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WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "Criticizing Walter" (1980)

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Here's an editorial by Dillon Smith, Editorial Director of WMAQ Channel 5, in which he takes serious issue with WBBM Channel 2 anchor / editorialist Walter Jacobson's "Perspective" of August 7th 1980 (see here for his full comments) for seizing on Nancy Reagan's criticism of Democratic policies which she said were primarily responsible for most blacks being on welfare, and suggesting that she was actually saying most bla...

WLS Channel 7 - Late Night Movie - "Gargoyles" (Commercial Break, 1980)

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Here's a commercial break from near the end of the movie "Gargoyles" on the WLS Late Night Movie. Includes:

WLS Late Night Movie - "Swirling Stars" animated bumper (same style and music as the WLS 3:30 Movie bumpers/openings/closings from the same era)

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse - 920 Milwaukee Avenue (2 miles north of Hawthorn Shopping Center) in Libertyville, Ill.

A...

WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics With Frazier Thomas - "Boys Town" (Opening, 1981)

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Here is the opening for the Family Classics with Frazier Thomas presentation of "Boys Town" on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

WGN Bumper promo for the premiere of The Incredible Hulk, which started on Monday, December 21st 1981. Also features the WGN Circle-9 Logo, which had been introduced earlier in the year. Voiceover by Floyd Brown. Kind of funny that the promo is for The Incredible Hulk, while the WGN logo uses the Superman theme.

Opening of Family Clas...

ABC Network - NCAA Football - Michigan State vs. Iowa (Commercial Break, 1969)

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Here's a commercial break for the ABC Network's airing of the Michigan State vs. Iowa NCAA college football game at Iowa Stadium in Iowa City (part of the Regional Big 10 Battle), with a commercial (which, in those days, was one minute long) for Sunoco - "Stop at Sunoco . . . Go With Confidence."

At the time of this, the only commercial break that was left intact on this recording ( :-( ) which was made on 2" Quad tape at WLS Channel 7, the Michigan State Spartans were leadin...

WGN Channel 9 - The Ray Rayner Show - "Clock Excerpts #2" (1971)

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Here's the good news - someone recorded The Ray Rayner Show at various times in the early seventies! Now the bad news - they only recorded the cartoons, and cut out nearly everything else. :-( I bring you the only snippets left - a few excerpts of the clock that they would show the time on, and in some cases, the chalkboard with the date, weather, and sports scores. Some might wonder why...

WBBM Channel 2 - Station ID Slide (Tiny Excerpt, 1971)

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Here's a very brief excerpt of a station ID slide from WBBM Channel 2. The "2" at this point was from the network-mandated "CBS Didot" serif font, unlike sister stations WCBS Channel 2 in New York and then-KNXT Channel 2 (now KCBS) in Los Angeles which then used sans-serif Grotesque No. 9 whose size was the same as the CBS Eye. It should be also noted that another sister station at the time, WCAU...

WBBM Channel 2 - The CBS Late Movie - "Helter Skelter: Part 1" (Commercial Break #1, 1979)

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Here's the first commercial break from The CBS Late Movie presentation of "Helter Skelter" (Part 1). Includes:

The CBS Late Movie bumper (Helta?) (Voiceover by Bill Martin)

9-Lives presents Morris. (Gotta love that cat)

Vicks Inhaler - "It's a breather for your nose." (Favorite of Felix Unger)

No Nonsense Panty Hose - "Suddenly energy looks beautiful" (featuring Susan Blanchard)

The Norelco rotary razor.

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WMAQ Channel 5 - Gavilan - "The Guns of Harry August" (Opening, Break & Ending, 1982)

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Here's a few segments of an episode (entitled "The Guns of Harry August") of another short-lived series that ran over the NBC Network in the early 1980's - and therefore, in the Windy City, on our own WMAQ Channel 5 - Gavilan. (don't read too quick and mistake it for "Galivan")

This show was one of several over the years that starred the late Robert Urich, here in the role of Robert Gavilan, an ex-CIA agent currently in the employ of an oceanographic institute run by Ma...

WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Outrageous Talk Show Hosts" (Part 3, 1985)

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Here's Part 3 of an episode of AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7. The topic was controversial, provocative and outrageous radio talk show hosts and featured Alan Burke of WGBS in Miami, Morton Downey Jr. (on this show just going by Mort Downey) of WERE in Cleveland, Warren Freiberg of WLNR in Lansing, IL, Irv Homer of WWDB in Philadelphia, and Jerry Williams of WRKO in Boston. Starring Oprah Winfrey as host.

This episode featured the infamous "soap spraying" incident by Warren Frei...