Waking up with WGN-TV’s Ray Rayner, 60 years later

Dave Plier

Children’s television historian Jim Engel talks to WGN Radio’s Dave Plier about WGN-TV’s Ray Rayner, celebrating the 1964 launch of his own self-titled show ’Ray Rayner & His Friends’ which premiered 60 years ago along with Cuddly Dudley, ‘Ark in the Park’ with Dr. Lester Fisher and Chelveston the Duck, his years on ‘Bozo’s Circus’ as Oliver O. Oliver, ‘Dick Tracy’ and more.

What’s your favorite memory of Ray Rayner?

https://serve.castfire.com/audio/5249280/5249280_2024-06-28-203220.128.mp3

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