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Cool Whip & Jell-O - "Pudding in a Cloud" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2101

Here's a commercial for Jell-O Instant Pudding & Pie Filling and Bird's-Eye Cool Whip topping, featuring former Flying Nun co-star Marge Redmond (as Sarah Tucker) and Bill Cosby (as himself), and children eagerly awaiting a delicacy known as "Pudding in a Cloud" which was concocted through use of both products.

(C) 1980 General Foods Corporation.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, August 28th 1980.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Jack Benny Program - "Technical Difficulties Moment" (1975)

Views: 1454

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Here's a technical difficulties moment from within the opening moments of The Jack Benny Program on WFLD Channel 32. This starts with a bumper for Bristol-Myers Company (typesetting in Kabel Medium) - "The Makers of Bufferin" (voiceover by Bud Kelly) which lasts on-screen for the first 23 seconds.

Next is the opening of the show (with voiceover by Jack's longtime announcer Do...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "The Creature Walks Among Us" (Promo, 1983)

Views: 1957

Here is a promo for Episode #205 of Son of Svengooie on WFLD Channel 32. The movie was "The Creature Walks Among Us".

Starring Rich Koz as Son of Svengoolie.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 18th 1983.

WFLD Channel 32 - "Remembering John Belushi" (Bumper, 1982)

Views: 2283

Here's a WFLD Channel 32 bumper honoring John Belushi - who died 4 days previously to this being aired.

Voiceover by ?? (why not Jim Barton - not solemn enough?)

"Channel 32 mourns the death of chicago-born comedian John Belushi, best known for his versatile comic talent."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, March 9th 1982 at 7pm.

WMAQ Channel 5 - Off the Wall (Opening & Break, 1977)

Views: 1961

Remember that classic sitcom from 1977 called "Off the Wall"? No? Well neither does anyone else because it only aired once - on May 7th 1977. A failed television pilot.

What do you think the odds are that someone in the Chicagoland area (not connected with the production of the show) recorded the entire show, with the original commercial breaks intact, didn't ever record over the tape, and then saved the tape for 38 years before we got our hands on it? (just to give you some hi...

Spanish National Tourist Office - Senor Wences For Spain (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 3201

Here's a commercial from the Spanish National Tourist Office featuring ventriloquist Senor Wences.

"Spain - A lot more vacation for a lot less money."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 14th 1981.

Son Of Svengoolie - "The Bone Ranger" (1982)

Views: 2554

Here is the open of WFLD Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie Show #141 presenting the movie "Curse of the Undead".

Includes the sketch, "The Bone Ranger". (recycled from Episode #101, "Attack of the Monsters" - aired on Saturday, 6/20/81)

Starring Rich Koz as Son of Svengoolie, the voice of Tombstone, and "Scripto".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, March 27th 1982.

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 at 10 - "Hey, That's Jorie Lueloff!" (Promo, 1978)

Views: 1406

Here's a neat promo for NewsCenter5 on WMAQ Channel 5, one of a series where "regular people" out and about in the city of Chicago run into various WMAQ-TV newscasters and have trouble recalling their names.

Featuring Edie McClurg as "the excited fan". (You might remember her from such films as "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and a ton of other TV and Movie appearances and voiceovers)

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday,...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Koz Zone - "It's a Wonderful Cliché" (Part 1, 1989)

Views: 604

Here is Part 1 of a funny holiday themed sketch from The Koz Zone - "It's a Wonderful Cliche".

This is from Episode 22, which featured the movie "The Champ".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, December 23rd 1989.