The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) | KABC Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "The Night Stalker" (Complete Broadcast, 5/21/1979) 📺 🧛 @FuzzyMemoriesTV | Uploaded 10 months ago | Updated 12 hours ago
Here's a special after-Thanksgiving treat! The complete broadcast of a 3:30 Movie presentation on Channel 7 - from Los Angeles, CA, on KABC-TV, that is.

This is their airing of the made-for-TV movie "The Night Stalker" (originally broadcast on the ABC Network on January 11th 1972, and as such the highest rated TV movie up to that time), which starred Darren McGavin as investigative reporter Carl Kolchak who investigates a string of murders committed by a vampire in and around Las Vegas. Also co-starred Simon Oakland as his long-suffering editor, Tony Vincenzo; plus Carol Lynley as Gail Foster, and Barry Atwater as vampire Janos Skorzeny; and featuring Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins, Charles McGraw, Kent Smith, Elisha Cook, Jr., Stanley Adams, Jordan Rhodes, and a pre-M*A*S*H (TV series) Larry Linville. (This would later lead to another TV movie and a short-lived TV series.)

Includes:

Promo for AM Los Angeles with Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey
PSA for Jewish Chautaqua Society (voiceover by Norman Rose)

Preview of coming film, followed by 3:30 Movie opening titles (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) and film segment 1

Bumper with energy saver PSA

Commercials for:
S.O.S cleaning pads
Hebrew National hot dogs
Speas Farm Apple Juice
Bell System - "Reach Out and Touch Someone"

Film segment 2

Bumper with another energy saver PSA

Commercials for:
RB Furniture Stores
C&R's - "Suits for the Graduate"
Allstate Savings' Bill Call system
JC Penney Paint and Wallpaper Sale

Channel 7 Editorial by editorial director Gene Webster on follow-up over Hamilton test system program to measure auto pollution (opening voiceover by Len Beardsley)

Film segment 3

Bumper with yet another energy saver PSA

Commercials for:
Avco Financial Services (with Ray Anderson of McKeesport, PA; Belinda Hartman of Moscow, ID; Myrna Kitashima of Honolulu, HI; and Paula Pate of Colorado Springs, CO)
Thom McAn Ultra-Sole and Heel shoes
Sweet 'n Low sugar substitute
Read Three-Bean Salad

Film segment 4

Bumper with Junior Blind PSA

Commercials for:
Green Giant Broccoli Cauliflower Medley
Hormel Wrangler hot dogs
Koby's Shoes
Promo for "Haunts of the Very Rich" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
C&H Pure Cane Sugar
Temp Aid Instant Cold Packs
Sears Photography Studio - 13 Color Portraits for $8.95 this week only (voiceover by Mike Laurence?)

Film segment 5

Bumper with medicine label PSA

Commercials for:
Thomas' English Muffins
Johnson & Johnson Sundown Sunscreen
Taco Bell - Taco Supreme
Sugar Free Tab - in new 2 liter plastic bottle
Jerry Dunphy previews 5pm Eyewitness News

Film segment 6

Bumper with one more PSA about fighting pollution

Commercials for:
"The Prisoner of Zenda" (theatrical trailer) (ending voiceover by Mike Laurence?)
Excedrin Extra-Strength Pain Reliever (voiceover by Alan Bleviss)
5th Annual San Diego Jazz Festival (at San Diego Stadium, June 8th and 9th)
Coca-Cola - "Coke Adds Life"
Promo for Shakespeare's "The Tempest" at Mark Taper Forum of Music Center (voiceover by Mike Laurence?)

Film segment 7

Bumper with one more energy-saving PSA

Commercials for:
Armor All Protectant spray
Color Tile (with Color Tile Man)
Hormel Cure 81 ham (with Mrs. R.J. Smith of New York City, NY and Mrs. G.R. Wilson of Pasadena, CA)
Aspen soft drink
PSA for United Jewish Welfare Fund - "Jewish Renewal at Home and Overseas" (with Theodore Bikel)

8th and final film segment (with ending credits)

Bumper with one last energy-saving PSA

Commercials for:
Fresh & Fruity yogurt - by Yami
Vons supermarkets (with testimonials from Marcy Donley, Dariel Lavett. Debbie Spiegelman [with Daniel], and Esther Ehrlich)
El Chico Mexican-Style Pizza
Mazola Pure Corn Oil

Station ID / promo for "Haunts of the Very Rich" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Jerry Dunphy and Harold Greene preview coming newscast, along with other stories (voiceover by Mike Laurence?) (from here, this can also be seen at: youtu.be/bRCQId6VZdg )

Commercials for:
Sparkling Champale
PSA Smile Service to Las Vegas

Station ID / That's Hollywood promo (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

This aired on local Los Angeles TV on Monday, May 21st 1979 during the 3:30pm to 5:00pm [Pacific] timeframe.

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