Editing Garfield Goose and Friends (section)

==Aftermath==
After quitting the show early on and against Frazier Thomas and Roy Brown's wishes, Bruce and Claire Newton mounted a live, traveling ''Garfield Goose Telepuppets'' show at neighborhood events for many years after the series had gone off the air, alongside other non-Garfield Goose puppets built and performed by the pair for other shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/hartline/Princess_Mary.html|title=Princess Mary's Castle-features Newton and his puppets|year=1957|publisher=Rich Samuels|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref>  To Thomas and Brown's chagrin, WGN-TV management chose not to pursue the matter.  Although Bruce Newton would later claim his traveling show featured the first Garfield Goose puppet used on WBKB-TV, a 1991 news story described this puppet as a prototype. After Thomas' death, Newton attempted to claim that Garfield Goose was entirely his idea.  The general manager of WBKB-TV at the time the program first went on the air, Sterling "Red" Quinlan, says it was Frazier Thomas who came up with the concept of Garfield Goose.{{sfn|Okuda|Mulqueen|2004|pp=54-55}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/05/28/web-of-mystery-on-garfield-goose/|title=Web of Mystery On Garfield Goose|last=Zorn|first=Eric|date=28 May 1991|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=29 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotelevision.com/Newton.htm|title=Bruce Newton|publisher=Chicago Television|access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxvalleyarts.org/newton.htm|title=Bruce and Claire Newton|publisher=Fox Valley Arts|access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref>

As often happened during the 1950s and early 1960s (such as with ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' or the first [[Super Bowl]] game), ''Garfield Goose and Friends'' aired live for much of its history. WGN did not keep many tapes of its local productions, including ''Garfield Goose And Friends''. Rather, since the reels of [[videotape]] were very costly, they were thriftily recycled. Station management did not foresee how valuable recordings of these broadcasts would have become. Only four complete episodes were preserved: March 14–15, 1974, and September 9–10, 1976 (the latter two being the final two shows aired in the series).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/09/04/wgns-birthday-salute-a-tour-of-chicagos-past/|title=WGN's Birthday Salute A Tour of Chicago's Past|last=Kogan|first=Rick|date=4 September 1988|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=17 February 2011}}</ref>

In December 2005, WGN-TV ran a primetime special called ''[[Bozo, Gar and Ray: WGN TV Classics]]'', which carried the earliest known saved clip of the show, wherein Garfield Goose had "luckily" gotten hold of tickets to the [[1959 World Series]] at Chicago's [[Comiskey Park]]. As it happened at the time of this 2005 broadcast, the White Sox had won the 2005 World Series, which moreover was their first World Series appearance since 1959. Additional color kinescope footage from 1965 came from a vintage WGN-TV sales film which also includes some scenes from ''Bozo's Circus''. The broadcast garnered #1 ratings in the Chicago market and is rerun annually during the holiday season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-holiday-movies-chicago-celebs-20141218-story.html#page=1|title=Well-known Chicagoans name their holiday family classics|last=Liebenson|first=Donald|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=18 December 2014|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref>

In 2005, the [[Museum of Broadcast Communications]] awarded WGN-TV's Studio 1 a plaque to commemorate the forty years of children's television broadcast from the studio.  ''Garfield Goose and Friends'' with a likeness of [[Frazier Thomas]] and Garfield, is on the plaque along with [[Ray Rayner]] for ''Ray Rayner and Friends'' and [[Bob Bell (actor)|Bob Bell]] with ''[[The Bozo Show|Bozo's Circus]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://markdecarlo.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_0720.jpg|title=WGN-TV Studio 1 Plaque Photo|publisher=Mark DeCarlo|access-date=9 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/newssection.php?page=304|title=WGN-TV Studio 1 To Be Honored For Its Historic Role In Children's Television|date=5 December 2005|publisher=Museum of Broadcast Communications|access-date=10 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628201728/http://www.museum.tv/newssection.php?page=304|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref>