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Our Mission: To further the acquisition, preservation, and display of historical Chicago Television broadcasts. This page is a "best-of" - the main site with over 4,700 video clips online is at www.FuzzyMemories.TV or visit our YouTube page at www.youtube.com/user/FuzzyMemoriesTV

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11/02/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iv7rvslAB4

47 Years Ago Today:

Here's a partial commercial break from the 3:30 Movie presentation of "The Navy vs. the Night Monsters" on WLS Channel 7. (side note - this is the earliest known example of this version of the 3:30 Movie bumper. I wonder when it started being used?) Includes:

Partial 3:30 Movie bumper

Commercial: Homemakers - A division of John M. Smyth (with Shelley Long of Cheers fame) in Woodfield and Downers Grove

Commercial: National Enquirer magazine

Commercial: Wyler's drink mix by Borden - "Wyler's flavor boosters make Wyler's flavor better!" (voice over by Alan Kalter?)

Commercial: Northwest Federal Savings - "63 Hours a Week" - featuring Gene Moll (who appeared in many a Joel Sedelmaier-produced TV commercial) as the man in bed, and Mike Nussbaum as the greeter at the end (voiceover by Felix Shuman)

WLS Eyewitness News at 5 preview with Sheila Stainback. Stories include, "The body of a teenage girl is discovered in Skokie. The search is on in suburban Riverside for a third man involved in a home invasion. And Oak Park officials move to provide insurance help to homeowners in that community. Peter Karl joins us with a report..."

Commercial: Bissel Sweep-Easy (Available at Ace Hardware Stores, Walgreen Drug Stores, True Value Hardware Stores, and Goldblatt Department Stores)

Commercial: Grapes - The Natural Snack (from the California Table Grape Commission)

WLS 3:30 Movie promo for Thursday, November 3rd's airing of "The Night Stalker"

Partial Commercial: Milk Mate chocolate syrup (with Danielle Brisebois of "Archie Bunker's Place" fame)

This aired on November 2, 1977.

Here's a partial commercial break from the 3:30 Movie presentation of "The Navy vs. the Night Monsters" on WLS Channel 7. (side note - this is the earliest k...

11/01/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x356D_F9_Zg

44 Years Ago Today:

Here's a commercial for Bon Jour Action Jeans with an "I Dream of Jeannie" type influence. Available at "Just Pants".

This aired on November 1, 1980.

Here's a commercial for Bon Jour Action Jeans with an "I Dream of Jeannie" type influence. Available at "Just Pants".This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturd...

10/31/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2WaE2AKeQI

40 Years Ago Today:

Here's a Halloween special of the sketch comedy series You Can't Do That on Television - during which Christine casts an imaginary spell onto Ross after he publicly expresses his disdain for Halloween), as aired on the Nickelodeon cable channel.

The program, started in Canada in 1979 and running there through 1990, was a staple of Nickelodeon from 1981 until 1994. This edition starred Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Alasdair Gillis, Dougie Ptolemy, Mike Cameron, Les Lye and Abby Hagyard.

Includes:

Nickelodeon ID with claymation characters

Episode segment 1

Commercials for:

YCDTOTv "Will Return..." lockers bumper (voiceover by Les Lye?)

Crunch Island Camera Sweepstakes from Choco Crunch, Cap'n Crunch's Peanut Butter, and Crunch Berries - your choice of a Kodak camera (mail by March 31st 1985) (featuring a young Fred Savage)

Bristle Blocks from Playskool

Offer for VHS of animated "The Hobbit" from Sony

Nickelodeon "silver ball" bumper for the return of YCDTOTv (voice over by Les Lye?)

Show segment 2, including ending credits

This aired in Chicago via cable TV on October 31, 1984.

Here's a Halloween special of the sketch comedy series You Can't Do That on Television - during which Christine casts an imaginary spell onto Ross after he p...

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween - another "lost" Bozo episode premiering today at Noon! 😎

Here's another AMAZING discovery that we found! Here's the complete broadcast of the 1979 Halloween edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9, the last Hall...

10/30/2024

The great FuzzyTV / WGN Peace Accord continues unabated, and you, Bozo fans, are the beneficiaries! Join us here today at 12 Noon where it will be 10/30/1979!

