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WSNS Channel 44 - Get Smart (Promo, 1976)

Views: 887

Here's a very early promo for Get Smart on WSNS Channel 44, at this point airing weeknights at 10pm.

Voiceover by Linda Frost.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, January 18th 1976.

Dion & The Belmonts - "The Dion Years" (Record Offer, 1976)

Views: 831

Here's a record offer from GRT for "The Dion Years" by Dion & The Belmonts, with 22 original recordings of both the group and Dion's early solo hits, all originally released on Laurie Records between 1958 and 1962. The album cover was a mockup of vintage Life magazine covers.

Note, on the mailing address of where to send for this album, a glaring error on the address (the zip code of 06909 would theoretically be within the perimeters of Stamford, CT!).

Main vo...

Herschel Bernardi in Fiddler on the Roof at the Auditorium Theatre (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 469

Here's a commercial for Herschel Bernardi in Fiddler on the Roof at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. With excerpts of reviews from the Sun-Times and the Tribune.

Main voiceover by Peter Thomas(?)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.

WLS Channel 7 - The ABC Monday Night Movie - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (Opening, 1983)

Views: 2846

Here's the opening moments of The ABC Monday Night Movie presentation of Steven Spielberg's 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

WLS Station ID / Tim Weigel promo for 4:30 Eyewitness News

That's Incredible preemption notice (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Closed-Captioned for the Hearing Impaired graphics and notice

The ABC Monday Night Movie "Star Tunnel" opening title...

WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics - "The Man in the Iron Mask" (Opening, 1988)

Views: 2080

Here's the opening moments of the Family Classics presentation of the 1977 version of Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckler "The Man in the Iron Mask," hosted by Roy Leonard. Includes:

Animated opening titles as also seen on this clip

Host Roy Leonard's introduction of the movie, with an explanation of the legend behind the story and historical description, and explaining that the version be...

Osco Drug - "Save the Osco Way" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1864

Here's a commercial for Osco Drug which shows how customers can now save on generic equivalents of widely-used brand name prescription drugs.

This commercial is in the same campaign as this one.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, October 19th 1978.

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness AM News with Jim Gibbons (1978)

Views: 1388

Here's an edition of Eyewitness AM News on WLS Channel 7 that aired within Good Morning America. The anchor of this edition was Jim Gibbons, and the items are as follows:

- Jay Levine reporting on the previous day's events in the trial of Nola Jean Weaver of Long Grove, accused of murdering her husband Larry in 1977; prosecutor Ann Regan's tales of sordid love affairs and Larry's beating his wife, shouting matches between prosecution and defense, and swinging moo...

WBMX FM 103 - "Tuned Into You..." (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 877

Here's a brief commercial (cut off slightly at the end) for WBMX FM 103, which is now playing 20 minutes of commercial-free, uninterrupted music every hour.

"WBMX...tuned into you so you'll tune into us."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, October 19th 1978.

WGN Channel 9 - Monsters (Promo, 1988)

Views: 2762

Here's a promo for the horror anthology series Monsters, "the most hair-raising half-hour on television," on WGN Channel 9, to be aired at 10pm. To make this point, an entire family is shown glued to their TV, screaming their heads off and their hair standing up not unlike a fright wig.

Voiceover by Doug Paul.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 6th 1988.