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WGN Channel 9 - News Excerpt With Marty McNeeley (1979)

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Here's a brief excerpt of a newscast on WGN Channel 9 featuring John Drury (voice only) and Marty McNeeley. Not sure if this was a noon newscast or at 9pm. Stories include:

End of a story about a trial involving Chicago politician Swanstrom with courtroom sketches by Gary Gianni.

Accident near Daley Center involving a car jumping a curb at Dearborn & Washington. Injured were Daniel Fayan (sp?) and his wife Suzanne and an unidentified woman. Featuring eyewitne...

WGN Channel 9 - My Three Sons - "The Non-Proposal" (Opening & Commercial Break #1, 1978)

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Here's the opening and Commercial Break #1 for My Three Sons on WGN Channel 9 where the episode that night was "The Non-Proposal". The reception was a little fuzzy. Includes:

Ending of the "Fairy Tales" Smoking Stinks PSA

WGN-TV "Last Farewell" Station ID (Voiceover by Carl Greyson)

Opening to My Three Sons

Lincoln Logs by Playskool

AFX Ultra 5 ...

WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "The Bye-Bye Show" (Part 2, 1981)

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Here is Part 2 of the final episode of The Ray Rayner Show as shown on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

"Kids in Chicago Having a Good Time" Ray Rayner bumper (Merri Dee voiceover)

Time, Weather, and Sports report given by Merri Dee.

Beginning of a cartoon.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 23rd 1981. @ 7:11am!

WGN Channel 9 - Bozo's Circus - "Frazier's Pledge" (1978)

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Here's a segment from Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9, featuring Frazier Thomas reciting an uber-patriotic dissection of the Pledge of Allegiance. (which came from an old Red Skelton record, apparently, as Frazier notes, "on Columbia Records...and Published by Valentine Music").

You can see Red Skelton reciting this piece himself, here.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, July...

WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "The Bye-Bye Show" - "Go Out Singing!" (Part 3, 1981)

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Here is Part 3 of the final episode of The Ray Rayner Show as shown on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Ending of a cartoon

Time, Date, Weather, and Sports report shown

Ray Rayner singing "Mame" with Don Orlando playing the organ.

Time shown

Ray Rayner bumper slate (Merri Dee voiceover)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 23rd 1981. @ 7:18am!

WGN Channel 9 - Special Movie Presentation - "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" (Promo, 1981)

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Here's a promo for an airing of "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" on WGN Channel 9 as part of a Special Movie Presentation that aired on Thursday, September 24th 1981 at 7pm.

Floyd Brown does the voice over annoucement.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, September 22nd 1981.

WGN Channel 9 - "Mom, The Wolf Man and Me" (Promo #1, 1980)

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Here's a promo for an upcoming Operation Prime Time presentation of "Mom, The Wolf Man and Me" on WGN Channel 9, to be aired at 7pm. This made-for-TV movie, produced by Time-Life Television and adapted from the best-selling novel by Norma Klein, stars Patty Duke Astin (as "Mom"), David Birney (as "The Wolf Man"), Keenan Wynn, Danielle Brisebois (the "me" in the title), Viveca Lindfors, John Lithgow, and Chris Barnes.

Main voiceover by Les Marshak. Ending voiceover by M...

WGN Channel 9 - "Boz Knows" (Promo, 1991)

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And now, another FuzzyMemoriesTV Instant Request!! This one goes out to one of FM's superstars, Mr. Chris Tufts, television researcher and curator extraordinaire. :-)

Here's a memorable promo for WGN - "Boz Knows". A take-off on the popular "Bo Knows" Nike commercials seen around this time. This one features legendary sportscaster Harry Caray, Mark Grace of the Chicago Cubs, Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, Mike Tomczak of the Chicago Bears, news anchors Allison ...

WGN Channel 9 - Bozo's Circus - "Skylab Synchronicity" (1979)

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Here's an excerpt of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9, featuring a news bulletin crawled on the lower-third section of the screen during a showing of the Huckleberry Hound cartoon "A Bully Dog" (from Season #2, Episode #5, originally aired on November 2nd 1959).

In another case of synchronicity, a message about the satellite space station Skylab falling back to earth was given during the point in this episode where Huck, playing the role of a messenger boy, attempts to d...