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WGN Channel 9 - Donahue - "Adult Kids Living at Home" (Opening, 1980)

Views: 2062

Here's the opening moments of an installment of Donahue on WGN Channel 9 which examined adult kids living at home (this was some twelve years before Jerry Springer's look at "adult babies"). Includes:

Station ID bumper slide with drawing of sun and moon sitting down watching TV and message "Open for Business 24 Hours a Day" (set in Lubalin Graph Bold - a serif version of ITC's famed Avant Garde fon...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Attack Of The Mushroom People" - Mail Call With Bobby Skafish (Break #7, 1983)

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A true fuzzy memory (since the reception was pretty bad) - here's Commercial Break #7 from the Son of Svengoolie presentation of "Attack of the Mushroom People" on WFLD Channel 32, which features guest Chicago Radio DJ Bobby Skafish during the Mail Call segment.

Bobby Skafish worked at:
WXRT 1976-1983
WLUP 1983-1993
WKQX 1993-1994
WXRT 1994-2006
WDRV 97.1 Chicago/WWDV 96.9 Zion June 2007-June 2015 (weekdays from 3 PM to 8 PM on 97.1...

WDCA Channel 20 - Snipets - "Pigpen Cipher" (1980)

Views: 808

Here's another rare Snipets segment! These originally were created by and [primarily] aired on the Kaiser Broadcasting / Field Communications stations such as WFLD Channel 32, in the 1970's and early '80's. However, in a discovery that is sure to change SnipetsHistory forever - this one was discovered on a Betamax recording of a broadcast of the Star Trek episode "The Savage Curtain" on WDCA Channel 20 (Washington, D.C.) from April of 1980!

At this time the Field ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Chicago Stuff (Part 2, 1985)

Views: 1520

Here's a lost Koz Klassic! - Chicago Stuff - was it a failed pilot? A consolation prize from Fox Television for cancelling Son of Svengoolie a month later? A half-remembered dream? It only aired once, at 10pm on a Sunday in December 1985 - so you couldn't be blamed for not knowing it existed. (I only heard rumors) In any case, it's a neat little package of Rich's schtick, so just think of it as an extremely early episode of The Koz Zone. :-)

Thanks to...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Farkus Melby, M.D., D.D.S., Ph.D." (1975)

Views: 1329

Here's a funny sketch from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44, with Mr. Hart appearing as "Farkus Melby, M.D., D.D.S., Ph.D." (the title of which spoofed that of the 1969-76 medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. which starred Robert Young and James Brolin), and Nancy Boyle as the nurse who serves as his assistant.

The voiceover (by Bob Hoffmann?) starts off this skit by mentioning that Dr. Melby, the "Challenger of Modern Medicine," is "back from the State Pen [...

WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Outrageous Talk Show Hosts" (Part 7, 1985)

Views: 1910

Here's Part 7, the last part, of an episode of AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7. The topic was controversial, provocative and outrageous radio talk show hosts and featured Alan Burke of WGBS in Miami, Morton Downey Jr. (on this show just going by Mort Downey) of WERE in Cleveland, Warren Freiberg of WLNR in Lansing, IL, Irv Homer of WWDB in Philadelphia, and Jerry Williams of WRKO in Boston. Starring Oprah Winfrey as host.

This episode featured the infamous "soap spraying" inciden...

WCIX Channel 6 - Snipets - "Girls Play Ball Too" (1984)

Views: 1668

Here's another rare Snipets segment! These originally were created by and aired on the Kaiser Broadcasting / Field Communications stations such as WFLD Channel 32, in the 70s and early 80s. However, with the sale and dissolution of Field starting in 1982, for whatever reason Snipets segments popped up on a few other non-Field or former-Field stations, even as late as 1986!

This particular a...

WGN Channel 9 - Sunday Matinee - "The World of Hans Christian Andersen" (Opening, 1977)

Views: 2685

Here's the opening moments of the Sunday Matinee presentation of the 1971 animated feature "The World of Hans Christian Andersen" on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

"Season's Greetings From The WGN Family" bumper

Sunday Matinee "camera and filmstrip" slide, with Raymond Lefevre and His Orchestra's version of The Young Rascals' "Groovin'," and voiceover (by ?) introducing the movie and having a little flub with "Christmas Dray..."

"NTA Relea...

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "Northwest Mounted Police" (Promo, 1972)

Views: 1590

Here's something very rare - a [sound modified] promo for an upcoming 3:30 Movie presentation (in two parts) of the 1940 film "Northwest Mounted Police" (directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard) on WLS Channel 7, from within the venerable afternoon movie showcase's early years.

Pretty neat find, showing different 3:30 Movie title graphics than we've seen before. Anyone remember this version? Could it have only been used for the...