away. We got WGN in addition to a couple stations from South Bend Indiana. So I saw a lot of Garfield Goose and Family Classics.

@musicmamma

Жыл бұрын

Same here. I was very young when this aired. However, that opening theme song gives me little shivers even today.

@francesjolly5106

Жыл бұрын

This and he hosted a satutday matinee

@francesjolly5106

Жыл бұрын

Wasnt Suzy Snowflake on this as a cartoon or antimated.

@sjs1555

Жыл бұрын

@@francesjolly5106 That was on the Ray Rayner show.

I'm 66 years old and was one of the many children that watched WGN's children's programming .WGN back in the day produced so much excellent programming for kids as well as adults. Times have changed .

"All you can do is hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what you get." Love it! What a charming show.

Watched this back in the early sixties after school.

@DutchGirl859

3 жыл бұрын

So did I, the good old days!

@philipdecatanzaro1822

3 жыл бұрын

They introduced Clutch Cargo to me. Even then I thought it was a bit lame. I lived in Evanston from 1959 to 1965.

@maureencora1

3 жыл бұрын

I Love Chicago.

@schmitty139

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 60..I can remember this came on before school..Right after Ray Rayner..

I grew up in Racine, WI. We were close enough to get Chicago stations and I loved Garfield Goose and Frazier Thomas. I am delighted to find this on KZread and be able to relive some of those memories. FT you were a delightful part of my chiildhood. Long live Garfield Goose, King of the United States!

@HeartLess-uz5vs

2 ай бұрын

I grew up in Kenosha Wisconsin hey neighbor !! 😂5-1-24

In the 1960s I Used to Love to Watch This Show After School. I Miss Those Days as a Kid. I Want the DVDs of These Show When I Retire and Be a Kid Again.

Never would this fly in today's wretched culture....too clean, moral, happy. I miss those days.

@DutchGirl859

3 жыл бұрын

Agree, same here.

@mikestyles499

3 жыл бұрын

There were standards.

@Ron20003

2 жыл бұрын

I so with you. Gimmie mid sixties TV anyday

Family Classics on a Sunday afternoon ❤️

I grew up with Garfield Goose! It was great fun! Even in college I watched it! I and so many other people were sad when Fraser Thomas died! He was such a class act! Very well respected! Eventually someone will bring back Family Classics again! Tim

Garfield, Ray Raynor, Bozo, and Family Classics were my Chicago Jams way back then. Damn I miss those days.

@maureencora1

3 жыл бұрын

Here-Hear!!

Garfield goose and Rain Rayner and the bozo circus show was the best ever for the city of Chicago in WGN what wonderful shows

@priscillaross-fox9407

3 жыл бұрын

There were more but I can't remember.

@maureencora1

3 жыл бұрын

Hear-Here!!

@boomer3150

Жыл бұрын

@@priscillaross-fox9407 Captain Kangaroo...

Good golly! Garfield Goose! The guy I grew up with that had Garfield and his friends in the old days is still doing his thing with Garfield and his friends in heaven. Also Ray Rayner, Bozo's Circus with Ringmaster Ned and Family Classics! ❤😀🌈

I am 57, and this was one of many shows I remembered well. Well, we're in a different era now. I leave it at that. Thanks for sharing these memories. WGN was the best, I'm talking "pre cable"

The power and beauty and magic of Frazier Thomas changed my life, made me believe in myself but made me a better man who not at first, but later in life would finally accept. Frazier was HOME . Why is this show not on cable for kids?

@mwatts-riley2688

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool, huh? M. IL

I was born in Chicago in 1951 and remember watching this program and Bozo's Circus on our B&W TV in the afternoon after getting home from school.

Ahh. Memories of the innocence of childhood.

Grew up with this dude and his crazy goose. He did have a lot of natural charisma. A crime that his episodes weren't saved, but we were so often idiots back in the day. Come to think of it, we're idiots now. Some things don't change. Anyway, Frazier, no matter his politics, was a beacon.

@stankatic8182

Жыл бұрын

Dude ? Crazy goose ?

We lived in Chicago when this came out - my younger bro was watching it. I thought that we could use a stopwatch to measure the show's duration on the net. It actually had a very long run!! Holy picture tube - a goose without language skills!

@boggy7665

4 ай бұрын

He spoke to Frazier, Frazier could understand him. Romberg Rabbit, on the other hand, Frazier could not hear, and the goose had to repeat what the rabbit said. (Romberg's mouth would move soundlessly, Frazier would turn to Garfield.."What'd he say?", Garfield would start with the pop-pop-pop, Frazier then.. "Ah, I see...") I think in some shows, maybe later ones, Frazier could hear the rabbit.

John h glenn is my father's cousin. They met once since (Sen)glenn was from ohio, but we were on IL.

