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Here's the complete, first-run broadcast of a Halloween-themed episode of The Fall Guy, appropriately titled "October the 31st" (S04E07), over the ABC Network via Chicago's own WLS Channel 7.
This edition - which deals with spooky goings on at a house that the owner refuses to let the film crew work in - featured Cassandra Peterson as "Elvira" (a character she'd played since 1981 on an (originally) local Los Angeles TV horror movie show) and, more significantly, all four of the Carradine clan (patriarch John Carradine and sons David, Keith and Robert Carradine) guest starred in this. It should also be noted that the co-writer of this installment, Sam Egan, would later write Ms. Peterson's 1988 feature film "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark."
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness News at 10pm with John Drury
Show opening titles (the theme - sung by series star Lee Majors - mostly reversed to avoid YouTube copyright blockage)
Sponsor billboard for Ford
Commercials for:
Ford Mustang LX (order by November 30th 1984)
Commodore 64 computer
Episode Act I (with guest lineup and those responsible for putting this together at start)
Commercials for:
Ford Thunderbird (with Dallas star Patrick Duffy)
Kleenex Huggies diapers (vote between it, Pampers and Luvs)
Promo for "The Three Wishes of Billy Grier" and 20/20 (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
McDonald's - "Building Big" (with construction worker plugging Happy Meal promo for LEGO building sets)
Ford F series pickups (what if they could be driven on the moon?)
Promo for Benson and Webster (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
"Fall Guy will continue" bumper (voiceover by William Conrad)
Promo for Hawaiian Heat and Matt Houston (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
Commercial: Club Med (in Hawaii)
Station ID / promo for AM Chicago with Oprah Winfrey
Episode Act III
Political ad for President Reagan - "Leadership That's Working" (voiceover by Hal Riney)
Commercials for:
Bic Shaver (with John McEnroe)
AMC/Jeep/Renault - 10.9% APR on new vehicles (ends November 30th)
Episode Act IV
Fall Guy bumper (voiceover by William Conrad)
Commercials for:
Michelob Beer
JCPenney suits (with "Coty Award Winner" Lee Wright)
Episode epilogue
Commercials for:
AT&T (savings on long-distance and state-to-state calls) (with Cliff Robertson)
Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera
Preview of next week's episode (opening voiceover by William Conrad)
PSA for The '84 Vote (with Tawny Schneider - once and future Tawny Little - of KABC Channel 7 in Los Angeles)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for T.J. Hooker, The Love Boat, Finder of Lost Loves and Dynasty by Gilbert Hodges), followed by Glen A. Larson Productions and 20th Century-Fox Television bumpers
Promo for Hardcastle & McCormick and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
ABC News Business Brief with Dan Cordtz (opening voiceover by Bill Rice), with following items:
- Leading economic indicators up 0.4% in September, but factory orders down 1.8%, and imports drive trade deficit to $12.6 billion
- OPEC warns production cuts will cause worldwide shortage in winter
- Ramada Inn profits way down, Bethlehem Steel reports a loss
- Meat industry asks government to allow them to produce a "light" hot dog with less fat
- Reagan masks outselling Mondale masks for Halloween - but Nixon's outsells them both
Commercial: Federal Express
- Recap of Dow Jones, 3-month T-Bills, gold and dollar finishes for day
Promo for Eyewitness News at 10pm, relating to Chicago reaction to death of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and Roger Ebert review of new horror film (voiceover by Gary Gears?)
This aired on local Chicago TV on - you guessed it - Wednesday, October 31st 1984 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm 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 complete, first-run broadcast of a Halloween-themed episode of The Fall Guy, appropriately titled "October the 31st" (S04E07), over the ABC Network via Chicago's own WLS Channel 7.
This edition - which deals with spooky goings on at a house that the owner refuses to let the film crew work in - featured Cassandra Peterson as "Elvira" (a character she'd played since 1981 on an (originally) local Los Angeles TV horror movie show) and, more significantly, all four of the Carradine clan (patriarch John Carradine and sons David, Keith and Robert Carradine) guest starred in this. It should also be noted that the co-writer of this installment, Sam Egan, would later write Ms. Peterson's 1988 feature film "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark."
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness News at 10pm with John Drury
Show opening titles (the theme - sung by series star Lee Majors - mostly reversed to avoid YouTube copyright blockage)
Sponsor billboard for Ford
Commercials for:
Ford Mustang LX (order by November 30th 1984)
Commodore 64 computer
Episode Act I (with guest lineup and those responsible for putting this together at start)
Commercials for:
Ford Thunderbird (with Dallas star Patrick Duffy)
Kleenex Huggies diapers (vote between it, Pampers and Luvs)
Promo for "The Three Wishes of Billy Grier" and 20/20 (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
McDonald's - "Building Big" (with construction worker plugging Happy Meal promo for LEGO building sets)
Ford F series pickups (what if they could be driven on the moon?)