Here's a complete broadcast of the day before Halloween 1979 edition of Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9. The usual gang of Bob Bell as Bozo, Frazier Thomas as...

10/29/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVqEjOP8C5c

41 Years Ago Today:

Here's a repeat of a Halloween-themed edition of the ABC Weekend Special as aired over WLS Channel 7, of "Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit" which originally aired on January 9, 1982. It most recently aired on MeTV Toons on October 27, 2024 at 5 PM Central locally on WCIU-TV 26.7, pre-empting "Top Cat."

The hosts were Willie Tyler and Lester, introducing this short about a new-found family bunny rabbit suspected of being a vampire.

Includes:

Promo for 3:00 Movie presentation of "Halloween with the Addams Family" for Monday (the 31st!)

Animated "Closed Captioned" notice

Opening ABC Weekend Special titles, followed by introduction by Willie and Lester

Act I of "Bunnicula," starting with opening titles and credits

"We'll Return After These Messages" bumper (voice over by Bill Owen)

Commercial: Return of the Jedi game from Parker Brothers (voice over by Adolph Caesar?)

Kellogg's Strawberry Rice Krispies (with "Dennis" in strawberry suit for school play - featuring the "Wubby" kid from the film Mister Mom - actor Taliesin Jaffe)

ABC Weekend Special "Now back to our story" bumper (voice over by Ernie Anderson)

Act II of "Bunnicula"

Another "We'll return..." bumper (voice over by Bill Owen)

Commercial: Barbie Dream Store - Fashion Department from Mattel

(16:23) - Commercial: Donkey Kong breakfast cereal

Commercial: Connect Four from Milton Bradley "Pretty sneaky, sis."

ABC Weekend Special "Now back to our story" bumper (voice over by Ernie Anderson)

Final scene of "Bunnicula"

Yet another "We'll return..." bumper (voice over by Bill Owen)

Commercial: Strawberry Shortcake Berry Happy Home from Kenner

Commercial: Kellogg's Rice Krispies (with girl pianist)

Animated PSA with Captain O.G. Readmore for Library of Congress

Return bumper (voice over by Ernie Anderson)

Willie and Lester ending

Promo for next week's Special, "All the Money in the World" (voice over by Bill Owen)

Ending credits (with voice over promos by Ed Jordan):

Executive Producers - Joe Ruby & Ken Spears
Directed by Charles A. Nichols
Written by Mark Evanier
Based on the book "Bunnicula" by Deborah and James Howe
Director of Production Design - Ric Gonzalez
Supervising Story Direction - Gordon Kent
Story Direction - Don Sheppard
Models - Alan Huck
Voice Direction - Alan Dinehart
Layout Supervision - Larry Huber
Layout - Pete Alvarado, Richard Bickenbach, Hak Ficq, Wallace Sides, Aaron St. John, Gary Terry, Brad Landrath
Background Layout Supervision - David High
Background Layout - John F. Guerin, Bruce Zick
Animation Supervision - Jay Sarbry
Animation - Frank Andrina, Ed Barge, Tom Barnes, Bob Bemiller, Oliver Callahan, Rudy Cataldi, Zeon Davush, Rick Leon, Hicks Lokey, Mircea Manta, Bob Nesler, Margaret Nichols, Ed Demattia, Joan Drake, Hugh Fraser, Terry Harrison, Fred Hullmich, Aundre Knutson, Al Green, Barney Posner, Bill Pratt, Joanna Romersa, Don Ruch, Kunio Shimamura, Ken Southworth
Assistant Animation Supervision - John Boersema
Production Coordinator - Loretta High
Xerography - Star Wirth
Checking and Scene Planning - Jackie Banks
Ink and Paint Supervision - Alison Victory
Studio Manager - Jeff Cooke
Background Styling - Eric Semones
Background Painted by P.S. Lewis, Gary Salvaggio, Phil Phillipson, Peter Van Elk, Gloria Wood
Color Key - Bunny Semones
Title Design - Robert Schaefer
Assistants to the Executive Producers - Erika Grossbart, Kayte Kuch
Production Assistants - Joyce Benson, Brynn Melnick, Cathy Rose
Music - Dean Elliot
Music Supervision - Paul De Korte
Supervising Film Editor - Chip Yaras
Effects Editors - Jack Durney, Pete Grives, Karla McGregor, Kevin Spears
Music Editor - Denise O'Hara
Negative Cutting - Mary Nelson
Post Production Supervision - Lenore Nelson
Technical Supervision - Jerry Mills
Camera - Steve Altman, Charles Flekal, Curtis Hall, Dan Larson, Raymond Lee, Ralph Migliori, Joe Ponticelle, Cliff Shirpser, Roy Wade, Jerry Whittington, Dave Valentine
Laboratory - C.F.I.
Re-Recording - T.V.R., James L. Aiholtz
(C) 1982 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Animated Ruby-Spears logo bumper

Ending ABC Weekend Special titles

This aired on October 29, 1983.

