Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a complete(ish) broadcast (apart from one cartoon having to be cut by us to avoid YouTube blocking) of Tom and Jerry on Afternoon Fun, as presented over WFLD Metromedia Channel 32.
On this day, two of the Tom and Jerry cartoons were from within the run of The Tom and Jerry Show, which ran on the ABC Network (and in Chicago via WLS Channel 7) from September 6th 1975 to December 13th 1975; these made-for-TV shorts were intermixed in MGM's syndicated package alongside the 1940-58 theatrical cartoons, the 1961-62 Gene Deitch lot, Chuck Jones' 1963-67 version, and post-1948 cartoons including those directed by Tex Avery and the Droopy, Spike and Tyke, and Barney Bear series; and by this point, the abysmal 1980-82 Filmation Tom and Jerry Comedy Show installments (one of which is the last cartoon of the day) were also incorporated into this package.
Bumpers indicating commercial breaks and a return to the show are seen after and before each cartoon (voiceovers by Maggie Brock)
NOTE: This is to replace two earlier, now broken (unplayable) video postings, preserved as unlisted videos here to save the original comments: youtu.be/87RI02GVyNY and youtu.be/-aDncRNKZAo
Includes:
LBS Communications bumper
Station ID / promo for Tom and Jerry (voiceover by ??) (clip from 1960's Chuck Jones era) (voiceover by Maggie Brock - at least it sounds like her? Anyone know for sure?)
First cartoon, "Watch Out, Watch Dog" (#80-12, original air date November 1st 1975; this and the next two cartoons do not have opening, or even closing, episode titles shown)
Commercials for:
Transformers - from Hasbro ("More Than Meets the Eye")
Cheerios (with Lucy and Schroeder from Peanuts, and promo for posters of Knight Rider, Strawberry Shortcake, Rose Petal Place and the Care Bears)
Toys R Us ("I Don't Wanna Grow Up")
Candy Land board game - from Milton Bradley
Second cartoon, Tex Avery's "The Farm of Tomorrow" (1954) (only the opening few seconds with Paul Frees' voiceover and ending shot are shown, to avoid copyright blockage)
Commercials for:
Starriors (Vultor, Ripsaw and Clawgut - each sold separately) - from Tomy
Post Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles cereal (with "Pebbles Bedrock TV Game" promo; voices of The Flintstones dubbed for children appearing in live action) (with Jason Hervey of "The Wonder Years" fame as Fred Flintstone)
Five Winders - from Schaper (voiceover by Ken Nordine?)
PSA for Easter Seals Safe Halloween coupons
Third cartoon, "Beanstalk Buddies" (#80-22, original air date November 15th 1975)
Commercials for:
The Challenge of the Gobots (voiceover by Dick Tufeld?)
Super Powers Collection (DC Super Heroes vs. Villains) - from Kenner
ManTech - from Remco (voiceover by Wendell Craig?)
Promo for Science Fiction Sunday ("Forbidden Planet," "The Time Machine," "THX-1138" and "2001: A Space Odyssey") (voiceover by W.B. Brydon)
Fourth cartoon, "Pied Piper Puss" (from The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show; original air date October 11th 1980)
Station ID / promo for The Flintstones (voiceover by Maggie Brock)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 24th 1984 during the 3:30pm to 4:00pm 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!
Here's a complete(ish) broadcast (apart from one cartoon having to be cut by us to avoid YouTube blocking) of Tom and Jerry on Afternoon Fun, as presented over WFLD Metromedia Channel 32.
On this day, two of the Tom and Jerry cartoons were from within the run of The Tom and Jerry Show, which ran on the ABC Network (and in Chicago via WLS Channel 7) from September 6th 1975 to December 13th 1975; these made-for-TV shorts were intermixed in MGM's syndicated package alongside the 1940-58 theatrical cartoons, the 1961-62 Gene Deitch lot, Chuck Jones' 1963-67 version, and post-1948 cartoons including those directed by Tex Avery and the Droopy, Spike and Tyke, and Barney Bear series; and by this point, the abysmal 1980-82 Filmation Tom and Jerry Comedy Show installments (one of which is the last cartoon of the day) were also incorporated into this package.
Bumpers indicating commercial breaks and a return to the show are seen after and before each cartoon (voiceovers by Maggie Brock)
NOTE: This is to replace two earlier, now broken (unplayable) video postings, preserved as unlisted videos here to save the original comments: youtu.be/87RI02GVyNY and youtu.be/-aDncRNKZAo
Includes:
LBS Communications bumper
Station ID / promo for Tom and Jerry (voiceover by ??) (clip from 1960's Chuck Jones era) (voiceover by Maggie Brock - at least it sounds like her? Anyone know for sure?)
First cartoon, "Watch Out, Watch Dog" (#80-12, original air date November 1st 1975; this and the next two cartoons do not have opening, or even closing, episode titles shown)
Commercials for:
Transformers - from Hasbro ("More Than Meets the Eye")
Cheerios (with Lucy and Schroeder from Peanuts, and promo for posters of Knight Rider, Strawberry Shortcake, Rose Petal Place and the Care Bears)
Toys R Us ("I Don't Wanna Grow Up")
Candy Land board game - from Milton Bradley
Second cartoon, Tex Avery's "The Farm of Tomorrow" (1954) (only the opening few seconds with Paul Frees' voiceover and ending shot are shown, to avoid copyright blockage)
Commercials for:
Starriors (Vultor, Ripsaw and Clawgut - each sold separately) - from Tomy
Post Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles cereal (with "Pebbles Bedrock TV Game" promo; voices of The Flintstones dubbed for children appearing in live action) (with Jason Hervey of "The Wonder Years" fame as Fred Flintstone)
Five Winders - from Schaper (voiceover by Ken Nordine?)
