WMAQ Channel 5 - Saturday Night Movie - "April Love" (Partial Commercial Break, 1978)

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Description: Here's a partial, incomplete commercial break from the Saturday Night Movie presentation of the 1957 Pat Boone film "April Love" (from which his major hit of the same name from the same year had emanated) on WMAQ Channel 5.

This begins with the tail end of a commercial for Yesteryear at Harrison on the River in Kankakee, and is followed by:

Commercial: Nelson Brothers - "We Put It All Together For You" (voiceover by Al Parker and ??)

Commercial: Schaumburg Datsun - "We Want Your Business" (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

NewsCenter5 update (read by Ed Grennan) (click here to see the items read in this update)

Commercial: Manor Care Nursing Center - "See What a Nursing Care Center Can Be" (voiceover by ??)

Commercial: Jet-Dri Waterproofing Service (main voiceover by ??) (ending voiceover by Mal Wyman)

PSA for Big Brothers - Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago - "Be a Brother, Help a Boy Grow" (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Commercial: Homer's Furniture - "Bedroom Furniture Sale" - ends April 30th (voiceover by Ron MacAdam - who was also an impressionist who did many voices as well as being the puppeteer for "Tracer the Dog" on The Dick Tracy Show featuring Ray Rayner which ran from 1961-1966 on WGN-TV)

Saturday Night Movie bumper and music

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, April 30th 1978.

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  • ChitownTVFan 06/11/2013

    Is it me or the Nelson Brothers jingle slowed down?

  • ChrisBCritter 06/12/2013

    "Nelson Brothers wouldn't think of charging you for delivery."
    They thought about it soon afterward...

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