Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's the 1st half of a broadcast (minus the cold open) of the long-running ABC soap General Hospital as aired over WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX.
This was from the week the series expanded to an hour (beginning January 16th 1978) - and also among the last and most recent examples of the 'pinched' audio associated with 5K telco, before video and audio of network feeds were 'diplexed' starting within the next month.
(Parts of other editions of General Hospital have been shared here: youtu.be/8J7AvgG775k and youtu.be/BOvefl95-mg ; plus a complete edition from 1986: youtu.be/fDjyl1VomBs?t=1676 )
Includes:
Tail end of show opening
Commercials for:
Carter's Playwear/Sleepwear/Infantswear/Underwear - "If they could just stay little...till their Carter's wear out" (posted separately here: youtu.be/UTo6pE8GuZQ)
Kit Kat chocolate bars (with two lions and comedic "everyman" Phil Leeds) (posted separately here: youtu.be/_ueSPZzh8OM)
Johnson's Baby Oil (gives off "Stepford Wives" vibes) (posted separately here: youtu.be/s4Os-zmYW8Y)
New Freedom beltless mini and maxi pads
Segment 5: Businessman Lamont Corbin (?) is given stark medical advice by Dr. Mark Dante (Gerald Gordon) before planned surgery; Gary (Steve Carlson) and Gina (Anna Stuart) discuss their wedding plans and her reluctance to accept a wedding gift; Catherine (?) tells Lamont she's afraid of what's to come, and he tells her not to be
Commercials for:
California Raisin Advisory Board ('CRAB'!) - "Nature's Candy" (with kids yelling responses to unseen narrator)
Campho-Phenique Liquid Pain Relieving Antiseptic
Aim toothpaste
Segment 6: Dr. Alan Quartermaine (Stuart Damon) plans to leave on a trip, but not before a few words with Monica (Leslie Charleson); David Hamilton (Jerry Ayres) is on the phone with Mr. Case (?) about a stock tip, then Dr. (?) speaks to him about Lamont; after the doctor leaves, David is on the phone with a broker about Corbin Ltd.
Commercials for:
Fresh Color 3 Lipstick - from Maybelline
Star Kist Tuna - Charlie (voice of Herschel Bernardi) acquires a dilapidated yacht (similar to Colin Jost and Pete Davidson?
One-a-Day Plus Minerals
Keebler Town House Crackers
Segment 7: Monica has an extended flashback about a meeting with Alan after spotting one of his neckties, then finishes packing his suitcase as he prepares to leave; Laura (Genie Francis) and Scotty (Kin Shriner - son of the late humorist Herb Shriner and twin brother of Wil Shriner) have a few words about their plans for the night, then Darrin (?) gets ready to go out to a basketball game with Barbara and discusses his plans with Scotty, after which he and Laura discuss further plans.
Bumper
Commercials for:
Condition by Clairol (with hairdresser Bill de Filippis)
Behold furniture polish
Promo for News 8 sports coverage (spotlighting Verne Lundquist)
Bumper
Promo for The Love Boat (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Promo for January 21st-27th issue of TV Guide (with cast of Family on cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant) (music: "Solar Song 3" by Reynold Weidenaar)
Commercial: Chun King Chow Mein (recording cuts out midway through advert)
This aired on local Dallas/Fort Worth TV the week of January 16th thru 20th 1978 within the 2:00pm to 2:30pm 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 Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, 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 the 1st half of a broadcast (minus the cold open) of the long-running ABC soap General Hospital as aired over WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX.
This was from the week the series expanded to an hour (beginning January 16th 1978) - and also among the last and most recent examples of the 'pinched' audio associated with 5K telco, before video and audio of network feeds were 'diplexed' starting within the next month.
(Parts of other editions of General Hospital have been shared here: youtu.be/8J7AvgG775k and youtu.be/BOvefl95-mg ; plus a complete edition from 1986: youtu.be/fDjyl1VomBs?t=1676 )
Includes:
Tail end of show opening
Commercials for:
Carter's Playwear/Sleepwear/Infantswear/Underwear - "If they could just stay little...till their Carter's wear out" (posted separately here: youtu.be/UTo6pE8GuZQ)
Kit Kat chocolate bars (with two lions and comedic "everyman" Phil Leeds) (posted separately here: youtu.be/_ueSPZzh8OM)
Johnson's Baby Oil (gives off "Stepford Wives" vibes) (posted separately here: youtu.be/s4Os-zmYW8Y)
New Freedom beltless mini and maxi pads
Segment 5: Businessman Lamont Corbin (?) is given stark medical advice by Dr. Mark Dante (Gerald Gordon) before planned surgery; Gary (Steve Carlson) and Gina (Anna Stuart) discuss their wedding plans and her reluctance to accept a wedding gift; Catherine (?) tells Lamont she's afraid of what's to come, and he tells her not to be
Commercials for:
California Raisin Advisory Board ('CRAB'!) - "Nature's Candy" (with kids yelling responses to unseen narrator)
Campho-Phenique Liquid Pain Relieving Antiseptic
Aim toothpaste
Segment 6: Dr. Alan Quartermaine (Stuart Damon) plans to leave on a trip, but not before a few words with Monica (Leslie Charleson); David Hamilton (Jerry Ayres) is on the phone with Mr. Case (?) about a stock tip, then Dr. (?) speaks to him about Lamont; after the doctor leaves, David is on the phone with a broker about Corbin Ltd.
Commercials for:
Fresh Color 3 Lipstick - from Maybelline
Star Kist Tuna - Charlie (voice of Herschel Bernardi) acquires a dilapidated yacht (similar to Colin Jost and Pete Davidson?
One-a-Day Plus Minerals
Keebler Town House Crackers
Segment 7: Monica has an extended flashback about a meeting with Alan after spotting one of his neckties, then finishes packing his suitcase as he prepares to leave; Laura (Genie Francis) and Scotty (Kin Shriner - son of the late humorist Herb Shriner and twin brother of Wil Shriner) have a few words about their plans for the night, then Darrin (?) gets ready to go out to a basketball game with Barbara and discusses his plans with Scotty, after which he and Laura discuss further plans.
Bumper
Commercials for:
Condition by Clairol (with hairdresser Bill de Filippis)
Behold furniture polish
Promo for News 8 sports coverage (spotlighting Verne Lundquist)
Bumper
Promo for The Love Boat (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Promo for January 21st-27th issue of TV Guide (with cast of Family on cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant) (music: "Solar Song 3" by Reynold Weidenaar)
Commercial: Chun King Chow Mein (recording cuts out midway through advert)
This aired on local Dallas/Fort Worth TV the week of January 16th thru 20th 1978 within the 2:00pm to 2:30pm 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 Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, 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!
![N.A.A.C.P. [NAACP] Special Contribution Fund - Over 68 Years (PSA, 1978) ✊](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iPGgwaiab-I/mqdefault.jpg "N.A.A.C.P. [NAACP] Special Contribution Fund - Over 68 Years (PSA, 1978) ✊
Heres a powerful one-minute PSA from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Special Contribution Fund, of which 34 seconds are devoted to a rapid-fire delivery of photos (1-2 frames per photo) of numerous events from 1909 (the year of the civil rights organizations founding) to the point this PSA was made, from old sharecropper homes to colored facilities, to voter registration drives, to the fight for jobs and medical access, to integration of the military, to education, to housing, to the present day (1978) - ending with a shot of a black man and his young son, and where to contact.
Voiceover by ??
Fighting for freedom for over 68 years.
This aired on local New York TV on Monday, September 25th 1978 within the 10:00am to 11:30am (Eastern) 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!")
