Midnight Movie - "Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Claw" + Sign-Off (Complete Broadcast, 5/20/1979) 📺

[@madelynsmith8376]

I hope Fuzzy Memories puts up more of these.. I love old tv with their ads intact.. Yes I started watching at midnight..

[@TahtahmesDiary]

Oh wow, came for the movie to fall asleep to! Wasn't expecting Johnny Cash 🤗💜

[@davidwhite3180]

I enjoyed every second. Commercials included. I miss days of old so very much!

[@dtaylor939]

Old stuff is better than today's woke bs.

[@astrofist]

Thanks for sharing WSM TV 4s MIDNIGHT MOVIE. I really miss our local channels (WTVF, WSMV, WKRN, and WDCN (now NPT)) airing old films. Thanks for the memories.

[@2dskillz]

Dortch Olim what an odd name on the SM95 commercial. Really loved watching this, thanks for posting.

[@Cameroo]

Such weirdly good memories of staying up to 3am and seeing the sign off.

[@davidfrehlini968]

Cameroo Boomerang. I'm 75 years old and I can still remember seeing these movies on WTTG Channel 5 in Washington D.C. The Friday night Channel 5 midnight movie. To this day I still watch old movies when ever I can. And on Sunday afternoons we had Sherlock Holmes theater on WDCA Channel 20 also in Washington D.C. So many precious and cherished memories. God Bless. And God Bless these old time Actors for these great movies.

[@Musicradio77Network]

2:15 is the opening to WSM-TV’s “Midnight Movie” and it was a clone of the James Bond “Gun Barrel” opening.

[@cindybirn7450]

I saw this movie as a kid and I loved it! Watched as many Sherlock Holmes movies as I could after that.

[@nashvilletv]

This video is world class, especially the sign off announcement from Anchorman Dan Miller with an easy listening tune from Mayoham’s “Home Country” Music Package. The sign-on announcement, which I have not seen since it originally aired, also featured Miller’s voice and the same cut from “Home Country.”

[@0tt0z]

Can someone build a time machine and just dump me off in the 70s sometime. Id be eternally grateful.

[@Musicradio77Network]

"The Scarlet Claw" was one of the many "Sherlock Holmes" movies that are in the Public Domain, along with the rest of the "Sherlock Holmes" film series.

[@kerrayz]

Claw. It’s claw

[@laurabeane8862]

@28:35- 🎶 Little Bunny Foo-Foo hopping through the forest/Scooping up the field mice/And bopping them on the head🎶😆😆😝

[@jehobden]

I lived in the Nashville area as a teen, and I was living in the area at the time of this video. However I'm sure I didn't see this programming, as I was on a Boy Scout trip this weekend. I remember about a year later that WSM-TV carried the NBC Late Night Movie Sunday nights after the news at 10:30 PM instead of its own movies, at least for a couple years. About a year later, spring 1980, WSM-TV started carrying a weekly talk show hosted by anchorman Dan Miller that was called MILLER AND COMPANY after SNL. Sometime after fall 1980, when SNL had a ratings collapse, WSM-TV carried MILLER AND COMPANY at a different time, Sunday nights I think.

[@gregsells8549]

The Midnight Movie theme and the sign-off music are from Mayoham Music's Home Country package, even though WSM didn't use it for the news.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Pretty cool having Jack Webb narrate a local PSA.

[@davidgradwell8830]

It's fun to see David Naughton in his old Doctor Pepper commercial, just before he became better known as "An American Werewolf in London!"

[@deputay]

0:55 There are many ways to show a loved one you care...buying their preferred toilet paper is right at the top

[@radionoakmont7756]

oh sweet analog tv how i miss you staticier the better

[@laurabeane8862]

I miss being able to receive the "snowy" channels on a cloudy day, too.

[@radionoakmont7756]

@@laurabeane8862 always made sesame street much more enjoyable too

[@TahtahmesDiary]

I have a portable washer but I want the old school Hoover one now 😭💜

[@softrockrules]

46:29 Unity Television with Jim Nabors GOLD

[@laurabeane8862]

There used to be a podcast of "CBS Mystery Theater" episodes archived from 1974 that originated from WOR New York. Not only did they leave the ads in, they left the station bumpers. Bob and Ray would be on after the show. Some of the episodes still had the News Brief on when the show was over. Which is good. I want to know whether or not President Nixon was a crook, too.😃

[@BigSCTVfan]

This must have come on right after Saturday Night Live.

[@wmbrown6]

Oh, it did. (This was what made their airing that Hoover ad with Jane Curtin so ironic.)

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

I always thought this was the best of the Rathbone series.

[@TimelordR]

How we miss the late night TV sign-off. Now it's just infomercials up the wazoo. ☹️

[@75YBA]

OMFG!

[@EvieFive]

Do you guys by any chance have the opening to Cartoon Carnival? I can't find that anyplace.

[@RolloSmokes]

Is that Dan Miller on the sign-off? Or Ralph Emery? Or someone else?

[@nashvilletv]

Definitely Dan Miller

[@mtstroud]

Absolutely. If you grew up in Middle Tennessee as I did, that's one voice you can't mistake for anyone else's (the same would go for Ralph Emery and Bill "Hoss" Allen, among others). Miller did more than news at Channel 4; he also did voiceovers in the announcing booth between programs on certain shifts, and also spots and promos for the WSM radio stations--and Channel 4 itself. Those were probably supplements to his basic paycheck as lead anchor at 6 and 10 p.m., since Nashville was not, back then, a top 25 TV market like it is these days. Today, he wouldn't have to bother, and he eventually cut back on the outside work over time.

[@nashvilletv]

@@mtstroud Indeed. I grew up in Middle Tennessee as well.

[@bixpchiphead]

@@mtstroud Especially after NLT (nee National Life) spun the WSM stations off (Channel 4 to George Gillet, WSM-AM/FM the Opry Opryland and the Hotel to Gaylord)...

[@byrd56]

1:29:28 - Nashville area digital map, a.k.a. late-'70s color weather radar.

[@VIRGONOMICS]

The best - I love the old sign-off segments. We were a more civilized world then, even in Wartime. Everything now is high definition crap .

[@hf6150]

WSM = "We Shield Millions." (Or it did at that time.)

[@nbc11newsclips]

58:27 SM95 1979

[@laurabeane8862]

@46:30-ShaZAMMM🤘😆

[@laurabeane8862]

🎶 Chicken Wing, Chicken wing/Hot Dog and Baloney/Cheese and Macaroni/Sherlock and His Homies🎶

[@lavontreyclarke3285]

"And so, we bring to a close another day of broadcasting. This is WSM Television, Channel 4, Nashville, Tennessee, a broadcasting service of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company. We hope you've enjoyed the programs presented today, and we invite you to join us tomorrow morning when Channel 4 opens a new day with the best in weekend programming. Remember, we shall not relax in our efforts to bring you the finest in television entertainment. Relizing television's great responsibility to the family, Channel 4 is programmed to offer the top shows in television, so long as these shows reached our high standards of Good Taste in family entertainment. So, stay tuned to Channel 4 every day throughout the year. And now, we invite you to tune to WSM Radio65 and SM95. WSM Radio65 is on the air around the clock, serving over five million people every week, and SM95 brings you the finest in contemporary stereo music 24 hours a day. For the best in radio listening, keep your dial on WSM. Good night, everyone."