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Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of the short-lived Saturday Morning cartoon series Little Clowns of Happytown, "Big Heart, Sweetheart" / "To Mr. Pickleherring with Love" (S01E08), as transmitted over WLS Channel 7.
This program centered around a bunch of young clowns from Happytown whose goal was to spread happiness and imbue positive mental attitudes to the city next door - and to counteract the efforts of Awful Bebad and henchmen Geek and Whiner who seek to ensure that gloom, doom and misery prevail in the community. Its theme song was co-written by Chuck Lorre who would later become famous for such shows as Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men.
In the first segment, the clowns and their friend Amy battle the evildoers while preparing for the Happy Day Parade; in the second segment, Awful Bebad and his henchmen seek to rain down on the Clowny Science Fair.
This was the last original episode to air until May 7th 1988 when S01E09, "Don't Be Angry" (or "Goodbye Grandma" - depending on IMDb or Wikipedia), was broadcast.
Includes:
Beginning of end credits of The Care Bears Family (with voiceover promo for upcoming The Little Clowns of Happytown by Ed Jordan) (note: rest of end credits featuring VO promo for "The Return of the Shaggy Dog" on The Disney Sunday Movie by Ed Jordan, and for MacGyver by Richard Dean Anderson had to be edited out)
Animated ABC ID (voiceover by Ed Jordan)
Commercial: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (version 1) - at Chicago Stadium through November 1st and at Rosemont Horizon November 3rd through 15th
Station ID / promo for Indiana vs. Iowa
ABC "Kidavision" bumper (joined in progress)
Show opening titles
"After These Messages" musical bumper (fire hydrant sprays water on dog)
Commercials for:
Funtime Barbie - from Mattel
SilverHawks action figures - from Kenner
Segment "Big Heart, Sweetheart"
ABC "After These Messages" musical bumper (fire hydrant barks at dog)
Commercials for:
Kellogg's Froot Loops (Toucan Sam interviewed by literal news hound)
Lego - with Zack the Lego Maniac (jingle sung by Jake Holmes?)
PSA from California Attorney General's Office and Your Local Rotary Club - "Right to Say No!" (to drugs)
Nerf Indoor Golf - from Parker Brothers
Life Savers candy - "A Hole Lotta Fun"
Promo for My Pet Monster cartoon
Segment "To Mr. Pickleherring with Love"
"After These Messages" musical bumper (country musician emerges from guitar case)
Commercials for:
Radio-controlled toy cars from Radio Shack
Lee Jeans
McDonald's Chicken McNuggets Happy Meal (with plug for Berenstain Bears' Happy Meal)
My Monster Pet - from AmToy
Reading PSA - with O.G. Readmore
End credits (with voiceover promo for upcoming My Pet Monster and "The Return of the Shaggy Dog" on The Disney Sunday Movie by Ed Jordan)
Animated ABC ID (voiceover by Ed Jordan)
Commercial: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (version 2) - at Chicago Stadium through November 1st and at Rosemont Horizon November 3rd through 15th
Station ID / promo for "The ABC's of Eating Right" on Tuesday 10pm Eyewitness News
ABC "Kidavision" bumper
First 12 seconds of open of My Pet Monster
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, October 31st 1987 during the 7:30am to 8:00am 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 the complete broadcast of an edition of the short-lived Saturday Morning cartoon series Little Clowns of Happytown, "Big Heart, Sweetheart" / "To Mr. Pickleherring with Love" (S01E08), as transmitted over WLS Channel 7.
This program centered around a bunch of young clowns from Happytown whose goal was to spread happiness and imbue positive mental attitudes to the city next door - and to counteract the efforts of Awful Bebad and henchmen Geek and Whiner who seek to ensure that gloom, doom and misery prevail in the community. Its theme song was co-written by Chuck Lorre who would later become famous for such shows as Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men.
In the first segment, the clowns and their friend Amy battle the evildoers while preparing for the Happy Day Parade; in the second segment, Awful Bebad and his henchmen seek to rain down on the Clowny Science Fair.
This was the last original episode to air until May 7th 1988 when S01E09, "Don't Be Angry" (or "Goodbye Grandma" - depending on IMDb or Wikipedia), was broadcast.
Includes:
Beginning of end credits of The Care Bears Family (with voiceover promo for upcoming The Little Clowns of Happytown by Ed Jordan) (note: rest of end credits featuring VO promo for "The Return of the Shaggy Dog" on The Disney Sunday Movie by Ed Jordan, and for MacGyver by Richard Dean Anderson had to be edited out)
Animated ABC ID (voiceover by Ed Jordan)
Commercial: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (version 1) - at Chicago Stadium through November 1st and at Rosemont Horizon November 3rd through 15th
Station ID / promo for Indiana vs. Iowa
ABC "Kidavision" bumper (joined in progress)
Show opening titles
"After These Messages" musical bumper (fire hydrant sprays water on dog)
Commercials for:
Funtime Barbie - from Mattel
SilverHawks action figures - from Kenner
Segment "Big Heart, Sweetheart"
ABC "After These Messages" musical bumper (fire hydrant barks at dog)
Commercials for:
Kellogg's Froot Loops (Toucan Sam interviewed by literal news hound)
Lego - with Zack the Lego Maniac (jingle sung by Jake Holmes?)
PSA from California Attorney General's Office and Your Local Rotary Club - "Right to Say No!" (to drugs)
Nerf Indoor Golf - from Parker Brothers
Life Savers candy - "A Hole Lotta Fun"
Promo for My Pet Monster cartoon
Segment "To Mr. Pickleherring with Love"
"After These Messages" musical bumper (country musician emerges from guitar case)
Commercials for:
Radio-controlled toy cars from Radio Shack
Lee Jeans
McDonald's Chicken McNuggets Happy Meal (with plug for Berenstain Bears' Happy Meal)
My Monster Pet - from AmToy
Reading PSA - with O.G. Readmore
End credits (with voiceover promo for upcoming My Pet Monster and "The Return of the Shaggy Dog" on The Disney Sunday Movie by Ed Jordan)
Animated ABC ID (voiceover by Ed Jordan)
Commercial: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (version 2) - at Chicago Stadium through November 1st and at Rosemont Horizon November 3rd through 15th
Station ID / promo for "The ABC's of Eating Right" on Tuesday 10pm Eyewitness News
ABC "Kidavision" bumper
First 12 seconds of open of My Pet Monster
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, October 31st 1987 during the 7:30am to 8:00am 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!
![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!")
