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WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Balloon Voyage" (1975?)

Views: 585

Here's another segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44.

This time Steve Hart, Little K, Hector the Chicken, and Bookie Worm sing "I'm Flying" from the Peter Pan musical that featured Mary Martin as well as their renditions of "Bye-Bye Blackbird" and "California Here I Come" while floating around in a hot-air balloon.

This aired on local Chicago TV circa 1975.

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Becoming a Clown" (1976)

Views: 966

Here's another segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. Here, Steve is applying clown makeup and, after he finishes, goes off on stage to a waiting (and unseen) audience. Watch, during the middle of his transformation, for the mirror to display an image of a little girl (Steve's daughter) for a few seconds.

The second instrumental heard in this piece is "Over the Waves."

The Engineer on this was Chuck Zenkus. Director was Jim Angio.
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WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart (Ending, 1974)

Views: 486

Here's the ending segment of another rare surviving edition of Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. This was from the original master tape. Includes:

CG VTR slate with tone and countdown - "VTR: 8I0 - Cut: 16 {which blinks on and off} - Air: Fri. 10/4 - "Popeye" - Dir. M.T. - Eng. P.Mc."

Steve, Little K and Captain Salty saying their goodbyes. As the music is played in the background, Steve's voiceover is heard promoting Spider-Man which fo...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Beep, Beep" (1975?)

Views: 691

Here's a segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44, in which he lip-synchs (and pantomimes) to The Playmates' 1958 novelty hit "Beep, Beep" (Roulette 4115), with a drawing of another driver in a small red car in the background.

This aired on local Chicago TV around June of 1975.

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart (Opening, 1974)

Views: 712

Here's the opening segment of another rare, surviving edition of Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. This was from the original master tape. According to the notes in with the tape, this was "Show #2". Notice they had not developed an opening with a theme song yet. Also the TV listings at this point only said "Popeye", not "Popeye with Steve Hart". Includes:

Opening shot of closeup of lighthouse window with ship sound effects, dissolving into Steve Hart (with...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "This Song is Your Song" (1975?)

Views: 1285

Here's another segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44.

This time Steve Hart, Little K and guitarist/singer Mike Lazar (of Lazar's Juvenile Furniture) do their rendition of "This Land is Your Land" whose lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie, as well as McNamara's Band and a melody of jazzed-up nursury rhymes including Old King Cole, Little Miss Muffet, Jack Sprat, Hey Diddle Diddle, and Humpty Du...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Triplets" (1975?)

Views: 499

Here's another segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. Here (from left), Steve, Nancy Boyle, and Bob Hoffmann are seen over a drawing of triplets in a crib, as they lip-synch (and clown around) to Danny Kaye's 1947 recording of the Arthur Schwartz / Howard Dietz composition "Triplets" (which had been performed most famously by Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan in the 1953 film "The Band Wagon"). The tape cuts out midway through this number.

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WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart (Opening, 1975)

Views: 1868

Here's a rare bit of Chicago Kids TV History - seen publically for the first time in over 35 years - footage from TV-44's Popeye with Steve Hart! Includes:

The opening titles and first segment of Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. This was from an original studio tape, recorded on August 12th 1975.

CG VTR slate with message: "VTR: 770 - Cut: 1 / Air: Mon. 8/18 - Popeye Show Inserts - Steve Hart Productions - Rec: 8/12/75 - M. T....

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart (Ending, 1975)

Views: 1408

Here's the ending segment of Popeye with Steve Hart which aired on WSNS Channel 44. This was from the original master tape, recorded on August 12th 1975. Includes:

Steve again offers congratulations to big winner Charlton Shan of Wheeling, IL, and then says goodbye (with Bookie Worm joining in).

Shot of lighthouse and Popeye Show theme with end credits (typesetting from 3M Datavision character generator, in what is the earliest known example of su...