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WTVO Channel 17 - "Snow Scene" (Station ID Slide, 1976)

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Here's a rare Station ID and slide from WTVO Channel 17.

Voiceover by Bob Kevern.

"Bob was the weather man and did most of the booth announcing. Bob also introduced the weather window, with shots of citizens waving at the camera. Bruce Richardson anchored the news and was a wonderful person. Bob Lewis did the sports and had a loose casual style. If Ernie Banks dropped in - he was on the air. Those were good times." - Ted Schwandt

This aired on l...

NBC Monday Night At The Movies - "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (Opening, 1976)

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Here is the opening for the NBC Monday Night at the Movies presentation of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - the Tennessee Williams play adaptation starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Maureen Stapleton, and Laurence Olivier.

Voiceover by Victor Bozeman.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Monday, December 6th 1976! (not Chicago, but close enough)

The Wonderful World Of Magic - "Night Beat Magician" (1977?)

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Here is a segment I am jokingly calling the "Nightbeat Magician", from the program "The Wonderful World of Magic" (which starred Bill Bixby as host) that will be especially interesting to Classic Chicago TV fans.

The WGN overnight news program Nightbeat (during it's hey-day in the 70's) used as it's theme a section of the tune heard during this french magician's act - at about a minute a...

The Magic Of David Copperfield (Open & Commercial Break, 1978)

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Here is the opening segment and first commercial break to "The Magic of David Copperfield" (his first CBS special). Includes a CBS Wonder Woman pre-emption graphic (recording missed the voiceover though) as well as the famous CBS Special animation with Hawaii Five-O's Call To Danger Music cue, and an introduction by the great Orson Welles. Also features Valerie Bertinelli as one of his guests. During the card trick number, an instrumental version of the O'Jay's "Love Train" is played.
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WIFR Channel 23 - Action Newsbreak (1978)

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Here's an Action Newsbreak on WIFR Channel 23 with anchor Rick Moore. Stories include:

Former aide to Governor Thompson charged with forging signatures on tax lid petitions.

Dollar shrinking even more (what else is new?) and the cost of living jumped.

Egypt & Isreal to resume peace talks; leaders of both countries share the Nobel Peace Prize.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Friday, October 27th 1978 @ 7pm. (not Chicago, but c...

The Wonderful World Of Magic - "Bill Bixby's Trick Solution" (1977?)

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Here's one more clip from the elusive The Wonderful World Of Magic show - the last one I have. This one includes the end of a magic act, the title card that they would show between acts, and one of the Bill Bixby segments where he shows the solution to a trick he posed at the beginning of the show. Also includes a partial end credits before the recording ended. Notice all the French stuff - the Eiffel Tower on the title card, the Arc De Triomphe in the end credits - was the whole ep...

Rolling Stone...The 10th Anniversary - "A Day In The Decade" (1977)

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Here's something that's pretty awful and bizarre, a segment from the Rolling Stone 10th Anniversary special - a Beatles tribute medley called "A Day in the Decade". It goes on for over 14 minutes, and mercifully perhaps the person recording it decided that was enough. (I think it was almost over anyway)

Local Trivia Note: This special was stereo simulcast (simulcasted?) in the Chicago area on WBBM-FM 96.3.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Friday, November ...

NBC News Update With Chuck Scarborough (1976)

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Here's a vintage NBC News Update with Chuck Scarborough. Includes:

President-Elect Carter has made no statement yet about how he'll stimulate the economy.

Jim Wright will be the House Democratic leader in the next session of Congress.

Thomas "Tip" O'Neill is the new Speaker of the House.

Supreme Court rules that a man on death row in Texas cannot be executed until his case is appealed.

Gunman holds man hostage ...

ABC News - "Death of Karl Wallenda" (1978)

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Here is an ABC News report on the death of circus performer and tightrope walker Karl Wallenda, (of The Flying Wallendas) who fell to his death while performing at the age of 73.

From Wikipedia: "Karl attempted a walk between the two towers of the ten-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched 37 metres (121 ft) above the pavement, but fell to his death when winds exceeded 48 kilometres per hour (30 miles per hour). The Wallenda family attributes th...