Donahue - Andy Griffith & Friends (Part 2, 1986) @FuzzyMemoriesTV

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) Here's Part 2 of an installment of Donahue that aired on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Phil Donahue, with Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors and George Lindsey reminiscing about their days on The Andy Griffith Show and promoting their upcoming reunion TV-movie, Return to Mayberry, which would air on the NBC Network on April 13th 1986; this was also a few months before Griffith began a nine-year run on TV as crafty defense lawyer Ben Matlock. (By this time, Donahue had moved its base of operations to New York City, where the show aired on WNBC Channel 4 from 1971 to 1972 and, more successfully, from 1977 to 1995.) Includes:

Donahue bumper with street scene outside Macy's department store on West 34th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, looking west from Broadway on 34th Street

Phil asking about whether Thelma Lou (played by Betty Lynn) would be part of the new Return to Mayberry TV-movie, with Don revealing that she and Barney marry, and Andy chipping in that Jim's character, Gomer Pyle, sings at the wedding, and following up by speaking of a community choir that also appears in the reunion film. During the 1960s and early '70s, Nabors had a reasonably successful singing career contemporaneous with his runs on the 1964-69 series Gomer Pyle - U.S.M.C. which was a Griffith show spin-off, and his 1969-71 variety show.

Phil then asks George about his Broadway career, and the onetime "Goober" speaks of appearing in the musical All American in 1962 at the Winter Garden Theater, working alongside Ray Bolger (a.k.a. "The Scarecrow" in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz") and director Joshua Logan - then adds that it didn't take much intellect to play Goober.

Andy explains that he was born in Mount Airy, NC, went to school in Chapel Hill, was a teacher in Goldsboro, and now has a home on Roanoke Island; Don was a native of Morgantown, WV; Jim came from Sylacauga, AL, and once worked in New York as a typist for the United Nations ("the fastest typist at the U.N.") - and was paid so little in that job that, as he put it, he ended up looking like the starving children in CARE ads; and George was from Jasper, AL, and came to New York to study at the American Theater Wing.

Another lady speaks of having seen Don on The Steve Allen Show in his "nervous man" character in the "man-on-the-street" sketches; he couldn't even remember what his character's name was, and after this exchange Phil notes how Don isn't all that talkative, and Don explains how he likes to listen. George then chimes in with some more comments on his hometown.

Another audience member compliments Andy for roles on TV where he played characters "you love to hate," and he goes on about how his career went down the toilet after he left his successful TV show in 1968, and took acting jobs as heavies "in order to survive"; he confesses that heavies "are kinda fun to play," after which Jim mentions, "I played a killer once" (a reference to an episode of The Rookies, "Down Home Boy," originally aired on ABC on November 19th 1973, in which he played a man hired as an assassin after the death of his sister). Andy brings up an upcoming TV-movie which he refers to as "Not Far from the Tree" (but aired on CBS on September 28th 1986 under the title "Under the Influence") in which he plays an alcoholic father - a role which he considers "the most difficult role I've ever attempted."

Phil then introduces a clip from "The Return of Barney Fife" episode (originally aired on January 10th 1966) where Andy and Barney are on the front porch singing the high school song. This leads into a discussion on singing, with Andy explaining how he can keep a tune, and complimenting Don's "wonderful musical ear" - and going into a story about him and Don at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, NV, with Jim also being booked - before anyone knew Jim could sing. Phil notes that Andy, Don and Jim could "pack 'em in" if they were to perform together today, then signals for the next commercial break.

Donahue "More to Come" bumper

"That is the first time I ever saw you blush."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 28th 1986 during the 9am to 10am timeframe.

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage 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 purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,000+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at:
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Donahue - Andy Griffith & Friends (Part 2, 1986)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2014-01-25 | Here's Part 2 of an installment of Donahue that aired on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Phil Donahue, with Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors and George Lindsey reminiscing about their days on The Andy Griffith Show and promoting their upcoming reunion TV-movie, Return to Mayberry, which would air on the NBC Network on April 13th 1986; this was also a few months before Griffith began a nine-year run on TV as crafty defense lawyer Ben Matlock. (By this time, Donahue had moved its base of operations to New York City, where the show aired on WNBC Channel 4 from 1971 to 1972 and, more successfully, from 1977 to 1995.) Includes:

Donahue bumper with street scene outside Macy's department store on West 34th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, looking west from Broadway on 34th Street

Phil asking about whether Thelma Lou (played by Betty Lynn) would be part of the new Return to Mayberry TV-movie, with Don revealing that she and Barney marry, and Andy chipping in that Jim's character, Gomer Pyle, sings at the wedding, and following up by speaking of a community choir that also appears in the reunion film. During the 1960s and early '70s, Nabors had a reasonably successful singing career contemporaneous with his runs on the 1964-69 series Gomer Pyle - U.S.M.C. which was a Griffith show spin-off, and his 1969-71 variety show.

Phil then asks George about his Broadway career, and the onetime "Goober" speaks of appearing in the musical All American in 1962 at the Winter Garden Theater, working alongside Ray Bolger (a.k.a. "The Scarecrow" in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz") and director Joshua Logan - then adds that it didn't take much intellect to play Goober.

Andy explains that he was born in Mount Airy, NC, went to school in Chapel Hill, was a teacher in Goldsboro, and now has a home on Roanoke Island; Don was a native of Morgantown, WV; Jim came from Sylacauga, AL, and once worked in New York as a typist for the United Nations ("the fastest typist at the U.N.") - and was paid so little in that job that, as he put it, he ended up looking like the starving children in CARE ads; and George was from Jasper, AL, and came to New York to study at the American Theater Wing.

Another lady speaks of having seen Don on The Steve Allen Show in his "nervous man" character in the "man-on-the-street" sketches; he couldn't even remember what his character's name was, and after this exchange Phil notes how Don isn't all that talkative, and Don explains how he likes to listen. George then chimes in with some more comments on his hometown.

Another audience member compliments Andy for roles on TV where he played characters "you love to hate," and he goes on about how his career went down the toilet after he left his successful TV show in 1968, and took acting jobs as heavies "in order to survive"; he confesses that heavies "are kinda fun to play," after which Jim mentions, "I played a killer once" (a reference to an episode of The Rookies, "Down Home Boy," originally aired on ABC on November 19th 1973, in which he played a man hired as an assassin after the death of his sister). Andy brings up an upcoming TV-movie which he refers to as "Not Far from the Tree" (but aired on CBS on September 28th 1986 under the title "Under the Influence") in which he plays an alcoholic father - a role which he considers "the most difficult role I've ever attempted."

Phil then introduces a clip from "The Return of Barney Fife" episode (originally aired on January 10th 1966) where Andy and Barney are on the front porch singing the high school song. This leads into a discussion on singing, with Andy explaining how he can keep a tune, and complimenting Don's "wonderful musical ear" - and going into a story about him and Don at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, NV, with Jim also being booked - before anyone knew Jim could sing. Phil notes that Andy, Don and Jim could "pack 'em in" if they were to perform together today, then signals for the next commercial break.

Donahue "More to Come" bumper

"That is the first time I ever saw you blush."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 28th 1986 during the 9am to 10am timeframe.

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage 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 purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,000+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at:
http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?contentload=donate

U.S. Department of Energy - Cinderella Disco Ball (PSA, 1980)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-26 | Here's one of a series of an animated public service announcements (PSAs) for the Department of Energy featuring the "Energy Ant."

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/J65it8G6--U)

This one has the motif of Cinderella heading from a "Disco Ball" in a huge gas-guzzling vehicle to highlight how much energy we thought we had, and how, as supplies ran low, her modern "coach" turned into the equivalent of a pumpkin, and as this ends, she is driven off by her prince on a bicycle - all to emphasize the importance of saving energy.

Also as a bonus, a WFLD Lost in Space bumper from WFLD Channel 32 (on which this PSA aired), and partial closing credits with voiceover promos for Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo by Dr. Don Rose who tells us, “We love ya - we love ya a lot!”

"Once upon a time, we thought America had all the energy we could ever need..."

"The Difference You Make - Makes All The Difference"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, June 17th 1980.

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!

TV Guide - Dr. Seuss Beginner Books - Circle the Cat (Commercial Offer, 1980) 🐱 🎩

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-25 | Here's a commercial offer for four Dr. Seuss Beginner Books from Grolier (never mind that that imprint was owned by Random House), plus a book rack and Dr. Seuss' now-iconic "The Cat in the Hat" as a free bonus, as in the latest issue of TV Guide magazine. The books that are offered as part of this deal include "Dr. Seuss's ABC," "Hand, Hand, Fingers and Thumb," "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish," "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" (an early Berenstain Bears book), and "The Foot Book" (some of the titles offered were in the "Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners" series).

A little kitten walks around during the course of the commercial and the cat is put into a hat at one point to illustrate.

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, August 12th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

The Mellow Sounds Of Charlie Rich (Record Offer, 1980)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-24 | Here's a record offer for "The Mellow Sounds of Charlie Rich" by Imperial House. Give the gift of music. (slight reverse of music had to be used to avoid YouTube blocking)

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/8GVxJy7zYfY)

"All Original Hits".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, August 12th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

Trix Cereal - Vote For Me! (Commercial, 1980) 🐰

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-23 | Here's a cute commercial for Trix Cereal with a political theme - the Trix Rabbit wants kids to vote for him to be able to eat the cereal. What do you think's gonna happen?

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/RlToUeEYn24)

"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, August 12th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

Empire Carpets - Thats Not All (Commercial, 1980)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-23 | Here's an early commercial for Empire Carpets. (a one-minute-long spot, at that!)

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/QyYmaRQxHpc)

Features the original Empire jingle as well as the one and only Empire Carpet Man Lynn Hauldren doing the voiceover and seen tacking down the carpet at one point.

Empire Home Service, Inc. - "The Carpet King".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, August 12th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

Snipets - Deaf Little League Player (1980) ⚾

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-23 | Here is another rare Snipets segment! These interstitial, PSA-type things for kids would air on Field Communications stations such as WFLD Channel 32 in the 70s and early 80s.

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/z4MG8wF4-G4)

This one is about learning to accept and appreciate a "deaf and dumb" person, as told by a fellow teammate in a baseball little league team, The Hornets (sponsored by Jack in the Box).

Produced by Field Communications.

(also includes a little bonus at the end - a WFLD Lost in Space bumper!)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, August 13th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm timeframe. (1979 Copyright)

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!

YMCA - Y Indian Guides (Commercial, 1980)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-23 | Here's a commercial for the YMCA - Y Indian Guides - for your kids "in-between years".

"The Y Is A Great Idea!"

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/wct-vlo42Ng)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, August 13th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

Games Magazine (Commercial, 1980) 🂠 🂡 🂢 🂣 🂤 🖉

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-22 | Here's a commercial for a great magazine - Games. I used to love this magazine.

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/2UNGzBaHW1M)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, August 13th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

WFLD Channel 32 - Magilla Gorilla (Promo, 1980)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-21 | Here's a neat promo for Magilla Gorilla on WFLD Channel 32.

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/nYtF8waSCAk)

Voiceover by Dr. Don. (Don Rose)

"Today at 2:30"

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, August 13th 1980 during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

U.S.D.A. - Farmer Brown (PSA, 1980)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-20 | Here's a very memorable public service announcement to help encourage kids to eat a variety of carbohydrates, including bread, rice, and cereal - they give you energy! Features the puppets Farmer Brown and his horse Fred singing about balanced meals.

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/Vjg6en22KFc)

"It's a fruit-a-veg-a-bread-a-milk-a-cheese-a-bean-a-meat!"

Brought to you by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

This aired on local Chicago TV in the Summer of 1980.

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!

Nestle Quik - Bedtime, Bunny (Commercial, 1980) 🐇 🐰 🥛

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-19 | Here's a commercial for Nestle's Quik chocolate milk powder mix featuring the Quik bunny rabbit.

The little blonde girl is then 6-year-old actress Shannon Saylor (now Shannon Campbell) - she contacted me to tell me this is the only commercial of hers that she has yet found (she had apparently made 50 of them for various products!). So if you recognize her in any other ads, please post the links to them here for her.

The Quik Bunny is voiced by actor Barry Gordon (who also voiced various characters including Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Junior Wetworth from The Snorks)

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/bQb_dr8usFk)

"You can't drink it slow if it's Quik"

This aired on local Chicago TV [will be filled in later] during the 11:00am to 12:00pm 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!

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News at 5pm (Complete Broadcast, 4/27/1979) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-16 | Here's a complete broadcast of Eyewitness News at 5pm on WLS Channel 7, reported by John Drury and Terry Murphy, in what would be their last newscast together.

Includes:

End of station ID / promo for "Rage", Saturday at 10:30pm

Preview of newscast

Incomplete commercial before recording cuts (for ?? - "These incredible photographs..." )

Newscast open (voiceover by Al Parker), and items:

- Stanley Misloski, 65, of Aurora dies after freak demolition accident while he and 10 others were dining at Deluxe Restaurant (Deluxe Sandwich Shop, 112 W. Galena) as demolition of Galena Hotel was taking place; others were hospitalized

- Hugh Hill on Mayor Byrne press conference where she calls out Department of Streets and Sanitation's Bureau of Services over deficits in that department

- 2 American spies released in exchanged for 5 Soviet dissidents including Alexander Ginzburg, in bid to improve Senate ratification of SALT

- Armed sniper opens fire on parade-goers in San Antonio, TX; 2 killed, a dozen more wounded

Commercials for:
"California Suite" at Drury Lane Theatre (voiceover by Al Parker?)
Riunite Lancellotta wine
Long Chevrolet (with Timmy as news reporter in yellow jacket)
Samsonite - "vs. Steelers"

- Pilot George Schneider of Addison and passenger Helen Reilly (sp?) of Northbrook rescued from twin engine plane that fell into man-made lake near O'Hare Airport

- 4 vehicles collide on northbound Dan Ryan around Roosevelt Road; 2 cars, 2 trucks involved; Carolyn Robertson of South Side injured, taken to Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's

- RTA to provide more rail service along Edens Expressway; Frank Mathie reports on potential headaches for motorists using parking lots along key lines

Commercials for:
Car-X muffler shop
Mexican National Tourist Council (voiceover by Alison Steele?)
Promax Compact 1200 hair dryer - "Asbestos-Free"
Montgomery Ward - "Recipe for Lawn Grooming" (sale on lawn mowers)

People in the News:
- Johnny Carson may leave NBC, eyeing ABC
- Princess Lee Radziwill to marry San Francisco hotel executive Newton Cope
- Arbor Day celebrations at Grant Park, Mayor Byrne plants first tree

Dr. Frank Sechrist's weather forecast

Commercials for:
Northbrook Court
"Annie" at Arie Crown Theatre (through June 9th)
Yellow Pages - "Get in the Yellow" (featuring Joe Mantegna) (sung to tune of "We're In the Money")
Steamex carpet cleaners

- Premature baby girl abandoned by her mother in stable condition at Illinois Masonic Hospital's Special Care nursery; mother, Harriet DeVinzanzo (?), to be charged with neglect if found

- Investigative report by WLS and ABC's 20/20 on Pure Industrial Catering Service who provides catering to business despite license being suspended; also serving spoiled and recycled food to mental health centers; among those cutting ties to Pure are the CTA and WTTW Channel 11; interview with Ron Berler of the Better Government Association

- Contract talks break off between United Airlines and machinists' union which have been on strike since March 31st

Commercials for:
Levitz 12 Hour Furniture Sale (9am-9pm)
St. Paul Federal Savings
Ariens lawn mowers (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
Sound Investments - from Magnavox

Bill Frink sports:

- Preview of Cubs and Sox play over weekend

- Expos beat Giants 14-8

- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign deciding future of athletics director Cecil Coleman

He then shows a sparkly '7' jacket he'd gotten 7 years before as a promo, then introduces his replacement at 5pm, Jay Berry

Terry says final words to John, then provides a picture of when they were first paired together; then they close the newscast (and note that from April 30th on, the 5pm anchors will be Joel Daly and Diane Allen) and hand over to Joel for a preview of the 6pm edition, after which John promotes the coming World News Tonight

Close, with last look at 5pm team as constituted (and more complete version of the "Tar Sequence" edit) before segueing to World News Tonight (recording cuts out after first second of opening theme and date shown)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, April 27th 1979 during the 5:00pm to 5:30pm timeframe.

This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the John Drury Family collection.

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. 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!

Flower Fun Thingmaker II - by Mattel (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-11 | Here's a commercial for Flower Fun Thingmaker II by Mattel, which shows what types of flowers you can make with gels and molds - and an electrical apparatus (looking almost like a crock pot) to set things up in place.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 at a little before 4:00pm (1978 copyright).

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!

Capn Crunch - Fancy Table (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-11 | Here's an animated commercial for Cap'n Crunch cereal, set in a room with a fancy table.

Here, the Cap'n (voice of Daws Butler) extols the virtues of his cereal to seagoing children (voices of Butler and June Foray) when, midway, the box disappears; we soon hear crunching from behind the table covering, and the culprit is revealed - Jean LaFoote (voice of Bill Scott) who'd taken the place of the table legs.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 at a little before 4:00pm.

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!

Sweet Treats - by Mattel (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-11 | Here's a commercial for yet another kids' product since lost to the sands of time - Sweet Treats by Mattel, with dollhouses shaped like ice cream sundaes, cookies and spoonfuls - and little dolls with the respective names, inside said houses.

Each sold separately. (Dang! I was hoping to get them all in one set.)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 at a little before 4:00pm.

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!

Buck Rogers Action Figures and Ships - by Mego (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-11 | Just in time to cash in on the new Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV series, here's a series of Buck Rogers-related toys from Mego: a Rogers "action figure" himself; plus the Starfighter, the Draconian Marauder, Twiki, Emperor Draco, Tigerman, and the Draconian Guard (what? no Wilma Deering figure?).

Planes need assembly, and each sold separately (as are the said action figures).

Voiceover by Wendell Craig.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 at a little before 4:00pm.

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!

WGN Channel 9 - Chicago Is... - Wicker Park (1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-10 | Here's an installment of "Chicago Is...", one of a series of public affairs interstitials from WGN Channel 9, this time spotlighting Wicker Park on Chicago's Near Northwest Side, as hosted by Beverly Griffith of the Old Wicker Park Committee (2215 West North Avenue) (also associated with the Wicker Park Neighborhood Council). (This was broadcast after an edition of Bugs Bunny & Friends.)

(TECHNICAL FONT NOTE: The lower-third is still in the old-style Chiron version of the News Gothic Bold font, before its replacement with a newer CG system later in the year.)

In this brief travelogue, Ms. Griffith goes into the general area and its boundaries, the large homes located therein (many dating back to the Columbian Exposition of 1893), who founded it (Charles and Joel Wicker, in 1870, as a gift to the city), its growth after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the changes from World War I, its decline during the Great Depression, its recent comeback from an influx of newer-generation professionals, community groups such as that she's part of, a restoration of the homes in that section, and the changes in demographics over the years. Among its more famous residents was the pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski.

Opening voiceover over Bugs Bunny bumper by ??, and on segment opening itself by Clif Mercer.

A WGN Community Affairs Presentation in Association with The Chicago Public Library. (music at beginning and ending is an especially jazzy version of "My Kind of Town" - anyone know what version specifically?)

"Wicker Park is a microcosm of Chicago."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 at about 3:58pm.

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 Weekend News with John Drury (Complete Broadcast, 4/10/1977) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-09 | Here's a complete Easter 1977 edition (seems to be a network feed) of the ABC Weekend News as anchored by WLS Channel 7's own John Drury (reporting from New York) (complete with the crummy 5-kHz telco audio we all know and love).

Opening and closing voiceover by Bill Owen.

Includes:

Newscast open (with Scanimate graphics by Dolphin Productions), followed by items:

- Pursuant to new fishing rules enacted March 1st, Soviet trawler Taras Shevchenko is seized by Coast Guard after violating a 200-mile limit on fishing off coast of Massachusetts, its captain faces fine, jail time and loss of his ship; Bill Stewart reports, film from WCVB Channel 5 in Boston, MA; quote from Howard Nickerson of the New England Fisheries Steering Committee

- In Calhoun, GA, President Carter says he had no choice but to order seizure, as Sam Donaldson reports

Commercials for:

Visine Eye Drops

Liquid Woolite Cold Water Wash (with Holland Taylor)

- 250,000 Pilgrims gather at St. Peter's Square to hear Pope Paul VI's annual Easter address

- Lynn Jones, in Moscow, reports on Soviet attempts to clamp down on religious expression

- Greg Dobbs, in Pineville, KY, reports on town residents celebrating Easter at First Baptist Church after a week of storms and floods that hit town hard; Pastor Charles Jones speaks

Commercials for:

Crock Watcher - from Hamilton Beach

General Tire - "Quality, Choice, Price"

- Israel's Labor Party names Defense Minister Shimon Peres party leader, replacing Prime Minister Menachem Begin

- France to airlift supplies to Zaire, Morocco has 1,500 troops ready to fight rebels in Shaba Province, President Mobutu bitter over U.S. not coming forward with any aid and holds rally in Kinshasa as reported by Hilary Brown

Commercials for:

RCA CB Co-Pilot

Listermint mouthwash (with Julia Duffy) (posted separately here: youtu.be/sfQSWuUE-PE)

- In sports, Tom Watson edges out Jack Nicklaus for championship at 41st Masters Tournament in Augusta; Ernie Nims reports on highlights

With that, John closes newscast (listen closely to closing theme - didn't it seem the basis for part of the theme of World News Tonight that would premiere next summer?)

Promo for The Laverne & Shirley Birthday Show and ABC Monday Night Baseball (main voiceover by Dick Tufeld) (ending voiceover by Bill Owen)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, April 10th 1977 during the 11:45pm to 12:00 Midnight timeframe (due to the annual showing of "The Ten Commandments.")

This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the John Drury Family collection.

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!

WFLD Channel 32 - The Partridge Family - Youre Only Young Twice (Complete Broadcast, 11/26/1981)📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-07 | Here's a favorite new discovery of ours - from Fuzzy's favorite TV station of the day and his favorite time period for the station, namely the Field Communications era. (thanks to Kyle McElravy for alerting us to the tape this came from being on Ebay!)

Here's the complete broadcast of a rerun of The Partridge Family episode "You're Only Young Twice" (S03E06, originally broadcast over the ABC Network, and thus in Chicago via WLS Channel 7, on October 20th 1972), followed by a Bonus of the first eight minutes of a repeat of The Courtship of Eddie's Father episode "Pain," (S01E06, first telecast on ABC, and in Chicago via WLS, on October 22nd 1969), all as presented over WFLD Channel 32 (via those beat-up16mm film prints we all loved so much).

In the Partridge episode, Danny (Danny Bonaduce), tired of being a child, tries to enmesh himself in the "grown-up" decisions - and ends up annoying everyone. Among the guest cast are Charlotte Rae (years before Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life) as Dr. Beecher, plus Bruce Kimmel in the first of two appearances as Richard Whipple (and third of his five appearances altogether on the show), Maggie Wellman as Molly, and Patti Cohoon as Gloria.

As typical of WFLD presentations, there are bumpers indicating start and end of commercial breaks, with stills from the series and "zoomin" show title with Field-era 32 logo.

Includes:

Last part of the ending credits of I Love Lucy episode (with voiceover promo for The Partridge Family and PM Magazine "after M*A*S*H," and PSA from Chicago Board of Education, by Jim Barton)

Animated Field Communications bumper (voiceover by Darwin Gillette)

Station ID / promo for M*A*S*H (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Series open (music had to be "adjusted" to avoid blockage), followed by episode setup

Commercials for:

1st Metropolitan Builders

Sperti Sunlamps ("Available at Sears" voiceover by Jim Barton) (who's the lady?)

Promo for Wonder Woman and Happy Days Again (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Act I (creator, writer and director credits edited out by WFLD - and who knows what else)

Commercials for:

DeVry Institute of Technology

Empire Carpets - "Class Lesson" (with Lynn Hauldren as instructor - and his class)

Promo for that evening's PM Magazine Chicago featuring Mike Leiderman and Jo Ann Williams (ending voiceover by Jim Barton)

WFLD return bumper (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Act II

Commercials for:

Jordache Jeans - "The Spirit of the Old West"

Nelson Brothers (voiceover by Al Parker)

Cook County Consolidation Company - "Get Out of Debt!" (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Promo for that evening's Eight O'Clock Movie airing of "The Busy Body" (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Act III (with musical number, "Am I Losing You," mostly reversed to avoid blockage)

Commercials for:

TV Magic Cards and Magic Card Box (with Marshall Brodien) - available at Walgreens, Cavett Rexall, Ribordy, and Osco Drug (ending voiceover by Jim Barton)

Control Data Institute (with Nick Makris, Manager, Systems Development, U.S. Gypsum Co., Chicago, Ed McDillion, Tom Allums, Tony Dahlgren, and John Niko - all graduates of CDI and employees of US Gypsum)

Yet another Control Data Institute ad - "This Phone Call Could Change Your Life"

Epilogue, followed by ending credits (with voiceover promo for The Courtship of Eddie's Father and "The Busy Body," and PSA for University of Illinois Hospital Volunteer Program, by Jim Barton)

Animated Field Communications bumper (voiceover by Darwin Gillette)

Station ID / Happy Thanksgiving bumper (music: "Give It All You Got, But Slowly" by Chuck Mangione) (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Courtship of Eddie's Father series open (theme sung by Nilsson) and episode setup

Commercials for:

Diet Rite Cola - "Chicago Taste Test"

Gala 120 Paper Towels

SwapORama Monthly Flea Market (for November 29th)

First three minutes of Act I (with producing, writing and directing credits; sadly the tape ran out midway - still, we give Thanks on this day for VHS LP 4 hour mode recording)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, November 26th 1981 during the 1:29pm to 2:08pm 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 - Tales of the Gold Monkey - Cooked Goose (Complete Broadcast, 3/4/1983) 📺 🐒

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-06-05 | Here's the complete broadcast of a first-run episode of the short-lived adventure series Tales of the Gold Monkey, "Cooked Goose" (S01E17), as broadcast over the ABC Network via its Chicago outlet, WLS Channel 7.

This program (from the producers of Magnum, P.I.), set in the 1930's - and no doubt "inspired" by "Raiders of the Lost Ark" - starred Stephen Collins as Jake Cutter, ex-fighter pilot turned operator of an air cargo service on the island of "Bora Gora" in the South Pacific; his companions are mechanic Corky (Jeff MacKay), a government spy contact named Sarah Stickney White (Caitlin O'Heaney, later to star in another short-lived series, The Charmings, in 1987-88), and - no doubt the most popular character in the show - a one-eyed Jack Russell terrier named Jack.

