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WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts (Part 1, 1979)
Views: 881
Here's Part 1 of Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts, a local interview program hosted by Kathy McFarland that followed an encore presentation of the Academy Award-winning Scared Straight! on WFLD Channel 32. Also featuring a former street gang member turned straight, Ray Rowland(sp?). Includes:
A few more seconds of the Scared Straight! film are shown (with a quick zoom-in of the Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts title) as Kathy begins her comments lead...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 6, 1979)
Views: 1287
Here's Part 6 (the final part) 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 shot of a cell door with inmate inside closing
Inside the room where the three-hour session took place, Falk (employing some of the same mannerisms he used in his portrayal of Lieutenant Co...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 5, 1979)
Views: 596
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 ...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 4, 1979)
Views: 586
Here's Part 4 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:
"27 Years" orders the audience members to sit up, and gets into the face of several of them, even so far as to threaten to bite off the nose of one teen; he bluntly points out that what they see on TV is "fantasy," and that in real life when one does time, they do time...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! (Part 3, 1979)
Views: 1244
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: 1095
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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