There was also another Burger King ad featued a Mr. Rogers parody called "McFrying" and after that ad aired, Fred Rogers wants Burger King to stop airing that ad before a lawsuit was filed.

If my memory serves me, Bargain Town, the Courtesy Home Furnishings & TV Magic Cards aired during channel 9's Creature Features on October 9th, 1971. The Movie aired that day was The Wolfman.

I think the last part of the ad has some of that "V of Doom" factor that would give a kid nightmares.

Bargain Town! Bargain Town! Bargain Town! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!

Seeing that shot of the studios at 0:47 made me wonder if the station is there today. Turns out they moved to neighboring Johnson City in 1992.

50 Front St. in Binghamton was the Sheraton Inn, built in 1959. WNBF-TV/WBNG occupied a portion of the ground floor of the hotel. Dick Clark broadcast his Saturday night variety show from the back lot of the hotel on May 30, 1959 before about 1,000 teenage fans. This was the first time a network telecast originated in Binghamton... and it wouldn't surprise me if it was the last! The station has a gallery of historical photographs on its website.

At some point (the '80s?) the hotel became a retirement home. Now the whole place sits vacant.

That's longtime Milwaukee WVTV announcer Bob Beringer.

Perhaps as secret as Colonel Sanders' recipe or Bush's Baked Beans! I also remember TV Mystery Cards and TV Miracle Cards. How were these "magic" decks different from each other?

May 19 1979 By Suzanne Barnes Cedar Rapids Gazette entertainment editor
The setting for "Two Guys from Muck" is a sleazy weekly scandal sheet. Currently in production, the one-hour NBC comedy stars Adam Arkin ("Busting Loose") and Rick Casorla. They will play a photographer- reporter team.
Graham Jarvis, who plays John Ehrlichman in "Blind Ambition" this week and who originally gained fame as Charlie Haggers on "Mary Hartman,
Mary Hartman," also stars as Davis, the crusty editor of Muck. (Why are TV's editors always crusty? Ours aren't.)
Rounding out the cast is Gwen Humble as Cybil Sanders, a rival reporter for the posh Beautiful People magazine.
The story follows Buzz (an aspiring journalist who hopes to one day win a Pulitzer Prize) and photographer Louie (grateful to editor Davis for his job)
as they are assigned an interview with a slightly offbeat museum guard with a bullet in his brain. They eventually become involved in a robbery of Cleopatra's jewels masterminded by a mysterious Mr.Big.

VO reminds me of Reverend Lovejoy

You can't even find info for this show on imdb.com or TV.com!
I guess it was that bad!
The sad part is, we will never really know what it was about.

I remember the voiceover from 70s Sportmart commercials.