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WPWR Channel 50 - Nanny And The Professor - "1-900 Hall of Shame" (Opening & Break, 1991)

Views: 5341

Here is the opening to an airing of Nanny and the Professor (presenting the episode "The Astronomers") on WPWR Channel 50 and the commercial break that follows, with a sequence of hilariously bad and over-the-top 1-900 phone line commercials - each one more cheesy than the last.

Includes:

WPWR Star Trek: The Next Generation bumper promo (ending voiceover by ??)

Opening to Nanny and the Professor

Girl's Talk - 1-900-230-1700 ($...

WFLD Channel 32 - Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (Bumper #2, 1980)

Views: 1276

Here's another rare WFLD zooming bumper rescued from the trash heap of local TV history - this time for Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (the short-lived kids' version of the game show The Joker's Wild.

This bumper features different music than the first one.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 12th 1980 during the 5:30pm to 6:00pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (Bumper #1, 1980)

Views: 1535

Here's another rare WFLD zooming bumper rescued from the trash heap of local TV history - this time for Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (the short-lived kids' version of the game show The Joker's Wild.

This bumper features different music than the second one.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 12th 1980 during the 5:30pm to 6:00pm timeframe.

Weise's Shoes - "Christmas Starts At Weise's" (Commercial, 1976)

Views: 3643

Here's a Christmas themed commercial for Weise's Shoes.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Monday, December 6th 1976! (not Chicago, but close enough)

GK Chevrolet Of Downers Grove - "General Motors Raises Prices" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2154

Here's another commercial for GK Chevrolet in Downers Grove. The last time we saw one it had a really bad technical difficulty moment in it.

GK Chevrolet is now Bill Kay Chevrolet - part of the Bill Kay Automotive Group - still at the same place, 1601 Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove - even has the same phone number, except the area code is now 630 of course. :-)

Ending voiceover by J...

WFLD Channel 32 - "Happy Halloween From the Kids" (Bumper, 1984)

Views: 1272

Here's a short bumper from WFLD Channel 32 featuring some kids in costume wishing everyone a happy and safe Halloween. (last second cut off early)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 31st 1984 during the 6pm to 6:30pm timeframe.

Vise-Grip Tools (Commercial, 1986)

Views: 1170

Here's a Christmas commercial for Vise-Grip Tools.

This aired on local Chicago TV in December 1986.

Bell System - "The Gift That Lets Them Share" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1510

Here's a holiday themed commercial for long-distance gift certificates from the Bell System

"Give The Gift That Lets Them Share."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, December 4th 1982.

WTTW Channel 11 - Movie Eleven - "Dr. Who" (Opening, 1976)

Views: 5089

Here is some amazing, ancient footage that really has no business existing.
;-)

Finally the "classic" Movie Eleven opening from the 70's, complete. Prior to this the only footage I found was a brief snippet of the title card. This was a unique night because they were showing a 4 part episode of Dr. Who, "The Claws of Axos". The showed the episodes back-to-back with a brief intermission between ...