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PM Magazine Chicago - "Rocky Horror" (1981)

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Here's a neat story on The Rocky Horror Picture Show musical that aired on PM Magazine Chicago featuring Mike Leiderman.

This is from the master 3/4" tape of the story, so it doesn't have the PM Magazine graphics that were shown on the off-air version.

Note: The audio on this is in stereo, with Leiderman's story voiceover on one channel and the music in another most of the time. (so if you're only hearing one or the other, that's the reason) I didn't g...

WFLD Channel 32 - PM Magazine Chicago - "Lo-Cal Bakery" (1980)

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Here's a PM Magazine Chicago segment about a low-calorie bakery, introduced by Jo Ann Williams.

Featuring a young Janet Davies looking just adorable in her ruffled shirt.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, November 4th 1980. (Ronald Reagan was elected President on this day)

PM Magazine Chicago - "Capt'n Nemo's Subs" With Norman Mark (1981)

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Here's a segment from PM Magazine Chicago featuring Norman Mark visiting Captain Nemo's Submarine Sandwiches (or do you say Capt'n?) at 7367 North Clark Street in Rogers Park.

And they're still around!

Not sure when this aired. Probably 1981.

Man, Myth & Magic Magazine (Commercial, 1974)

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Here's a commercial for Man, Myth & Magic magazine, "The Most Unusual Magazine Ever Published." This edition was Part 1, with a demonic elemental portrait on the cover; it was the first of a 24-volume encyclopedia of the supernatural.

Available at Dominicks Finer Food Stores and Walgreen Drug Stores.

Voiceover by Paul Frees.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, January 12th 1974 during the 6pm to 6:30pm timeframe.

PM Magazine Chicago - "Behind The Scenes of M*A*S*H" (1981)

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Here's an excerpt from PM Magazine Chicago featuring a behind-the-scenes look at M*A*S*H along with interviews with some of the cast.

And there it is again - That music during the end of the report is the same jazzy version of the M*A*S*H theme that WFLD Channel 32 used for their bumpers when airing the episodes in the very early eighties. It's by Ahmad Jamel and can be found on the 1974 re-issue of the movie soundtrack album in place of the vocal version of "Suicide Is Painle...

WFLD Channel 32 - PM Magazine Chicago - "Son Of Svengoolie - Off-Air Footage" (1981)

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Here's some of the extra off-air footage that was part of the Son of Svengoolie piece on PM Magazine Chicago. Includes:

The Richard Simmons Show bumper promo (with voiceover by Jim Barton instead teasing the upcoming Sven appearance on PM Magazine)

PM Magazine Chicago show opening

Hosts Mike Leiderman and Jo Ann Williams introduce the show with some extra footage of Sven at a little-league baseball game.

(I cut out the story since y...

WFLD Channel 32 - PM Magazine Chicago - "Computer Sock Hop" (1982)

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Here's a quaint story from PM Magazine Chicago on WFLD Channel 32 - a computer sock-hop - the brainchild of a Carrollton, Missouri computer teacher named Tim Lamkin.

Features Irene Rodriguez (who replaced Jo Ann Williams) as co-host.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, July 14th 1982.

PM Magazine - "Joan Esposito Audition" (1980)

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Here's a brief audition that Chicago newscaster Joan Esposito did for the WFLD Channel 32 program PM Magazine. She didn't get the job, but she sure looks perty. Also auditioning with her is "Hilly Hicks"?

Joan Esposito would later go on to anchor at WLS Channel 7.

Tape was dated July 31st 1980.