Here's another complete broadcast of an edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9 from its heyday when it ran Live every weekday at 12 Noon, Bob Bell was Bozo, Roy Brown was Cooky, Frazier Thomas was the ringmaster, Garfield Goose (and Friends) was seen at the open, Ken Benge is the juggler, and the Bozo Big Top Band provided the accompaniment.

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Includes:

Frazier beginning the festivities by introducing the cast, greeting the audience and leading into Snooper & Blabber cartoon, "Prince of a Fella' " [1960] (only opening titles and closing sequence shown; rest of cartoon edited out to avoid copyright blockage)

Cooky attempts to play the tuba as Bozo advises him, then finds an old newspaper inside horn and reads an article about a man who fell 100 feet from a well (and lived to tell about it) from behind a wall as Bozo works with tuba to remove who he thinks is inside

Commercials for:
Forever Yours candy bar (a Milky Way knockoff)
Keds New K Shoes

Grand Prize Game, to be played by Jim, 7, and Elizabeth, 6 ($16 in Bucket #6), with athome players Kathleen Verba, 8, of Berwyn (for Elizabeth) and Tommy Armen (sp?), 2, of Kokomo, IN (for Jim) (Frazier notes that starting next Monday (6/19/78) Bucket #6 will include a special prize a giant stuffed Bear Baloo from The Jungle Book)

Commercials for:
Speed Burners (each sold separately) from Mego
Ronald and the McDonaldland gang to appear June 17th at 10am and 2pm at McDonald's, Route 59 at Fox Valley Center in Aurora (voiceover by Merri Dee)

Ken Benge performing juggling trick with tennis racquets (to tune of "Java"), a magic trick with rope and handkerchief, working with juggling rings (to tune of "Spanish Flea") and with juggling clubs while blindfolded twice (to tune of "The Impossible Dream")

Commercials for:
Post Super Sugar Crisp (with Sugar Bear as latenight trucker, voice of Gerry Matthews)
Farrah's Glamour Center from Mego
Snickers bars
ZipnFlip from Empire Toys

Skit involving Bozo, Cooky and Frazier taking turns on phone

Commercials for:
Post Super Sugar Crisp (repeat)
Micronaut Collection from Mego (assembly required on Biotron and Hydro Copter, also features Space Glider batteries not included)

"Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown" cartoon involving Wacky Professor's new invention a hope chest

Another game involving David, Billy, Chris, Stephen, Gina and Debbie, out to find marbles in a haystack (or is that a giant pile of something else?) to put in malt glasses, the one with the most marbles in a glass getting first prize

Commercials for:
Hostess Cakes
Speed Burners (repeat)

Bozo and Cooky in some "fair and square contest" shenanigans involving a chalk board as Cooky vies to wield the baton and lead the Grand March at last

Commercial: Cocoa Puffs (Sonny hides inside piano to avoid going cuckoo) with promo for sea searcher inside specially marked boxes

PSA for Big Brothers (voiceover by Ken Nordine)

Frazier ends another edition and signals for Bozo to lead Grand March as end credits run:

Bozo's Circus
(C) 1978, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
Starring Bob Bell, Roy Brown, Frazier Thomas
The prizes awarded on this show were furnished in consideration for the promotional value of the prizes.
Musical Director Tom Fitzsimmons
Asst. Director George Waschbusch
Producer Allen Hall
Directed by Don Strukel
Bozo's Circus
Bozo the Clown (C) Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation
Licensed & Distributed by Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation

First 10 seconds of MidDay Report with Merri Dee (reporting on President Carter visit to Panama at the point recording ends)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, June 15th 1978 within the 12:00pm to 1:00pm timeframe.

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This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.

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