Also features Marta DuBois as Princess Koji; John Calvin as "Rev." Willie Tenboom, a Nazi spy; John Fujioka as the Princess' bodyguard, Todo; and Roddy McDowall (of everything fame) as Bon Chance Louie.

In this episode, a clipper pilot honeymooning on the island (and old acquaintance of Jake's) is brutally beaten and his new wife is abducted by mercenaries, and Jake's attempt to find her is complicated by a fire on the Cutter's Goose after Corky passes out while working on it.

Includes:

Station ID / promo for Eyewitness News at 10pm (with Mary Ann Childers)

Episode preview and show opening titles

Sponsor billboard for Zest deodorant soap (voiceover by Len Beardsley, longtime staff announcer with KABC Channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA)

Commercials for:
Zest deodorant soap
Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing liquid

Act I, with guest star list and producing, writing and directing credits

Commercials for:
Head & Shoulders shampoo - "Put Your Head on my Shoulder..."
Bell System - "Why are you Crying?" ("Reach Out and Touch Someone")
Promo for Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Matt Houston and "Baby Sister" for Sunday (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker)

Animated ABC ID with lower third station ID

Act II

Commercials for:
York Peppermint Pattie - with 10% more chocolate (voiceover by Don Pardo) (featuring a young John Goodman as a cowboy)
Sears Spring Savings Sale (ends March 26th)
Promo for ABC's Wide World of Sports for Saturday (voiceover sounds like Norman Rose) (Nicolette Larson's cover of "I Only Want to Be with You," had to be partially reversed to avoid blockage)

Bumper

Promo for The Thorn Birds (starts March 27th)

Commercials for:
Burger King (with Elisabeth Shue and Lea Thompson - two "Back to the Future" stars in one commercial!) - "Broiling vs. Frying"
Furadan - "Furadan Yield Challenge)

Station ID / promo for "The Detective" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Eyewitness News Brief with Tim Weigel (opening voiceover by Mike Rapchak), and preview of these stories:

- Discovery of plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II in El Salvador

- Threatened TWA flight attendants' strike

- Allegations against Arthur Rubloff over torching of city block

- Eyewitness Extra on how to not get ripped off at gas pump

Act III

Commercials for:
Big Red chewing gum
Wendy's - "Makin' Bacon"
Promo for That's Incredible! and "Deadly Lessons" for Monday (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker)

Act IV

Commercials for:
Alka-Seltzer (voiceover by Joe Sirola)
9 Lives (with Morris the cat, voiced by John Erwin)

Epilogue, followed by ending credits (the last minute of which is from another source as the original recording ended early; thus there is no promo voiceover for next night's shows which would have been by Wally Parker)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 4th 1983 during the 9:00pm to 10:00pm 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!

WGN Channel 9 - Bozos Circus (Complete Broadcast, 6/15/1978) 📺 🤡

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-05-09 | Here's another complete broadcast of an edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9 from its heyday when it ran Live every weekday at 12 Noon, Bob Bell was Bozo, Roy Brown was Cooky, Frazier Thomas was the ringmaster, Garfield Goose (and Friends) was seen at the open, Ken Benge is the juggler, and the Bozo Big Top Band provided the accompaniment.

Accept no substitutes on where to watch this episode! Insist on only FuzzyMemories-brand Bozo postings with the lock-in freshness watermark. 😄

Includes:

Frazier beginning the festivities by introducing the cast, greeting the audience and leading into Snooper & Blabber cartoon, "Prince of a Fella' " [1960] (only opening titles and closing sequence shown; rest of cartoon edited out to avoid copyright blockage)

Cooky attempts to play the tuba as Bozo advises him, then finds an old newspaper inside horn and reads an article about a man who fell 100 feet from a well (and lived to tell about it) from behind a wall as Bozo works with tuba to remove who he thinks is inside

Commercials for:
Forever Yours candy bar (a Milky Way knockoff)
Keds New K Shoes

Grand Prize Game, to be played by Jim, 7, and Elizabeth, 6 ($16 in Bucket #6), with at-home players Kathleen Verba, 8, of Berwyn (for Elizabeth) and Tommy Armen (sp?), 2, of Kokomo, IN (for Jim) (Frazier notes that starting next Monday (6/19/78) Bucket #6 will include a special prize - a giant stuffed Bear - Baloo from The Jungle Book)

Commercials for:
Speed Burners (each sold separately) - from Mego
Ronald and the McDonaldland gang to appear June 17th at 10am and 2pm at McDonald's, Route 59 at Fox Valley Center in Aurora (voiceover by Merri Dee)

Ken Benge performing juggling trick with tennis racquets (to tune of "Java"), a magic trick with rope and handkerchief, working with juggling rings (to tune of "Spanish Flea") and with juggling clubs while blindfolded - twice (to tune of "The Impossible Dream")

Commercials for:
Post Super Sugar Crisp (with Sugar Bear as late-night trucker, voice of Gerry Matthews)
Farrah's Glamour Center - from Mego
Snickers bars
Zip-n-Flip - from Empire Toys

Skit involving Bozo, Cooky and Frazier taking turns on phone

Commercials for:
Post Super Sugar Crisp (repeat)
Micronaut Collection - from Mego (assembly required on Biotron and Hydro Copter, also features Space Glider - batteries not included)

"Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown" cartoon involving Wacky Professor's new invention - a hope chest

Another game involving David, Billy, Chris, Stephen, Gina and Debbie, out to find marbles in a haystack (or is that a giant pile of something else?) to put in malt glasses, the one with the most marbles in a glass getting first prize

Commercials for:
Hostess Cakes
Speed Burners (repeat)

Bozo and Cooky in some "fair and square contest" shenanigans involving a chalk board as Cooky vies to wield the baton and lead the Grand March at last

Commercial: Cocoa Puffs (Sonny hides inside piano to avoid going cuckoo) - with promo for sea searcher inside specially marked boxes

PSA for Big Brothers (voiceover by Ken Nordine)

Frazier ends another edition and signals for Bozo to lead Grand March as end credits run:

Bozo's Circus
(C) 1978, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
Starring Bob Bell, Roy Brown, Frazier Thomas
The prizes awarded on this show were furnished in consideration for the promotional value of the prizes.
Musical Director - Tom Fitzsimmons
Asst. Director - George Waschbusch
Producer - Allen Hall
Directed by Don Strukel
Bozo's Circus
Bozo the Clown - (C) Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation
Licensed & Distributed by Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation

First 10 seconds of Mid-Day Report with Merri Dee (reporting on President Carter visit to Panama at the point recording ends)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, June 15th 1978 within the 12:00pm to 1:00pm timeframe.

This video authorized by © Nexstar Media Inc. (WGN-TV) and Bozo™ & © Send in the Bozos LLC. Special thanks to George Pappas.

This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.

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!

WGN Channel 9 - The 9 OClock News (Complete Broadcast, 11/12/1980) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-05-08 | Here's another complete broadcast of The 9 O'Clock News with John Drury and Marty McNeeley on WGN Channel 9, incorporating Independent Network News with Pat Harper, Steve Bosh and Bill Jorgensen.

Includes:

Opening titles (voiceover by Len Johnson), with John, Tom Skilling and Bill Frink previewing local items, followed by:

INN open with sponsor billboard for Mobil (voiceover by Bill Biery)

- Ford Rowan with latest developments in Iran hostage crisis

- Hostage Bruce Laingen, on phone with Seattle talk show host, can't wait for his ordeal to end

- Ayatollah Khomeini personally intervenes to gain release of foreign minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

- Iran and Iraq agree to UN peacekeeper in Gulf war

Commercials for:
Mobil Information Center (with Dick Kalanan (?)
BMW 528I
Harris Bank - "Harris Savings Portfolio"

- Reagan's transition team hard at work while he's in California, reported by Drew Scott

- Congress holds lame-duck session, as Charles Quinn reports

- Day 3 of ABSCAM trial of Reps. John Murphy (NY) and Frank Thompson (NJ)

Commercials for:
Maxwell House Coffee
Bufferin analgesic

John previews local stories

Commercials for:
Levolor Blinds
Giumarra wines

- Liz Aitken report on Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik's death in car crash near Guadalajara

- Over 100 Haitian refugees to be repatriated back to their home country

- Businessman killed by two men from Red Brigades on train in Milan

- Jerry Girard sports analysis on Philadelphia 76ers

- 200-pound lion cub found wandering around Queens, NY

Commercials for:
Imperial Margarine (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Hairline Creations (with president Paul Finamore)

- Boeing receives $3 billion order to build 60 757 jets

- Reports on precious metal prices and stock market closes

Commercials for:
Aim toothpaste
United Airlines to Arizona

- U.S. troops on training mission in Cairo

- Bob Harris on trajectory of Hurricane Jeanne

- Photos from Voyager I's journey through Saturn

Sponsor billboard for Maxwell House and Mobil (voiceover by Bill Biery)

- Gov. Thompson announces 60-day hiring freeze for all state agencies

- Chicagoans' water bills to go up by 53%

- Rapist arrested after assaulting blind couple, committed four other rapes

- Police Supt. Richard Brzecek and Fraternal Order of Police head John Dineen meet for future labor negotiations; Don Harris reports

- Contract negotiations continue with Chicago firefighters' union

Commercials for:
GoodYear Blue Light Tire Sale
Continental Bank

- Larry Roderick reports on credit card holders' spending in this economy

- Chicago Park District approves $3.1M real estate tax abatement

- Illinois House returns for fall veto session

- Follow-up on story of missing 6-year-old Felicia Murray - she was found, stray dog who did so to be adopted

Commercials for:
Bell System (with Archie McGill, vice president, business marketing)
Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

Tom Skilling weather forecast

- O'Hare parking rates may be increased 10 cents an hour if City Council has its way

- Chicago metro arson-for-profit incidences have gone down dramatically, as reported by Frank Rios

Commercials for:
Illinois State Lottery Daily Game (with Bill Saluga as Raymond J. Johnson, Jr.)
Aramis cologne
Kraft Casino Swiss Cheese (voiceover by Ed Herlihy?)

Sponsor billboard for Olympia beer (voiceover by Floyd Brown)

Bill Frink sports report

Illinois Lottery Daily Game number

Commercials for:
Olympia Beer
The Wall Street Journal (with Gordon Peterson?)
Illinois State Lottery - "Illinois Double"

- Robert Jordan report on pictures of planet Saturn

With that, John closes newscast - music during ending credits starting at 58:27 had to be muted ("Morning Dance" by Spyro Gyra - heard here: youtu.be/bVDZ5UY_oDw) (voiceover by Floyd Brown)

Commercials for:
The Northern Trust NOW account
Canon P10-D printing calculator

WGN "Globe" logo with "Last Farewell" music (voiceover by Floyd Brown)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 12th 1980 during the 9pm to 10pm timeframe.

This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the John Drury Family collection.

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 - NFL Monday Night Football - Dallas Cowboys vs. Detroit Lions (Excerpt, 10/6/1975) 🏈

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-05-06 | Here's a nearly hour-long excerpt of NFL Monday Night Football from within its heyday on the ABC Network, here aired over WXYZ Channel 7 in Detroit, MI. While Don Meredith was not part of the announcing team at this juncture (he was pursuing an acting career at the time), Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford were joined here by Alex Karras in the booth (in-between the end of his playing career and the start-up of the sitcom Webster).

The game highlighted this evening is the matchup between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys at the Pontiac Silverdome.

(NOTE: The scoreboard at the Silverdome was powered by American Sign & Indicator Corp.)

We start this clip with 7:43 left in the 2nd quarter; station ID voiceover at 2:06, score at that point shown at 2:08, and a few seconds of the announcing trio in the booth starting at 3:31; this segment ends after a 2-minute warning develops

Commercials for:
FSLIC - Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. - "IRSA" (had to be edited - full version posted separately here: youtu.be/_ystlO3AkQk)

Zenith Chromacolor II color TV

Play continues in 2nd quarter, but not for long

Commercials for:
JCPenney Battery (posted separately here: youtu.be/iFR4VI9gQRY)
Sheraton Hotels & Motor Inns

Brief shot of Cowboys cheerleaders assembling as 1:56 is left in 2nd quarter; a plug for Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell is snuck in (3-1/2 hours before another "Saturday Night" show would debut on NBC); segment ends with 1:01 left

Commercials for:
Norelco Coffee Maker (with Danny Thomas)
1976 Capri II

Play resumes with mention made and shots of Tom Landry in his iconic hat on the sidelines (and plug for NCAA Football game of Michigan vs. Michigan State), first half finally ends and we get to see the groovy Dolphin Productions-made video bumper that was produced with Scanimate

Commercials for:
Skoal smokeless tobacco
AMF Voit rubber football

ABC promos for Baretta and Starsky & Hutch

Promo for Action News at 11pm with John Kelly - "Alex Karras gives us a candid look at sex in sports"

Commercial: Manufacturers Bank - "I'm glad That's my bank"

"7 in sections" station ID / promo for "Revenge" on tomorrow's 4:30 Movie

Halftime show with Apache Belles from Tyler, TX, followed by prior day's football highlights from Howard

Commercials for:
Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Life Savers candy
Polaroid SX-70 cameras (voiceover by Cliff Robertson?)

