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The Star Wars Holiday Special - "Bantha Surprise" (Part 3, 1978)

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Here's Part 3 of The Star Wars Holiday Special featuring Gormaanda (Harvey Korman) - "The Julia Child of the Milky Way" showing Malla how to prepare a special Life Day dish.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 17th 1978.

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WTTW Channel 11 - Wild Chicago - "Good Health" (Part 1, 1991)

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Here is Part One of "Good Health In" Wild Chicago on WTTW Channel 11. Featuring Ben Hollis as host. I believe this was a compilation of segments from earlier shows all with a health-related theme. Includes:

Introduction and Opening of Wild Chicago

Russian Steam Baths at 1916 West Division.

Wild Neighbor John McSweeney of Berwyn and his "Tiger Moves" fitness program.

"Low Definition Mono"

This aired on local Chicago ...

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Talking View-Master - "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (Commercial, 1983)

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Here's a commercial for the new electronic Talking View Master viewer with Mickey's Christmas Carol cartridge.

"View-Master - The 3-D Company"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 9th 1983 during the 7:30 to 8pm half-hour.

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WGN Channel 9 - "Season's Greetings From The WGN Family" (Bumper, 1977)

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Here's a bumper for WGN Channel 9 wishing everyone a "Season's Greetings," with a video animated six-pronged snowflake morphing into a kaleidoscopic "Season's Greetings" seen forwards and backwards, followed by a wreath with Christmas tree lights on a red background and the all-important message - all to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 25th 1977.

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Merry Christmas From Mattel - "The Barbie Dream House" (Commercial, 1982)

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Here's a Christmas themed commercial for the Barbie Dream House by Mattel. Features a jingle based on the song "Georgy Girl".

Is that Missy Gold?

"SuperStar Ken Doll sold seperately"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, November 25th 1982. (Copyright 1979 - or is it 1978?)

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The Star Wars Holiday Special - "Ripped Bantha Head" (Part 7, 1978)

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Here's Part 7 of The Star Wars Holiday Special featuring the thrilling conclusion to the Boba Fett cartoon as well as Dromboid (Harvey Korman) showing Lumpy how to put together a mini-transmitter and doing some schtick.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 17th 1978.

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McDade's - "The Chicagoland Catalog House" (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's another Christmas commercial for McDade & Company, Inc. - this time they were calling themselves the "Chicagoland Catalog House", with locations in Burbank, Chicago Heights, Westmont, Carol Stream, Palatine, and Lincolnwood.

Anyone know who the actress is?

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 30th 1979.

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WTTW Channel 11 - "Its A Wonderful Pledge" (1987)

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Here is a hilarious and creative parody piece combining the ethos of Pledge Breaks with the classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life".

Former WTTW staffer and Emmy-award-winning producer Rick Kotrba recalls, "It was originally produced in December 1986 for party festivities at the WTTW studios. I was the writer/creator. The technician who recorded the sound and edited the video was Harvey Moshman.

In March 1987, this abridged version was created for broadc...

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WFLD Channel 32 - Tic Tac Dough - "Screwy Voiceover" (Bumper Promo, 1980)

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Here's a bumper promo for Tic Tac Dough on WFLD Channel 32. The Jim Barton voiceover started late and so we get to hear more of the background Field Communications music than usual.

They also screwed up because Tic Tac Dough wasn't next, Joker's Wild was. (with no Newscene update)

Mercifully, they then cut the whole thing off.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, October 27th 1980 at 7:30pm.