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WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Breakdancing & Belafonte" (Part 3, 1984)

Views: 1999

Here's Part 3 of a partial episode of AM Chicago starring Oprah Winfrey as host. This episode features Harry Belafonte talking about his involvement with the movie "Beat Street" (released earlier in the month) and featuring some of Chicago's most talented break dancers. Includes:

The "Planet Rockers" breakdancing group.

Commercial: Dianetics with John Brodie

Commercial: Fashionation - "Olympicwear Buyout!"

Commercial: Hotline Legal...

WGN Channel 9 - "Mom, The Wolf Man and Me" (Promo #1, 1980)

Views: 725

Here's a promo for an upcoming Operation Prime Time presentation of "Mom, The Wolf Man and Me" on WGN Channel 9, to be aired at 7pm. This made-for-TV movie, produced by Time-Life Television and adapted from the best-selling novel by Norma Klein, stars Patty Duke Astin (as "Mom"), David Birney (as "The Wolf Man"), Keenan Wynn, Danielle Brisebois (the "me" in the title), Viveca Lindfors, John Lithgow, and Chris Barnes.

Main voiceover by Les Marshak. Ending voiceover by M...

WGN Channel 9 - Creature Features (Opening + Sales Presentation Excerpt, 1970?/1973)

Views: 7275

Here it is - a special Halloween and 4th Fuzzy Anniversary Treat - not a re-creation, but an original opening to Creature Features - WGN Channel 9's showcase of scary movies.

Also included is the only other authentic video footage of Creature Features currently known to exist - an excerpt from a 1973 internal WGN-TV Sales Presentation.

Quad Tape version directed by Ron Weiner. Editing by Vince Humphries. (back when Quad editing was quite a masterf...

CBS Video Games - Wizard of Wor - With John Madden (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 3130

Here is a commercial for the CBS video game "Wizard of Wor" for the Atari 2600 VCS. (Soon for Colecovision)

Featuring the CBS Video Games Challenge of Champions - Tony Sarkis Vs. Ray Johnson - as well as a money back guarantee (Offer ends January 31st 1983) and some all-star selling by football commentator John Madden.

"Dramatization of actual competition."

This aired on local Chicago TV Saturday, January 15th 1983.

Atari - "Test Facility" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 2018

Here's a commercial from Atari, depicting a test facility for games from the Atari 2600 VCS (Video Computer System).

Features Kareem Abdul-Jabaar going up against Atari's basketball game, race car legend Mario Andretti testing their Night Driver game, and soccer great Pele testing their Pele's Championship Soccer game - and the games beating them all.

Voiceover by Danny Dark?

"We take our games seriously so you have more fun."

WLUP The Loop FM 98 - "Lorelei Lip-Syncing" (Commercial, 1980?)

Views: 5813

Here's a cool vintage commercial for WLUP - The Loop - FM 98. I believe this airing is from early 1980.

Features that original hot siren Loop chick - Lorelei, lip-syncing to Steve Dahl & Garry Meier, Les Tracy, Mitch Michaels (Doin' the Cruise!), and Sky Daniels!

(Also features a tiny snippet of a WFLD Channel 32 M*A*S*H bumper at the beginning) Enjoy!

Commercial Produced by Chuck Blore.

The Most Important Person - "OOPS, I Made A Mistake!" (1972)

Views: 7476

Here is probably the most famous segment of the animated short "The Most Important Person". This one's called "OOPS, I Made A Mistake!".

In Chicago, these aired during commercial breaks on WFLD Channel 32 and WTTW Channel 11 during the seventies and possibly as late as the early eighties.

Distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation - EBE.

Funded by The Office of Child Development - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. <...

WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 6, 1979)

Views: 1281

Here's Part 6 (the final part) of the controversial Academy Award-winning documentary Scared Straight! (hosted and narrated by Peter Falk) as aired on WFLD Channel 32. This was from an "encore presentation." Includes:

Scared Straight! zooming title bumper, with shot of a cell door with inmate inside closing

Inside the room where the three-hour session took place, Falk (employing some of the same mannerisms he used in his portrayal of Lieutenant Co...

Way to Go (Part 2a, 1980)

Views: 619

Here is Part 2a of a long-forgotten Field Communications produced program for kids called Way to Go. This episode (which may infact be the first one) is from 1980.

I am pretty sure this was produced at the Field station KBHK-TV Channel 44 in San Francisco.

This program aired on WFLD Channel 32 in Chicago on Sunday mornings at 9:30am in July of 1981 (Thanks, smctopia!) and may have aired at other times too.

Features:

The Way to Go g...