Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Here's the complete broadcast of a rerun of the 1972-77 cop show The Streets of San Francisco (starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas), more specifically the episode "The Thrill Killers - Part I" (S05E01, original airdate September 30th 1976) as presented over WNAC Channel 7 (later WNEV, now WHDH) in Boston, MA.

In the first of a two-part episode, an entire jury is kidnapped by four dangerous killers who threaten to murder them all if their demands are not met. Like all Quinn Martin (or is it Norman Fell?) productions, this features an all-star guest cast (including Patty Duke Astin, Darleen Carr, Susan Dey, Norman Fell (or is it Quinn Martin?), Doris Roberts, Dick Van Patten - and, listed in the end credits, Anthony Geary (!), Ron Glass (of Barney Miller fame), and Marion Ross (from Happy Days!).

All local voiceovers are by longtime WNAC staff announcer Leif Jensen.

Includes:

Station ID slide / PSA for Child-at-Risk Hotline

Show opening titles (voiceover by longtime QM announcer Hank Simms) (music modification to prevent YouTube blocking) (Norman Fell modification just for fun)

Commercials for:
Crimson Travel (with Rex and Sgt. Billy)
Birds Eye French Style Rice
Promo for The Newlywed Game
PSA for OXFAM-America (with international disaster expert Jim Howard talking about situation in Cambodia)

Act I (as with all QM productions, this and other acts are shown as such on screen)

Commercials for:
StarCase (movie channel) (voiceover by Jackson Beck)
Promo for Newsroom 7: The 11 O'Clock Update

Access (a public-affairs segment) - Sen. Sharon Pollard (D-Methuen) speaks about solar power in New England

Act II (ends with "return in a moment" bumper, voiceover by Hank Simms)

December Community Calendar (special event at Worcester Art Museum and goings-on at Salvation Army Harbor Lights Center)

Commercial: Victors Cough Drops - from Vicks

Promo for Candlepins for Cash

Act III

Theatrical trailer for "The Electric Horseman"

"Looking Good" promo of station lineup (featuring clips from various CBS shows like M*A*S*H, Candlepins for Cash, Dinah & Friends, Newsroom 7: The 11 O'Clock Update, The Newlywed Game, The Bad News Bears, The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show, At Noon, Peanuts specials, CBS News Sunday Morning, The Joker's Wild, Sha Na Na [with guest Dusty Springfield], Hawaii Five-0, Movie 7, Newsroom 7, Rebop, Dance Fever, and others)

PSA from U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission - "Children's Hazards"

Act IV [Technical Difficulties Alert!] - note that from 43:16 to 44:17, the sound disappears, after which a station ID slide with CBS's 1979-80 slogan "Looking Good" is on the screen for 1 minute and 12 seconds; at 44:41, the mellifluous tones of Leif Jensen advise, "Please stand by," followed at 45:11 by, "We regret the interruption in this program, whatever difficulties should be cleared momentarily. Please stand by. Thank you." The action then resumes as normal at 45:53]

Christmas Greetings from John Henning (flanked by other members of Newsroom 7 team)

Commercial: Thomas' English Muffins - "Thomas' or Toast?" (at Belleville School No. 3 in New Jersey) (voiceover by Peter Thomas)

PSA's for:
School Volunteers for Boston - requiring tutors in Boston public schools
Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD!) (with M.L. Carr of Boston Celtics) (background music: "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by McFadden & Whitehead)

Epilog

Followed directly by closing credits (station cuts out of credits midway through them)

Preview of Newsroom 7 (with Mike Taibbi)

Animated station promo of three children outside snow-covered street wishing everybody happy holidays

Commercial: Purity Supreme, "The Basic Value Store" - "Big Holiday Meat Sale"

PSA from National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute and U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare on controlling your diet and blood pressure (voiceover by Karl Weber)

Station ID / Happy Chanuka wishes

First minute of The Joker's Wild (full broadcast posted separately here: youtu.be/YseICbLM-3c)

This aired on local Boston TV on Thursday, December 20th 1979 during the 4pm to 5pm (EST) timeframe. (incidentally, this was day 47 of the ongoing Iranian hostage crisis)

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