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Ponderosa Steakhouse - "How Do You Do What You Do?" with Blackstone & Shari Lewis (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1140

Here's a commercial for Ponderosa Steakhouse featuring Blackstone the magician as well as Shari Lewis and Lambchop.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, July 1st 1980.

L'Air du Temps Perfume with Ricky Schroder (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1426

Here's a quick commercial for the fragrance L'Air du Temps by Nina Ricci, featuring child actor Ricky Schroder.

Available at Carson Pirie Scott & Co.

Ending voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, May 11th 1978.

Long John Silvers With Heather O'Rourke (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 2707

Here's a commercial for Long John Slivers seafood restaurant featuring child actress Heather O'Rourke - "Push Huppies!".

"Put a smile on your taste."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 11th 1982.

WTVT Channel 13 - Pulse Featuring Jim Ruddle (Part 5, 1964)

Views: 1695

Here's Part 5 of rare edition of the nightly Pulse newscast from WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida, transferred from the original 2" quad videotape. This was notable in featuring future Chicago TV legend Jim Ruddle anchoring out of St. Petersburg at various points. This part features Ray Dantzler in the Pulse newsroom, sports director "Salty" Sol Fleischman, and Paul Reynolds. Includes:

Ray introducing Pulse Sports with "Salty" Sol who, a...

Life Cereal - Emmanuel Lewis (Commercial, 1983?)

Views: 1651

Here's a fun commercial for Life cereal from 1982 or 1983. Features Emmanuel Lewis (Webster). (Boy, he sure made a lot of scratch doing commercials in the 80's.) (I don't know who the other kid is.)

Emergency Broadcast System Test (1983)

Views: 3114

Here's a test of the Emergency Broadcast System (or as they were referred to here, "Emergency Broadcasting System") that aired on WLS Channel 7. The text was modified somewhat from this 1981 EBS test on WMAQ Channel 5:

"This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcasting [sic] System. This is only a test . . .

"This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting [...