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WMAQ Channel 5 - Weekend (Opening, 1979)

Views: 1654

Here's the opening moments for an edition of one of the 100 or so newsmagazines NBC attempted until finally hitting it in the 1990's with Dateline NBC. This is of Weekend, which had aired every so often since the mid-1970's (in the first year or so of NBC's Saturday Night Live, Weekend aired once a month in that same time slot). The hosts at this juncture were Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobyns, who would later co-anchor the short-lived NBC News Overnight tog...

Weebles Tree House by Romper Room (Commercial, 1975)

Views: 1524

Here's a commercial for Weebles Tree House from Romper Room, with two kids demonstrating how it works including pails that move the dolls up to the top, and hideouts if company comes (they wobble but never fall down).

Personally, I preferred the Weebles Haunted House. :-)

Ending voiceover by ??

"Imagine living in a Weebles Tree House . . . "

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 12th 1975 during the 12:00p...

WPRO Channel 12 - 11th Hour News with Bob Wallace (1965)

Views: 1866

Not from Chicago, but definitely Chicago related (as we'll get to in a moment) - here's a rarity, transferred directly from a 2" quad videotape, an edition of the 11th Hour News on WPRO Channel 12 in Providence, Rhode Island (which, since 1967, has been known as WPRI-TV; except for the period 1977-1995 when they were affiliated with ABC, the station has otherwise been, and is today, a CBS affiliate).

The anchor is someone you likely know well - Bob Wallace, years before ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service (Opening, 7/16/82)

Views: 2600

Here's another rare example of WFLD Channel 32's Keyfax Nite-Owl Service, notably the first six minutes thereof on this particular day.

Nite-Owl was WFLD's equivalent to two primitive (by today's standards), digital-based overnight "tele-text" services prevalent on British television, BBC's long-running Ceefax and ITV's (Independent Television, the commercial TV outlet) Oracle. Ceefax lasted up to the end of analogue television in England in ...

WGN Channel 9 - Emergency Broadcast System - "This is NOT a Test" (1985)

Views: 2815

Here's a pretty spooky clip - transferred from an RCA Quad cart (for playing on model TCR-100 cart machines) loaded with 2" videotape.

A Fuzzy Personal Note: "I grew up at the height of the 2nd great nuclear war scare period (the first being the Cuban Missile Crisis of course), having been chilled to the bone from seeing movies like “The Day After” in 1983 when I was nine years old. So this clip was very fascinating to me, and seems to be a glimpse at what we might ...

WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Matinee - "Abbott and Costello in Mexican Hayride" (Opening & Break, 1981)

Views: 2103

Here's the opening moments and first commercial break for the Saturday Matinee presentation of the Abbott and Costello film "Mexican Hayride" [1948] on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

WGN "globe" ID with promo for Weekend with the Stars for 10:00pm (voiceover by Steve Hunter)

Saturday Matinee slide and opening theme music ("Happy Feet" by Quincy Jones, from "Walk - Don't Run" [1966]), with voiceover (by Steve Hunter) introducing the film starring "...

WCAE Channel 50 - 3-2-1 Contact (Technical Difficulties Moment, 1980)

Views: 1461

Here's a strange technical difficulties moment from an airing of the series 3-2-1 Contact on the PBS station WCAE Channel 50 (St. John, Indiana) - which later became WYIN Channel 56. (giving up the Channel 50 frequency which would then be taken over by WPWR-TV)

We start, innocently enough, with the animated CTW (Children's Television Workshop) logo opening, already in progress, followed by the opening titles sped way-up. Now wait - you might assume that this is the tec...

ON TV - "Forget About the Weather" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1237

Here's a commercial for ON TV, Chicago's first pay TV subscription service, inviting people to "forget the weather" and see over 30 movies a month (clips from such recent films as "Superman," "10," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Every Which Way But Loose," and "Slap Shot" are shown).

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, January 17th 1981.

Krazy Glue - "Let Krazy Glue Do It!"
(Again) (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 947

Here's another commercial for Krazy Glue, which shows the many ways how broken objects can be repaired.

This is a different commercial from, but made in the same year as, this ad which aired two years before - and which features the same funk-and-discofied jingle. Unlike the earlier clip, however, this is shown as originally broadcast - in color.

(C) 1978 Krazy Glue, Inc.

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