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Thinkabout (Ending Credits, 1979)

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Here are the ending credits for Thinkabout, "a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning", which was an instructional program for children, produced in 1979 by the Agency for Instructional Television, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States and Canada.

It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s.

The sixty programs produced were aimed f...

ON TV - Adults Only - "Russ Meyer's SuperVixens" (Opening, 1981)

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Here's another transition from regular ON TV Subscription Television programming to the "Optional Service" of Adults Only mode, which was presenting the movie "Russ Meyer's SuperVixens". (this immediately followed the presentation of "Alien".

Quality on this one is better than "The World of Henry Paris" intro from before. There is a bit of a technical difficulties moment however, when the Adults Only opening animation tape gets screwed up and we see black for a bit. Notice, ...

WLS Channel 7 - Saturday Eyewitness News (Preview & Pre-Show Break, 1977)

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Here's the preview for the WLS Channel 7 Saturday Eyewitness News at 10pm featuring Bob Petty, followed by the pre-show Commercial Break. Includes:

Preview of Saturday Eyewitness News with Bob Petty - with stories including the first test flight of the Space Shuttle, charges made that J. Edgar Hoover spied on Americans for years, and flags flying at half-mast - in the public interest - at the Field Museum. Plus - the Father's Day weather outlook.

Commercial: Am...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Movie 5 - "The Ape Man" (Opening & PSA's, 1988)

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Here is the opening of a late movie feature of "The Ape Man" on WMAQ Channel 5. It starts out with some kind of time-filler - a Channel 5 logo over some rock music which goes on for over a minute, and then the opening to the "Movie 5" begins - I've seen this opening before used in New York so I think it was a national thing.

Then, strangely, between the Movie 5 opening and the start of the film, they show the following PSA's:

U.S. Postal Service featuring Ann Ro...

WGN Channel 9 - Mid-Day Report With Merri Dee (Partial, 1978)

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Here's the beginning of an edition of the Mid-Day Report with Merri Dee on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Mid-Day Report bumper with (C) 1978, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.

Merri Dee reads the following stories:

Senate begins debate on the Natural Gas price deregulation bill, which aims to phase out all price controls by 1985

House is likely to finish work on the Carter Administration's Civil Service Reform Bill

Acoustica...

1st Metropolitan Builders - "Helping Chicagoland Families" with Peter Lawford (Commercial #1, 1979)

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Here's a commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders featuring legendary actor Peter Lawford outside and inside a Chicago area mansion, explaining how 1st Metropolitan helps "thousands of families" in and around the Chicago area remodel their homes to suit their changing needs.

This ad was produced five years before the co-star of such now-classic films as "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Good News" and "Royal Wedding," and onetime member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," died, on Dece...

WMAQ Channel 5 - "Severe ThunderSTROMS" (1986)

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Here's an on-screen crawl message regarding bad weather on WMAQ Channel 5, during an airing of the mini-series "Celebrity".

What's a Thunderstrom anyway? Strom Thurmond's superhero alter ego?

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstrom warning for McHenry and Lake Counties in Northern Illinois until 8:30pm. High winds, dangerous lightning, and heavy rain are expected. A severe thunderstrom was reported (detcted ...