Bozo's Big Top -Part 1 March 1975 

All those belly dancers in front of those boys, that was a special treat for them, they'll never forget it!

That's Bozo playing the banjo on the theme song. When I was a young guy, (13 or so) Bozo had my friend and I play guitar and banjo on his show for the kids to show them that kids could be musicians. Afterward, he invited my dad and I backstage to have milk and cookies and play banjos. It was surreal. What a nice guy. Mr. Houdini was a great guy too. He picked my pocket, stole my belt, my watch and my wallet. He called me back to return everything to me. I was floored. Sir Grave's coffin was backstage as well but I was surprised how short of a guy he was. Everyone at the studio was super nice.

I was one of the girls belly dancing !

I saw Bozo back around this time. I was 7. Thanks bozo for the dancing girls! Man we grew up fast back then lol.

R.I.P. Mr. Art Cervi who died Monday at the age of 86

I remember seeing this show on a local tv station in Southern,Cal. during my first trip to Los Angels in the 1970's.

This was our Bozo from the Detroit area

I watched reruns of this version on WLVI-TV Ch. 56 back in the 1980s.

For those of you who remember these old Bozo shows back in the day, if I recall, many of these shows were still on the air well into the 80s. If you were a kid back then and you had cable with WGN on the system, you also got the Bozo Show from Chicago. Did it strange and kind of surreal having two Bozos with completely different personalities, completely different looks and two shows with different formats? You ever get into a conversation with one of your friends and you talk about what happened on "Bozo" that day? Did your friend ever ask which one or say, "That's not what happened " because you two watched completely different shows?

I think this was from the Windsor, ON/Detroit, MI version of Bozo since they had Mr. Whoodini, Bozo's musician sidekick. I wish they had archives of all the shows ( I was on in '73) but apparently they just recorded over the old tapes as needed....

HOLY JUST KEEP LAUGHING BAT MAN BOZO ALWAYS HAS&ALWAYS WILL. DARRINJONES

That was great dancing on the show 🙂💗

We had local philly shows chief halftown and captain Noah. Chief halftown was at my cousin's bowling party. I wasnt there, but he was at the alley doing a meet and greet. He had a thing with bowling i think he may have held a title even. Capt. Noah was an old man in a red captain/conductor /bellhop amalgamation of a suit and sorta sounded like wc fields. Oh and al albert with the teeny boppers . Hid show was a talent show of teens and kids. Teenyboppers were 4-6 year olds dressed like they were going for easter service or a fancy outing...telling jokes.

As a small child, I loved Bozo. RIP, sir.

I watched this version on KBHK San Francisco.

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Thanks for posting this!

The song the belly dancers are dancing to was made famous by Dick Dale as “Misirlou” It was first heard in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 1920’s.

I don't think I watched this when I was a kid. Probably wasn't allowed to... it seems weird.

Nice job Juan!! 😇

Cole. the hug for boys and girls.

This is making me way uncomfortable. Dan Schneider vibes.😂

R I H Art Cervi Detroit’s Bozo The Clown

Creepy comment at 4:43...

Is that Sam Seder bottom right in the red shirt and glasses?

Wow a lot of creep factor in this episode! Underage harem dancers creepy banana feeding!

Wow, is that the whole audience? Definitely wouldn't qualify as a "cast of thousands " as the audience in Chicago was known to be, even though you were only able to fit about 200 people on those bleachers. I guess they were referring to the audiences watching on television as well as though seeing it live.

That's not for the guys, that's for the girls... When Life was sane...

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No wonder some kids are creeped out by clowns.

The man from the algebra feeding a creepy clown with a banana in front of a bunch of kids. That was weird and creepy as fuck.

The intro is funny it describes the POTUS 45

I keep waiting for Bozo to morph into Pennywise

creep