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WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service - "A Nite-Owl New Year" (Part 1, 1982)
Views: 6470
At long last! More Nite-Owl footage! (The first "new" Nite-Owl footage found for over 10 years!) Picture's a bit fuzzy, but of course we can't be picky.
Here is Part 1 of footage from a Nite-Owl New Year's "Special".
Modification Notice: In the interest of full disclosure, (since I try my best to keep things as authentic as possible here) I have to mention that in Part 1 I had to make some edits/overdubs in the audio only. The first one occurs at 02:44...
WGN Channel 9 - The Late Movie - "Duck Soup" (Opening & Break, 1983)
Views: 3015
Here's the opening moments and first commercial break of The Late Movie presentation of The Marx Brothers' 1933 film "Duck Soup" (their last for Paramount Pictures, and the last in which Zeppo was a part of the team) on WGN Channel 9. Includes:
Animated - "Superman" WGN Station ID
Opening titles for The Late Movie, previewing a Marx Brothers' double feature of "Duck Soup" and "Horse Feathers" (voiceover by Merri Dee) (music used is "Touchdown" by B...
The Science Fiction Film Awards (Part 10, 1978)
Views: 1893
Part 10, the final cheesy segment. :-)
Featuring a look into what's coming up for next year (1978, since this was in January or early February of the same year) and the ending credits.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 20th 1978.
WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News Brief With Mary Ann Childers (1981)
Views: 3802
Here is an Eyewitness News Brief with Mary Ann Childers on WLS Channel 7. Briefs include:
80 year old man arrested in mercy killing of his 79 year old wife.
The 2 year old son of Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley dies (Kevin Daley).
Commercial: Oldsmobile - The Gallant Men of Olds.
Jay Levine's report on problems facing Chicago paramedics at 10.
Opening voiceover by Wayne Atkinson.
This aire...
Mop & Glo - "The Year 2081" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 2034
Here's a look into the future. (The future, Fuzzy?) Yes, the future. All the way to the year 2081...courtesy of Mop & Glo floor cleaner.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, July 21st 1983.
WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "New Year's News" (Excerpt, 1979)
Views: 2050
Here's an excerpt of a New Year's Day edition from Eyewitness News anchored by Vivian Rosenberg(?) and Jay Levine, with reports from John Culea, Sheila Stainback and Karen Kalish. Includes:
As the tape comes in, we are in the middle of a report on a spate of murders of Chicago cab drivers, the latest victim being 24-year-old Bejan Moshkel Gosha (?) of North Sheridan Road, found shot to death at North Ashland after quarreling with a group of people.
This i...
WFLD Channel 32 - The Dance Fever Christmas Special (Part 1, 1980)
Views: 3727
Here's Part 1 of your holiday cheese platter for this year - The 1st Annual Dance Fever Christmas Special. Hosted by Deney Terrio (with his dance group "Motion"), and featuring guest celebrity judges Robert Blake and his 14 year old daughter Delinah (now known as Delinah Blake Hurwitz), Chad Everett and his 9 year old daughter Shannon, and Connie Stevens and her 11 year old daughter Tricia Leigh (now known as Tricia Leigh Fisher). Also features David Copperfield doing a magic segment and Th...
WMAQ Channel 5 - 5 Cheers Chicago's New Year (Part 2, 1980/1981)
Views: 1395
Back to Warner and Jerry, who (as well as the chyron display) remind the audience that they're at Miomir's Serbian Club at 2255 W. Lawrence, and Jerry explaining he'd earlier done a weather report in the middle of the street; he then happens on a sharp-dressed guy, Scott (?) of Evanston, IL, in a three-piece suit, having a real good time with friends and relatives (including his father, mother and aunt); Jerry explains his wife is working the other side of the place, and he's not having that ...
WMAQ Channel 5 - 5 Cheers Chicago's New Year (Part 1, 1980/1981)
Views: 1972
Here's 5 Cheers Chicago's New Year, an end-of-one-year-and-beginning-of-another celebration on WMAQ Channel 5, hosted by Warner Saunders, Carol Marin, Jerry Taft and Barry Bernson. Also featuring drummer Isaac "Red" Holt, Miomir's Serbian Club owner Miomir Radovanovich, executive chef Alfred(?), kitchen chef Donna(?), Abbey Pub owner Peter Furlong(?), weekend weatherman Terry Burhans, and numerous partygoers. Includes:
Tail end of Today promo with guest Marvin H...