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WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 Sports (Promo, 1978)

Views: 2734

Here's a groovy disco promo for the NewsCenter5 sports anchor team on WMAQ Channel 5. Features Al Meltzer, Mike Leiderman, and Greg Gumbel.

Voiceover by ??

Background music is "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, March 29th 1978.

House Of Lewis (Commercial #2, 1978)

Views: 812

Here's a shorter commercial for House of Lewis featuring the owner Lewis Pitzele.

House of Lewis used to be a major sponsor of the original Svengoolie program on WFLD. Lewis would often do two-minute-long commercials where he would interact and joke around with Jerry G. Bishop.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, March 29th 1978.

House Of Lewis (Commercial #1, 1978)

Views: 2750

Here's a commercial for House of Lewis featuring the owner Lewis Pitzele.

House of Lewis used to be a major sponsor of the original Svengoolie program on WFLD. Lewis would often do two-minute-long commercials where he would interact and joke around with Jerry G. Bishop.

Lewis Pitzele passed away on June 10, 2013.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Thursday, March 30th 1978.

WFLD Channel 32 - Big Movie - "Waterloo Bridge" (On-Screen Station ID & Commercial Break, 1978)

Views: 3569

Here's another miraculous end-of-tape find - an on-screen station ID and a single commercial break for the Big Movie presentation of "Waterloo Bridge" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

On-Screen Station Identification (with Field-era 32 logo)

WFLD Big Movie bumper (with Kaiser-era 32 logo) (music is "Manhattan Skyline" by David Shire - from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack)

White Cloud bathroom tissue with "Barbara Hartman"

A...

WFLD Channel 32 - It Takes A Thief - "Situation Red" (Open & Bumper Excerpt, 1977)

Views: 2123

Here's another rare 32 Kaiser bumper! Includes:

Opening to It Takes a Thief (just because the visuals are cool and the music is full of swingin'-60s-spy-groove goodness)

Partial Kaiser-era 32 bumper for It Takes A Thief

Opening title with episode name, "Situation Red"

"Let me get this straight...you want me to steal?"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, August 13th 1977 during the 1...

WFLD Channel 32 - Make Me Laugh! (Bumper, 1979)

Views: 4039

Here's another rare WFLD "zooming" bumper for the game show "Make Me Laugh!" (hilariously parodied by Rich Koz here)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 9th 1979.

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 - "Chicagofest '81" (1981)

Views: 5407

Here's a segment from the 10pm NewsCenter5 telecast on WMAQ Channel 5 with a look at Chicagofest '81. Featuring Chuck Henry, Warner Saunders, Barry Bernson, and Linda Yu at the end.

Chaka Khan is shown performing, and then Barry Bernson takes us on a tour of the video game area with over 200 machines, and a look at Williams Electronics, the company that created Defender - at 3401 North California, and then Midway Manufacturing in Franklin Park - responsible for producing Pac-...

Road Music - 24 Truckin' Greats (Record Offer, 1979)

Views: 4714

Here's a (mostly complete - missing the first 5 seconds or so) record offer for Road Music - 24 Truckin' Greats by Lakeshore Music. Featuring disc jockey Charlie Douglas.

Here's a mini-bio on Charlie Douglas courtesy of VirtualTruckRoute.com - "Inducted into the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame in 1994, the father of overnight trucking radio began his broadcasting career four decades earlier at KLIC in Monroe, LA. In 1970, Charlie Douglas and His Road Gang beamed to ...