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WGN Channel 9 - Chicago Bulls vs. Washington Bullets (Part 1, 1979)
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Here's Part 1 of the Chicago Bulls vs. Washington Bullets game on WGN Channel 9, announced by Jack Fleming and John Kerr. Includes:
Commercial: Viromed - "All-Over Help For All Major Flu Symptoms"
Commercial: Chicagoland Oldsmobile Dealers ("The Gallant Men of Olds") - New Cutlass with Super-Sliding Sun Roof - "We Make Car Buying a Pleasure Again" (featuring George ...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 5, 1979)
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Here's Part 5 of the controversial Academy Award-winning documentary Scared Straight! (hosted and narrated by Peter Falk) as aired on WFLD Channel 32. This was from an "encore presentation." Includes:
Scared Straight! zooming title bumper, with another shot of a cell door with inmate inside closing
"Life Sentence - Murder" starts off the bat by threatening to "turn [the] teeth" of one delinquent "upside down," then demands to know whose shoes are ...
WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Weather & Break" (1973)
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Here's an extremely vintage clip, all too brief unfortunately, but we see a WLS Channel 7 Eyewitness News Weather segment along with a commercial break. Includes:
Brief introduction with anchor Charles Rowe.
1st Part of the weather forecast with Steve Newman.
Commercial: First Federal Savings of Chicago - "The Saving Place" - Dearborn at Madison - 47th at Wood. (filmed at the Field Museum)
2nd Part of the weather forecast with Stev...
WBBM Channel 2 - New Year's Eve: Chicago Style (Part 2, 1979/1980)
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Here's Part 2 of "New Year's Eve: Chicago Style" - a special on WBBM Channel 2. Unfortunately, the recording starts during a commercial break and we miss the first 10 minutes or so of the broadcast - still, lots of local fun in this one. :-) This part includes:
Mayor Jane Byrne and her husband Jay McMullen arrive at State & Randolph while John Coughlin narrates the "action". Longtime WGN TV and Radio veteran Roy Leonard can be seen as the MC of the event down on the stage.
WMAQ Channel 5 - The Shari Show (Promo, 1975/1976)
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Here's a full promo (shorter, bumper promo can be found here) for The Shari Show with Shari Lewis and her gallery of puppets on WMAQ Channel 5, to air Tuesdays at 3:30pm.
This syndicated kids program had aired in that time slot once a month starting in October 1975 and through August 10th 1976.
As mentioned, The Shari Show was also broadcast on other NBC-owned stations, includi...
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: WMAQ Channel 5 - Chicago Sizzlin' - The 31st Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 1, 1989)
Views: 2248 Here's Part 1 of the 31st Annual Chicago Emmy Awards broadcast, titled Chicago Sizzlin', which originated from "the magnificent new NBC Tower."
(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
This part begins with an aerial shot of the NBC Tower, then goes to a dance routine as the night's special guests' names are announced: Jonathon Brandmeier and The Leisure Suits, Kevin Matthews, John Herrera, Steve Rashid and the Pork Pie Orchestra, and featuring Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago (the dancers in question).
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WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "Clock Excerpts #3" (1974?)
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Here's the good news - someone recorded The Ray Rayner Show at various times in the early seventies! Now the bad news - they only recorded the cartoons, and cut out nearly everything else. :-( I bring you the only snippets left - a few excerpts of the clock that they would show the time on, and in some cases, the chalkboard with the date, weather, and sports scores. Some might wonder why...
WNBQ Channel 5 - The Dorsey Connors Show (Part 2, 1963)
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Here's Part 2 (the final part) of an edition of The Dorsey Connors Show on WNBQ Channel 5 (which, like most shows of this period, is only available via 16mm kinescope film). Ms. Connors, who died on September 5th 2007, was a fixture on Chicago radio and television in the early years of the latter medium, with a daytime program that was along the lines of shows such as that of Lee Phillip on WBBM Channel 2. But whereas Ms. Phillip continually remade herself (and in the process, remain...