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Marvel Comics - "Summer Escape" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1622

Here's a neat commercial for Marvel Comics featuring kids at a playground reading the comic books. Definitely low-budget.

Features X-Men, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, Star Wars, and The Avengers.

Music almost sounds like the theme from Hawaii 5-O.

(ending voiceover ended just a tad early)

C. Marvel Comics Group
All Rights Reserved

This aired on local Chic...

WCIU Channel 26 - Bit Of Yugoslavia (Excerpt & Ending, 198?)

Views: 1076

Here's an excerpt and the ending from a Bit of Yugoslavia on WCIU Channel 26 - another program catered to a specific ethnic community. Includes:

A bit of a Bit of Yugoslavia excerpt - featuring the star of Saturday Night Fever (Yugoslavian version) ;-)

Commercial: Black Forest Emporium Restaurant
Commercial: Oak Mill Mall in Niles

WCIU Station ID

Not sure when this aired, other than on a Sunday.

McDade's - The Catalog House - "Coffee & Cuisinart" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2475

Here's a holiday commercial for McDade's - The Catalog House - featuring some Christmas deals on a coffee maker and food processor.

Featuring soap star Jed Allen.

"Sale ends December 17th, 1980"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, December 15th 1980.

Cool Whip & Jell-O - "Pudding in a Cloud" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2115

Here's a commercial for Jell-O Instant Pudding & Pie Filling and Bird's-Eye Cool Whip topping, featuring former Flying Nun co-star Marge Redmond (as Sarah Tucker) and Bill Cosby (as himself), and children eagerly awaiting a delicacy known as "Pudding in a Cloud" which was concocted through use of both products.

(C) 1980 General Foods Corporation.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, August 28th 1980.

WTTW Channel 11 - Festival '77 (Pledge Break, 1977)

Views: 2962

Here's an excerpt from the Festival '77 pledge drive on WTTW Channel 11.

This clip starts at the end of a performance of "One O'Clock Jump" with such legends as clarinetist Benny Goodman, singer Ella Fitzgerald, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie (the fella dancing with Ella), and Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson trumpeter/bandleader Doc Severinsen, as from the program All-Star Swing Festival, a tribute to the late Louis Armstrong which was taped at Philharmonic ...

Atari 2600 - "Play It!" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1621

Here's an early commercial for the Atari 2600 VCS (Video Computer System) featuring shots from the Atari Star Ship, Black Jack, and Basketball cartridges - and featuring the celebrities Carol Channing and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Only 20 cartridges were available at the time.

"Don't Just Watch Television Tonight - Play It!"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 26th 1978.

Olympia Dodge - "Space-Age Technology" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1423

Here's a commercial for Olympia Dodge with Bill Frank talking about their "Star Warranteed" program. Olympia Dodge locations were Route 30 and Western in Chicago Heights, 5549 Mannheim in La Grange, and Mannheim and Oakton in Des Plaines.

"As close to new as space-age technology will allow."

This aired on local Chicago TV early Monday, June 29th 1981 @ about 3:00am!

WLS Channel 7 - 30th Anniversary Special (Part 6, 1978)

Views: 1563

Here's Part 6 of WLS Channel 7's 30th Anniversary Special, broadcast from Chicago's Park West and hosted by Eyewitness News anchors Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly.

This part includes:

Long shot of anniversary audience and show title on screen, with intro of preview of films to be shown on ABC's movie shows in the 1978-79 season (introductory voiceover by Gary Gears)

"The Movies on ABC" promo (voiceover by Ernie Anderson), with clips from t...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 - "Maury Povich" (Short Promos, 1976/77)

Views: 1769

Here are two short promos for the coming arrival of Maury Povich as co-anchor with Ron Hunter of the 4:30pm and 6pm editions of NewsCenter5 on WMAQ Channel 5. The first features Broadway star Carol Channing, the second Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minnesota), each giving testimonials about what effect Mr. Povich will have on Chicago viewers. (It would be another decade, however, before Maury would have a major effect on the rest of the country.)

These aired on local C...