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WMAQ Channel 5 - NBC Thursday Night At The Movies - "Almost Summer" (Opening, 1981)

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Here's the opening for the NBC Thursday Night at the Movies presentation of "Almost Summer" on WMAQ Channel 5. Includes a WMAQ station ID and PSA voiceover at the beginning. (by Ed Grennan)

Movie intro voiceover by Les Marshak.

This aired on local Chicago TV Thursday, May 28th 1981 at 8pm.

WBBM Channel 2 - The Late Show II - "The Name Of The Game" (Bumper Excerpt, 1980)

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Here is a brief bumper excerpt from an airing of an episode of "The Name of the Game" during The Late Show II on WBBM Channel 2. The episode was titled "The Bobby Currier Story," and it starred Robert Stack and Brandon de Wilde.

Thanks to W.B., betamax75, and Phantom for their help in playing "Name That Fuzz!" :-)

This aired on local Chicago TV early Tuesday, January 15th 1980. (Movie started at 3:35am! And yet the guy still cut out commercials! Now that's d...

WSNS Channel 44 - The Money Movie - "China Gate" (Break #2, 1979)

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Here's some rare footage from another long-lost local movie show - "The Money Movie" on WSNS TV-44! The movie presented on this day was "China Gate". TMM was similar in concept to Dialing for Dollars. Viewers (mostly lonely housewives and old people from what it sounds like) would send in post cards with their name and phone number, and the host would call them live on the air during the movie breaks to see if they could answer some trivia questions. They answered an easy preliminary questi...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Destroy All Planets" (Long Promo, 1982)

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Here's something kind of rare - two promos for the same episode of Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32. This is the long one - designed to air on the day of broadcast. It was for episode number 176 showing the movie, "Destroy All Planets".

This promo aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, November 27th 1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "3-D Test: 5 Days To Go!" (1982)

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Here is a segment from Son of Sven episode number number 157, showing the film "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" on WFLD Channel 32. Sven does a test for the big 3D Movie event, which took place 5 days from then on Thursday, July 29th 1982 at 8pm.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 24th 1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Destroy All Planets" (Short Promo, 1982)

Views: 1995

Here's something kind of rare - two promos for the same episode of Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32. This is the short one - designed to air before the day of broadcast. It was for episode number 176 showing the movie, "Destroy All Planets".

This promo aired on local Chicago TV a few seconds before midnight on Friday, November 26th 1982.

WGN Channel 9 - WGN Presents - "The Questor Tapes" (Opening, 1981)

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Here's the opening to the WGN Television Presents presentation of "The Questor Tapes" on WGN Channel 9. (also includes a partial WGN Station ID with an interesting baseball variation - touting their carrying of the Cubs and the newly re-acquired White Sox)

Station ID voiceover by Marty McNeeley. Movie opening voiceover by Bob Bell.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, March 11th 1981 at 11pm.

WSNS Channel 44 - Star Spangled Movie - "You're Telling Me!" (Bumper #5, 197?)

Views: 857

Here is something extremely rare - some bumpers and on-screen station ID's during the "Star Spangled Movie" presentation of the W.C. Fields film "You're Telling Me!" on WSNS Channel 44.

It's too bad this person didn't go to the kitchen to make a sandwich - it would have been nice to have a complete bumper or commercial break.

Notice this bumper is different! The ol' 44 Film Cans with the title of the film and W.C. Fields name - look at the font.

T...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "The Walking Dead" (Opening, 1985)

Views: 1814

Here's the opening to an episode of Son of Svengoolie that hasn't been seen in close to 24 years! This was number 318 where he was presenting the movie "The Walking Dead".

Apparently there was a Chicago Public Schools strike at the time as he references it in the opening. He also talks about the Godzilla 1985 contest several times in this episode.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 7th 1985.