Promo for 1976 Olympic Winter Games and special emblem (voiceover by Jim McKay)

More of prior day's highlights, followed by sponsor billboard (voiceover by Frank Gifford) for Gillette Trac II and Goodyear Tires

Another MNF animated bumper

ABC promo for Happy Days

Commercials for:
Bank of the Commonwealth - "BC...ing you under the Big Umbrella"
Timken Tapered Roller Bearings - "Wherever Wheels and Shafts Turn" (showing various old-time banks) (this is a thing? And there's a commercial for it?) (voiceover by Doug Jeffers)

"Zooming 7" station ID / promo for AM Detroit with Dennis Wholey (and aerial photo of Tiger Stadium in background)

3rd quarter starts, and segment ends with a player injury

Commercials for:
Gillette Trac II shaving cream
Right Guard double protection anti-perspirant - "Protects You. Protects your clothes" (featuring Arte Johnson as his Tyrone character from "Laugh-In")

Continuation of 3rd quarter play; segment ends with touchdowns and a man in a lion suit doing physical acrobatics

Commercial: Mercury Bobcat (sung to tune of "Tiger Rag") (voiceover by Michael Bell) (recording ends just as ad is about to)

This aired on local Detroit TV on Monday, October 6th 1975 within the 9:00pm to 12 Midnight (Eastern) 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!

JC Penney - The JCPenney (Car) Battery (Commercial, 1975) 🔋

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-05-06 | Here's a commercial for JCPenney's car battery (known as "The JCPenney Battery") which is compared and contrasted with other car batteries (and especially the need to "add water" part). Available at the JCPenney Auto Center.

"It's the last battery your car will ever need."

This aired on local Detroit TV on Monday, October 6th 1975 within the 9:00pm to 12 Midnight (Eastern) 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!

The ABC Sunday Night Movie - Amber Waves (Complete Broadcast, 3/9/1980) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-05-03 | Here's the complete, first-run broadcast of a made-for-TV movie, "Amber Waves," as aired on The ABC Sunday Night Movie over WLS Channel 7.

This film stars Dennis Weaver (McCloud!) and Kurt Russell (just before "Escape from New York") in a tale of a drifter who takes a job offer from a wheat harvester contemplating suicide over his cancer and financial issues but ends up becoming a father figure to the young man. Also starring Mare Winningham, Fran Brill (of the Muppets), Wilford Brimley, Ross Harris and Grainger Hines, and co-starring Eloy Phil Casados, Bill Morey, Michael Talbot, Robby Weaver, and special guest star Penny Fuller.

All show and bumper voiceovers are by Joel Crager.

Includes:

Station ID / promo for "Playmates" (voiceover by Gary Gears)

Show open and film preview

Commercials for:
Visa travelers cheques
Wendy's Hot & Juicy hamburgers
Maybelline Nail Color and ManiCure System
Pontiac Grand Prix

Act I

Commercials for:
Congoleum Contemporary vinyl flooring (voiceover by Richard Kiley)
Miller High Life (herding cattle on ranch) (voiceover by Gene Barry)
Nabisco Cheddar Triangles
Pontiac Bonneville

Bumper

ABC ID (voiceover by Allan Jefferys)

Commercial: RC (Royal Crown) Cola (voiceover by Hal Riney)

Station ID / promo for "Playmates" (voiceover by Gary Gears)

Act II

Commercials for:
Chevy C-10 Pickup Truck
Tame Conditioning Clean Rinse (for the "frizzies")
Promo for That's Incredible! (voiceover by Ernie Anderson with Dick Tufeld)
Promo for When the Whistle Blows (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Animated ABC ID (with station ID)

Act III

Commercials for:
McDonald's (a kid moving to another town)
Care-Free sugarless gum (on expedition)
Polaroid One-Step camera (with James Garner)

Bumper

Promo for When the Whistle Blows (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Commercials for:
McDonald's (Shamrock Shakes and Shamrock Sundaes) (ending tag voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Tropicana Orange Juice

Station ID / promo for "Playmates" (voiceover by Gary Gears)

Act IV

Commercials for:
Dodge Mirada (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn (with the man himself and a fortune teller)
Sears Super Values on gas grills and sewing machines
Olympia Beer (with mountain climber)
Promo for Three's Company, Taxi and Hart to Hart (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Act V

Commercials for:
1980 Mazda GLC (to tune of "Just One Look")
Close-Up toothpaste
One-a-Day Plus Iron (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Johnson & Johnson O.B. Tampons

Bumper

Promo for That's Incredible! (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Commercial: Datsun - "It's a Long Way to Empty"

Station ID / promo for "Playmates" (voiceover by Gary Gears)

Eyewitness Newsbrief with Jay Levine (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

Commercial: John M. Smyth

Act VI

Commercials for:
Soft & Dri anti-perspirant
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Promo for Family and Stone (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Promo for When The Whistle Blows (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Act VII

Commercials for:
Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise
No-Nonsense Panty Hose
Hawaiian Punch (with Donny & Marie and Len Maxwell as "Punchy")
Honda Prelude (voiceover by Burgess Meredith?)

Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by Hugh Downs, and for That's Incredible!, Family and Stone by Allan Jefferys)

Recommended by National Education Association

Time-Life Television bumper (once seen at end of, say, many a Monty Python episode on WTTW Channel 11)

Show ending titles

Promo for ABC World News Tonight (voiceover by Fred Collins)

Preview for Eyewitness News at 10pm with Jay Levine

Commercials for:
Wickes Furniture - Grand Opening Celebration Sale for new North Riverside store
Bahamas Ministry of Tourism (with Florence Ledgister, Tom Heffernan, Barbara M. Lyszczasz, J. Michael Peterson, Juliette Fritz and Stephanie Heckler)
RC Cola (voiceover by Hal Riney)

Station ID / promo for "Playmates" (voiceover by Gary Gears)

First 17 seconds of Eyewitness News (also featuring weatherman Tom Hale and sportscaster Al Lerner at open) (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson) (complete newscast posted separately here: youtu.be/6u1Rm8hKV9o)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 9th 1980 during the 8:00pm to 10:01pm 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 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 - The Master - The Good, the Bad, and the Priceless (Complete Broadcast, 3/23/1984) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-29 | Here's the complete broadcast (except for part of the last break that got snipped) of a first-run episode from a short-lived series called The Master, "The Good, the Bad, and the Priceless" (S01E08), as broadcast over WMAQ Channel 5.

This program - inspired by a host of movies including "Revenge of the Ninja" - starred Lee Van Cleef (the "King of Spaghetti Westerns") as John Peter McAllister, an aging American ninja master in search of his daughter, Timothy Van Patten as his apprentice Max Keller, and Tara Buckman as Cat Sinclair. (Though Sho Kosugi, who played Okasa, was a regular, he was only shown here in the opening titles.) In this installment (whose title was a play on "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" [1968] in which Mr. Van Cleef had co-starred), John, Max and Cat go to New York to find the former's daughter, only to come across an imposter (a pre-Northern Exposure Janine Turner). Also featuring (in alphabetical order) Colby Chester, Oliver Clark, Johnny Seven, and special guest star George Maharis (formerly of Route 66).

(Typesetting Note: Show title and credits are set in Studio Bold, a font previously used on shows such as Petticoat Junction and I Dream of Jeannie.)

Includes:

Preview of coming episode (joined in progress) and show opening titles

Commercials for:
Sugar Free Canada Dry
New Trail Bars

Act I

Bumper (with station ID below)

Commercials for:
JCPenney USA - "JCPenney Days" (voiceover by Scott Muni)
Duracell Batteries
Ban Roll-On anti-perspirant (jingle sung to tune of "Love and Marriage")

Act II

Commercials for:
7up (with Geoffrey Holder)
Bausch & Lomb 30-Day Lens

Bumper

Promo for People Are Funny (hosted by Flip Wilson; an attempted reboot of the 1950's Art Linkletter series) (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Commercials for:
Illinois Bell - "Speed Calling" (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
Burger King Salads

Station ID / promo for Channel 5 News at 10pm (with former ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Max Robinson)

Act III

Commercials for:
Fresh Start detergent (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
Irish spring soap
Levi's Home Team USA Sweepstakes (ends June 17th 1984) (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
Pearl Drops Smoker's Toothpolish
PSA for American Heart Association on high blood pressure

Act IV

Commercials for:
Diet Coke (with Cathy Lee Crosby, Robert Klein, a clip of Julius Erving in action, Marcus Allen, Paul Anka, Miss America Vanessa Williams, Jayne Kennedy (interviewing a baseball player), Lorenzo Lamas (?), Shari Belafonte, Bill Cosby, and Ted Turner)

Big Red chewing gum (partially complete)

(rest of break snipped)

Epilogue, followed by ending credits (and voiceover promo by Max Robinson for Channel 5 News at 10pm)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 23rd 1984 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm timeframe.

This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Jack Demus Collection.

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!

NBC Network - Today - The Simple Solution to Rubiks Cube (Excerpt, 6/30/1981) ▦

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-26 | Here's an excerpt from the Today show on the NBC Network as aired over WMAQ Channel 5. Here, co-host Tom Brokaw is interviewing James G. Nourse, research associate at Stanford University's Chemistry Department and author of "The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube" - and Jane Pauley is seen very briefly, along for the ride.

In this segment, we learn that its invention was originally designed to teach 3-dimensional objects and their meaning to architectural students, that there are 43 quintillion moves (!), that the mass possibilities are why it is so difficult, how it's similar to what Mr. Nourse deals with in his regular job, what color he starts with to get the colors back to where they should be, that there's nothing random about it, the possibility of sore wrists and "Rubik thumbs," and how having a mathematical mind helps when playing it (but is not absolutely required); and as he explains all this the camera shows him actually working to get it all back (which he manages to do about 60% of the way into this clip)

Preview of next segment (a Gene Shalit interview with Swoosie Kurtz) is underway when recording ends

Previously we posted a commercial for Rubik's Cube from Ideal that aired in August of the previous year as you can see here: youtu.be/_OHcaVc6ehQ

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, June 30th 1981 within the 7:00am to 9:00am 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!

ABC News Special Report - Sadat & Begin - WHBQ Channel 13 (11/20/1977)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-24 | Here's an ABC News Special Report, with (most of) Barbara Walters' interview with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the eve of Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, aired over WHBQ Channel 13 in Memphis, TN (then an ABC affiliate and owned by RKO General). Looks like the station wanted to finish the movie and run some promos, because they join the network feed late; about the first minute of the special report was missing. The opening (not seen here) and closing remarks were by her then co-anchor on the ABC Evening News, Harry Reasoner.

A little bonus will follow.

(Reportage from NBC News of this coming visit by Sadat, and the preparations thereof, was already posted here: youtu.be/y1ICRPB4VUY)

Includes:

End of the ending credits to "Blood and Sand" [1941]

Promo for The Lawrence Welk Show for 5:00pm (with the man himself)

Promo for Straight Talk for Monday (with Marge Thrasher; this title was apparently shared among RKO stations, as a show with that title ran on then-sister station WOR Channel 9 in New York for years)

Promo for "Under the Yum Yum Tree" for 11:15pm

Station ID slide / notice of ABC News Special Report (apparently joined in progress, comes in about a minute after the start, at the point Begin says "...express my deep satisfaction...")

Topics of the interview as shown here include whether either considers the two countries to be in a state of war, how Sadat and Begin first met (via President Carter and Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu), and how they expect coming negotiations to proceed - this segment ends after Sadat tells Barbara, "You are always like this," and everybody laughs

Harry, in the studio, explains the substance of the rest of Barbara's interview with the two leaders (such as a possible Begin visit to Cairo, the future of the Palestinian Arabs, and a possible exchange of ambassadors), and that the rest will be broadcast at 10:45pm (Eastern time)

ABC News Special Report ending slide (voiceover by ??)

PSA for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

PSA for United States Postal Service (with Robert Klein, Rose Marie, Willie Mays, Bobby Riggs, Milton Berle and Lynn Redgrave urging people to mail early - the long version of this ad - the short one with just Klein was posted separately here: youtu.be/CqtXXU4prXs)

Promo for Sunday lineup on 13, starting with Nancy Drew Mysteries and an early start for The ABC Sunday Night Movie presentation of "Bite the Bullet"

Commercials for:
Wendy's Hot & Juicy Hamburgers
Magic Chef Microwave (with Jack Nicklaus and his wife Barbara)

Station ID slide

Bonus: First minute of The Lawrence Welk Show (Thanksgiving 1977 edition), featuring a rendition of "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays"

This aired on local Memphis TV on Sunday, November 20th 1977 at about the 5:00pm to 5:10pm 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!

WFLD Channel 32 - Mrs. America Pageant (First 50 Minutes, 7/18/1982) 🩱

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-18 | Here's the first 50 minutes of the broadcast of the Mrs. America Pageant as held at the Las Vegas Hilton, hosted by Bobby Vinton and Vikki Carr, and presented over WFLD Channel 32. (The pageant itself was held on May 7th 1982.)

This whole thing seems like a weird, corny throwback, even for 1982. And it's a sobering fact that 1982 was closer to 1952 than 1982 is to 2024 (30 years versus 42 years). Time counts, and keeps counting.

Includes:

Viacom "V of Doom" (video version)

Animated Field Communications ID (voiceover by Darwin Gillette)

Station ID / promo for I Love Lucy (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Richard Simmons does usual exercise routine as lead-in to show opening (voiceover by ??)

