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William Frazier Thomas (June 13, 1918 – April 3, 1985) was a Chicago television personality. Although Thomas wrote nine children's books, he was best known for creating, hosting, writing and producing the long-running children's television program Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN-TV.
Garfield Goose and Friends is a children's television show produced by WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1955 to 1976. The show was known as Garfield Goose and Friend from 1952 to 1955 when it aired on WBKB and WBBM-TV. It was the longest running puppet show on television until Sesame Street broke that record. [4]
Family Classics is a Chicago television series which began in 1962 when Frazier Thomas was added to another program at WGN-TV.Thomas not only hosted classic films, but also selected the titles and personally edited them to remove those scenes which he thought were not fit for family viewing. [3]
Thus, WGN decided to feature the best of existing recordings of its Bozo programs Bozo's Circus (1961–1980), Big Top (1965–1967), The Bozo Show (1980–1994) and The Bozo Super Sunday Show (1994–2001); as well as the long-running children's programs Garfield Goose and Friends, and Ray Rayner and His Friends, both of which are well known ...
ChalkZone (“Rudy’s Got the Chalk”) - Guy Moon, Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker; The Champions – Tony Hatch; Chance in a Million ("Taking a Chance on Love") – Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter and John La Touche, performed by The Ladybirds; Charles in Charge – David Kurtz, Michael Jacobs, and Al Burton; performed by Shandi Sinnamon
The show was originally called Garfield Goose and Friend, as it started out with just Thomas and his goose puppet. Because the cast of characters had grown, Thomas decided to change the name of his program to Garfield Goose and Friends with the addition of Romberg Rabbit. Brown's next creation for the program was a sleepy bloodhound called ...
With all due respect to Rudolph, we’ve got a new most famous reindeer of all. Big Brother‘s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Reindeer Games spinoff came to an end on Thursday night, with Xavier ...
Ray Rayner and Friends with a likeness of Rayner and Chelveston, is on the plaque along with Frazier Thomas and Garfield Goose and Friends and Bob Bell as Bozo the Clown for Bozo's Circus. [23] [24] In 2008, he was inducted into the Chicago chapter of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences' Silver Circle. [5]