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Here's a partial broadcast of an edition of the short-lived Speak Up America (from the producers of Real People) as aired over the NBC Network, and in Chicago via WMAQ Channel 5. Hosts were Marjoe Gortner with Jayne Kennedy and Rhonda Bates, and drawings by MAD magazine's Sergio Aragonés. (About 22 minutes of this edition are missing, as will be explained below.)
Includes:
Opening titles (joined in progress), with topics shown including Porno Awards, Chemical Warfare, Religious Cults, Marijuana Bust and Americans
Marjoe and the hosts introduce each other, and preview the coming topics mentioned (and Sergio's drawing about tougher drunk driving laws)
Commercials for:
No Nonsense Panty Hose
Cella wine (with Aldo Cella)
Rhonda on a piece, "Show and Tell," about the stars of X-rated movies, including interviews with San Franciscans about the effects of pornography on people, a look at the 4th annual Porno Awards ceremony and at a porno movie shoot, and interviews with Jessie St. James, Marilyn Chambers, Georgina Spelvin, Seka, Mark Stevens, Annie Ample, Annette Haven, John Seeman and Linda Lovelace, followed by a Qube multiple choice question of what the audience thinks about porno movies, and Sergio drawing a porno awards ceremony
Commercials for:
Pizza Hut - "Your Hometown"
Electronic Snoopy Playmate (recording cuts out before ad ends) . . .
. . . and recording resumes midway through report on victims of Agent Orange and other chemical warfare, just as it is winding down; Aragonés' drawing of VA doctors shown at end of segment
Commercials for:
Wesson oil with Florence Henderson - "Wessonality"
Dentyne - "Brush Your Breath"
Elmer's Wonder Bond Plus glue
Promo for "Revenge of the Stepford Wives" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
A piece starting out with a raid on a marijuana farm in Muskogee, OK, then on to California's booming pot crop business in "Agriculture," reported by Rhonda; interviews with people on the street, then to Mendocino County where Sheriff Tom Jondahl, Jack Herrer of the California Marijuana Initiative, District Attorney Joe Allen, attorney Richard Peterson and a grower named Frank, and speak about "weed" and its impact on the area and on society; a raid is shown, and a poll is shown at the end
Afterwards, audience members are asked about what they think of their jobs, leading to a piece on "Unemployment" from Rhonda, with clips of people on the job and Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job And Shove It" played; followed by a multiple-choice poll
This is followed by end result audience answers by percentage to questions on X-rated movies, the Unification Church, marijuana and one's job
Rhonda then solicits for people to get Speak Up America bumper stickers, after which Sergio shows a drawing of three people next to a car as it spews exhaust
Commercials for:
Preparation H ointment (voiceover by Fred Collins?)
Brite No-Wax Floor Polish
Promo for Centennial (voiceover by Norman Rose)
Promo for Little House on the Prairie (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Marjoe, Jayne and Rhonda conclude the show, followed by end credits (and Aragonés' drawing of someone asking Uncle Sam a question as someone cuts the NBC cord)
Promo for NFL '80 and NFL Football doubleheader (voiceover by Les Marshak)
Promo for 1980 World Series (voiceover by Les Marshak)
NewsCenter5 Update with Chuck Henry:
- 5 / 11 alarm fire (plus 2 special alarms) at Handy Machine Button Company at 2255 South Rockwell
- Special Report on ticket ripoffs
- Scenes of damage caused by mob of rock fans in Milwaukee
Commercials for:
Dominick's Finer Foods - sale on Maxwell House Coffee through Sunday, October 12th
Burlington pantyhose
Continental Bank - "Smart Money"
NBC "Peacock" ID (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Opening of NBC Magazine with David Brinkley (first half shown here: youtu.be/4JlejR4ttsA )
"This program has been a presentation of George Schlatter Productions, which is solely responsible for its content. Touch 'Now'."
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, October 10th 1980 within the 8pm to 9pm timeframe.
