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The ABC Saturday Preview Special (Part 4 - Last, 1983)

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Here is Part 4, the last part, of The ABC Saturday Preview Special - a look at ABC's Saturday Morning programs of the past and present. Includes clips of: Sky King, Space Patrol, On Your Mark..., Super Circus, Cartoonies, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Hong Kong Phooey, Lassie's Rescue Rangers, Mighty Man and Yukk, Mumbly, Marmaduke, Rocky and his Friends, Dynomutt, Richie Rich, The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, The Puppy's Further Adventures, The Littles, The Little Rascals, Pac-Man, Disn...

WCFC Channel 38 - Liberty Temple Full Gospel News - "Mad" (Part 4, 1987)

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Here's Part Four of the movie "Mad" on WCFC-TV Channel 38 - our religious station in Chicago - during the program "Liberty Temple Full Gospel News". This feels like something that should be part of the Found Footage Festival.

It ends with a "To Be Continued..." which alas was at the end of the recording, so we are left without a conclusion. :-(

Mad: A true story about the life of Pastor Clifford E. Turner growing up as a young man in the inner city of Chicago, ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Movie 32 - "Topper Takes A Trip" (Break #5, 1971)

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Here's Commercial Break #5 for the Movie 32 presentation of "Topper Takes a Trip" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

McDonald's (in color) (can't make out the copyright date)

Munson Marine of Lisle (in color)

Zip-Away (in color)

Announcement (in color) - "Channel 32 welcomes the more than 5,000 broadcasters attending the 49th annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. WFLD-TV Chicago." (voiceover by Del Clark)
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WGN Channel 9 - Sunday Matinee - "The Shanghai Chest" (Opening, 1981)

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Here's a (mostly complete) opening for the Sunday Matinee presentation of the Charlie Chan film "The Shanghai Chest"on WGN Channel 9. Also includes a partial WGN "Superman" Station ID at the beginning.

The Sunday Matinee opening with filmstrip and movie camera graphics, features an instrumental version of The Young Rascals' "Groovin' " by Raymond Lefevre and His Orchestra (released in the U.S. in 1967 on Four Corners of the World single #FC 4-145, and on the 1968...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Jack Benny Show - "Pre-Emption Notice" (1975)

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Here's the opening of The Jack Benny Program on WFLD Channel 32, featuring a pre-emption notice. Includes:

Pre-emption notice for Bill Burrud's Travel World (from the host of Animal World) with show logo bumper slide from WFLD (which used a serif typeface called Windsor Bold, which apparently preceded Avant Garde Medium as Kaiser-era WFLD's font du jour)
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WGN Channel 9 - Bozo's Circus (Commercial Break #1, 1976)

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Here's a commercial break from an edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

"We Will Return..." bumper slide (voiceover by Frazier Thomas)

Commercial: Lucky Charms cereal by General Mills (with Arthur Anderson as the voice of "Lucky the Leprechaun") - Lucky tries to escape from the pursuing kids in a rocket

Commercial: TV Time Popcorn with Popping Oil Salt - in 2-Pak and 4-Pak boxes - "Join the TV Time Popcorn Explosion"
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WAVE Channel 3 - Celebrity Sweepstakes (Opening, 1975)

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Here's the first 2 minutes and 20 seconds or so of an episode of the game show "Celebrity Sweepstakes" as aired on WAVE-TV Channel 3 in Louisville, Kentucky. Only a couple episodes of this show still exist apparently, so it's likely this is the only existing clip of this episode, which featured celebrities Darren McGavin, Jim Nabors, Dan Rowan, Betty White and regulars Joey Bishop and Carol Wayne. Jim McKrell was the host of this daytime game show.

Features a recap of the Sha...

WGN Channel 9 - When Movies Were Movies - "Casablanca" (Opening, 1979)

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Here is the opening of the WGN classic movie show, When Movies Were Movies - which this night was showing the film "Casablanca." You really have to appreciate the creativity in this, as well as the time it must have taken to make those cut-outs.

As for the theme music used for this long-running showcase - it was from the instrumental Overtur...

WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics With Frazier Thomas - "When Worlds Collide" (Opening, 1982)

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Here's the opening of the Family Classics presentation of When Worlds Collide on WGN Channel 9. Featuring Frazier Thomas as host. (I would have left in more of the movie opening but this is where the recording stopped)

The Family Classics theme song was called "Moviescope" and was a piece of library music composed by Dennis Berry. It was originally released ...