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Here's a collection of holiday-themed cartoons floating around in the public domain, under the heading of Christmas Cartoon Classics, as aired over WLS Channel 7. (A little Easter egg bonus will follow at the end.)
Apart from the first, fifth and sixth cartoons, the other half were originally "Noveltoons" (except as noted) produced by Famous Studios and syndicated in the 1950's by U.M.& M. TV; these pre-dated the non-Popeye Famous cartoons that were sold (along with the rights to the characters) in 1959 to Harvey Comics.
All voiceovers for this show are by Del Sharbutt.
Includes:
Commercials for:
F.I.M. - Half off on Christmas decorations
American Furniture Liquidators - Furniture and jewelry surplus sale - "OPEN TO THE PUBLIC"
PSA from Forest Psych Care Hospital on adult depression
Victory Auto Wreckers (posted separately here, albeit with different (by the same person?) voiceover: youtu.be/4fM5K5jK840)
Station ID / promo for "WarGames"
Opening titles and premise for this edition, with sponsor billboard for National Dairy Council, Fisher-Price and Mattel
First short: "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1948 - 16 years before the more famous TV special, and one year before Gene Autry's definitive version of the song which would be incorporated into this cartoon in a 1951 reissue), produced by the Jam Handy Organization and directed by none other than animation legend Max Fleischer
Commercials for:
National Dairy Board (two kids drinking milk while sitting next to a tree)
Hawaiian Punch soft drink
The Bedding Experts
Repeat of adult depression PSA
Next short: "Santa's Surprise" (1947), marking the debut appearance of Little Audrey
Commercials for:
My Bundle Baby - from Mattel (1992 copyright date)
Baby Rollerblade - from Mattel (jingle sung to tune of The Beach Boys' "I Get Around")
Fisher-Price 3-in-1 Tournament Table
Victory Auto Wreckers (repeat)
Next cartoon: "Hector's Hectic Life" (1948)
Commercials for:
National Dairy Council (repeat)
Li'l Miss Magic Jewels - from Mattel
PSA for Crisis Line
Aarco-American, Inc.
The Bedding Experts (repeat)
Next up: "Snow Foolin' " (1949) - a "Screen Song" cartoon with a "follow the bouncing ball" theme about various animals preparing for winter - and singing to the tune of "Jingle Bells"
Commercial offer for VHS of this program, for only $14.95 (plus $3.00 shipping and handling)
Commercials for:
Stacie (Barbie's little sister) - from Mattel
Sparkle Eyes Barbie - from Mattel
Promo for Oprah - weekdays at 9am
Promo for Measure of Success - for 6:30pm
Next one: "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" (1936), produced by Max Fleischer (whose studio was predecessor to Famous Studios) and directed by Dave Fleischer - notable in that: a) it was Professor Grampy's only appearance without Betty Boop, and b) his only appearance in color; backgrounds done with a stereoptical effect invented by Fleischer in 1934 and used in several cartoons of the time (referred to in Leonard Maltin's book "Of Mice and Magic" as the "Turntable" system)
Commercials for:
National Dairy Board (yet again!)
Hawaiian Punch soft drink (repeat)
Nestle's Quik (with Quik rabbit drawn more 3-D)
PSA for United States Marine Corps' Toys for Tots program
Final P.D. 'toon of the hour: "Jack Frost" (1934), produced by once-and-future Disney associate Ub Iwerks and released as a "Comicolor" offering; the musical director was one Carl W. Stalling, a few years before he joined what was then Leon Schlesinger Productions (which, in 1944, became Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)
Ending credits (distributed by Promark, Inc.)
Station Christmas promo ("All the Best from All of Us" - version 1)
Commercials for:
Super Mario Kart - from Nintendo
Robitussin Night Relief
Station Christmas promo ("All the Best from All of Us" - version 2
Station ID / promo for Wheel of Fortune with Pat Sajak and Vanna White
Bonus: Opening titles for The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, which ran from 1988 to 1991
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, December 19th 1992 during the 5:58am to 7:01am timeframe.