Here's a repeat of a Halloween-themed edition of the ABC Weekend Special as aired over WLS Channel 7, of "Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit" which originally air...

10/28/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckHAl1MeN3I

45 Years Ago Today:

Here's a first-run, second-season Halloween-themed episode of Mork & Mindy, "A Morkville Horror" (S02E08), as broadcast over the ABC Network via Chicago's WLS Channel 7.

In this episode (with guest Robert Donner as Exidor), Mindy finds her childhood home is haunted by her dead relatives as she tries to prepare it for sale.

Includes:

Station ID / PSA for Chicago Boy Scouts (voice over by Wayne Atkinson)

Show opening titles (way different from first season; Jim Staahl who is shown in the opening credits does not appear in this episode)

Commercials for:

New Meow Mix - in blue box, with beef, liver and kidney

Sears - Pre-Holiday Home Appliance Sale

Episode Act I

Commercials for:

Olympus OM10 camera - with Cheryl Tiegs (taking pictures of bicycle race)

Green Giant Niblets Corn - in Butter Sauce

Promo for The Associates, followed by "Disaster on the Coastliner" (voice over by Ernie Anderson)

Animated 1979-80 ABC ID, with lower-third station ID coming in a bit later

Episode Act II

[sadly, this break was edited out of the recording]

Episode epilogue, with Mork reporting to Orson, followed by ending credits (with voiceover promo for 240-Robert, followed by Seattle Seahawks vs. Atlanta Falcons on NFL Monday Night Football, and The Associates coming up next followed by "Disaster on the Coastliner," by Allan Jefferys)

(recording ends before Paramount Television logo bumper)

This aired on October 28, 1979.

Here's a first-run, second-season Halloween-themed episode of Mork & Mindy, "A Morkville Horror" (S02E08), as broadcast over the ABC Network via Chicago's WL...

10/27/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsOXz_HCr8

40 Years Ago Today:

Here's another episode of The Eagle's Nest, hosted by Pastor Gary Greenwald of the Ministry for the Eagle's Nest Christian Fellowship in southern California, as aired over WCFC Channel 38. This rant - er, sermon, is a continuation of his comments on Halloween, here explaining about various curses throughout history.

Includes:

Animated station ID

Show opening

Pastor Gary (shown on the lower third at various points as "Gary Greeenwald") gives his interpretations (with accompanying pictures) of the Curse of King Tut (including shots of the tomb opening) and the numerous deaths in the wake of the opening of his tomb, and ties it into what he sees as God's curses of those who celebrate Halloween and send their kids out trick-or-treating (and come home with contaminated food and apples with razor blades). As he goes on, we see numerous pictures including more Halloween masks, Anton LaVey (Satanic High Priest of the Church of Satan) with a young woman, two hands next to a burning fire, two trick-or-treaters wearing skull masks, the Frankenstein monster, Doctor Frankenstein's lab, Bela Lugosi as Dracula, a character from "Tales from the Crypt," a woman with cat eyes, an ogre creature, a fallen man, Satan himself, the Wolf Man, and Jason from "Friday the 13th," all to punctuate his various points. A few ghouls (including said Frankenstein monster) show up from time to time during his lecture. At one point he brings up Jayne Mansfield's 1967 death to underscore his message.

Two-thirds into the show is the same promo for his two-cassette lecture on Halloween and his "The Punk Called Rock" book that was on the previous show.

