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The Alcoholism Center Featuring Levar Burton (PSA, 1980)

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Here is a public service announcement from The Alcoholism Center featuring Levar Burton where he addresses the issue of teen drinking problems.

What is that footage of the girl on the beach? From some movie-of-the-week?

The Alcoholism Center
55 East Jackson - Suite 1080
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 663-0610

This aired on local Chicago TV the last week of July 1980.

WSNS Channel 44 - Sports Spotlight - "Sleeper Hold" (1979?)

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Here's a rare clip from Sports Spotlight on WSNS Channel 44 featuring wrestler Verne Gagne demonstrating a sleeper hold move on a couple of TV-44 staffers. Not sure who the first guy is, but the guy with the beard is John Dickinson (who was also the producer on the Money Movie)

Also features Dave Condon - columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

Not sure when this aired -...

WBBM Channel 2 - The Late Show II - "The Name Of The Game" (Bumper Excerpt, 1980)

Views: 19485

Here is a brief bumper excerpt from an airing of an episode of "The Name of the Game" during The Late Show II on WBBM Channel 2. The episode was titled "The Bobby Currier Story," and it starred Robert Stack and Brandon de Wilde.

Thanks to W.B., betamax75, and Phantom for their help in playing "Name That Fuzz!" :-)

This aired on local Chicago TV early Tuesday, January 15th 1980. (Movie started at 3:35am! And yet the guy still cut out commercials! Now that's d...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Destroy All Planets" (Long Promo, 1982)

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Here's something kind of rare - two promos for the same episode of Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32. This is the long one - designed to air on the day of broadcast. It was for episode number 176 showing the movie, "Destroy All Planets".

This promo aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, November 27th 1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "3-D Test: 5 Days To Go!" (1982)

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Here is a segment from Son of Sven episode number number 157, showing the film "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" on WFLD Channel 32. Sven does a test for the big 3D Movie event, which took place 5 days from then on Thursday, July 29th 1982 at 8pm.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 24th 1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Destroy All Planets" (Short Promo, 1982)

Views: 1993

Here's something kind of rare - two promos for the same episode of Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32. This is the short one - designed to air before the day of broadcast. It was for episode number 176 showing the movie, "Destroy All Planets".

This promo aired on local Chicago TV a few seconds before midnight on Friday, November 26th 1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - Newscene with Kathy McFarland (1981)

Views: 4661

Here is the full presentation of Newscene with Kathy McFarland on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Newscene opening (Jim Barton voiceover)
Further evidence of a Recession - GNP down, Unemployment will rise.
Belvedere Chrysler plant lays off 3500 hourly workers for 3 weeks.
Cable snaps in Loop; debris falls.
Baby found dead; parents questioned.
19 letters written by Napoleon recovered in Chicago.
Weather Underground fugitive captured.
...

WGN Channel 9 - Garfield Goose And Friends (Opening Excerpt, 1971)

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The Goose Lives!!
Found on an ancient, open-reel black & white skip field recording that was donated to us along with a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff, and tucked away at the end of the reel, this gem was discovered - some footage from Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN Channel 9 that has been lost and unseen for almost 40 years!! (originally broadcast in color, but captured on this early home videotape recorder in black and white)

As y...

Midocean Motion Pictures - "Demo Reel" (1979?)

Views: 776

Here's the final part of a demo reel from Midocean Motion Pictures, a production and graphics firm which worked "in association with" EUE-Screen Gems (the latter of "S From Hell" infamy, spun off from Columbia Pictures).

This came from a 3/4" Umatic tape that was kept by Cathy Mustari, art director for WFLD Channel 32 from 1974 to the late '80's, from a time when the station was actively shopping for produ...