[Note: This is a "Fuzzy Rerun" from 2021 - originally posted here: youtu.be/uqbr6NHELpA]
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. 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 collection of holiday-themed cartoons floating around in the public domain, under the heading of Christmas Cartoon Classics, as aired over WLS Channel 7. (A little Easter egg bonus will follow at the end.)
Apart from the first, fifth and sixth cartoons, the other half were originally "Noveltoons" (except as noted) produced by Famous Studios and syndicated in the 1950's by U.M.& M. TV; these pre-dated the non-Popeye Famous cartoons that were sold (along with the rights to the characters) in 1959 to Harvey Comics.
All voiceovers for this show are by Del Sharbutt.
Includes:
Commercials for:
F.I.M. - Half off on Christmas decorations
American Furniture Liquidators - Furniture and jewelry surplus sale - "OPEN TO THE PUBLIC"
PSA from Forest Psych Care Hospital on adult depression
Victory Auto Wreckers (posted separately here, albeit with different (by the same person?) voiceover: youtu.be/4fM5K5jK840)
Station ID / promo for "WarGames"
Opening titles and premise for this edition, with sponsor billboard for National Dairy Council, Fisher-Price and Mattel
First short: "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1948 - 16 years before the more famous TV special, and one year before Gene Autry's definitive version of the song which would be incorporated into this cartoon in a 1951 reissue), produced by the Jam Handy Organization and directed by none other than animation legend Max Fleischer
Commercials for:
National Dairy Board (two kids drinking milk while sitting next to a tree)
Hawaiian Punch soft drink
The Bedding Experts
Repeat of adult depression PSA
Next short: "Santa's Surprise" (1947), marking the debut appearance of Little Audrey
Commercials for:
My Bundle Baby - from Mattel (1992 copyright date)
Baby Rollerblade - from Mattel (jingle sung to tune of The Beach Boys' "I Get Around")
Fisher-Price 3-in-1 Tournament Table
Victory Auto Wreckers (repeat)
Next cartoon: "Hector's Hectic Life" (1948)
Commercials for:
National Dairy Council (repeat)
Li'l Miss Magic Jewels - from Mattel
PSA for Crisis Line
Aarco-American, Inc.
The Bedding Experts (repeat)
Next up: "Snow Foolin' " (1949) - a "Screen Song" cartoon with a "follow the bouncing ball" theme about various animals preparing for winter - and singing to the tune of "Jingle Bells"
Commercial offer for VHS of this program, for only $14.95 (plus $3.00 shipping and handling)
Commercials for:
Stacie (Barbie's little sister) - from Mattel
Sparkle Eyes Barbie - from Mattel
Promo for Oprah - weekdays at 9am
Promo for Measure of Success - for 6:30pm
Next one: "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" (1936), produced by Max Fleischer (whose studio was predecessor to Famous Studios) and directed by Dave Fleischer - notable in that: a) it was Professor Grampy's only appearance without Betty Boop, and b) his only appearance in color; backgrounds done with a stereoptical effect invented by Fleischer in 1934 and used in several cartoons of the time (referred to in Leonard Maltin's book "Of Mice and Magic" as the "Turntable" system)
Commercials for:
National Dairy Board (yet again!)
Hawaiian Punch soft drink (repeat)
Nestle's Quik (with Quik rabbit drawn more 3-D)
PSA for United States Marine Corps' Toys for Tots program
Final P.D. 'toon of the hour: "Jack Frost" (1934), produced by once-and-future Disney associate Ub Iwerks and released as a "Comicolor" offering; the musical director was one Carl W. Stalling, a few years before he joined what was then Leon Schlesinger Productions (which, in 1944, became Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)
Ending credits (distributed by Promark, Inc.)
Station Christmas promo ("All the Best from All of Us" - version 1)
Commercials for:
Super Mario Kart - from Nintendo
Robitussin Night Relief
Station Christmas promo ("All the Best from All of Us" - version 2
Station ID / promo for Wheel of Fortune with Pat Sajak and Vanna White
Bonus: Opening titles for The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, which ran from 1988 to 1991
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, December 19th 1992 during the 5:58am to 7:01am timeframe.
