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WFLD Channel 32 - The Dance Fever Christmas Special (Part 2, 1980)

Views: 2166

Here's Part 2 of your holiday cheese platter for this year - The 1st Annual Dance Fever Christmas Special. Hosted by Deney Terrio (with his dance group "Motion"), and featuring guest celebrity judges Robert Blake and his 14 year old daughter Delinah (now known as Delinah Blake Hurwitz), Chad Everett and his 9 year old daughter Shannon, and Connie Stevens and her 11 year old daughter Tricia Leigh (now known as Tricia Leigh Fisher). Also features David Copperfield doing a magic segment and Th...

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "Jason And The Argonauts" (Commercial Break #7, 1978)

Views: 1480

Here's Commercial Break #7 during the 3:30 Movie presentation of "Jason and the Argonauts" on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

3:30 Movie bumper

The Park West invites you to spend New Year's Eve Weekend with Chuck Berry and Special Guest Henny Youngman (cut off early) (see now I swear this voiceover person is NOT Al Parker, even though it sounds similar to him - who is it?)

Armourcote commercial offer (the original!) (again)

WLS Eyewitness N...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 10pm (Opening Excerpt, 1981)

Views: 3241

Here is the opening couple of minutes for Eyewitness News at 10 on WLS Channel 7, featuring Larry Moore. Story covered:

80 year old near-Crete resident Harry Vanheel, a former GM Pipe fitter, arrested in mercy killing of his 79 year old wife Eleta Vanheel. Diane Lawson reporting. Also features Sgt. Ray Van Dyke of the Will County Sheriffs Police. (ending cut off slightly)

(Picture has some interference)

Opening voiceover by Wayne Atkinson.

WTTW Channel 11 - "Christmas Sign-Off" (1978)

Views: 5825

Here's something pretty cool - the ending of "Sing We Noel" followed by a Christmas Day Station Sign-off on WTTW Channel 11. Also includes:

PBS - Public Broadcasting Service animated logo

WTTW promo for New Year's at Pops (main voiceover by William Pierce) (secondary voiceover by Marty Robinson)

PSA: Yule Connection (with Phil Donahue) (and they were still using the same ad a...

WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service - "A Nite-Owl New Year" (Part 3, 1982)

Views: 3096

At long last! More Nite-Owl footage! (The first "new" Nite-Owl footage found for over 10 years!) Picture's a bit fuzzy, but of course we can't be picky.

Here is Part 3 (the last part) of footage from a Nite-Owl New Year's "Special". Unfortunately, the tape ran out. :-(

This part aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 1st 1982 from about 4:13am to 4:22am.

CBS Network - "Wednesday Lineup" (Promo, 1979)

Views: 2697

Here are some promos for shows on CBS' lineup airing on Wednesday, March 14th 1979. Includes:

Married: The First Year
One Day at a Time
The Jeffersons - Billy Dee Williams
An All-Star Salute to Pearl Bailey

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, March 12th 1979.

WGN Channel 9 - Nightbeat with Marty McNeeley "A Nightbeat New Year" (Part 2, 1983)

Views: 2349

Here's Part 2 of Nightbeat with Marty McNeeley on WGN Channel 9. Also featuring Muriel Clair and Robert Jordan. Includes:

A yellow cab driver, 30-year-old Harry Savalas (sp?), shot and seriously wounded after an incident on New Year's Eve at 7421 South Harvard Street; he is being treated for wounds to the chest at St. Bernard's Hospital.

A report from Muriel Clair at 600 West Washington about a New Year's Eve Day tradition dating back 125 years, a dinner...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Dance Fever Christmas Special (Part 4, 1980)

Views: 1745

Here's Part 4 of your holiday cheese platter for this year - The 1st Annual Dance Fever Christmas Special. Hosted by Deney Terrio (with his dance group "Motion"), and featuring guest celebrity judges Robert Blake and his 14 year old daughter Delinah (now known as Delinah Blake Hurwitz), Chad Everett and his 9 year old daughter Shannon, and Connie Stevens and her 11 year old daughter Tricia Leigh (now known as Tricia Leigh Fisher). Also features David Copperfield doing a magic segment and Th...

WMAQ Channel 5 - 5 Cheers Chicago's New Year (Part 3, 1980/1981)

Views: 1303

At the Abbey Pub, Carol is speaking with Peter Furlong(?), the pub's owner, who'd come to U.S. from Ireland in 1958; he said every New Year's in Ireland, he probably got drunk, and life in Ireland at New Year's was nothing like at the pub he owns; he then gives New Year's wishes to friends, relatives, pub patrons and Mike Hannigan who's at Western(?) Hospital

At Miomir's, we see a closeup of one of the Serbian delicacies held on a tray by kitchen chef Donna(?) while Warner and ...