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WFLD Channel 32 - Afternoon Fun - Casper (Commercial Break #3 - Partial, 1981)

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Here's the (partial, incomplete) third commercial break for an edition of Casper on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Casper bumper (voiceover by Dr. Don Rose)

Commercial: Cheerios - with stick-figure archer losing his grip before filling up on the "low sugar" cereal (this, long before it became "heart healthy") - (C) 1980 General Mills, Inc.

Commercial: Rev'n Roll Raceway from Tomy - a loop racetrack with cars, ramps, and remote control ...

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WTTW Channel 11 - "Taxi Driver" (Station ID, 1984)

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Here's a station ID for WTTW Channel 11 featuring a guy driving an old Checker taxi cab.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, September 23rd 1984.

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WMAQ Channel 5 - "Station ID Animation" (1980)

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Here's an animated station ID for WMAQ Channel 5 with voiceover - "For all it's worth - Energy: Save it!"

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, July 13th 1980.

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WBBM Channel 2 - New Year's Eve: Chicago Style (Part 1, 1979/1980)

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Here's Part 1 of "New Year's Eve: Chicago Style" - a special on WBBM Channel 2. Unfortunately, the recording starts during a commercial break and we miss the first 10 minutes or so of the broadcast - still, lots of local fun in this one. :-)

Gary Deeb (the Tribune's TV-radio critic at the time) wrote in his column for Monday, December 31st 1979 - "The Local Line: Speaking of New Year's Eve, if you want to laugh yourself into convulsions, tune to WBBM-Ch. 2 about 11:40pm fo...

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WYCC Channel 20 (Station ID, 1983)

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Here is an animated station ID for WYCC Channel 20. This was used for a good 10 years at least before they phased it out. I love the music in this - all in all a very good ID.

"We Are Your City Colleges"

This aired on local Chicago TV in the Fall of 1983.

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WCGV Channel 24 - SelecTV - (Station ID, 1981?)

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Here is a station ID from Milwaukee's version of ON TV and Spectrum - SelecTV. It aired over WCGV Channel 24.

Voiceover by ??

Not sure when this aired, but based on the films I'd say 1981 is a good guess.

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WMAQ Channel 5 - Tales Of The Unexpected - "The Turn Of The Tide" (Ending & Break, 1980)

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Here are the closing credits of the Tales of the Unexpected episode "The Turn of the Tide" on WMAQ Channel 5, followed by a commercial break. Includes:

Ending credits with logo of S.A.L. Films Ltd. at the end (and fanfare music of Anglia Television, the British company that originally produced the show)

United Way Crusade of Mercy PSA (voiceover by Bill Jurek)

"Today, Tonight, Tomorrow" promo for the Today show with Tom Brokaw and Ja...

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WMAQ Channel 5 - Weekend (Opening, 1979)

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Here's the opening moments for an edition of one of the 100 or so newsmagazines NBC attempted until finally hitting it in the 1990's with Dateline NBC. This is of Weekend, which had aired every so often since the mid-1970's (in the first year or so of NBC's Saturday Night Live, Weekend aired once a month in that same time slot). The hosts at this juncture were Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobyns, who would later co-anchor the short-lived NBC News Overnight tog...

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WGN Channel 9 - "The Last Farewell" (Station ID, 1979)

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Here is a Station ID for WGN Channel 9 which featured a snippet of the song, "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker. Bob Bell (Bozo!) is the voiceover announcer.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 5th, 1979 at 6:30am.