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WTTW Channel 11 - Doctor Who - "The Leisure Hive" (Opening & Technical Difficulties Moment, 1983)

Views: 3345

Here's the opening of the Doctor Who installment, "The Leisure Hive" on WTTW Channel 11, which also includes a technical difficulties moment.

Manning the mic this evening was Ms. Joan Kohn, who barrels through her voiceover like someone who is perhaps not as big a fan of Doctor Who as Marty Robinson. Rumor has it that she was half way out to her car in the parking lot before they told her she had to come back and announce a technical difficulties moment.

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WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "The Walking Dead" (Break #5, 1985)

Views: 1598

Here's Break #5 to an episode of Son of Svengoolie that hasn't been seen in close to 24 years! This was number 318 where he was presenting the movie "The Walking Dead". Includes:

Sven bumper with Godzilla 1985 contest details again

Commercial: Citrus Hill Select orange juice - "Gets Your Juices Flowing"
Commercial: Folgers Coffee featuring Scott Bakula (again)
Commercial: Nu Finish car polish

Sven return bumper

This a...

WFLD Channel 32 - Casper (Commercial Break #2, 1979)

Views: 2913

Another rare WFLD Channel 32 cartoon break! (I thought there was only one but there were two) Includes:

WFLD Casper bumper (dig that funky music!)

Look 'N' Love Dolly - doll for girls by Remco

Alpha Bits cereal - "Free Label Maker"

Hot Wheels by Mattel - "The Hot Wheels Line for '79" (I'm pretty sure I had the car with the Union Jack on the hood)

WFLD Casper kids' choice jingle bumper (unfortunately cut off early at t...

WBBM Channel 2 - Newsbreak with John Drummond (1978)

Views: 2587

Here's a Newsbreak update on WBBM Channel 2 featuring the venerable Chicago newsman John "Bulldog" Drummond. Includes:

"This is CBS" 'Eye' Station ID.

September heatwave continues with today being the hottest day of 1978.

Police discover body of unidentified man in the trunk of a car at O'Hare airport. (Long Term Parking?)

Board of Elections rules that Governor Thompson's tax limit referendum will be on the November ballot.
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WGN Channel 9 - Sunday Matinee - "Charlie Chan And The Feathered Serpent" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 3125

Here is the opening for the Sunday Matinee presentation of "Charlie Chan and the Feathered Serpent" on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Sunday Matinee opening with instrumental version (by Raymond Lefevre and His Orchestra) of "Groovin'" made popular by The Young Rascals.

Features the old-time car graphics, which must have replaced the movie camera graphics sometime between February and December 1981. Most likely, it was replaced at the beginning of the Fall sea...

WSNS Channel 44 - Al Lerner Sports - "So Long..." (Part 3, 1971)

Views: 1864

Here's Part 3 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 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Trog" (Break #4, 1985)

Views: 1943

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...

WSNS Channel 44 - Thing Theatre - "Attack Of The Robots" (Opening, 1978)

Views: 5034

Here's a special Halloween & 2nd Anniversary treat -

Another faint and fuzzy memory rescued from the trashbin of obscurity - the opening to Thing Theatre on WSNS TV-44!

Thanks to a helpful YouTube commenter, we now know what the theme song for Thing Theatre is, where it came from and who it's by. You'll never believe it!

It's from the soundtrack to the movie "Car Wash" (released in 1976), performed by Rose Royce, and the exact title is Cut...

WLS Channel 7 - The ABC Friday Night Movie - "Curse of the Black Widow" (Opening & Break, 1977)

Views: 1425

Here's the opening and first commercial break of The ABC Friday Night Movie presentation of "Curse of the Black Widow" - a made-for-TV movie starring Vic Morrow, Patty Duke, June Lockhart, June Allyson, and Sid Caesar. Includes:

WLS-TV Channel 7 bumper

Opening of The ABC Friday Night Movie with "Curse of the Black Widow" teaser

Commercial: Nabisco Spoon-Size Shredded Wheat - "Tasty Snacks at a Thrifty Price"

Commercial...