WFLD Channel 32 - PM Magazine Chicago - "Cave Club" (Pre-Show Break & Opening, 1981)

Here's the pre-show commercial break, the opening and (most of) the first story of PM Magazine Chicago - regarding Willowbrook High School in Villa Park - and their special program for learning the art of rappelling down a cliff. Includes:

Partial ending credits to All in the Family (voiceover by Jim Barton)

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Commercial: Animated Dean Foods ice cream - "You can taste how much we care."

Commercial: Black and Decker Handy Jack step stool

Movie Trailer for TV: Dead & Buried (ending voiceover by Jim Barton)

Commercial: Homemakers with Shelley Long (1980 Copyright)

WFLD M*A*S*H promo (voiceover by Jim Barton)

PM Magazine Chicago opening (Wednesday version)

The first 3 minutes of the story "Roping Down a Mountain" introduced by Mike Leiderman and featuring the Willowbrook "Cave Club" and its instructor Ron Tyler - who started it in 1969. (unfortunately the recording cut off before they showed how they fared on the cliffs in Utica)

Is that John Cusack at the 6:20 mark?

(sound is a little fuzzy)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, May 27th 1981.

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