I miss these 1970s kid shows. So many happy memories. 😊

Ray Rayner a true Chicago GEM.

I love the way the show seemed to be unscripted and relaxed. They all seem to have had as much fun as we did watching.

@KOOLBadger

5 ай бұрын

They were drinking..😂❤❤

@jimmyb1559

5 ай бұрын

@@KOOLBadger HaHa! You could be right! 😂

Ray got me through the hell of grade school. R.I.P. Ray Rayner.

@robertonline6543

3 жыл бұрын

Me too I miss Ray and those flash Gordon serials

@shirleyvitela3272

2 жыл бұрын

And high-school, too! Wish we had some of his Thanksgiving shows available. Watching him carve those cold turkeys was always such a hoot.

@WalterDWormack214

Жыл бұрын

@@shirleyvitela3272 You DO know that carving those turkeys, was Ray's way of getting his REVENGE on "Chelveston The Duck"! Because Chelveston the Duck, TERRIFIED poor Mr. Rayner! P.S., Do any of you remember the OTHER WGN-TV after-school children's programs that Ray Rayner hosted?

@shirleyvitela3272

Жыл бұрын

@@WalterDWormack214 yes, I recall reading several times that Chelveston terrified him. And you could sure see it in Ray's body language!

Long live Ray Rayner the greatest host in history he was so nice and kind Ray Rayner will live forever

@ravensheldon1543

Жыл бұрын

We did that every morning before we went to school

Ray Rayner was an important part of our day. I didn’t quite remember until re-watching this but in addition to cartoons, crafts and puppets he was ‘our’ morning news show with sports, weather, and most importantly - school closings during winter storms.

@Nsan

6 ай бұрын

Yes! When Ray announced that my school was closed I always got soo happy

@user-cq5bx7tg3l

Ай бұрын

I truly loved Ray and Frazier. I had a bad home life and the shows on WGN in the 60s were a blessing.

Just incredible history here. Brings back memories of sitting home on a snow day in front of the television set

If only kids had real, simple, sincere shows like Ray Rayner and Garfield Goose to wake up too. I really do miss the Chicago I grew up in. Nice to be brought back in time.

@wendyeames5758

3 жыл бұрын

Life is so complex now, too complicated much if the time even for adults. I agree, a variety show aimed at kids with a host who's authentic, down to earth & wouldn't talk down to kids would be great. Not flash, craziness & commercialism. Kids get too much of that already.

@robertonline6543

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I miss old Chicago. Especially Xmas on state Street. ,Kiddieland animal kingdom. Good times plus son of svengoolie and bozo. Larry lujack, Murphy, the loop . I miss those times

@KOOLBadger

5 ай бұрын

​@@robertonline6543my great grandfather built Kiddieland!

For me as a school kid in Chicago, the best part of waking up was catching Ray Rayner on TV before leaving for school. Thanks for the memories. 📺

@concorde2003

Жыл бұрын

Not Folger's in Your Cup?

@luisreyes1963

Жыл бұрын

​@@concorde2003 I was too young for coffee. ☕

This show holds a lot of fond memories for me. If I was sick or it was a snow day, I could watch all of Ray Raynor, Garfield Goose and at lunchtime, Bozo! I lived in the S.E. suburbs for 56 of my 62 years. It was a great time to grow up. Now I live in another state, but my heart will always be in Chicago.

I remember he used to wear this jumpsuit with a bunch of notes stuck to it😁

This was my childhood.

Good old days happy time

Ray was on our tv every morning while we were getting ready for school and eating our morning cereal. My love for Warner Brothers cartoon's is totally to Ray's credit. I think of Ray every time one comes on or even see a picture of Bugs and friends. Great memories. Really miss those days.

I watched Ray from my earliest memories. Loved when he hosted Dick Tracy cartoons, Rocket to Adventure. This was taped when I was a senior in high school. But I watched him every morning then too. Never gave any thought to that ever coming to an end.

Great show! A childhood staple. Love the Chicago Bears clips!

Kids today and even my grown kids sure missed out on some great TV. I’m definitely convinced that Ray invented post it notes.