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 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 partial broadcast of an edition of the short-lived Speak Up America (from the producers of Real People) as aired over the NBC Network, and in Chicago via WMAQ Channel 5. Hosts were Marjoe Gortner with Jayne Kennedy and Rhonda Bates, and drawings by MAD magazine's Sergio Aragonés. (About 22 minutes of this edition are missing, as will be explained below.)
Includes:
Opening titles (joined in progress), with topics shown including Porno Awards, Chemical Warfare, Religious Cults, Marijuana Bust and Americans
Marjoe and the hosts introduce each other, and preview the coming topics mentioned (and Sergio's drawing about tougher drunk driving laws)
Commercials for:
No Nonsense Panty Hose
Cella wine (with Aldo Cella)
Rhonda on a piece, "Show and Tell," about the stars of X-rated movies, including interviews with San Franciscans about the effects of pornography on people, a look at the 4th annual Porno Awards ceremony and at a porno movie shoot, and interviews with Jessie St. James, Marilyn Chambers, Georgina Spelvin, Seka, Mark Stevens, Annie Ample, Annette Haven, John Seeman and Linda Lovelace, followed by a Qube multiple choice question of what the audience thinks about porno movies, and Sergio drawing a porno awards ceremony
Commercials for:
Pizza Hut - "Your Hometown"
Electronic Snoopy Playmate (recording cuts out before ad ends) . . .
. . . and recording resumes midway through report on victims of Agent Orange and other chemical warfare, just as it is winding down; Aragonés' drawing of VA doctors shown at end of segment
Commercials for:
Wesson oil with Florence Henderson - "Wessonality"
Dentyne - "Brush Your Breath"
Elmer's Wonder Bond Plus glue
Promo for "Revenge of the Stepford Wives" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
A piece starting out with a raid on a marijuana farm in Muskogee, OK, then on to California's booming pot crop business in "Agriculture," reported by Rhonda; interviews with people on the street, then to Mendocino County where Sheriff Tom Jondahl, Jack Herrer of the California Marijuana Initiative, District Attorney Joe Allen, attorney Richard Peterson and a grower named Frank, and speak about "weed" and its impact on the area and on society; a raid is shown, and a poll is shown at the end
Afterwards, audience members are asked about what they think of their jobs, leading to a piece on "Unemployment" from Rhonda, with clips of people on the job and Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job And Shove It" played; followed by a multiple-choice poll
This is followed by end result audience answers by percentage to questions on X-rated movies, the Unification Church, marijuana and one's job
Rhonda then solicits for people to get Speak Up America bumper stickers, after which Sergio shows a drawing of three people next to a car as it spews exhaust
Commercials for:
Preparation H ointment (voiceover by Fred Collins?)
Brite No-Wax Floor Polish
Promo for Centennial (voiceover by Norman Rose)
Promo for Little House on the Prairie (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Marjoe, Jayne and Rhonda conclude the show, followed by end credits (and Aragonés' drawing of someone asking Uncle Sam a question as someone cuts the NBC cord)
Promo for NFL '80 and NFL Football doubleheader (voiceover by Les Marshak)
Promo for 1980 World Series (voiceover by Les Marshak)
NewsCenter5 Update with Chuck Henry:
- 5 / 11 alarm fire (plus 2 special alarms) at Handy Machine Button Company at 2255 South Rockwell
- Special Report on ticket ripoffs
- Scenes of damage caused by mob of rock fans in Milwaukee
Commercials for:
Dominick's Finer Foods - sale on Maxwell House Coffee through Sunday, October 12th
Burlington pantyhose
Continental Bank - "Smart Money"
NBC "Peacock" ID (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Opening of NBC Magazine with David Brinkley (first half shown here: youtu.be/4JlejR4ttsA )
"This program has been a presentation of George Schlatter Productions, which is solely responsible for its content. Touch 'Now'."
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, October 10th 1980 within the 8pm to 9pm timeframe.
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 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!
