Family Classics

1962 American TV series or program

Family Classics

The set of Family Classics and host Frazier Thomas.

Genre| Classic Films
Created by| Fred Silverman
Frazier Thomas
Presented by| Frazier Thomas
Roy Leonard
Dean Richards
Steve Sanders
Theme music composer| Dennis Berry
Opening theme| "Moviescope"
Ending theme| "Moviescope"
Country of origin| United States
Original language| English
No. of seasons| 40
No. of episodes| 1001[2]
Original release
Network| WGN-TV
Release| September 14, 1962 (1962-09-14)[1] –
December 25, 2000 (2000-12-25)[1]
Release| December 8, 2017 (2017-12-08) –
January 5, 2020 (2020-1-5)

Family Classics is a Chicago television series which began in 1962 when Frazier Thomas was added to another program at WGN-TV. Thomas not only hosted classic films, but also selected the titles and personally edited them to remove those scenes which he thought were not fit for family viewing.[3] After Thomas' death in 1985, Roy Leonard took over the program.[4] The series continued sporadically until its initial cancellation in 2000.[4][5]

On November 10, 2017, WGN announced that Family Classics would be returning after a 17-year hiatus with a presentation of the 1951 version of Scrooge to air on Friday, December 8, 2017, and announced that its longtime entertainment reporter, Dean Richards, would be the new host.[6] Since then, it would continue to air each holiday season.

## History

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In 1962, Fred Silverman, then a WGN-TV executive, conceived the idea of the show by scheduling classic family films at a prime time Friday night position rather than a late show slot where children wouldn't see them. The show was a huge ratings success and inspired the networks to schedule recently released films in prime time. When the networks began showing first-run films in prime time, the show was rescheduled to Sunday afternoons.[3][7]

For the series' December 2019 airing of the 1942 film Holiday Inn, and New Year's Eve airings of the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business & Animal Crackers, WGN veteran anchor, Steve Sanders, filled in as host as current host Dean Richards was recovering from a fractured wrist and facial abrasions before the episode's taping.[8]

## The set

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The theme music was a piece of library music recorded on the Berry/Conroy label, entitled Moviescope, and was written by Dennis Berry. The camera would slowly zoom in on the set designed by Thomas that resembled a study with a painting on the wall of Garfield Goose done by Roy Brown, a model sailing ship sitting on top of a shelf of books with the titles of the films to be shown that were repainted encyclopedias and dictionaries also done by Anthony M Sulla as credited in the final credits, that Frazier would introduce.[4][9][10][11]

