Vanished Chicagoland Presents: The 60th Anniversary of WGN's Family Classics in Chicago.

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  • @thestrangerwithkandi7150
    @thestrangerwithkandi7150 2 роки тому +17

    The theme music alone is enough to transport me back to Sunday Dinners with my Family.... Wonderful memories

    • @hoborock007
      @hoborock007 Рік тому +4

      Sunday afternoons after church...dinner. cozy living rooms and WGN 9
      With Frazier Thomas

    • @hoborock007
      @hoborock007 Рік тому +2

      Lazy Sunday afternoons.. after church ..after dinner
      Cozy living rooms.. watching Family Classics w/ Frazier Thomas.. A Chicago tradition.. // Back in the WGN days when life was seemed easy compared to now✨️ Chicago Cubs.. Garfield Goose cartoons & Bozo's Grand Prize Game 🪣🪣🪣🪣🪣🪣

    • @brianglade848
      @brianglade848 Рік тому

      A Saturday afternoon, sunny, slight smell of crap in the air ...drinking a cold old style, neighbors dog licking my balls , good times

    • @lynettemiller7912
      @lynettemiller7912 2 місяці тому

      Absolutely! That was, easily, one of the best themes EVER!

  • @merkury06
    @merkury06 Рік тому +7

    Family Classics was the best part of Sunday TV as a kid for me. I am sorry that childhood has changed so much now. Frazier Thomas gave us all so much!

  • @lynettemiller7912
    @lynettemiller7912 2 роки тому +19

    I printed out the list of the movies shown, because I wanted to re-visit them as an adult. I didn't realize how really good some of those classics are! We Chicago kids have a wonderful shared memory. 😊💝

    • @Pokesalad222
      @Pokesalad222 2 місяці тому

      "Tobor the great"

    • @lynettemiller7912
      @lynettemiller7912 2 місяці тому

      @@Pokesalad222 YES! That was one of my faves. I finally got to see that one again -- as a grown-up -- and for a "kid's" movie, it was pretty sophisticated. They were forever tryna slip messages in, weren't they? 😏 You learned something when you didn't even realize you were learning something!

  • @donaldsessions2481
    @donaldsessions2481 Рік тому +4

    It’s 3:30 Sunday was end of the weekend and time for Family Classic

  • @stanleymixonl8989
    @stanleymixonl8989 Рік тому +1

    I remember watching him Friday evening Saturday afternoon and Sunday look forward for the weekend on WGN Channel 9

  • @tomjohnston3601
    @tomjohnston3601 2 роки тому +13

    Loved this series. Grew up watching it in Chicago. Favorite films were Flynn's Robin Hood, Mysterious Island, and Treasure Island, which seemed to show up most every year during the 1970s. Holiday movies like Canterville Ghost, Miracle on 34th Street, and A Christmas Carol were favorites, too. WGN should bring this back.

    • @carloshathcock5333
      @carloshathcock5333 5 місяців тому

      WGN is too woke to show films without DIEversity.

  • @anczerewicz1
    @anczerewicz1 11 місяців тому +2

    It's 2024 and a long time since this show aired. They should have something like this today. I'll be happy to play The Host..: )

  • @tomv4408
    @tomv4408 Рік тому +3

    BTW, the theme music was called "Moviescope"

  • @eugenecherny3871
    @eugenecherny3871 15 днів тому

    Thanks Pete, these memories mean a lot to me!

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp Рік тому +5

    Thank you fir sharing. Our Chicagoland shows were so nice back in the 1960s and 1970s. And I still live in Chicago and has seen the changes of our city grown more.

    • @brianglade848
      @brianglade848 Рік тому

      Is it still filled with my h fir?

    • @LMays-cu2hp
      @LMays-cu2hp Рік тому

      Our Chicago for the unofficial end of the summer. It is hit here on a Wednesday in the first full week in September. And yes, politics of the city are still here as well. Life on the big cities. Furthermore, yes, the channel 9 and PBS channel 11 are still here and very active.

  • @Marcg-b4n
    @Marcg-b4n Рік тому +6

    Grew up in Lagrange and Hinsdale in the 1970s. This was my introduction to great movies. Ray Rayner in the morning, Bozo at lunch, after school was Adam West Batman, Spiderman cartoon, Speed Racer. I had a blue Schwinn Typhoon, a orange Cal 240 skateboard I was king of the World.

    • @merkury06
      @merkury06 Рік тому +1

      Different neighborhood, same town and times. I remember as a teen going back to Ray Rayner in the morning because his morning shows were better than the grownup morning shows. Plus Bugs Bunny and Slippery Rock sports reports.
      But Family Classics was the bedrock of Sunday afternoon tv for me. A whole bunch of classic films and actors my parents still don't believe I am old enough to remember.
      Thank you Frasier Thomas and Ray Raynor. Thanks WGN.

  • @paulbervid1610
    @paulbervid1610 2 роки тому +4

    Fantastic

  • @reikibreak7524
    @reikibreak7524 2 роки тому +9

    Thanks for bringing back some very fond memories

  • @a1wireless1964
    @a1wireless1964 Рік тому +4

    This is definitely a great presentation! God, do I ever miss those days if only we could go back...