Bobby and Vikki open festivities, then contestants come on stage and hosts sing "Mrs. America"

Commercials for:
Hilton Hotels
Extra-Strength Dexatrim weight-loss capsules (with testimonials from Diane Dunn of Agoura, CA and Fred Gaylord of Van Nuys, CA)
JetAmerica airlines to Los Angeles
Promo for Monday Movie Special "Sabrina" (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Segment 2, with Mrs. Alabama, Janet Wood; Mrs. Alaska, Wanda Badger; Mrs. Arizona, Debbie Adams; Mrs. Arkansas, Teresa Gray; Mrs. California, Donna Frame; Mrs. Colorado, Toni Jo Neibauer; Mrs. Connecticut, Gretchen Rossi; Mrs. Delaware, Carol Moneta; Mrs. Florida, Mona Hartnett; Mrs. Georgia, Janice Henson; Mrs. Hawaii, Lin DeGiorgio; Mrs. Idaho, Becky Blackhall; Mrs. Illinois, Susan Combs; Mrs. Indiana, Nell Jarrard; Mrs. Iowa, Melanie Myers; Mrs. Kansas, Carole Sperling; Mrs. Kentucky, Dee Anne Curnutte; Mrs. Louisiana, Carol Roth; Mrs. Maine, Debra Dube; Mrs. Maryland, Sharon Best; Mrs. Massachusetts, Regina Moriarty; Mrs. Michigan, Nancy Hook; Mrs. Minnesota, Patricia Russell; Mrs. Mississippi, Betty Yow; and Mrs. Missouri, Nikilyn Coyle

Commercials for:
Babe anti-perspirant by Fabergé
Glad 3-ply trash bags (with Tom Bosley)
Snapper riding mower
Promo for I Love Lucy (voiceover by Jim Barton)

Segment 3, with Mrs. Montana, Kristin Tolson; Mrs. Nebraska, Bonnie Harrington; Mrs. Nevada, Tara Clark; Mrs. New Hampshire, Linda Smith; Mrs. New Jersey, Geri Pauline; Mrs. New Mexico, Dawn Reesman; Mrs. New York, Janet Horvath; Mrs. North Carolina, Vivian Wells; Mrs. North Dakota, Susan Glick-Shore; Mrs. Ohio, Victoria Boyer; Mrs. Oklahoma, Diane Dobson; Mrs. Oregon, Karee Edwards; Mrs. Pennsylvania, Hannah Robzen; Mrs. Rhode Island, Linda Parker; Mrs. South Carolina, Faye Fincher; Mrs. South Dakota, Whiffer Randall; Mrs. Tennessee, Cindy Harris; Mrs. Texas, Rhonda McGeeney; Mrs. Utah, Francine Quinn; Mrs. Vermont, Debbie Mack; Mrs. Virginia, Mary Morgan; Mrs. Washington, Helen Kleffner; Mrs. West Virginia, Susan Veltri; Mrs. Wisconsin, Linda McCormick; and Mrs. Wyoming, Ra Jean Higginson

Award for Best State Costume, during which Rip Taylor crashes the party (of course); Vikki sings a medley of "Can You Read My Mind" (some echo had to be added) and "Believe it or Not" to the husbands of the contestants. (WFLD on-screen ID at 30:00)

Commercials for:
Clairol Nice 'n Easy Conditioner
Nestlé Toll House Cookies
Bounty Paper Towels (with Nancy Walker and bean-counting bookkeeper)
All Temperature Cheer
Schmerler Ford (with Harry Schmerler, the Singing Ford Dealer)

Segment 4, with Mrs. Photogenic Award Competition Award (presented by Norm Crosby, with contestants in swimsuits), followed by introduction of judges: Hilton Hotels chairman and president Barron Hilton; artist LeRoy Neiman; attorney Melvin Belli; Mrs. Dorthea Morefield, wife of one of 52 hostages held in Iran from 1979-81; Jenilee Harrison of Three's Company; female sprinter Evelyn Ashford; Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan; and Mrs. America Pageant founder/president David Z. Marmel; followed by naming of 10 semi-finalists (via Richard Gilman of the accounting firm Fox & Co.) on the way to determining who will be this year's Mrs. America

Commercial: Faberge organic shampoo (mostly complete)

(Sadly, the tape was recorded over after this point - honestly I think the guy just wanted to bail after the swimsuit competition based on other recordings in his collection. Still, we salute him for his service in recording this awkward anachronism)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, July 18th 1982 within the 8:00pm to 10:00pm 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 The complete programs with breaks are saved 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 CBS Tuesday Night Movies - Speedtrap (Complete Broadcast, 9/4/1979) 📺 🚗

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-15 | Do you watch Joe Don Baker movies? Well, here's the complete broadcast of the CBS Tuesday Night Movies presentation of "Speedtrap" [1978] as telecast over KDFW Channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.

This film stars Joe Don Baker as Pete Novick, a private investigator hired by an insurance company to investigate a string of unsolved car thefts. Also starring a pre-Cagney & Lacey Tyne Daly, plus Robert Loggia, Richard Jaeckel, Morgan Woodward, Lana Wood and Timothy Agoglia Carey.

All movie show and bumper voiceovers are by Allen Berns.

Includes:

Station ID / promo for The Mike Douglas Show

Show opening and preview of film

Commercials for:
Noxzema Skin Cream (with Meredith Baxter Birney)
Cycle 1 through 4 dog food (with Fran Ryan?)
Litton Showtime - $50 Rebate

Film segment 1 (with opening credits)

Commercials for:
Wendy's hamburgers and toppings (featuring Mary Jo Catlett and Johnny Brown)
Wrigley's Doublemint Gum
Tostitos tortilla chips

Segment 2

Commercials for:
Phillips Petroleum (with Ben Jones of Nowata, OK)
Fruit of the Loom (with Catfish Hunter, and featuring Harry Goz as the apple)
Anacin pain reliever
Moisture Whip Whipstick - by Maybelline

Bumper

Promo for California Fever (voiceover by Danny Dark)

CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Lee Jordan)

Commercials for:
Service Auto Glass Full Warranty
Red Lobster - "What Did You Have for Lunch Today?" (voiceover by Michael Bell)

Station ID / promo for THE 10 O'Clock News with Clarice Tinsley (voiceover by Charlie Van Dyke?)

Segment 3

Commercials for:
7up soft drink
Cover Girl Nail Slicks (with Maud Adams)
Soft Scrub Cleanser
Duracell batteries

Bumper

Promo for "The High and the Mighty" (voiceover by William Woodson)

CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Lee Jordan)

Commercials for:
Breyers All Natural Ice Cream
Viva paper towels
Preston Jones' "Remember" at Dallas Theater Center

Station ID / promo for THE 10 O'Clock News with Barry Judge (voiceover by Charlie Van Dyke?)

Segment 4

Commercials for:
Michelob beer
Aim toothpaste
Sears Fall Home Appliance Sale on Kenmore appliances
Toyota Celica Supra (with Squire Fridell; featuring Dawson Gilbert and Latina Cunningham)

Segment 5

Commercials for:
Stayfree Maxi-Pads (with Cathy Rigby)
One-a-Day Plus Iron
Chimère fragrance - from Prince Matchabelli
New Improved Efferdent Denture Cleanser

Bumper

Promos for The Body Human: The Magic Sense and "The Getaway" (voiceover by Allen Berns)

CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Dave Campbell)

Commercial: Fox Photo

Preview of THE 10 O'Clock News with Barry Judge (9 fires at DFW Regional Airport as part of a practice drill)

Promo for Carol Burnett & Friends

Segment 6

Commercials for:
Wendy's Hot & Juicy hamburgers (featuring Jeff Altman)
Zenith System 3 color TV's
Carpet Fresh deodorizer (voiceover by Skip Hinnant)
Datsun 280ZX - by Nissan

Segment 7, plus end credits (with a theme whose chord structure is reminiscent of "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty from a decade later) (and with voiceover promo for "The High and the Mighty" by Dave Campbell)

First 11 seconds of promo for "Can You Hear the Laughter?" (with Ira Angustain as Freddie Prinze) (voiceover by Danny Dark) before recording ends

This aired on local Dallas-Fort Worth TV on Tuesday, September 4th 1979 during the 8:00pm to 10:00pm 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!

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News at 10pm (Complete Broadcast, 4/15/1977) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-13 | Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of Eyewitness News at 10pm on WLS Channel 7, anchored by John Drury and Nancy Becker (both Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly were on vacation this night).

(NOTE: A time stamp appears throughout this recording at the top left corner - this was often done at the station when recording an aircheck.)

Includes:

Station ID / promo for Saturday Night Movie (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

Mike Nolan at Chicago Stadium previews Bulls playoff game

Newscast open (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson - apparently Al Parker was on vacation too), and items:

- Tax filing deadline fast approaching; Maralee Beck outside main post office

- Sam Donaldson reports on President Carter's press conference in which he called for anti-inflation initiatives to be made by Americans

- Alleged Howard Hughes Mormon will deemed a hoax by FBI

- Two suspects - Curtis Davis, 29, and Edward Robinson, 28 - arrested in connection with double murder of two employees of South Side plumbing house

- David Schnell talks with Gerald Preiser, president of New York's Federation of Rifle and Pistol Clubs, who offered $200 to store owners to defend themselves against robbers

Commercials for:
Singer sewing machines
Mazda GLC
WMAQ 670 - "WMAQ Is Gonna Make Me Rich" promo
Mitchum anti-perspirant pump spray

- Bob Petty reports on federal judge's dismissal of $47.7 million lawsuit against Edward Hanrahan and 20 other law enforcement officials in connection with 1969 Black Panther raid

- Federal Judge Joel Flaum rejects plea bargain deal for two construction company officials, Thomas Bowler and George Krug, accused of bid rigging in 1975

- Criminal charges lodged against captain of Soviet trawler seized for illegally fishing within America's 200-mile fishing limit

- State Department to begin high-level talks with Vietnam to discuss normalizing of relations

- Emmy Awards cancelled by NBC due to non-participation by West Coast members

- National Parent-Teachers Association pressuring three networks to reduce violence in their programs by next January or else, as reported by Fred Villanueva; excerpt of Dr. William Young speaking at press conference

Commercials for:
The Working Artist Art Sale (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)
Lennox Air Conditioning & Heating
JC Penney 20% off sale on spring fresh fabrics
Spanish National Tourist Office

- Hugh Hill profile of Democratic mayoral candidate Ellis Reid (who campaigns with a bear named "Bilandic")

- John Coleman's weather forecast (Part 1)

Commercials for:
Revlon Flex Balsam & Protein Conditioner
SAS - Scandinavian Airlines (voiceover by Richard Kiley?)
WFYR 103½ FM (with Fred Winston)
Chicagoland Solid Men of Olds

- Part 2 of John's forecast

Mike Nolan, at Chicago Stadium, with sports:

- Chicago Bears beat Portland in Game 2 of NBA playoffs

- Jim Bouton attempts comeback with White Sox' Knoxville AAA farm club

Rest of sports handled by John:

- Baseball scores, with both Cubs and Sox winning; other NBA playoff finals; NHL Stanley Cup quarterfinal scores

Back to news:

- Robbery suspect trying to escape from police at 6400 South King Drive slips and falls eight stories to his death; another suspect is unable to escape

Stock market closing averages

Commercials for:
BankAmericard - changing name to Visa (with Harpo Marx lookalike demonstrating; in connection with First National Bank of Chicago)
Chicagoland Job Mart in Sunday Sun-Times and Monday Daily News (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

- John Culea at opening of King Tut exhibit at Field Museum

Newscast closes, with promo for next day's edition, followed by footage of Tut exhibit as end credits roll (some of ending music had to be reversed - it was ID'ed as Papyri Of Cleopatra by Leslie Bridgewater from PRS Production Music - http://links.universalproductionmusic.com/ZBoEmn)

Promo for Friday Night with Steve Edwards for 11:38pm (with the man himself)

First 9 seconds of political ad for Michael Bilandic for Mayor (with Senator Adlai Stevenson) (recording cuts out midway)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, April 15th 1977 during the 10:00pm to 10:28pm timeframe.

This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the John Drury Family collection.

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 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 Last Picture Show - Attack of the Crab Monsters - KPLR-TV (Last 31 Minutes, 4/17/1979) 🦀

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-12 | Mostly recorded over sadly, here's the last 31 minutes of "The Last Picture Show" presentation of "Attack of the Crab Monsters" [1957] over KPLR Channel 11 in St. Louis, MO.

This film - which stars included Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan and a pre-Gilligan's Island Russell Johnson, and was directed by the King of "B" Movies, Roger Corman - was about scientists trapped on a shrinking island with murderous giant crabs.

Includes:

Recording coming in midway through film segment, already in progress

Commercials for:

Bonanza restaurants (with plug for Tuesday dinner special in Centralia, IL)

Studio 108 FM (KKSS 107.7) - "For dancing and other things..." (parts of the music - "Got To Have Loving" by Cerrone (youtu.be/Yujl81CAbl4?si=-zotF4hJfZJlZ-DJ&t=41) had to be reversed to avoid copyright blockage)

Mr. Microphone from Ronco (A "Christmas Party" commercial in April...how about update your ads Ronco?)

Bumper for Last Picture Show (voiceover by ??)

Mid-City Chrysler Plymouth (with pigtailed tomboy "Mean Mary Jean" who promises "a whole lot more - know what I mean?") (played by actress Judy Strangis who was also in the television series Room 222 and was DynaGirl in Electra Woman and Dyna Girl)

Ziebart rust-proofing system for cars (with famous b-movie/exploitation actor Cameron Mitchell)

Aalco Pet Supply / The Fish Net - Mother's Day Sale (only about a month early for a sale, sure why not?)