## List of titles

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* The Absent-Minded Professor (1961 film) (Fred MacMurray)
* The Adventures of Frontier Fremont (1976 film) (Dan Haggerty)
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939 film) (Mickey Rooney)
* The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954 film) (Dan O'Herlihy)
* The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938 film) (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains)
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)
* Air Bud (1997 film)
* Aladdin (1992 animated film) (Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Gilbert Gottfried)
* Aladdin's Magic Lamp (1966 film)
* Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944 film)
* All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989 animated film) (Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise)
* An American Tail (1986 animated film) (Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise)
* An Elephant Called Slowly (1969 film)
* Angels in the Outfield (1951 film) (Janet Leigh)
* The Angry Birds Movie (2016 animated film)
* Animal Crackers (1930 film) (Marx Brothers)
* Annie Get Your Gun (1950 film)
* Apache (1954 film) (Burt Lancaster)
* The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975 film) (Bill Bixby, Tim Conway, Don Knotts)
* Arabian Adventure (1979 film) (Christopher Lee)
* Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961 film)
* Babes in Toyland (1934 film) (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy)
* Babes in Toyland (1961 film)
* Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure (1999 film)
* The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977 film)
* The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946 film)
* The Bear (1988 film)
* Belles on Their Toes (1952 film)
* The Bells of St. Mary's (1945 film) (Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman)
* Bend of the River (1952 film) (James Stewart, Rock Hudson)
* Benji (1974 film) (Peter Breck)
* Benji the Hunted (1987 film)
* Beau Geste (1939 film) (Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward)
* Big (1988 film) (Tom Hanks)
* The Big Circus (1959 film)
* Bill and Coo (1948 live action film)
* Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962 film)
* The Bishop's Wife (1947 film) (Cary Grant, Loretta Young)
* The Black Rose (1950 film) (Tyrone Power)
* The Black Shield of Falworth (1954 film) (Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh)
* The Black Stallion (1979 film)
* The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
* The Black Swan (1942 film) (Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara)
* The Blind Bird (1963 film)
* The Blob (1958) (Steve McQueen)
* Born Free (1966 film)
* A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969 animated film)
* The Boy and the Pirates (1960 film)
* The Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961 film)
* The Boy with Green Hair (1948 film) (Dean Stockwell, Robert Ryan)
* Boys Town (1938 film) (Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney)
* Brigadoon (1954 film) (Gene Kelly)
* Broken Arrow (1950 film) (James Stewart)
* Brigham Young (1940 film) (Tyrone Power)
* Buffalo Bill (1944 film) (Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn)
* Calamity Jane (1953 film) (Doris Day)
* The Canterville Ghost (1944 film) (Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien)
* Captain Blood (1935 film) (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland)
* Captain from Castile (1947 film) (Tyrone Power)
* Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951 film) (Gregory Peck)
* Captain January (1936 film) (Shirley Temple)
* Captains Courageous (1937 film) (Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney)
* The Care Bears Movie (1985 animated film) (Mickey Rooney)
* Chad Hanna (1940 film) (Henry Fonda)
* The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film) (Errol Flynn)
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968 film) (Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes)
* Christmas in Connecticut (1945 film) (Barbara Stanwyck)
* Challenge to Lassie (1949 film) (Lassie)
* Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film)
* A Child Called Jesus (1987 film)
* A Christmas Carol (1938 film) (Reginald Owen)
* A Christmas Carol (1984 film) (George C. Scott)
* A Christmas Story (1983 film) (Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon)
* Circus World (1964 film) (John Wayne, Rita Hayworth)
* City Beneath the Sea (1971 film) (Robert Wagner, Richard Basehart)
* Come to the Stable (1949 film) (Loretta Young)
* A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film) (Bing Crosby)
* Conrack (1974 film) (Jon Voight)
* The Corsican Brothers (1941 film) (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)
* The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 film)
* The Count of Monte Cristo (1975 film) (Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis)
* Cougar Country (1971 film)
* The Courage of Black Beauty (1958 film)
* Courage of Lassie (1946 film) (Elizabeth Taylor)
* Courage Mountain (1990 film) (Charlie Sheen)
* Crack in the World (1965 film) (Dana Andrews)
* The Crimson Pirate (1952 film) (Burt Lancaster)
* David Copperfield (1935 film) (W. C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone)
* The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film) (Patricia Neal)
* The Daydreamer (1966 live action film)
* The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951 film) (James Mason)
* The Desert Rats (1953 film) (Richard Burton, James Mason)
* Destination Moon (1950 film)
* A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940 film) (Edward G Robinson)
* Doctor Dolittle (1967 film) (Rex Harrison)
* The Drum (1938 film)
* Drums Along the Mohawk (1939 film) (Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert)
* Duck Soup (1933 film) (Marx Brothers)
* Dumbo (1941 animated film)
* The Easy Way (1952 film) (Cary Grant)
* Edison, the Man (1940 film) (Spencer Tracy)
* Elephant Boy (1937 film) (Sabu)
* The Enemy Below (1957 film) (Robert Mitchum)
* Everything's Ducky (1961 film) (Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney)
* The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958 film)
* Fantasia 2000 (1999 animated film)
* Father Goose (1964 film) (Cary Grant)
* Fearless Fagan (1952 film)
* The Flame and the Arrow (1950 film) (Burt Lancaster)
* The Flame and the Sword (1962 film)
* Flipper (1963 film) (Luke Halpin, Chuck Connors)
* Flipper's New Adventure (1964 film) (Luke Halpin)
* For the Love of Benji (1977 film) (Peter Bowles)
* For the Love of Rusty (1947 film)
* Forbidden Planet (1956 film) (Leslie Nielsen)
* Francis of Assisi (1961 film)
* Friendly Persuasion (1956 film) (Gary Cooper)
* Gallant Bess (1946 film)