Ending credits:

Executive Producer - Gary Greenwald
Produced & Directed by Paul Crouch Junior
Assistant Producers - Larry Adams, Bud Collyer (no, not that Bud Collyer)
Audio - Ray Vaca
Video Tape - Tom Beintema
Camera - Dave Buchanon
Special Effects - Malcome Bohne, Tom Jordan
Lighting - Steve Boggess, Paul Crouch Junior
Engineer - Don Harvey
Grip - Randy Layson

Eagle's Nest
Irvine, California 92714
(where to send for transcripts - presumably no longer valid)

This Has Been a Family Enterprise Presentation

"Hi, Frank, how are you . . . don't have much to say?"

This aired on October 27, 1984

Here's another episode of The Eagle's Nest, hosted by Pastor Gary Greenwald of the Ministry for the Eagle's Nest Christian Fellowship in southern California,...

10/27/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZefMSbIvE4

28 Years Ago Today:

From its waning years (relegated to once-a-week on Sunday mornings), here's the annual Halloween tradition on the Bozo show, the "Hobgoblin Parade" (usually referred to as the "Hobgoblin March") as presented by what was by this time entitled The Bozo Super Sunday Show on WGN Channel 9, hosted by Joey D'Auria as Bozo the Clown.

[NOTE: The music accompanying this parade (in living stereo) - entirely from synthesizer as performed by Professor Andy, having long ago ditched the live three-piece 'Big Top Band" that was the show's mainstay in its heyday - is mostly played backwards since it uses a rendition of a Disney song, namely "Be Prepared" from "The Lion King".]

(This was also one year before the show's format became "educational," owing to new FCC edicts on children's programming on broadcast television.)

Among the characters the kids (and some of their parents) marching out include Darth Vader, G.I. Joe, Spider-Man, a couple Peter Pans, Jason from "Friday the 13th," Snow White, a green M&M, a blue M&M, a red M&M, a rainbow-haired Bulls player (Dennis Rodman we can assume), a flapper, a princess, a ninja, an Easter bunny (on Halloween?), a bridesmaid, Thomas the Tank Engine, a couple Indiana Jones, the red Power Ranger, a firefighter, a firefighter witch, The Riddler from Batman, a geisha, a Bears player, a 1950s-era poodle skirt girl, a chef, the Statue of Liberty, a pirate, the Grim Reaper, a wizard (a pre-Harry Potter "traditional" one), a couple traditional stripe-suited prisoners, Captain Kirk from Star Trek, a gangster, Jim Carey's character from "The Mask", a muscleman, a dragon, a court jester, a cowboy, a sorceress, Rainbow Brite, a Native American, another Bears player (QB Steve Walsh, with a helmet), Dracula, and assorted ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, witches, skeletons and various supernatural beings intermixed with animals (including a few of the cat family, especially a black cat), and other "everyday people."

Bonus:

"We'll Be Right Back" bumper (voiceover by Jim Cutler? - accompanied by "Ghostbusters" theme)

Commercials for:

Fruit by the Foot watermelon flavor (from Betty Crocker)

Dancin' Suzie Stretch doll (from Irwin)

Pattie doll (from Rosie & Friends line)

Fruit String Thing strawberry flavor (from Betty Crocker)

Return bumper (voice over by Jim Cutler?)

Bozo (with Rebecca dressed as a traditional red devil) introduces "The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky" segment (with some of the opening titles shown)

This aired on Sunday, October 27, 1996.

From its waning years (relegated to once-a-week on Sunday mornings), here's the annual Halloween tradition on the Bozo show, the "Hobgoblin Parade" (usually ...

10/25/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36YL6XwNwLI

38 Years Ago Today:

Here's a commercial for a safe way for kids to carve pumpkins this Halloween - The Pumpkin Kutter.

Available at Walgreens, Osco Drug, Perry Drug Stores, Frank's Nursery and Crafts, True Value Hardware Stores, ServiStar Hardware Stores, and Farm Markets.

"It's almost time, kids...The clock is ticking."

This aired on October 25, 1986.

Here's a commercial for a safe way for kids to carve pumpkins this Halloween - The Pumpkin Kutter.Available at Walgreens, Osco Drug, Perry Drug Stores, Frank...

10/24/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zka8tfmIonc

48 Years Ago Today:

Here's the complete broadcast of The ABC Sunday Night Movie presentation of the 1975 movie "The Stepford Wives" as telecast over WLS Channel 7.

