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Here's a block of daytime soaps aired over the NBC Network, via KXAS Channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX: complete broadcasts of Days of Our Lives and The Doctors, and the first half-hour of Another World. (Only The Doctors was a half-hour; Days of Our Lives was a full hour and Another World was apparently 90 (!) minutes from March 5th 1979 until August 1980, after which it reverted back to a 60-minute length.)
Includes:
Last few seconds of The Hollywood Squares, followed by Texas News Watch with Dan Medina (posted separately here: youtu.be/aVXuEjh0GAI)
Commercials for:
Optical Clinic
Johnson's Baby Wash Cloths
Tostitos crispy round tortilla chips (with restaurant owner Fernando Escandon)
Station ID (voiceover by ??)
Act 1, following by opening titles (voiceover by Macdonald Carey) of Days of Our Lives
Commercials for:
Tang instant orange drink (with Florence Henderson)
Stove Top Stuffing (Billy working on family car when called for dinner) (features actress Polly Holliday, best known as playing Flo on the sitcom "Alice" as the mom - "Kiss My Stuffing?") (ending voiceover by Mason Adams)
Rave soft hair spray
Rave soft perm
Act 2
Commercials for:
Sugar Free Fresca soft drink
Chee-tos Crunchy and Puffed snacks (with Jonathan Winters as all characters in Middle Ages tale)
Alberto VO5 conditioning hair dressing (with Gene Shacove, stylist to the stars)
Oil of Olay
Act 3
Commercials for:
Phillips' Milk of Magnesia
Meow Mix beef, liver and kidney flavor
Maximum Strength Anacin
Black Flag Room Fogger Twin Pack
Act 4 (with flashback scene)
Bumper
Promo for Little House on the Prairie and "The Rain People" (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Promo for NBC Nightly News Special Segment (voiceover by Howard Reig)
PSA for The Family Place
KXAS-TV Emergency Broadcast System Test (posted separately here: youtu.be/oGJOsPDG-k8)
Station ID / Muppet Show promo
Act 5
Commercials for:
General Foods International Coffees (with Carol Lawrence)
Post Grape Nuts
Pillsbury Frosting Supreme
Sears sale on underwear and socks
Act 6
Commercials for:
Dow Bathroom Cleaner with Scrubbing Bubbles
Peter Pan peanut butter
Free Spirit body shaper
Kraft Velveeta
Act 7
Commercials for:
Vlasic Pickles
Reach toothbrush
Johnson's Baby Bath
Slender Diet Meal Bar
Act 8, followed by ending sequence (with promo voiceover for The Runaways, "Final Crash" and The Doctors by Howard Reig)
Promo for drama lineup on NBC for fall (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Promo for The Charlie Rose Show (with Mr. Rose himself)
Commercials for:
Color Tile (with Color Tile Man)
Folger's Crystals
Station ID
Act 1 and opening titles for The Doctors
Commercials for:
Lemon Freshened Borax Fab laundry detergent
Colgate toothpaste
Act 2
Commercials for:
Black Flag Room Fogger Twin Pack
Compound W wart remover
Act 3
Commercials for:
Tums antacid
Suave shampoo
Fit & Trim dog food (with Frank Cady)
FDS (Feminine Deodorant Spray)
Act 4
Commercials for:
Final Net hair spray
Tickle anti-perspirant
"Afternoons...A Time to Share" promo for Another World (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Act 5
Commercials for:
Palmolive dishwashing liquid (with Jan Miner as Madge the manicurist)
Pine Forest Ajax
Ending titles
Promo for "novels for television" for fall (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Commercials for:
TV Guide (August 4th-10th issue - Joyce DeWitt on cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant)
Colortyme TV Rental - "Grand Opening"
Kleenex Super Dry Disposable Diapers
Station ID / promo for Texas News (with Chip Moody)
Opening titles (joined in progress - voiceover by Bill Wolff) and Act 1 of Another World
Commercials for:
Head & Shoulders shampoo (with Kathy Bragg)
Oxydol laundry detergent (with Linda Kay Allen)
Dawn dishwashing liquid (voiceover by Phil Tonken)
Act 2
Commercials for:
Stayfree mini-pads
Reach toothbrush
Raid House & Garden Bug Killer (voiceover by Danny Dark)
9 Lives (with Morris the cat)
Act 3
Commercials for:
Charmin (with Dick Wilson as Mr. Whipple)
Puritan sunflower oil
Bounty paper towels (with Nancy Walker as Rosie)
Act 4 (recording ends midway)
This aired on local Fort Worth-Dallas TV on Monday, July 30th 1979 during the 11:57am to 1:59pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
Here's a block of daytime soaps aired over the NBC Network, via KXAS Channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX: complete broadcasts of Days of Our Lives and The Doctors, and the first half-hour of Another World. (Only The Doctors was a half-hour; Days of Our Lives was a full hour and Another World was apparently 90 (!) minutes from March 5th 1979 until August 1980, after which it reverted back to a 60-minute length.)