* The Gallant Hours (1960 film) (James Cagney)
* Gay Purr-ee (1962 animated film) (Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons)
* General Spanky (1936 film)
* Gentle Giant (1967 film) (Dennis Weaver)
* The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947 film) (Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison)
* The Glass Slipper (1955 film) (Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding)
* The Golden Age of Comedy (1957 film) (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy)
* Great Expectations (1946 film)
* Great Expectations (1974 film)
* The Great Muppet Caper (1981 film) (Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Charles Grodin)
* The Greatest Show on Earth (1952 film) (Cecil B. DeMille)
* Green Grass of Wyoming (1948 film)
* Gulliver's Travels (1939 animated film)
* Hans Brinker (1969 film)
* Hans Christian Andersen (1952 film) (Danny Kaye)
* Harry and the Hendersons (1987 film) (John Lithgow)
* Heidi (1937 film) (Shirley Temple)
* Heidi's Song (1983 animated film) (Lorne Greene, Sammy Davis Jr.)
* Here Come the Tigers (1978 film)
* Hiawatha (1952 film)
* High Noon (1952 film) (Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges)
* Hills of Home (1948 film) (Edmund Gwenn, Janet Leigh)
* Holiday Inn (1942 film) (Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire)
* Home for the Holidays (1995 film) (Holly Hunter)
* Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993 film) (Sally Field, Michael J Fox, Don Ameche)
* Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996 film)
* Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992 film) (Rick Moranis)
* Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989 film) (Rick Moranis)
* Hoppity Goes To Town (1941 animated film)
* Horse Feathers (1932 film) (Marx Brothers)
* The Horse Soldiers (1959 film) (John Wayne)
* Houdini (1953 film) (Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh)
* How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 film) (Jim Carrey)
* How the Toys Saved Christmas (1996 film)
* The Human Comedy (1943 film) (Mickey Rooney)
* The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964 live-action animated film) (Don Knotts)
* Ice Age (2002 animated film)
* Inside Out (2015 animated film)
* Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964 film)
* Iron Will (1994 film)
* It's a Dog's Life (1955 film)
* It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963 Film) (Spencer Tracy)
* It's a Wonderful Life (1946 film)
* It Happens Every Spring (1949 film)
* It Nearly Wasn't Christmas (1989 film)
* Jack Frost (1964 film) (English dubbed Soviet film Morozko)
* John Paul Jones (1959 film) (Robert Stack)
* Journey Back to Oz (1974 animated film)
* Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)
* Jungle Book (1942 film)
* The Jungle Book (1967 animated film)
* The Kentuckian (1955 film) (Burt Lancaster)
* Kidnapped (1938 film)
* King of the Khyber Rifles (1953 film) (Tyrone Power)
* King of the Wild Stallions (1959 film)
* King Richard and the Crusaders (1954 film) (Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo)
* Kingdom of the Clouds (1968 film)
* Kit Carson (1940 film)
* Knute Rockne, All American (1940 film) (Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan)
* Lad, A Dog (1962 film)
* Lassie Come Home (1943 film) (Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Nigel Bruce)
* Lassie's Great Adventure (1963 film)
* The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)
* The Last of the Mohicans (Steve Forrest) (1977 TV film)
* Life with Father (1947 film)
* Lili (1953 film) (Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer)
* Lilies of the Field (Sidney Poitier)
* The Lion and the Horse (1952 film)
* The Little Colonel (1935 film) (Shirley Temple)
* Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980 film) (Rick Schroder)
* A Little Princess (1973 TV film)
* The Little Princess (1939 film) (Shirley Temple)
* Little Women (1933 film)
* Little Women (1949 film)
* The Littlest Hobo (1958 film)
* The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935 film) (Gary Cooper)
* Living Free (1972 film)
* The Lone Ranger (1956 film) (Clayton Moore)
* The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958 film) (Clayton Moore)
* Long John Silver (1954 film)
* Lost Angel (1943 film)
* The Lost World (1960 film) (Jill St. John, Claude Rains)
* The Macahans (1976 film)
* Made in Heaven (1987 film) (Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis)
* The Magic of Lassie (1978 film) (James Stewart, Lassie, Mickey Rooney)
* The Magic Sword (1962 film) (Basil Rathbone)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film) (Richard Chamberlain)
* The Mark of Zorro (1940 film) (Tyrone Power)
* The Mark of Zorro (1974 film)
* The Master of Ballantrae (1953 film) (Errol Flynn)
* Matilda (1978 film) (Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum)
* Maya (1966 film) (Clint Walker)
* The McConnell Story (1955 film)
* Meet Me in St. Louis (1944 film) (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien)
* Merry Andrew (1958 film) (Danny Kaye)
* Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983 animated film)
* The Mighty Ducks (1992 film) (Emilio Estevez)
* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995 film)
* A Minor Miracle (1983 film) (Pele)
* The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952 film)
* Miracle on 34th Street (1947 film) (Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, John Payne)
* Mission of the Seahawk (1962 film)
* Mister 880 (1950 film) (Burt Lancaster)
* Mister Scoutmaster (1953 film)
* Moby Dick (1956 film) (Gregory Peck)
* Monkey Business (1931 film) (Marx Brothers)
* Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990 film)
* Mountain Man (1976 film)
* Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962 film) (James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara)
* The Muppet Movie (1979 live action film) (Jim Henson)
* The Music Man (1962 film) (Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett)
* The Mudlark (1950 film)
* Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) (Charles Laughton, Clark Gable)
* My Brother Talks to Horses (1947 film)
* My Fair Lady (1964 film) (Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison)
* My Friend Flicka (1943 film) (Roddy McDowall)
* My Side of the Mountain (1969 film)
* Mysterious Island (1961 film)
* Namu, My Best Friend (1966 film)
* National Velvet (1944 film)
* Northwest Mounted Police (1940 film) (Gary Cooper)
* Northwest Passage (1940 film) (Spencer Tracy, Robert Young)
* Oh Heavenly Dog (1980 film) (Chevy Chase, Benji)
* Oklahoma (1955 film) (Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae)
* One Magic Christmas (1985 film) (Mary Steenburgen)
* Operation Petticoat (1959 film) (Cary Grant, Tony Curtis)
* The Palomino (1950 film)