Next film segment

Commercials for:

West Port Plaza - "Variety Night - Taste Trip" (with shots of "Nino's", "Garavelli's Sea Hatch", "The No Name Disco", "Bon Appetit Deli Restaurant", "The Pasta House Company", "Country Rock" (Your place?)

The Sea Chase - "Seafood Buffet" (I wonder if they have crabmeat?)

Promo for Hot City Disco - Saturdays at 10:30pm - "This week's guests Frankie Valli and Diane Steinberg" ("Summer's over"? In April?) (main voiceover by ??) (ending voiceover by ??)

PSA for National High Blood Pressure Education Program - "Do It for the Loved Ones in Your Life" ("Do it for her" - years before the Simpsons reference) (jingle sung by what sounds like Lou Rawls)

Bumper for Last Picture Show (voiceover by ??)

Northland Honda - 9420 West Florissant Avenue (with jingle sung by "Paula" (the daughter of the owner?) to the tune of "On the Sunny Side of the Street")

Anti-shoplifting PSA from Retailers of Missouri in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Public Safety - Joseph P. Teasdale, Governor

K-SHE-95 (94.7 FM) - "Real Rock Radio" ("Pig-up on KSHE"?) (featuring "Sweetmeat" the pig mascot logo)

Final film segment with recording ending before we see the ending to The Last Picture Show

This aired on local St. Louis TV early Tuesday, April 17th 1979 within the (approximately) 1:38am to 2:09am 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!

WLS Musicradio 89 - Larry Lujack - Animal Stories (1980 / 1982)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-09 | Here's a fun promo for Larry Lujack and his "Animal Stories" with Little Tommy mornings on WLS Musicradio 89.

These were the glory days of Chicago Radio. :-)

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/AYS6mFTmIT0)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 5th 1982 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm timeframe. (ad originally aired in 1980 - the previous broken video mentioned above is from that date. The ads are identical however - nothing was changed)

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!

WBBM Channel 2 - THE 10 OClock News - The Death of John Belushi (Complete Broadcast, 3/5/1982) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-08 | Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of THE 10 O'Clock News on WBBM Channel 2, anchored here by Don Craig and Susan Anderson (subbing for Walter Jacobson). The biggest news of the day was the sad passing of a comedy legend, John Belushi (born in 1949, despite what the graphic says), star of The Blues Brothers, Animal House, and the early years of Saturday Night Live.

A little bonus will follow.

Includes:

Promo for CBS Sports on Saturday (voiceover by Don Robertson)

CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Bill Martin)

Preview of newscast

Political ad for George Ryan for Lt. Governor (with Gov. Jim Thompson)

Commercials for:
Ford Display at Auto Show at McCormick Place - "Win Bernie the St. Bernard" (I believe that's Lloyd Hanson as the main spokesman)
Clairesse hair color (with Cheryl Tiegs)

Station ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

News opening (voiceover by Ed Roberts)

- Death of John Belushi; Bob Sirott reports, interview with hotel gardener Bruce Boeckler, and clip of John talking with Gene Siskel

- Mike Parker at Second City; remembrances on John from current members

- Gene reminisces about Belushi's life and career

Commercials for:
Florida Department of Commerce, Division of Tourism - "I Need it Bad" ("if you need it bad, we've got it good....") (another ad in the same series can be seen posted separately here: youtu.be/utAtVzIl0cU)

WLAK FM 94 - "My Soft Spot" (a different ad from the same series is posted separately here: youtu.be/Byh8hwcilak)

Roman Meal Bread
Stouffer's frozen dinners

- U.S. unemployment rate at 8.8% in February, Illinois unemployment rate at 9.6%

- CTA insists rush hour service was normal despite section of Jackson Park 'L' being closed after structural damage found along Dorchester Bridge

- Catholic priest sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison by Polish martial law regime, another priest arrested in connection with killing of policeman

- "Carlos the Jackal" threatening French government, as David Andelman reports; Interior Minister Gaston Defferre targeted

- Eric Roberts, 29, of Knights Landing, CA, arrested after attempting to stick up a bank in Davis, CA and taking three hostages

Commercials for:
Jewel Food Stores - values on chicken and red potatoes
The Gallant Men of Olds (with George Burns)
Colby's Winter Sale
Ice Capades at Chicago Stadium, March 11th-21st (ending voiceover by Jerry Harper)

- Ford plans to use robots on auto assembly lines

Harry Volkman with the weather

- Part 2 of tobacco industry response to media coverage about alleged marketing of cigarettes to children, which Tobacco Institute spokesperson Walker Merryman denies

Daily Lottery number

Commercials for:
Florida Tourism (repeat)
Lincoln Mercury - cash bonus on popular cars
WLS Musicradio 89 - Larry Lujack Animal Stories in mornings (posted separately here: youtu.be/kkHFGOGt-MQ)
Montgomery Ward - 20% sale on all furniture in stock

John Drummond with sports:

- DePaul defeated by Athletes in Action, followed by other ACC Tournament scores

- Bulls lose to New Jersey Nets

- High school basketball tournament scores

- Johnny Morris with Cubs in spring training in Mesa, AZ; interviews with GM Dallas Green and manager Lee Elia about new direction for team after Tribune's acquisition from Wrigley

- Milwaukee Brewers trade Thad Bosley to Seattle Mariners

- Preview of next day's Big 10 action

With that, newscast ends

Commercials for:
Dominick's Finer Foods sale on large size head lettuce
Cadillac cash bonus
John M. Smyth Michigan Avenue store closure sale (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Ending credits (with night shot of traffic in background, and voiceover promo for "Catch-22" by Jerry Harper)

Commercials for:
WCFL 1000 (with Deborah Shelton) (posted separately here: youtu.be/MU6vYDrWvJk )
Manor House Lite Reduced Caffein[sic] Coffee (1981 Copyright)

Station ID / promo for "Catch-22" (voiceover by Bob Carrington)

Bonus: First four minutes of The CBS Late Movie, with show opening and preview for "Plague" (voiceover by Norm Stevens), followed by first three minutes of movie itself

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 5th 1982 during the 9:58pm to 10:34pm 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!

The CBS Tuesday Night Movies - For Love or Money (Complete Broadcast, 11/20/1984) 📺 ❤️ 💲

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-04-02 | Here's the complete broadcast of a first-run made-for-TV movie presentation, "For Love or Money," as aired on The CBS Tuesday Night Movies over WBBM Channel 2.

This flick starred Suzanne Pleshette and Gil Gerard (of Bob Newhart Show and Buck Rogers fame, respectively) in this tale of two people who participate in a game show where partners have to choose between love and money.

Also starring Jamie Farr, Ray Walston, Lawrence Pressman, Barney Martin, Lori Lethin, Ray Buktenica, and Mary Kay Place. (Also featured, in the TV studio segments, is the RCA TK-47 camera.)

It should be noted that there are bumpers at the beginning and ending of each act; voiceovers for preview and before station breaks by Mark Elliott.

Includes:

Series opening titles (joined in progress) and film preview

Commercials for:
Andre Champagne (with author William I. Kaufman)
Milky Way candy bars
Denny's Complete Dinner Special (through December 31st)
Advanced Formula Dristan (with Patricia Stewart and Jane Bone - "Actress Portrayal")

Act I (with opening titles and credits)

Commercials for:
Aris Isotoner gloves
Congestac (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
Daydreams Perfume and Cologne (with cover of "Dream a Little Dream of Me")
Del Monte Light Sliced Peaches, Fruit Cocktail and Pear Halves

Act II

Commercials for:
AT&T Personal Computer
Polaroid offer for TWA flights
Mediquell Chewy Cough Squares
Bob Evans Pork Sausage

Bumper

Promo for Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon and Knots Landing

CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Dave Campbell)

Commercials for:
Pente - The Classic Game of Skill
Kentucky Fried Chicken - "Kentucky Nuggets"

Station ID / promo for THE 10 O'Clock News (with Don Craig)

Act III

Commercials for:
Excedrin Extra Strength
Hershey's Kisses
Olympic Gold and Silver U.S. Coins
Sears - "Biggest Automotive Sale of the Year"

Bumper

Promo for The Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas and Falcon Crest (voiceover by Lance LeGault)

Promo for NFL on Thanksgiving Day (voiceover by Don Robertson)

CBS Newsbreak with Marlene Sanders

Commercial: GTE

Conclusion of Newsbreak

CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Dave Campbell

Commercials for:
Red Lobster "All You Can Eat" Special
Promo for Channel 2 News Investigative Report "Churn and Burn" on commodities fraud, with Pam Zekman

Station ID / promo for THE 10 O'Clock News (with Don Craig)

Act IV

Commercials for:
New Triple Concentrated Downy fabric softener
Duncan Hines Blueberry Muffin Mix
New Unscented Tide laundry detergent
Always tampons

Act V

Commercials for:
Kleenex Softique tissues
ThermosWare Coffee Buffer
Cachet perfume - by Prince Matchabelli
Massengill disposable douche
Sominex 2 (voiceover by Jackson Beck)

Bumper

Brief shot of Saturday promo before repeat of Channel 2 News Investigative Report promo

CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Dave Campbell)

Channel 2 Newsbreak with Don Craig

Commercials for:
Timex Quartz watches
Chernin's shoes
Baskin-Robbins Praline Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie
Front Row Thanksgiving Day Sale

Station ID / promo for Donahue (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Act VI

Commercials for:
Zenith VHS Hi-Fi videocasette recorder
Le Jardin de Max Factor (with Jane Seymour)
Ruffles potato chips
Comtrex Multi-Symptom Cold Reliever

Act VII, followed directly by end credits (with a few seconds muted as broadcast - then voiceover promo for NFL Thanksgiving game and Friday college football game by Dave Campbell) (recording cuts out before credits complete)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, November 20th 1984 during the 8:00pm to 10:00pm 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!

Thunderbird Wine - Shake em Up! (Commercial, 1977) 🍷 🍾

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-30 | Here's a commercial for another of the infamously cheap wines of the 1970s - Thunderbird. Here a slick dude woos his disco lady with a suggestion to "Shake 'em Up! - Together" by adding grapefruit juice and shaking (but not stirring). A "Great New Taste". American Aperitif Wine. Thunderbird, Ltd - Modesto, California.

"Wow! Totally together - now you get some!"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, July 13th 1977 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm 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!

TJ Swann Wine with The Pointer Sisters (Commercial, 1976) 🍷 🍾

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-29 | Here's a commercial for one the notoriously cheap wines of the 1970s, T.J. Swann, featuring the Pointer Sisters.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, September 22nd 1976 during the 12:00am to 12:30am 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!

WGN Channel 9 - Bozos Circus (Complete Broadcast, 9/10/1979) 📺 🤡

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-27 | Here's the complete Live broadcast of an edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9 from when it was still in its prime. Bob Bell is Bozo, Roy Brown is Cooky, Frazier Thomas is the ringmaster, Garfield Goose and Friends are along for the ride (although we don't see him in this episode except for the intro), and juggler Paul Bachman is at center ring, all backed by the Bozo Big-Top Band.

Includes:

WGN-TV station ID (voiceover by Merri Dee) (music snippet of "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker had to be muted to avoid YouTube copyright blockage)

Frazier kicks things off with the open, followed by his interactions with the audience, Bozo and Cooky singing "Hi, Neighbor," their hands getting stuck at one point and trying to avoid Frazier's seltzer shpritzing

Commercials for:
McDonald's (Ronald takes a trip on a treehouse elevator which stops at weird floors) (with voiceover promo for appearance at Rensselaer, IN parade for September 15th by Merri Dee)

Buster Brown "Shhhhs" shoes (featuring the little girl from Airplane! who liked her coffee black - Michelle Stacy) (ending voiceover by Merri Dee)

Bozo's TV Powww! game, with Lisa Eddingfield, 9, of Aurora on other end of line, with plugs for Apple radio, Careers board game, 7up and Schwinn SX-100 Motorcross Competition bike

Frazier asks who's their favorite clown, leading to "Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown" cartoon about filming a Western

Grand Prize Game with Jeff, 4, and Candy, 9-1/2 ($32 in Bucket #6!) with at-home players Greg Briese, 5-1/2, of Madison, IL (for Jeff) and Barb Root, 11, of Dubuque, IA (for Candy)

Commercials for:
Cheerios (with stick-figure acrobat)
The Barbie Dream House Colorforms set - from Mattel

In center ring, Mr. B, Clown Prince of Juggling, (Paul Bachman) juggles to BozoBand Instrumentals of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", "Alley Cat," and ?? first with balls, then with bowling pins and round objects, and finally jumping rope while on a unicycle

Promo for The Groovie Goolies (misspelled as "Groovy Goolies") for 4pm (voiceover by Carl Greyson)

Commercials for:
Honey Nut Cheerios

3 Musketeers [audio had to be muted to avoid copyright blockage]

Post Alpha-Bits Cereal

Cooky laments his having to water elephants with a bucket, then Bozo and Frazier go over the basis of bike safety with a bike, and Bozo, with a book on hypnosis, hypnotizes Cooky to carry out mischief

Augie Doggie cartoon "Ape to Z" [1960] [cartoon had to be mostly edited out to avoid Copyright blockage]

Frazier assembles Ryan, Kim, Kevin(?), Michelle, (?), Timmy, Rosalyn and Ann to play bean bag toss (hot potato game) by process of elimination, and winner gets P.E.G.S. (Parker Electronic Game System) from Parker Brothers

Promo for Sgt. Bilko for 5pm (ending voiceover by Carl Greyson)

PSA - "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires" (with match burning in slow motion)

Commercial: Adler Planetarium, John G. Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum in Chicago's Grant Park

Frazier concludes this edition by signaling for the Grand March, over which the end credits are displayed as Bozo with the baton leads the audience members who file out of the studio:

Bozo's Circus
(C) 1979, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
Starring Bob Bell, Roy Brown, Frazier Thomas
The prizes awarded on this show were furnished in consideration for the promotional value of the prizes.
Musical Director - Tom Fitzsimmons
Asst. Director - Barbara Shikami
Producer - Allen Hall
Directed by Don Strukel
Bozo's Circus
Bozo the Clown - Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation
Licensed & Distributed by Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation

First 40 seconds of Mid-Day Report with Merri Dee:

- 32-year-old parolee confesses to starting Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958, and she explains how WGN News got the scoop on that; first few seconds of first in a series of reports from producer Alex Burkholder before recording ends (if you'd like to see a more complete version of one of the WGN reports from this story, go here: youtu.be/7qfTDGPsfj0)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 within the 12pm to 1pm timeframe.

