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Nickelodeon - "Not Just For Kids" (Commercial, 1983)

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Here is a commercial reminding people that the relatively new cable channel Nickelodeon was not just for kids. Features clay versions of characters from the show "Pinwheel" as well as "You Can't Do That On Television".

This aired on local Chicago TV in 1983.

DAS Smurf Modelling Set (Commercial, 1983)

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You've heard of Das Boot? Well this is DAS Smurf - the modelling set for kids by Adica Pongo. ;-)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar's first commercial is for DAS Smurf Modelling Clay. He would have been 8 years old here.

Voiceover by Frank Welker.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, March 15th 1983. (The Ides of March!) (1982 Copyright)

WFLD Channel 32 - The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show (Part 6, 1972)

Views: 2817

Here's Part 6 of a rare surviving edition of Bill Jackson's The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show on WFLD Channel 32. This was from the original 2" quadruplex master tape. Includes:

Dr. Doompuss in the forest, with his henchmen FrankenWeird and Wolf Wally, proclaiming that "with our power, there's no stopping us" and promising that "our victims await us"; B.J. and the Box announcing the latest visit with the town monument Blob, who's unintelligible as usual (except B.J. manages t...

Illinois Lottery - "Lucky Numbers II" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 939

Here's an animated (or claymation?) commercial for the Illinois Lottery's new Lucky Number II Instant Lottery game.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, February 5th 1983 during the 5:00pm to 6:00pm timeframe.

WCIX Channel 6 - Snipets - "Bad for You" (1984)

Views: 2840

Here's another rare Snipets segment! These originally were created by and aired on the Kaiser Broadcasting / Field Communications stations such as WFLD Channel 32, in the 70s and early 80s. However, with the sale and dissolution of Field starting in 1982, for whatever reason Snipets segments popped up on a few other non-Field or former-Field stations, even as late as 1986!

This particular a...

WCIX Channel 6 - Snipets - "Girls Play Ball Too" (1984)

Views: 1668

Here's another rare Snipets segment! These originally were created by and aired on the Kaiser Broadcasting / Field Communications stations such as WFLD Channel 32, in the 70s and early 80s. However, with the sale and dissolution of Field starting in 1982, for whatever reason Snipets segments popped up on a few other non-Field or former-Field stations, even as late as 1986!

This particular a...