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Me-Books (Commercial Offer, 1978)

Views: 2555

Here is a commercial TV offer for the "Me Books", personalized stories using your child's name, friend's name, and his city and state.

Features Terry Maxwell of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

The books include:
Read About Me and the Bee
My Adventure in Mother Goose Land
Read about Me and the Yellow-Eyed Monster
My Circus Story
My Rainy Day

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 29th 1978.

Time-Life Books - Home Repair - "Python Style" (Commercial Offer, 1979)

Views: 1937

Here's a commercial offer for the Home Repair series from Time-Life Books. You can really see the Terry Gilliam/Monty Python influence here.

This likely aired on local Chicago TV the last week of September, 1979.

Free Street Theatre (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 578

Here's a commercial for the Free Street Theatre, which offers singing, dancing, telling stories and bringing people together to Chicago and its suburbs in the summer. Phone number shown at end - 312-822-0460 - for those seeking to sponsor or otherwise be involved with this project.

Voiceover by ??

"One of the great things about summer."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, July 30th 1981.

Liberace Big Note Song Book (Commercial Offer, 1977)

Views: 1845

Here's a commercial for Liberace's Big Note Song Book commercial featuring Mr. Liberace himself - yep, you guessed it - Liberace.

Ending voiceover by Bud Kelly.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 7th 1977 during the 10:30pm to 11pm timeframe.

Armourcote II Cooking/Baking Pans (Commercial Offer, 1984)

Views: 1846

Here is a memorable commercial that almost borders on an infomercial in its duration - for Armourcote II Cooking/Baking Pans. (knock off of Teflon?)

"But two years later ya still can't cook on it!" (rolls eyes)

"It holds more chicken than a henhouse!"

"Now how much would you pay?" (Reminds me of the Weird Al Yankovic song, "Mr. Popeil". :-)

This airing on local Chicago TV is from May 1984, though it has a copyright of 1980 - "Inter...

WSET Channel 13 - News 13 (Preview, Break & Opening, 1977)

Views: 1568

Here's the preview, commercial break, and opening moments of the early evening edition of News 13 on ABC affiliate WSET Channel 13 in Lynchburg, Virginia. The anchor is Stan Jayson, with reports by Jeff Taylor, ABC News' John Martin, and Jenny Smith. The on-air text is set in fonts that were part of the same 3M Datavision package as in use back then at our own WSNS Channel 44. Includes:

News preview (voiceover by Jeff Taylor) with teases of following items:
- V...

Roy Clark Big Note Guitar Book (Commercial Offer, 1980)

Views: 7728

Here's a commercial offer for the Roy Clark Deluxe Big Note Guitar Book. I believe my brother had this book way back when as he was learning to play guitar while taking lessons at Balken's music on Cermak Road in Berwyn (I think).

Ending voiceover by Carl Greyson.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, August 2nd 1980.

WFLD Channel 32 - Newstalk - "Audio Book Devices" (Small Excerpt, 1981)

Views: 1221

Here's a teeny-tiny excerpt of Newstalk on WFLD Channel 32 featuring host Naurice Roberts and her two guests. This was found right at the end of a tape before it cut out.

Can anyone shed any more light onto what is being discussed here?

"And this of course, is a record player?"

This aired on local Chicago TV likely the third week of May 1981.

WSNS Channel 44 - It Takes a Thief (Break #2, 1982)

Views: 1064

Break #2 from WSNS Channel 44 in Chicago broadcast of It Takes a Thief from 1982. Includes:

70's Gold Sessions Record offer