WMAQ Channel 5 - "Elsewhere On The Day After" (1983)

On the night that The Day After - an ABC presentation about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States (and one of the most-watched movies for television) aired, NBC Sunday Night at the Movies aired Part 1 of the mini-series Kennedy. Here's the ending of it and the post-show commercial break. Incidently, the creators of The Day After originally envisioned the movie to also span over multiple nights, but they decided against it after considering that people probably wouldn't tune in for such depressing material two nights in a row.

All in all, I think I would have had a much happier post-1983 childhood if my parents had chosen to watch this instead that night. ;-)

Includes:

Kennedy - "To Be Continued" bumper

NBC Sunday Night at the Movies bumper (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Commercial: Toyota Tercel Wagon

Commercial: Atari Home Computers with Alan Alda - "What's a Typewriter?"

NBC Preview of tomorrow night's continuation of Kennedy (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Ending credits of Kennedy with WMAQ Channel 5 News voiceover preview by Deborah Norville

NBC Sunday Night at the Movies presentation of Kennedy ending bumper (voiceover by Danny Dark)

NBC Movie Premiere promo for Fort Apache, The Bronx (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Commercial: Family Circle magazine

Commercial: Panasonic copiers - "Tell Your Boss" (main voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker; ending voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Commercial: Almaden varietal wines

WMAQ Station ID slide & PSA bumper (voiceover by Jim Hill)

(picture quality on the tape was a little washed out)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 20th 1983 at a few minutes before 10pm.

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