I feel lucky to had you growing up as a kid. You were a kids best friend... I miss you Ray. You were the best. I miss the duck too! Lol

@razmo21

Жыл бұрын

Chelveston

@KOOLBadger

5 ай бұрын

Chauncy..😂❤❤❤

1 of my all time favorite personalities from chicago. + Bill Jackson. Just wished his show had come on after school. Oh so many shows I wanted to stay home and watch

@rickyd.graham5904

3 жыл бұрын

ON DAYS WHEN SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED OR YOU WERE SICK , YA GOT TO WATCH THEM , ONLY PROBLEM WAS AFTER A CERTAIN TIME YA GOT THE BORING STUFF LIKE CAPN. KANGAROO THAT WOULD PUT ME TO SLEEP. OR YA HAD A CHOICE BETWEEN COOKING SHOWS OR SOAP OPERA'S. TORTURE TO A CHILD. WAITING FOR AN ETERNITY FOR THOSE AFTER SCHOOL SHOWS . DARK SHADOWS THE ONLY GOOD SOAP OPERA, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND AMONGST OTHERS.

@WalterDWormack214

Жыл бұрын

Bill Jackson's "Gigglesnort Hotel" with Dirty Dragon, Wally GoodScout, Mother Plumtree, and The Old Professor, and of course, You can't leave out, The BLOB! The morphing statue!

I LOVE CHICAGO & ALL ITS BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES~I WAS BORN AT A PERFECT TIME SEPT 66- WOULD'NT WANT TO BE BORN ANYWHERE ELSE THAN CHICAGO IN THE LATE 60's GREAT MEMORIES!!!!! THANK YOU!! I AM SUPPORTING YOUR CAUSE!!!!

@Mark.G475

3 жыл бұрын

Born in 1965. I grew up in La grange and Hinsdale. A great time.

@michaelwayne7887

4 ай бұрын

Same here, Sept 1966. A great time to have been a child... before the creepy political indoctrination of children started in earnest. Poor children these days know nothing else than the weirdo political brainwashing the creepy adults shove down the kids' throats 24/7.

1979 was great was a sophomore in Kelvyn park HS what a great decade.. I watch Ray since 70 every one in our home didn't miss one. Our weather daily look at time to see if it's time to walk to elementary school.seen so many jelly bean contest lost count. Can't believe I'm 58 now.

Awesome! Thanks so much! Takes me back!

loved ray rayner! watched him well into junior high and the beginning of high school. thanks for posting! 😊

I sure miss this show and I miss Ray Rayner very much!!! Thank you very much for posting this!!!

Omg…the commercials bring as many memories back as watching TV POWWWW!! Was there ever a more low tech cheesy kids show on TV?

This was so awesome to see. By the time of this airing I had moved on to watching other stuff. I turned 13 the summer before and I announced to my mom that I was too old for cartoons. Instead I decided to watch the Today show. My loss!!! Glad I could see this broadcast!

Thank you sooo much for posting this full episode of "The Ray Rayner Show" - a.k.a. "Ray Rayner and his Friends"!!! Please post more full episodes of this and "Bozo's Circus"!!! I would religiously watch "The Ray Rayner Show" and "Bozo's Circus" (like thousands of other kids) either every weekday morning before heading off to school or if I was home for lunch during noontime. Memories to share: Oh, how I remember the Dr. Lester Fisher segments featuring a clip of The Irish Rovers' "The Unicorn" @ the start & ending of each segment; Ray's "fair-to-middlin'" attempts at making arts and crafts-type projects, Chelveston The Duck, Cuddley Dudley, the dual Sox/Cubs baseball cap/helmet, Ray reading the Slippery Rock College scores...the list is endless! In regard to "Bozo's Circus", I remember Ringmaster Ned Locke and later Frazier Thomas (R.I.P. to both), Cooky The Cook's failed attempts at getting Bozo to get him to lead "The Grand March" @ the end of every show, and last but not least...the GRAND...PRIZE...GAME!!! :-)

@Staszu13

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they would be most of the original tapes would have been wiped for reuse years ago. Much of what is available is from early VCRs

This is awesome! Fun fact, I was accepted at Slippery Rock for college!

We all know that just as many adults (as well as kids), watched this show. Whether you are going off to school or going off to work, you have to load in some crazy before you can deal with all that.

