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WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Chatting with Captain Salty" (Segment #3, 1974)

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Here's the third segment of another rare surviving edition of Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. This was from the original master tape. Includes:

CG VTR slate with tone and countdown - "VTR: 8I0 - Cut: 15 {which blinks on and off} - Air: Fri. 10/4 - "Popeye" - Dir. M.T. - Eng. P.Mc."

Steve next to the sleeping Captain Salty, explaining he was talking with the Captain when the latter began dozing off. The Captain is goaded awake, and then explai...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Triplets" (1975?)

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Here's another segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. Here (from left), Steve, Nancy Boyle, and Bob Hoffmann are seen over a drawing of triplets in a crib, as they lip-synch (and clown around) to Danny Kaye's 1947 recording of the Arthur Schwartz / Howard Dietz composition "Triplets" (which had been performed most famously by Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan in the 1953 film "The Band Wagon"). The tape cuts out midway through this number.

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WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News At Six - "Disco Demolition - The Day After" (1979)

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Here's the coverage from WBBM Channel 2 of "Disco Demolition Night" as aired on Channel 2 News at Six. Featuring anchors Bill Kurtis and Harry Porterfield, a report from John Quinones, Bruce Roberts at Comiskey Park, and on the open weatherman John Coughlin, sportscaster Johnny Morris and "Perspectives" commentator Walter Jacobson. Includes:

Opening with brief shots of Kurtis, Porterfield, Coughlin, Morris, Jacobson, and a full shot of the Channel 2 newsroom (with Thom...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "This Song is Your Song" (1975?)

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Here's another segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44.

This time Steve Hart, Little K and guitarist/singer Mike Lazar (of Lazar's Juvenile Furniture) do their rendition of "This Land is Your Land" whose lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie, as well as McNamara's Band and a melody of jazzed-up nursury rhymes including Old King Cole, Little Miss Muffet, Jack Sprat, Hey Diddle Diddle, and Humpty Du...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart (Opening, 1974)

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Here's the opening segment of another rare, surviving edition of Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. This was from the original master tape. According to the notes in with the tape, this was "Show #2". Notice they had not developed an opening with a theme song yet. Also the TV listings at this point only said "Popeye", not "Popeye with Steve Hart". Includes:

Opening shot of closeup of lighthouse window with ship sound effects, dissolving into Steve Hart (with...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart (Opening, 1975)

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Here's a rare bit of Chicago Kids TV History - seen publically for the first time in over 35 years - footage from TV-44's Popeye with Steve Hart! Includes:

The opening titles and first segment of Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44. This was from an original studio tape, recorded on August 12th 1975.

CG VTR slate with message: "VTR: 770 - Cut: 1 / Air: Mon. 8/18 - Popeye Show Inserts - Steve Hart Productions - Rec: 8/12/75 - M. T....

WCIU Channel 26 - The Warren Freiberg Show (Part 2, 1981)

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Here's Part 2 of an episode of The Warren Freiberg Show on WCIU Channel 26. In case you weren't familiar with him, Warren Freiberg had some rather "extreme" and "fringe" opinions. He had a radio show, and you may also remember him turning up in little vignettes on Steve Dahl's "It's Too Early" show from 1983.

This part continues Warren and Libby's conversation with self-help expert Sherle Adams (who turns out to be quite ...

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Beep, Beep" (1975?)

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Here's a segment from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44, in which he lip-synchs (and pantomimes) to The Playmates' 1958 novelty hit "Beep, Beep" (Roulette 4115), with a drawing of another driver in a small red car in the background.

This aired on local Chicago TV around June of 1975.

WCIU Channel 26 - The Warren Freiberg Show (Part 1, 1981)

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Here's Part 1 of an episode of The Warren Freiberg Show on WCIU Channel 26. In case you weren't familiar with him, Warren Freiberg had some rather "extreme" and "fringe" opinions. He had a radio show, and you may also remember him turning up in little vignettes on Steve Dahl's "It's Too Early" show from 1983.

This part begins with a partial WCIU-TV Station ID (voiceover by Bill O'Connor) followed by the opening credits (anyone know who does the voiceover?)

Then...