In this spooky horror/sci flick (based on the novel by Ira Levin), Katharine Ross stars as a housewife and photographer who moves to Stepford, Connecticut, and, along the way, finds a sinister motive behind the "perfect" behavior of the other wives in the town. Also starring Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson (whose daughter, Mary Stuart Masterson, made her film debut as Ms. Ross' daughter) and Nanette Newman, and also starring Tina Louise, Carol Rossen, William Prince and Patrick O'Neal.

(Parts of some breaks were cut out of the recording.)

All movie show voiceo vers by Joel Crager.

A bonus will follow.

Includes:

"Zooming 7" ID / promo for "Reflection of Fear"

Show open (station delayed in joining it), with preview of film

Commercials for:
Dodge Monaco (with Louis Jourdan) - "Merci"
Alka-Seltzer
Miss Clairol (with a young Erin Gray)
Final Net hair spray - "A Mist, Not a Cloud"

Segment 1

Commercials for:
Ford Cars (with Bill Cosby - whose Cos show aired on Sundays in this period)
Budweiser - "Beer Talk" (voice over by Ed McMahon)
Colgate toothpaste (featuring Bob McGrath of Sesame Street)
Dynamo laundry detergent - "Better Than Tide" (featuring Pat Hansen) (voice over by Jerry Damon?)

Promo for Rona (Barrett) Looks at Carol Burnett, Valerie Harper, Sally Struthers and Nancy Walker (voice over by Allan Jefferys)

Commercial: Your Chicagoland Solid Men of Olds

"Zooming 7" animated ID

Segment 2

Commercials for:
Gillette Right Guard Anti-Perspirant "Horsin’ Around"
Gillette Cricket disposable lighter, with 25 cents off on Sylvania Flashcubes and Magicubes
Promo for Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (main voice over by Dick Tufeld) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for The Captain & Tennille (main voice over by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jeffreys)

ABC animated ID

Segment 3

Commercials for:
General Motors - "Full-Size Cars for 1977"
Pontiac (cut)
Heinz Ketchup - "Anticipation" (voice over by Casey Kasem) (beginning cut off)

Eyewitness News preview (with Jay Levine)

WLS ID / promo for "Reflection of Fear"

Segment 4

Commercials for:
Great Lash Mascara - by Maybelline
1977 Mercury Marquis
Campbell's new Meatball Alphabet and Chicken Alphabet soup
Phillips Petroleum

Promo for "Live and Let Die" (voice over by Joel Crager)

Segment 5

Commercials for:
Pontiac Bonneville - "The Mark of Great Cars"
Chicken of the Sea Tuna Fish
Listerine mouthwash (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Sinutab

Bumper

Promo for "21 Hours at Munich" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Commercials for:
WLS Musicradio 89 ("Superstar" Bob Sirott and "Superjock" Larry Lujack)
Eyewitness News - "Suggestion Box" (

"Zooming 7" ID / Eyewitness News promo

Segment 6

Commercials for:
Adorn Self-Styling Hair Spray
Non-alkaline Earth Born Shampoo (with beauty consultant Suzanne Leamer)
Promo for Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (main voice over by Dick Tufeld) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for The Don Ho Show (main voice over by Dick Tufeld) (ending voice over by Allan Jefferys)

Segment 7

Incomplete Doritos ad with Avery Schreiber (cut)

Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion

Promo for Rona (Barrett) Looks at Carol Burnett, Valerie Harper, Sally Struthers and Nancy Walker (voice over by Allan Jefferys)

Promo for The 3:30 Movie "Trick or Treat Week"

Political ad for Jimmy Carter for President

Alternate Eyewitness News "Suggestion Box" ad

"Zooming 7" ID / promo for Hollywood Squares

Segment 8

Commercials for:
Aim Toothpaste
Sucrets sore throat lozenges
Promo for The Captain & Tennille and The Don Ho Show (main voice over by Ernie Anderson) (ending voice over by Allan Jeffreys)

Film ending credits, followed by show ending titles

Political ad for Michael J. Bakalis for State Comptroller

PSA for United Way

Promo for ABC Evening News with Harry Reasoner & Barbara Walters

Long-form political ad for Gerald R. Ford for President

ABC ID (voice over by Allan Jefferys)

Preview of coming Eyewitness News with Nancy Becker, Jay Levine and Mike Nolan

This aired on October 24, 1976.

