Bozo is back on the air in Chicago for a two-hour special, Bozo’s Circus: The 1960s, Sunday night on WGN. It’s been 50 years since it originally aired. Bozo’s Circus: The 1960s, will air unedited segments made up of sketches, guest circus acts and the Grand Prize Game, featuring the original cast.
For the first time since it originally aired 50 years ago, Bozo is back on the air.
WGN will broadcast a two-hour special Bozo’s Circus: The 1960s, Sunday night at 7 CT. WGN is Tribune’s Chicago independent.
Surviving full-length segments from the first decade of WGN’s legendary Bozo’s Circus have recently been digitally remastered.
WGN’s Bozo show, recognized as the most popular and successful locally-produced kids’ show in the history of television, aired from 1960 to 2001 with viewers waiting as long as 10 years to be part of the show’s 200-plus member studio audience.
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Viewers remember the show with fondness.
Doug Dobson: Lunchtime in the ’60s … lived close enough to the school we’d just walk home to eat, watch Bozo.
Rick Hofeld: WGN should consider bringing this back. I think a new generation of kids would ❤️ Bozo’s Circus! 🤡
NOTE: I grew up in Philadelphia, and when I was a kid, Chief Halftown and Sally Starr, among others, were local kid’s shows that we watched.
Chief Halftown was a full-blooded Native American and his signature greeting was “ees da sa sussaway,” which means, Let’s get started.
Sally Starr was a blonde cowgirl with flashy cowgirl clothing. Her opening line was, “Hope you feel as good as you look, ’cause you sure look good to your gal Sal.”
Too bad WGN America is not showing it.