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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 ...
WBBM-TV/WBKB/WGN-TV: Garfield Goose and Friends (Frazier Thomas) WLS-TV: Gigglesnort Hotel (with Bill Jackson) WLS-TV/WBKB: Here's Geraldine (with Jim Stewart) WCIU-TV: Hey Colonel Frank (circa 1970, 4pm weekdays, between stock market and foreign language programming)
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 and Bozo's Circus. [37] [38] Rayner's coveralls, complete with notes, is part of the museum's collection. [39] [40] Cuddly Dudley and his doghouse from The Bozo Show are also part of the museum ...
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To pick up the slack, WGN-TV floor manager Richard Shiloh Lubbers appeared as "Monty Melvin," named after a schoolmate of Sandburg's, while WGN Garfield Goose and Friends and Ray Rayner and His Friends puppeteer Roy Brown created a new character, "Cooky the Cook." [4] [13] Sandburg left the show in January 1969 and Bell returned in March ...