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WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics with Frazier Thomas - "Mysterious Island" (Opening & Ending, 1979)
Views: 9618
Here's something pretty neat and rare - the opening (and ending credits) of the Family Classics presentation of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island on WGN Channel 9. Featuring Frazier Thomas as host.
Also includes a WGN "Last Farewell" Station ID at the beginning. (voiceover by Jerry Golden)
Ending credits:
Directed by - Don Strukel
Graphic Arts by Anthony M. Sulla (A.K.A. Tony Sulla) (he was the one who painted all of the ...
Views: 5790
Here's Commercial Break #3 from the episode "The Bionic Woman (Part 2)" of The Six Million Dollar Man on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:
WFLD Six Million Dollar Man bumper (same one as before)
Commercial: A & W Root Beer - "That Frosty Mug Taste" (1977 Copyright)
Commercial: ...Li'l Boss by Creative Playthings
Commercial: A & P with S & H Green Stamps - "You'll do better." (voiceover by Ron Beattie)
Commercial: The Huffy Ba...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Off the Wall (Opening & Break, 1977)
Views: 2004
Remember that classic sitcom from 1977 called "Off the Wall"? No? Well neither does anyone else because it only aired once - on May 7th 1977. A failed television pilot.
What do you think the odds are that someone in the Chicagoland area (not connected with the production of the show) recorded the entire show, with the original commercial breaks intact, didn't ever record over the tape, and then saved the tape for 38 years before we got our hands on it? (just to give you some hi...
SportsChannel - The Sports Writers On TV (Part 1, 1991)
Views: 3623
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 1, they discuss Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens.
Includes:
SportsChannel ID at beginning - "Our Season Never Ends!"
Commerci...
WFLD Channel 32 - Ending Of The Gong Show & Opening of The Three Stooges - "Calling All Curs" (1979)
Views: 2102
(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 short "Calling All Curs" on The Three Stooges on WFLD Channel 32. (unfortunately all the breaks were cut out of this short) Includes:
Partial end credits to The Gong Show (voiceover by Ron Beattie)
Commercial: WFYR 103 and a Half FM - "Incredible Music. Credible Information."
Com...
WBBM Channel 2 - The 20th Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 5, 1978)
Views: 2751
The transfer of this video clip made possible by your generous donations!
Here's Part 5 of the Twentieth Annual Chicago Emmy Awards on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Bob Newhart.
This part features Johnny Morris, Hector Perez, Jim Tilmon, Ruth Graham, Warner Saunders, Frank Jackson, John Coughlin and Lee Phillip, archive footage of Frank Reynolds, Irv Kupcinet, Dorothy Vredenburgh, Jerry Colonna, Howard K. Smith, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, and phot...
WFLD Channel 32 - The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show (Part 7, 1972)
Views: 1584
Here's Part 7 of a rare surviving edition of Bill Jackson's The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show on WFLD Channel 32. This was from the original 2" quadruplex master tape. Includes:
Mother Plumtree finishing up a chocolate muzzie and offering it to Fenster who declares himself sick of her "silly cooking"; Wally berating Blob's "Wally the Wonder Horse" makeup (with accompanying hoof sounds); Mayor B.J. on the phone with Mother over what went down, and then deducing that all the da...
WGN Channel 9 - When Movies Were Movies - "A Night At The Opera" (Bumper, 1979?)
Views: 3495
Here is a bumper for the When Movies Were Movies presentation of the Marx Brothers classic "A Night at the Opera" on WGN Channel 9.
Notice the artwork of the studio lights is the same as in the other example.
The bumper music is from another portion of the instrumental
WFLD Channel 32 - Newscene Headlines With Kathy McFarland (1982)
Views: 4333
Here is a Newscene headlines update with Kathy McFarland from WFLD Channel 32. This aired right before 8pm on Thursday, July 29th 1982. (The day of the big 3-D Son of Svengoolie movie event!) Includes:
The ending of some other Field Communications program - a Star Trek special called Star Trek Memories.
Field Communications ID
Newscene Update Part 1 - Kathy McFarland talking about a battle between two street gangs in Pontiac prison, which result...