ABC Network Promo Closed Circuit Feed to affiliates 1985

[@kryptoncowboy]

ABC had two of the industry's best announcers with Joel Crager and Ernie Anderson.

[@brooklynbabe7896]

Good observation my friend

[@pacificblue3955]

i'm so done with 2023. i'm headed back to 1985 - who's with me....

[@stewartlynch7859]

Closed Circuit! So while we were watching ABC, ABC were watching us! Great TV, all the same.

[@dianamaiocco7698]

Saw this presentation as an advertiser in NYC. Thanks for the upload!

[@fromthesidelines]

I can guess you really weren't impressed with most of them. 😏

[@mukinmukin6352]

Wow this is top quality and really well done. Nice promo and looks ahead of its time

[@andyrose5616]

The actor who gets soaked at the beginning is Joe Howard.

[@manidig]

I remember this. I was working at an ABC affiliate (WMGC-TV in Binghamton NY). I remember dubbing them. Half of the shows never made the cut. I think the first one to get the axe was "Hardcastle And McCormick" which they really pushed hard as if it was the next "Starsky and Hutch." It wasn't.

[@fromthesidelines]

That lasted three seasons on ABC. The final season was scheduled on Monday nights (before "NFL MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL"), before the network canceled it in 1986.

[@videonut1988]

That Closed Circuit telop is from the "WE'RE WITH YOU" era...

[@robertthomas5736]

Well Done with This Video, back When TV was Free and The The Network Promoted,What They Paid for

[@fromthesidelines]

"LIME STREET" {as "J.G. CULVER" was eventually titled} never quite recovered after Samantha Smith (24:40) was killed in a plane crash in August 1985. Eight episodes were produced; five were scheduled on ABC [the unaired episodes were later shown on "Lifetime", two years later].

[@robertthomas5736]

Travel Back in Time to The Saga of a Star World on Battlestar Galactica

[@tnawcwvictoria]

Michael Keaton before Beetlejuice before The Dark Knight he was Mr. Mom

[@mukinmukin6352]

17:01 - that guy is like a cross between Michael Jackson and Prince

[@newedition2006]

That’s Stoney Jackson

[@fromthesidelines]

"THE INSIDERS" lasted 13 episodes (the last one was "burned off" in June 1986).

[@voltaire2001]

Tangerine Dream at 4:29

[@fromthesidelines]

"DYNASTY II: THE COLBYS" lasted two seasons. ABC gave Aaron Spelling two seasons to make it a success. He couldn't.

[@newedition2006]

007 5:13

[@tnawcwvictoria]

Despite having good promos, abc was dead last in Prime Time as CBS dropped to 2nd place and NBC became #1 The only good thing abc had were Who's the Boss?, Growing Pains and Moonlighting Dynasty was in the Top 10 for the last time with Hotel in the Top 25

[@Fool3SufferingFools]

ABC was on top of the heap in the late Seventies, but in the Eighties it fell hard and fast.

[@newedition2006]

2:21 9:05 ♥️💛💙

[@gm12551]

Did the Seaver’s own a Volvo 240 or a 740?

[@joshgalka9414]

Very Cool!

[@PIXPromosMore]

Good stuff...too bad this looks incomplete; cuts off before we see the preview of the Mini-series'

[@xoneoleo]

any more closed circuit stuff?

[@SanAntonioNews78]

no sorry

[@kryptoncowboy]

There's a good ABC affiliate extended promo reel from the '70s floating around somewhere on KZbin

[@acmecompany]

Before abc was woke