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Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #1, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)

(There is also a slightly different version of the same commercial)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Larry Lujack" (Opening, 1973)

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Here's another segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop. By this point, if the clapboard and opening titles are of any indication, the SYT title had been eschewed in favor of Svengoolie.

This segment (designated #1-1 - Open), with guest Larry "Superjock" Lujack (who was holding court at the time at WCFL AM 1000 - which in those days was ho...

Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #2, 1980)

Views: 2651

Here's another commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)

(This is a slight variation from a previously posted version)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 12th 1980.

WTVO Channel 17 - Bruce Richardson And The News (Opening Segment, 1979)

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Here's (some of) the opening and first few minutes of Bruce Richardson and the News on WTVO Channel 17. Features some coverage on the big blizzard of '79.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV in mid-January 1979. (not Chicago, but close enough)

WFLD Channel 32 - Comedy Classics (Break #4 & Ending, 1985)

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Here is break #4 and end of WFLD Channel 32's Comedy Classics program from July 15th, 1985. Includes:

Ray Hara's King Datsun (Nissan) in Niles (next to the Leaning Tower Y)

Nelson Brothers Furniture (later version of jingle)

Pert Shampoo

WFLD Channel 32 - Your Summer Place promo for Happy Days and Sanford and Son

Latenight 32 title card (yet another variation)

Comedy Classics ending

WFLD C...

Son of Svengoolie - Assorted Clips Compilation - "Christmas Stuff" (Part 4)

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Here is Part 4 of a compilation of assorted Son of Svengoolie clips. I did not make this compilation - it has been floating around the trading circles for a long time, and this is the best copy I've been able to find. It has some neat clips you will not see anywhere else.

Featuring:

The Day After Christmas Complaint Department (must be from Dec. 1983, since this is a reference to The Day After movie that aired in November of that year and was big news.) (inc...

CBS Video Games - Wizard of Wor - With John Madden (Commercial, 1983)

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Here is a commercial for the CBS video game "Wizard of Wor" for the Atari 2600 VCS. (Soon for Colecovision)

Featuring the CBS Video Games Challenge of Champions - Tony Sarkis Vs. Ray Johnson - as well as a money back guarantee (Offer ends January 31st 1983) and some all-star selling by football commentator John Madden.

"Dramatization of actual competition."

This aired on local Chicago TV Saturday, January 15th 1983.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Barry Farber Show (Opening, 1977)

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Here's the opening titles for The Barry Farber Show which aired on WFLD Channel 32.

Farber, a veteran talk radio host usually based in New York City, was intended as a replacement for the late Lou Gordon whose long-running discussion show The Lou Gordon Program, based out of WFLD's sister station WKBD Channel 50 in Detroit and shown on other Kaiser stations including Channel 32, ended with Gordon's death on May 24th 1977.

However, Farber's show,...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 4:30 (Opening Segment Excerpt, 1984)

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Here is the opening and first three minutes of the WLS Channel 7 Eyewitness News featuring Mary Ann Childers, Joel Daly, Steve Deschler, and Jim Rose.

Jim Gibbons reports on the search for a missing Crete, Illinois boy, 2 and a half year old Michael DesForges, Jr., that was called off on that day. His father, Michael DesForges, Sr. speaks as well as Lt. Ray Van Dyke of the Will County Sheriffs Department. Also features a report on the search by Cora-Ann Mihalik.

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