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WCIU Channel 26 - The Oscar Canales Show - "Harriet Blake Sings" (1977)

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Here's a segment from a program called The Oscar Canales show on WCIU Channel 26 featuring a singer named Harriet Blake.

"On Monday Nights at 9pm WCIU had a series of rotating producers who would produce a monthly special. Oscar Canales was one of those host producers. Oscar was a singer who would always open the show with a song, sometimes singing with his guest. On this particular night his guest was Harriet Blake, another singer. She put on quite a performance and I h...

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WBBM Channel 2 - The CBS Late Movie - Double Feature - "Barnaby/Love Affair" (Opening, 1979)

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Here's the opening for The CBS Late Movie on WBBM Channel 2 where they were doing a double feature (weren't there two movies shown every night though?) with the first being the Barnaby Jones episode "The Deadlier Species" (first aired on the CBS Network on March 18th 1975), followed by the movie "A Love Affair - The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story." (CBS Late Movie voiceover by Norm Stevens)

Also includes a WBBM Match Game bumper promo at the beginning - "Weekdays a...

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WGN Channel 9 - Night Beat - "Bozo's 17th Anniversary" (1978)

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Here is an excerpt from an airing of Night Beat featuring Carl Greyson, on WGN Channel 9, with a story on Bozo's Circus' 17th Anniversary show. (which aired Monday, September 11th 1978)

Muriel Clair reporting.

Features Bob Bell, Roy Brown, Phil Donahu...

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WTVO Channel 17 - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Commercial Break #2, 1978)

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Oops - one more Rockford leftover. (although we will probably have a part 2 of Rockford week in the future)

Here's the second commercial break from an episode of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert on WTVO Channel 17. Includes:

Ending of Moody Blues segment on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.

Commercial: Edge gel - "Lets you shave closer than foams".

Commercial: Smitty perfume by Cody - "Smitty Did It."

Commercial: Coleco Amaze-A...

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WMAQ Channel 5 - Kidding Around - "Kid Contortionist-Acrobat" (1979)

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Here's an installment from Kidding Around, a Saturday kids' show that ran from 1978 to 1985 on WMAQ Channel 5.

The main host was Steve Smith (not to be confused with the Canadian comedian of the same name who is best known as outdoorsman Red Green on a long-running TV series, The Red Green Show), and his co-hostess here is Shawn Gourdie (who, at the time, was 13 years old and a seventh-grader at Sudling Junior High in Palatine; a Chicago Tribune piece on the prog...

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WFLD Channel 32 - The Jack Benny Show - "Pre-Emption Notice" (1975)

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Here's the opening of The Jack Benny Program on WFLD Channel 32, featuring a pre-emption notice. Includes:

Pre-emption notice for Bill Burrud's Travel World (from the host of Animal World) with show logo bumper slide from WFLD (which used a serif typeface called Windsor Bold, which apparently preceded Avant Garde Medium as Kaiser-era WFLD's font du jour)
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WLS Channel 7 - The Hollywood Squares (Ending & Post-Show Break, 1981)

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Here is the ending to Hollywood Squares on WLS Channel 7 including a post-show commercial break. Includes:

Last second of an Illinois Office of Tourism commercial.

Ending of The Hollywood Squares featuring host Peter Marshall - including credits and Filmways logo. (Contestant prize info voiceover by Kenny Williams)

Commercial: Pontiac T1000 (the Terminator?) at Your Favorite Pontiac Dealer.

Chicagoland Auto Recyclers - A-Suburban an...

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WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News Special Report - Blizzard '79 (Part 2, 1979)

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Here's Part 2 of a Channel 2 News Special Report on the Blizzard of 1979 - this update coming the day after the big snow hit. Includes:

Carrie Cochran anchoring and giving status of roads; Jacqui Adams giving school district closing information (District 99 was mine! Woo-hoo! Snow day!); Bruce Roberts gives various sports' game cancellations; and Carrie Cochran reports on roof collapses including one at Voss Electric Company at 7723 South State Street.

Partia...

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WFLD Channel 32- Afternoon Fun - Casper (Commercial Break #2, 1981)

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Here's the second commercial break for an edition of Casper on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Casper bumper (voiceover by Dr. Don Rose)

Commercial: Barbie Cosmetics Beauty Set from Mattel (voiceover by ??) - (C) Mattel, Inc. 1981

Commercial: Franken Berry and Count Chocula cereals from General Mills - with the two duelling in a game of pool - (C) 1981 General Mills Inc.

Commercial: Freezy Freakies gloves - which change ...