WFLD Channel 32 - "Video Voyage" (Promo, 1979)

Here's a promo for WFLD Channel 32's "Video Voyage" contest, in which winners could win a trip to Hawaii or a "home video tape recorder" (that's VCR to the rest of us), during which the viewer on the screen gets repeatedly hit on the head by a coconut.

Features clips from such Channel 32 staples as All in the Family (from the "Gloria's Pregnancy" episode which originally aired on February 16th 1971) and M*A*S*H (with Klinger's "big plan" consisting of guard duty). Watch weekdays at 9:00am or 1:00pm, or see your local TV listings.

Here's an interesting Newspaper Ad for the contest - note the inclusion of Son of Svengoolie as the show that announced winners (!). From the ad it appears that the winners were announced on Saturday, November 10th 1979 (Episode #21, "Murders in the Rue Morgue"). I wonder if Rich Koz remembers this.

These little contests were one of the things I liked about WFLD, even if I didn't enter them. Remember the WFLD Mystery Man Contest?

Voiceover by Felix Shuman.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979 during the 10pm to 10:30pm timeframe.

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