Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a (mostly) complete broadcast (the first minute or two missing) of an installment of All My Children (followed by a short bonus), as transmitted over WLS Channel 7.
From the period when AMC was at its peak ratings-wise and story-wise, anchored by Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, and also featuring Peter Bergman as Dr. Cliff Warner, James Mitchell as Palmer Cortlandt, Elizabeth Lawrence as Myra Murdock Sloane, Ruth Warrick as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, Julia Barr as Brooke English, Mark LaMura as Mark Dalton, Candice Earley as Donna Beck, Kathleen Noone as Ellen Shepherd, Mary Fickett as Ruth Martin, Taylor Miller as Nina Cortlandt, Mary Lynn Blanks as Tara Martin, Charles Brown as Russ Anderson, Warren Burton as Eddie Dorance, Matthew Cowles as Billy Clyde Tuggle, John E. Dunn as Tad Gardner Martin, Louis Edmonds as Langley Wallingford, Frances Heflin as Mona Tyler, Eileen Herlie as Myrtle Fargate, Ray MacDonnell as Joe Martin, Richard Shoberg as Tom Cudahy, Richard Van Vleet as Dr. Chuck Tyler III, and Peter White as Linc Tyler.
Includes:
Prologue (joined in progress), followed by opening titles
Commercials for:
Log Cabin syrup
Oven Fry Coating (for fried chicken) (with Willie Cummings of Atlanta, GA) (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Viva paper towels
Aqua-Fresh gel
Act I
Commercials for:
Chiffon margarine (with Dena Dietrich as Mother Nature)
Fabuland, Building Sets and Duplo - from Lego
Johnson's Disposable Diapers (with Juliet Mills of Nanny and The Professor)
CoTylenol cold formula (voiceover by Joel Crager)
Act II
Commercials for:
Hanes Ultra-Sheer Pantyhose - "Gentlemen Prefer Hanes"
Lay's Potato Chips (with Jack Gilford)
Betty Crocker Creamy Deluxe Frosting - "Bake Someone Happy" (to the tune of "Make Someone Happy")
Promo for Mork & Mindy and "The Man with the Golden Gun" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Carl Caruso)
Act III
Bumper (voiceover by Bob Lloyd)
Commercials for:
Extra Strength Sinutab
Baby Magic bath
Vlasic pickles (with Pat Harrington Jr. as the Vlasic stork)
Return bumper
Act IV
Commercials for:
Orville Redenbacher Gourmet Popping Corn (with the man himself at Disneyland with Goofy)
Wesson Oil - with Florence Henderson ("Wessonality")
St. Joseph Cold Tablets for Children
Fruit of the Loom underwear (with Catfish Hunter)
Act V
Commercials for:
Oil of Olay
Hefty 2-ply trash bags
Cuddle-Up Baby - from Kenner
"Love in the Afternoon" promo for Ryan's Hope (voiceover by Bill Owen?)
Act VI
Commercials for:
Beer Enriched Body on Tap shampoo (with a pre-"Airplane!" Julie Hagerty) (posted separately here: youtu.be/EuAFqntGm3w)
Crystal Drano (with the "Voice of God" shaking an already shaky kitchen set)
Duracell Batteries - "Make Holiday Fun Last Longer"
Closing credits (with voiceover promo for Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Wilfredo Benitez WBC Welterweight Championship fight, The Ropers, Marie [Osmond, that is], and One Life to Live by Dick Mason)
ABC News Brief with Joe Templeton (voiceover by Charles Hughes?)
Commercial: Campbell's Chunky Soup Old Fashioned Vegetable Beef
Part II of News Brief
Promo for The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage (voiceover by Fred Collins) (this set of specials were the forerunner for Nightline with Ted Koppel)
Commercials for:
Wickes Furniture - Mix & Match Matchmates Sale (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
Gloria Vanderbilt clothes from Murjani (with the lady herself) (at Marshall Field & Company - ending voiceover by Al Parker)
TV Guide (December 1st-7th issue, with Barbara Walters on cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant)
Station ID / promo for "Sweet November" on The 3:30 Movie (voiceover by Al Parker)
Bonus: First three minutes of One Life to Live (among whose cast in this year includes a pre-Who's the Boss? Judith Light, who played Karen Wolek), including prologue, opening titles, and commercials for:
Cup O'Noodles (with skater JoJo Starbuck)
Baby Magic Lotion (recording ends midway through ad)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 30th 1979 during the 12:01pm to 1:03pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
Here's a (mostly) complete broadcast (the first minute or two missing) of an installment of All My Children (followed by a short bonus), as transmitted over WLS Channel 7.
