WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News (Pre-Show Break & Opening Excerpt, 1977)

Here's the tail end of The ABC Monday Night Movie, a pre-show break, and the opening to Eyewitness News on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

Partial ABC promo for "How the West Was Won" (Part 2) (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Bumper for The ABC Monday Night Movie

Promo for Good Morning America featuring David Hartman and Paula - a two week old baby that they were going to monitor the progress of - I wonder how long that lasted? And of course, where is the 34-year-old "Paula" today?

WLS Eyewitness News at 10 preview with Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly, John Coleman, and Bill Frink

Theatrical movie trailer for TV for the film "Noah's Ark" (Main voiceover by the "Voice of Sunn Classic," Brad Crandall) (Ending voiceover by ??) (another "schlocky Sunn Classic psuedo-documentary"?)

Arby's - "Break the Hamburger Habit with Dinner For a Dollar" (ending voiceover by ??)

Dodge Aspen (Is that Rex Harrison?)

WLS-TV Chicago animated ID (with voiceover promo for "How to Marry a Millionaire" on tomorrow's The 3:30 Movie by Al Parker)

WLS Eyewitness News opening featuring Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly, John Coleman, and Bill Frink (voiceover by Al Parker)

Top story was the murder in Rhodesia of seven Roman Catholic missionaries by guerrillas. A ninth, Father Dunstan Myerscough, survived. (Peter Jennings reporting)

Joel Daly beings reporting the next story before the tape cuts out - regarding acting Mayor Michael Bilandic visiting somewhere related to an L crash.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, February 7th 1977 at a little before 10pm.

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