Family Classics

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Family Classics was a Chicago television series which began in 1962 when Frazier Thomas decided to add another program to his schedule at WGN-TV. It was titled Family Classics with Frazier Thomas. Thomas not only hosted classic film, but he also personally selected titles and edited them to conform to the framework of good taste for the entire family to see. Scenes with excessive violence or obscenity were often deleted from the broadcast. After Thomas' death in 1985, Roy Leonard took over the program. The series continued until its cancellation in 2000. Family Classics props are in exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications.

[edit] List of titles

Note: This list is likely incomplete. At least one film is missing, for example, there was a Russian folk tale of 2 sisters somewhat similar to Cinderella, which takes place largely in the forest and in deep snow.

• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
• The 39 Steps (1959, Dir. Ralph Thomas, Starring Kenneth More)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
• Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
• The Black Shield of Falworth (Tony Curtis) (based on the book "Men of Iron" available for free)
• Boys Town
• The Canterville Ghost
• Captain Blood
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• Charge of the Light Brigade
• A Christmas Carol (Reginald Owen)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) (Bing Crosby)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Doctor Dolittle
• Edison, the Man
• Flipper
• Flipper's New Adventure
• Gulliver's Travels
• Hans Christian Anderson
• Heidi (Shirley Temple)
• Hoppity Goes To Town
• Houdini (1953)
• John Paul Jones (1959) (Robert Stack)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• The Jungle Book (1942)
• Kidnapped (1938)
• Lassie Come Home (1943)
• The Little Princess (Shirley Temple)
• The Lost World
• The Mark of Zorro (1940) (Tyrone Power)
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Moby Dick
• My Friend Flicka
• Mysterious Island
• Namu, the Killer Whale
• National Velvet
• A Night to Remember
• Northwest Passage
• The Prince and the Pauper''
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• The Seahawks
• Sink the Bismarck
• Smoky (Fess Parker)
• Snowfire
• The Song of Bernadette
• The Time Machine (1960) (Directed George Pal)
• Tobor the Great
• Treasure Island (1934) (Wallace Berry and Jackie Cooper)
• Union Pacific (1939)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney)
• Young Tom Edison (1940) (Mickey Rooney)

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