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WBBM Channel 2 - 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 6, 1985)
Views: 3119
Here's Part 6 of the (mostly complete) 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards broadcast.
This part features a musical salute to prime-time television by the Dick Marx Orchestra (Dynasty, Hill Street Blues, and Dallas), Mary Ann Childers, Rich Koz (with a Warren Freiberg reference to this event from the previous month), Irv Kupcinet, another Frank Chambers reference as producer of The Bob Lewando...
WLS Channel 7 - The Day After (Commercial Break #4, 1983)
Views: 2081
Here is Commercial Break #4 during The Day After on WLS Channel 7 - an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States. No sponsor wanted to buy ad time after the bombs were dropped, so this was the last break until the end of the movie. A full hour and 19 minutes with no commercial breaks or interruptions of any kind! Includes:
Commodore Computers - Zortek
Extra Strength Dexatrim
Dollar ...
Views: 2044
Here's an admittedly extra fuzzy commercial break from an airing of a Saturday All Night Movies presentation of "Journey to the Center of Time" on WSNS Channel 44. Also it's in Black and White, as it was recorded that way. For you TV-44 diehards only. :-) Includes:
Channel 44 Saturday All Night Movies "Owl" Logo
Record offer for "The Very Soul of Jerry Butler - His Greatest Hits" (main voiceover by Bill "Rosko" Mercer, ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds)
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WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Trog" (Break #4, 1985)
Views: 1953
Here's Break #4 for another episode of Son of Svengoolie that hasn't been seen in over 24 years! This was number 287 where he was presenting the movie "Trog". Includes:
A tender moment between Trog and Joan Crawford
Sven bumper
Commercial: Snuggle fabric softener
Commercial: Cellular One Car Phone
Commercial: Empire Carpets
Commercial: Chicago Sting soccer - "Hot Time, Soccer in the City", featuring Mark Simanton, Rudy Glenn and owne...
WFLD Channel 32 - Joker's Wild/Tic Tac Dough/To Tell The Truth (Promo, 1980)
Views: 4408
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...
FYI - "Carpooling Savings" (1981)
Views: 929
Here is another of the daytime interstitial features that ABC ran during the early eighties between Daytime Soaps - FYI - For Your Information - hosted by Mr. Barney Miller himself, Hal Linden.
Features a different opening and ending graphics than the one previously posted.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, January 8th 1981.
WSNS Channel 44 - Al Lerner Sports - "So Long..." (Part 1, 1971)
Views: 4737
Here's Part 1 of the final episode of Al Lerner Sports on WSNS Channel 44. Lerner was the station's first sportscaster, and would go on to a long career with such stations as WLS Channel 7, WMAQ Channel 5, WGN Radio 720 and WSCR-AM, as well as being a wrestling announcer. Also featuring a young (and at this point, moustacheless) Tim Weigel, then a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, who himself would become a familiar face on Chicago television, working for all three...
WFLD Channel 32 - Newstalk with Wanda Wells - "Psychology and the Vote" (Part 1, 1984)
Views: 1970
Here's Part 1 of an edition of Newstalk with Wanda Wells on WFLD Channel 32. This was one of the programs that survived the transition of station ownership from Field to Metromedia - although the opening titles and bumpers used the old Field-era logo while promos used the newer logos placed in effect after Metromedia assumed ownership.
Includes:
Newstalk opening titles
Wanda Wells previews the topics to be covered in this edition: