WGN Channel 9 - Ray Rayner and His Friends (5/16/1980)

Here's an almost complete edition of The Ray Rayner Show on WGN Channel 9, with cartoons scoped and some commercials not included. Includes:

Animated "Last Farewell" ID with promo for Padres vs. Cubs game at 7:00pm (voiceover by Bob Bell)

Opening with 1941-45 "Merrie Melodies" theme and stills with Rayner and from various Warner Bros. cartoons

Ray opens show with day check and promise of weather from Tom Skilling or Roger Triemstra before doing his own weather forecast and sports update with baseball score (Sox beat Brewers 6-4), and previewing what's up for the day before introducing a Batman short (presumably from the late 1960's Filmation cartoon series) at 7:02am (cartoon is scoped)

7:08am, "We'll Be Right Back After These Messages" bumper

Record offer for "Mickey Mouse Disco" and "Disney Children's Favorites" - (C) 1979 Walt Disney Productions

"Now We Return To Ye Olde Programme..." bumper at 7:10am as Ray speaks on the phone with Roger Triemstra who was in Hawaii, leading to weather report, after which Ray dons his Sox cap to describe their win over the Brewers in Milwaukee (with pertinent video highlights); afterwards he does an "On This Day" segment where in 1879 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "lost his poetic license"

"We'll Be Right Back..." bumper at 7:15am, with Ray promising Bugs Bunny

"Now We Return..." bumper, with opening and closing of scoped "Blue Ribbon" reissue of 1949 Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon with Bugs Bunny

7:23am, with Ray repeating weather outlook and sports, then per a request from assistant director Barbara Shikami, sings "On The Street Where You Live" from "My Fair Lady"; shots of the mural of cartoon stars and of Ms. Shikami are shown during this segment, and he has some trouble getting through it, then remembers a performance of the song when the musical was playing at the Shubert in 1959

7:27am, with Ray promising Flash Gordon, followed by "We'll Be Right Back..." bumper

Promo for "Bozo's Circus," weekdays at noon (same word, forwards and backwards!)

"We'll Be Right Back..." bumper, followed by the King Features presentation of the Flash Gordon serial - "Chapter 8: Tournament of Death" from 1936, starring Buster Crabbe as the title character [mostly edited out to prevent YouTube blocking]

7:36am timecheck, with weather forecast and sports score, followed by Ray reading upcoming events: at Huff Elementary School in Elgin: a 25th anniversary supper for 5:30pm to 8:00pm; at Canton Junior High School Gym, a circus on the 17th at 1:00pm presented by the Glenwood School PTG; an Evangelical Lutheran School parent-teacher league annual fun fair on the 17th; and at Wasco around St. Charles, the Wasco School Fun Fair; the Chicago National College of Naprapathy holding a Health Symposium on the 17th and 18th at 3330 N. Milwaukee Ave.; and at Melrose Park Baptist Church, a 63rd anniversary all day Sunday.

7:38am, "We'll Be Right Back..." bumper

"Now We Return..." bumper, with opening titles and closing of (scoped) Speedy Gonzales "Looney Tunes" cartoon "Mexicali Shmoes" [1959]

7:46am, with Ray saying Happy Birthday if Today Is your Birthday and weather report, before promising another cartoon and "We'll Be Right Back..." bumper

Promo for and clips from Martin & Lewis film "The Stooge" [1951] (voiceover by Bob Bell)
Commercial: McDonald's "Magic Seeds" - with promo for May 17th opening of 6900 N. Western Ave. restaurant (voiceover by Bob Bell)

"Now We Return..." bumper, 7:48am, and opening and closing "Looney Tunes" titles an unknown 1960 cartoon

7:54am, and Ray repeats weather before "We'll Be Right Back..." bumper

"Now We Return..." bumper, 7:56am, and Ray reads excerpts from 1980 edition of "Guinness Book of World Records" pertaining to John Cage's 4′33″ - before the "Merrie Melodies" theme prompts him to say goodbye

Ray Rayner and His Friends
Music Director: Don Orlando
Cuddley Duddley Characterizations by Roy Brown
Assistant Director - Barbara Shikami
Executive Producer - Ray Rayner
Directed by Bill Hartmann
(C) 1980 WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, May 16th 1980 during the 7:00am to 8:00am timeframe.

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