This video authorized by © Nexstar Media Inc. (WGN-TV) and Bozo™ & © Send in the Bozos LLC. Special thanks to George Pappas and John Lavalie.

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. We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape). 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!

Old Chicago - David Soul (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-21 | Here's another rare commercial for the short-lived (1975-1980) indoor amusement park located in Bolingbrook, IL - Old Chicago - this time advertising live appearances November 17th & 18th 1979 by David Soul, "Hutch" from ABC-TV's Starsky & Hutch. (which had already been cancelled by this point). Features a kid at the beginning forced into playing the role of a pilgrim in what appears to be his Thanksgiving school play.

"I Wanna Go To Old Chicago!"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, November 17th 1979 during the 8:00pm to 9:00pm 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!

The ABC Sunday Night Movie - Salvage (Complete Broadcast, 6/3/1979) 📺 🚀

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-19 | Here's the complete broadcast of "Salvage" as presented on The ABC Sunday Night Movie over WXYZ Channel 7 in Detroit, MI. (this was the a repeat broadcast - the movie originally aired on Saturday, January 20th 1979)

This made-for-TV flick - which served as the pilot for the short-lived TV series Salvage 1 (which only aired for 16 episodes total) - starred Andy Griffith (in the long period of flop shows in-between his 1968 departure from The Andy Griffith Show and the start-up of Matlock in 1986) and Joel Higgins (years before Silver Spoons) as scrap and salvage entrepreneurs who build a makeshift rocket designed to salvage items abandoned in outer space, and in particular the moon - and meet resistance every step of the way from the government. Also starring Trish Stewart, co-starring J. Jay Saunders, Raleigh Bond and Jacqueline Scott, with guest stars Peter Brown, Lee De Broux and Richard Eastham, and special guest star Richard Jaeckel.

All show and bumper voiceovers by Joel Crager.

Includes:

Station ID / Action News promo (with Doris Biscoe)

Show opening and preview of film

Commercials for:
Aim toothpaste
Pontiac Catalina
Lipton Iced Tea
Sears Super Values (on paints)

Act I (featuring opening credits)

Commercials for:
Holiday Inn
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
Pizza Hut
Gillette Right Guard anti-perspirant

Act II

Commercials for:
Nestlé Sunrise instant coffee
Carefree Sugarless Gum (with "The Wright Brothers")
Promo for Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels and Vega$ (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for 20/20 (voiceover by Fred Collins)

Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID superimposed

Act III

Commercials for:
Flintstones Tablets Plus Iron
Super Shade sunblock by Coppertone
Mazda GLC
Schlitz Beer

Bumper

Promo for Good Morning America (with David Hartman)

Commercials for:
McDonald's
Cedar Point's Frontier Days (from June 2nd through 10th) (voiceover by Norman Rose)

Animated station ID (voiceover by Al Pinter)

Return bumper

Act IV

Commercials for:
7-Eleven Slurpee (guy with cards)
Dial soap
1979 Pontiac Grand Prix
O.B. Tampons - from Johnson & Johnson

Promo for Three's Company, Taxi and When the West Was Fun (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)

Act V

Commercials for:
Triumph TR7
Sears Super Values (on Craftsman products)
Kingsford Charcoal Briquets
7up soft drink

Bumper

Promo for ABC Monday Night Baseball (voiceover by Fred Collins)

Preview of Action News at 11pm with Doris Biscoe

Commercials for:
American Airlines - "Half-Fare Coupon Offer"
Yoplait yogurt (with Loretta Swit) (voiceover by Bob Landers?)

Animated station ID / promo for Kelly & Company (voiceover by Al Pinter)

Return bumper

Act VI

Commercials for:
Olympic Latex Stain paint
Michelob Light beer
Promo for Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels and Vega$ (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for ABC World News Tonight (voiceover by Fred Collins)

Act VII

Commercials for:
Volkswagen Rabbit (with Wilt Chamberlain)
Tampax tampons
Excedrin Extra-Strength Pain Reliever (voiceover by Alan Bleviss)
Ban Roll-On (with Mary Frann of "Newhart" fame)

Film ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for Three's Company, Taxi, How the West Was Fun and 20/20 by Allan Jefferys) - featuring the Columbia Pictures Television "Sunburst" logo bumper at the end

Show ending titles

Promo for ABC Monday Night Baseball (voiceover by Fred Collins)

This aired on local Detroit TV on Sunday, June 3rd 1979 during the 9:00pm to 10:58pm (Eastern) time frame.

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!

Elastic Hulk by Mego (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-19 | Here's a commercial for Elastic Hulk - a "Stretch Armstrong" type toy that allows you go pull the Incredible Hulk into knots and he'll always go back to how he was before (unless you pull too hard or make a cut in him so his goo seeps out). Part of the Elastic Superhero Collection by Mego.

(C)1979 Marvel Comics Group.

A companion to Elastic Mickey Mouse & Elastic Donald Duck by Mego (youtu.be/LuQMzwiQw34)

"You can tie him in a tangle, and see how he un-wrangles..."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 10th 1979 during the 3:30pm to 4:00pm 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!

WGN Channel 9 - Charlando - Wisconsin Steel Works Closure (Complete Broadcast, 7/26/1980) 📺

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-16 | Here's a complete broadcast of a program for the Spanish-speaking community of the Chicagoland area, Charlando, a presentation of WGN Community Affairs and aired over WGN Channel 9. The host is Peter Nuno, his guests are Robert Rodriguez, union delegate of the Progressive Steel Workers Union and Wisconsin Steel Works, concerned housewife Helen Gutierrez, and Ignacio Sanchez, former employee of Wisconsin Steel Works, the topic is the March 1980 closure of the Wisconsin Steel Works plant in southeast Chicago where 3,400 workers lost their jobs and the effect that closure has had thus far on the community, and the program, except for the first opening voiceover at the beginning and the ending voiceover, is entirely in Spanish, as are the PSA's (but not the lower thirds).

Can anyone supply a complete translation of the program?

Includes:

WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Len Johnson)

Segment 1, starting with show opening (voiceovers in English and Spanish by ?? and ??) and host introducing today's program

PSA for Seguro Federal Contra Crimen

Segment 2, with Peter introducing his guests and the discussion starting with Robert, Helen and Ignacio saying their pieces

PSA for Safety Seats for young children in cars

PSA for Closer Look

Segment 3, with discussion continuing and then Peter closing the program

Ending credits:

Charlando
Host - Peter Nuno
Charlando Guests Were
Robert Rodriguez - Union Delegate, Progressive Steel Workers Union, Wisconsin Steel Works
Helen Gutierrez - Concerned Housewife
Ignacio Sanchez - Former Employee, Wisconsin Steel Works
Producer - Don Willing
Associate Producer - Peter Nuno
Director - Dick Flanders
Charlando
(C) 1980, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
Prerecorded
Presentation - WGN Community Affairs

Commercial: Nelson Brothers - "$48.80 Down" (voiceover by Al Parker)

WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Len Johnson)

Partial opening of Sea Hunt (posted in its entirety here: youtu.be/KxdM3n-18_E)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 26th 1980 during the 11:30am to 12:00pm 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!

NBC News - Special Report in the 25th Century (11/29/1979) 🤖

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-15 | Here's an NBC News Special Report, from John Dancy of their Washington bureau, which interrupted a first-run episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, "Escape from Wedded Bliss" (S01E11).

Opening and closing voiceover by NBC Washington (and WRC Channel 4) announcer Mac McGarry.

Includes:

About 25 seconds of Buck Rogers, and then comes the notice

John, in a very awkward camera angle at the NBC Newsroom, reports that the Mexican government indicated it would make no sense for the deposed Shah of Iran to return to that country, and thus his visa would not be renewed; doctors at a New York hospital indicated that, despite being treated for cancer and other ailments, he's well enough to travel; Mexico's foreign minister cites the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and hostage situation as justification for their decision

The episode is then rejoined "in progress," with 11 seconds shown before the end

"Well, looks like we wasted our time..."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, November 29th 1979 within the 7:00pm to 8:00pm time frame. (birthday of one of our valued Fuzzy-crew, Mr. William Brown!)

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!

WGN Channel 9 - Sea Hunt - Water Ski Show (Complete Broadcast, 7/26/1980) 📺 🤿

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-14 | Here's the complete broadcast of a repeat of an episode of the syndicated TV series, Sea Hunt, entitled "Water Ski Show" (S2E22 - original air date May 31st 1959), as aired over WGN Channel 9 via a somewhat worn 16mm print. I remember getting up really early in the morning with my dad to go fishing and seeing this on WGN.

Sadly, no mentions of "by this time my lungs were aching for air..." in this episode.

This early production effort of Ivan Tors (who would later produce the TV series Flipper), mounted by Ziv Television, starred (and made a star of) Lloyd Bridges as freelance scuba diver and former Navy frogman Mike Nelson (no, not the future host of Mystery Science Theater 3000!). This installment - about a champion water-skier who drowns during the finale of a water show - also featured Lisa Gaye, Robert Conrad (pre-Hawaiian Eye, Wild Wild West, Bye Bye Black Sheep / Black Sheep Squadron, etc.), William McGraw, Jack Wagner, William Boyett, and Courtney Brown (the last-named of whom had been Mr. Bridges' stunt double in the series' early going, before Bridges himself, by the show's end in 1961, did all but the most dangerous of the stunt work himself).

Includes:

[Note: this airing of Sea Hunt was preceded by the WGN Public Affairs program "Charlando" which you can see in its entirety here: youtu.be/ut4WWKapNjM)

WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Len Johnson)

Show opening titles, and Act I

Book offer for "The Complete Encyclopedia of Weight Loss, Slenderizing and Body Shaping" (with Jack La Lanne and his dog "Happy")

Act II

Commercials for:

Creative Mirrors (voiceover by Len Johnson) (featuring Pam the Creative Mirrors Girl at the end)

Long Chevrolet (sale on trucks, with "Timmy the Newsboy" all grown up and in a construction worker's outfit)

Pheasant Run Resorts

Promo for The Mike Douglas Show (starting August 11th at 12pm; this is the Syndicast version started after he was fired by Group W earlier in the year) (note: This was the show that replaced Bozo's Circus at 12 Noon - truly, the end of an era)

Act III

Book offer for "The 1980's: Countdown To Armageddon" (featuring its author, Mr. Hal Lindsey who also wrote "The Late Great Planet Earth")

Epilogue, with Lloyd Bridges saying a few closing words, followed by ending credits:

Directed by Herman Hoffman
Written by Lee Erwin
A Ziv Television Production
Starring Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson
Produced with the Technical Advice and Cooperation of Marineland of the Pacific, Los Angeles, California
With:
Lisa Gaye
Robert Conrad
William McGraw
Jack Wagner
William Boyett
Courtney Brown
The characters, events and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Underwater Sequences for This Episode Photographed at Silver Springs, Florida
Production Manager - Joe Wonder
Second Unit Director - Paul Stader
Audio Supervisor - Al Lincoln
Set Designer - Robert Kinoshita
Costume Supervisor - Tommy Thompson
Location Manager - William Owens
Director of Photography - Robert Hoffman
Film Editor - Charles Craft, A.C.E.
Assistant Director - Wilbur McGaugh
Set Decorator - George Sawley
Supervisor of Diving Operations - Courtney Brown
Special Underwater Effects - Harry Redmond, Jr.
Underwater Photography - Lamar Boren
Ryder Sound Services, Inc. / IATSE / Westrex Recording System / A.T.F.P.
Copyright MCMLIX by Ziv Television Programs, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Produced by Ivan Tors

Commercial offer for Academy Life Insurance Co. Veterans Health Plan (with Chairman of the Board, General John D. Eisenhower, Brigadier General, USAR, Ret.)

WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Len Johnson)

Opening moments of This Week in Baseball (narrated by Mel Allen)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 26th 1980 during the 12:00pm to 12:30pm 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!

WMAQ Channel 5 - Ending of The Price Is Right and Opening of Buck Rogers (3/13/1980)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-13 | Here's the last few minutes of the syndicated The Price Is Right (with host Bob Barker) (that's right - not on CBS), commercial break, and opening moments of a repeat of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Planet of the Slave Girls" (S01E02, second half of an installment originally broadcast September 27th 1979), all as seen over NBC affiliate WMAQ Channel 5.

Includes:

Recording coming in as Bob reads off how much contestant Sheila accrued in winnings, and then how much other contestant Josephine accumulated, after which he signs off

Plugs for Welch's Sparkling Grape Soda, Johnston's dessert toppings and Design Images Ltd. by Z-Brick (voiceover by Johnny Olson)

Notice of who furnished products to program

Voiceover (by Johnny Olson) then identifies himself and declares this to be "A Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Production," followed by ending credits (and voiceover promo for The Rockford Files and NewsCenter5 at 10pm by ??)

