Home  News & Views  Forums  Donate  About  Contact  
Search our online archive of 4,186 clips.
Category Search:
Keyword Search:  
Latest Additions - Recently Viewed - - My Favorites - Most Favorited - Most Commented - Sponsored - Random
Loading the player ...
Share You must Log In to store favorites.
This clip is favorited by 1 person.
 Link/Embed

Rafferty With Patrick McGoohan (Preview & Opening, 1977)

Thought I'd post this since Patrick McGoohan recently passed away...the opening to his short-lived CBS series, "Rafferty". Includes a preview of the episode, the opening credits with sponsorship by General Electric Coffee Corner, and the first minute or so of the episode "Death out of a Blue Sky". (This is all I have - no complete episodes)

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Monday, November 28th 1977. (Although it was probably exactly the same as it aired on WBBM!) (By the way, IMDB.com is wrong - this episode aired on the date indicated - I verified it with other evidence in the recording)

Click here to search for related videos.

This clip aired on Monday, November 28th 1977, and is included in the following categories:

Viewer Comments

I remember the series (though I didn't see it) . . . there was an article about Mr. McGoohan in TV Guide during the time the show was on.
Comment posted by W.B. on Thursday, March 19th 2009 at 9:53pm.

I don't remember this show; I was living in the dorm at Loyola and didn't watch a lot of TV at the time. I'm sorry I missed this. Patrick McGoohan was one of my favorite actors. Maybe some TV station will bring this back, although I seriously doubt it.
Comment posted by HUdson 3-2700 on Friday, March 20th 2009 at 6:11am.

This is such a *lost* show. There are some video's around on the grey market, but they look as if they were recorded with a knife and fork!!

This is a great reproduction. Where did it come from?
Is there any more?
This would make a cool boxed set if Warner Bros put it out.

Comment posted by moor_larkin on Monday, April 6th 2009 at 6:10am.

I think the show will come out eventually, perhaps moreso now with the passing of McGoohan. I also think that once digital content delivery gets more prevalent, to the point where a company can "put out" a show without having to pay overhead costs such as distribution, packaging, and physical media creation - we'll be seeing studios release a lot of short-lived oddities from their vaults - and then people will just be able to call them up on demand to their TV's or PC's.

Someone recorded The Incredible Hulk on this night and luckily the tape ran long and the opening to Rafferty was captured. Like I said though, IMDB.com has the airdate to this episode listed wrong.

Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Monday, April 6th 2009 at 9:44am.

I had the great fortune of taking a couple of TV writing classes from Larry Brody, and his feeling was that as TV became less of a creative medium and more of a business, more creative work would be done online and made available to people via the Internet to watch on demand or to download to portable devices (e.g. iPods) for watching at the viewer's convenience. This combined with the "long tail" philosophy (where more is made available to smaller audiences) could result in lots of limited run and forgotten programming (summer replacement series, shows that were cancelled after one or even half a season, etc.) finding its way into the hands of people who never saw it or who saw it, liked it and wondered "I wonder if it's still available?" I'm sure that I would have found "Rafferty" to be one of my favorite shows had I even been aware of its existence before now.
Comment posted by HUdson 3-2700 on Monday, April 6th 2009 at 2:59pm.

You must be logged into the forums to add comments.

This clip has been viewed 1848 times.
This clip debuted on FuzzyMemories.TV on Thursday, March 19th 2009.
Latest News & Views:
Flooding Tape-ocalypse :-( (05/12)
Latest Forum Posting:
WLS Flashback - 1976

Latest Additions
10 total pages
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7 8 9 1 page forward10 pages forward

[ NEW! ]
WTTW Channel 11 - The Storyteller - "Pickle-Chiffon Pie" (1969)


[ NEW! ]
WTTW Channel 11 - The Storyteller - "The Case of the Cat's Meow" (1969)


[ NEW! ]
Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979)


[ NEW! ]
National Clothing Fashions - "Be a Disco Star Tonight" (Commercial, 1979)


[ NEW! ]
Nelson Brothers - "Living Room Furniture With Credit Power" (Commercial, 1979)



Most Recent Site Comments

Comment posted in WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #1, 1979) by FuzzyMemories on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 9:05pm CT

[Like]


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by Detroit4Chicago on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 6:36pm CT

@T.K.: "While I don't think it's exactly the same, the typeface of the Playback logo looks an awful lot like Playboy magazine, doesn't it?"

I was thinking the same thing.

@Szake: "The eye line of the man in this commercial bothers me."

@FuzzyMemories: "He's not looking at me. I feel disrespected as a customer. ;-)"

@ArmitageNLowell: "I think the cue card holder was a topless dancer."

@MotownPhilly: "what the hell is he looking at?!?"

My guess.... at a cue card, but the camera was probably positioned wrong, making him look off-kilter. Who was the technical director or stage manager who planned this out? WRITE 'EM UP!

I'm wondering if this store still in business.... ????


Comment posted in WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #1, 1979) by Pushbutton on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 5:16pm CT

If you tuned in to Channel 32 at any given time in 1971-75 you stood a 75% chance of seeing the Hydro-Jet commercial.


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by MotownPhilly on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 11:50am CT

what the hell is he looking at?!?


Comment posted in Nelson Brothers - "Living Room Furniture With Credit Power" (Commercial, 1979) by T.K. on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 8:39pm CT

The spotlight gives me the subtle impression they're covering something up... scuff marks, dings, wine stains...


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by T.K. on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 8:35pm CT

While I don't think it's exactly the same, the typeface of the Playback logo looks an awful lot like Playboy magazine, doesn't it?


Comment posted in WTTW Channel 11 - The Storyteller - "Pickle-Chiffon Pie" (1969) by Smctopia on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 8:00pm CT

I looked this show up in Jack Mulqueen's book and was surprised to see the show aired from 1958-1961 and 1966-1969 and was also on WGN at some point.

I also thought Val Bettin's voice sounded familiar and it turns out he did voices in several Disney productions, such as The Great Mouse Detective and was also a voice in Shrek!


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by VintageCanada on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 6:49pm CT

A few years back, I inherited a few late '70s-era TDK audio cassettes. Beige shell. Couple of 30s, maybe a 60, maybe a 90.


Comment posted in KBHK Channel 44 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Son Of Frankenstein" (Opening, 1983) by Detroit4Chicago on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 12:34pm CT

WKBD had Son of Svengoolie as part of its double-featured Chiller Movie, which aired at 11PM (10CT.) Sven aired first, weaved-in with the feature being shown, then the second feature without. Also, this block had two intros: the main one which can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m_mwYwXB4Q, followed by the "big broadcast" as seen above.

For local flavor, there were voice overs of Sven doing "return-to-feature" announcements for his segment of the Chiller Movie. On one Saturday night, I remember him making reference to the legendary Bill Kennedy, who at the time was WKBD's midday afternoon movie host as a quick gag.

WKBD stopped airing SoS after Field sold the station to Cox in 1984.


Comment posted in WTTW Channel 11 - The Storyteller - "The Case of the Cat's Meow" (1969) by ChrisBCritter on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 1:09am CT

Hopefully not Ricky the Magic Pixie Visits Daisy Bumble!

Judging by the title cards and the listings on the forum, the time slot must have been from 5:45 to 6:00 PM on a Tuesday or Thursday.


<<< Older
  News & Views  Forums  Donate  About  Contact  Disclaimer  Links  Press   
This page was created in 3.87495 seconds© 2007-2013 Museum of Classic Chicago Television