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Dentyne - "Brush Your Breath" (Commercial #5, 1979)

Views: 1932

Here's another one of the commercials for Dentyne gum with the memorable jingle "Brush your Breath with Dentyne".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 23rd 1979.

Milk Mate (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2024

Here's a commercial for Milk Mate chocolate flavored syrup for milk, the liquid alternative to Nestle's Quik chocolate powered mix.

Featuring Chicago-born actor Adam Pelty - he's the dark-haired kid on the right.

"The great taste of chocolate in my stomach..."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 23rd 1979.

JVC Vidstar (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1958

Here's a commercial for the JVC Vidstar VCR - 6 Hour recording time!

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 23rd 1979.

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 10pm - "Steve Dahl" (Bumper Promo, 1979)

Views: 1924

Here's a brief bumper promo for an Eyewitness News at 10pm story on morning radio in Chicago, featuring Steve Dahl.

Voiceover by Gary Gears.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 23rd 1979.

WGN Channel 9 - NewsNine (Ending, 1979)

Views: 5731

Here's the final segment and ending of NewsNine on WGN Channel 9 featuring Jack Taylor (in some funky glasses) anchoring. Includes:

Story on a Teamsters Strike

Cook County Hospital employees will get paid

Roy Leonard reviews Neil Simon's Chapter Two at the Blackstone Theatre.

Tom Skilling answers a weather question posed by Jack Taylor as Bill Frink busts his chops a bit.

Ending weather update and some credits ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 At 10pm (Promo, 1977)

Views: 3995

Here is a two-minute, awesomely overdone promo (in that 70s way) for WMAQ Channel 5's NewsCenter5 At 10pm, starting off with a space motif and a laser-style lightning bolt traveling around the world and then back to Chicago ("From the stars to the planets, from Chicago to the ends of the earth" - voiceover by Brad Crandall), to promote "a new age of electronic journalism" (a reference to the adoption of video-based ENG) and the resources of NBC News. Some of the clips (of news events within ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Saturday Night Movie - "Robbery" (Opening & Pre-Movie Break, 1977)

Views: 2074

Here's the opening and pre-movie break of the Saturday Night Movie presentation of "Robbery" on WMAQ Channel 5. Includes:

WMAQ-TV Chicago animated Station ID (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Saturday Night Movie opening (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Commercial: Tropicana Living Things at 3879 South Archer Avenue

Commercial: Schaumburg Datsun at 910 West Golf Road (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Commercial: Folgers Coffee...

WGN Channel 9 - Garfield Goose And Friends (Opening Excerpt, 1971)

Views: 44360

The Goose Lives!!
Found on an ancient, open-reel black & white skip field recording that was donated to us along with a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff, and tucked away at the end of the reel, this gem was discovered - some footage from Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN Channel 9 that has been lost and unseen for almost 40 years!! (originally broadcast in color, but captured on this early home videotape recorder in black and white)

As y...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Music In Your Bones" (1980?)

Views: 1734

Here's a segment from Eyewitness News, introduced by Fahey Flynn, with Frank Mathie reporting on a new invention - "The Bone Fone". Invented by Northbrook resident Bill Hass, it was a portable radio that you wear around your neck like a scarf, and instead of using headphones, it sends the sound through your bones and directly into your head.

Available only at J. S. & A. Sales in Northbrook.

"The Hula Hoop of the Eighties..."

This aired on ...