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

Views: 2795

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 ...

Son of Svengoolie - Assorted Clips Compilation (Part 8)

Views: 1025

Here is Part 8 of a compilation of assorted Son of Svengoolie clips. I did not make this compilation - it has been floating around the trading circles for a long time, and this is the best copy I've been able to find. It has some neat clips you will not see anywhere else.

Featuring:

"We Can Win When We're Ugly" song parody (incomplete)

Featuring Rich Koz as Son of Svengoolie. Also starring Doug Scharf as Doug Graves, the piano player.

Son of Svengoolie - Assorted Clips Compilation (Part 7)

Views: 522

Here is Part 7 of a compilation of assorted Son of Svengoolie clips. I did not make this compilation - it has been floating around the trading circles for a long time, and this is the best copy I've been able to find. It has some neat clips you will not see anywhere else.

Featuring:

Easter with Bing (mostly complete - from April 1983, I assume?)

Featuring Rich Koz as Bing Crosby. Also starring Doug Scharf as Doug Graves, the piano player.

WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "The Bye-Bye Show" - "The Last Farewell" (Part 7, 1981)

Views: 30416

Here is Part 7, the last part, of the final episode of The Ray Rayner Show
as shown on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

"Kids in Chicago Having a Good Time" Ray Rayner bumper (Merri Dee voiceover)

Ray's Goodbye to Everyone

Don Orlando comes out to say farewell and to introduce a Chicago Goodbye Video featuring Mayor Jane Byrne, John Coughlin, Phil Donahue, Fahey Flynn, Noonbreak host Lee Phillip at WBBM Channel 2, Frazier Thomas, Bozo and Cooky, w...

WCIU Channel 26 - Station ID (198?)

Views: 1491

Here's a Station ID for WCIU Channel 26.

"This is Channel 26 - Chicago's First Ultra High Frequency Station - Broadcasting from the Top of the Board of Trade Building. WCIU-TV Chicago." (voiceover by Bill O'Connor)

Not sure when this aired exactly but early 80's is a good bet.

WTTW Channel 11 - The Doctor Becomes A Prisoner (Promo, 1991)

Views: 2531

Here's a promo for the change from Doctor Who to The Prisoner on WTTW Channel 11.

The end of an era. Still, it got me into watching The Prisoner.

Voiceover by Marty Robinson.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Monday, August 26th 1991.

WLS Channel 7 - The Hollywood Squares (Ending & Post-Show Break, 1981)

Views: 4804

Here is the ending to Hollywood Squares on WLS Channel 7 including a post-show commercial break. Includes:

Last second of an Illinois Office of Tourism commercial.

Ending of The Hollywood Squares featuring host Peter Marshall - including credits and Filmways logo. (Contestant prize info voiceover by Kenny Williams)

Commercial: Pontiac T1000 (the Terminator?) at Your Favorite Pontiac Dealer.

Chicagoland Auto Recyclers - A-Suburban an...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Meditations, Station Sign-Off, & SSB (1981)

Views: 5519

Here's the earliest known (to date) sign-off sequence for WMAQ Channel 5. Includes:

Bumper promo for Entertainment Tonight at 4:00pm on Channel 5 (voiceover by ??)

Meditations delivered by Rev. John F. Fahey, St. Clement Church - Produced in Cooperation with the Archdiocese of Chicago - WMAQ-TV Public Affairs - Pre-recorded - (C) National Broadcasting Company Inc., 1981 All Rights Reserved (The Charles Addams New Yorker cover that Reverend ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Newscope - "The Blizzard of '67" and Other Stories (Part 4, 1967)

Views: 2036

Here's Part 4, the last part, of an edition of Newscope on WFLD Channel 32, anchored by Patrick Muldowney.

NOTE: This is the earliest footage currently known to exist of a WFLD broadcast (albeit via kinescope); the sound heard in the background on the right channel is of time code as heard on 3/4" Umatic tapes. (this is not our museum's transfer)

Includes:

Patrick Muldowney gives the weather report, with fair skies and temperatures t...