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WFLD Channel 32 - Hooray For Reading Special (Promo, 1980)

Views: 1486

Here's a rare promo for the Hooray for Reading Special airing on WFLD Channel 32 on Monday, April 14th 1980 at 4:30pm. As a couple people recalled, this special had extended versions of some of the dramatized book selections that the Hooray for Reading shorts featured.

Voiceover by Ron Beattie.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV in the second week of...

K-Tel - Night Moves with Deney Terrio (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2621

Here's a commercial for the record and book set - "Night Moves" ("The Professional Approach to Disco Dance Instruction") from K-tel Records which features Deney Terrio (host of Dance Fever and also notably as the person who "taught John Travolta how to dance" for the film Saturday Night Fever)

The nerdy guy kind of reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite.

Ending voiceover by ??

"You can't dance?!?!!!"

This aired on local...

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "Jason And The Argonauts" (Commercial Break #1, 1978)

Views: 1830

Here's Commercial Break #1 during the 3:30 Movie presentation of "Jason and the Argonauts" on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

3:30 Movie bumper

Gospel Time! record offer

Reuss Complete Sports Stores - Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Hinsdale, and Wilmette (Al Parker voiceover)

Jason and the Argonauts Channel 7 bumper slide

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, December 27th 1978.

WLS Channel 7 - The Day After (Commercial Break #1, 1983)

Views: 2530

Here is commercial break #1 during The Day After on WLS Channel 7 - an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States. Includes:

Commodore Computers

100% Columbian Coffee with Juan Valdez (voiceover by Norman Rose)

Soloflex

Orville Redenbacher Gourmet Popcorn

Promo for ABC News Viewpoint special on The Day After with Ted Koppel, immediately following the movie...

WFLD Channel 32 - Movie 32 - "Topper Takes A Trip" (Ending, 1971)

Views: 2173

Here's the ending for the Movie 32 presentation of "Topper Takes a Trip" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Last part of movie credits

WFLD Station ID - "WFLD-TV Channel 32" (in color) (voiceover by Del Clark) (cut-off - recording ends) :-(

And thus the person who recorded this goes to bed for the evening, looking forward to enjoying the rest of that crazy decade of the seventies... ;-)

This part aired on local Chicago TV early Monday, ...

The 24 Days of Christmas - "Bolivia" with Raquel Welch (1981)

Views: 1753

Here's another installment from the recurring 24 Days of Christmas one-minute featurettes. In this edition, legendary sex symbol (and Chicago native) Raquel Welch (nee Tejada) describes the Christmas traditions of Bolivia (where her father was born), which includes celebrating the holidays with a harvest festival and, on Christmas Eve, a children's dance on the narrow streets in the villages where they sing Bolivian Christmas carols.

This ends with a sponsor billboard f...

WFLD Channel 32 - Super Cartoon Sunday (Promo, 1984)

Views: 2928

Here is a promo for the Sunday version of Super Cartoon Sunrise, aptly named Super Cartoon Sunday - on WFLD Metromedia Channel 32, in Chicago.

Lineup included:

8:30am - Spiderman & The Super Heroes (a whole hour!)
9:30am - Popeye
10:00am - Tom & Jerry
10:30am - Woody Woodpecker

Voiceover by Jeff Lupetin.

This aired on local Chicago TV during the Spring and Summer of 1984.

WLS Channel 7 - The Oprah Winfrey Show - "Triumphs of the Human Spirit" (Promo, 1987)

Views: 1401

Here's a promo for the next edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show on WLS Channel 7 to air on Friday (the 21st) at 9am. By this time, the program that had evolved from the local AM Chicago was now nationally syndicated, for a run that would last over two decades. Here, Oprah previews stories of people who endured every hardship imaginable from being lost at sea to being left to die in a foreign country - and lived to tell their tales to her.

Ending voiceover by Wayne...

WLS Channel 7 - "News Promo & Network Pre-Emption Notice" (1983)

Views: 2500

Here is a quick WLS Eyewitness News bumper promo (with Jack Jones) for an exclusive "Day After" poll at 10:30pm, followed by the ABC Network pre-emption notice that Hardcastle & McCormick would not air that night - in it's place being the ABC Theater telemovie, The Day After, about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States, which was coming up next.

Voiceover by Ernie Anderson.

This aired on local Chicago TV Sunday, November 20th 1983 @ abou...