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Homer's Furniture - "Bedroom Furniture Sale" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1341

Here's a commercial for Homer's furniture, offering a sale on bedroom furniture in such styles as authentic American, elegant provincial, exciting modern and smart contemporary, and ranging from timeless classics to flexible modular groupings. Sale ends April 30th. Five showrooms in Chicago, Lombard and Skokie.

Voiceover by Ron MacAdam (who was also an impressionist who did many voices as well as being the puppeteer for "Tracer the Dog" on The Dick Tracy Show featuring...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News (Pre-Show Break & Opening Excerpt, 1977)

Views: 4135

Here's the tail end of The ABC Monday Night Movie, a pre-show break, and the opening to Eyewitness News on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

Partial ABC promo for "How the West Was Won" (Part 2) (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Bumper for The ABC Monday Night Movie

Promo for Good Morning America featuring David Hartman and Paula - a two week old baby that they were going to monitor the progress of - I wonder how long that lasted? ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - All-Star Salute to Mother's Day [Excerpt] (Part 1, 1981)

Views: 1510

Here's our Part 1 of a portion of a special, All-Star Salute to Mother's Day, hosted by Ed McMahon and Jayne Kennedy, that aired on WMAQ Channel 5. This part features (in order of appearance) Charlie Callas, music director George Wyle, Debbie Reynolds (and her mother Maxine), and Melissa Sue Anderson (and her mother). Includes:

Station ID with Mike Jackson previewing story of two guards being blamed for two inmates' escape from county jail for 10pm newscast

WLS Channel 7 - Friday Night - "Steve & Garry" (Part 1, 1981)

Views: 1328

In honor of Steve Dahl's new foray into the world of Podcast Broadcasting (which begins today - check out Dahl.com for more info) - here is a vintage Steve & Garry appearance on WLS Channel 7's Friday Night with Jay Levine.

Part 1 begins a couple minutes into the program, and the audio take a few seconds to kick in. Steve talks about his being fired from WLUP FM 98.

(Commercials were cut out of thi...

Community Family Centers - "Meet The Lone Ranger" (Partial Commercial, 1976)

Views: 3479

Here's a really old (and unfortunately incomplete) commercial for Community stores featuring a promotion at the end for a live event where you could come out and meet the original Lone Ranger - Clayton Moore in person, on Saturday, June 19th 1976! Pretty cool. (this was before the famous lawsuit that tried to prevent Clayton Moore from wearing the mask)

"The Lone Ranger Ride...

Large Size Boba Fett & Darth Vader Action Figures By Kenner (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1050

Here's a commercial for the 12" large-size Star Wars Action figures of Boba Fett and Darth Vader - by Kenner. Interesting, since Boba Fett hadn't even been introduced as a character until Friday, November 17th 1978. (the date of the airing of the Star Wars Holiday Special)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 12th 1979.

The Ginsu (Commercial Offer, 1980)

Views: 3168

Here's the original commercial offer ad (or possibly with tiny changes to the ending voiceover) for Ginsu knives.

Followed by the Ginsu II and a million parodies.

Main voiceover by Bill Silver (a disc jockey at WPJB 105 FM in Providence, RI who did this and other ads for years).

"Now how much would you pay?...

WLS Channel 7 - 30th Anniversary Special (Part 3, 1978)

Views: 1102

Here's Part 3 of WLS Channel 7's 30th Anniversary Special, broadcast from Chicago's Park West and hosted by Eyewitness News anchors Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly.

This part includes:

Joel opening this segment by giving a shout-out to Jim Moran "The Courtesy Man," Marty Faye, Jim Conway, "Mr. Chicago" Irv Kupcinet, Norman Ross and Sandi Freeman, each of whom take their respective bows; Fahey then quips that Moran was "the only commercial spokesman to apo...

Carvel Ice Cream - "Tom Turkey Cake" (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 1254

Here's a treat for "Fuzzy" New Yorkers: a commercial for Carvel Ice Cream, promoting their "Tom Turkey" ice cream cake for Thanksgiving. (The molds used to produce this were also used for such other goodies as Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale.) Serves 10 to 12, net weight 45 ounces.

Voiceover by Tom Carvel (the founder and namesake of Carvel Ice Cream), both as himself and (sped-up and heavily processed) as Tom Turkey.

This aired on local New York City TV (and...