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WMAQ Channel 5 - News - "Ebert Review & Close" (1982)

Views: 4035

Roger Ebert reviews the film "Gregory's Girl" in the "Ebert at the Movies" segment. Also includes:

Mike Jackson and Deborah Norville recap the top story and say goodnight.

Commercial: Mitsubishi Motors
Commercial: Chas A Stevens
Commercial: Federal Express

Ending credits (we also see Chet Coppock and Jerry Taft on set):

Produced by Phyllis Schwartz
Directed by Jack Ginay
Technical Director - Edward Dabrow...

WXYZ Channel 7 - 11 O'Clock Action News (Preview & Pre-Show Break, 1976)

Views: 8305

Here's (most of) the WXYZ Channel 7 11 O'Clock Action News preview and pre-show break. WXYZ was the ABC affilliate in Detroit. Includes:

Commercial: Montgomery Ward

Ford Tractor Employees work notice

This aired on local Detroit TV on Wednesday, Oct. 13th 1976. (Not Chicago TV, but still cool!)

PM Magazine Chicago - "Sporting Events Gate Crasher" (1982)

Views: 1915

Here's the opening and first story on PM Magazine Chicago on WFLD Channel 32 - includes a story on Barry Bremen - "The Great Imposter" who snuck his way into sporting (and other) events dressed in a disguise.

Features Mike Leiderman and Jo Ann Williams as hosts at the Chicago Costume Company.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, April 7th 1982.

Fencl Tufo's Chevy City - "Monster Dealer" (Commercial, 1986)

Views: 4149

Here's a commercial for Fencl Tufo's "Chevy City" with their weird monster puppet characters. If that wasn't enough, members of the World Championship Chicago Bears are there too.

(the first couple seconds is missing and the audio is a bit buzzy)

"The Monster Dealer In Glendale Heights"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 9th 1986.

Rolling Stone...The 10th Anniversary - "A Day In The Decade" (1977)

Views: 7067

Here's something that's pretty awful and bizarre, a segment from the Rolling Stone 10th Anniversary special - a Beatles tribute medley called "A Day in the Decade". It goes on for over 14 minutes, and mercifully perhaps the person recording it decided that was enough. (I think it was almost over anyway)

Local Trivia Note: This special was stereo simulcast (simulcasted?) in the Chicago area on WBBM-FM 96.3.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Friday, November ...

WSNS Channel 44 - "Your White Sox Station" (Station ID Slides, 1975)

Views: 3228

Here's a station ID for WSNS Channel 44 advertising itself as "your White Sox network sports station," accompanied by two Sox-related ID slides - the second of which is of pitcher Terry Forster (#51), who played with the Sox from 1971 to 1976.

Voiceover by Mal Wyman.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, June 17th 1975 at 7:45pm.

WFLD Channel 32 - Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (Part 2, 1980)

Views: 1381

Here's Part 2, the last part (unfortunately incomplete - the tape ran out) of an airing of Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (the kids' version of The Joker's Wild) on WFLD Channel 32. Includes a WFLD Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! return bumper at the beginning.

Features 8 year old Justyn Lezin playing the devil round. (or starting to)

We'll never know if she won those awful jackets and the metal detector. :-(

This aired on local Chicago TV...

WGN Channel 9 - Sunday Matinee - "Sherlock Holmes and the Pearl of Death" (Opening, 1979)

Views: 6254

Here's the opening for the Sunday Matinee presentation of the 1944 Sherlock Holmes film "The Pearl of Death" (title listed on bumper slide as "Sherlock Holmes and the Pearl of Death") on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

WGN "A Happy Holiday Is a Safe Holiday" ID bumper slide with 1960s "Television 9" logo (voiceover by Clif Mercer)

Sunday Matinee opening with filmstrip and movie camera graphics, duly backed by instrumental version of The Young Rascals' "Gr...

WTTG Channel 5 - Panorama - News at Noon (Ending Segment, 1978)

Views: 6802

Here's the ending moments of the Panorama - News at Noon on WTTG Channel 5 in Washington, DC. The main anchor was Pat Mitchell (now the president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media), and the "Total Communication News" (for the deaf or hard of hearing) was delivered in a combination of speaking and sign language by Jim (?)

No shouting a la Garrett Morris on the early "Weekend Update" segments of Saturday Night Live, alas. It is a nice companion to