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Keystone Chevrolet - "The Busy Bee Dealer" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 3200

Here's a commercial for Keystone Chevrolet - The Busy Bee Dealer - at 4501 West Irving Park Road. (now at that location - Prime Cable of Chicago‎)

B-Burt Rodsky's? I can't make out what he's saying.

"Honey of a deal!"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, November 1st 1980.

KMIR Channels 6 & 36 - Station ID (1986)

Views: 2252

Not from Chicago, but still of interest - here's a station ID for KMIR Channels 6 and 36 in Palm Springs, California, affiliated then as now with NBC. (Channel 36 is the main channel, Channel 6 was its cable TV dial position; the '6' ID remained part of their logo up until the end of 2013.)

Voiceover by ??

"Your NBC station, serving all the communities of the magnificent desert empire."

This aired on local Palm Springs TV on Tuesday, June 2...

Nickelodeon - The Monkees (Opening Break, 1986)

Views: 4996

Here's the opening commercial break for The Monkees on Nickelodeon. Includes:

Watt The Devil - cartoon short

Bubble Yum - Rockin' Raspberry (The Cars' "You Might Think" obvious influence)

Nickelodeon Lassie Promo (anyone know the announcer?)
Inhumanoids toys
G.I. Joe toys
Nickelodeon promo-transition-thing (what do you call these?) (Anyone know the announcer?)

"Hasbro Halloween" sponsored-by announcement (diffe...

HBO Sign-Off (1979)

Views: 3606

Here's a sign-off from HBO (Home Box Office), from back in the days when they did sign off (the pioneering cable TV channel switched to a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week schedule on December 28th 1981, after going 24 hours on weekends that September).

The sign-off consisted of an animated film with people all heading off to bed for the night, from all directions, accompanied by instrumental music that almost screamed '70's, down to the omnipresent conga drums and a low tom drum whi...

American Airlines - "California" (Commercial, 1965)

Views: 2710

Here's a commercial for American Airlines, which starts off with a re-creation of a turn-of-the-century train robbery, then segues from that to the various sights of California including the dolphins of Marineland, San Francisco's Chinatown, night skyline, Mission Hill, cable cars, a pelican at the bay, Big Sur, and the infamous freeways. Ends with a shot of a four-engine Boeing 707 touching down as part of their "Royal Coachman" service.

Voiceover by ??

"The wa...

Son of Svengoolie - Assorted Clips Compilation (Part 5)

Views: 605

Here is Part 5 of a compilation of assorted Son of Svengoolie clips. I did not make this compilation - it has been floating around the trading circles for a long time, and this is the best copy I've been able to find. It has some neat clips you will not see anywhere else.

Featuring:

(little Snippet of the opening or closing to an episode)

"Hit the road, Drac" song parody (incomplete)

The Dukes of Berwyn?! - on the Dewey, Cheatham...

WCFC Channel 38 - Fall Praise-A-Thon (Excerpt & Channel Switching, 1983)

Views: 2734

Here's a segment from the Fall Praise-A-Thon on WCFC Channel 38, coming in about 25 seconds into this clip after channel switching.

This starts with channel switching (from cable TV) from an excerpt from Boone episode "Chance of a Lifetime" (which aired on WMAQ Channel 5; featured Barry Corbin and Thomas Byrd) to a "Job Mart" on cable channel with soft rock song (can any music experts here apprise as to what it is?) to a film about computers and mathematics (proba...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "Group W Deal" (1982)

Views: 3021

Here's an editorial on WMAQ Channel 5 with Andy Shaw about Group W's bid for the Chicago cable franchise on the Northwest side, involving Tom King - General Manager of the Merchandise Mart and James O'Keefe - a prominent Loop attorney - and how the deal may violate the law.

Editorial Director: Andy Shaw. General Manager: Monte Newman.

Also includes at the end a WMAQ-TV Station ID slide and PSA bumper with voiceover by Jim Hill.

This aired on local...

Carvel Ice Cream - "Tom Turkey Cake" (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 1254

Here's a treat for "Fuzzy" New Yorkers: a commercial for Carvel Ice Cream, promoting their "Tom Turkey" ice cream cake for Thanksgiving. (The molds used to produce this were also used for such other goodies as Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale.) Serves 10 to 12, net weight 45 ounces.

Voiceover by Tom Carvel (the founder and namesake of Carvel Ice Cream), both as himself and (sped-up and heavily processed) as Tom Turkey.

This aired on local New York City TV (and...