Here's the complete broadcast of The ABC Sunday Night Movie presentation of the 1975 movie "The Stepford Wives" as telecast over WLS Channel 7.In this spooky...

10/23/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLh2VHefGiM

46 Years Ago Today:

Here are CBS Network promos for Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special, the Fat Albert Halloween Special and the TV-movie, "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" (Because a body was buried there? Sorry, I was caught up in the Halloween/Spooky theme.) (Based on the book by Erma Bombeck).

Voice over by Wendell Craig.

These promos aired on October 23, 1978.

Here are CBS Network promos for Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special, the Fat Albert Halloween Special and the TV-movie, "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Sep...

10/22/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UOfD2eD3A8

53 Years Ago Today:

Here's a rare find - one of the earliest existing segments (the first half-hour, in fact) of the long-running Stock Market Observer on WCIU Channel 26, "Chicago's first ultra-high frequency television station."

This program, which was a part of the station's schedule from its 1964 start-up until the 1990's, is today regarded as the forerunner of such business channels of our time as CNBC, CNNfn, Fox Business and Bloomberg. Until late 1974, it was broadcast only in black-and-white.

This particular clip here is preceded by another rare find - one of the earliest extant station sign-ons.

The host is Ben Larson, and also features Susan Plumridge, Jack Hosty, Ray Elman (sp?), Bill Diener, and Eddie Ballantine.

Includes:

ID slide, with sign-on voice over by Bill O'Connor

Stock Market Observer open,, leading to Ben introducing the "Market Reprise" segment recapping the prior day's Dow Jones Industrials action and NYSE trading prior to first commercial break.

Commercial: United States Steel

Ben looks at American Stock Exchange (shown on screen as AMSE, rather than the more familiar AMEX) trading; much of the info is blank due to a cable being cut the previous day.

Susan Plumridge goes over the 10 most active NYSE stocks.

Commercial: Ozark Airlines

Susan describes the 5 most up and 5 most down NYSE stocks.

Ben introduces "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" segment, sponsored by Lamson Bros. & Co., moderated by Jack Hosty [John R. Hosty Sr.], with Ray Elman (sp?) and Bill Diener; in this part, they discuss the previous day's market activities, with an analysis of some speculation showing up and market volatility over the previous ten days.

Jack then interrupts the discussion to promote Lamson's tax letter (which he co-wrote with Chuck Dougherty (sp?) ).

Brief news update (read by ?? - anyone know?):

Nominations of William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell to Supreme Court go to Senate for confirmation

U.S. troops begin pulling out of artillery base in Vietnam

Three women injured after explosion at Belfast egg packing plant

Firebomb thrown into Memphis cocktail lounge injures three

Attempt to resume talks to end soft coal strike

Weather forecast, with temperatures at the Loop, O'Hare and Midway

Back to "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" discussion, with "today" being looked at including latest short interest rates; Jack next hawks the Nuveen Tax-Free Bond Fund

Eddie Ballantine reads the "First Financial Headlines":

Slow trading expected on Wall Street

Look at commodities and foreign currencies, and London and Paris stock market activity

"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" resumes with a look at the "long-term pull." Bill is in the middle of his analysis when the recording ends.

"Portions of today's program are mechanically reproduced."

This aired on October 22, 1971.

Here's a rare find - one of the earliest existing segments (the first half-hour, in fact) of the long-running Stock Market Observer on WCIU Channel 26, "Chic...

10/21/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkeIAe_Bo2c

53 Years Ago Today:

Here's perhaps the earliest extant excerpt ever, the first half-hour, of the long-running Stock Market Observer on WCIU Channel 26. This came from a (relatively poor quality) Umatic tape transfer of what appears to be 2" quad tape.

This program, which was a part of the station's schedule from its 1964 start-up until the 1990's, is today regarded as the forerunner of such business channels of our time as CNBC, CNNfn, Fox Business and Bloomberg. Until late 1974, it was broadcast only in black-and-white.

On this edition are (?), Jack Hosty [John R. Hosty Sr.], Alan Grigg, William Carr, Ben Larson, Eddie Ballantine, and Susan Plumridge.

