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Description: Here's Part 2 of an episode of the prototypical "reality show" Real People on WMAQ Channel 5.

This segment starts off with Skip Stephenson giving the microphone to an audience member who says "And we'll be right back," although they just came back.

Next, co-hosts Byron Allen and Sarah Purcell review typographical errors of various TV listings from TV Guide and other publications, including one for Inside the NFL (submitted by Gail Boyd {sp?} of Athens, GA) which says "Len Dawson and Nick Buoniconti ate the hosts"; another for The Price Is Right (from Mrs. Kevin Crowley {sp?} of Stuart, FL) which lists as topic of "Prostitution, American style"; and one for an airing of the 1953 movie Shane (from Terry Hill of Paris, TX) which has Alan Ladd's title character "strap on his girl again"; and finally, one for a Republican Party response to President Carter's 1978 State of the Union address (from Greg King of Whittier, CA) which lists the program as a "comedy." The segment ends with Sarah advising that viewers won't get the clips back, but if they're used, the viewer gets a Real People T-shirt.

Afterwards, John Barbour introduces a taped piece he filed about Dennis and Betty Ann Holland of Orange County, CA, and Dennis' dream of building a giant sailing ship, which led to his front yard being transformed into a dry dock. The piece details his traveling around the world to get the right materials for his ship - the "Baltimore Clipper," originally built in 1774 - and building it not with blueprints, but with line drawings. Betty shows John around the inside of the ship (which is also their home), showing the various cabins of theirs and their children. Dennis' father and their neighbors are also interviewed about his obsession which has taken all of ten years (from the time of the airing of this show). Dennis explains how he pays for this by doing remodeling of other people's houses. Near the end, a portion of Jon Mark's "Someday I'll Build a Boat" is played. At the end of the report, the Hollands are seen among the studio audience.

Commercial: Firestone Tires - "In Line All the Time" Agreement - "For 5 Years or 50,000 Miles, Whichever Comes First"

Commercial: Juicy Fruit - "The Flavor Lover's Gum"

Promo for NBC Friday night lineup of Here's Boomer (episode "Me and My Shadow," with guest Tom Bosley as a down-and-out vaudevillian) and Pink Lady (with guests Blondie, Boomer, Florence Henderson, Lorne Greene, and Sid Caesar in a rather lame impression of John Belushi's Saturday Night Live "Samurai" character), followed by an NBC White Paper ("We're Moving Up! The Hispanic Migration") - starting at 8pm (7pm Central & Mountain) (voiceover by Casey Kasem)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, March 26th 1980 during the 7:45pm to 7:55pm timeframe.