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WFLD Channel 32 - The Underdog Show (Bumper #1, 1990)

Views: 1073

Here's a commercial bumper for The Underdog Show from it's waning run on WFLD Channel 32 - Summer of 1990.

(Not sure who the voiceover announcer is on the bumper - it definitely doesn't sound like Jim Barton)

"Duhhhhh, here's a riddle..."

WFLA Channel 8 - Channel 8 Reports (Pre-Show Break, 1965)

Views: 1976

Here's the pre-show break for Channel 8 Reports on WFLA Channel 8 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida. The anchor was Arch Deal.

This newscast was transferred from a 2" Quad tape that was found in, of all places, the coat closet of former Chicago TV news anchor Jim Ruddle.

Includes:

Brief shot of "Dolphin Enterprises" bumper (indicating the end of an edition of The Jack Paar Program, whose final season this was)

"This H...

ABC Network - The Lisa Hartman Show (Promo, 1979)

Views: 4131

Here's an ABC Network promo for a disco-riffic program - "The Lisa Hartman Show". (IMDB says it was on in 1976?)

Voiceover by Ernie Anderson.

"Hot Stuff!"

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 23rd 1979.

WFLD Metromedia Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "End of Show" (Break #9, Show #249)

Views: 2035

Here is commercial break #9 and the ending of WFLD Metromedia Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie presenting the movie "The Eye Creatures". Includes:

End of movie (I Love Lucy clip gag)

Spic and Span

First Metropolitan Builders

Soft 'n' Pretty Toilet Tissue

Sergeant's Flea & Tick Collar

United Way Crusade of Mercy

End of Son of Svengoolie Show #249

Taxi Promo (again)

The Science Fiction Film Awards (Part 5, 1978)

Views: 2124

Part 5, more cheese for your enjoyment. :-)

Featuring Charlton Heston, Jodie Foster and George Burns.

George Burns was awesome. He makes everyone else look like amateurs. I'll bet while he was sitting in the audience and watching the show he wanted to strangle his agent for making him show up to this thing... ;-)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 20th 1978.

WTTW Channel 11 - Children's Fair - "Villa Alegre" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 17566

Here is the opening and first minute (before the tape ended) of an episode of the kid's show "Villa Alegre" (Happy Village) on WTTW Channel 11. Villa Alegre was the first national bilingual (Spanish/English) program in the United States. It was similar to another bilingual children's show of the era, Carrascolendas.

Also includes a sponsorship slide for Kraft at the beginning as well as the "Children's Fair" slide with voiceovers by Marty Robinson.

Fea...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Don Lane Show (Promo, 1980)

Views: 1811

Here's a promo for The Don Lane Show on WFLD Channel 32 featuring his guest, The Stylistics.

Ending voiceover by Jim Barton. (the music sounds like the old O'Connor Ford commercials)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 10th 1980.

WMBD Channel 31 - Nightmare Theater - "Werewolf of London" (Opening, 1961)

Views: 1683

Not from Chicago, but close enough for jazz - here's a rarity indeed for this era, the opening for an edition of Nightmare Theater on WMBD Channel 31 in Peoria, IL, hosted by Milton Budd from its 1958 debut into later in the '60's. Here, he is introducing this night's presentation of the 1935 horror film "Werewolf of London."

This was from a 16mm film print saved by a former employee of WMBD-TV.

"Welcome to tonight's meeting of the A.F. of L. (sinister...

Here is Part 2 of a segment from Hellenic Theater on WCIU Channel 26.

"If you lived in Chicago and spoke Greek, or had a relative who did you knew who Bobby Papademus was. Bobby was a mainstay of Greek radio in Chicago.

One of WCIU's first independent "ethnic" producers, Bobby entertained Chicago's Greek audience for many years on Sunday nights at 7pm with Hellenic Theater. Mostly a music show with talent from Chicago's many Greek nightclubs, the show was d...