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Chicago Health & Racquetball Club (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 915

(NOTE - this clip was originally broadcast in color but was recorded in Black & White)

Here's a commercial for the Chicago Health and Racquetball Club - join now at '78 rates!

Progressive Resistance Exercises!

Short voiceover by Ron Beattie at end. (not sure who the other announcer is)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, January 17th 1979.

WBBM Channel 2 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Excerpts, 1975)

Views: 3575

Here's some surviving excerpts of the 1975 airing of a holiday perennial, the animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

A more complete "Season's Greetings" WBBM Station ID, with the same bumper slide as on here (voiceover by ??) - followed by CBS "bong"

Animated "A CBS Special Presentation" bumper

Opening titles of <...

Rock Trilogy (Record Offer, 1980)

Views: 2123

Here's a record offer for the Rock Trilogy - Spotlight the Greatest Hits of Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, and Tommy Roe by Hall of Music and Interceptor Sounds.

Main voiceover by Les Marshak. Ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, May 25th 1980.

The Disco Body Shaper (Commercial Offer, 1978)

Views: 8618

Here's a commercial for - if I didn't see it with my own eyes I would have thought it was a joke - the Disco Body Shaper. America's Newest Fitness Sensation!

Main voiceover by Bill Silver (same guy who did the Ginsu knives ads)

This aired on local Detroit TV on Tuesday, May 9th 1978. (Not Chicago TV, but still cool!)

Cat's Auto Parts (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 992

Here's a commercial for Cat's Auto Parts - sounds like an early competitor of Victory Auto Wreckers.

Voiceover by Floyd Brown.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, May 30th 1982.

Schlitz Malt Liquor - "Robin Hood" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 4028

Here's one of those great old Schlitz Malt Liquor commercials with the bull kickin' butt and chewin' bubble gum. And he was all out of bubble gum.

Trivia: The scene with the bull crashing through the windows from this particular commercial was used in the film "Johnny Dangerously".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, May 19th 1980. (1978 Copyright)

Fingerhut Genuine Chinese Wok (Commercial Offer, 1983)

Views: 2209

Here's a commercial offer for a Genuine Chinese Wok by Fingerhut.

I thought a "Chinese Steamer" was something else...

This aired on local Chicago TV in 1983.

WSNS Channel 44 - Al Lerner Sports - "So Long..." (Part 3, 1971)

Views: 1869

Here's Part 3 of the final episode of Al Lerner Sports on WSNS Channel 44. Lerner was the station's first sportscaster, and would go on to a long career with such stations as WLS Channel 7, WMAQ Channel 5, WGN Radio 720 and WSCR-AM, as well as being a wrestling announcer. Also featuring a young (and at this point, moustacheless) Tim Weigel, then a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, who himself would become a familiar face on Chicago television, working for all three...

120 Music Masterpieces (Record Offer, 1982)

Views: 9000

Here's a special Christmas present for one of our regular viewers here..."W.B.". This is one he has been wanting to see for a long time...just found it. :-)

Here's a record offer commercial for "120 Music Masterpieces" along with "30 Piano Masterpieces" by Vista Marketing. Features the actor John Williams.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, January 12th 1982.