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WTTW Channel 11 - The Captioned ABC News (1978)

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Here's the first ten minutes of The Captioned ABC News on WTTW Channel 11, which was a replay of the evening's edition of World News Tonight that had aired earlier (at 5:30pm) on WLS Channel 7. The anchors were Max Robinson in Chicago, Peter Jennings in London (on assignment) and Frank Reynolds in Washington, with commentary by Howard K. Smith, and Barbara Walters with a special report (alas, of these five, only Reynolds and Robinson are the ones with significant airtime; the o...

Alan J. Dixon - Democrat For Secretary Of State (Political Ad, 1978)

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Here's a political ad for Alan J. Dixon - Democratic (incumbent) candidate for Secretary of State for Illinois. He was the one who introduced photographs on Illinois driver's licenses for the first time.

Featuring Monica McGuire, Sonja Castro, Arthur Woodard, Linda Valentino, Joann Annunzio, and James Folby. (the addresses are fake but maybe the names were real?)

Paid for by Citizens for Dixon - Roy Anthony, Chairman.

This aired on local Chicago ...

Yoda, Ben Kenobi, R2-D2 & Luke Skywalker By Kenner (Commercial, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for the Yoda, Ben Kenobi, R2-D2, and Bespin Luke Skywalker action figures from the Star Wars Empire Strikes Back collection, by Kenner. Similar but different from this later commercial, which focused more on promoting Yoda.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, April 10th 1981. (1980 Copyright - Lucasfilm Ltd.)

1st Metropolitan Builders - "Why Didn't You Bring The Children?" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's an earlier commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders, before they got their handyman spokesman, featuring a daughter and her mother in their newly remodeled kitchen. Same phone number - 282-8600.

Featuring actress Lillian Randolph as the mother. Lillian was in many movies and TV shows such as Amos N Andy, and "It's a Wonderful Life" as Annie, the Bailey's housekeeper. She was also the original voice of the maid on some early Tom & Jerry cartoons. (before it was redubb...

PM Magazine Chicago - "Rocky Horror" (1981)

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Here's a neat story on The Rocky Horror Picture Show musical that aired on PM Magazine Chicago featuring Mike Leiderman.

This is from the master 3/4" tape of the story, so it doesn't have the PM Magazine graphics that were shown on the off-air version.

Note: The audio on this is in stereo, with Leiderman's story voiceover on one channel and the music in another most of the time. (so if you're only hearing one or the other, that's the reason) I didn't g...

Medley Moving and Storage (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a commercial for Medley Moving and Storage, delivered by the firm's president Howard Medley. Here, as he describes the company's services ("When it come time for you to move..."), we see a miniature chair being put into a small Medley Movers box which is then put into a toy truck with the Medley name and phone number.

"Growing with Chicago through courtesy and reliability. Growing through word of mouth and cus...