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WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Fashion Predictions for the 80s" (1980?)

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Here's an interesting report by Frank Mathie for Eyewitness News regarding predictions for fashions in the 1980s. The report opens with scenes from the recently released "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" which came out in December of 1979.

Features comments by Luciano Franzoni - a designer of men's clothes for Hart, Schaffner and Marx. Then we see the downtown location of Marshall Field's, and comments by Sara Lister, a VP of Fashion Merchandise. Then, we hear from William Zba...

WFLD Channel 32 - Super Cartoon Sunrise - "Coming This Fall!" (Promo, 1984)

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Here is a promo for Super Cartoon Sunrise on WFLD Metromedia Channel 32.

Lineup included:

6:30am - Mighty Mouse
7:00am - Tom & Jerry
7:30am - The Flintstones
8:00am - Woody Woodpecker
8:30am - Popeye

Voiceover by Jim Barton.

This aired on local Chicago TV in the Fall of 1984.

WSNS Channel 44 - The Money Movie - "China Gate" (Break #1, 1979)

Views: 1670

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 ques...

WFLD Channel 32 - Super Cartoon Sunrise (Ending, 1984)

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Here is the closing for Super Cartoon Sunrise on WFLD Channel 32. This version featured the later "Metromedia 32" logo for the station as opposed to the "classic" Field Communications logo.

Every Monday through Friday starting at 6:30am -

Lineup included:

6:30 - The Great Space Coaster
7:00 - The Jetsons
7:30 - Woody Woodpecker
8:00 - The Flintstones
8:30 - Popeye

This was followed by Lost in Space at 9am...

WSNS Channel 44 - Al Lerner Sports - "So Long..." (Part 4, 1971)

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Here's Part 4 (the last part) of the final episode of Al Lerner Sports on WSNS Channel 44. Lerner was the station's first sportscaster, and would go on to a long career with such stations as WLS Channel 7, WMAQ Channel 5, WGN Radio 720 and WSCR-AM, as well as being a wrestling announcer. Also featuring a young (and at this point, moustacheless) Tim Weigel, then a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, who himself would become a familiar face on Chicago television, worki...

WFLD Channel 32 - He-Man (Commercial Break #8, 1987)

Views: 2238

Here is a commercial break from He-Man on WFLD Channel 32 from 1987. Includes:

He-Man Orko bumper

The Real Ghostbusters promo (yet again)

Cheerios (Unsinkable Taste)

Scribble Stix by Coleco Kids (again)

Dick Van Dyke Fire Prevention PSA - "Have 2 Ways Out" - Learn Not to Burn (again)

Popeye PSA - "Childproofing Your Household" (jeez, how many of these PSAs were there?)

He-Man Orko bumper

WSNS Channel 44 - Monster Rally Movie - "Opening Outtakes" (1976)

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From the vaults, here is a set of outtakes and bloopers from the opening for Monster Rally Movie on WSNS Channel 44, with host John Dickinson attempting to nail his intro for the show, along with some fun crew hijinks Includes:

(Opening, Take 1) - We had seen this already in a previous clip which was found on a different tape.

(Opening, Take 2) - This was the take used for

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