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Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Larry Lujack" - Bedtime Quotation (Closing, 1973)

Views: 472

Here's another segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop. By this point, if the clapboard is of any indication, the SYT title had been eschewed in favor of Svengoolie.

This closing segment is from Show #61 (according to the clapboard), with guest Larry "Superjock" Lujack. The recording date was April 11th 1973.

In this segm...

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:00 Movie - "Air Florida Flight 90 Bulletins" (1982)

Views: 3280

Here's a series of ABC News Special Reports, anchored by Frank Reynolds reporting from Washington, DC (opening and closing voiceover by ??), about the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737-200, into the Potomac River on the outskirts of DC during a major snowstorm; of the 74 passengers and five crewmembers, only four passengers and one flight attendant survived, and in addition, four motorists on a br...

WSNS Channel 44 - Sign-On & ONTV Transition (1985)

Views: 9698

Here is a rare and neat video - a sign-on for WSNS Channel 44 followed by the transition to ONTV's scrambled signal. Includes:

Color Bars, Tone & "WSNS-TV Transmitter Maintenance Until 5:57 A.M." text message for about 65 seconds.

WSNS Channel 44 Sign-On

National Anthem along with scenes of Chicago (Marina City Towers, Soldier Field)

Metro Focus community calendar notice

(Looks like there was a cut in recording here. ...

WLS Channel 7 - 13 Queens Blvd. - "For Better or Worse" (Opening, 1979)

Views: 2010

Here's the opening (and first few minutes) of the premiere episode of 13 Queens Blvd., "For Better or Worse," as aired over WLS Channel 7.

This short-lived sitcom - about a diverse group of middle-class residents at a Queens, New York apartment complex, and referred to as 13 Queens Boulevard by both IMDb and Wikipedia

WMAQ Channel 5 - "The Wizard of Oz" (Commercial Break #2, 1973)

Views: 2123

Here's a second surviving commercial break for the 1973 airing of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" (starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr) on WMAQ Channel 5. This was the seventh airing of this classic by NBC, which held the rights from 1967 to 1975. (Among the fare preempted this evening: The Wonderful World of Disney.) Includes:

Commercial: McDonald's - with a mother and her children driving to have a meal after her husband bids them goodbye ...

WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Matinee - "Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy" (Opening, 1982)

Views: 3107

Here's the opening moments of the Saturday Matinee presentation of the 1955 film "Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy" (the duo's final film for Universal, and their next-to-last in general) on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Saturday Matinee "Theatre Popcorn" opening bumper slide (completely updated from the older "Camera Lenses" version shown briefly at the tail end of this clip from the prior year),...

WBNG Channel 12 - Station Sign-Off (1984)

Views: 5282

Here's a station sign-off for WBNG Channel 12 in Binghamton / Elmira, NY.

This aired right after The CBS Late Movie presentation of the 1978 made-for-TV film "Three on a Date" (originally aired on the ABC Network on February 17th 1978, directed by Bill Bixby and with an all-star cast including June Allyson, Loni Anderson [pre-WKRP in Cincinnati], Ray Bolger, John Byner, Geoff Edwards, Carol Lawrence, Meredith MacRae, Rick Nelson . . . and Forbesy Russell [of