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WMAQ Channel 5 - Gavilan - "The Guns of Harry August" (Opening, Break & Ending, 1982)
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Here's a few segments of an episode (entitled "The Guns of Harry August") of another short-lived series that ran over the NBC Network in the early 1980's - and therefore, in the Windy City, on our own WMAQ Channel 5 - Gavilan. (don't read too quick and mistake it for "Galivan")
This show was one of several over the years that starred the late Robert Urich, here in the role of Robert Gavilan, an ex-CIA agent currently in the employ of an oceanographic institute run by Ma...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts (Part 2, 1979)
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Here's Part 2 of Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts, a local interview program hosted by Kathy McFarland that followed an encore presentation of the Academy Award-winning Scared Straight! on WFLD Channel 32. Also featuring Gayle Franzen, Chief of the Illinois Department of Corrections, and Harold Thomas of the Chicago Police Department's Youth Division. Includes:
Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts bumper (voiceover by Ron Beattie)
In this part, K...
WTTW Channel 11 - The Captioned ABC News (1978)
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Here's the first ten minutes of The Captioned ABC News on WTTW Channel 11, which was a replay of the evening's edition of World News Tonight that had aired earlier (at 5:30pm) on WLS Channel 7. The anchors were Max Robinson in Chicago, Peter Jennings in London (on assignment) and Frank Reynolds in Washington, with commentary by Howard K. Smith, and Barbara Walters with a special report (alas, of these five, only Reynolds and Robinson are the ones with significant airtime; the o...
The Great Space Coaster - Episode #8 (Opening, The Mean Joe Greene Song & Ending, 1980)
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I'm proud to announce that The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) has financed, with your generous donations, the restoration from the master tapes of two episodes of the well-remembered 80s kids program, The Great Space Coaster!!
This project was coordinated with the assistance and blessing of Jim Martin, the talented puppeteer who performed the character of Gary Gnu on the show. Jim was able to secure the rights to the program as well as ...
Dolphin Productions - "Demo Reel" (1978)
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Here's a neat demo reel with a lot of vintage clips from Dolphin Productions, a legendary New York-based production company of the 1970's and early '80's that was one of three such firms in the country to use an early, analogue-based video animation system called "Scanimate." (The others were Image West Ltd. of Hollywood, CA and the company that first invented this process, Computer Image Corp. of Denver, CO; a history of the technology can be seen on