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp 2 місяці тому

    Thank you. I miss the shows so much.!!😊

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 Рік тому +5

    Sunday afternoons in Chicago aren't the same without Frazier Thomas & his Family Classics movie show.
    What memories that show evokes. ☺️

  • @jnokap
    @jnokap 2 роки тому +3

    Such wonderful memories! Thanks for sharing!

    • @brianglade848
      @brianglade848 2 роки тому +1

      Anytime Jane....from all of us at the Kastanes IT Department

  • @keyboardwarrior656
    @keyboardwarrior656 2 роки тому +4

    THX for the memories. Watched it during the 60's on Friday Nights. Never missed a movie........at least I don't recall missing any during that time. But when it ended on Friday's, I had begun high school so by then I was otherwise occupied..........we all know the drill, wink-wink!!! lol

  • @rpsibley73
    @rpsibley73 Рік тому +2

    that theme music always takes me back to where I'm sitting in front of the TV

  • @malirabbit6228
    @malirabbit6228 2 роки тому +12

    Back in the day, everyone watched Family Classics! It didn’t matter how many times we had see an episode , it didn’t matter how old we were! When FC came on we had to watch! I remember hanging out with my early 20 something friends, we would drink bier an watch Family Classics!

  • @marcuslaudani7241
    @marcuslaudani7241 Рік тому +3

    Sunday dinner, then quality classic movies 🎬. The great old days.

  • @ronnyvonallmen6892
    @ronnyvonallmen6892 9 місяців тому +3

    The Greatest Childhood…A Wonderful Innocence…Mom and Dad and Sunday Family Dinner’s and we are all Safe and Healthy Watching Family Classic’s…..

  • @rickcrane5089
    @rickcrane5089 2 роки тому +7

    Nice job!
    I didn’t realized the show times jumped around so much. I remember watching the very first Family Classics show. It was “Tom Sawyer”..

  • @brianglade848
    @brianglade848 2 роки тому +3

    my dad said the best thing about this was when Frazier Thomas would talk to the audience, he said he had time to take a dump and continue the show, real classy dad

  • @thatsMYbeef
    @thatsMYbeef 11 місяців тому +3

    When you heard that intro..you knew it was going to be a good movie... thank-you Frazer Thomas

  • @tomv4408
    @tomv4408 Рік тому +7

    I always liked the Garfield Goose painting. At least I think it was Garfield :-)

  • @donaldsessions2481
    @donaldsessions2481 10 місяців тому +1

    It’s 11 am family just got home from church, mom is finishing up dinner pops and the boys are watching the Cubs game we eat and the the whole family watches Family Classic with Frazier Thomas now let’s begin

  • @carloshathcock5333
    @carloshathcock5333 Рік тому

    Thank you for the ride on the Wayback Machine.

  • @lindaosika7648
    @lindaosika7648 2 роки тому +5

    My Dad knew a lot about movies. He would give little insights during the movies. My Dad has passed how I miss him.

  • @a1wireless1964
    @a1wireless1964 Рік тому +1

    Just setting here thinking again, Some of my favorite movies were Young Tom Edison, Thomas Edison The Man, The Alexander Graham Bell Story and who could forget around christmas time A Christmas Carol and also Boys Town i'm sure i'll remember others

  • @Pokesalad222
    @Pokesalad222 2 місяці тому

    He was like another uncle to us!

  • @joedemarchi4020
    @joedemarchi4020 Рік тому +1

    wonderful memories thank you so much for sharing, someone should make all available on dvd series Chicago land boomers would order for sure

  • @savvycha
    @savvycha 2 роки тому +9

    Moby Dick, My Friend Flicka and Tobor are the ones I remember best. The remake of Moby Dick with Patrick Stewart as Ahab, wearing rouge, was impossible for me to fathom. Didn't watch it Ahab will always be Gregory Peck, to me.

    • @brianglade848
      @brianglade848 2 роки тому +1

      Moby Dick....best drum solo ever

  • @glennjoselane1690
    @glennjoselane1690 2 роки тому +2

    Frazier Thomas personally edited the hell out of all those films.

  • @minouche5702
    @minouche5702 Рік тому

    Plz plz post more

  • @resistanceisfutile76
    @resistanceisfutile76 Рік тому

    I couldn't wait until they showed War of the Worlds!

  • @GambitArkana
    @GambitArkana 2 роки тому

    Just listened to peacock alley podcast. You forgot the arcade that just under child world.

  • @Gregory-xm3jm
    @Gregory-xm3jm 4 місяці тому

    The music cuing was the signal for great movies and a host we loved and trusted.
    Thank goodness for this special memory!

  • @patriciaheisler9885
    @patriciaheisler9885 2 роки тому +14

    Calamity Jane, The Time Machine, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Broken Arrow, The Canterbury Ghost, that familiar theme song, and the voice of Frazier Thomas -priceless memories.
    I always had to go to the library after watching these Classics just to read the books they were based upon.
    Thanks for the fabulous memories.

  • @brianglade848
    @brianglade848 Рік тому +1

    My dad said back in the70s, Chicago had a slight shit smell in the air, from all the animal turds in yards, but he said nothing beat relaxing in the yard, drinking a cold Old Style, neighbors dog licking his balls, whike he listened ro Cubs game on the transistor radio....good times

  • @maureencora1
    @maureencora1 Рік тому +2

    I Liked the Original 1960s Theme and Book Titles of F.C. R.I.P . F.T.