WMAQ Channel 5 - "The Wizard of Oz" (Commercial Break #1, 1973)

Here's a surviving commercial break for the 1973 airing of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" (starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr) on WMAQ Channel 5. This was the seventh airing of this classic by NBC, which held the rights from 1967 to 1975. (Among the fare preempted this evening: The Wonderful World of Disney.) Includes:

Commercial: Jell-O Pudding & Pie Filling and Instant Pudding Mix - with kids in summer camp grousing about the camp food - "If You Have Kids, You Better Have Pudding"

Commercial: Post Raisin Bran - "The Fruit and Cereal Lovers' Cereal" (voiceover by ??)

Commercial: Chiclets - "Get a Little Kick" (voiceover by ??)

Commercial: Listerex Acne Scrub - "From the Listerine People"

" 'The Wizard of Oz' - In Color" bumper slide

Commercial: Nestle's Choco-Lite - "Chocolate Never Felt This Good" (voiceover by ??)

Commercial offer for The History of the Second World War book set - with Part 1, "Blitzkrieg," available at Osco Drug Stores (voiceover by ??)

Station ID with promo for The Lou Rawls Show at 9pm (voiceover by Ed Grennan?)

" 'The Wizard of Oz' - In Color" bumper slide

(Technical Note: While this aired in living color, the recording presented here was made on an early reel-to-reel home video recorder in drab black-and-white.)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, April 8th 1973 during the 5:30pm to 7:30pm timeframe.

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