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Milex Car Care With Jan Gabriel (Commercial, 1983)
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Here's a commercial for Milex Car Care featuring the late, great Jan Gabriel - Mr. "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" - the voice of the U.S. 30 Dragstrip and Santa Fe Speedway. WCIU Channel 26 - The Warren Freiberg Show (Part 4, 1981)
Views: 3303 Here's Part 4 of an episode of The Warren Freiberg Show on WCIU Channel 26. In case you weren't familiar with him, Warren Freiberg had some rather "extreme" and "fringe" opinions. He had a radio show, and you may also remember him turning up in little vignettes on Steve Dahl's "It's Too Early" show from 1983.
His commercials were was parodied by the original Svengoolie Jerry G. Bishop with "Carbon Monoxide Speedway" as well as Rich Koz' Son of Svengoolie doing "
This part features Warren and Libby continuing their talk with video-recording pioneer (and comic book store pioneer) Larry Charet (yes, the legendary man who accidently r...
Jerry Gleason Chevrolet (Commercial, 1983)
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Here's a commercial for Jerry Gleason Chevrolet in Forest Park at 7901 West Roosevelt Road. I think my parents bought our family station wagon here. :-)
"Get a thumbs up deal."
This aired on local Chicago TV in July 1983.
The Wonderful World Of Magic - "Night Beat Magician" (1977?)
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Here is a segment I am jokingly calling the "Nightbeat Magician", from the program "The Wonderful World of Magic" (which starred Bill Bixby as host) that will be especially interesting to Classic Chicago TV fans.
The WGN overnight news program Nightbeat (during it's hey-day in the 70's) used as it's theme a section of the tune heard during this french magician's act - at about a minute a...
Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Generic Commercial Intro #27" (1971)
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Here's a segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop.
As it states this is a "generic" commercial intro (#27), with Sven goofing around with some video effects. In the early days of the show, SYT consisted mainly of voiceover announcements for the movie, which was eventually expanded into full appearances by Svengoolie. Though it's from after that era, this clip gives...
Bert Weinman Ford with Linn Burton (Commercial, 1980)
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(reposted separately to make it easier to find)
Here's another classic commercial for Bert Weinman Ford with Linn Burton.
Bert Weinman - Your TV Ford Man - at 3535 N. Ashland Avenue. (Although if Bert Weinman is supposedly my *TV* Ford Man, how come we never see any commercials with him in them? We always see Linn Burton. Was Linn Burton a salesman that worked at Bert Weinman's? I wonder how many people mistook Linn Burton for Bert Weinman?)
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Empire Carpets - "Waiting By The Phone" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 1665
Here's another commercial for Empire Carpets.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 13th 1983.
Brach's - "The Candy Store Candy" (Commercial, 1982)
Views: 1996
Here's a commercial for Brach's Candy (or do you say Brachs?).
Should I include this in the "Local Commercials" category or not?
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, December 21st 1982.
McDonald's - "Katie" with Heather O'Rourke (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 2647
Here is a commercial for McDonald's featuring the little girl from the movie Poltergeist - Heather O'Rourke.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, July 30th 1980.