Includes:
Last few seconds of The Hollywood Squares, followed by Texas News Watch with Dan Medina (posted separately here: youtu.be/aVXuEjh0GAI)
Commercials for:
Optical Clinic
Johnson's Baby Wash Cloths
Tostitos crispy round tortilla chips (with restaurant owner Fernando Escandon)
Station ID (voiceover by ??)
Act 1, following by opening titles (voiceover by Macdonald Carey) of Days of Our Lives
Commercials for:
Tang instant orange drink (with Florence Henderson)
Stove Top Stuffing (Billy working on family car when called for dinner) (features actress Polly Holliday, best known as playing Flo on the sitcom "Alice" as the mom - "Kiss My Stuffing?") (ending voiceover by Mason Adams)
Rave soft hair spray
Rave soft perm
Act 2
Commercials for:
Sugar Free Fresca soft drink
Chee-tos Crunchy and Puffed snacks (with Jonathan Winters as all characters in Middle Ages tale)
Alberto VO5 conditioning hair dressing (with Gene Shacove, stylist to the stars)
Oil of Olay
Act 3
Commercials for:
Phillips' Milk of Magnesia
Meow Mix beef, liver and kidney flavor
Maximum Strength Anacin
Black Flag Room Fogger Twin Pack
Act 4 (with flashback scene)
Bumper
Promo for Little House on the Prairie and "The Rain People" (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Promo for NBC Nightly News Special Segment (voiceover by Howard Reig)
PSA for The Family Place
KXAS-TV Emergency Broadcast System Test (posted separately here: youtu.be/oGJOsPDG-k8)
Station ID / Muppet Show promo
Act 5
Commercials for:
General Foods International Coffees (with Carol Lawrence)
Post Grape Nuts
Pillsbury Frosting Supreme
Sears sale on underwear and socks
Act 6
Commercials for:
Dow Bathroom Cleaner with Scrubbing Bubbles
Peter Pan peanut butter
Free Spirit body shaper
Kraft Velveeta
Act 7
Commercials for:
Vlasic Pickles
Reach toothbrush
Johnson's Baby Bath
Slender Diet Meal Bar
Act 8, followed by ending sequence (with promo voiceover for The Runaways, "Final Crash" and The Doctors by Howard Reig)
Promo for drama lineup on NBC for fall (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Promo for The Charlie Rose Show (with Mr. Rose himself)
Commercials for:
Color Tile (with Color Tile Man)
Folger's Crystals
Station ID
Act 1 and opening titles for The Doctors
Commercials for:
Lemon Freshened Borax Fab laundry detergent
Colgate toothpaste
Act 2
Commercials for:
Black Flag Room Fogger Twin Pack
Compound W wart remover
Act 3
Commercials for:
Tums antacid
Suave shampoo
Fit & Trim dog food (with Frank Cady)
FDS (Feminine Deodorant Spray)
Act 4
Commercials for:
Final Net hair spray
Tickle anti-perspirant
"Afternoons...A Time to Share" promo for Another World (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Act 5
Commercials for:
Palmolive dishwashing liquid (with Jan Miner as Madge the manicurist)
Pine Forest Ajax
Ending titles
Promo for "novels for television" for fall (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Commercials for:
TV Guide (August 4th-10th issue - Joyce DeWitt on cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant)
Colortyme TV Rental - "Grand Opening"
Kleenex Super Dry Disposable Diapers
Station ID / promo for Texas News (with Chip Moody)
Opening titles (joined in progress - voiceover by Bill Wolff) and Act 1 of Another World
Commercials for:
Head & Shoulders shampoo (with Kathy Bragg)
Oxydol laundry detergent (with Linda Kay Allen)
Dawn dishwashing liquid (voiceover by Phil Tonken)
Act 2
Commercials for:
Stayfree mini-pads
Reach toothbrush
Raid House & Garden Bug Killer (voiceover by Danny Dark)
9 Lives (with Morris the cat)
Act 3
Commercials for:
Charmin (with Dick Wilson as Mr. Whipple)
Puritan sunflower oil
Bounty paper towels (with Nancy Walker as Rosie)
Act 4 (recording ends midway)
This aired on local Fort Worth-Dallas TV on Monday, July 30th 1979 during the 11:57am to 1:59pm 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!
