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WFLD Channel 32 - "Video Voyage" (Promo, 1979)

Views: 871

Here's a promo for WFLD Channel 32's "Video Voyage" contest, in which winners could win a trip to Hawaii or a "home video tape recorder" (that's VCR to the rest of us), during which the viewer on the screen gets repeatedly hit on the head by a coconut.

Features clips from such Channel 32 staples as All in the Family (from the "Gloria's Pregnancy" episode which originally aired on February 16th 1971) and M*A*S*H (with Klinger's "big plan" consisting of guard duty...

ABC Network - World News Tonight - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 1, 1979)

Views: 5903

Here's Part 1 of a complete edition (with commercials) of ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in London and Max Robinson in Washington (Frank Reynolds was on vacation), from the day of the worst air disaster in U.S. history, the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 just outside Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Featuring Ron Miller. Includes:

Opening title segment (theme by Robert Israel for Score Productions) (voiceover by Bill Rice)

Max Robinson lead...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "New Year's News" (Excerpt, 1979)

Views: 2065

Here's an excerpt of a New Year's Day edition from Eyewitness News anchored by Vivian Rosenberg(?) and Jay Levine, with reports from John Culea, Sheila Stainback and Karen Kalish. Includes:

As the tape comes in, we are in the middle of a report on a spate of murders of Chicago cab drivers, the latest victim being 24-year-old Bejan Moshkel Gosha (?) of North Sheridan Road, found shot to death at North Ashland after quarreling with a group of people.

This i...

Pulsar Life Systems Center (Commercial, 1977)

Views: 1053

Here's a neat commercial for the Pulsar Life Systems Center that you used with your Pulsar guy - I remember this - he was cool. :-)

"Pulsar - The Ultimate Man of Adventure! (sold separately) from Mattel"

This aired on local Chicago TV in September of 1977.

The Best Of Creedence Clearwater Revival (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1995

Here's a commercial for The Best Of Creedence Clearwater Revival album - 20 super hits by CCR - available at K-Mart.

Voiceover at end by Mike Rapchak? (one of WLS-TV's many announcers)

Man, they sure don't make music like they used to.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, December 5th 1978.

Halston Perfume (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 2523

Halston perfume - available as a Christmas gift at Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (in 1981, that is)

This commercial features the actual designer Halston - the man himself.

(ending is cut off slightly due to next commercial starting too quickly)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 20th 1981.

Yule Connection (Local PSA, 1979)

Views: 2588

Here's a local PSA for Yule Connection at 728-2222. Featuring Phil Donahue. (Man, was that guys hair ever not gray?)

Presented by the Church Federation of Greater Chicago.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, December 25th 1979.

Central Furniture - "Central Man" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 702

Here's a commercial for Central Furniture located at 1348 North Milwaukee Avenue - using a rip-off of Superman (no doubt properly licensed from DC Comics). Hard to believe, but I checked and 28 years later they are still in business at the same location!

Voiceover by Chuck Fuller

"Look, up in the sky - it's a sofa..."

This aired on local Chicago TV on early Saturday, September 20th 1980.

Kentucky Fried Chicken - "The Colonel In Chicago" (Commercial, 1977)

Views: 2401

Here's a commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken (no, not KFC) featuring the man himself - Colonel Sanders. And in Chicago to boot!

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 4th 1977.