Promo for Benson and Webster (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
"Fall Guy will continue" bumper (voiceover by William Conrad)
Promo for Hawaiian Heat and Matt Houston (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
Commercial: Club Med (in Hawaii)
Station ID / promo for AM Chicago with Oprah Winfrey
Episode Act III
Political ad for President Reagan - "Leadership That's Working" (voiceover by Hal Riney)
Commercials for:
Bic Shaver (with John McEnroe)
AMC/Jeep/Renault - 10.9% APR on new vehicles (ends November 30th)
Episode Act IV
Fall Guy bumper (voiceover by William Conrad)
Commercials for:
Michelob Beer
JCPenney suits (with "Coty Award Winner" Lee Wright)
Episode epilogue
Commercials for:
AT&T (savings on long-distance and state-to-state calls) (with Cliff Robertson)
Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera
Preview of next week's episode (opening voiceover by William Conrad)
PSA for The '84 Vote (with Tawny Schneider - once and future Tawny Little - of KABC Channel 7 in Los Angeles)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for T.J. Hooker, The Love Boat, Finder of Lost Loves and Dynasty by Gilbert Hodges), followed by Glen A. Larson Productions and 20th Century-Fox Television bumpers
Promo for Hardcastle & McCormick and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
ABC News Business Brief with Dan Cordtz (opening voiceover by Bill Rice), with following items:
- Leading economic indicators up 0.4% in September, but factory orders down 1.8%, and imports drive trade deficit to $12.6 billion
- OPEC warns production cuts will cause worldwide shortage in winter
- Ramada Inn profits way down, Bethlehem Steel reports a loss
- Meat industry asks government to allow them to produce a "light" hot dog with less fat
- Reagan masks outselling Mondale masks for Halloween - but Nixon's outsells them both
Commercial: Federal Express
- Recap of Dow Jones, 3-month T-Bills, gold and dollar finishes for day
Promo for Eyewitness News at 10pm, relating to Chicago reaction to death of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and Roger Ebert review of new horror film (voiceover by Gary Gears?)
This aired on local Chicago TV on - you guessed it - Wednesday, October 31st 1984 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm 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!
![ABC Network - The Fall Guy - October the 31st [Elvira] - WLS-TV (Complete Broadcast, 10/31/1984) 📺](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2u1EiQNezi0/hqdefault.jpg "ABC Network - The Fall Guy - October the 31st [Elvira] - WLS-TV (Complete Broadcast, 10/31/1984) 📺
Heres the complete, first-run broadcast of a Halloween-themed episode of The Fall Guy, appropriately titled October the 31st (S04E07), over the ABC Network via Chicagos own WLS Channel 7.
This edition - which deals with spooky goings on at a house that the owner refuses to let the film crew work in - featured Cassandra Peterson as Elvira (a character shed played since 1981 on an (originally) local Los Angeles TV horror movie show) and, more significantly, all four of the Carradine clan (patriarch John Carradine and sons David, Keith and Robert Carradine) guest starred in this. It should also be noted that the co-writer of this installment, Sam Egan, would later write Ms. Petersons 1988 feature film Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Eyewitness News at 10pm with John Drury
Show opening titles (the theme - sung by series star Lee Majors - mostly reversed to avoid YouTube copyright blockage)
Sponsor billboard for Ford
Commercials for:
Ford Mustang LX (order by November 30th 1984)
Commodore 64 computer
Episode Act I (with guest lineup and those responsible for putting this together at start)
Commercials for:
Ford Thunderbird (with Dallas star Patrick Duffy)
Kleenex Huggies diapers (vote between it, Pampers and Luvs)
Promo for The Three Wishes of Billy Grier and 20/20 (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
McDonalds - Building Big (with construction worker plugging Happy Meal promo for LEGO building sets)
Ford F series pickups (what if they could be driven on the moon?)
Promo for Benson and Webster (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
Fall Guy will continue bumper (voiceover by William Conrad)
Promo for Hawaiian Heat and Matt Houston (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
Commercial: Club Med (in Hawaii)
Station ID / promo for AM Chicago with Oprah Winfrey
Episode Act III
Political ad for President Reagan - Leadership Thats Working (voiceover by Hal Riney)
Commercials for:
Bic Shaver (with John McEnroe)
AMC/Jeep/Renault - 10.9% APR on new vehicles (ends November 30th)
Episode Act IV
Fall Guy bumper (voiceover by William Conrad)
Commercials for:
Michelob Beer
JCPenney suits (with Coty Award Winner Lee Wright)
Episode epilogue
Commercials for:
AT&T (savings on long-distance and state-to-state calls) (with Cliff Robertson)
Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera
Preview of next weeks episode (opening voiceover by William Conrad)
PSA for The 84 Vote (with Tawny Schneider - once and future Tawny Little - of KABC Channel 7 in Los Angeles)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for T.J. Hooker, The Love Boat, Finder of Lost Loves and Dynasty by Gilbert Hodges), followed by Glen A. Larson Productions and 20th Century-Fox Television bumpers
Promo for Hardcastle & McCormick and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
ABC News Business Brief with Dan Cordtz (opening voiceover by Bill Rice), with following items:
- Leading economic indicators up 0.4% in September, but factory orders down 1.8%, and imports drive trade deficit to $12.6 billion
- OPEC warns production cuts will cause worldwide shortage in winter
- Ramada Inn profits way down, Bethlehem Steel reports a loss
- Meat industry asks government to allow them to produce a light hot dog with less fat
- Reagan masks outselling Mondale masks for Halloween - but Nixons outsells them both
Commercial: Federal Express
- Recap of Dow Jones, 3-month T-Bills, gold and dollar finishes for day
Promo for Eyewitness News at 10pm, relating to Chicago reaction to death of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and Roger Ebert review of new horror film (voiceover by Gary Gears?)
