Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a commercial for Post Alpha-Bits cereal, featuring a promotion for a Magic Box Trick. Has that late-70's "shot on videotape" look.
Note: This is to replace an earlier, now broken (unplayable) video posting, preserved as an unlisted video here to save the original comments: youtu.be/eyJjVzFIQH0
"I ate'm"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 12th 1977 during the 12:00pm to 1:00pm 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 a commercial for Post Alpha-Bits cereal, featuring a promotion for a Magic Box Trick. Has that late-70's "shot on videotape" look.
Note: This is to replace an earlier, now broken (unplayable) video posting, preserved as an unlisted video here to save the original comments: youtu.be/eyJjVzFIQH0
"I ate'm"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 12th 1977 during the 12:00pm to 1:00pm 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!
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![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!")
