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Here's a broadcast of the last 37 minutes (partially pre-empted) of an edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not! (S03E02) hosted by Jack Palance and - believe it or not - his totally merit-hired daughter Holly Palance, followed by the first 28 minutes of the Hardcastle and McCormick episode "You Would Cry Too, If It Happened to You" (S02E03) as aired over the ABC Network via WLS Channel 7.
With the former, it was "joined in progress" following Game 5 of the National League Championship Series (which was carried by the ABC Network), in which the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 (doh!) to advance to the World Series.
In the latter, as Judge Hardcastle (Brian Keith) is on vacation, thieves steal the contents of Gulls Way.
(Two full broadcasts of Ripley's Believe It or Not! have previously been posted: youtu.be/lvCfkaBjeOs and youtu.be/_3gzEbMq3xk)
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness Sports Final
Summary of coming Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment, with show slide and synopsis by ABC staff announcer Allan Jefferys; followed by episode joined in progress, midway through Segment 3 and a look at an armless child named Andy Detwiler followed by a profile of a songwriter with cerebral palsy, Wayne Pronger, and a brief bio of blind sailor Hank Decker who once sailed from San Francisco to Hawaii
Commercials for:
National Dairy Board - "Milk's Got More!"
Listerine Antiseptic mouthwash
Honda ATC 3-wheelers
Wendy's (town hall meeting with Clara "Where's the Beef?" Peller)
Promo for Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders and Three's a Crowd (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Bumper (voiceover by Jack Palance)
Promo for Paper Dolls and Jessie (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Commercials for:
Burger King (voiceover by Skip Hinnant?)
Carter's Blanket Sleepers (ending voiceover for Carson Pirie Scott tag by Al Parker)
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness News with John Drury
Segment 4, with a look at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, inside the catacombs of the Monastery of the Capucine Monks in Palermo, Sicily, a Buddhist shrine outside Hong Kong where one has to walk 431 steps to gain access, and a class in restorative art to train morticians and undertakers in restoring faces to old skulls; plus, a brief profile of an English eccentric, Richard Howell, who specified in his will that he be buried on horseback upside-down
Commercials for:
Coca-Cola - "Coke Is It!"
Aunt Jemima French Toast
Actifed Nasal Decongestant/Antihistamine (with Wally Schirra)
AT&T (with Cliff Robertson)
Promo for Call to Glory and NFL Monday Night Football (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Segment 5, with looks at the poison dart frog, a water walker spider in England that preys on drowning flies and aphids, a New Guinea bird of paradise, and an Australian frilled lizard and a Japanese dance that said species inspired
Commercials for:
Doritos tortilla chips
National Dairy Board (a housewife and her stressful day)
Renault Alliance (voiceover by W.B. Brydon)
Phillips Petroleum
Promo for Hardcastle and McCormick (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Final segment, with look at the legend of Walter Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, a cloak and a severed head; followed by a preview of next week's episode and closing credits (with voiceover promos for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for ABC Afterschool Special episode "Out of Step," The Fall Guy, Dynasty, Hotel, and Hardcastle and McCormick by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for ABC World News Tonight (with Peter Jennings)
Commercials for:
Little Debbie snacks
United Airlines to the Far East
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness Sports Final
Preview of coming episode, followed by show opening titles
Commercials for:
Pontiac 6000 STE
Certs - "The Encounter"
Maximum Strength Sinutab II sinus headache and congestion medication
Act I
Commercials for:
New Keebler Soft Batch Cookies
New Chicken Helper from Betty Crocker
1985 Plymouth 550 Reliant Super K
Promo for Call to Glory (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Animated ABC ID (with lower-third WLS station ID)
Act II (recording cuts out near end)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 7th 1984 during the 6:22pm to 7:29pm 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 a broadcast of the last 37 minutes (partially pre-empted) of an edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not! (S03E02) hosted by Jack Palance and - believe it or not - his totally merit-hired daughter Holly Palance, followed by the first 28 minutes of the Hardcastle and McCormick episode "You Would Cry Too, If It Happened to You" (S02E03) as aired over the ABC Network via WLS Channel 7.
With the former, it was "joined in progress" following Game 5 of the National League Championship Series (which was carried by the ABC Network), in which the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 (doh!) to advance to the World Series.
In the latter, as Judge Hardcastle (Brian Keith) is on vacation, thieves steal the contents of Gulls Way.
(Two full broadcasts of Ripley's Believe It or Not! have previously been posted: youtu.be/lvCfkaBjeOs and youtu.be/_3gzEbMq3xk)
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness Sports Final
Summary of coming Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment, with show slide and synopsis by ABC staff announcer Allan Jefferys; followed by episode joined in progress, midway through Segment 3 and a look at an armless child named Andy Detwiler followed by a profile of a songwriter with cerebral palsy, Wayne Pronger, and a brief bio of blind sailor Hank Decker who once sailed from San Francisco to Hawaii
Commercials for:
National Dairy Board - "Milk's Got More!"
Listerine Antiseptic mouthwash
Honda ATC 3-wheelers
Wendy's (town hall meeting with Clara "Where's the Beef?" Peller)
Promo for Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders and Three's a Crowd (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Bumper (voiceover by Jack Palance)
Promo for Paper Dolls and Jessie (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Commercials for:
Burger King (voiceover by Skip Hinnant?)
Carter's Blanket Sleepers (ending voiceover for Carson Pirie Scott tag by Al Parker)
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness News with John Drury
Segment 4, with a look at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, inside the catacombs of the Monastery of the Capucine Monks in Palermo, Sicily, a Buddhist shrine outside Hong Kong where one has to walk 431 steps to gain access, and a class in restorative art to train morticians and undertakers in restoring faces to old skulls; plus, a brief profile of an English eccentric, Richard Howell, who specified in his will that he be buried on horseback upside-down
Commercials for:
Coca-Cola - "Coke Is It!"
Aunt Jemima French Toast
Actifed Nasal Decongestant/Antihistamine (with Wally Schirra)
AT&T (with Cliff Robertson)
Promo for Call to Glory and NFL Monday Night Football (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Segment 5, with looks at the poison dart frog, a water walker spider in England that preys on drowning flies and aphids, a New Guinea bird of paradise, and an Australian frilled lizard and a Japanese dance that said species inspired
Commercials for:
Doritos tortilla chips
National Dairy Board (a housewife and her stressful day)
Renault Alliance (voiceover by W.B. Brydon)
Phillips Petroleum
Promo for Hardcastle and McCormick (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Final segment, with look at the legend of Walter Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, a cloak and a severed head; followed by a preview of next week's episode and closing credits (with voiceover promos for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for ABC Afterschool Special episode "Out of Step," The Fall Guy, Dynasty, Hotel, and Hardcastle and McCormick by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for ABC World News Tonight (with Peter Jennings)
Commercials for:
Little Debbie snacks
United Airlines to the Far East
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness Sports Final
Preview of coming episode, followed by show opening titles
Commercials for:
Pontiac 6000 STE
Certs - "The Encounter"
Maximum Strength Sinutab II sinus headache and congestion medication
Act I
Commercials for:
New Keebler Soft Batch Cookies
New Chicken Helper from Betty Crocker
1985 Plymouth 550 Reliant Super K
Promo for Call to Glory (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Animated ABC ID (with lower-third WLS station ID)
Act II (recording cuts out near end)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 7th 1984 during the 6:22pm to 7:29pm 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!
