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ABC Network - "Eight Is Enough" (Bumper #2, 1980)
Views: 1491
Here's another bumper from ABC's Eight is Enough - this one with music and a voiceover by Dick Van Patten.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, January 9th 1980.
WCAE Channel 50 - 3-2-1 Contact (Technical Difficulties Moment, 1980)
Views: 1605
Here's a strange technical difficulties moment from an airing of the series 3-2-1 Contact on the PBS station WCAE Channel 50 (St. John, Indiana) - which later became WYIN Channel 56. (giving up the Channel 50 frequency which would then be taken over by WPWR-TV)
We start, innocently enough, with the animated CTW (Children's Television Workshop) logo opening, already in progress, followed by the opening titles sped way-up. Now wait - you might assume that this is the tec...
WGN Channel 9 - Weather Break with Tom Skilling (1980)
Views: 6110
Here's another weather break on WGN Channel 9 featuring meteorologist (or do you say Weather Man?) Tom Skilling.
(C) 1980, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, February 7th 1980.
Cheerios - "Hurrah!" (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 748
Here's a commercial for Cheerios cereal featuring a re-working of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again".
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 1st 1980.
Amtrak - "America's Getting Into Training" (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 4623
Here's a commercial for Amtrak.
"There's something about a train that's magic..." (Jingle sung by Jake Holmes)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, April 18th 1980.
Ultra Brite (Commercial #4, 1980)
Views: 1582
Here's yet another in the series of cheesy Ultra Brite toothpaste, this one with a Stewardess/Pilot theme.
This aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, July 12th 1980.
WSNS Channel 44 - Monster Rally Movie (Opening, 1976-1980) [Final Version]
Views: 2470
This clip made possible by the donations from our generous group of "Fuzzketeers" during the Spring 2012 Tape Transfer Fundraiser.
Here's something pretty cool - the complete opening segment (in the best quality anywhere) of Monster Rally Movie on WSNS Channel 44, complete with super'd title and various processed special effects and images, and ending with the Monster Ra...
WTAF Channel 29 - Rock World - "Rockin' Tape Problem" (1980)
Views: 2887
Though it's from Philly TV, it's still neat - here's a technical difficulties moment during an episode of Rock World on WTAF Channel 29 out of Philadelphia. We interrupt a two-fer of Tim Curry's 1980 musical forays - "I Do The Rock" followed by "Paradise Garage", with one of the best technical difficulties cards I've seen in a while.
This aired on local Philadelphia TV early Saturday, July 12th 1980.
WBBM Channel 2 - "Living History (Bloopers)" (Part 3, 1978/1979)
Views: 488
Here's Part 3 of a blooper reel from WBBM Channel 2, of moments that went wrong on live TV and other moments which ended up on the cutting room floor. (NOTE: Some of the language is strong.)
This part features (in order of first appearance): Susan Anderson, Mort Crim, Walter Jacobson, Bill Kurtis, Roger Field, Harry Porterfield, Johnny Morris (and his then-wife Jeannie), Arnold Palmer, Tom Korzeniowski, Harry Volkman (who invariably addressed him as "Sam"), John Drumm...