PSA for Easter Seals Safe Halloween coupons
Third cartoon, "Beanstalk Buddies" (#80-22, original air date November 15th 1975)
Commercials for:
The Challenge of the Gobots (voiceover by Dick Tufeld?)
Super Powers Collection (DC Super Heroes vs. Villains) - from Kenner
ManTech - from Remco (voiceover by Wendell Craig?)
Promo for Science Fiction Sunday ("Forbidden Planet," "The Time Machine," "THX-1138" and "2001: A Space Odyssey") (voiceover by W.B. Brydon)
Fourth cartoon, "Pied Piper Puss" (from The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show; original air date October 11th 1980)
Station ID / promo for The Flintstones (voiceover by Maggie Brock)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 24th 1984 during the 3:30pm to 4:00pm 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!
![ON TV - Orson Welles at The Magic Castle (1978) [LOST Special] 🏰 📺](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pO3b2PsnSgI/mqdefault.jpg "ON TV - Orson Welles at The Magic Castle (1978) [LOST Special] 🏰 📺
A spooky treat! 🎃
Sourced from a relatively-good Betamax dub, (who knows where the original recording went? Not us) heres the (seemingly) complete broadcast of a heretofore long-lost pay-tv special — Orson Welles at The Magic Castle, as shown over the ON TV subscription service (research found that it also aired on Showtime in September 1978).
A remembrance by Abb Dickson, from the book Orson Welles Remembered - I picked up the phone, I called Orson, I said, “Look, I’ve written this Magic special...” I said, “I need for you to do the introduction and the in-and-out. It will probably be one day of shooting, at the most two, and I’ve only got, I think, $25,000. Will you shoot this?” And he said, “Sure! But I get the extra film.”
We go across the street to Columbia Pay Television and in less than an hour we have sold a special called Orson Welles at the Magic Castle. Orson and I worked out all of the intros and outros. So he showed up, we did our tape, we did our intros, we shot for that one day, and the next morning we were to finish the outside shots where Orson arrived at the Castle — full of fog — and he gestures and the doors open and he walks into the Castle. Well, Orson called me at about 7 o’clock in the morning and said, “I’m not coming. I’ve shot everything they need, you can shoot the rest of it. I’ll send you my wardrobe, but you’re going to have to have a hat made because your head is smaller than mine and my hat won’t fit you.” So I’m the one outside, gesturing in the cape and wandering through the fog, and I was the one who finished the shot.
(NOTE: Several library music cues featured in the special had to be modified for posting here)
Includes:
Our host (surreptitiously played by Abb Dickson in disguise) introduces us outside the castle and describes what - and who - are allowed in it, followed by the opening title
Orson enters the building where strange things are happening, and Abb Dickson (in fez) explains about, and demonstrates, the Indian rope trick
He then turns the program over to Abb who introduces the following guests:
- Peter Pit, from Holland; does various tricks and jokes
- Ger Copper, who does various tricks
- Kuda Bux, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes from Pakistan
- A look at piano player Invisible Irma (a ghost) on display at the Irma Room
- More magic from Peter Pit (with magical floating cane) at the Palace of Mystery
- Jay Marshall, in the Conjurers Corner, does tricks involving large rings
- After his piece ends, we hard cut to Abb (in a King Tut costume) presiding over it
- Hard cut again, bringing us inside the Parlour of Prestidigitation, with Albert Goshman, who does tricks with two women, Wendy and Eileen, in attendance
- Abb does tricks with an Oriental theme
- A filmed segment with Orson doing magic
Orson then closes the program (I remain as always, obediently yours...) with credits:
Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
Starring Orson Welles
Featuring Abb Dickson
With Kuda Bux, Ger Copper, Albert Goshman, Jay Marshall, Peter Pit
Produced by Joe Butt, Brad Schreiber
Directed by Tom Trbovich
Written by Abb Dickson, Orson Welles
Lighting Consultant - Greg Brunton
Associate Director - Chris Darley
Production Stage Manager - Paul Miller
Camera - Larry Heider, Bob Keys, Wayne Orr
Video - Mark Sanford
Audio - Larry Stephens
Technical Director - Harvey Berger
Videotape Editors - Gary Princz, Max Curtis
Make-Up - Greg Nelson
Production Assistants - Wendy Charles, Kathi Heller, Wendy Macintosh
Still Photographer - Bill Sandidge
Production Coordinator - Barry Kaplan
Lighting - Imero Fiorentino Associates, Inc.
Videotape Facilities - Compact Video Systems, Inc.
Post Production - E.U.E./Screen Gems Video Services
Film Sequences - Orson Welles
Special Thanks to The Magic Castle
Executive Producer - Joe Butt
A BMR Production
Extended A Columbia Pictures Pay Television Presentation bumper (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/eQ5nbj53U6o)
Coming ON bumper
Beginning of preview for “Women in Love [1969] (recording cuts out)
Take my word for it. Im a magician myself.
This originally aired in 1978. (one confirmed airing on the Los Angeles ON TV station was in December 1978)
This footage was donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Richard Gough 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. We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present, 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!")
