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Rock of Ages 10th Anniversary Tribute (1979)
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Here is a video tribute to the long-running WCIU Channel 26 program "Rock of Ages" in honor of its 10th Anniversary. Features still pictures, clips and music from the program's history.
"Rock of Ages was a gospel music show hosted by Isabel Joseph Johnson. Isabel also hosted a similarly named show on Sunday mornings on WVON-AM. Both shows featured local talent from churches all around Chicago. Rock of Ages, it it's original format, was a live 90 minute show with the firs...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts (Part 1, 1979)
Views: 881
Here's Part 1 of Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts, a local interview program hosted by Kathy McFarland that followed an encore presentation of the Academy Award-winning Scared Straight! on WFLD Channel 32. Also featuring a former street gang member turned straight, Ray Rowland(sp?). Includes:
A few more seconds of the Scared Straight! film are shown (with a quick zoom-in of the Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts title) as Kathy begins her comments lead...
WBBM Channel 2 - The Sunday News (Part 1, 1971)
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This clip made possible by the donations from our generous group of "Fuzzketeers" during the January 2012 2" Quad Transfer Fundraiser.
Here's Part 1 of the early edition of The Sunday News on WBBM Channel 2, anchored by Bob Wallace (a fixture of the station from May 1970 to September 1991). Also featuring Michele Clark (who sadly perished in the December 8th 1972 crash ...
WGN Channel 9 - Mid-Morning Report with Merri Dee (1980)
Views: 2293
Here's an edition of the Mid-Morning Report with Merri Dee on WGN Channel 9. News items include:
- Preview of tonight's debate between Presidential candidates Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, to be held in Cleveland starting at 8:30pm (and will be nationally televised); predictions that debate's outcome could swing undecided voters one way or another, or cause those who'd already made their minds to switch
- Parliamentary debates in Tehran on fate of U.S. ...
WFLD Channel 32 - Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts (Part 3, 1979)
Views: 1653
Here's Part 3 (the final part) of Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts, a local interview program hosted by Kathy McFarland that followed an encore presentation of the Academy Award-winning Scared Straight! on WFLD Channel 32. Also featuring Hon. Judge William Sylvester White, Chief of the Juvenile Division of Cook County Circuit Court and President of the National Association of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Includes:
Scared Straight! Chicago Reacts bumpe...
WBBM Channel 2 - TV 2 News at 6pm (Part 2, 1974)
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Here's Part 2 of a complete edition of the TV 2 News at 6pm on WBBM Channel 2 with anchor Bob Wallace. Also featuring John Callaway and Christopher (Chris) Wallace. Includes:
Bob introduces a report by John Callaway about a hearing conducted by the Illinois Legislature's Insurance Subcommittee at the uptown center of Hull House, on the high fire insurance rates for slum buildings; speakers featured in this report include attorney Fred Cohen and Maryilou Hedlund, Alderw...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Real People (Part 2, 1980)
Views: 957
Here's Part 2 of an episode of the prototypical "reality show" Real People on WMAQ Channel 5.
This segment starts off with Skip Stephenson giving the microphone to an audience member who says "And we'll be right back," although they just came back.
Next, co-hosts Byron Allen and Sarah Purcell review typographical errors of various TV listings from TV Guide and other publications, including one for Inside the NFL (submitted by Gail Boyd {sp?...
WFLD Channel 32 - Newscene With Kathy McFarland (1982)
Views: 1659
For all you Kathy McFarland aficionados out there, here is another full edition of Newscene with Kathy McFarland on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:
Newscene opening (voiceover by Jim Barton)
Headlines:
- Another attack on Pope John Paul II, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt; this attack was by a young man dressed as a Spanish priest, carrying a bayonet on the steps of the basilica of Our Lady of Fatima sh...
WGN Channel 9 - Garfield Goose And Friends (Break & Ending, 1975)
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Here's a first - the first off-air recording of Garfield Goose and Friends that has ever been found (to my knowledge). Considering the program went off the air in 1976, this is not entirely surprising. (Some apparently erroneous TV listings had it showing again for short periods around 1982, but those have never been shown to be accurate)
This recording was ostensibly made for The Morning Movie presentation of "Sorry, Wrong Number" but luckily for us they started tapin...