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WFLA Channel 8 - Channel 8 Reports (Pre-Show Break, 1965)

Views: 1976

Here's the pre-show break for Channel 8 Reports on WFLA Channel 8 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida. The anchor was Arch Deal.

This newscast was transferred from a 2" Quad tape that was found in, of all places, the coat closet of former Chicago TV news anchor Jim Ruddle.

Includes:

Brief shot of "Dolphin Enterprises" bumper (indicating the end of an edition of The Jack Paar Program, whose final season this was)

"This H...

WTTW Channel 11 - Wild, Wild World Of Animals (Ending, 1983)

Views: 1179

Here's the ending to Wild, Wild World of Animals on WTTW Channel 11 featuring that funky and memorable ending credits music. Thankfully, this was the first episode ending I've found where WTTW did not fade-out the credits early. (even though I remember the whole song vividly)

William Conrad (TV's Cannon) does the narration. This episode was about Bighorn Sheep of the Canadian Rockies. (unfortunately, no real episode list or guide seems to exist for this show)

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Bride of Frankenstein" (Break #1, 1983)

Views: 972

Here's the first commercial break for the Son of Svengoolie presentation of the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

"WOOO in Berwyn" segment, with Sven as disk jockey playing "all music, all the time," starting off with a mock commercial for House of Lard (voiceover by Rich Koz) with an editorial from "Vice President and General Mangler" Zallman T. Tombstone, Jr. in which Tombstone complaining about somebody eating lunch at his desk; Sven then...

District Furniture & Appliances - "Come Down to the District" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1317

By request, here's an earworm-inducing commercial for District Furniture and Appliances, with banjo-infused old-timey dixieland-type music in the background and a sale offer on a Sylvania 19" color TV plus a pair of lounge chairs - all for only $379. (Golly gee! Where can you find such an equivalent deal today?)

The jingle is a takeoff on the popular old-time tune, "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee.".

District Furniture and Appliances was located at 4501 South Pul...

KBHK Channel 44 [San Francisco] - Ending of Popeye and Opening of The Banana Splits and Friends (1978)

Views: 1864

Not from Chicago, but from a station that was then a sister to our own WFLD Channel 32 - Field Communications in San Francisco, a.k.a. KBHK Channel 44 - here's the ending part of Popeye and the opening moments of and first commercial break for The Banana Splits and Friends!

This clip begins as the cartoon "Private Eye Popeye" [1954] is underway; the ending iris and 'a.a.p.' (Associated Artists Productions, Inc.) closing title cards are cut out (a Field trait, appa...

WLS Channel 7 (Station ID, 1981)

Views: 2210

Here's a station identification for WLS Channel 7.

"WLS-TV Chicago"

Who's the announcer again? (Darnit, I keep forgetting his name)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 23rd 1981.

Heath English Toffee - "When Was the Last Time You Had a Heath?" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 630

Here's a commercial for Heath English Toffee candy bar (with milk chocolate), with a truck driver looking at signs on the road (arranged a la the old Burma Shave signs) asking "When Was The Last Time You Had Your Favorite Candy Bar?" and then a Heath bar on his dashboard mirror, leading to him crashing off the road and into a truck stop.

(C) 1981 L.S. Heath & Sons, Inc.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, September 27th 1981 during the 10:45pm to 11:15pm ti...

WLAK 94 FM - "Chicago's Love Song Station" (Bumper Commercial, 1985)

Views: 1732

Here's a quick bumper spot for WLAK 94 FM - "Love Songs".

Not sure when this aired exactly, but it is from 1985.

WLS Channel 7 - ABC News Special Report - "Death of Bobby Sands" (1981)

Views: 1985

Here's an ABC News Special Report on the death of Irish Republican Army (IRA) member Bobby Sands at age 27 after a 66-day hunger strike, reported by Ted Koppel in Washington. He mentioned that Mr. Sands, who was serving a 14-year prison sentence for weapons possession and demanding special status as a political prisoner, died at Belfast's Maze Prison at 1:17am Tuesday (the 5th) Belfast time, which would have been 8:17pm Eastern time (and, therefore, 7:17pm Chicago time). Mr. Koppel e...