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Illinois Lottery - "The Daily Game" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1343

Here's a commercial for the Illinois State Lottery's new Daily Game.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, February 27th 1980.

WGN Channel 9 - Chicago Bulls vs. Washington Bullets (Part 1, 1979)

Views: 5318

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Here's Part 1 of the Chicago Bulls vs. Washington Bullets game on WGN Channel 9, announced by Jack Fleming and John Kerr. Includes:

Commercial: Viromed - "All-Over Help For All Major Flu Symptoms"

Commercial: Chicagoland Oldsmobile Dealers ("The Gallant Men of Olds") - New Cutlass with Super-Sliding Sun Roof - "We Make Car Buying a Pleasure Again" (featuring George ...

Son Of Svengoolie - "Embarassor II" (1983?)

Views: 1085

Here's a segment from Son of Sven - the sketch "Embarassor II" (parody of the Ambassador II?)

Not sure what episode this was from but it was definitely from the eighties, probably around 1983.

(video has some distortion in it)

This aired on local Chicago TV on a Saturday sometime around 1983.

Heroes (Trailer For TV, 1977)

Views: 1191

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Here's a theatrical movie trailer for TV for the film "Heroes" starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field.

Ending voiceover by Carl Greyson.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 23rd 1977 at about 7:59pm.

WPWR Channel 60 - "The Switch to Channel 50" (Promo, 1986)

Views: 4184

Here is a promo for WPWR Channel 60 advertising the upcoming move to Channel 50, which happened in January of 1987. This promo dates to December 1986. (Poor video quality)

Voiceover by Larry Langford.

McDonald's - "Joe Kelley" (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 1588

Here's a commercial for McDonalds featuring "Joe Kelley" - food editor at the local newspaper - reporting that McDonald's hamburgers and cheesburgers were specially priced at 39 cents 49 cents respectively.

A user here, "BeatFarmer66", requested this commercial a couple of years ago as seen in the comments section of this video. Apparently, a former classmate of his named Sue Robbins played the part of th...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Baxters - "Women's Roles In Marriage"(Part 2, 1980)

Views: 2154

Here's Part 2, the final part of the Norman Lear created "interactive" program, The Baxters, as aired on WFLD Channel 32.

It was a pretty unique idea - the first half would be a fairly normal sitcom (whether or not it's any good is another question) that dealt with some issue of the day. The second half would be an in-studio discussion group to talk about the issues raised. Each city had their own locally produced second half (except for those who chose to use the "nat...

Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #1, 1981)

Views: 2400

Here's a commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)

(There is also a slightly different version of the same commercial)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho (Bumper #2, 1979)

Views: 663

Here's another bumper for The Best of Groucho on WFLD Channel 32. The video is the same as on the other bumper from the same period, except here the opening notes of the show's theme, "Hooray for Captain Spaulding," are played.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979 during the 9:30pm to 10pm timeframe.