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WFLD Channel 32 - The Monkees - "Film Reel Flutter" (Technical Difficulties, 1984)

Views: 2968

Yep, those old film reels used to break. And good 'ol Channel 32 would have up to 30 seconds of dead, black air. Then, finally... a title card. Ah, the good old days.. :-)

This aired on local Chicago TV in the Fall of 1984.

WFLD Channel 32 - Six O'Clock Movie - "The FBI Story" (Technical Difficulties, 1981)

Views: 2925

Here's a technical difficulties moment during the WFLD Channel 32 Six O'Clock Movie presentation of "The FBI Story" - featuring a strange slide.

Perhaps Telefrank can tell us what's going on here? Why is the slide so dark and mysterious looking? Why/when would this ever be used?

Who knows how long this technical difficulties moment lasted? Unfortunately someone was impatient and paused the recording and restarted it when the film was fixed. :-)

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WFBN Channel 66 - The Avengers - "Technical Funk-Up" (1985)

Views: 4813

Here's a technical difficulties moment from WFBN Channel 66 during a broadcast of The Avengers.

We see the abrupt end of a commercial offer for a Civil War Chess Set and then a TV-66 "Road sign" station ID. Something's not quite kosher though as the interruption continues and the operator decides to make the most of it by playing some funky music (an excerpt of the song "What Is Hip", by Tower of Power) before the program returns.

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WFLD Channel 32 - Comedy Classics - "Stooge At The Switcher?" (1981)

Views: 2064

Here's a technical difficulties moment screw-up during an airing of The Three Stooges on WFLD Channel 32.

Larry must have taken over master control when the WFLD employee had his break.

This aired on local Chicago TV in the 4th week of April 1981, sometime before April 22nd.

WFLD Channel 32 - Comedy Classics - "Not Half Bad" (1986)

Views: 1966

Here's a technical difficulties moment during an airing of the Three Stooges short "Three Loan Wolves" on WFLD Channel 32's Comedy Classics. Looks like something got screwed up with the film chain and they had to switch to a still of the bumper while it was fixed.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, February 15th 1986 during the 10am to 11am timeframe.

WTTW Channel 11 - Doctor Who - "The Leisure Hive" (Opening & Technical Difficulties Moment, 1983)

Views: 3355

Here's the opening of the Doctor Who installment, "The Leisure Hive" on WTTW Channel 11, which also includes a technical difficulties moment.

Manning the mic this evening was Ms. Joan Kohn, who barrels through her voiceover like someone who is perhaps not as big a fan of Doctor Who as Marty Robinson. Rumor has it that she was half way out to her car in the parking lot before they told her she had to come back and announce a technical difficulties moment.

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WLS Channel 7 - The 4:30 Eyewitness News - "We Can Barely Hear You" (1983)

Views: 3249

Here's a minor technical difficulties moment during the 4:30 Eyewitness News on WLS Channel 7 in which anchor Mary Ann Childers sounds a bit snippy with reporter Bill Nigut after his remote signal breaks up. Also features co-anchor Tim Weigel.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, March 9th 1983 during the 4:30 to 5pm half hour.

WFLD Channel 32 - Movie 32 - "Topper Takes A Trip" (Missing Scene, 1971)

Views: 2025

Here's something weird - maybe the technical folks can tell us what happened here. During the opening of the Movie 32 presentation of "Topper Takes a Trip" on WFLD Channel 32 we see the credits stop and suddenly replaced by a number slide with "1596" written in grease pencil, then it goes to black, and then the credits resume.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 28th 1971.

WSNS Channel 44 - Summit Series Game 8 (Technical Difficulties?, 1972)

Views: 2849

Here's something strange - during the broadcast on WSNS TV-44 of Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series, they kept changing back to a World Championship Hockey slide - is this Channel 44's way of trying to do an ID or was this a glitch?

This happens all throughout the game it seems, at varying times.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, September 28th 1972. (Game aired here from 9pm to Midnight)