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===''Bozo's Circus''=== [[File:Bozos circus garfield goose 1976.JPG|thumb|250px|left|Frazier and Garfield join ''Bozo's Circus'' in 1976. Roy Brown (Cooky the Clown) and Bob Bell (Bozo) are also pictured.]] Frazier Thomas had taken the role of "circus manager" on WGN-TV's longtime hit program ''[[Bozo's Circus]]'' after the retirement of Ringmaster [[Ned Locke]] in 1976. Thomas kept his puppets on the air with a storyline in which Garfield "bought" ''Bozo's Circus''.<ref name=Timeline70>{{cite web|url=http://www.wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1970s.htm|title=Bozo Timeline-1970s|publisher=WGN-TV|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001218093000/http://www.wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1970s.htm|archive-date=18 December 2000|access-date=16 February 2011}}</ref><ref name=Visit>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T8VDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gq8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1109,1738654&dq=frazier+thomas&hl=en|title=Frazier Thomas to Visit Area|date=31 July 1977|publisher=The Daily Sentinel|access-date=10 February 2011}}</ref> The puppets made daily appearances until 1981.<ref name=Frazier/><ref name=Timeline80>{{cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1980s.htm|title=Bozo Timeline-1980s|publisher=WGN-TV|access-date=16 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010709002204/http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1980s.htm|archive-date=9 July 2001}}</ref> Thomas worked on ''Bozo's Circus'', later retitled ''The Bozo Show'', until his death in 1985.<ref name=Thomas/><ref name=Feder/><ref name=Popular>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i_ZGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UXsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5029,743245&dq=frazier+thomas&hl=en|title=Popular TV Children's Show Host Dies|date=4 April 1985|work=Times-Union|access-date=7 February 2011}}</ref> In 1987, the puppets were donated to The [[Museum of Broadcast Communications]] in Chicago.<ref name=Timeline80/> The display initially included Garfield Goose, Romberg Rabbit, Macintosh Mouse, Beauregard Burnside III, Christmas Goose, and Ali Gator (the latter a character who appeared only briefly in a serialized adventure during the show's early years). Ali Gator was later removed from the museum's display.<ref name=Thomas/><ref name=Feder/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/22729756@N00/4764101281/|title=Photo of Garfield Goose character puppets with Ali Gator at Museum of Broadcast Communications|publisher=Flick'r|access-date=13 February 2011}}</ref>
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