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By: fuzzymemories

Description: Here's the opening and first commercial for the 1976 airing of that perennial Halloween classic, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" as aired on WBBM Channel 2. Previous to this, we saw the opening for the 1980 airing.
Includes:

WBBM-TV animated Station ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

CBS Pre-emption notice for "Doc" (voiceover by ??)

A CBS Special Presentation spinning graphic

Opening of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" including sponsorship notice from McDonald's and Dolly Madison (voiceover by ??)

Commercial: Dolly Madison Gems donuts (featuring Robbie Rist, who played Cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, October 23rd 1976 at 7pm.