Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here is the open of WFLD Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie show #218, featuring the song parody "Good Morning, Sven" (parody of the Beatles' "Good Morning Good Morning"). The movie that week was "Day the World Ended" [1955]. The only time the show ever started with a song parody right out of the gate, to make note of the fact that Sven's time had changed to the unspooky hour of 10:00am!
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/Xevg09ykapo
Has some nice shots of the Marina City Towers including a billboard advertising "Thicke of the Night". Also features a cameo by long-time WFLD director Don Shannon as the guy trying to get Sven back into his coffin at 1:48.
Starring Rich Koz as the Son of Svengoolie and Doug Scharf as Doug Graves, the piano player.
"...with NEW laughs, and the SAME OLD MOVIES!!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 17th, 1983 at 10:00am.
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 is the open of WFLD Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie show #218, featuring the song parody "Good Morning, Sven" (parody of the Beatles' "Good Morning Good Morning"). The movie that week was "Day the World Ended" [1955]. The only time the show ever started with a song parody right out of the gate, to make note of the fact that Sven's time had changed to the unspooky hour of 10:00am!
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/Xevg09ykapo
Has some nice shots of the Marina City Towers including a billboard advertising "Thicke of the Night". Also features a cameo by long-time WFLD director Don Shannon as the guy trying to get Sven back into his coffin at 1:48.
Starring Rich Koz as the Son of Svengoolie and Doug Scharf as Doug Graves, the piano player.
"...with NEW laughs, and the SAME OLD MOVIES!!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 17th, 1983 at 10:00am.
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!
