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Milex Car Care With Jan Gabriel (Commercial, 1983)
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Here's a commercial for Milex Car Care featuring the late, great Jan Gabriel - Mr. "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" - the voice of the U.S. 30 Dragstrip and Santa Fe Speedway. WCIU Channel 26 - The Warren Freiberg Show (Part 4, 1981)
Views: 3303 Here's Part 4 of an episode of The Warren Freiberg Show on WCIU Channel 26. In case you weren't familiar with him, Warren Freiberg had some rather "extreme" and "fringe" opinions. He had a radio show, and you may also remember him turning up in little vignettes on Steve Dahl's "It's Too Early" show from 1983.
His commercials were was parodied by the original Svengoolie Jerry G. Bishop with "Carbon Monoxide Speedway" as well as Rich Koz' Son of Svengoolie doing "
This part features Warren and Libby continuing their talk with video-recording pioneer (and comic book store pioneer) Larry Charet (yes, the legendary man who accidently r...
WCAE Channel 50 - 3-2-1 Contact (Technical Difficulties Moment, 1980)
Views: 1456
Here's a strange technical difficulties moment from an airing of the series 3-2-1 Contact on the PBS station WCAE Channel 50 (St. John, Indiana) - which later became WYIN Channel 56. (giving up the Channel 50 frequency which would then be taken over by WPWR-TV)
We start, innocently enough, with the animated CTW (Children's Television Workshop) logo opening, already in progress, followed by the opening titles sped way-up. Now wait - you might assume that this is the tec...
The Wonderful World Of Magic - "Night Beat Magician" (1977?)
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Here is a segment I am jokingly calling the "Nightbeat Magician", from the program "The Wonderful World of Magic" (which starred Bill Bixby as host) that will be especially interesting to Classic Chicago TV fans.
The WGN overnight news program Nightbeat (during it's hey-day in the 70's) used as it's theme a section of the tune heard during this french magician's act - at about a minute a...
WSNS Channel 44 - Summit Series Game 8 (Commercial Break, 1972)
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Here's something pretty darn rare - no idea how this was recorded or on what format (it was transferred from some other format onto Beta) – it's a partial commercial break during the broadcast on WSNS TV-44 of Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series. It was Canada at U.S.S.R. Includes:
Commercial: Iwan Ries & Co. Tobacco at 17 South Wabash Avenue (voiceover by Mal Wyman)
Commercial: Nationa...
Coca-Cola - "Have a Coke and a Mean Joe Greene" (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 3523
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Here's the full one-minute version of the now-famous Coca-Cola commercial from 1979 with football great Mean Joe Greene and then 12-year-old child actor Tommy Okin who offered him a Coke as he was heading towards the locker room. Then segments of a news feature on Greene are shown (voiceover by ??), including outtakes of the Coke ad.
From Wikipedia: "The campaign's art director w...
WFLD Channel 32 - Ending Of The Gong Show & Opening of The Three Stooges - "Calling All Curs" (1979)
Views: 2093
(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...
KOCO Channel 5 - Lunch With Ho Ho (Promo #1, 1965)
Views: 6696
Here is a promo for "Lunch With Ho-Ho" on KOCO-TV Channel 5 in Oklahoma City. This was a children's program featuring HoHo the Clown (played by Ed Birchall) and Pokey the Puppet (played by Bill Howard, the station's long-time stage manager wearing a sock-puppet on his arm). (we also see Jeanie the Dog here)
From the clapboard (held by Bill Howard) we can see that this promo was recorded on Wednesday, August 11th 1965. The Director was "Thrash" (Bill Thrash (originally Carrol...
WSET Channel 13 - News 13 (Preview, Break & Opening, 1977)
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Here's the preview, commercial break, and opening moments of the early evening edition of News 13 on ABC affiliate WSET Channel 13 in Lynchburg, Virginia. The anchor is Stan Jayson, with reports by Jeff Taylor, ABC News' John Martin, and Jenny Smith. The on-air text is set in fonts that were part of the same 3M Datavision package as in use back then at our own WSNS Channel 44. Includes:
News preview (voiceover by Jeff Taylor) with teases of following items:
- V...