WGN Channel 9 - The Morning Movie - "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (Opening, 1980)

Here's the opening and first commercial break of The Morning Movie presentation of the 1934 W.C. Fields film "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (also starring Pauline Lord, Zasu Pitts, Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor) on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Station ID bumper slide with drawing of sun and moon sitting down watching TV and message "Open for Business 24 Hours a Day," dissolving into late 1970s video animation - with "Last Farewell" music in background (voiceover by Bob Bell)

The Morning Movie open (music by ?? - in better shape than on this opening from the prior year) - with notice that the film is edited for television (voiceover by Bob Bell)

Commercial: Central Furniture - "Central Man" (in Superman motif), offering "super value" - at 1348 North Milwaukee (voiceover by Chuck Fuller)

Commercial: Herschel Bernardi in "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Auditorium Theatre (voiceover by Peter Thomas?)

Commercial: Aldi Foods - "Goodness Guaranteed" (with Margaret Travolta [sister of John Travolta] as the wife and Robert J. "Bob" Jones as the husband) - (C) 1980 Aldi Foods, Inc.

Commercial: Creative Mirror Designs - "Magic of Mirrors" - featuring Pam (heiress to the Creative Mirrors fortune) - (still being aired as late as 1983)

The Morning Movie bumper - dissolving into opening titles and credits for "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.

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