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WLS Channel 7 - Fridays (Promo, 1980)

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Here's a promo for the next edition of ABC's ultimately short-lived Saturday Night Live knockoff, Fridays, on WLS Channel 7, featuring clips of sketches from prior shows. (This program featured not only a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards, but also Seinfeld's future creator Larry David, plus the likes of Melanie Chartoff, Brandis Kemp, and Maryedith Burrell.)

This coming edition's musical guests will be Devo. (NOTE: This is a repeat of an episode that...

WFLD Channel 32 - Fernwood 2 Night (Ending #1, 1977)

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Here's a small but juicy rarity - the ending credits for the first airing of Fernwood 2 Night on WFLD Channel 32 - back in the Kaiser Broadcasting era!

You can hear 32's staff announcer tell you that "All That Glitters" (a short-lived Norman Lear series) was next, as well as a tiny snippet of an old WFLD station ID.

I think the announcer may be 32's Bud Kelly - who was the main staff announcer until Ron Beattie took over a year or so later. It certainly doesn't ...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 1, 1990)

Views: 3784

Here's Part 1 of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Governor James R. "...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 3, 1990)

Views: 1759

Here's Part 3 of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Governor James R. "...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 2, 1990)

Views: 2167

Here's Part 2 of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Governor James R. "...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 5, 1990)

Views: 2276

Here's Part 5 of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Governor James R. ...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 4, 1990)

Views: 1751

Here's Part 4 of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Governor James R. "...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 6 - Last, 1990)

Views: 2806

Here's Part 6, the last part, of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Go...

WLS Channel 7 - Bizarre with Richard Dawson (Opening & Break, 1979)

Views: 3125

Here's something pretty...odd. The opening sketch and first break for the Richard Dawson hosted version of Bizarre - the same show that would eventually be aired here in the States on Showtime, with host John Byner.

This was a failed pilot which ABC passed on. Includes:

Ending of a WLS Eyewitness Newsbrief with Joel Daly

Opening of Bizarre

Commercial: Datsun 210 Hatchback

Commercial: Purina Fit & Tri...