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WFLD Channel 32 - Partial Sign-Off & America The Beautiful (1989)

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Here's a WFLD Fox 32 Sign-off (incomplete) Includes:

Sign-off script (Jim Barton announcing) (incomplete)

WFLD Fox 32 Animated Logo

America the Beautiful

Color Bars with Time and Date

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, December 17th 1989.

WFLD Channel 32 - Lost in Space (Promo, 1977)

Views: 2473

Here's a neat promo for Lost in Space on WFLD Channel 32. The opening super is patterned after the first (released) "Star Wars" movie which was referenced in the intro.

We also see the production slate at the beginning showing that this was number 8977 and was directed by Don Shannon. The promo was recorded on 8-10-77 - eight days after Channel 32's prior owner, Kaiser Broadcasting, was subsumed by original owner Field Communications.

Voiceover by Bud Kel...

WCIU Channel 26 - The Dennis Green Show (Part 4 - Last, 1982)

Views: 1393

Here is Part 4, the last part, of a (mostly complete) episode of The Dennis Green Show on WCIU Channel 26. Dennis Green was the coach of the Northwestern Wildcats - the college football team of Northwestern University. Co-hosted by Duane Dow - voice of the Wildcats.

Featuring, among others, Coach Francis Peay (at that time an assistant coach) who was head football coach at Northwestern University from 1986 to 1991.

Also includes commercials for Old Style beer a...

WPWR Channel 60 - MV3 (Opening, 1983)

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Here is the opening for MV3 - New Music TV on WPWR Channel 60. MV3 was a syndicated music video show for people who didn't have MTV. Starring David Maples and Karen Scott. And featuring Richard Blade. Includes:

Ending of FNN - Financial News Network

A rare early animated WPWR Station ID.

Sponsorship slide for WLS AM 89 & FM 95

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, May 26th 1983.

Henry's Restaurants - "Captain Henry" (Commercial, 1969)

Views: 14964

Here's a commercial for Henry's Restaurants featuring "Captain Henry" and a contest with 8829 winners - "Head For Henry's" - in Chicago, Joliet, Wheeling, Des Plaines, Waukegan - Highland, Indiana - Kenosha, Wisconsin - and Benton Harbor, Michigan.

The one in Benton Harbor is still around, though called Henry's Hamburgers.

"Captain Henry" is played by Dick Orkin (of his 60s radio series "Chickenman" fam...

WSNS Channel 44 - Get Smart (Promo, 1978)

Views: 1705

Here's a promo for Get Smart on WSNS Channel 44. This features clips from a two-part episode, "A Man Called Smart," with the scene of Max shooting a door from Part 2 which originally aired on the NBC Network on April 15th 1967, while the scene with him in a stretcher came from Part 1 which originally aired on April 8th 1967.

Main voiceover by Vic Roby (from original NBC network promo as from the above original airdate). Ending voiceover by Don Ferris.

Th...

WBKB Channel 7 - Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks" (Part 4, 1964)

Views: 781

Here's Part 4 of Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks," hosted by Frank Sweeney, as aired on WBKB (now WLS) Channel 7. This was transferred from the original film, and thus has no commercials. Featured in this part are coach Billy Reay (voice only), Bobby Hull with his family (second wife Joanne McKay and their first two children, Bobby Jr. and Brett), Stan Mikita, John McKenzie, and Pierre Pilote. Includes:

Opening shot of ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Movie For A Saturday Afternoon - "The Big Broadcast of 1938" (Bumper Excerpt, 1979)

Views: 2958

Here's another small but rare excerpt of a bumper for the "Movie for a Saturday Afternoon" presentation of the Bob Hope and W.C. Fields movie, "The Big Broadcast of 1938" on WFLD Channel 32.

If you pause it at the right moment you can make out the "film strip" framing as well as the old "Kaiser-era" 32 logo and some kind of green-jelly like effect in the background (which was evidently used for this program as late as 1980).

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sat...

WFLD Channel 32 - The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life (Break #2, 1975)

Views: 1697

Here is Commercial Break #2 of The Best of Groucho - You Bet Your Life on WFLD Channel 32. (In Black and White, unfortunately) Includes:

Good Luck Hawaiian Tea Plants commercial offer

WFLD Merv Griffin promo - Weeknights at 8pm (Bud Kelly voice over)

The Best of Groucho WFLD slide (Bud Kelly voice over)

This aired on local Chicago TV likely in the first couple months of 1975, based on the record date for the