Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Here's the complete broadcast of another first-run episode of the short-lived Square Pegs, "Halloween XII" (S01E05), as presented over WBBM Channel 2.
In this installment, Patty (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren (Amy Linker) are elated over being invited by the "cool" clique to a Halloween party - but after the boys crash the party, it begins to take a spooky turn for the two who then get the feeling they're being watched. Also starring Catlin Adams and Basil Hoffman.
(Previously, the complete pilot episode broadcast was put up here: youtu.be/DNrHiOB92GI )
Includes:
Political ad for Jerry Cosentino for Secretary of State (slightly in progress)
Station ID / promo for Channel 2 News Election Countdown
Show opening titles, followed directly by Prologue (teaser)
Commercials for:
Prell shampoo - "Lotsa Hair"
Chloraseptic - for minor sore throat pain
Act I
Commercials for:
Sears Get Set for the Holidays Sale (on bedding, sheets and pillowcases)
Mighty Dog Beef for Dogs
Promo for M*A*S*H, Newhart and Cagney & Lacey (voiceover by Lance LeGault?)
Act II
Commercials for:
McDonald's - "That's My McDonald's"
Sears Get Set for the Holidays Sale (on TV's and applicances)
Epilogue
Promo for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Alice, Filthy Rich and Tucker's Witch (voiceover by Lance LeGault?)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Newhart and Private Benjamin (which they didn't record) by Lee Jordan)
Promo for Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon and Knots Landing (voiceover by Brad Crandall?)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 1st 1982 during the 6:59pm to 7:28pm 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 another first-run episode of the short-lived Square Pegs, "Halloween XII" (S01E05), as presented over WBBM Channel 2.
In this installment, Patty (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren (Amy Linker) are elated over being invited by the "cool" clique to a Halloween party - but after the boys crash the party, it begins to take a spooky turn for the two who then get the feeling they're being watched. Also starring Catlin Adams and Basil Hoffman.
(Previously, the complete pilot episode broadcast was put up here: youtu.be/DNrHiOB92GI )
Includes:
Political ad for Jerry Cosentino for Secretary of State (slightly in progress)
Station ID / promo for Channel 2 News Election Countdown
Show opening titles, followed directly by Prologue (teaser)
Commercials for:
Prell shampoo - "Lotsa Hair"
Chloraseptic - for minor sore throat pain
Act I
Commercials for:
Sears Get Set for the Holidays Sale (on bedding, sheets and pillowcases)
Mighty Dog Beef for Dogs
Promo for M*A*S*H, Newhart and Cagney & Lacey (voiceover by Lance LeGault?)
Act II
Commercials for:
McDonald's - "That's My McDonald's"
Sears Get Set for the Holidays Sale (on TV's and applicances)
Epilogue
Promo for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Alice, Filthy Rich and Tucker's Witch (voiceover by Lance LeGault?)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Newhart and Private Benjamin (which they didn't record) by Lee Jordan)
Promo for Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon and Knots Landing (voiceover by Brad Crandall?)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 1st 1982 during the 6:59pm to 7:28pm 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!
![KXAS Channel 5 [Fort Worth-Dallas, TX] - Emergency Broadcast System Test (7/30/1979)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oGJOsPDG-k8/mqdefault.jpg "KXAS Channel 5 [Fort Worth-Dallas, TX] - Emergency Broadcast System Test (7/30/1979)
Heres another example of how Emergency Broadcast System tests were handled by local stations back in the day - in this case, from KXAS Channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX.
(NOTE: Another EBS test from another Dallas-Fort Worth station - WFAA Channel 8, from 1978 - can be seen here: https://youtu.be/_9SvldZ8zs0 )
Includes:
Ending of PSA for The Family Place (a shelter for battered women) (voiceover by ??)
This is followed by the obligatory Emergency Broadcast System test (voiceover by ??)
The test - two tones, played simultaneously at 853 and 960 Hz, per FCC guidelines - only lasted a bit more than 23 seconds. The rest in this 60-second test were the This is a test... intro at the start, and the outro script at the end (both of which were also shown on screen as they were being read). However, there is no indication (between the actual emergency spiel and This concludes this test...) of which area this station serves (which would have been the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex).
Station ID / promo for The Muppet Show (voiceover by ??)
First few seconds of Act 5 of Days of Our Lives
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This aired on local Fort Worth-Dallas TV on Monday, July 30th 1979 within 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!")
