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Gold Pin Fun Center - "Rollin' Thunder" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 730

Here's a commercial for Gold Pin Fun Center bowling - featuring "Rollin' Thunder".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, January 2nd 1980.

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 at 10pm - "Teacher's Strike" (Opening, 1980)

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Here is the opening and first 8 minutes or so of NewsCenter 5 at 10pm on WMAQ Channel 5. Features Paul Hogan reporting at a live news conference at the Conrad Hilton, Rich Samuels, Linda Yu, Mike Jackson, and a brief glimpse in the opening of Terry Burhans and Mike Leiderman. June Massell is also seen at the end in the introduction to another story about a contract for Chicago firefighters.

Preceded by a quick bumper promo for Mary Tyler Moore - weekdays at 4pm. (voiceover b...

Illinois Bell Phone Center Store - "Ring In The Holidays With Bell" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1725

Here's a commercial for the Illinois Bell Phone Center Store - showing some gift ideas.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, December 18th 1982.

Wheaton Rental Center - "Lawn & Garden Tent Sale" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1563

Here's a commercial for Wheaton Rental Center featuring a sale on Honda lawnmowers, rototillers, and generators, which took place Friday, May 14th and Saturday, May 15th 1982. Located at 908 Roosevelt Road in Wheaton.

Voiceover by Merri Dee.

This aired on local Chicago TV on (most likely) Thursday, May 13th 1982.

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 - "Oscar Losers of 1980" (1981)

Views: 1051

Here's a segment of NewsCenter5 on WMAQ Channel 5, in which critic Roger Ebert (or as he was shown in the lower-third, "Roger Ebert At The Movies") spotlights some of the films that were conspicuously missing from the Oscar nominations, to wit:

- "The Empire Strikes Back" ($180 million at the box office, only given an honorary nod for special effects)

- The Chicago-made blockbuster "The Blues Brothers"

- "Popeye" (Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl...

NBC News Digest With Jessica Savitch - "One of Her Last" (1983)

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Here's a mostly complete NBC News Digest with Jessica Savitch. This is notable for being one of her last appearances on television before her untimely death on Sunday, October 23rd 1983. October was not a good month for her, starting out on October 3rd with this infamous, apparently drug-impaired NBC News Digest appearance.

According to the NBC Archives (reported to Jessica's sister Lori Savi...

WSNS Channel 44 - Saturday All Night Movies - "Journey To The Center Of Time" (Commercial Break #2, 1980)

Views: 2033

Here's an admittedly extra fuzzy commercial break from an airing of a Saturday All Night Movies presentation of "Journey to the Center of Time" on WSNS Channel 44. Also it's in Black and White, as it was recorded that way. For you TV-44 diehards only. :-) Includes:

Channel 44 Saturday All Night Movies "Owl" Logo

Record offer for "The Very Soul of Jerry Butler - His Greatest Hits" (main voiceover by Bill "Rosko" Mercer, ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds)
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Center Video - "Atari!" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 3655

Here's a commercial for Center Video advertising their Atari 2600 deals.

Voiceover by Linn Burton (of Bert Weinman Ford fame).

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 20th 1981.

WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 News Special Report - Blizzard '79 (Part 1, 1979)

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Here's Part 1 of a Channel 2 News Special Report on the Blizzard of 1979 - this update coming the day after the big snow hit. (has a tiny snippet of the ending of a WMAQ NewsCenter5 report at the beginning - you can recognize the theme music, as well as a flash of a CBS All in the Family slide - likely announcing the pre-emption for this report) Includes:

Carrie Cochran anchoring; Steve Shepard reporting on regular citizens clearing their streets; Phil Whitelaw doing ...