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WLAK 94 FM - "Sounds Of Lake" (Commercial, 1981)

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Here's a short commercial for WLAK 94 FM - "The Lake".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, May 29th 1981.

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Health-Tex - "The First Clothes to Grow Up In" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's an animated commercial for Health-Tex clothes, with short vignettes of children's significant firsts in their development (such as talking, walking, going to school, making friends), including the clothes they wear - all set to song (sung [possibly] by Jake Holmes).

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, August 28th 1980.

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WCIU Channel 26 - "Unknown Show" (1980?)

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Here's a short clip from an unknown show on WCIU Channel 26 that we're trying to ID.

This likely aired on local Chicago TV in late 1980.

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Dads Root Beer - "New Plastic Bottles" (Commercial, 1978)

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Here's a commercial for foamy Dads Root Beer (or is it Dad's Root Beer?) in the new plastic 2 liter bottle. Starring little Mindy Blank who was about 6 years old at the time.

Her mom found this commercial (which was originally in a break for the WLS 3:30 Movie presentation of "Jason and the Argonauts") through a web search and wrote to me. She was nice enough to share some of the story of how Mindy wound up in the commercial.

"We lived in Northbrook. ...

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WGN Channel 9 - The Science Fiction Film Awards (Opening, 1978)

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Here's the opening credits and cheesetasic "dance number" for The Science Fiction Film Awards. You haven't lived until you've seen Dracula boogie'n down 70's style. 8-)

Hosted by Karen Black & William Shatner

Starring (in alphabetical order - for ego's sake):

Buzz Aldrin
Richard Benjamin
Ray Bradbury
Charles "Pete" Conrad
Buster Crabbe (I didn't even know she had one of those)
The Dancin' Machine (no Gene-Gene?)...

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WMAQ Channel 5 - Gavilan - "The Guns of Harry August" (Opening, Break & Ending, 1982)

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Here's a few segments of an episode (entitled "The Guns of Harry August") of another short-lived series that ran over the NBC Network in the early 1980's - and therefore, in the Windy City, on our own WMAQ Channel 5 - Gavilan. (don't read too quick and mistake it for "Galivan")

This show was one of several over the years that starred the late Robert Urich, here in the role of Robert Gavilan, an ex-CIA agent currently in the employ of an oceanographic institute run by Ma...

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WFLD Channel 32 - "Happy Halloween From the Kids" (Bumper, 1984)

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Here's a short bumper from WFLD Channel 32 featuring some kids in costume wishing everyone a happy and safe Halloween. (last second cut off early)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 31st 1984 during the 6pm to 6:30pm timeframe.

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Rubik's Cube - "Judge Smith" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a short commercial for the Rubik's Cube puzzle game - a big hit in 1980. In this spot, a Judge Smith is in her chambers, obsessed with trying to solve the puzzle, to the detriment of her judicial duties.

(C)1980 Ideal Toy Corp.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, August 31st 1980 at about 5:28pm.

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WBBM Channel 2 - Hunter - "The Costa Rican Connection" (Opening, Preview Breaks & Ending, 1977)

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Here's the opening, preview breaks and ending moments of an episode of the TV series Hunter.

And no, folks, this is not the 1984-91 series on NBC (and thus, seen by Chicagoans on WMAQ Channel 5) with Fred Dryer and Stepfanie Kramer, but a virtually forgotten, short-lived series - "A Lorimar Production" (the company famous at the time for The Waltons and, later, for Dallas and Knots Landing) - that ran on the CBS Network and therefore aired in Chica...