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Alpo With Lorne Greene (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's a commercial for Alpo beef flavored dinner dog food featuring Lorne Greene.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV in early January 1979. (not Chicago, but close enough)

WLS Channel 7 - Editorial - "Museum of Science & Industry's 50th Anniversary Salute" (1983)

Views: 1740

Here's a WLS-TV editorial from William C. (Bill) Campbell, Director of Public Affairs, speaking from the Museum of Science and Industry, in a salute to its 50th anniversary, at one point showing a commemorative stamp (20 cents - those were the days) issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Campbell also mentions how the Museum's home previously housed the Palace of Fine Arts for the 1893 Columbian World's Fair, and was also the first home of the Field Museum of Natural History, before the Museum w...

Life Cereal - Emmanuel Lewis (Commercial, 1983?)

Views: 1501

Here's a fun commercial for Life cereal from 1982 or 1983. Features Emmanuel Lewis (Webster). (Boy, he sure made a lot of scratch doing commercials in the 80's.) (I don't know who the other kid is.)

WREX Channel 13 - "The Circus" (Take 1, 1969)

Views: 3574

Here's a (evidently lipsynced) performance from a band called "The Circus" - recorded at WREX Channel 13 in Rockford, IL. (not sure if this ever ran on or was intended to run on WCIU Channel 26 or not)

This came from the other Quad tape that I found in Jack Mulqueen's basement recently. (recorded in low band, according to the slate at the opening of this clip - as accompanied by an 800 Hz tone).

I was hoping this tape might have contained another episode of...

McDonald's - "Santa's Helpers" (Commercial, 1985)

Views: 1770

Here's a Christmas commercial for McDonald's - "Santa's Helpers". Features a tie-in with "Santa Claus: The Movie".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, December 10th 1985.

WBBM Channel 2 - First Edition (Mostly Complete, 1979)

Views: 4477

Here's the first ten minutes of the First Edition news on WBBM Channel 2. The newsreader is announcer Jerry Harper. Includes:

Promo for Dinah! with guest Jacqueline Bisset for 3:30pm (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Opening, with these news items:

- Chinese forces capture at least 13 towns and 2 provincial capitals in Vietnam, with Soviets pledging to help Vietnamese - filmed report from Paul Byers in Hong Kong, with footage from Chinese TV; President C...

WBBM Channel 2 - The 20th Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 8, 1978)

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Here's Part 8 of the Twentieth Annual Chicago Emmy Awards on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Bob Newhart.

This part features John Callaway, Karen Lee Copeland, Warner Saunders, Scott Craig, and Essee Kupcinet, with a clip of Bert Convy.

Ms. Copeland won in the category of "Outstanding Achievements for a Special Event Program" [6] as producer of NBC Salutes Chic Chicago<...