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WCIU Channel 26 - The Oscar Canales Show - "Harriet Blake Sings" (1977)

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Here's a segment from a program called The Oscar Canales show on WCIU Channel 26 featuring a singer named Harriet Blake.

"On Monday Nights at 9pm WCIU had a series of rotating producers who would produce a monthly special. Oscar Canales was one of those host producers. Oscar was a singer who would always open the show with a song, sometimes singing with his guest. On this particular night his guest was Harriet Blake, another singer. She put on quite a performance and I h...

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WBBM Channel 2 - The CBS Late Movie - Double Feature - "Barnaby/Love Affair" (Opening, 1979)

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Here's the opening for The CBS Late Movie on WBBM Channel 2 where they were doing a double feature (weren't there two movies shown every night though?) with the first being the Barnaby Jones episode "The Deadlier Species" (first aired on the CBS Network on March 18th 1975), followed by the movie "A Love Affair - The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story." (CBS Late Movie voiceover by Norm Stevens)

Also includes a WBBM Match Game bumper promo at the beginning - "Weekdays a...

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1st Metropolitan Builders - "Helping Chicagoland Families" with Peter Lawford (Commercial #1, 1979)

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Here's a commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders featuring legendary actor Peter Lawford outside and inside a Chicago area mansion, explaining how 1st Metropolitan helps "thousands of families" in and around the Chicago area remodel their homes to suit their changing needs.

This ad was produced five years before the co-star of such now-classic films as "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Good News" and "Royal Wedding," and onetime member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," died, on Dece...

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WTTW Channel 11 - Auction '77 - "Creative Mirror Designs Original Ad with Pam" (1977)

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Here's a segment of WTTW Channel 11's Auction '77, featuring Creative Mirror Designs auction #9415 with Pam the "Creative Mirrors Girl." (the daughter of the owner)

We start with a countdown and paper written down:
"Special Pres. - 4-17-77 - Creative Mirrors 9415"

What follows next was actually the original Creative Mirrors commercial (or at least the first 13 seconds of it before Don Ferris takes over for the actual Auction segment). This a...

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WLS Channel 7 - Sunday Night Movie - "Lolita" (Promo, 1973)

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Here's a promo for the upcoming Sunday Night Movie presentation of the 1962 film "Lolita" starring James Mason and Sue Lyon, to air on Sunday, June 10th 1973 at 10:45pm.

This was preserved on a silent 16mm film (I added the Lolita theme since I wasn't sure what else might have been appropriate). The actual airing of this promo would have been accompanied by a voiceover from any of Channel 7's staff announcer...

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WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #4, 1979)

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Now for some more neat old TV-44 footage!

Here is Commercial Break #4 for The 1 O'Clock Movie presentation of the animated "Gulliver's Travels" on WSNS. Includes:

The 1 O'Clock Movie bumper slide

Shades of Green - Great Irish Ballads as sung by Martin Flynn - Hall of Music Record Offer

TV-44 Chicago Black Hawk Hockey promo - Weeknights at 6 (Voiceover by Linda Frost)

The 1 O'Clock Movie bumper slide

Un...

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WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Hoffman & Ski Show" (Part 6, 1978)

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Here's the sixth and final part of an (incomplete) episode of AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

Sandi Freeman previewing the next day's edition, including an interview with an author of a new book about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and a man who thinks lawyers get paid too much, before going back to Robb Weller at the Ski Show '78 at McCormick Place West which starts at 6:00pm and runs through Sunday; he closes the program by introducing a ski-and-dance routine set t...

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WTVO Channel 17 - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Commercial Break #2, 1978)

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Oops - one more Rockford leftover. (although we will probably have a part 2 of Rockford week in the future)

Here's the second commercial break from an episode of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert on WTVO Channel 17. Includes:

Ending of Moody Blues segment on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.

Commercial: Edge gel - "Lets you shave closer than foams".

Commercial: Smitty perfume by Cody - "Smitty Did It."

Commercial: Coleco Amaze-A...

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WFLD Channel 32 - News/Sports Wrap With Chet Coppock (Tiny Excerpt, 1972?)

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Here's a very small excerpt of the very tail end of a News/Sports Wrap (try one, they're delicious) with Chet Coppock that aired on WFLD Channel 32. At the time, Mr. Coppock was one of the station's staff announcers (as was Del Clark), as well as sportscaster; only in his early 20's at the time, he went on to a long career in sports broadcasting, and is regarded as one of the fathers of spo...