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WTTW Channel 11 - Image Union - "Viewer Discretion Advised" (1982)

Views: 2379

Here's a "Viewer Discretion Advised" warning notice for Image Union on WTTW Channel 11.

Voiceover by Joan Kohn.

"The following program, Image Union, contains material which may be considered adult in nature. Discretion should be used in deciding whether to view this program."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 24th 1982 at 10pm.

WTTW Channel 11 - Bleacher Bums (Promo #1, 1984)

Views: 2765

Here's a promo for a WTTW Channel 11 airing of Bleacher Bums on Saturday, September 29th 1984 - about the lovable and quirky fans of the Chicago Cubs.

Bleacher Bums had a few people who would later go on to greater fame - Joe Mantegna and Dennis Franz, to name a couple.

Voiceover by Don Ferris.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, September 23rd 1984.

WTTW Channel 11 - Movie Eleven - "Swept Away" (Opening, 1980)

Views: 3038

Here is the opening for the WTTW Channel 11 - "Movie Eleven" presentation of "Swept Away". This opening features scenes from classic movies (in order): The Blue Angel, Metropolis, The Rocking Horse Winner, Alexander Nevsky, Ugetsu, The Red Shoes, Metropolis, La Strada, [?], Metropolis, Jules et Jim, Beauty and the Beast, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Black Orpheus.

Music used is a classical piece by Wendy Carlos - I think it's the same theme that the Frugal Gourmet used. ...

WTTW Channel 11 - Wild Chicago - "Punks, Junk & More" (Part 1, 1991)

Views: 2922

Here is Part One of an episode of Wild Chicago on WTTW Channel 11. Featuring Ben Hollis as host. Includes:

Val's Halla in Oak Park, IL - featuring their Elvis Shrine.

Professional Wrestling at the Copernicus Center Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, April 21st 1991.

WTTW Channel 11 - Sneak Previews - "The Dogs Of 1981" (Promo, 1982)

Views: 2800

Here's a promo for Sneak Previews on WTTW Channel 11 featuring an episode with Sparky the Wonder Dog giving his "Dogs of 1981", which aired on Thursday, April 22nd 1982 at 8:00 PM.

Ending voiceover by Don Ferris.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, April 21st 1982.

WTTW Channel 11 - WTTW Auction with Val Bettin (Promo, 1970)

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Here's a promo for an upcoming fundraising auction on WTTW Channel 11, to be held from April 26th to May 2nd. Val Bettin, host of Channel 11's "The Storyteller" invites viewers to donate merchandise or services to be sold, and gives the phone number of the auction office to call to do so - 583-5000 (same one they have to this day!)

This promo (in glorious black-and-white) is preceded by a brief shot of a multiburst test pattern, accompanied by a 378 Hz tone.

Acc...

WTTW Channel 11 - Doctor Who - "The Hand Of Fear : Part 4" (Ending, 1980)

Views: 3377

Doctor Who on a Thursday at 10pm? Here's something cool for you Who fans - one of the earliest yet discovered Doctor Who excerpts from WTTW Channel 11. I give you the ending for Part 4 of "The Hand of Fear".

This was back when they aired the episodes as they did in England; in half-hour installments, before Marty Robinson got the brilliant idea of editing all the parts in a story together and putting it on Sunday evenings.

Also notice the addition of the "Int...

WTTW Channel 11 - Wild Chicago - "Disturbing" (Part 3, 1991)

Views: 1920

"Viewer Discretion Advised"

Here is Part Three of "Disturbing" Wild Chicago on WTTW Channel 11. Featuring Ben Hollis as host. This was a compilation of their "darkest, most border-line tasteless segments ever done". Includes:

John's Live Poultry at 5955 West Fullerton Avenue.

Special Effects and Blood Artist Geoffrey Binns-Calvey and his wife Amy, in Oak Park.

Ending voiceover by Marty Robinson.

This air...

WTTW Channel 11 - Bleacher Bums (Promo #2, 1984)

Views: 3172

Here's another promo for a WTTW Channel 11 airing of Bleacher Bums on Saturday, September 29th 1984 - about the lovable and quirky fans of the Chicago Cubs.

Bleacher Bums had a few people who would later go on to greater fame - Joe Mantegna and Dennis Franz, to name a couple.

Now I know where Ronnie Woo-Woo got his shtick. ;-)

Voiceover by Marty Robinson.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, September 23rd 1984.