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Dominick's Finer Foods - "Golden Ripe Bananas" (Commercial, 1976)

Views: 1598

Here's a quick commercial for Dominicks Finer Foods, featuring their older logo style. Also features a switcher effect similar to one that WFLD used on Son of Svengoolie quite a bit, such as in this clip.

Voiceover by Joe Passarella.

"Dominick's - Your Way To Save"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 9th 1976.

WGN Channel 9 - "Chanukah Greetings" (Bumper, 1979)

Views: 2102

Here is a WGN Channel 9 Hanukkah bumper for the holiday season.

Voiceover by Bob Bell.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 21st 1979 at 6:30am.

Spectrum - NightScene - "Massage...The Touch Of Love" (Opening, 1982)

Views: 2967

Here is the opening of NightScene on Spectrum - their optional Adult Content service with tonight's feature, "Massage...The Touch of Love". (which unfortunately had to be omitted here due to time constraints) ;-)

This aired on local Chicago TV in December 1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - Make Me Laugh! (Bumper, 1979)

Views: 4027

Here's another rare WFLD "zooming" bumper for the game show "Make Me Laugh!" (hilariously parodied by Rich Koz here)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 9th 1979.

PM Magazine - "We're Not On Tonight" (Promo, 1984)

Views: 1274

Here's a bumper promo for PM Magazine telling viewers that they won't be on tonight because of the "Fat Albert Christmas Special" (Oooo, that's gotta be humbling...)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, December 11th 1984.

Bert Weinman Ford With Linn Burton - "Memorial Day Sales" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 4976

Here's another Bert Weinman Ford commercial with Lynn Burton - this time advertising the deals they had going on Memorial Day Weekend. They were located at 3535 North Ashland Avenue.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, May 30th 1982.

ON TV - The Who Rocks America Confirmation Test (1982)

Views: 3006

Here is the (very abrupt) ending of the movie Taps on ON TV (with no end credits) followed immediately by "The Who Rocks America" Confirmation Test. This tested whether you had paid for the special concert event or not. This person evidently did not since the picture became scrambled soon after.

Voiceovers by Lloyd Hanson and Mal Wyman (at various points).

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 17th 1982 at a little before 9pm.

Empire Carpets - "That's Not All" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 8252

Here's a commercial for Empire Carpets - the oldest one we have so far.

Features the original Empire jingle as well as the one and only Empire Carpet Man Lynn Hauldren doing the voiceover and seen tacking down the carpet at one point.

Empire Home Service, Inc. - "The Carpet King".

This aired on local Chicago TV in the Summer of 1980.

A Country Style Christmas (Partial Record Offer, 1977)

Views: 1019

Here's a partial (incomplete) record offer commercial for A Country Style Christmas (coming in about less than halfway through), available from Vista Marketing (which also brought you this famed commercial).

The artists featured in this collection (originally released in 1975 by Columbia House) were from within the rosters of Columbia and RCA Records and their respective affiliated labels (ironic, g...