From the period when AMC was at its peak ratings-wise and story-wise, anchored by Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, and also featuring Peter Bergman as Dr. Cliff Warner, James Mitchell as Palmer Cortlandt, Elizabeth Lawrence as Myra Murdock Sloane, Ruth Warrick as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, Julia Barr as Brooke English, Mark LaMura as Mark Dalton, Candice Earley as Donna Beck, Kathleen Noone as Ellen Shepherd, Mary Fickett as Ruth Martin, Taylor Miller as Nina Cortlandt, Mary Lynn Blanks as Tara Martin, Charles Brown as Russ Anderson, Warren Burton as Eddie Dorance, Matthew Cowles as Billy Clyde Tuggle, John E. Dunn as Tad Gardner Martin, Louis Edmonds as Langley Wallingford, Frances Heflin as Mona Tyler, Eileen Herlie as Myrtle Fargate, Ray MacDonnell as Joe Martin, Richard Shoberg as Tom Cudahy, Richard Van Vleet as Dr. Chuck Tyler III, and Peter White as Linc Tyler.
Includes:
Prologue (joined in progress), followed by opening titles
Commercials for:
Log Cabin syrup
Oven Fry Coating (for fried chicken) (with Willie Cummings of Atlanta, GA) (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Viva paper towels
Aqua-Fresh gel
Act I
Commercials for:
Chiffon margarine (with Dena Dietrich as Mother Nature)
Fabuland, Building Sets and Duplo - from Lego
Johnson's Disposable Diapers (with Juliet Mills of Nanny and The Professor)
CoTylenol cold formula (voiceover by Joel Crager)
Act II
Commercials for:
Hanes Ultra-Sheer Pantyhose - "Gentlemen Prefer Hanes"
Lay's Potato Chips (with Jack Gilford)
Betty Crocker Creamy Deluxe Frosting - "Bake Someone Happy" (to the tune of "Make Someone Happy")
Promo for Mork & Mindy and "The Man with the Golden Gun" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Carl Caruso)
Act III
Bumper (voiceover by Bob Lloyd)
Commercials for:
Extra Strength Sinutab
Baby Magic bath
Vlasic pickles (with Pat Harrington Jr. as the Vlasic stork)
Return bumper
Act IV
Commercials for:
Orville Redenbacher Gourmet Popping Corn (with the man himself at Disneyland with Goofy)
Wesson Oil - with Florence Henderson ("Wessonality")
St. Joseph Cold Tablets for Children
Fruit of the Loom underwear (with Catfish Hunter)
Act V
Commercials for:
Oil of Olay
Hefty 2-ply trash bags
Cuddle-Up Baby - from Kenner
"Love in the Afternoon" promo for Ryan's Hope (voiceover by Bill Owen?)
Act VI
Commercials for:
Beer Enriched Body on Tap shampoo (with a pre-"Airplane!" Julie Hagerty) (posted separately here: youtu.be/EuAFqntGm3w)
Crystal Drano (with the "Voice of God" shaking an already shaky kitchen set)
Duracell Batteries - "Make Holiday Fun Last Longer"
Closing credits (with voiceover promo for Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Wilfredo Benitez WBC Welterweight Championship fight, The Ropers, Marie [Osmond, that is], and One Life to Live by Dick Mason)
ABC News Brief with Joe Templeton (voiceover by Charles Hughes?)
Commercial: Campbell's Chunky Soup Old Fashioned Vegetable Beef
Part II of News Brief
Promo for The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage (voiceover by Fred Collins) (this set of specials were the forerunner for Nightline with Ted Koppel)
Commercials for:
Wickes Furniture - Mix & Match Matchmates Sale (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
Gloria Vanderbilt clothes from Murjani (with the lady herself) (at Marshall Field & Company - ending voiceover by Al Parker)
TV Guide (December 1st-7th issue, with Barbara Walters on cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant)
Station ID / promo for "Sweet November" on The 3:30 Movie (voiceover by Al Parker)
Bonus: First three minutes of One Life to Live (among whose cast in this year includes a pre-Who's the Boss? Judith Light, who played Karen Wolek), including prologue, opening titles, and commercials for:
Cup O'Noodles (with skater JoJo Starbuck)
Baby Magic Lotion (recording ends midway through ad)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 30th 1979 during the 12:01pm to 1:03pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
