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WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho (Bumper #1, 1979)

Views: 771

Here's a bumper for The Best of Groucho on WFLD Channel 32. No "zooming text" here, but the text (in dark brown type) does come up over cigar smoke billowing from a version of the image of Groucho Marx as from the cover of his 1972 A&M album An Evening with Groucho. This bumper uses the middle section of the opening and closing theme, "Hooray for Captain Spaulding."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979 during the 9:30pm to 10pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho (Bumper #2, 1979)

Views: 673

Here's another bumper for The Best of Groucho on WFLD Channel 32. The video is the same as on the other bumper from the same period, except here the opening notes of the show's theme, "Hooray for Captain Spaulding," are played.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979 during the 9:30pm to 10pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - "Video Voyage" (Promo, 1979)

Views: 879

Here's a promo for WFLD Channel 32's "Video Voyage" contest, in which winners could win a trip to Hawaii or a "home video tape recorder" (that's VCR to the rest of us), during which the viewer on the screen gets repeatedly hit on the head by a coconut.

Features clips from such Channel 32 staples as All in the Family (from the "Gloria's Pregnancy" episode which originally aired on February 16th 1971) and M*A*S*H (with Klinger's "big plan" consisting of guard duty...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Honeymooners (Bumper #2, 1979)

Views: 562

Here's another bumper for The Honeymooners on WFLD Channel 32. The picture and "zooming text" are the same as on the other bumper, except this uses the tail end of the "You're My Greatest Love" theme as heard on the opening titles.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979 during the 10pm to 10:30pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Honeymooners (Ending, 1979)

Views: 922

Here's the ending for an episode of The Honeymooners on WFLD Channel 32. The ending theme and specially created colored picture shot (with "zooming text" at the end - or in this case would that be "bang-zooming text"?) are delayed as a voiceover promo for Happy Days Again is played too early (voiceover by Ron Beattie), and is heard over black for a few seconds before cutting off; then after the extended bumper starts, another Beattie voiceover previews upcoming episodes of S...