File:WGN Channel 9 - The Bozo Show - "The Hobgoblin March!" + Bonus (1983) 🎃

Here's excerpts of a Halloween edition of The Bozo Show on WGN Channel 9, starting off with yet another Hobgoblin March where children dress up as various characters, creepies and crawlies and parade their outfits in front of the assembled audience. A bonus will pop up in the course of this video.

(Previous Hobgoblin Marches already on here are from 1979 - https://youtu.be/uo4Jgl_c_fI - and 1982 - https://youtu.be/3DuNdo_ph7o)

This recording starts a couple minutes late, with the Hobgoblin March already started, including children dressed as (more or less in order, and by no means a complete list) Boba Fett, cowgirl, a leopard, Batman, a pirate, a sailor, a bee (?), Hamburglar, a witch, a cheerleader, a clown (not Bozo), another witch accompanying another kid, a kid with a Yars Revenge costume from Atari, an unknown insect, a Native American maiden, a panda bear, Wonder Woman, Bo Peep, Rooster Cogburn, two crayons, yet another witch with other trick-or-treaters, Snow White, yet another bee, Count Dracula, a kid dressed up in Bozo-like garb (but not made up like him), still another witch, a girl wearing a Tweety T-shirt, Princess Leia (?), another cheerleader (with stars and stripes), a rabbit, Raggedy Ann, a Fairy Godmother, a creature of the dark, a nurse, another pirate, a potential Bozo assistant, a wizard, a kid with glasses resembling what Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation would wear, a Marine, a female clown wannabe, the Devil, another Dracula, two little cowboys, a football player, another leopard, yet another Dracula, more animals, another football player, a baseball player, a Fred Astaire wannabe (complete with top hat), another pirate with a stuffed parrot, what looks like Pippi Longstocking, Zorro (?) - oh, and for the finish, a Bozo (several of the kids are accompanied by a parent).

Frazier Thomas then introduces the next Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Broom-Stick Bunny" [1956] (edited out after first few seconds to prevent copyright blockage], followed by ending 1968 Warner Bros.-Seven Arts cartoon logo with late 1930's Looney Tunes ending theme

Weather forecast (voiceover by Bob Bell as Bozo)

Next is a bean bag 'catch' game hosted by Pat Hurley, with Mary, Kim, Kevin, (?), Don, Amy, Kenneth, Guy (?), Dana (?), (?), Tina and (?), with Cooky announcing prize at end

Commercials for:

1983 Stomper trucks - from Schaper

Memory card matching game - from Milton Bradley (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/pHaayYBJQ-o)

My Little Pony Show Stable - from Hasbro

Frazier welcomes Bruce Mitchell of Museum of Science & Industry who demonstrates an "eggs-periment," followed by a 1960's Bozo cartoon

Weather forecast (voiceover by Bob Bell as Bozo) (another weather forecast and commercial break from earlier in the show is posted separately here: https://youtu.be/vqxSTctDd4E)

Commercials for:

Bigfoot 4x4x4 monster truck - from Playskool (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/H_29wWYi5Co)

Barbie Loves McDonald's playset - from Mattel (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/hRLuK3AvZZ4)

Promo for One Day at a Time for weekdays at 5pm (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/Rn9QbEb_XYo)

Lite-Brite - new ad (different from one famous in 1970's - Bozo not mentioned by name) - from Hasbro

Stuff Yer Face - from Milton Bradley (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/-0fD8mSEcPY)

Kellogg's Strawberry Krispies (with kid in strawberry suit as part of school play - featuring the "Wubby" kid from the film Mr. Mom - actor Taliesin Jaffe, here playing "Dennis")

"And Now, Back to The Bozo Show" bumper (voiceover by Merri Dee), followed by first few seconds of next segment before we fade out

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, October 31st 1983 during the 7:00am to 8:30am timeframe.

This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dennis Polkow Collection.

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