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WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 3, 1979)

Views: 1245

Here's Part 3 of the controversial Academy Award-winning documentary Scared Straight! (hosted and narrated by Peter Falk) as aired on WFLD Channel 32. This was from an "encore presentation." Includes:

Disclaimer notice on screen (with accompanying voiceover by Peter Falk):

The remainder of "Scared Straight!" contains crude street language and graphic descriptions not suitable for children.

Inside the room where the teens are a capti...

WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 2, 1979)

Views: 1096

Here's Part 2 of the controversial Academy Award-winning documentary Scared Straight! (hosted and narrated by Peter Falk) as aired on WFLD Channel 32. This was from an "encore presentation." Includes:

Disclaimer notice on screen (with accompanying voiceover by Peter Falk):

This program contains language that is explicit, foul and brutal. It is not recommended for children.

Scared Straight! zooming title bumper, with another ...

WGN Channel 9 - The Pink Panther (Commercial Break, 1981)

Views: 3285

Here's a commercial break from The Pink Panther on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Ending of "The Inspector" cartoon (based loosely on Peter Sellers' "Inspector Clouseau" character in The Pink Panther movies)

"The Pink Panther will be right back" animated bumper (part of the actual show, not locally created)

Record offer for Denim from K-tel, with country hits including "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson, "A Headache Tomorro...

WGN Channel 9 - Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #3, 1981)

Views: 1555

Here's the third and final commercial break for Bugs Bunny & Friends on WGN Channel 9. (Scooby Doo immediately followed this clip) Includes:

Ending of "Hare Trigger" (1945)

Commercial: Golden Dream Barbie - "Comes with everything you see here" - (C) Mattel, Inc. 1980

Commercial: Gribbit from Milton Bradley - the aim was to get a bee past three frogs without being ea...

WGN Channel 9 - Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #2, 1981)

Views: 2081

Here's the second commercial break for Bugs Bunny & Friends on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Ending moments of "Swooner Crooner" (1944)

Bugs Bunny & Friends "We'll Be Right Back" bumper slide (voiceover by Merri Dee)

"Superman" Station ID bumper slide

Record offer for Lolliwinks from K-tel (also seen during a commercial break on this clip)
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WGN Channel 9 - Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #1, 1981)

Views: 4053

Here's the first commercial break for Bugs Bunny & Friends on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Ending moments of "Buckaroo Bugs" (1944 - the first Bugs Bunny cartoon to be released in the Looney Tunes series)

Bugs Bunny & Friends "We'll Be Right Back" bumper slide (voiceover by Merri Dee)

Promo for The Muppet Show with guest Bob Hope, for 5pm (ending voiceover by Merri Dee)

Commercial for pair of super-soft Nyamy...

WFLD Channel 32 - "Cartoon Odds & Ends" (1981?)

Views: 2027

Here's a few miscellaneous remaining odds and ends from a recent discovery, from cartoon broadcasts on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Partial stop-motion animated bumper with Loeki the Lion watching TV and clinking glasses with a hand peering out from inside the telly, seen during an airing of Casper (voiceover by Dr. Don Rose)

Clips of a Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare cartoon, which involved Tommy visiting New York City and driving through the sights of Broadwa...

WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 1, 1979)

Views: 2019

Here's Part 1 of the controversial documentary Scared Straight! as aired on WFLD Channel 32. This Academy Award-winning special program, which dealt with a group of juvenile delinquents at a three-hour session with actual convicts serving life imprisonment at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey, was directed by Arnold Shapiro and hosted by Peter Falk. This airing was of an "encore presentation."

A side note: The nationally-syndicated Scared Straight! also aired i...

WGN Channel 9 - Scooby Doo (Opening & Partial Break, 1981)

Views: 2559

Here's the opening and partial commercial break for Scooby Doo (segments of The New Scooby-Doo Movies) on WGN Channel 9. (The New Scooby-Doo Movies - were originally hour-long shows that paired the Mystery Machine gang of Freddy, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby with the likes of Don Knotts, Sandy Duncan, The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, The Harlem Globetrotters, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, "Mama" Cass Elliot and Sonny & Cher; fictional characters including Batman & Robin, The...