Wow! I have not thought of this show in decades,

Man I've been looking for an episode of Ray's show forever online. Thanks for sharing, you've made this then 8 year old very happy.

@tomhynek9890

5 жыл бұрын

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@TheBambam2371

5 жыл бұрын

corn1971 Praying for you my friend. I hope you feel better and recover soon. I hope all goes well for you. God bless you my friend. God loves you. Remember forgiveness towards the people that have hurt you can really help you.

Watched every weekday of my life from the time I was 5. I was a senior in high school when this was broadcast. I actually remember the jelly bean contest.

19:44 I remember seeing the commercial for Fashion Plates, and I recall going to a Chinese restaurant with my father and seeing some girls, probably the owner's daughters, doing Fashion Plates in one of the booths. That stuck out in my mind because of seeing the commercial.

I saw an episode of Ray Rayner where he actually counted all the jellybeans in the container while on the air. Someone was on split-screen with a mechanical counter to keep track of the count as Ray pulled them out of the container.

wow i remember watching this before i had to go to school

I grew up watching him. Imagine.

Thanks for posting this really brings back the memories and makes me once again realize how much I hate being an adult kids of today will never know

How cool. Great nostalgia trip

Greatest Childhood Ever….

Such happy times back then

This is fantastic! Thank you for all the Ray clips, they bring such happy memories from my grade school days. I'd forgotten all about the jelly bean contests. So awesome. No doubt that I was watching on that very morning. Thank you Fuzzy!!

I love him. I watched him everyday before school. So did my brothers and sisters!❤😊

fun memories

Much simpler times. The proliferation of cable was growing on practically a daily basis. I believe this was seen across the country on superstation WGN. I was much younger then...I'm older than that now.

It sticks out in my mind that Ray always wrote the date, sports scores, and weather on the chalkboard, with the weather dictated by phone. At one time, it was called in by Harry Volkman, and this episode has someone else (Roger-somebody) doing it. I forgot that he wrote the forecast temperatures on the right side of the board.

@wmbrown6

5 жыл бұрын

Roger Triemstra.

Thanks for the Memories

50 years in the future, the jellybean contest would be done with a web form. You go to the link with the form, type in the number of jellybeans, your name, address, phone number, and email address, and click "submit."

Ray Rayner the greatest ever

Miss Ray

This was BEFORE Turner remastered and stripped the golden era Looney Tunes (pre-1948).

I was a sophomore in high school when this one aired. I was 15 years old in november 1979. Sadly, I stopped watching Ray in the morning a couple years before this one. I'd wake up, get dressed and I was out the door to go to school when in high school. I was really sad when the show went off the air though. I regretted not watching it the last few years it was on. I watched it religiously through middle school though. If I remember right, when Ray left, they moved bozo's circus from noon to 7am. I may caught it once before I was off to school. Frazier Thomas from Garfield goose was the new ring master when Ned left in the 70s. I remember alot, just not specific dates. I'd say that it was around 75 or 76 when Ringmaster Ned left bozo's circus.

@Staszu13

4 жыл бұрын

1976 Ned retired. And they moved Bozo in part because the Chicago Public Schools no longer allowed having lunch at home

Morning b4 school i got my cartoon, weather and sports. AWESOME.

Just awesome

Writing stuff along the frame of the blackboard. Give Ray a bigger blackboard!

More More More complete shows!!!!!! Please!!!!! Thank you for posting.

@jonjonas2528

5 жыл бұрын

Broadcast more Ray Rayner on you tube there has to be more VHS tapes of rày Rayner find those tapes how about the family of Ray Rayner or when there has to be more VHS video tapes of Ray Rayner find those tapes now

This Ray Rayner show on 11/05/79 was my 17th birthday. On the 29th of November was on my way to Army Basic training.

The number one morning show for several. Oh, how I loved WGN growing up in the 60s.

Thank you for posting!! Memories!

Thanks for including the commercials. I have more fond memories of those then the cartoons.

Love the Bears highlights!

Ok, fellow Chicagoans, before I moved away I had the chance to see Ray play Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Candlelight in the round theater. Does anyone know if they're still in business? He had a very nice singing voice.

