WLS Channel 7 - Who's On Call? (Opening, Break & Excerpt, 1979)

Here's the opening moments of a very little-known (thankfully) (and ultimately failed) pilot called Who's On Call? that aired on WLS Channel 7.

This show is almost like a parody of what a terrible sitcom would be. It has no listing on IMDb.com, and almost no listings on Google. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the only time it aired. Forbesy Russell - this is your time to shine again. ;-)

Includes:

Opening titles with basic premise of show (cocky New Yorker vs. small-town Midwestern girl) - Starring: Forbesy Russell and Matt Landers, with Frank Corsentino, Jim McKrell, David Rupprecht, Fran Ryan, and Melissa Steinberg

Commercial: Kentucky Fried Chicken - family coming out of movie theatre playing "The Monster That Ate Tokyo" and sitting down to have fried chicken at KFC, with Colonel Sanders watching at the end - "It's Nice to Feel So Good About a Meal" (a bit better quality than the stand-alone version posted here)

Commercial: Quilted Pampers diapers - with comparison between cloth diapers and Quilted Pampers - "Twice as Dry"

Opening moments of first scene, with basic credits:

Produced by: Coleman Mitchell, Geoffrey Neigher
Written by: Laura Levine
Directed by: Tony Mordente (as confirmed in sources Encyclopedia.com and FilmReference.com - two of the very few places to even acknowledge the existence of this stinker)

ABC apparently didn't learn from their experience with the 1972-74 sitcom Temperatures Rising, a.k.a. The New Temperatures Rising Show!

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, December 16th 1979 between 9:30pm and 9:34pm.

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