WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics - "A Christmas Carol" (Opening, Breaks & Ending, 12/20/1981) 🎄 ❄️ 🎁

[@havechannelwillyoutube]

Thank you. A thousand times, thank you!!! Please do more of these (intros and commercial breaks) of any programs, weekend theater, late movie, etc, etc, but especially Family Classics.

[@nydiacoleman9188]

I'm 66 years old now and I have just turned 10 again. I loved watching Family Classics with Fraser Thomas. The opening song was so beautiful.

[@edwynnkelley136]

I'm 53 myself. This, too, has made me revert back to a 10 year old sitting in the house on an early Sunday evening listening to the opening theme and Frazier.

[@kennethoats2322]

Sundays with Frasier Thomas, and then Monday thru Friday on Bozo's Circus... the best of times. 💙💯

[@markhuber8345]

55 yo here.. memories of watching Frazier on the floor of my grandparents house on the zenith…. Space command.. lol❤

[@eveljackson8087]

68 years old this bring back so many Great memories I’m 10years old again thanks for putting this on KZbin

[@toddwert4979]

O that song just took me back 40 years! What good memories sitting on the floor watching family classics!

[@ken_danerdiest1]

Nice little treat for us to enjoy. 🎄🎁🎅

[@BallymurphyBabe]

Family Classics 🥰🥰 This brings back very cherished memories of me da! I am 57 years old now and me da passed away in 1987. 😢

[@byronbenguche]

Wow watching this brings me back to my childhood watching A Christmas Carol(1938) version every Xmas Eve on Channel 9 thank you so much for posting this

[@jenmck8146]

Aw, this brought back such wonderful memories. Frazier Thomas! ❤And the hulk! 😄

[@bettyhair5007]

Hearing that opening music and listening to Frazier Thomas introduce the movie fills me with warmth. I never missed that show as a kid.

[@naturalbeauttie2015]

I was 5 years old when I first saw this, and I still love to watch it every year. Reginald Owen was hilarious….such good memories. ❤

[@richardszablewski1420]

Thanks for sharing, such Great Memories, it’s like going back in time.

[@DoctorJoanieTool]

I used to adore WGN.

[@carloshathcock5333]

Key words are "used to."

[@frankie7011]

Omg, every Sunday, this was the family time. Dam, I miss those days. Thank you for posting this so many good memories I have

[@RusstheTroubadour]

Thanks Fuzzy. Family Classics was co- created by Frazier and Fred Silverman ( whatever happened to him 🙃) in the early 60s. Zayre would be gone less than a decade later. It sold its department stores to Ames. It would rename itself TJX Companies after it's sub division T J Maxx. The voice of the Cheerios Bee was provided by Arnold Stang ( best known as the voice of Top Cat). Merry Christmas 🎁🎄🧑‍🎄

[@RockulaRandy]

Just turned 59, but it was wonderful to take a trip back to a simpler time. I had to laugh at the Red Lobster Shrimp commercial! What timing! Thanks!

[@roseholmes54]

Thank you so much for posting this video! It is so much fun to watch. Especially at 15:08: K-Tel records Take Your Time Do it Right by the SOS Band and Don’t Stop the Music. I went to Spotify and found these songs. ❤

[@Droodog127]

I was 12 years old, Glad I grew up in the 70's and 80's

[@backachershomestead]

I miss the old time Chicago tv. Grew up way south of Chicago. But if we had good weather and got the antenna turned just right we got a few stations.lol or just channel 3 out of Champaign 😢

[@jeremycathey326]

Thank you for this!! Would watch Frasier on Bozo then Sundays on Family Classics!!

[@frogger74]

The Bear That Slept Through Christmas with Casey Kasem was neat too!

[@scoobameru2458]

Always Miss The Good ‘Ol Days ❤️

[@PRHILL9696]

We all do

[@MaryHartman-ei9pv]

Back in the day by Auntie Mary's, I'm 5 yrs old again...just the music, puts me back at our Sunday dinners! 😢 Great days, great TV! 🙏❤️ #thewonderyears

[@carloshathcock5333]

My favorite version of "A Christmas Carol." Family Classics probably influenced my opinion.

[@lmorter7867]

I used to look forward to the Family Classics show ❤. I don't remember there being so many commercials though.

[@Mark.G475]

1970s living in Lagrange and later Hinsdale, watching classic movies on the very large Zenith console TV.

[@AnthonySmith-te2be]

If you look at this movie now it looks great and as clean as the date it was released but sometimes I miss the audio scratches and the “home made edits” of local tv

[@pamczech5984]

I remember watching this every year you can't have christmas without a Christmas carol how I miss Fraser Thomas I remember on Garfield Goose and freinds the year thry went to England in search of king Arthur it was a vacation he and his family went on but shared it with us rest in peace

[@thadtheman3751]

It was in search of the Holy Grail, and I would love to see those episodes/

[@pamczech5984]

@@thadtheman3751 thank you so much I barely remember it but my mom was reading me a book on king Arthur at the time I must have been around 8 but I don't think I'll ever forget seeing the grave stone of king Arthur

[@Mark-zm4jo]

I miss that man.

