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WFLD Channel 32 - Super Cartoon Sunrise - "Underdog Rain" (Bumper, 1984)

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Listen to Underdog - he says to bring your umbrella with you today!

Here's a commercial bumper for the Super Cartoon Sunrise presentation of Underdog on WFLD Channel 32 featuring the special rain variation. They would have these for various weather alerts such as cold weather or rain.

Also includes the superimposed digital ...

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Chap Stick Lip Treat Flavor Gloss with Suzy Chapstick (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's a commercial for Chap Stick Lip Treat flavor gloss with Suzy Chaffee, a.k.a. "Suzy Chapstick," offering this item from a truck resembling ice cream trucks. Comes in six "flavors": orange, banana, chocolate, strawberry, licorice and root beer.

Ending voiceover by ??

(C) A.H. Robins 1978

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 2nd 1979.

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WCIX Channel 6 - Snipets - "Handicapped Kid" (1984)

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Here's another rare Snipets segment! These originally were created by and aired on the Kaiser Broadcasting / Field Communications stations such as WFLD Channel 32, in the 70s and early 80s. However, with the sale and dissolution of Field starting in 1982, for whatever reason Snipets segments popped up on a few other non-Field or former-Field stations, even as late as 1986!

This particular a...

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WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 Special Report - "Winter Of '79" (Part 1, 1979)

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Here's Part 1 of a NewsCenter5 Special Report on WMAQ Channel 5 about the great snowstorm of 1979. Features Jim Ruddle, Jim Tilmon, Chuck Henry and a report about the Mayoral cover-up called "No Blizzard Plan" by Dick Kay featuring former deputy mayor Kenneth Sain and Mayor Bilandic's Press Secretary Celeste Jurkovich. Also features a report by a young Andy Shaw with Helen Marcyan, LaSalle School Principal, and William Jackson, school bus driver.

Note: The airdate for this...

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WLS Channel 7 - News Bulletin - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 5, 1979)

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Here's Part 5 of WLS Channel 7's news coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 (a DC-10 manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas; scheduled to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles), 1/2 mile northwest of O'Hare Airport. Featuring Fahey Flynn, Diane Allen, Hugh Hill, Joel Daly, and Jim Gibbons. Includes:

News Bulletin bumper slide (voiceover by Janice Gears Kos)

Fahey and Diane leading off this section with a "Tragedy at O'Hare" graphic behind them, f...

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Dave Cory Ford - "100 Truck-A-Thon" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a commercial for Dave Cory Ford - 6200 West Touhy Avenue next to the Leaning Tower in Niles - wait a sec, wasn't that King Datsun (Nissan)? Yep, they eventually moved there, but in the earlier days it was Dave Cory Ford I guess.

The spokesman is not "Dave Cory" but an actor - not sure what his name is but I've seen him in another commercial local to Rochester, New York on YouTube.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, September 20th 1980.

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John M. Smyth Fine Furniture - "Lynn Hauldren Moonlighting" (Commercial, 1982)

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Here's a neat commercial for John M. Smyth Fine Furniture which features their old truck design as well as their jingle.

Voiceover by Lynn Hauldren (The Empire Carpet Man!) (must have needed some extra cash)

This aired on local Chicago TV in June of 1982.

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WLS Channel 7 - Special Report - "No School Bailout" (1980)

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Here's a special report on WLS Channel 7 interrupting normal programming momentarily - at least they waited until the end of a commercial. :-) Includes:

Ending of a commercial for Long Chevrolet in Elmhurst - champagne party for first Chevrolet of the 1980s (voiceover by ??)

Special Report (voiceover by Mike Rapchak, who identified himself at the end of this report) about a report from Eyewitness News' Hugh Hill about Governor James Thompson's adjournment of a ...

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Medley Moving and Storage (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a commercial for Medley Moving and Storage, delivered by the firm's president Howard Medley. Here, as he describes the company's services ("When it come time for you to move..."), we see a miniature chair being put into a small Medley Movers box which is then put into a toy truck with the Medley name and phone number.

"Growing with Chicago through courtesy and reliability. Growing through word of mouth and cus...