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WSNS Channel 44 - Star Spangled Movie - "You're Telling Me!" (Bumper #5, 197?)

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Here is something extremely rare - some bumpers and on-screen station ID's during the "Star Spangled Movie" presentation of the W.C. Fields film "You're Telling Me!" on WSNS Channel 44.

It's too bad this person didn't go to the kitchen to make a sandwich - it would have been nice to have a complete bumper or commercial break.

Notice this bumper is different! The ol' 44 Film Cans with the title of the film and W.C. Fields name - look at the font.

T...

WSNS Channel 44 - The Money Movie - "China Gate" (Ending, 1979)

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Here's some rare footage from another long-lost local movie show - "The Money Movie" on WSNS TV-44! The movie presented on this day was "China Gate". TMM was similar in concept to Dialing for Dollars. Viewers (mostly lonely housewives and old people from what it sounds like) would send in post cards with their name and phone number, and the host would call them live on the air during the movie breaks to see if they could answer some trivia questions. They answered an easy preliminary questi...

WGN Channel 9 - WGN Presents - "Wild in the Country" (Bumper, 1984)

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Here is a WGN Presents bumper for a showing of the Elvis movie "Wild in the Country" on WGN Channel 9. Features the famous long-running theme music of WGN Presents.

Voiceover by Bob Bell.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, January 7th 1984.

Son of Svengoolie - "The First Episode!" (1979)

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Here's something really great - the opening to the very first episode of Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32. Introduced in voiceover by Jerry G. Bishop (the original Svengoolie, 1970-1973), who passes the "torch" to Rich Koz.

The movie presented was "In the Year 2889". (marked down from $29.95. narf-narf-narf...)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 16th 1979. (at 8pm!)

WLS Channel 7 - Saturday Night Movie - "The Evil of Frankenstein" (Promo, 1971)

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Here's a promo for an upcoming Saturday Night Movie presentation of the 1964 film "The Evil of Frankenstein" (starring Peter Cushing) on WLS Channel 7, to air on Saturday, at 10:30pm. (When this originally aired, there would have been a voiceover from some of Channel 7's announcing staff, including Al Parker, Fred Kasper, Mike Rapchak, Art Hellyer, and Wayne Atkinson.)

This was preserved on a silent 16mm film, with a brief card showing Metro Film Corporation as the proc...

Return Of The Jedi (Trailer For TV, 1983)

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Here's a theatrical movie trailer for TV for a little movie that came out in 1983 called "Return of the Jedi" (?).

"Now playing in a theatre in your galaxy..."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, June 28th 1983.

Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Show #5 - Riddle Time" (1972)

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Here's a segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop.

With no clapboard segments, we can only guess that this was Break #4 (from "Show #5") - although on these master tapes sometimes they didn't save all of the breaks, so this could be Break #5 or Break #6 for all we know. This one features a riddle by Sven.

Note he also mentions tonight's "first" flick ...

WGN Channel 9 - Fright Night (Promo, 1986)

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Here's a promo for what must have been a very short-lived program on WGN Channel 9 - Fright Night - a horror and suspense movie show that was probably their attempt to revive the old Creature Features tradition. Aired Friday Nights at 11:30pm - sponsored by Budweiser.

"Terrifying stories from the supernatural, brought to you by Budweiser."

Voiceover by Merri Dee.

This aired on local Chicago TV in December 1986.

WSNS Channel 44 - Monster Movie One - "The Night of the Sorcerers" (Ending & Dragnet Opening, 1981)

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Here is the ending for WSNS Channel 44's Saturday Monster Movie presentation of "The Night of the Sorcerers" (A.K.A. “La Noche de los Brujos”). Includes:

Ending of the movie (looks like they cut the credits out)

Don Ferris does the voiceover announcement for the close of the movie, while the theme song, Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" plays (with some screaming or animal noises mixed in?) with some wind noises, and some imagery from monster mov...