Re: Boston TV memories?

[Tony Abruzzese <abruzzese@biochem.bumc.bu.edu>]

Jeremy Mixer wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 PWerlin@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 3/14/00 3:24:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, mixer@zoso.net
> > writes:
> >
> > << Where was "Bozo the Clown?" taped? That used to be one of my favorite
> >  shows and I saw it on Channel 56 out of Boston as well.....It was shown in
> >  reruns in the early 80's but I think it was all taped in the early 70's... >>
> >
> > Surely Bozo goes back much much further than that?   I think I was watching
> > Bozo when the lights went out in 1968...
>
> You're probably right....I remember how old the films looked....was that
> syndicated?

1960s -- Bozo in Boston was taped at WHDH Channel 5. Bozo was Frank Avruch.
BTW, it was the Boston show where the Kid who lost one of the games looked at the
consolation prize and said something like, "Cram it, Clown!" So, Maybe it was
broadcast live at one time.

1970s -- Bozo on Ch. 56, if I remember correctly, was syndicated out of Chicago, the
original Bozo's (Larry Harmon) hometown.  It might even have been Harmon, himself.

Tony Abruzzese