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WFLD Channel 32 - Joker's Wild/Tic Tac Dough/To Tell The Truth (Promo, 1980)

Views: 4406

Here's a cool promo for the game shows The Joker's Wild, Tic Tac Dough, and To Tell The Truth on WFLD Channel 32. The lineup was:

7:30pm - The Joker's Wild
8:00pm - Tic Tac Dough
8:30pm - To Tell The Truth

Also includes a WFLD Channel 32 bumper for the presentation of the movie "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" which was sort of included in the end of the game shows promo.

You can hear some neat variations of the Field Communications theme use...

SportsChannel - The Sports Writers On TV (Part 4, 1991)

Views: 1381

Here's an episode of The SportsWriters on TV, as aired on SportsChannel - one of the hosts of which we lost recently (Bill Gleason).

Featuring Bill Jauss of the Chicago Tribune, Rick Telander of Sports Illustrated, Bill Gleason from the South Bend, Indiana Tribune, and hosted by Ben Bentley.

In Part 4, they discuss the job of coach of the Notre Dame basketball team and why no one wants it.

Includes:

Commercial: True Value Hardware St...

The 24 Days of Christmas - "England" with Michael Caine (1979)

Views: 1454

Here's another installment from the recurring 24 Days of Christmas one-minute featurettes, here with Michael Caine (just a few short years away from becoming "The Hardest Working Man in Hollywood") describing the Christmas traditions in England (five years before WBBM Channel 2's Bob Wallace travelled all the way there to find them out in person). Caine starts off by invoking the names of key characters from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" before listing holiday traditions that d...

The Record Vacuum By Ronco (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 5381

Here's a commercial for another fine Ronco product for the holidays - The Record Vacuum. They really do make great Christmas gifts - buy 2, or 3, or even 87. Available at:

Walgreens
Woolco
Woolworth
Osco Drug
Family Drug Center
Ace Hardware
Good Neighbor Pharmacy
and "Authorized" Ronco Dealers

Ending voiceover by Jim Barton.

This is an updated, longer version with a new box and new design of the un...

Toys "R" Us (Christmas Commercial #4, 1981)

Views: 2416

Here's an animated Christmas commercial for Toys "R" Us, with Geoffrey the Giraffe and his family gathered 'round the fireplace before heading off to the area Toys "R" Us store to sample all the toys being offered - all to a special holiday-themed arrangement of "The World's Biggest Toy Store...The Biggest Selection" jingle.

This particular (and memorable) ad had aired at least since 1976, but in this form (with a notice t...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Gong Show (Ending & Break, 1978)

Views: 4457

Here's the ending and after show break for The Gong Show on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Gene-Gene, The Dancing Machine!

Ending credits for The Gong Show (ending voiceover by Ron Beattie - with promo for 10:30am Saturday movie - Laurel & Hardy in "Air Raid Wardens" (good for a double check on the date)

Bigsby & Kruthers

Loc Blocs - "Lego Vs. Loc Bloc"

The Egg Scrambler by Ronco (ending voiceover by Ron Beattie)

CBS Network - Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales & Twas The Night Before Christmas (Promo, 1980)

Views: 1384

Here's a CBS Network promo for two Christmas specials coming up on Saturday, December 13th 1980 - "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales" and the Rankin-Bass special, "Twas the Night Before Christmas" Also includes a CBS "EYE-D" at the end. (voiceover by ??)

Main voiceover by ??

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, December 9th 1980 during the 8pm to 10pm timeframe.

The Roast Of Tim Weigel - "Jack Brickhouse" (Part 2, 1981)

Views: 2262

Here's Part 2 of an interesting "backstage" glimpse at some local TV personalities of yore - raw footage shot at a dinner event "roasting" Tim Weigel. (Roasting Weigel's Weiner?) Included are such notables as Fahey Flynn, Ray Meyer, Joel Daly, Bill Veeck, Al Lerner, Bill Gleason, Jack Brickhouse, and more. (Can anyone help ID any? They don't have to be famous, if you know who someone is, let me know)

Part 2 includes Al Lerner as M.C. and Jack Brickhouse giving Tim a good jo...

The Roast Of Tim Weigel - "Bill Gleason" (Part 3, 1981)

Views: 1427

Here's Part 3 of an interesting "backstage" glimpse at some local TV personalities of yore - raw footage shot at a dinner event "roasting" Tim Weigel. (Roasting Weigel's Weiner?) Included are such notables as Fahey Flynn, Ray Meyer, Joel Daly, Bill Veeck, Al Lerner, Bill Gleason, Jack Brickhouse, and more. (Can anyone help ID any? They don't have to be famous, if you know who someone is, let me know)

Part 3 includes Bill Gleason (of "Sportswriters (Sports Writers) on TV" fa...