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WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics With Frazier Thomas - "When Worlds Collide" (Opening, 1982)

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Here's the opening of the Family Classics presentation of When Worlds Collide on WGN Channel 9. Featuring Frazier Thomas as host. (I would have left in more of the movie opening but this is where the recording stopped)

The Family Classics theme song was called "Moviescope" and was a piece of library music composed by Dennis Berry. It was originally released ...

NBC News Special Report - "A Daffy Interruption" (1980)

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Here is an NBC News Decision '80 Special Report, which interrupted a broadcast of "Daffy Duck's Easter Special". (the premiere!) Includes:

Few seconds of "Daffy Duck's Easter Special"

NBC News Decision '80 Special Report featuring news anchor David Brinkley with early results from the Kansas primary showing Reagan and Carter winning (opening and closing voiceover by Bill Hanrahan)

"Daffy Duck's Easter Special" returns

This aired on...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Saturday Night Movie - "April Love" (Partial Commercial Break, 1978)

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Here's a partial, incomplete commercial break from the Saturday Night Movie presentation of the 1957 Pat Boone film "April Love" (from which his major hit of the same name from the same year had emanated) on WMAQ Channel 5.

This begins with the tail end of a commercial for Yesteryear at Harrison on the River in Kankakee, and is followed by:

Commercial: Nelson Brothers - "We Put It Al...

The 24 Days of Christmas - "England" with Michael Caine (1979)

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Here's another installment from the recurring 24 Days of Christmas one-minute featurettes, here with Michael Caine (just a few short years away from becoming "The Hardest Working Man in Hollywood") describing the Christmas traditions in England (five years before WBBM Channel 2's Bob Wallace travelled all the way there to find them out in person). Caine starts off by invoking the names of key characters from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" before listing holiday traditions that d...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 with Lynne Scott (Bumper Promo, 1978)

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Here's a station ID bumper / promo for the 10pm edition of NewsCenter5, with anchor Lynne Scott previewing news of a plane crash near Meigs Field where at least one person was killed.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 5th 1978.

WMAQ Channel 5 - Jerry Springer - "Adult Babies" (Part 1, 1992)

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Now here's some quality entertainment...In honor of my new ascent into fatherhood and diaper changing (descent?), here is a (vintage?) Jerry Springer episode on WMAQ Channel 5 dealing with the very delicate (and absorbent) topic of Adult Babies. I seem to remember this show was on very early in the morning at this point - I think I set my VCR timer to record this one. :-)

Part 1 features Jerry interviewing "Stephanie" (real-name Denise), a graduate student who's into wearing ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Rock World (Part 6, 1980)

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Here's Part 6 of a complete edition of Rock World, a weekly pre-MTV music video show that aired on WMAQ Channel 5 (simulcast on WXRT 93 FM). Includes:

Video: "Listen to the Heartbeat" by D.L. Byron

Video: "Do Me" by Teddy Pendergrass (from concert performance)

Commercial: Pepsi Cola - "Catch That Pepsi Spirit" (with baton twirler practicing for parade)

Commercial: Richies Leather and Suede Sale - "Save Up to 40%" - ends O...

WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Matinee - "Abbott and Costello in Mexican Hayride" (Opening & Break, 1981)

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Here's the opening moments and first commercial break for the Saturday Matinee presentation of the Abbott and Costello film "Mexican Hayride" [1948] on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

WGN "globe" ID with promo for Weekend with the Stars for 10:00pm (voiceover by Steve Hunter)

Saturday Matinee slide and opening theme music ("Happy Feet" by Quincy Jones, from "Walk - Don't Run" [1966]), with voiceover (by Steve Hunter) introducing the film starring "...

Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Tina McDowall" - The Rhoda Bodashore Song and Bedtime Poem (Closing, 1973)

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Here's another segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop. By this point, if the clapboard is of any indication, the SYT title had been eschewed in favor of Svengoolie.

This closing segment is from Show #60 (according to the clapboard). However, there is no recording date.

In this segment, Svengoolie is inside his upright cr...