Editing Garfield Goose and Friends (section)

{{short description|Chicago children's television show (1952-1976)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox television
| image                = Garfield Goose postcard 2.JPG
| alt                  = Garfield Goose and Friends cast
| caption              = Romberg Rabbit, Beauregard Burnside III, Garfield Goose, Mackintosh Mouse, Frazier Thomas and Chris Goose on ''Garfield Goose and Friends''.
| alt_name             = Garfield Goose and Friend
| genre                = Children's program
| creator              = [[Frazier Thomas]]
| writer               = Frazier Thomas
| producer             = Frazier Thomas
| director             = Ron Weiner<ref>{{cite web|url=http://triblocal.com/highland-park-highwood/community/stories/2009/12/get-to-know-three-time-emmy-winner-ron-weiner/|title=Get to know…three-time Emmy winner Ron Weiner|last=Chavis|first=Blair|date=4 December 2009|publisher=Trib Local-Highland Park-Highwood|access-date=26 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606182354/http://triblocal.com/highland-park-highwood/community/stories/2009/12/get-to-know-three-time-emmy-winner-ron-weiner/|archive-date=6 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| presenter            =
| starring             = [[Frazier Thomas]]<br/>[[Roy Brown (clown)|Roy Brown]]
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| num_seasons          = 24 (2 on WBKB/WBBM, 1 on WBKB (now WLS), 21 on WGN)
| num_episodes         = 
| list_episodes        = 
| theme_music_composer = [[Ethel Smith (organist)|Ethel Smith]]
| opentheme            = "Monkey on a String" <br/>Trumpets heard are from "Cinderella" and were added through editing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvparty.com/lostgarfield.html|title=Garfield Goose and Friends|publisher=TV Party|access-date=14 February 2011}}</ref>
| endtheme             = "Monkey on a String" <ref name=TV/>
| runtime              = 
| channel              = [[WBBM-TV|WBKB-TV/WBBM-TV]] (1952–1954)<br/>
[[WLS-TV|WBKB-TV (now WLS-TV)]] (1954–1955)<br/>
[[WGN-TV]] (1955–1976)
| first_aired          = {{start date|1952|9|29}}
| last_aired           = {{end date|1976|10|1}}
| related              =  
}}

'''''Garfield Goose and Friends''''' is a [[children's television]] show produced by [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago, [[Illinois]], United States, from 1955 to 1976. The show was known as ''Garfield Goose and Friend'' from 1952 to 1955 when it aired on [[WLS-TV|WBKB]] and [[WBBM-TV]]. It was the longest running puppet show on television until ''[[Sesame Street]]'' broke that record.<ref name=Garfield/> The host of the show was [[Frazier Thomas]], who did all of the talking. The show centered on a clacking goose [[puppet]] named Garfield Goose, who considered himself "King of the United States." There were many other puppet characters such as Romberg Rabbit, Macintosh Mouse, Chris Goose (Garfield's nephew who was born on Christmas, hence "Christmas Goose") and a sleepy bloodhound called Beauregard Burnside III (whose name happened to be a mix of two [[American Civil War]] generals). The show used a "Little Theater Screen", upon which the camera would zoom before cartoons such as [[Total Television]], ''[[The Funny Company]]'', ''[[Clutch Cargo]]'', ''[[The Pink Panther]]'', [[Jay Ward]], [[Hanna-Barbera]], ''[[Space Angel]]'' and ''[[The Mighty Hercules]]'' were broadcast.<ref name=Thomas/>{{sfn|Okuda|Mulqueen|2004|p=58, 84}}