Show Details:
Start date: June 1960
End date: Dec 2000
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): WGN Chicago (US)
Run time: 30/60/90/120 min
Episodes: ca. 8200 eps
Genre(s): Children, Comedy
End date: Dec 2000
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): WGN Chicago (US)
Run time: 30/60/90/120 min
Episodes: ca. 8200 eps
Genre(s): Children, Comedy
Credits:
- Bob Bell as Bozo [ 1961-1984 ]
- Joey D'Auria as Bozo [ 1984-2000 ]
- Roy Brown as Cooky/voice of Cuddley Dudley [ 1968-1994 ]
- Ned Locke as Ringmaster Ned [ 1961-1976 ]
- Frazier Thomas as Himself [ 1976-1985 ]
- Marshall Brodien as Wizzo [ -1994 ]
- Ray Rayner as Oliver O. Oliver [ 1961-1971 ]
- Don Sandburg as Sandy [ 1961-? ]
- Pat Hurley as himself
- Michael Immel as Spiffy [ 1991-1994 ]
- Michele Gregory as Tunia [ 1994-2000 ]
- Cathy Schenkelberg as Pepper [ 1994-1996 ]
- Robin Erich as Rusty [ 1994-2000 ]
- Andy Mitran as Professor Andy [ 1987-2000 ]
Episode list & details:
Tape Original
Links Date Air Date
____________ ___________ ___________ ___________________________________________
Bozo's Circus live, daily 12:00-12:30pm
Jun 20 60 first episode (at Tribune Tower)
Jan 6 61 last episode
Bozo's Circus live, daily 12:00-1:00pm
Sep 11 61 first hour-long episode (also first episode at 2501 Bradley Place)
Oct 61 Don Sandburg's first episode as Sandy the Tramp
Nov 6 61 Ray Rayner first episode
65 first episode of Big Top (Wednesdays, 6:30pm)
Sep 65 1000th episode
Sep 16 66 250,000 audience member
[MBC] Jan 4 67 last episode of Big Top
[MBC] Mar 27 68
Oct? 68 Roy Brown's first episode
Mar 1 71 Ray Rayner's last episode
[MBC] Jul 9 76 Jul 23 76 Ned Locke's last episode
Jul 27 76 Frazier Thomas's first episode
Sep 12 77 16th anniversary episode (with Ray Rayner, Ned Locke)
[MBC] Nov 2 77
[MBC] Sep 11 78 17th anniversary episode (with Phil Donahue, Michael Bilandic)
[MBC] Aug 3 79 at ChicagoFest
[MCCTV] Oct 25 79
Dec 24 79 Bozo's Super Colossal Christmas Circus
Aug 8 80 last episode at noon
The Bozo Show taped, daily 7:00-8:30am
Aug 11 80 first episode at 8:00
[MCCTV] Jun 12 81
[MCCTV] Sep 22 81
[MCCTV] May 5 83
[MCCTV] Dec 23 83
Feb 6 84 Feb 84 Ray Rayner guest appearance
[MCCTV][MBC] Apr 4 84 Apr 17 84 Bob Bell's last episode
Sep 7 84 last Bob Bell rerun
Sep 5 84 Sep 10 84 Joey D'Auria's first episode
[MBC] 87
Sep 87 first 60 min. episode
90 first 7:30am episode
[MBC] Dec 14 91 Christmas episode
Apr 7 94 May 19 94
Apr 15 94 Sep 2 94 last episode
The Bozo Super Sunday Show taped Wednesdays?, broadcast Sundays 8:00-10:00am
[MBC] Sep 11 94 first episode
The Bozo Super Sunday Show taped Wednesdays?, broadcast Sundays 8:00-9:00am
95
Sep 8 96 35th anniversary episode
[MBC] Dec 3 96 Take a Vacation with Bozo (at Disney World)
Jan 19 97 both kids win the Grand Prize Game
Apr 20 97 preempted
[MBC] Oct 25 00 Dec 31 00 last new episode, Roy Brown guest appearance
Aug 26 01 last rerun
separate specials
Dec 8 or 9 79 Dec 24 79 Bozo's Super Colossal Christmas Eve Circus Show (repeated Dec 31)
[MBC] Apr 8 84 Bozo: The Man Behind the Makeup
[MBC] Sep 7 86 25th Anniversary Special
[MBC] Sep 8 91 30th Anniversary Special (65 min.)
Dec 24 92 A Bozo Christmas
[MBC] Apr 98 WGN-TV: 50 Years as Chicago's Very Own
[MBC] Jun 12 01 Jul 14 01 Bozo: 40 Years of Fun (90 min.)
[MBC] Dec 24 05 Bozo, Gar & Ray (repeated annually)
Dec 25 12 "The Lost Tape"
Feb 18 19 "The 1960s" (compilation of Jan 4 67 and Mar 27 68)
NOTES
Links marked [MCCTV] link to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television. This museum provides clips of classic Chicago broadcasts and commercials, all viewable online.
Links marked [MBC] link to episodes held by The Museum of Broadcast Communications. The museum holds 2 additional episodes (07140-4 and 06086-1) with no airdates listed, and several compilation reels. You may be able to view these clips by visiting the museum in person. Check their website for more information. To view the catalog records online you must be registered.
If you have tapes of Bozo that you would like to share, please email me at the link below.
Links marked [MCCTV] link to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television. This museum provides clips of classic Chicago broadcasts and commercials, all viewable online.
Links marked [MBC] link to episodes held by The Museum of Broadcast Communications. The museum holds 2 additional episodes (07140-4 and 06086-1) with no airdates listed, and several compilation reels. You may be able to view these clips by visiting the museum in person. Check their website for more information. To view the catalog records online you must be registered.
If you have tapes of Bozo that you would like to share, please email me at the link below.