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[[File:Bozos Circus postcard 1960s.JPG|thumb|Photo postcard of Oliver O. Oliver ([[Ray Rayner]]), [[Bozo the Clown]] ([[Bob Bell (actor)|Bob Bell]]), Sandy the Clown (Don Sandburg), and Ringmaster Ned ([[Ned Locke]]) on [[Bozo's Circus]] on WGN-TV.]]

'''Don Sandburg''' (1930 – October 6, 2018) was an American writer, actor, and producer who worked in [[television]], most notably as producer of ''[[The Banana Splits]]'' for [[Hanna-Barbera]] as well as [[WGN-TV]]'s ''[[The Bozo Show|Bozo's Circus]]''.

==Career==
===Early career===
Sandburg started in television on [[WCPO]] in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] when he was 21. He was initially a [[Theatrical property|prop]] manager but later became production supervisor for ''The Paul Dixon Show''. He left after a year, hoping to get work in [[Denver, Colorado]] but ended up doing a series of other jobs until returning to Cincinnati with [[WLW]] Radio and [[WLWT-TV]] in 1953, where he joined [[Wally Phillips]] and [[Bob Bell (actor)|Bob Bell]] to produce, direct and write ''The Walt Phillips Show''. When WLW and WLWT's executive vice president moved to WGN [[WGN (AM)|Radio]] and [[WGN-TV|Television]], he brought Phillips, Bell and Sandburg along.

===''Bozo's Circus''===
When WGN-TV started ''Bozo'' in 1960, Sandburg was not involved with the show until after it went to an hour format as ''Bozo's Circus'' in 1961. He was approached by station management to write for the program – he already wrote material for a morning program, ''Breakfast With Bugs Bunny'', that evolved into ''[[Ray Rayner]] and His Friends'' – but refused, suggesting instead that he be hired to appear as a character on air, offering to write material for the show at no extra charge (union pay rates for on-air talent were higher than for writing). WGN agreed, and the character ''Sandy the Tramp'' was born. Sandy was a mute clown reminiscent of silent film comedians, although Sandburg said he primarily based the character on [[Harpo Marx]]. Eventually, Sandburg would be named the show's producer as well. He was instrumental in the creation of the "Grand Prize Game".<ref name=Timeline60>((cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1960s.htm|title=Bozo Timeline-1960s|publisher=WGN-TV|accessdate=16 February 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010709002133/http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1960s.htm|archivedate=9 July 2001))</ref> By 1965, [[Larry Harmon]] added Sandburg's "Sandy" and [[Ray Rayner]]'s Oliver O. Oliver to Bozo the Clown coloring books.<ref name=Timeline60/> In 1967, Sandburg appeared in local [[McDonald's]] ads as [[Ronald McDonald]].<ref name=Timeline60/>

===After ''Bozo''===
Sandburg left the show in 1969, deflated by the pace of four jobs on the show as performer, writer and producer.<ref name=Timeline60/> He left for [[Los Angeles]] hoping to find work at the [[Disney]] studios, where he had a friend. When the Disney job didn't pan out, he called on an old friend and former WGN-TV programming executive, [[Fred Silverman]], who got him the job as producer of ''[[The Banana Splits]]''.

Afterward Sandburg worked as a writer on ''[[New Zoo Revue]]'', and for various stations and studios in Los Angeles, including [[Paramount Television|Paramount]] where he worked on the [[Star Trek]] animated series. He also worked at [[Marineland of the Pacific|Marineland]] and as a theater director in the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]], where he periodically produced variety shows, featuring some of the same entertainers he previously had booked to appear on ''Bozo's Circus''. Magician [[Marshall Brodien]] (a former WGN colleague) participated in some of these shows, which Sandburg hosted in character as Sandy (with his secretary playing his sister, Samantha). For these shows, the Sandy character spoke; Sandburg described the voice as being somewhere in between Roy Brown's voice as "Cooky" and Bob Bell's voice as "Bozo."

Sandburg returned to WGN-TV to play Sandy on ''The Bozo 25th Anniversary Special'' (telecast live September 7, 1986); he also came back to play Sandy while [[Roy Brown (clown)|Roy Brown]] was ill.<ref name=Timeline80>((cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1980s.htm|title=Bozo Timeline-1980s|publisher=WGN-TV|accessdate=16 February 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010709002204/http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1980s.htm|archivedate=9 July 2001))</ref> Sandburg was part of ''The Bozo Show 30th Anniversary Special'' (aired September 8, 1991),<ref name=Timeline90>((cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1990s.htm|title=Bozo Timeline-1990s|publisher=WGN-TV|accessdate=16 February 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010808014949/http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln1990s.htm|archivedate=8 August 2001))</ref> and on the final episode of ''Bozo'': the WGN-TV special ''Bozo: 40 Years Of Fun'', aired July 14, 2001. One of his Sandy costumes is part of the collection of ''Bozo's Circus'' artifacts at the [[Museum of Broadcast Communications]].<ref name=Timeline00>((cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln2000s.htm|title=Bozo Timeline-2000|publisher=WGN-TV|accessdate=16 February 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010808020050/http://wgntv.com/station/bozotime/tln2000s.htm|archivedate=8 August 2001))</ref>

==Personal life==
Sandburg and his wife lived in retirement in [[Oregon]]. He died of complications of [[Alzheimer's disease]] on October 6, 2018, at the age of 87.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://wgntv.com/2018/10/07/don-sandburg-last-surviving-original-cast-member-of-bozos-circus-dead-at-87/|title=Don Sandburg, last surviving original cast member of 'Bozo's Circus,' dead at 87|date=8 October 2018))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.chicagotelevision.com/Sandy2001.htm Interview with Don Sanburg on chicagotelevision.com]

===Watch===
* [http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?m=xxbozoxx Various shorts clips and original commercial breaks from airings of Bozo's Circus/The Bozo Show] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013350/http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?m=xxbozoxx |date=2018-10-09 ))

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