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Here's an extended excerpt from a Halloween broadcast of the Today show on the NBC Network (as, in Chicago, would have been seen over WMAQ Channel 5); this is directly from the network feed, so there are no local commercial breaks or station ID's, and the black where these would have been inserted has been taken out for ease of viewing. The hosts are Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley.
Includes:
Tail end of promo for "MacArthur" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(32 seconds of black edited out)
Tom, Jane and Gene Shalit discuss Halloweens past and present including Brokaw's remembrances of tipping over outhouses as a boy in Ravinia, South Dakota
Promo for "The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(32 seconds of black edited out)
8:30am (Eastern time) segment starts, with news items including:
- Western Airlines crash in Mexico City
- Blizzard hitting Great Plains states and part of Rocky Mountains
- Recommendations from a commission investigating Three Mile Island accident
- Richard Arrington elected first black mayor of Birmingham, AL
- Latest trade deficit blamed on high oil imports
- Roger O'Neil report from Elgin, IL on mortgage rates including a shot of Elgin Federal Savings; interviews with realtor Joan Rich, and homeowners Ken Sweet and Lucille Sweet (a sweet couple)
Commercials for:
Birds Eye Oriental Style Rice (with Rosalind Chao of M*A*S*H fame)
Georgia-Pacific (in Tyler, TX)
Complete denture cleanser/toothpaste
Bob Ryan's weather forecast (before Willard Scott joined the program)
Phil Donahue, Live in Chicago, and members of his audience interview Howie Gordon (1979 Playgirl Man of the Year) and wife Jeremy (?) (apparently they wouldn't stay married for much longer), and executive editor of Playgirl Magazine, Dianne Grosskopf
Promo for Quincy and Kate Loves a Mystery (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(31 seconds of black edited out)
In next segment, Jim Brown, in Hollywood, reports on the history of Dracula in the cinema; featuring more recent Draculas George Hamilton and Frank Langella, and former Dracula Christopher Lee
Commercials for:
Reynolds Aluminum (building products to restore old homes)
All the King's Men chess "lite" game - from Parker Brothers
Alpo dog food (with (?), done Live, and featuring a starving dog)
In next segment, Gene speaks of new "Nosferatu, the Vampyre" movie, then a woman provides a Shalit pumpkin head as part of a promo for new book by Ruth J. Katz, "Pumpkin Personalities"
Commercials for:
Ovaltine (voiceover by Fred Foy)
Sta-Puf concentrated fabric softener
Schwinn bicycles (with international skiing champion Jean-Claude Killy)
Jane speaks of her coming 6-day trip to Japan as program closes
Promo for Diff'rent Strokes, Hello, Larry and The Best of Saturday Night Live (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
This aired on local Chicago TV (and across the nation) on Wednesday, October 31st 1979 within the 8:20 to 8:58am (Eastern - 7:20 to 7:58am Central) 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!
Here's an extended excerpt from a Halloween broadcast of the Today show on the NBC Network (as, in Chicago, would have been seen over WMAQ Channel 5); this is directly from the network feed, so there are no local commercial breaks or station ID's, and the black where these would have been inserted has been taken out for ease of viewing. The hosts are Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley.
Includes:
Tail end of promo for "MacArthur" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(32 seconds of black edited out)
Tom, Jane and Gene Shalit discuss Halloweens past and present including Brokaw's remembrances of tipping over outhouses as a boy in Ravinia, South Dakota
Promo for "The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(32 seconds of black edited out)
8:30am (Eastern time) segment starts, with news items including:
- Western Airlines crash in Mexico City
- Blizzard hitting Great Plains states and part of Rocky Mountains
- Recommendations from a commission investigating Three Mile Island accident
- Richard Arrington elected first black mayor of Birmingham, AL
- Latest trade deficit blamed on high oil imports
- Roger O'Neil report from Elgin, IL on mortgage rates including a shot of Elgin Federal Savings; interviews with realtor Joan Rich, and homeowners Ken Sweet and Lucille Sweet (a sweet couple)
Commercials for:
Birds Eye Oriental Style Rice (with Rosalind Chao of M*A*S*H fame)
Georgia-Pacific (in Tyler, TX)
Complete denture cleanser/toothpaste
Bob Ryan's weather forecast (before Willard Scott joined the program)
Phil Donahue, Live in Chicago, and members of his audience interview Howie Gordon (1979 Playgirl Man of the Year) and wife Jeremy (?) (apparently they wouldn't stay married for much longer), and executive editor of Playgirl Magazine, Dianne Grosskopf
Promo for Quincy and Kate Loves a Mystery (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(31 seconds of black edited out)
In next segment, Jim Brown, in Hollywood, reports on the history of Dracula in the cinema; featuring more recent Draculas George Hamilton and Frank Langella, and former Dracula Christopher Lee
Commercials for:
Reynolds Aluminum (building products to restore old homes)
All the King's Men chess "lite" game - from Parker Brothers
Alpo dog food (with (?), done Live, and featuring a starving dog)
In next segment, Gene speaks of new "Nosferatu, the Vampyre" movie, then a woman provides a Shalit pumpkin head as part of a promo for new book by Ruth J. Katz, "Pumpkin Personalities"
Commercials for:
Ovaltine (voiceover by Fred Foy)
Sta-Puf concentrated fabric softener
Schwinn bicycles (with international skiing champion Jean-Claude Killy)
Jane speaks of her coming 6-day trip to Japan as program closes
Promo for Diff'rent Strokes, Hello, Larry and The Best of Saturday Night Live (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
This aired on local Chicago TV (and across the nation) on Wednesday, October 31st 1979 within the 8:20 to 8:58am (Eastern - 7:20 to 7:58am Central) 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!