Includes:

Show opening, leading to "Market Reprise" look at the Dow Jones industrials (their indices in those days - on the previous day from this, at 855.65 - roughly equal how up or down the market finishes in one day in our time) and New York Stock Exchange trading

Commercial: United States Steel

A look at American Stock Exchange activity for the day, ending the "Market Reprise"

Then, the "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" segment (sponsored by Lamson Brothers and Company), with moderator Jack Hosty and his guests, Alan Grigg and William Carr. The "Yesterday" analysis starts with Morgan Guaranty's cut of the prime rate, and the market reaction; Alan is judged as being correct on his bearishness. Jack then interrupts the discussion to promote Lamson's tax letter, then they pick up where they left off with the "Today" analysis before Jack promotes the Nuveen Tax-Exempt Bond Fund and then thanks his guests to end the segment.

In the world and national scene (read by Ben Larson):

U.S. troop deaths in Vietnam lowest in six years, while Communists in Paris peace talks accuse U.S. of ramping up war effort

American Bar Association turns down two of six Supreme Court prospects (he refers to ? Douglas who will have more at 9:15 AM)

Commercial: Ozark Airlines with computers

Eddie Ballantine reads the news of London commodities and exchange rates, and London, Paris and Tokyo markets; plus news on foreign business transactions and activities

Ben reads the weather forecast, with temperature readings at various Chicago areas

Commercial: Miller Beer ("If You've Got the Time..." already in place then)

Susan Plumridge begins the look of 10 most active, 10 most up and 10 most down stocks on the New York Stock Exchange

Commercial: Coca-Cola (they already broke in their "I'd Like To Teach The 'World To Sing" campaign at that point)

Susan continues her analysis of NYSE stock activity; the recording ends before the next commercial.

This aired on October 21, 1971.

Here's perhaps the earliest extant excerpt ever, the first half-hour, of the long-running Stock Market Observer on WCIU Channel 26. This came from a (relativ...

10/20/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f-7B1jPpyI

40 Years Ago Today:

Here's a rare example of the programming of WCFC Channel 38 - an episode of The Eagle's Nest, hosted by Pastor Gary Greenwald of the Ministry for the Eagle's Nest Christian Fellowship in southern California. This is one of two episodes dealing with the "issue" of Halloween.

Includes:

end of station ID

Show opening

Pastor Gary (shown on the lower third at various points as "Gary Greeenwald" the extra 'e' is for an extra Eagle maybe?) then starts on his sermon, which is that Halloween is a Satanic pagan ritual that kids should never, ever be involved in - and he lays out his case for why, quoting numerous Biblical passages, and goes on about its history and how it pre-dated Christianity by centuries, originating with the Druids; he shows pictures of where the five-pointed star (pentagraph) originated from, Druids burning their victims, witches celebrating while standing at various points of the pentagraph, kids on "twik or tweet" runs, the kind of castles Druids visited, a picture with a face resembling a jack-o-lantern, a six-sided hexagram (from which the term "hex," meaning curse, originated), the Grim Reaper holding a picture of Stonehenge, ads for recent horror movies, the Witch's Calendar, a witch with a black cat, various Halloween masks, and witches brewing up a "pot of evil," all to illustrate his points. At one point, a man dressed as the Frankenstein monster tries to interrupt his sermon, and mentions the issue of occultic s*x killings during Halloween.

Two-thirds into the program, is an offer for two 1-hour cassettes of Pastor Gary's Halloween sermon, and a book he wrote about rock music ("The Punk Called Rock"), before he resumes his rant.

Ending credits:

Executive Producer - Gary Greenwald
Produced & Directed by Paul Crouch Jr.
Assistant Producers - Larry Adams, Bud Collyer (no, not the Beat the Clock or To Tell the Truth host - that Bud Collyer died in 1969)
Audio - Ray Vaca
Video Tape - Tom Beintema
Camera - Dave Buchanon
Special Effects - Malcome Bohne, Tom Jordan
Lighting - Steve Boggess, Paul Crouch Junior
Engineer - Don Harvey
Grip - Randy Layson

Eagle's Nest
Irvine, California 92714
(where to send for transcripts - presumably no longer valid)

This Has Been a Family Enterprise Presentation

"Halloween - A diabolical trick, or a harmless treat?"

This aired on October 20, 1984.

Here's a rare example of the programming of WCFC Channel 38 - an episode of The Eagle's Nest, hosted by Pastor Gary Greenwald of the Ministry for the Eagle's...

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