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WFLD Channel 32 - The Underdog Show (Commercial Break #2, 1990)

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Here's another commercial break for The Underdog Show from it's waning run on WFLD Channel 32 - Summer of 1990. Includes:

The Underdog Show bumper

The New Fox 32 Kid's Lineup teaser - with Bobby's World promo (starring Howie Mandel)

Oreo Cookies

Tuff Trax by Galoob

Frosted Flakes with Tony the Tiger - Brings out the Tiger in you! (Sure, you'd win a rowing competition too if you had a giant tiger on your side)
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Pontiac Grand Prix - "Like a Rich Man's Car" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1298

Here's a local-themed commercial for the Pontiac Grand Prix, with chauffeur "Roberts" (played by George Womack, who died in 1983 at age 61) driving the car in and around Chicago, and explaining how it looks and drives "like a rich man's car" but doesn't cost like one. Also featuring Dan Henrick as the car's owner. Ends with a shot of the Grand Prix going through one of the Chicago highways and the message: "See the Guys with Pontiaction, and Price Our Grand Prix - Chicagoland and Northern I...

WFLD Channel 32 - Movie 32 - "Topper Takes A Trip" (Break #2, 1971)

Views: 4162

Here's Commercial Break #2 for the Movie 32 presentation of "Topper Takes a Trip" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

HFC (Household Finance Corporation) Mortgages (in color)

What's Happening!? WFLD promo (in color) featuring Jerry G. Bishop (in his Svengoolie-era days) along with someone else. (Little did WFLD know that years later they would be showing another (unrelated) show with the same name) ;-) "Every day at 2:10" (?) Why not 2:23 or 12:56? ;-)

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 4:30 (Opening Segment Excerpt, 1984)

Views: 5006

Here is the opening and first three minutes of the WLS Channel 7 Eyewitness News featuring Mary Ann Childers, Joel Daly, Steve Deschler, and Jim Rose.

Jim Gibbons reports on the search for a missing Crete, Illinois boy, 2 and a half year old Michael DesForges, Jr., that was called off on that day. His father, Michael DesForges, Sr. speaks as well as Lt. Ray Van Dyke of the Will County Sheriffs Department. Also features a report on the search by Cora-Ann Mihalik.

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Reagan for President - "Margin of Safety" (Political Ad, 1980)

Views: 878

Here's a political ad from GOP Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, which ran four days before the election. Here he speaks about the need to maintain a "margin of safety" to preserve the peace in the world through more than one means - economic, through alliances among other nations, and militarily.

Ending voiceover by Robert Stack (yes, folks, the Robert Stack of The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries and "Airplane!" fame).

Paid for ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Action Movie - "Apache Rifles" (Commercial Break #1, 1983)

Views: 2053

Here is Commercial Break #1 (only one I have) to WFLD Channel 32's Action Movie - "Apache Rifles". Includes:

WFLD Channel 32 Action Movie bumper (music only)

Reynolds Wrap

Empire Carpets (featuring a version of the famous jingle I've never heard before - they probably used it for a total of 3 days before someone came to their senses and canned it)

WFLD Channel 32 Starsky & Hutch promo (again)

WFLD Channel 32 Action Mo...

WGN Channel 9 - NewsNine (Ending, 1979)

Views: 5709

Here's the final segment and ending of NewsNine on WGN Channel 9 featuring Jack Taylor (in some funky glasses) anchoring. Includes:

Story on a Teamsters Strike

Cook County Hospital employees will get paid

Roy Leonard reviews Neil Simon's Chapter Two at the Blackstone Theatre.

Tom Skilling answers a weather question posed by Jack Taylor as Bill Frink busts his chops a bit.

Ending weather update and some credits ...

Aldi Foods - "Goodness Guaranteed" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2177

Here's another vintage commercial for Aldi Foods. The previous one we saw was similar and incomplete.

Featuring actress Margaret Travolta as the wife, and actor Robert J. ("Bob") Jones as the husband.

Notes: Margaret Travolta is the Sister of Actor John Travolta and has appeared in many television shows. Bob Jones used to be Chicago's Ronald McDonald back in the early 70's. He has appear...

WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics With Frazier Thomas - "Kidnapped" (Promo, 1980)

Views: 3652

Here's a promo for the Sunday, April 13th 1980 Family Classics With Frazier Thomas airing of "Kidnapped" on WGN Channel 9.

Voiceover by Frazier Thomas.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 12th 1980 during the 7:30am to 8:30am timeframe.