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WBBM Channel 2 - TV2 News at 10 (Part 1, 1972)

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Here's Part 1 of an edition of the TV2 News at 10 on WBBM Channel 2, with Bob Wallace substituting for then-regular anchor Bob McBride, and featuring brief appearances by sportscaster Brent Musburger and weatherman John Coughlin during the opening.

This edition was transferred from the original 2" Quad tape.

Includes:

Tail end of commercial for A&P supermarkets - "WEO" (Where Economy Originates)

TV2 News at 10 opening, ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service (Opening, 7/16/82)

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Here's another rare example of WFLD Channel 32's Keyfax Nite-Owl Service, notably the first six minutes thereof on this particular day.

Nite-Owl was WFLD's equivalent to two primitive (by today's standards), digital-based overnight "tele-text" services prevalent on British television, BBC's long-running Ceefax and ITV's (Independent Television, the commercial TV outlet) Oracle. Ceefax lasted up to the end of analogue television in England in ...

WGN Channel 9 - John Drury and NewsNine (Opening & Excerpt, 1979)

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Here's the first five minutes of John Drury and NewsNine on WGN Channel 9. Besides the aforementioned once-and-future WLS Channel 7 anchor whose name was incorporated into the newscast's title upon his joining Channel 9, the opening moments also feature weatherman Tom Skilling and sportscaster (and fellow WLS alumnus) Bill Frink, and this clip features reports from David Margulies and Elizabeth Brackett. (Commentator Len O'Connor was mentioned in the open, but he does not appear anyw...

Donahue - "Andy Griffith & Friends" (Part 4, 1986)

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Here's Part 4, the final part, of an installment of Donahue that aired on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Phil Donahue, with Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors and George Lindsey reminiscing about their days on The Andy Griffith Show and promoting their upcoming reunion TV-movie, Return to Mayberry, which would air on the NBC Network on April 13th 1986; this was also a few months before Griffith began a nine-year run on TV as crafty defense lawyer Ben Matlock. (By this time...

The Great Space Coaster - Episode #8 (Opening, The Mean Joe Greene Song & Ending, 1980)

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I'm proud to announce that The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) has financed, with your generous donations, the restoration from the master tapes of two episodes of the well-remembered 80s kids program, The Great Space Coaster!!

This project was coordinated with the assistance and blessing of Jim Martin, the talented puppeteer who performed the character of Gary Gnu on the show. Jim was able to secure the rights to the program as well as ...