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

Views: 2016

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...

WGN Channel 9 - The Morning Movie - "Caught in the Draft" (Opening, 1979)

Views: 3732

Here's the opening and first commercial break from The Morning Movie presentation of the 1941 Bob Hope comedy "Caught in the Draft" on WGN Channel 9. The same opening and theme music as on their 1975 showing of "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948) are still in use, but the color and picture are in overall better shape than the earlier clips. Includes:

WGN "Last Farewell" video animated ID (voiceover by Le...

Alpo With Lorne Greene (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 3683

Here's a commercial for Alpo beef flavored dinner dog food featuring Lorne Greene.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV in early January 1979. (not Chicago, but close enough)

WSNS Channel 44 - NHL Hockey - Blackhawks Vs. Flyers (Opening, 1978)

Views: 7083

Here's something pretty rare - the oldest TV-44 material yet found! The opening for an NHL Hockey matchup between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Philadelphia Flyers.

It starts out during a pre-show commercial break (some interference for the first couple minutes). Includes:

Roper Pilotless gas ranges (Available at Goldblatt Bros. "Home Centers") (only half of the commercial intact)

Gene Wulbert Ford - Home of the Van King - 820 West Madison Stree...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Gong Show (Bumper #2, 1978)

Views: 1366

Here's another rare bumper from WFLD Channel 32 - this time for The Gong Show! (same as the first one but different music)

What are those silhouettes of people doing on there?

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 1st 1978.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Gong Show (Bumper #1, 1978)

Views: 1945

Here's another rare bumper from WFLD Channel 32 - this time for The Gong Show! (same as the second one but different music)

What are those silhouettes of people doing on there?

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 1st 1978.

WFLD Channel 32 - Chicago Stuff (Part 1, 1985)

Views: 2032

Here's a lost Koz Klassic! - Chicago Stuff - was it a failed pilot? A consolation prize from Fox Television for cancelling Son of Svengoolie a month later? A half-remembered dream? It only aired once, at 10pm on a Sunday in December 1985 - so you couldn't be blamed for not knowing it existed. (I only heard rumors) In any case, it's a neat little package of Rich's schtick, so just think of it as an extremely early episode of The Koz Zone. :-)

Thanks to...

WSNS Channel 44 - White Sox Baseball - "Take Me Out To the Ballgame" (8-15-1980)

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Harry Caray leads the fans at Comiskey during the "Seventh Inning Stretch", singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame".

From White Sox Vs. Red Sox.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, August 15th 1980.

WLS Channel 7 - News Bulletin - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 5, 1979)

Views: 2319

Here's Part 5 of WLS Channel 7's news coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 (a DC-10 manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas; scheduled to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles), 1/2 mile northwest of O'Hare Airport. Featuring Fahey Flynn, Diane Allen, Hugh Hill, Joel Daly, and Jim Gibbons. Includes:

News Bulletin bumper slide (voiceover by Janice Gears Kos)

Fahey and Diane leading off this section with a "Tragedy at O'Hare" graphic behind them, f...