Category: Vintage Television
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Vintage TV: A WGN Christmas
Looking back at what was for many years a Chicagoland Christmas television tradition.
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Vintage TV: Bill Cullen
A look back at game show master Bill Cullen.
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Vintage TV: The New Price is Right
A look at the first ever episode of The Price is Right, with Bob Barker.
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U.S. school desegregation, bullying, unrest, and violence, in the 1970s
A remembrance of school racial integration in the mid-1970s.
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Channel 16, Father Hesburgh, and the Prayer for Peace
Seen for the first time in 30 years: the recording of Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame reading the Prayer for Peace of St. Francis at WNDU-TV’s sign-on/sign-off.
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Ozzie and Harriet for Kodak
Vintage commercials for Kodak cameras, via Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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1950s TV commercials for Ansco cameras and films
Remembering camera and film company Ansco through some 1950s commercials for its products.
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Vintage TV: Garfield Goose and Frazier Thomas
Even in the 1970s, children’s television could be frenetic. Frazier Thomas and his friend, puppet Garfield Goose, were the gentle antidote. A pleasant morning breeze upon the children’s TV landscape, Garfield Goose and Friends aired each weekday at 8 AM on WGN-TV in Chicago. The premise was that Garfield Goose thought he was the king of the…
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Vintage TV: ABC’s AM America and Monty Python
A post from 2008, retold. What would happen if Monty Python hosted a morning television news program? It actually happened once. In 1975, ABC debuted AM America, its first morning news show. At about the same time, Monty Python released their seminal film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and were, I’m sure, looking for…
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Vintage TV: The CBS Late Movie
I mentioned this post recently here and decided it’s high time to rerun it. It’s an oldie, originally published in August, 2008. Starting in the late ’70s, my brother and I got sent to Camp Grandma in southwestern Michigan for a couple weeks every summer. The rules were extremely relaxed at Camp Grandma. Pepsi and…
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Vintage TV: Freakies
It was a sugar-sweetened cereal for kids. But the cartoony characters that advertised them connected with young viewers in new way, at least for the early 1970s. My mom was not usually a sucker for TV commercials aimed at kids, but she fell hook, line, and sinker for the Freakies. And so we ate Freakies until…