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WFLD Channel 32 - Lunchtime Fun - Underdog (Opening, 1981)

Views: 1362

Here's the opening to Lunchtime Fun featuring Underdog on WFLD Channel 32. This was followed by The Great Space Coaster in this lineup. You can see the graphics were updated to a "lunchtable" from the earlier 1980 version. These graphics would be used for the next 2 or 3 years.

Voiceover by Dr. Don.

This aired on local Chicago TV Tuesday, August 25th 1981.

NBC Network - "Just Watch Us Now At Christmas" (Promo, 1982)

Views: 2158

Here's a quick "Just Watch Us Now" NBC Network promo for the holidays, with a special message from the cast of Little House on the Prairie.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, December 13th 1982 at a couple minutes before 7:30pm.

WSNS Channel 44 - Al Lerner Sports - "So Long..." (Part 4, 1971)

Views: 768

Here's Part 4 (the last part) of the final episode of Al Lerner Sports on WSNS Channel 44. Lerner was the station's first sportscaster, and would go on to a long career with such stations as WLS Channel 7, WMAQ Channel 5, WGN Radio 720 and WSCR-AM, as well as being a wrestling announcer. Also featuring a young (and at this point, moustacheless) Tim Weigel, then a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, who himself would become a familiar face on Chicago television, worki...

HBO Sign-Off (1979)

Views: 3607

Here's a sign-off from HBO (Home Box Office), from back in the days when they did sign off (the pioneering cable TV channel switched to a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week schedule on December 28th 1981, after going 24 hours on weekends that September).

The sign-off consisted of an animated film with people all heading off to bed for the night, from all directions, accompanied by instrumental music that almost screamed '70's, down to the omnipresent conga drums and a low tom drum whi...

WFLD Channel 32 - The 7 O'Clock Movie - "Oklahoma!" (Commercial Break, 1983)

Views: 2977

Here's a full commercial break during the 7 O'Clock Movie airing of "Oklahoma!" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

WFLD 7 O'Clock Movie bumper

Crest - National Children's Dental Health Month (with drawings by The Franklin Elementary School of Westfield, NJ)

Amadeus At The Blackstone Theatre

Spectrum

Diet Pepsi - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" (sung by Joanie Sommers)

WFLD 7 O'Clock Movie bumper (with Jim Ba...

Kill Or Be Killed (Trailer For TV, 1980)

Views: 3651

Here's a theatrical movie trailer for TV for the film "Kill Or Be Killed".

"The Greatest Hollywood Martial Arts Movie Ever Made." Hmm...

This aired on local Milwaukee TV in May 1980.

WLS Channel 7 - Makin' It (Opening, 1979)

Views: 2424

Here's the opening for the short-lived disco-era series Makin' It starring David Naughton (star of "American Werewolf in London" and the Dr. Pepper "Be a Pepper" guy)

Also includes a WLS-TV Chicago 7 bumper slide at the beginning (voiceover by Al Parker)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 9th 1979 at 7pm.

WFLD Channel 32 - Ending Of The Gong Show & Opening of The Three Stooges - "Punchy Cowpunchers" (1979)

Views: 2545

Someone keeps asking me to post these complete breaks, so here they are.

(NOTE - this clip was originally broadcast in color but was recorded in Black & White)

Here is the ending for The Gong Show and the opening for The Three Stooges on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Partial end credits to The Gong Show (voiceover by Ron Beattie)

Commercial: WMET 95 1/2 FM - "The Superstar Cruiser" - "Chicago's Sound Encounter"

Fi...

WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #3, 1979)

Views: 2236

Now for some more neat old TV-44 footage!

Here is Commercial Break #3 for The 1 O'Clock Movie presentation of the animated "Gulliver's Travels" on WSNS. Includes:

The 1 O'Clock Movie bumper slide

The Knitting Machine (ending voiceover by WSNS' former General Manager and sometimes announcer Mal Wyman)

TV-44 It Takes a Thief promo - Monday through Thursday nights at 10:30 (ending voiceover by Don Ferris)

The 1 O'Clock M...