This aired on local Chicago TV on - you guessed it - Wednesday, October 31st 1984 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm 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!")
![Columbus, OH Cable TV [QUBE] - Donahue & Channel Surfing (11/27/1979)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3n7mTYJcHSM/hqdefault.jpg "Columbus, OH Cable TV [QUBE] - Donahue & Channel Surfing (11/27/1979)
Heres a little slice of channel surfing on cable TV (or more specifially, Warner Cables QUBE) in and around Columbus, OH, with the main centerpiece being an edition of Donahue where Tony Gabriel (husband of Mrs. America 1979, Carrie Gabriel) was duking it out with members of Phils studio audience.
(Trivia: Columbus, OH, was home to WCMH Channel 4, which until 1976 was known as WLWC - and as such, formerly a sister station to then-WLWD Channel 2 in Dayton, now WDTN, where Donahue began his show back in 1967, and was there until 1974 when he moved to Chicago; the segment of his show shown here at one point featured one of the fonts from 1974-82 originating station WGN Channel 9s newer CG system.)
To sort everything out, the point at which the channels are changed will be time stamped in parentheses.
Includes:
Clip from middle of episode of The Big Valley, S03E17, Days of Wrath (original air date January 8th 1968)
Promo for TV Guide, December 1st-7th issue (with Barbara Walters on the cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant) (music: Solar Song 3 by Reynold Weidenaar, from the Sam Fox music library, used from 1968 until 1980) (both from WTVN Channel 6 in Columbus, OH)
(0:29) Short clip from Green Acres (from SuperStation WTBS)
(0:30) First look at Donahue - topic Discrimination Against Women (from WCMH)
(0:35) Brief change to look at Premium Schedule Theatre IV, P-4 for Monday, November 26th 1979
(0:35) Commercial involving a girl wearing a sweater
(0:36) News channel (C-4, News Update) with report on statewide manhunt for a Guernsey County Jail prisoner, Donald Keeton, whod escaped from Guernsey County Hospital where hed been treated for injuries after a fight with another inmate - time is 9:40:03am
(0:37) Excerpt from The 700 Club (featuring Ben Kinchlow at frame right) (likely aired on C-7, Religious Programs channel)
(0:37) Back to news channel, same as before but from 9:40:04am to 9:40:09am (with weather report transmitted by telephone on the audio)
(0:43) Back to The 700 Club
(0:44) Childrens program with woman apparently singing Sing a Song of Sixpence (likely from Pinwheel, C-3 - a direct predecessor to todays Nickelodeon channel)
(0:45) Romper Room from WUAB Channel 43 in Cleveland, OH, followed by brief cut to exercise show (Debbie Drake?)
(0:46) Promo for Emergency! with Kevin Tighe from WDHQ Channel 24 in Toledo (12 Galion, Crestline Cable)
(0:47) Prices on radishes and Sun Maid raisins (probably from Channel C-2, Consumer Information?)
(0:48) A shot of various home improvement companies and their locations (likely from T-3, Public Access)
(0:48) Back to Green Acres again
(0:49) Donahue again
(0:50) Back to Premium Schedule
The rest of the clip (from 0:51 onwards) is the Donahue installment in question, with the debate especially becoming heated
This aired on local Columbus TV (via QUBE) on Tuesday, November 27th 1979 between 9:39am and 9:41 am (Eastern time).
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!")
![The Thing [Inflatable] by Funstuf (Commercial, 1979)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4j4xceQQ4UY/hqdefault.jpg "The Thing [Inflatable] by Funstuf (Commercial, 1979)
Here is a neat commercial for The Thing toy from Funstuf. Comes complete with the rock trap. The Thing was, of course, a character from The Fantastic Four comic book (even though they dont mention that).
Note: This is to replace an earlier, now broken (unplayable) video posting, preserved as an unlisted video here to save the original comments: https://youtu.be/Nv5x_MGdVRM)
Remember kids: With a few pumps of the inflator, you can make The Thing expand in size. ;-)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, December 3rd 1979 during the 6:30am to 7:00am 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 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!")
