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Author Topic: R.I.P/ Larry Harmon Betsie Beadling Expert Film Handler Posts: 178 From: Fairfax, Virginia, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-03-2008 06:11 PM                     Bozo the clown passed away today!!!  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-04-2008 03:16 AM                       OMG... I remember the cartoons, too.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-04-2008 07:59 AM                     I have a laserdisc of some of those Bozo cartoons. They were some of the worst cartoons ever! I loved the disc, though, because at the end, Bozo carefully reminded us to rewind the tape. The best Bozo was out of Chicago WGN. Funny stuff almost every day. We got it here on cable, and I really loved it. Really sorry they got rid of that show. Great local TV.  |  IP: Logged Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-04-2008 08:31 AM                        You mean there was more then ONE Bozo?  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 07-04-2008 09:50 AM                     Larry Harmon licensed the concept to many local t.v. stations. Romper Room was another kiddy show that was promoted in the same way. He also licensed Laurel and Hardy for cartoons. the cartoons where but Laurel and Hardy  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 07-04-2008 10:09 AM                     I heard this news on the radio last night just as I left the theater. I actually felt a slight sense of loss. Who among us hasn't been a "bozo" at some time or other? "We're all bozos on this bus",(Firesign Theater- 1971) said it best. RIP, Larry- - and when when you get to that great TV Land in the sky- - say 'hi' to Captian Kangaroo and Shari Lewis.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-04-2008 11:08 AM                       quote: Richard Fowler Larry Harmon licensed the concept to many local t.v. stations. Romper Room was another kiddy show that was promoted in the same way. I can remember thinking this when I was a kid watching some of these franchised shows... I intuitively sensed they had something bigger behind them. One thing that tipped me off was there was no way a local show could have logos that good or slick (to say nothing of custom animated cartoons). Really, I associated stuff like that when I was very young.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-04-2008 05:38 PM                     I grew up with Bozo The Clown in Chicago, he was played by Bob Bell in those days... I think he played Bozo up till the late 80's. I watched him from the time I was about 4 till I was in the 6th grade. Every noon I went home for lunch from Elementary school and watched the show. I'll never forget the kid doing Bozo Buckets that said "Cram It Clownie" right on the air. Also on the show daily were Oliver The Clown and Bob Trendler's Big Top Band. It took on average three years to get tickets to be on the show which was done live every day. quote: Tim Reed Really, I associated stuff like that when I was very young. To steal a little of Bozo's humor Tim... Apparently you lost it as you aged... So how come there isn't anything big behind the present logos you're associatied with? Mark  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-04-2008 08:35 PM                     quote: Mark Gulbrandsen I'll never forget the kid doing Bozo Buckets that said "Cram It Clownie" right on the air. Mark, did you really see this? I've heard for years that it's an urban legend, but I SOOOOOOOOOOOOO want it to be true. It is the perfect example of everything I love about local childrens' television. Any details would be greatly appreciated! Please, say it is so!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-05-2008 09:42 AM                     I absolutely saw this when I was in the 5th grade. It was "all the buzz" back at grade school after lunch!! Bozo was also shown in the lunch room every day at school on an old 23" B&W Zenith set on top of a large roll around cart. The WGN show was done live and there was no digital video delay in those days... The only delay available to any station back then was to use two-2" quad video tape machines and run a long loop between them put the first in record and the second in play. Being a kids show I think they felt there was no need for any delay or taped and then daleyed broadcasting... That was very evident in the many flubs and goof ups that were broadcast during those shows. I was lucky to also have met all the prople on that show as they all appeared at the "Fun Fair" we had at school every year. Mark  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-05-2008 10:18 AM                     Thanks Mark! I so wish I could have seen that.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-05-2008 06:10 PM                     Hillary, I forgot to mention two things.... Bob Bell who played Bozo countered with "hey kids... Thats a Bozo No-No". Also Ray Raynor who played Oliver the Clown also did the news live for a local am radio station that used to exist in Glen Ellyn, IL. (the town I grew up in) in the late 50's early 60's. My dad was a cop in town back then and knew him from the radio station. Through my dad I first met Ray working at the radio station way before he ever played Oliver on the Bozo Show. For some odd reason I also remember the clunky teletype machine hammering away in front of his desk. Mark  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-05-2008 06:58 PM                  Yawn...  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-05-2008 07:26 PM                     The story I heard did involve him saying "That's a Bozo no-no!" I do enjoy stories about early local television. So sorry to bore you Phil, hopefully someone will have a story about some hot clown-on-clown action! Right now, I keep thinking about John Favreau on Seinfeld, "You're hung up on some clown from the SIXTIES, man!"  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-05-2008 07:43 PM                  Well Hill, the thing that gets to me is ALL them people in soooo many locations/TV stations that claim to "see/hear" all that... True or not?  |  IP: Logged

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