Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's the last five minutes of a broadcast of Good Morning America as aired over WLS Channel 7, hosted by Joan Lunden, and Hugh Downs who was filling in for David Hartman.
A Fuzzy Personal Videotape Collecting Remembrance: This was one of the very first tapes that I found, which began my hobby. I got it at the old Maxwell Street open-air markets probably around 1990 or 1991. Hard to believe this tape was only about 10 or 11 years old at the time - even though when I first viewed it the contents seemed like a lifetime ago.
Includes:
The last few seconds of an interview Joan has with Richard Thomas (a.k.a. John-Boy Walton on The Waltons) whose wife, Alma, had given birth to three triplet daughters on Wednesday, the 26th, after which Joan signals for a commercial break, and preview of Monday's show with guests Susan Saint James and Patty Duke Astin, and over the coming week John Denver
Commercials for:
Sara Lee - "Bake Sale"
Century 21 - "The Gold Jacket"
Lee Jeans - "Comfort Stretch with Lycra"
Resolution appetite control capsules - from Lee Pharmaceuticals
Hugh and Joan preview Monday's show as they end the program, and he announces his intention to head off to President Reagan's birth place of Tampico, IL
Very brief ABC network slide
Robb Weller promotes upcoming AM Chicago with guests Steve Dahl and Garry Meier
Commercials for:
MCI long distance
Venture - 20%-40% off on "Back to School, Back to Savings - Back to Style"
Aunt Jemima French Toast (in a scene reminiscent of one from “Kramer Vs. Kramer)
Station ID / promo for The Eyewitness Newsmagazine at 4:30pm (with Mary Ann Childers)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, August 28th 1981 between approximately 8:55am and 9:00am.
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 last five minutes of a broadcast of Good Morning America as aired over WLS Channel 7, hosted by Joan Lunden, and Hugh Downs who was filling in for David Hartman.
A Fuzzy Personal Videotape Collecting Remembrance: This was one of the very first tapes that I found, which began my hobby. I got it at the old Maxwell Street open-air markets probably around 1990 or 1991. Hard to believe this tape was only about 10 or 11 years old at the time - even though when I first viewed it the contents seemed like a lifetime ago.
Includes:
The last few seconds of an interview Joan has with Richard Thomas (a.k.a. John-Boy Walton on The Waltons) whose wife, Alma, had given birth to three triplet daughters on Wednesday, the 26th, after which Joan signals for a commercial break, and preview of Monday's show with guests Susan Saint James and Patty Duke Astin, and over the coming week John Denver
Commercials for:
Sara Lee - "Bake Sale"
Century 21 - "The Gold Jacket"
Lee Jeans - "Comfort Stretch with Lycra"
Resolution appetite control capsules - from Lee Pharmaceuticals
Hugh and Joan preview Monday's show as they end the program, and he announces his intention to head off to President Reagan's birth place of Tampico, IL
Very brief ABC network slide
Robb Weller promotes upcoming AM Chicago with guests Steve Dahl and Garry Meier
Commercials for:
MCI long distance
Venture - 20%-40% off on "Back to School, Back to Savings - Back to Style"
Aunt Jemima French Toast (in a scene reminiscent of one from “Kramer Vs. Kramer)
Station ID / promo for The Eyewitness Newsmagazine at 4:30pm (with Mary Ann Childers)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, August 28th 1981 between approximately 8:55am and 9:00am.
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!
![HBO [Home Box Office] - “Promos for May” (1981)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R2qi1rK3d3w/mqdefault.jpg "HBO [Home Box Office] - “Promos for May” (1981)
Heres a bunch of promos for the offerings in May from the cable channel HBO (Home Box Office), coming in midway through that for Standing Room Only: Top Banana Burlesque (with Jack Carter), followed by promos for Remember When: Way Out West (Part 1 of 8; narrated by Dick Cavett), Country Music U.S.A. (with performances by Roy Clark, Lacy J. Dalton, Charlie Rich and more), and Heroes: Winston Churchill - The Private War. You can hear the neat variations on the HBO music for the background incidental music in some of these promos.
Voiceover by Les Marshak.
HBO Feature Movie opening titles, followed by PG notice (accompanying voiceover by ??)
First few seconds of Escape from Alcatraz [1979], with Paramount bumper as in place at the time
This aired on local Chicago TV (via cable) sometime in late April or early May of 1981.
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!")
![The Original Ker-Bangers [Clackers, Kerbangers, Klackers] (Commercial, 1977) 🔴╯⭕╰🟢](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RfyTryEb8aA/mqdefault.jpg "The Original Ker-Bangers [Clackers, Kerbangers, Klackers] (Commercial, 1977) 🔴╯⭕╰🟢
Heres a commercial for The Original Ker-Bangers - [Kerbangers, Clacker Balls, Clankers, Clackers, Click-Clacks, Klick-Klacks, Klackers, Das Klackenballen?] available at Smittys (they brought them back) - Putting it All Together...Just for You. Basically the plastic ball toy where you clicked them together by moving the attached string up and down while holding on to a ring.
These toys were manufactured by the Chuck Howard Toy Co. of Inglewood, California. Despite being labeled SHATTERPROOF and UNBREAKABLE, the hard plastic acrylic balls often did indeed shatter, crack, chip, and break and could become very dangerous in the blink of an eye - thus, they were banned and the subject of a nationwide product recall by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which was issued in December 1985.
Main voiceover by ?? Ending voiceover by ??
Everyone will want to Ker-bang, cause its fun for all ages...
This aired on local Phoenix TV on Sunday, September 18th 1977 during the 9:30am to 11:30am (Pacific) 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!")
![[broken] Pulsar Life Systems Center (Commercial, 1977)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rgc1WB7s-7o/mqdefault.jpg "[broken] Pulsar Life Systems Center (Commercial, 1977)
[broken] Pulsar Life Systems Center (Commercial, 1977)")