![NBC Network - Alone at Last [with Bill Daily] - WMAQ Channel 5 (Complete Broadcast, 6/24/1980) πΊ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xh2U7PkdBoQ/hqdefault.jpg "NBC Network - Alone at Last [with Bill Daily] - WMAQ Channel 5 (Complete Broadcast, 6/24/1980) πΊ
Another from the Lost and Forgotten Pilots Department, heres another such example, from 1980 - the complete broadcast of the NBC Networks Alone at Last as aired over WMAQ Channel 5 (A little bonus will follow.)
Its interesting to note that NBC aired two unsold pilots with the same title within a few months of each other. This was the first, with Bill Daily (formerly of I Dream of Jeannie and The Bob Newhart Show) and Virginia Vestoff (formerly of such daytime soaps as The Doctors and Dark Shadows; alas, this was to be her final TV appearance, as she died two years later) as parents whose son (Michael Horton, years away from playing nephew Grady Fletcher on the long-running Murder, She Wrote) blindsides them (as theyre preparing for a trip to Europe) by announcing his intention to marry a woman twice his age. Also features Elaine Joyce (who seemed to be in everything during this period) and Francine Beers.
(The other Alone At Last, which aired over four months later on November 3rd and was a second attempt at this premise, starred Susan Bay and Eugene Roche as parents who attempt to cope with the uncaring attitude of their son - a pre-Saturday Night Live Dana Carvey - and make him more responsible; both dealt with the same family, only with different actors, and the parents first names differed from the one seen here. The later burned-off pilot has yet to turn up.)
Includes:
Animated station ID / PSA for Chicago Boys Clubs (voiceover by ??)
Show opening titles
Commercials for:
Doritos Tortilla Chips - The Flavor Stands Alone (I thought the cheese stands alone) (a strangely sentimental commercial for the product - trying to tie tucking in to a big bag of stinky (yet delicious) chips with traditional family moments)
Hawaiian Punch Drink Mix and Tutti Frutti Punch (with Donny and Marie Osmond - and the voice of Len Maxwell as Punchy)
Act I (with producing, writing and directing credits)
Commercials for:
Dietac time-release diet capsules - from the makers of Contac (with Bill Bixby) (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/juUlk0z0Tus)
Absorbine Jr. - for sore aching muscles
Promo for Heres Boomer, Me and Maxx, and The Rockford Files, followed by A Man Called Sloane (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Act II
Commercials for:
Crispy Wheats n Raisins (voiceover by Casey Kasem) (I wonder if the boy likes gladiator movies?)
Incomplete commercial for Orbit Sugar Free Gum before what seems to be a short cut in the recording leading back into the tail end of a PSA for the Department of Energy
Epilogue, followed by ending credits (with voiceover promo for Real People, Diffrent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Quincy and The Best of Carson by Casey Kasem) - look for the Columbia Pictures Television sunburst logo bumper at the end
Were Proud promo [featuring the likes of Diffrent Strokes, Bob Hope, Steve Martin, Flamingo Road, Speak Up America, The Thursday Games, Harper Valley (starring Barbara Eden), Hill Street Blues, Johnny Carson, CHiPs and Little House on the Prairie)
Commercials for:
Harris Bank - Hello, Stan? (was posted separately here, although this is one of those clips that will not play now and needs to be replaced: https://youtu.be/fpK9WK3No10)
Ponderosa Steakhouse - Free Kids Meal (with magician Blackstone, and Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop)
Station ID / NewsCenter5 promo with Chuck Henry
Bonus: First five minutes of NBC White Paper, If Japan Can . . . Why Cant We?, hosted by Lloyd Dobyns about the differences between Japanese and American businesses in terms of productivity, featuring:
Opening setup and titles
Sponsor billboard for Weyerhaeuser - The Tree Growing Company
First segment, with Lloyd introducing the show and going from there before the tape runs out.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, June 24th 1980 during the 8:00pm to 8:35pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!")