* Penrod and Sam (1931 film)
* Penrod's Double Trouble (1938 film)
* Pete's Dragon (1977 live action animated film) (Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters)
* The Pied Piper (1942 film) (Roddy McDowall)
* The Plainsman (1936 film) (Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur)
* Pony Soldier (1951 film) (Tyrone Power)
* Prancer (1989 film) (Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman)
* The President's Lady (1953 film) (Charlton Heston, Susan Hayward)
* The Pride and the Passion (1957 film) (Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren)
* Pride of the Blue Grass (1939 film)
* The Pride of the Yankees (1942 film) (Gary Cooper)
* The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film) (Errol Flynn, Claude Rains)
* Prince Valiant (1954 film) (Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh)
* The Princess and the Pirate (1944 film) (Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo)
* The Private War of Major Benson (1955 film)
* The Proud Rebel (1958 film) (Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland)
* The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film) (Ronald Colman, David Niven, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)
* PT 109 (1963 film) (Cliff Robertson)
* Raymie (1960 film) (David Ladd)
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938 film)
* Red Skies of Montana (1952 film)
* Return to Oz (1985 film)
* Ring of Bright Water (1969 film)
* Rio Grande (1950 film) (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)
* Rip Van Winkle (1962 film)
* Robin Hood (1973 animated film)
* Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves (1991 film) (Kevin Costner)
* Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998 animated film)
* Rusty (Rusty Saves a Life) (1949 film)
* Safe at Home! (1962 film)
* Sammy Going South (a.k.a. A Boy Ten Feet Tall) (1963 film) (Edward G Robinson)
* Santa Claus The Movie (1985 film) (Dudley Moore, John Lithgow)
* Saskatchewan (1954 film) (Alan Ladd), Shelley Winters)
* The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
* Scary Tales (1983 animated film)
* Scott of the Antarctic (1948 film)
* Scrooge (1951 film) (Alastair Sim)
* Scrooge (1970 film)
* The Sea Hawk (1940 film) (Errol Flynn, Claude Rains)
* The Secret Garden (1949 film) (Margaret O'Brien, Dean Stockwell, Herbert Marshall)
* The Secret of Monte Cristo (1961 film)
* The Secret of NIMH (1982 animated film)
* Seminole (1953 film) (Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn)
* Sergeant York (1941 film) (Gary Cooper)
* Seven Cities of Gold (1955 film) (Anthony Quinn)
* Seven Seas to Calais (1962 film)
* The Sheepman (1958 film) (Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen)
* Shenandoah (1965 film) (James Stewart)
* The Singing Nun (1966 film)
* Sink the Bismarck (1960 film) (Kenneth More)
* Sitting Pretty (1948 film) (Clifton Webb, Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara)
* Sleeping Beauty (1965 film)
* Terms of Endearment (1983 film)
* The Slipper and the Rose (1976 film)
* The Small Miracle (1974 TV film)
* Smoky (1966 live action film) (Fess Parker)
* Snoopy Come Home (1972 animated film)
* Snowfire (1958 film)
* Son of Lassie (1945 film) (Peter Lawford)
* The Son of Monte Cristo (1940 film)
* The Song of Bernadette (1943 film) (Vincent Price)
* The Spanish Main (1945 film) (Maureen O'Hara)
* Stanley and Livingstone (1939 film) (Spencer Tracy)
* Stars and Stripes Forever (1952 film) (Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner)
* The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939 film)
* The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936 film)
* The Story of Seabiscuit (1949 film) (Shirley Temple)
* Stowaway to the Moon (1975 film) (Lloyd Bridges)
* The Sun Comes Up (1949 film)
* Susannah of the Mounties (1939 film) (Shirley Temple)
* Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film) (John Mills)
* The Sword in the Stone (film) (1963 animated film)
* A Tale of Two Cities (1980 TV film) (Peter Cushing)
* The Rescuers (1977 animated film) (Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor)
* The Rescuers Down Under (1990 film) (Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, George G. Scott, John Candy)
* The Red Pony (1949 film) (Robert Mitchum, Myrna Loy)
* The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959 film)
* The Return of Monte Cristo (1946 film)
* The Rocketeer (1991 film)
* The Tender Years (1948 film)
* The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)
* The Three Musketeers (1948) (Gene Kelly, Vincent Price, Lana Turner)
* The Time Machine (1960 film) (Directed George Pal) (Starring Rod Taylor)
* The Time Machine (1978 film)
* The Unfinished Dance (1947 film)
* The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967 animated film)
* The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
* The Wild and the Free (1980 film)
* The Yearling (1946 film) (Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.)
* They Died with Their Boots On (1941 film) (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland)
* Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937 film) (Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland)
* Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965 film)
* Thundercloud (1950 film) (Lloyd Bridges)
* Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945 film) (Roddy McDowall)
* A Time for Every Season (1972 film)
* Tobor the Great (1954 film)
* To Find a Rainbow (1971 film)
* Treasure Galleons (1973 film)
* Treasure Island (Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper)
* Treasure Island (1990 film) (Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee)
* Treasure of the Golden Condor (1955 film)
* Two Years Before the Mast (1946 film)
* Uncle Sam Magoo (1970 TV film)
* Union Pacific (1939 film) (Barbara Stanwyck)
* Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961 film) (Barbara Eden, Robert Sterling)
* Wee Willie Winkie (1937 film) (Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero)
* Wells Fargo (1937 film)
* Western Union (1941 film) (Robert Young)
* When the North Wind Blows (1974 film)
* When Worlds Collide (1951 film)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988 live action/animated film)
* Wilderness Journey (1970 film)
* White Christmas (1954 film) (Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye)
* White Fang (1991 film) (Ethan Hawke)
* White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994 film) (Ethan Hawke)
* White Feather (1955 film) (Robert Wagner)
* Willy McBean and his Magic Machine (1965 animated film)
* Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942 film) (James Cagney)
* Yellow Jack (1938 film)
* Young Mr. Lincoln (1939 film) (Henry Fonda)
* Young People (1940 film) (Shirley Temple)
* Young Tom Edison (1940) (Mickey Rooney)

