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Henry's Restaurants - "Captain Henry" (Commercial, 1969)
Views: 15466
Here's a commercial for Henry's Restaurants featuring "Captain Henry" and a contest with 8829 winners - "Head For Henry's" - in Chicago, Joliet, Wheeling, Des Plaines, Waukegan - Highland, Indiana - Kenosha, Wisconsin - and Benton Harbor, Michigan.
The one in Benton Harbor is still around, though called Henry's Hamburgers.
"Captain Henry" is played by Dick Orkin (of his 60s radio series "Chickenman" fam...
Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips - "Shhh!" (1977)
Views: 13935
Here's a commercial for Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips.
There's a secret. Shhh! Shhh!
Where's the secret? Shhh! Shhh!
The secret's at your fingertips
It's Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips.
How do we make the meal you can't make at home? What makes our fish filets so crunchy? Our chips like French Fries outside and baked inside? We'll never tell!
There's a secret here tonight
Real good secret here tonight
Clap your h...
Views: 2030
Here's something pretty rare - some footage from WFLD Channel 32's Movie for a Saturday Afternoon featuring the Kaiser-era 32 logo, so this must have dated to at least early 1977 (previous to this we only had a tiny excerpt of this bumper). Most of it was taped over unfortunately, but this is what remains. This third segment, with complete commercial break, includes:
WFLD Movie for a Saturday A...
WSNS Channel 44 - The Money Movie - "China Gate" (Break #1, 1979)
Views: 1839
Here's some rare footage from another long-lost local movie show - "The Money Movie" on WSNS TV-44! The movie presented on this day was "China Gate". TMM was similar in concept to Dialing for Dollars. Viewers (mostly lonely housewives and old people from what it sounds like) would send in post cards with their name and phone number, and the host would call them live on the air during the movie breaks to see if they could answer some trivia questions. They answered an easy preliminary ques...
WJBK Channel 2 - "TV 2 Is Yours" (ID, 1977)
Views: 3383
Here's a station ID for the Detroit CBS affiliate - WJBK Channel 2.
This aired on local Detroit TV on Thursday, January 13th 1977 at 10pm! (not Chicago TV, but still cool)
The ABC Monday Night Movie - "Superdome" (Opening & Break, 1978)
Views: 4052
Here's the opening and first commercial break of The ABC Sunday Night Movie presentation of "Superdome". Includes:
"The ABC Monday Night Movie" opening. (voiceover by Joel Crager)
Commercial: Contac.
Commercial: Stanley Tools.
Commercial: Protein 29 Conditioning Hair Groom - "It takes care of the hair that's still there."
Commercial: Ore-Ida frozen hash browns - "It's All-Righta".
Opening of "Superdome...
WFLD Channel 32 - Mission: Impossible - "Break!" (Ending, 1977)
Views: 3034
Here's another quick little gem - the ending to Mission: Impossible on WFLD Channel 32 from back in the Kaiser Broadcasting days! Includes:
Voiceover preview for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman coming up next, by Bud Kelly.
A quick flash of the Kaiser Broadcasting Company ID that no one has seen for 32 years! Too bad it's not complete - you can hear a snippet of some music that they played over it - sounds weird, I wonder what it was? (By the way, the little bit of...
The Sports Writers On TV - "Secretariat" (Promo, 1990)
Views: 1660
Here's a promo for The SportsWriters on TV featuring the late, great, Bill Gleason.
Also features Rick Telander, Bill Jauss, and John "Bulldog" Drummond.
This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 24th 1990.
ABC Network - World News Tonight - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 3 - Non-Crash News, 1979)
Views: 1849
Here's Part 3 of a complete edition (with commercials) of ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in London and Max Robinson in Washington (Frank Reynolds was on vacation), from the day of the worst air disaster in U.S. history, the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 just outside Chicago's O'Hare Airport. This segment has more of the non-crash news of the day. Featuring Dan Cordtz and Sam Donaldson. Includes:
Max Robinson introduces a report on the latest gove...