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Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 1, 1990)

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Here's Part 1 of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Governor James R. "...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 2, 1990)

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Here's Part 2 of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Governor James R. "...

Diamonds Aren't Forever (Part 6 - Last, 1990)

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Here's Part 6, the last part, of a locally produced documentary about the closing of the old Comiskey Park in 1990. This was technically an installment of a show called "Polka Videos With Keith Stras", and shown on the short-lived and little-seen ETC - Ethnic Television Channel.

Features interviews with various famous people such as Charles Comiskey II, partial owner of the Chicago White Sox Eddie Einhorn, Jeff Torborg, Minnie Minoso, Donn Pall, Andy The Clown, Nancy Faust, Go...

Victory Auto Wreckers - "Car Door Mishap" (Commercial, 1992)

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Here's one of (if not the most) famous commercials ever - the Victory Auto Wreckers ad where the car door almost falls on the guy's foot. Contrary to popular belief, this ad originated in May of 1985 - despite the 70s-looking wristband/watch the guy is wearing.

Featuring Bob Zajdel as the hapless car owner and Luis ? as the tow-truck driver, who were both employees at the time.

Also - WGN-TV veteran Bob Kastigar says, "Jeff Glauberg did the original tap...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Jerry Springer - "Adult Babies" (Part 1, 1992)

Views: 9086

Now here's some quality entertainment...In honor of my new ascent into fatherhood and diaper changing (descent?), here is a (vintage?) Jerry Springer episode on WMAQ Channel 5 dealing with the very delicate (and absorbent) topic of Adult Babies. I seem to remember this show was on very early in the morning at this point - I think I set my VCR timer to record this one. :-)

Part 1 features Jerry interviewing "Stephanie" (real-name Denise), a graduate student who's into wearing ...

WPWR Channel 50 - Romper Room & Friends (Part 2, 1991)

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Here's Part 2 of an episode of Romper Room and Friends (Syndicated Version) which aired on WPWR Channel 50. Features Miss Molly McCloskey, Kimble, Up-Up, Granny Cat, Do Bee, (Hmm..) and all the other weird characters. Includes:

WPWR Flintstones promo (voiceover by ??)

Kellogg's Corn Flakes (featuring Cornelius Rooster) (with 3d baseball card promotion)

Cinnamon Toast Crunch (with one of the bakers)

"Romper bomper, stomper boo. Tel...

WTTW Channel 11 - Wild Chicago - "Stephen Colbert Cameo" (1990)

Views: 7549

Here's a neat clip from an episode of Wild Chicago - one of their "Dumb Question" segments where they go somewhere and ask random people a question of questionable intelligence. This one took place in Lincoln Park near Diversey.

As I watched this episode and saw this segment I kept going back to this part - that guy in the sunglasses looks familiar...finally it hit me - it's Stephen Colbert!! (of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report fame) You can also see one o...

SportsChannel - The Sports Writers On TV (Part 2, 1991)

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Here's an episode of The SportsWriters on TV, as aired on SportsChannel - one of the hosts of which we lost recently (Bill Gleason).

Featuring Bill Jauss of the Chicago Tribune, Rick Telander of Sports Illustrated, Bill Gleason from the South Bend, Indiana Tribune, and hosted by Ben Bentley.

In Part 2, they discuss David Robinson and other basketball centers.

Includes:

SportsChannel promo featuring Johnny "Red" Kerr and Tom Paciorek ...

SportsChannel - The Sports Writers On TV (Part 4, 1991)

Views: 1376

Here's an episode of The SportsWriters on TV, as aired on SportsChannel - one of the hosts of which we lost recently (Bill Gleason).

Featuring Bill Jauss of the Chicago Tribune, Rick Telander of Sports Illustrated, Bill Gleason from the South Bend, Indiana Tribune, and hosted by Ben Bentley.

In Part 4, they discuss the job of coach of the Notre Dame basketball team and why no one wants it.

Includes:

Commercial: True Value Hardware St...