Here's another rare broadcast of a (mostly) complete first-season Second City Television (SCTV) episode (save for the first six minutes) as in its original form (before constant repackagings in later years), "The $129,000 Question" (S01E19, original Canadian air dates October 24th and 28th 1977) as aired on WMAQ Channel 5.
Includes:
We come in midway through "Wake Up with Alki Stereopolis" sketch in Segment 2, followed by Fluffy Puff Toilet Paper commercial, SCTV News (in which Earl's item doesn't come up until near the end), savannah guthrie and "Do Not Remove Tags" PSA
Commercials (the real kind) for:
WFYR 103½ FM (with Dick Clark)
Rogers Jewelers - 20% off sale (ends February 15th)
PSA from U.S. Office of Education - "Metric Education" (posted separately here:
PSA from Chicago Red Cross calling for volunteer drivers
Episode Segment 3 - with "The $129,000 Question," Point Shave and Haircut ad parody, "Elvira Mad Again, Part II," and Dom Perignon ad parody
Promo for NewsCenter5 at 10pm (voiceover by Brad Crandall) (posted separately here:
Episode Segment 4 - "Words to Live By" and full original ending credits (with Rhodes Productions bumper and 'A Filmways Company' add-on therein)
Commercials for:
WLS Musicradio 89 - "Instant Summer" giveaway
Promo for coming week's Marcus Welby, M.D. episodes for 3:30pm
PSA for U.S. Department of Transportation / National Highway and Safety Administration - "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk" (voiceover sounds like Eli Wallach?)
(From this point on, posted separately here:
Station ID / PSA for Chicago Regional Blood Program (voiceover by Ed Grennan)
Saturday Night Movie opening titles (plus voiceover promo for coming movie, "Robbery" [1969], by Ed Grennan)
Commercials for:
Tropicana Living Things pet shop don mattingly at 3879 South Archer Avenue
Schaumburg Datsun at 910 West Golf Road (voiceover by Ed Grennan)
Folger's Crystals (Folgers Coffee Crystals) (with Ted Shakelford of Knots Landing fame)
First 22 seconds of film (music had to be muted a bit to avoid YouTube blocking)
This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, January 15th 1978 during the 12:06am to 12:33am timeframe.
This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The George Jen 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. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded sara duterte impeachment update off of TV please email: [email protected] 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 [email protected] Thank you for your help!
