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Sciences' Governors' Award for his television work posthumously in 1985. The Thomas family donated Garfield and the rest of the puppets, along with Thomas' uniform, to the Museum of Broadcast Communications. The 2500 block of West Bradley Place in Chicago in front of WGN-TV's studios is honorarily named "Frazier Thomas Place" in his memory. In 2005, the
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Garfield Goose from attending bazaars as a boy. The local Catholic nuns used a sock puppet made into the form of a goose to ask children for charity donations. The children would "feed" the goose their pennies. He came up with the idea to use a goose puppet on his
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television show for giving prizes to children. The name of the goose was taken from the telephone number of the television station; at the time, all telephone exchanges had names as well as numbers. The name of the telephone exchange for the television station was
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from his pocket and begin to play. His goose friend would respond to the music by either retreating to another part of his castle or hitting Thomas on the head with his beak. He also visited local schools to perform magic shows. The
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became so successful, it was beating many of the network programs in the
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232:(June 13, 1918 – April 3, 1985) was a Chicago television personality. Although Thomas wrote nine children's books, he was best known for creating, hosting, writing and producing the long-running children's television program
517:, teaching the words and their meaning to his television audience. Children and their parents were invited to write for a copy of the words; it took Thomas weeks to mail all the replies. On occasion, Thomas would take his
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Before Oprah: Ruth Lyons, the Woman Who Invented Talk TV
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1758:Okuda, Ted; Mulqueen, Jack (2004).
1736:. University Press of Mississippi.
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916:Thomas, Frazier (16 October 1937).
2108:Bozo, Gar and Ray: WGN TV Classics
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685:. Billboard. 21 February 1948
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845:The Owosso Argus-Herald
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1806:Rendezvous with Ramona
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