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WFLD Channel 32 - Newscene With Kathy McFarland (Tiny Excerpt, 1981)

Views: 1790

For Kathy kompletists only - a micro-snippet of a Kathy McFarland Newscene on WFLD Channel 32. You can see the complete earlier Newscene Headlines from this night here.

You can hear her mention a visit by The Rolling Stones.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, December 7th 1981.

Beatlemania at the Shubert Theatre (Commercial #2, 1980)

Views: 1932

Here's another commercial for Beatlemania, playing at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago through Sunday, September 14th 1980. This is a different commercial than the one that aired the previous month.

"It's not The Beatles . . . it's Beatlemania, live."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, September 5th 1980.

WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "The Greasy Gourmet" (1975?)

Views: 611

Here's a sketch from Popeye with Steve Hart on WSNS Channel 44, followed by the ending credits.

This sketch is titled "The Greasy Gourmet" (the title of which is a takeoff on The Galloping Gourmet), with Steve in the title role (and a bad French accent) and Nancy Boyle as his assistant. He announces his intention to make "ze French sian" (sp?) soup, with potato peels, celery, tomatoes, onions, seasoning, noodles and chicken (a rubber chicken, probably left over f...

Kaiser Broadcasting Company (ID #2, 1977)

Views: 5258

Here's a different Kaiser Broadcasting ID than the one we just saw - this one is a few months older and by this time they had upgraded to an animated one. Same music and voiceover though.

We can probably assume that the exact same ID would air on WFLD during this period.

Voiceover by ??

"KBC - The Kaiser Broadcasting Company"

This aired on local Detroit TV on ...

Son Of Svengoolie - "I Want A New Doug" (1984)

Views: 1653

Here's a segment from Son of Sven - the song "I Want a New Doug". (parody of "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis & the News)

Not sure what episode this was originally from but the song "I Want a New Drug" was released as a single around April of 1984, so it would likely have to be after that. This song sketch was also featured in Sven's 300th Show Retrospective.

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WFLD Channel 32 - Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (Bumper #1, 1980)

Views: 1698

Here's another rare WFLD zooming bumper rescued from the trash heap of local TV history - this time for Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (the short-lived kids' version of the game show The Joker's Wild.

This bumper features different music than the second one.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 12th 1980 during the 5:30pm to 6:00pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (Bumper #2, 1980)

Views: 1434

Here's another rare WFLD zooming bumper rescued from the trash heap of local TV history - this time for Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (the short-lived kids' version of the game show The Joker's Wild.

This bumper features different music than the first one.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 12th 1980 during the 5:30pm to 6:00pm timeframe.

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "The 3-D Movie" (Promo #1, 1982)

Views: 3136

Here's a promo for the most famous (or infamous) event in Son of Svengoolie history - The 3D Movie! (which aired on Thursday, July 29th 1982)

This promo is different than the one we saw earlier and features Sven in front of the Shedd Aquarium.

(quality is fuzzy)

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, July 13th 1982.

WFLD Channel 32 - "Season's Greetings" (1979)

Views: 2043

Here's a Season's Greeting message and legal station ID from WFLD Channel 32 that aired between the end of Green Acres and the beginning of Batman. (at the very end we see a tiny snippet of the beginning of the episode, "The Joker's Last Laugh".)

This was a variant on the Merry Christmas musical montage from the same year.

Voiceover by Ron Beattie.

This aired on ...