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

Very cool seeing such an early version. I am trying, however, to bring to people's attention that I've discovered Charles Dickens wasn't the original author of "A Christmas Carol." He merely watered down and commercialized a story written by Americans Mathew and Abby Whittier. It was originally even more powerful.

[@57buickcentury]

Unintentional funny segue at 22:55: from the shot of the eight candles on the lit Menorah to a candle being lit for Godiva Chocolates!

[@markvigneron3363]

Seasons Greetings from the Hulk.....never thought that I'd hear that..

[@Nan-59]

OHHH, how I miss GOLDBLATTS!😢😮😢😢😟☹️🥺😔

[@Rocco_Gibraltar]

Watching clips of Family Classics and just the intro song alone always takes me back to being a little boy watching Family Classics at his grandparents house before dinner. My question is what's the name of the intro song?

[@mysticakhenaton1701]

42 years ago, TODAY. 12-20-23

[@Musicradio77Network]

This movie that you’re seeing is a 1938 holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” with Lionel Barrymore and it was unrestored. The DVD and Blu-Ray of this movie which was part of the “Warner Archive” series contains this movie which was fully restored and digitally remastered. WNBC-TV (channel 4) in New York City ran this movie back in 1996 where it contains the colorized version of this movie.

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Lionel Barrymore wasn’t in this one

[@wmbrown6]

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV - Didn't Lionel, for years, do radio productions of that? But I agree with you . . . R.I.F. (Reading Is Fundamental).

[@dave11686]

My mom(now 70) thinks Tom Skilling or Dean Richards should be the new Frazier Thomas

[@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In]

I Agree with her.

[@Oldsmobile57]

For sure Dean Richards

[@carloshathcock5333]

You can never replace Frazier Thomas.

[@kathleenellis9057]

16:06 Butane-powered portable curling iron, so you can curl your hair while riding in a taxicab. The 80s really had its own unique fashion priorities..

[@lennomenno]

June Lockhart is one of the Cratchit children and she is still with us. 98 years young ! Merry Christmas everyone !!

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

The kid who played Tiny Tim is still alive as well. 😊

[@betterd9160]

That’s amazing.

[@andyrose5616]

30:21 The Folger’s guy is Bryan Clark, who later got a lot of gigs playing Ronald Reagan.

[@funkyflashman]

Back when WGN was local and good. Before this WGN America crap

[@michaelbruchas6663]

This was really chopped up by Fuzzy Memories. The tv spots seemed more important than the movie plot. I would have loved to have seen this movie in its entirety again…

[@AbbeBuck]

I’m 11 again! (I’m 67)

[@betterd9160]

If you think about it Atari was expensive

[@DanBriggs3000]

Does anyone know the name of the music piece that serves as the intro of the Family Classics?

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

It’s an old piece of production music named “Moviescope” and composed by Dennis Berry.

[@DanBriggs3000]

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Thank you🙂

[@NEPatriot]

I note WGN had the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. There are those who like Alastair Sim's "Scrooge" from 1951. I don't know if 'GN's sister station WPIX aired "A Christmas Carol" back in the day. But, I guarantee you, PIX will air the Yule Log, dating back to 1966. But in 1989, it got cancelled. In 2001 after 9/11, the Log was brought back and has gotten even bigger! The Yule Log will be back from 9:00 AM-1:00 PM (EST) and again from 4:00-5:00 PM (EST). And PIX will air Laurel and Hardy in March of the Wooden Soldiers from 1:00 PM-3:00 PM (EST) I do know that a look at WGN's scheduled for XMAS 2023 will be... Christmas Mass at Mercy Home 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Bozo, Gar & Ray: WGN TV Classics 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Bozo's Circus: The 1960s 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Bozo's Circus: The 1970s 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WGN-TV at 75 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Too bad WPIX did ALMOST NOTHING for its 75th.

[@wmbrown6]

During this period, which Chicago station had the 1951 Alistair Sim "Christmas Carol"?

[@joeypieper6384]

HULK SMASH!

[@OofusTwillip]

Americans are always so quick to claim credit for inventors and creators, and to completely rewrite their biographies, to suit American agendas. Alexander Graham Bell wasn't American. He was Scottish, with a strong Scottish accent. He lived in Canada for many years, and did his preliminary work developing the telephone, at his home in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The house is the Bell Homestead Museum.

[@wmbrown6]

That's not the only misconception. Because of that film, the phone for years was referred to as "Ameches" because of who played the Scottish-born, Canadian-American inventor in the pic - Don Ameche. Fun fact: He was the second president of the National Geographic Society from 1898 to 1903. One of his daughters would go on to marry Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor - another longtime fixture of "the Geographic," serving as editor from 1899 to 1954 and as president from 1920 to 1954; one of the offspring from that marriage, Melville Bell Grosvenor, was president and editor from 1957 to 1967.

[@ivyrivera8081]

First

[@mikegallaher3277]

We need full episodes of family classics

[@JetblackThemeTime]

Man that dude they got to play The Hulk must have been freezing.