@mountnman3609

2 жыл бұрын

Closed in '97 then torn down

@shirleyvitela3272

2 жыл бұрын

@@mountnman3609 Oh, how sad, but thx for letting me know. Almost as bad as Riverview being torn down.

@mountnman3609

2 жыл бұрын

@@shirleyvitela3272 We used to live about half a dozen blocks from Riverview. We moved about 6 months before it closed. I have some memories from being at Riverview, but only a few. I was about 5 when we moved. The place was iconic of Chicago, just like Ray, Bozo, Garfield Goose, Family Classics.

The REAL AGONY is the fact that all of these great old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons have been 'TOSSED' because some smart-ass thinks that these classic cartoons are somewhat inappropriate in this 'enlightened' day and age.

@luisreyes1963

Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: The Infantry soldiers at the mess hall were caricatures of the actual animators of that Warner Bros. cartoon.

If I could turn back the hands of time.

Ray Rayner what a great man I watched his show from nineteen seventy three all the way to nineteen eighty I went to a very mean grade school the teachers students and parents were awful terrible people all they did was pick on me every day I watched Ray Rayner everyday before I went to that rotten school every day he gave me some happiness and peace before I had to go that terrible school each day Ray Rayner was my roll model and friend each day before another mean day at grade school he kept me happy each morning before I had to face another terrible day at my rotten grade school they were so mean to me Ray Rayner was so nice to watch a great tv friend long live the great Ray Rayner thank you for the cartoons and fun each day for nine years on when tv Ray Rayner the liegend the greatest television in history Ray Rayner the greatest ever thank you forever

Thanks for the posting!!!

Chauncy still makes things for me.

I loved watching this before going to school to be bullied. Great memories.

Ok So it's presumed that 110% of every person here is, in someway, a Chicagoan? Which means that 110% of every person here is, in someway, a brilliant person? M. IL.

I so wanted that Battlestar Galactica playset

I remember Ray Rayner when he was Sgt Pettibone (a cop) & he featured cartoons with Dick Tracy, QT Hush & Col Bleep! Those are my memories of him. 😊

I grew up with him I loved cuddly duddly

Did not know this existed, I was born March of 79'

His voice sounds so familiar yet warm from a time before the change of 911 we never went back to these years when things were just so America.its 7/10/2020...king con the terrible.

She looks really impressed! 27:00

Ray was a native New Yorker who , like Sonny Fox a NY area host of The Sunday Morning Kids Show Wonderama , was a WW 2 Vet and a POW imprisoned at one time in The Camp that was the location of The Great Escape. Ray in Chicago , Sonny Fox , Officer Joe Bolton and Captain Jack McCarthy in NY left many children of the 60 s and 70 s with great memories.

Ray Rayner had the best cartoons! I actually got a Cuddly Dudley with a cardboard airplane ✈️! Ray Raynor always let you know what time it was because if no

@rmelcornelious8847

6 ай бұрын

Not we would have been late for school 😊

Dr. Fisher reminded me of Columbo, oh the memories

@mountnman3609

2 жыл бұрын

Dr Fisher passed away Dec. 2021 He was 100 years old (2 months short of 101)

So...how many jelly beans were there?!

@IznbranahlGoose

Жыл бұрын

my guess is 935

What a great memory of when I was growing up along with Bozo and Garfield goose

"Ray-rayner oliver o'oliver on bozo's-circus".

27:18 is a Bugs Bunny cartoon called “Gorilla My Dreams”. This cartoon has the AAP logo at the beginning. This cartoon was taken directly from a 16mm film chain which was completely washed out, and it was a not in the best print in its existence. On one of the “Looney Tunes Golden Collection” DVD sets, the cartoon is fully restored. You have to be careful if you have to upload this along with the other WB cartoons on this show, because WB will get them blocked for copyright issues. The other one, “Rookie Revue” and “Foney Fables” are in the Public Domain.

@wmbrown6

5 жыл бұрын

I have to presume the film chain WGN used at the time of this airing was RCA TK-27's. From what I've been reading on YT of people who viewed clips from stations with such chains, auto-iris issues were endemic in TK-27's.

@ChristopherSobieniak

4 жыл бұрын

@@wmbrown6 I wouldn't doubt that that was pretty common on a lot of stations into the 80's.