Station ID / Jim Ruddle promo for NewsCenter5 at 10pm

Political ad for George Bush for President

Commercials for:

Aldi Foods (with Al Parker interviewing a large family)

Mars bars

Animated NBC "Proud as a Peacock" ID (voiceover by Casey Kasem)

Preview of episode and show opening (voiceover by William Conrad; both heavily edited)

Commercials for:

Slenderalls - from Underalls

Campbell's Light Ones soups (with Lee Meriwether and her daughters)

First 10 seconds of Act I (with voiceover encapsulation of Part I by William Conrad)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, March 13th 1980 during the 6:56pm to 7:03pm 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!

The NBC Movie of the Week - Cotton Candy (Complete Broadcast, 10/26/1978) 📺 🎸

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-12 | Here's the complete broadcast of a first-run presentation from The NBC Movie of the Week, "Cotton Candy," as aired over WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit, MI.

This made-for-TV movie, an early directorial effort from then-Happy Days star Ron Howard (and filmed entirely in Dallas, TX), starred Charles Martin Smith, Clint Howard (Ron's brother), Leslie King, Kevin Lee Miller, Manuel Padilla Jr., Dino Scofield and Mark Wheeler in a story of a group of high school friends forming a rock band.

All bumper voiceovers are by Victor Bozeman.

(A little bonus, an "end of tape find" from another date and station, will follow.)

Includes:

Opening NBC Movie of the Week titles, followed by preview (voiceover by ??) and film Act I (short disclaimer was added at 10:55)

Commercials for:
Sine-Aid
Johnson's Baby Shampoo
Frigidaire Jet Cone Washers
Friskies Chef's Blend Cat Food

Act II

Commercials for:
Shakey's Pizza Keeper
Sears - "Where America Shops"
Skippy Peanut Butter - "Parents' Day" (with Annette Funicello)
Quilted Pampers

Bumper (voiceover refers to The NBC Big Event)

Promo for Who's Watching the Kids? (voiceover by Casey Kasem)

Commercials for:
Airwick Stick-Ups (voiceover by Dan Ingram)
Wear Master muffler repair
WWJ FM 97 - "Music - Bright and Beautiful"

Station ID (with weatherman Sonny Eliot)

Act III

Commercials for:
Chicken of the Sea tuna (ending voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Master Charge credit cards (featuring Skip Hinnant)
Body on Tap shampoo (with Kim Basinger)
Loving Care hair color lotion - from Clairol

Act IV

Commercials for:
Aim toothpaste
Caress soap
Chevy Camaro Berlinetta
Homemade Soup Starter (posted separately here: youtu.be/EJfZOM1MF88)

Bumper

NBC News Update with Bob Kur

Commercial: Ford Mustang (backing music: sounds like a cover of "Swingtown" by The Steve Miller Band)

Promo for "The Gnome-Mobile" and "Centennial" (voiceover by Norman Rose)

Commercials for:
Burger Chef - "Top Chef"
Old Vienna beer

Station ID / promo for Dinah!

Act V

Commercials for:
Jell-O Pudding (with Bill Cosby)
New Improved Cool Whip (with Marge Redmond as Sarah Tucker) (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Avon - "You Never Looked So Good"
Kentucky Fried Chicken

Bumper

Promo for David Cassidy - Man Undercover (voiceover by Casey Kasem)

Commercials for:
McDonald's Halloween Gift Certificate
Promo for "Sweet Charity" on Movie 4 for Sunday

Station ID / News 4 at 11pm promo (with Mort Crim)

Act VI

Commercials for:
Fruit of the Loom
Kal Kan Chunky Beef Dinner
Mop & Glo (with Cinderella and her wicked stepmother and stepsisters) (posted separately here: youtu.be/8oQFZJeYYEc)
Extra Strength Efferdent Denture Cleanser

Act VII

Commercials for:
Spray 'n Wash (with trigger)
Mellow Roast instant coffee
Downy fabric softener
Crest toothpaste

Promo for "Kiss Meets the Phantom" (voiceover by Fred Collins?)

Promo for "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)

Promo for "Summer of My German Soldier" (voiceover by Les Marshak) (posted separately here: youtu.be/xkei-zdmyqY)

Film ending credits (with voiceover promo for "Centennial" and Quincy by Mel Brandt)

Incomplete promo of Gary Coleman speaking about baseball (recording cuts out midway)

Bonus - EOTF ("end of tape find") (from WJBK Channel 2):

Tail end of MTM logo

Promo for Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special, Fat Albert Halloween Special and "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" (voiceover by Wendell Craig?)

Promo for The CBS Late Movie showing of The Rockford Files and "The Million Dollar Ripoff" (voiceover by Norm Stevens)

CBS "Eye-D" (voiceover by Bob Hite)

Preview of coming newscast (with Joe Glover and Robbie Timmons)

Commercials for:
Detroit Optometric Centers (had to remove a few seconds)
Mercury Monarch (had to remove a few seconds)
Detroit Free Press "Extra" section

Station ID (with Detroit skyline in background and Nancy Marchand of Lou Grant)

First three minutes of Eyewitness News at 11pm (leading off with news of car flipping over near Oakland Street along Davison Freeway, and report from Norm Wagy)

This aired on local Detroit TV on Thursday, October 26th 1978 during the 8:00pm to 9:58pm (Eastern) timeframe. (the bonus end of tape find aired on Monday, October 23rd 1978 during the 10:58pm to 11:04pm (Eastern) 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. 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 Sunday Night at the Movies - Special Bulletin (Complete Broadcast, 4/29/1984) 📺 ☢

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-10 | Here's the complete broadcast of a repeat of a made-for-TV movie, "Special Bulletin," that aired on NBC Sunday Night at the Movies over WMAQ Channel 5.

This "realistic depiction of fictional events," which stars Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart, Christopher Allport, David Clennon, David Rasche and Rosalind Cash, involves a terrorist attack on Charleston, SC, where a TV news team is taken hostage by terrorists who threaten to blow up an H-bomb off the coast of the state if the Navy refuses to disarm a key nuclear weapons facility in the area. (Because of the nature of this picture, bumpers were used at the start and end of each act.) This was one of the two TV-movies that aired in 1983 which dealt with the specter of nuclear destruction, the other being of course "The Day After."

NOTE: For extra verisimilitude, this broadcast features real tornado watch WMAQ-TV on-screen crawl messages during the movie beginning at two points - 1:18:46 and 1:32:55.

All bumper voiceovers are by Donald Rickles.

Includes:

Film title on screen, with tail-end of "It's only a movie" disclaimer (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Show opening titles, followed by "realistic depiction of fictional events" disclaimer (voiceover by Donald Rickles), and Act I

Commercials for:
Ford Ranger pickup
AT&T (construction workers discuss calls) (voiceover by Cliff Robertson)
Stroh's beer (dog pours drinks)
Keebler Swirly-Q's (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Film Act II

Commercials for:
Maxwell House Decaffeinated (1983 Copyright) (a few seconds had to be snipped out)
Jell-O Brand Gelatin Pops (with facsimiles of The Little Rascals)
Concentrated All detergent
Max Factor ColorFast long-lasting lipstick (with Jaclyn Smith)

Bumper
Promo for TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, and "Adam" (voiceover by Danny Dark)
Commercial: Ontario Ministry of Tourism & Recreation - "Yours to Discover"
Station ID / promo for Channel 5 News at 10pm (with Paul Hogan)

Film Act III

Commercials for:
Ford Laser Track paint system on cars (with engineer Laura J. Schaefer)
Pepsi (with Michael Jackson and The Jacksons)
Panadol maximum strength pain reliever (with lady from "The Day After", coincidentally enough)
Lysol Pine Action cleaner

Bumper
Promo for NBC Nightly News (voiceover by Howard Reig)

Commercials for:
American National Bank
TWA - deals on flights to Europe (voiceover by Don Criqui)

Station ID / promo for Channel 5 News at 10pm (with Deborah Norville)

Film Act IV

Commercials for:
Stroh's beer (beer mugs move like baseballs)
Polaroid - "Traveling Around America"
Mennen Skin Bracer
One-a-Day vitamins

Film Act V

Commercials for:
Ford Escort
Almay Hypo-Allergenic (with Morgan Brittany?)
Chic Sunset Blues collection
Tampax tampons

Bumper

Promo for Today (with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley)

Commercials for:
Canada
The Cash Station Sweepstakes (with vocal choir)
Chicago Tribune (with Gene Siskel)

Channel 5 News Update with Deborah Norville

Film Act VI

Commercials for:
Ford F Series Light Trucks (with engineer Larry Ragan)
Stroh's beer (repeat of ad with beer-pouring dog)
Dimension shampoo
Cover Girl Thick Lash 2 (with Carol Alt)
Promo for "V: The Final Battle" (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Film Act VII

Commercials for:
American Motors Eagle
Vaseline Intensive Care
Commodore 64 home computer
Aqua-Fresh triple-protection formula toothpaste

Film ending credits (with voiceover promo for TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes and "Adam" by ??, and for Today by Bryant Gumbel)

Show ending titles (with voiceover promo for "Adam" by Donald Rickles)

Promo for Knight Rider (voiceover by Danny Dark)

Preview of coming newscast

Commercials for:
American Express Card (with Ben Cross of "Chariots of Fire")
Anti-drinking PSA (with Daniel J. Travanti)
Anais Anais (Carson Pirie Scott offer ends May 5th)
Emery Worldwide 1 lb. Urgent Pouch (voiceover by Joe Sirola)

Station ID / promo for Our World Underwater (voiceover by Jim Hill)

First 13 seconds of Channel 5 News at 10pm (full newscast seen here: youtu.be/FXC6aDwmPlo )

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, April 29th 1984 during the 8:00pm to 10:01pm timeframe. (Originally broadcast Sunday, March 20th 1983.)

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!

Bozo the Clown (Pilot, 1954)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-08 | Long before he became a TV personality in cities like Chicago and Boston, Bozo the Clown was a fixture on children's records. Here is where the seeds for his later TV fame got started - a filmed pilot for a potential Bozo the Clown TV series, back when he was owned by Capitol Records and before Larry Harmon got his hands on the clown - played here by Gil Lamb. The format is a little different too from what we all know and love.

Includes:

Opening titles

Act I at the home of the Carlson family as Amy arrives in the living room for breakfast with her Bozo doll; Ramsey arrives with news that his prize hen is gone and blames Amy; in her room, Bozo comes to life and complains about her father pinching his arm; they then shrink to doll size, and venture out to ask a squirrel about Truesdale the dog's whereabouts and refers them to Oscar the Owl who's not so cooperative; Bozo's arrow leads them to Truesdale whom they ask about the hen

In the next act, Truesdale has been caught and sent to the pound; after making it to the animal shelter, Bozo paints himself invisible; while Amy deals with the dog catcher, one dog escapes and creates mayhem; after Truesdale escapes, he leads Bozo and Amy to where the hen is - in a henhouse, having had six chicks, much to Ramsey's relief (the hen has told Bozo and Amy that any time she lays an egg, he takes it away); the dog catcher arrives to recount his tale of dealing with the invisible Bozo, and this scene ends with her embracing her Bozo doll

For the finale, a sleeping Amy reminds Bozo that it's the end, and rearranges the blocks to spell it such, after which he too falls asleep

Ending credits:

Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
Teleplay - Howard Harris
Format Created by Frank Fox, G. Carleton Brown, Hal Yates
Produced by Hal Roach, Jr.
Associate Producer - Sidney Van Keuren
Cast:
Bozo - Gil Lamb
Amy Carlson - Jeri Lou James
Henry Carlson - David Bruce
Martha Carlson - Aline Towne
Ramsey - Florenz Ames
Dog Catcher - Bob Foulk
Truesdale - Corky
Bozo the Clown Created by Alan Livingstone[sic] for Capitol Records, Inc. - Copyright MCMXLVI
Production Supervisor - E.H. Goldstein
Photography - Lucien Andriot, A.S.C.
Photographic Effects - Jack R. Glass
Film Editor - Thomas Neff, A.C.E.
Art Director - William Ferrari
Set Decorator - Rudy Butler
Assistant Director - William Forsyth
Sound - William Randall, Joel Moss
Copyright MCMLIV by Capitol Records, Inc.
Filmed in Hollywood by Hal Roach Studios

"Starring Gil Lamb as Bozo the Capitol Clown"

This was produced in 1954 (Bozo copyrighted 1946).

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!

Stuffums by Mego - Too Much Stuff (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-06 | Here's a commercial for Stuff'ums by Mego. (by the makers of Eat'ems?) (song to the tune of "Old McDonald")

Why am I reminded of a George Carlin bit?

"This is a Stuff'ums, ho-ho..."

This aired on local Chicago TV on September 10th 1979 during the 3:30pm to 4:00pm 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!

Fireflyer Candy and Flying Toy by Sunmark (Commercial, 1979)

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) 2024-03-05 | Here's a commercial for the Fireflyer candy and "flying toy" by Sunmark. For the price of a candy bar.

I remember this candy/toy. I also remember being underwhelmed with it. Maybe I was too young to know how to make the thing "fly" - just tossing it didn't impress me.

"Simulated flight"

This aired on local Chicago TV on September 10th 1979 during the 3:30pm to 4:00pm 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!