![Under Discussion - The American Teen-Ager Today [with George Martin, Beatles Producer] (1964) 🎸♫](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/axTbgFLWzjE/hqdefault.jpg "Under Discussion - The American Teen-Ager Today [with George Martin, Beatles Producer] (1964) 🎸♫
Though audio-only (and from New York City instead of Chicago), heres an historically significant (and lost) broadcast from March 1st 1964 of a Sunday-night panel show then airing on WNEW Channel 5 called Under Discussion. This was transferred from an open-reel audio recording (pictures of which are shown throughout the video).
This series was started after the station fired Open End host David Susskind, whose first stint with the station began in 1961-62 after his first home, WNTA Channel 13, was sold to an educational consortium (which would turn it into non-commercial WNDT, now WNET) - and who had gotten into one too many battles with the then-management of WNEWs parent, Metropolitan Broadcasting, division of Metromedia, Inc. (He would move to WPIX Channel 11 for a three-year interval, 1963-66.) This show had a different set of hosts, including as will be mentioned in the next paragraph. (Its run may have ended after Channel 5, by then under different station management, brought Mr. Susskind back to helm what would now be called The David Susskind Show and would run without much incident at the station until a few months before his death in 1987.)
The topic of this edition is The American Teen-Ager Today, moderated by Dr. Harold Taylor, and the panelists (in order of introduction) are: Beatles producer George Martin; Charles King, executive director of Wiltwyck School for Boys; David and Lisa co-star Keir Dullea (later to find immortality in 2001: A Space Odyssey); Ruth Whitney, executive editor of Seventeen magazine; Robert Paul Smith, author of Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.; WMCA (570 AM) disc jockey B. Mitchel Reed; and psychiatric social worker Oscar Rabinowitz.
Note: Two commercial breaks appear to be edited out, but most are left intact.
Includes:
Opening intro of guests, (break cut) then moderator starts things, going from (starting at 3:03) the similarities between British and American teens and differences from adolescents, the business of labeling for marketing purposes, whom Ruths magazine is edited towards, Rabinowitz dealings with people in that age group, U.S. vs. UK education, parental influence on teens, Reeds original plans to become a teacher, screaming girls at Beatles concerts, teens being colonized, and what The Beatles represent (also note an (early?) use of the term hippies at 06:19)
(starting at 20:33) Commercial: Schlitz Beer
(starting at 21:35) PSA for Red Cross
(starting at 21:45) Promo for Bus Stop (ending voiceover by Chuck Caron)
(starting at 22:51) Discussion of recent Beatles Royal Command performance, a show BMR did for teens in a deprived section of the Bronx, the effects of commercialism on teens, and issue of role models for youth
(starting at 41:46) Commercial: Raleigh cigarettes
(starting at 42:29) PSA for Fresh Air Fund
(starting at 42:39) Promos for The New Breed (main voiceover by Hank Simms) (ending voiceover by Chuck Caron) and (starting at 43:30) for The Outlaws (voiceover by Chuck Caron)
(starting at 43:44) Topics dealt with include worry of how this generations teens will turn out, juvenile delinquency, immobilization of youth, the Peace Corps, teens rebellion towards older people, an incident on board a train The Beatles were riding in (which seemed to have made its way into their A Hard Days Night film), parents relationship to teens, and distinguishing between sociopolitical and economic in discussing this issue
(Commercial break omitted.)
In final segment (starting at 1:03:44), discussions include differences among youths in different areas, social sense of Scarsdale vs. slum dwelling teens, who in this age group is considered creative, George expounding on Rabinowitz points about education as it relates to music and crediting teens with realizing good and bad, the danger of set standards, what adolescents want, and teachers role in shaping pupils; moderator closes program by noting about sensitivity of young to values around them, and moving when asked to next level
This aired (with accompanying video - alas, unseen here) on local New York television on Sunday, March 1st 1964 during the 10:00pm to 11:30pm (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 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!")