I should mention this was taped 11 years before his death from a stroke

@boggy7665

4 ай бұрын

We all remember... like losing a favorite uncle

@HeartLess-uz5vs

2 ай бұрын

😢 I didn’t t know that …. I really like him so much …. 5-1-24

I remember those days

Does anyone remember the year he went to England with his family and he showed us king authors grave and some other historic monuments

One wonders what ever became of Amy, the cornhusk doll girl on here, she would be about 57 now One wonders if she kept it up thry adulthood....... The beauty of Frazier is he loved having kids on the show showing their little collections or creations, which Ray Rayner never did, never had the patients to have kids come on except for twice a year(Guessing the jellybean contest and winning rays do it yourself projects he would give away) Simple and more wholesome world for kids back then, we were better for it Not sure how the current batch of kids will turn out, not looking good

@boggy7665

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for jogging my memory... Ray Rayner's DIY projects were hilarous. There was the really neat model that a staffer had made in advance, and then there was Ray's heap o' mess next to it. I guess that helped kids watching to not feel bad if their efforts weren't A+ all the time.

@scottkuzminski8114

4 ай бұрын

The completed projects Ray copied were done by the wife of the show's producer, nancy, and he just "said" Chauncy made them(there was no Chauncy)

Now in my 80s, this was a favorite - it was Black and white back in my dazes.

❤ I looooOoOve this guy. He is an angle. I wanted him to be my dad when i was 5, And 6 and 31. Ah really. M. IL.

I love growing up in Chicago

@Ron20003

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I think Chicago is the best city ever11

@boggy7665

4 ай бұрын

I/we lived in Kenosha, and could receive Chicago broadcasts well enough. We were closer to Milwaukee, but the Chicago media was a few tiers better quality. The ChannelMaster antenna rotator and eleventy-element log-periodic antenna 10 feet or so above the roof really made the difference.

I miss all the great movies all family friendly

Monkey on a String, played by Ethel Smith. The whole thing is on YT.

Frasier died much too young

Thay should put out a catalog I'd buy DVDs of all the shows

@boggy7665

4 ай бұрын

Very little, only short clips survive. Videotape was expensive & they just reused it. Most of these shows were broadcast live.

Sweet

Wonder if the player of the Mighty Wurlitzer during the intro is the guy you played at The Elm skating rink in Elmhurst?

@MisterUptempo

3 жыл бұрын

The theme of "Garfield Goose & Friends" is a recording called "Monkey On A String", performed by famous organist Ethel Smith, which she performed on a Hammond B3 organ. The full recording can be found here on KZread.

@DjJtown

3 жыл бұрын

I remember driving up there with a car load of friends on Saturday nights to skate there. That was 1 if 4 we used to make rounds to including Funway in Batavia, The Tinley Park Roller Rink, Main Street USA in Bolingbrook & Rosalie's in Joliet, back in the 80's. Some very fond memories.

"Every state had local kids shows like on the local TV stations that had interviews with young people, puppets, & most showed cartoons such as Bugs Bunny,Popeye,Casper, & old comedies like the 3 Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and the Our Gang shorts, miss them Oklahoma & Texas stations had them as well,the local early evening news usually followed them before he network news began."-🤔🖥☕🌐..

I watched this a few days ago and it was longer where Amy was shown with the different corn husk items. Now it's cut off before that! What gives, Fuzzy?

I lived in Wilmette when this was done

@boggy7665

4 ай бұрын

That was where the Thomases lived. Frazier was a big model RR fan & saw somewhere photos of his big layout in their basement. Or am i confusing / Winnetka?

@larryshaver3568

2 ай бұрын

@@boggy7665 i would see him in the hardware store sometimes

Garfield Goose would make a better King of the United States than the one we have now.

@Toolman22364

4 жыл бұрын

He is living rent free in your head. Gotta Luv it .

@MisterUptempo

3 жыл бұрын

@@Toolman22364 And he'll soon be living rent free in prison. Gotta love that even more.

You could even learn about John Glenn along the way.

Does anyone remember the name of the space-alien cartoon played on the earlier Garfield Goose episodes? Not anImation, just drawings with narration. I can't find it anywhere.

@georgebalsamo1011

4 жыл бұрын

It was "Space Angel"

If boredom is engulfing you like the mighty hug of Neptune, then you understand 99% of Chicago kids TV.

@ChristopherSobieniak

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@doloreshuntoon7698

7 жыл бұрын

Whatever.

@debrakirkland910

6 жыл бұрын

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

@debrakirkland910

6 жыл бұрын

i watched this as kid! Childhood in the 70s in the burbs of Chicago was THE BEST. Oh man, riding bikes,climbing trees, on weekends or school breaks we we out all day winter,spring ,summer or fall. TV only had 5 channels NBC,ABC,CBS, PBS and WGN. We were only allowed to watch certain shows and some were REALLY corney and that was actually the funny part :)

There's nobody here. Uh, where is everybody-the boys and girls are here! Oh, secret, secret! (goose taps with mouth!)

I hope anyone that can donate wi.

Whatever.

No wonder I never watched this. It's not good.

@stankatic8182

Жыл бұрын

It was for children !