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WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 5, 1979)

Views: 591

Here's Part 5 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:

Scared Straight! zooming title bumper, with another shot of a cell door with inmate inside closing

"Life Sentence - Murder" starts off the bat by threatening to "turn [the] teeth" of one delinquent "upside down," then demands to know whose shoes are ...

WBBM Channel 2 - Ending of Channel 2 Showcase, Break & Opening of The All-Electric Magik Lantern Moving Picture Show (1979)

Views: 1810

Here's the ending and break from the Channel 2 Showcase presentation of the 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby," and the (mostly) complete opening titles for The All-Electric Magik Lantern Moving Picture Show on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

Tail end of ending credits of "Rosemary's Baby," with original 1968 "A Paramount Picture" bumper

Commercial: Sanyo car stereo radio with built-in cassette player - "Brings people together for the better life"

Chicago White Sox - "Bat Day with Bobby Bonds" (Promo, 1978)

Views: 2847

Here's a Chicago White Sox promo for White Sox / Coca-Cola Bat Day on Sunday, April 9th at (the original) Comiskey Park, during the White Sox vs. Boston Red Sox matchup. Featuring Bobby Bonds (whose son, Barry Bonds, later became a home-run legend himself) with a young fan.

"If you're one of the first 15,000 kids under 14, and accompanied by a paid adult, you will get a Bobby Bonds-style Little League bat - just like this one, compliments of Coke and the White Sox."

Atari Video Computer System with Pete Rose, Pele & Don Knotts (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 2629

Here's a commercial for the Atari Video Computer System with 20 cartridges available and 1,300 game variations. Featuring baseball's "Charlie Hustle," Pete Rose, promoting the Atari Home Run Cartridge; soccer legend Pele promoting the Atari Air Sea Battle Cartridge; and Don Knotts, inside a prison cell (presumably not the one featured in Scared Straight!), promoting the Atari Breakout Cartridge.

Voiceover by ??

"Don't just watch television tonight - pl...

Burger King - "Broiling Vs. Frying" with Elisabeth Shue (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 3024

Here's another Burger King commercial with future film star Elisabeth Shue, in which she explains that, according to a poll, flame-broiling beats frying by a 3-to-1 ratio - and Burger King does the former.

(Other Burger King commercials with Ms. Shue can be found here and here.)

She can butter my burger any day.

Your Arms Too Short To Box With God at the Studebaker Theatre (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 750

Here's a commercial for Vinnette Carroll's Your Arms Too Short To Box With God at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago, which at the time of this airing was held over for one more week. The commercial was made during its 1976-78 run on Broadway in New York City. (The reference to the original cast album on ABC Records at the end of this commercial is a clue as to its production origin, as by 1981 ABC Records no longer existed, having been sold by the network in 1979 to, and its artist r...

National Fashions (Commercial, 1976)

Views: 934

Here's another commercial for National Clothing Fashions. With locations in the Loop at 26 West Randolph Street - West of the Oriental Theatre, 3138 North Lincoln Avenue, and 6348 South Halsted Street.

Music sounds to be an instrumental of Yes' Roundabout.

Previously we saw commercials from National Clothes from 1979,

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