## Notes

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1. ^ a b Tufts, Chris. "Family Classics-titles and air dates". epguides. Archived from the original on February 28, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
2. ^ "WGN 9 Chicago "Family Classics" Movie Timeline". WGN 9 Chicago. January 27, 2017.
3. ^ a b Okuda & Mulqueen 2004, pp. 60–62.
4. ^ a b c Feder, Robert (May 2, 2010). "Remembering a Chicago Classic:Frazier Thomas". WBEZ Radio. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
5. ^ Johnson, Allan (April 3, 1988). "At 50, WGN Finds The TV Picture and Audiences Have Changed". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
6. ^ "Chicago's Merry Own: 'Family Classics' returns to WGN-TV for special holiday showing of 'Scrooge' hosted by Dean Richards". WGN 9 Chicago. November 11, 2017. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
7. ^ "Frazier Thomas". Chicago Television. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
8. ^ Feder, Robert (December 12, 2019). "Robservations: Steve Sanders saves the day on WGN's 'Family Classics'". Robert Feder. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
9. ^ Berger, Daniel; Jajkowski, Steve, eds. (2010). Chicago Television. For the Museum of Broadcast Communications; Foreword by Bob Sirott. Arcadia Publishing. p. 168\. ISBN 978-0-7385-7713-5. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
10. ^ "This classy portrait by Roy Brown of Garfield Goose adorned a wall on the set of "Family Classics."". LA Times. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
11. ^ Okuda & Mulqueen 2004, p. 61.

## Bibliography

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* Okuda, Ted; Mulqueen, Jack (2004). The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television. Lake Claremont Press. ISBN 978-1-893-12117-1.

## External links

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* Family Classics at epguides.com
* Various original Family Classics openings Archived 2015-02-11 at the Wayback Machine, courtesy The Museum of Classic Chicago Television

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