Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here is a hilarious sketch from Son of Svengoolie - "The Sven-eymooners" (parody of The Honeymooners), where Sven practices riding a mechanical bull for the Raccoon Lodge's "Urban Cowboy" night. This originally aired as Break #4 of WFLD Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie episode #216 where the film was "The Black Castle" [1952]. (with the stars "Jackie Gruesome and Art Carnage")
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/ssQDlAWdsk0)
Starring Rich Koz as Son of Svengoolie/Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton.
"It'll keep running 'till 1989!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 3rd 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!
Here is a hilarious sketch from Son of Svengoolie - "The Sven-eymooners" (parody of The Honeymooners), where Sven practices riding a mechanical bull for the Raccoon Lodge's "Urban Cowboy" night. This originally aired as Break #4 of WFLD Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie episode #216 where the film was "The Black Castle" [1952]. (with the stars "Jackie Gruesome and Art Carnage")
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/ssQDlAWdsk0)
Starring Rich Koz as Son of Svengoolie/Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton.
"It'll keep running 'till 1989!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 3rd 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!








![Christina Applegate on the Arsenio Hall Show (1989)
Here’s a clip featuring someone who was definitely a dream Valentine’s Day date for teens back in 1989.
Marvel, at the different standards of what was acceptable at different times in human history! :-/
Heres actress Christina Applegate of Fox Televisions Married with Children and Anchorman fame, at the tender age of 17 years old.
She appeared as a guest on the Arsenio Hall Show to discuss her thespian endeavors and how she wishes someone would ask her out. Activist Terry Rakolta is also mentioned as well as her crusade against the alleged indecency of Married with Children.
Also featured was 17 year old Christina’s new “sexy” pin-up poster, which was apparently not as risqué as the previous poster of hers that was released which featured her posing with animals.
[Modification Note: The clip of Married with Children that was featured had to be (mostly) edited out due to YouTube blocking]
This aired on local Chicago TV early Thursday, June 22nd 1989 during the 12:00am to 1:00am 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 DVD, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help! Christina Applegate on the Arsenio Hall Show (1989)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UNLEQbOH0so/mqdefault.jpg)

![WBBM-TV - Common Ground - Playboy Playmate Vicki McCarty (First 17 Mins., 9/2/1979) 🐇
Heres the first 17 minutes of an edition of Common Ground on WBBM Channel 2, hosted by Warner Saunders and his guest Vicki McCarty (later to be known as Vicki Iovine) who was Playboys Playmate of the Month for September 1979; preceded by a commercial break. (This ran after The Best of CBS presentation of They Shoot Horses, Dont They? [1969].)
All station and local voiceovers (except where noted) by Bob Carrington.
Includes:
Commercial: Oakbrook Centers annual Fine Arts Promenade & Sale
The Best of CBS ending titles (with same theme music as opened The CBS Late Movie at this point in time, and from 1971 to 1979 their other movie shows - otherwise known as So Old, So Young by Morton Stevens) (and voiceover promo for Common Ground)
Commercials for:
Community Family Centers - Super Back-to-School Extravaganza - sale on Underoos (voiceover by Al Parker and ?) (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/qNN37IgDesg)
Looking Good local version promo (with sights of various people in various areas of Chicago)
Homers Fine Furniture Sale
Animated Lightning station ID
Show opening [with voiceover (by Jerry Harper) previewing not only this guest and the controversy shes generated, but those who would come on after this recording ended: South African Zulu tribe chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Those the Sun Has Loved author Rose Jourdain]
Sponsor billboard for Fidelity World Art
Commercial: Affordable Art Sale at OHare Expo Center (and yet with all that, no paintings of dogs playing poker - dang!) (voiceover sounds like Joe Passarella who also did the Dominicks ads around this time)
Shot of Vicki from Playboy issue (backed by Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) by Santana) - music modified to avoid issues
Warner starting off about her insistence that shes also a feminist (and her being a third-year law student is brought up)
Vicki explains that they missed Step B in the syllogism Warner cited, and how she considers her posing a major part of her own liberation movement while maintaining her politics
Other topics brought up include:
- The attitudes of others regarding her posing
- Maintaining ones beliefs in certain situations at a given moment
- The dichotomy of her beliefs vs. her disrobing for the magazine
- How many feminists allegedly dislike men
- Discussing her being a freelance journalist for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and trying to get an internship, focusing on a story of the workings of the star machine and how Playboy was cited as a stepping stone, the already existing careers of other women whod posed (including the coming Miss October), but that they didnt want her sitting in as a reporter, and how it got her thinking to get in as a contestant, and the process she went through on the path to being Miss September
- (In response to his questions about beautiful, smart women posing in Playboy) How shed never intended to become a practicing lawyer, but had been offered jobs as a journalist
- Her speaking with Christie Hefner
- Regrets other women have had
- How she sees other women relating their experiences to their children
(sadly, the recording ends as the conversation continues)
. . . I didnt know outside of the magazine, because I only read it inside of the magazine . . .
This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, September 2nd 1979 around the 1:15am to 1:35am 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! WBBM-TV - Common Ground - Playboy Playmate Vicki McCarty (First 17 Mins., 9/2/1979) 🐇](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Um7Q4IeSeD0/mqdefault.jpg)