@Musicradio77Network

6 ай бұрын

I have “Gorilla My Dreams” on 16mm along with the rest of the Bugs Bunny cartoons on one larger reel. It was shown on Discovery Family yesterday.

Someone must have lost an eye because of the missiles.

My childhood

Ironically, WGN's NYC sister station, WPIX, did not show Warner Brothers cartoons. That was the territory of WNEW-TV Channel 5, which in the 80's would become WFLD's sister station as Metromedia brought 32 from Field. And WNEW did show these pre-1948 cartoons with that AAP clip. The same with the Famous Studios Popeye cartoons they aired as well in the 80's though it cut off the Paramount logo. As for WPIX, which aired Popeye in the 60's, Tom and Jerry was their big cartoon. Many of these cartoons would go to in the late 80's WWOR-TV Channel 9. BUT...for all the digital enhancements of the cartoons on DVD and streaming sites like Boomerang, there was something magical about these so-called dirty prints...not based on content, but film condition. Just some kind of charm about it.

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

NEPatriot That was the charm! Nobody understands it anymore.

@wmbrown6

6 жыл бұрын

WNEW and WGN also both ran the post-'48 Warners' toons. And it isn't just the film condition that exudes "charm" of old local TV airings . . . the limited nature of film chains such as RCA or GE or Cohu that tamped down the reds big-time, for example. WNEW, in the early 1980's, also ran the '60's Popeyes that WSNS had in '74-'75 when Steve Hart hosted 'em.

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

Another amusing note is recalling a local station had serious dot-crawling and auto-iris issues with theirs I recall seeing the post-48 WB package have on my videotapes my mom left me!

@Musicradio77Network

5 жыл бұрын

wmbrown6 And then by the late 80’s, all of the WB cartoons (both pre-48 and half post-48 along with the redrawns) are moved to WWOR-TV (channel 9) in 1987 and also appeared on “Steampipe Alley”.

I wonder if the jelly bean winner still has that t-shirt?

The show on before Ray Rayner was the Farm report or something like that.

@angelapianomusicstudio3816

2 жыл бұрын

Orion Samuelson, I believe?

@Mark.G475

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelapianomusicstudio3816 wow that sounds familiar! Blast from the past. Thanks!

@mountnman3609

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, with Orion Sameulson. I remember the sound of his deep voice. Looked him up on the web about a week ago. Still alive at 88. IIRC, he just retired from broadcasting within the last year or 2

We all did 😂😂😂the exact same thing if you grew up in Chicago ❤

43:50 is “Foney Fables” where it will be showing on Discovery Family someday.

I remember Ray Rayner cuddly duddly chelviston the duck rosie all the craft projects the crazy info he always gave us the weather and school closings diver Dan miss Minerva visits to Lincoln Park Zoo so many good times what more could we ask for he gave us love thru a tv show

Foney Fables is missing a good chunk of its runtime. Notice the gigantic splice!

135 jellybeans!😛

Wow does anyone know who the actual winner of that Jelly Bean contest was? I'm sure lots of us would pay good money for that T-shirt If it's still around.

Ray Raynor; Who Bill Bellichick was before a becoming a Football Coach.

God bless Dr. Lester Fisher!!!!!

Oh wow!!, when our chicago bears still had cheerleaders "the honey bears" in the nfl highlights Ray does @ 15:40

@williamroberts1693

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Billings: And, we learned they're all MEN.

If Ronald Reagan saw that jellybean house, the number of jellybeans would be at 0...

I am glad Ray Rayner got the chance to see the Chicago bears win the Superbowl in nineteen eight five when his show was on he always showed the bears highlites on the Ray Rayner show he would have the bears game scores on the chalkboard and he would have go bears on the chalkboard

Thay should put out a catalog dvds

I remember Ray Raynor every morning , eating my cereal or eggs, watching TV 📺 at the kitchen table. Dr.Fischer a smart intelligent man, cuddle dudley, the cartoons, I thought it was awesome they always showed the clock ⏰ times. Treasured memories for sure.

@robrubio7583

Жыл бұрын

And the school closing I looked forward too , I didn't want to say it, cus everyone else did, especially in the blizzard of 1979.

How many jelly beans were there? My guess is like 650.