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American Dental Association - "Smile Power" (PSA, 1979)

Views: 2718

Here is another animated public service announcement from the American Dental Association. Features Wendall (Windal?) the Dental Wizard who transforms a cookie jar into a healthy snack factory.

These were created by Rick Reinert Productions, who also did the opening for the ABC Weekend Special and Afterschool Specials.

Uses the same music as this MS Read A Thon PSA.

This aired...

Kooky Spooks Make-Up (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1766

Here's a commercial for Kooky Spooks Make-Up kit, where budding trick-or-treaters could be made up into skull faces, mummy faces, ghoul faces, goblins, clowns, and one other category (six frightening disguises to choose from). When the make-up dries, it cracks, to make children look older (as if!), and thus really scarier.

Voiceover by ??

(See this clip for Kooky Spooks' costume kit.)
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WGN Channel 9 - The Morning Movie - "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (Opening, 1980)

Views: 2513

Here's the opening and first commercial break of The Morning Movie presentation of the 1934 W.C. Fields film "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (also starring Pauline Lord, Zasu Pitts, Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor) on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

Station ID bumper slide with drawing of sun and moon sitting down watching TV and message "Open for Business 24 Hours a Day," dissolving into late 1970s video animation - with "Last Farewell" music in background (voiceover by Bob ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service - "Tonight!" (Promo #2, 1981)

Views: 2883

Direct from 2" Quad - here is a promo for the premiere of Nite-Owl! This is the same as the one we had seen previously, although this one is in slightly better quality.

Also, we can hear WFLD director Don Shannon give a quick lead-in before the promo starts.

Voiceover during the promo by Jim Barton.

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

WSNS Channel 44 - Sports Spotlight - "Sleeper Hold" (1979?)

Views: 3502

Here's a rare clip from Sports Spotlight on WSNS Channel 44 featuring wrestler Verne Gagne demonstrating a sleeper hold move on a couple of TV-44 staffers. Not sure who the first guy is, but the guy with the beard is John Dickinson (who was also the producer on the Money Movie)

Also features Dave Condon - columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

Not sure when this aired -...

WSNS Channel 44 - The Star Spangled Movie - "Dimension 5" (Promo, 1980)

Views: 1561

Here's a promo for the 10-13-80 airing of the Star-Spangled Movie presentation of the 1966 film "Dimension 5" on WSNS TV-44. Previous to this we saw a few other glimpses of this bumper movie show - maybe it always aired at 3:30pm on weekdays? Could this help definitively date those other clips?

Voiceover by Don Ferris.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV the second we...

Long Chevrolet - "Extra, Extra!" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 3302

Finally found! One of the original, infamous Long Chevrolet commercials with Timmy the Newsboy shouting "Extra, Extra!" ad infinitum.

There were other variations of this ad - one we know of has Timmy finally getting his just desserts and getting hit with a pie in the kisser!

A transition ad from a month after this one has him being promoted from newsboy to salesman. He was probably getting...

WMAQ Channel 5 - "Elsewhere On The Day After" (1983)

Views: 2141

On the night that The Day After - an ABC presentation about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States (and one of the most-watched movies for television) aired, NBC Sunday Night at the Movies aired Part 1 of the mini-series Kennedy. Here's the ending of it and the post-show commercial break. Incidently, the creators of The Day After originally envisioned the movie to also span over multiple nights, but they decided against it after consideri...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "The Strange Door" (Promo, 1982)

Views: 2979

Here's a promo for Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32. The movie that week was "The Strange Door" and aired on Saturday, November 13th 1982. This was show #174.

This episode featured the premiere of one of Sven's best sketches ever - It Came From the Audio Visual Department!

(reception is a little fuzzy)

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 12th 1982.