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WCIU Channel 26 - The Chicago Party (Opening, 1982)

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After Polka Party on Saturday Nights, WCIU Channel 26 had for a time a show called The Chicago Party - here's the opening 5 minutes of an episode, including a commercial break, before the tape ends. Includes:

WCIU Station ID (voiceover by Bill O'Connor)

Opening of The Chicago Party starring James Christopher and Willie Woods.

Commercial: CopHerBox II - "Ask Your Kids"

Commercial: Screamin' Wheels Roller Rink at 6119 Melton Road in G...

WSNS Channel 44 - Monster Movie One - "The Spider" (Commercial Break, 1982)

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Here is a full commercial break for WSNS Channel 44's Monster Movie - "The Spider" (A.K.A. “Earth Vs. The Spider”). Includes:

“Monster Movie One” bumper (Different than the other bumpers, with addition of “One”) (In Black and White) (A second of “Night on Bald Mountain” music too)

Playboy (with Alex Haley and Elliott Gould)

World Championship Tennis on TV-44 (Advertises a match in Richmond between Jose Luis Clerc and Fritz Buehning...

WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service - "Episode Two!" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 3214

Hallelujah! A new (though relatively tiny) example of Nite-Owl on WFLD Channel 32 has been found! A truly rare find, indeed.

In fact, this is the first new "proper" footage of Nite-Owl discovered in about 6 years! (Even a couple tiny bleed-through excerpts were only found as recently as 4 years ago.) And what a clip! This one stands to rewrite the history of when Nite-Owl began, since all evidence before this seemed to point to the starting date as being early Mo...

WGN Channel 9 - When Movies Were Movies - "Union Pacific" (Commercial Break #2 & Station ID, 1979)

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Here's the second commercial break from the When Movies Were Movies presentation of the 1939 film "Union Pacific" on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Movie bumper slide

Commercial: Lincoln Carpeting - with Al Parker - "30th Anniversary Sell-a-Bration" - offering a free set of stainless-steel tableware by International Silver Co. - and 3 rooms of carpeting (34 square yards, excluding padding and installation) for only $169, less than $10 a month

Com...

Jewel Food Stores - "Midnight Jewels" (Commercial, 1972)

Views: 4840

Here's a pretty awesome super-vintage commercial for Jewel Food Stores (A.K.A., "Jewels" as we called them back in de olde neighborhood), advertising their "Midnight Jewel" service with over 70 stores open until midnight seven days a week.

Features three people with differing stories - a man who ran out of food while throwing a party (Dick Orkin), a woman who works days and thus can't shop until the evening (Cherie Mason), and a younger woman on the hunt for Corn Flakes for h...

WGN Channel 9 - The Morning Movie - "Sorry, Wrong Number" (Commercial Break #4, 1975)

Views: 1141

Here's Commercial Break #4 during The Morning Movie presentation of "Sorry, Wrong Number" on WGN Channel 9. Quality varies due to reception and tape degradation issues. Includes:

The Morning Movie bumper slide (with music from "Sorry, Wrong Number")

Western Winter Pears - at your favorite supermarket

Plywood Minnesota - "Fall Sale!"

Mark V Auto Insurance Services

Iggy & Sandy (Snow & Sand-building bloc...

WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics - "Moby Dick" (Opening, 1981)

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Here's the opening of the Family Classics presentation of Moby Dick [1956] on WGN Channel 9.

Hosted by Frazier Thomas.

Preceded by a WGN station ID bumper, the Cubs/Sox "baseball" variant (voiceover by Clif Mercer)

Previous to this we saw the opening of a 1985 airing of the same film on Family Classics, which sadly occurred a few weeks after Frazier Thomas pass...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Solid Mold" (Excerpt, 1982)

Views: 1174

Here's an excerpt from Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32, with the recording coming in somewhere after the start of a sketch called "Solid Mold" (a spoof of the syndicated series Solid Gold). Here, Rich Koz reprises his most famous parody - that of Mister Rogers, here singing some current hits of the day while accompanied on the piano by Doug Graves (Doug Scharf).

This clip comes in during the middle of Mister Rogers performing a version of Chicago's "Hard to ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Newscene With Kathy McFarland (1982)

Views: 1655

For all you Kathy McFarland aficionados out there, here is another full edition of Newscene with Kathy McFarland on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Newscene opening (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Headlines:

- Another attack on Pope John Paul II, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt; this attack was by a young man dressed as a Spanish priest, carrying a bayonet on the steps of the basilica of Our Lady of Fatima sh...