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WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 - "The Family" (Promo, 1978)

Views: 1765

Here's a promo for a NewsCenter5 special on WMAQ Channel 5 - "The Family" - about the Vienna Correctional Center - a minimum security prison in Illinois - and the people trying to turn their lives around and get rehabilitated. The special aired on Friday, March 31st 1978 at 7:30pm.

Voiceover by Ed Grennan.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, March 29th 1978.

ON TV - Adults Only - "The World of Henry Paris" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 12519

Here's some cool footage - the transition from regular ON TV Subscription Television programming to the "Optional Service" of Adults Only mode, which was presenting the movie "The World of Henry Paris".

Voiceover for ON TV ID and introduction/transition part is WSNS' former General Manager/Announcer Mal Wyman.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Thursday, December 17th 1981 at about 12:55am.

KCOP Channel 13 - Romper Room (Excerpts and Commercial Break, 1977)

Views: 3359

Here's a neat and rare clip of the local Los Angeles Romper Room show from 1977! (this was yet another "easter egg" found at the end of a Betamax tape whose contents had been partially recorded over - boy, do we love these!)

The host was Miss Soco (Socorro Swan - now Socorro Serrano) who incidentally was the only Latina teacher the show ever had in all of its incarnations. She presided over the LA-area Romper Room from 1975 to 1989, having taken over from Miss Mary A...

WLS Channel 7 - Makin' It (Opening, 1979)

Views: 2413

Here's the opening for the short-lived disco-era series Makin' It starring David Naughton (star of "American Werewolf in London" and the Dr. Pepper "Be a Pepper" guy)

Also includes a WLS-TV Chicago 7 bumper slide at the beginning (voiceover by Al Parker)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 9th 1979 at 7pm.

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News With Diane Allen (Bumper Promo, 1981)

Views: 2221

Here's a quick bumper promo for the Eyewitness News at 6 with Diane Allen on WLS Channel 7.

Voiceover by Gary Gears.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 14th 1981.

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News With Joel Daly (Bumper Promo, 1981)

Views: 2647

Here's a quick bumper promo for the Eyewitness News at 4:30 with Joel Daly on WLS Channel 7.

Voiceover by Gary Gears.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 14th 1981.

WFLD Channel 32 - "Lucy & Family" (Promo, 1980)

Views: 1271

Here's a promo for I Love Lucy and the All in the Family Hour on WFLD Channel 32. The schedule was:

I Love Lucy at 5:30pm
All in the Family Hour at 6pm

Voiceover by Jim Barton.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, July 3rd 1980.

WLS Channel 7 - "Reflections, Sign-Off, & Anthem" (1981)

Views: 7805

Here's Reflections, Station Sign-Off, and National Anthem for WLS Channel 7. Includes:

Reflections with Fr. Joseph E. Corrican, Our Lady of Mount Carmel - "The Difference Between Heaven and Hell"

Station Sign-off (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

The Star-Spangled Banner

Static

Fuzz

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, February 25th 1981 at about 3am.

Field Communications - "Scanimated" (ID, 1978)

Views: 1175

Here is the updated animated Field Communications ID, created to replace the earlier static version seen at the beginning of this clip here. (We even have a San Francisco version of the old-style ID)

This ID was seen on all of the Field stations, often accompanied by a voiceover (by Darwin Gillette) denoting the particular city it wa...