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Into The Valley Of The Space Invaders (Part 1, 1982)
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Here's Part 1 of the Field Communications produced mini-documentary, "Into The Valley of The Space Invaders" hosted by Bob Wilkins. This fun special takes a look behind the video game phenomenon and interviews some of the Silicon Valley artists, programmers, and engineers involved in making them. WLS Channel 7 - Tales of The Unexpected - "Another American Syndicated Variation" (Opening, 1987)
Views: 2116 Here's yet another variation of the opening to the British anthology series Tales of the Unexpected, as aired this time on WLS Channel 7. Earlier we saw the original British version, then the American syndicated version with voiceover by John Houseman, and now we see that they have dropped Houseman's narration and replaced it with a generic one, als...
Obviously this airing is from the San Francisco Field outlet, KBHK Channel 44, but here in the Chicago area this program aired at least twice on WFLD Channel 32 - on
Into The Valley Of The Space Invaders (Part 4 - Last, 1982)
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Here's Part 4, the last part, of the Field Communications produced mini-documentary, "Into The Valley of The Space Invaders" hosted by Bob Wilkins. This fun special takes a look behind the video game phenomenon and interviews some of the Silicon Valley artists, programmers, and engineers involved in making them.
Obviously this airing is from the San Francisco Field outlet, KBHK Channel 44, but here in the Chicago area this program aired at least twice on WFLD Channel 32 - on <...
WFLD Channel 32 - License Renewal Notice (1980)
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Here is an FCC license renewal notice from WFLD Channel 32 featuring Naurice Roberts.
"On November 30th, 1979, WFLD-TV was granted a license by the Federal Communications Commission, to serve the public interest as a public trustee until December 1st, 1982. Each August 1st we place in our public inspection file a list of what we consider to have been some of the significant problems and needs of our service area during the preceding 12 months and some of our programming aired t...
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...
WPWR Channel 60 - "Public Notice" (1985)
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Here is a public notice from WPWR Channel 60 as required by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This one deals with an application filed November 7th 1985 seeking consent to assign the broadcast license of WBBS-TV from HATCO-60 to Metrowest Corporation.
Mentions Marcelino Miyares, the general partner of Hispanic American Television-Chicago. The officers/shareholders from Aurora-Chicago Telecasters are given as Stanley McDonald, Raymond Kussler, James A. Murphy, Lamon...
Thinkabout (Ending Credits, 1979)
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Here are the ending credits for Thinkabout, "a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning", which was an instructional program for children, produced in 1979 by the Agency for Instructional Television, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States and Canada.
It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s.
The sixty programs produced were aimed f...
KOCO Channel 5 - Lunch With Ho Ho (Promo #1, 1965)
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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...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Today (Commercial Break & Channel Switching, 1982)
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Here is a mostly complete commercial break during an episode of Today on WMAQ Channel 5. Includes:
Small excerpt of Today showing date and time.
Evans Furs - "Dividend Days" (interrupted by Channel Switching)
Channel Switching to WLS Channel 7 (Good Morning America), then Channel 9 (Bozo cartoon), then WTTW Channel 11 (Sesame Street), and then to some scrambled content (likely ON-TV), before going back to the Evans Fur commercial.
M...