[Note: This is a "Fuzzy Rerun" from 2021 - originally posted here: youtu.be/uqbr6NHELpA]
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. 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!
![NBC Network - Alone at Last [with Bill Daily] - WMAQ Channel 5 (Complete Broadcast, 6/24/1980) 📺](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xh2U7PkdBoQ/hqdefault.jpg "NBC Network - Alone at Last [with Bill Daily] - WMAQ Channel 5 (Complete Broadcast, 6/24/1980) 📺
Another from the Lost and Forgotten Pilots Department, heres another such example, from 1980 - the complete broadcast of the NBC Networks Alone at Last as aired over WMAQ Channel 5 (A little bonus will follow.)
Its interesting to note that NBC aired two unsold pilots with the same title within a few months of each other. This was the first, with Bill Daily (formerly of I Dream of Jeannie and The Bob Newhart Show) and Virginia Vestoff (formerly of such daytime soaps as The Doctors and Dark Shadows; alas, this was to be her final TV appearance, as she died two years later) as parents whose son (Michael Horton, years away from playing nephew Grady Fletcher on the long-running Murder, She Wrote) blindsides them (as theyre preparing for a trip to Europe) by announcing his intention to marry a woman twice his age. Also features Elaine Joyce (who seemed to be in everything during this period) and Francine Beers.
(The other Alone At Last, which aired over four months later on November 3rd and was a second attempt at this premise, starred Susan Bay and Eugene Roche as parents who attempt to cope with the uncaring attitude of their son - a pre-Saturday Night Live Dana Carvey - and make him more responsible; both dealt with the same family, only with different actors, and the parents first names differed from the one seen here. The later burned-off pilot has yet to turn up.)
Includes:
Animated station ID / PSA for Chicago Boys Clubs (voiceover by ??)
Show opening titles
Commercials for:
Doritos Tortilla Chips - The Flavor Stands Alone (I thought the cheese stands alone) (a strangely sentimental commercial for the product - trying to tie tucking in to a big bag of stinky (yet delicious) chips with traditional family moments)
Hawaiian Punch Drink Mix and Tutti Frutti Punch (with Donny and Marie Osmond - and the voice of Len Maxwell as Punchy)
Act I (with producing, writing and directing credits)
Commercials for:
Dietac time-release diet capsules - from the makers of Contac (with Bill Bixby) (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/juUlk0z0Tus)
Absorbine Jr. - for sore aching muscles
Promo for Heres Boomer, Me and Maxx, and The Rockford Files, followed by A Man Called Sloane (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Act II
Commercials for:
Crispy Wheats n Raisins (voiceover by Casey Kasem) (I wonder if the boy likes gladiator movies?)
Incomplete commercial for Orbit Sugar Free Gum before what seems to be a short cut in the recording leading back into the tail end of a PSA for the Department of Energy
Epilogue, followed by ending credits (with voiceover promo for Real People, Diffrent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Quincy and The Best of Carson by Casey Kasem) - look for the Columbia Pictures Television sunburst logo bumper at the end
Were Proud promo [featuring the likes of Diffrent Strokes, Bob Hope, Steve Martin, Flamingo Road, Speak Up America, The Thursday Games, Harper Valley (starring Barbara Eden), Hill Street Blues, Johnny Carson, CHiPs and Little House on the Prairie)
Commercials for:
Harris Bank - Hello, Stan? (was posted separately here, although this is one of those clips that will not play now and needs to be replaced: https://youtu.be/fpK9WK3No10)
Ponderosa Steakhouse - Free Kids Meal (with magician Blackstone, and Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop)
Station ID / NewsCenter5 promo with Chuck Henry
Bonus: First five minutes of NBC White Paper, If Japan Can . . . Why Cant We?, hosted by Lloyd Dobyns about the differences between Japanese and American businesses in terms of productivity, featuring:
Opening setup and titles
Sponsor billboard for Weyerhaeuser - The Tree Growing Company
First segment, with Lloyd introducing the show and going from there before the tape runs out.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, June 24th 1980 during the 8:00pm to 8:35pm 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!")
