WGN TV 9 1970-71 Day Time Commercials

WGN TV 9 1970-71 Day Time Commercials all tapes are cleaned and baked before transfer. please keep in mind the quality Matters on condition of machines and how they were recorded plus tape stock Used. Also Many of These Recordings were Recorded Off Rabbit Ear Antenna, s Not Cable Tv Yet
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[@kevinbutler1126]

Judy Carne..she really knew how to sock a great candy promo for the kids.

[@tubesocksbrigade3031]

...and no water was thrown at her this time. Lol

[@OofusTwillip]

She left "Laugh In" in 1970, having had enough of being the Sock-It-to-Me Girl.

[@allenjones3130]

@@OofusTwillip Of that I have no doubt.

[@allenjones3130]

@@tubesocksbrigade3031 Thank Heaven!

[@jeanoboyle2439]

I really liked her at the time. Did she deserve the tragic downfall that happened?

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

I love the Tree Top promo! Tasha reminds me of one of my grade school teachers- I had such a MAJOR crush on her!

[@svrandall]

I've never heard of Tree Top House before, and I grew up in Chicago in the 70's

[@guycampbell1290]

I have the McDonald's ad on cassette tape after all these years from Honolulu December 1971! on kiddie show. Might of been longer. Nice to see video. Thanks.

[@Pimp-Master]

Nothing like that feeling of watching a Shirley Temple movie on TV around 9am.

[@tsntana]

A Flintstones commercial with Alan Reed voicing Fred. :)

[@fromthesidelines]

And MEL BLANC as Barney! 😃

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

That same year, Fred and Barney returned to television, but their children, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are teens and are boyfriend-and-girlfriend as high schoolers in "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show".

[@derrickquintero1489]

Wow ch9 needs to bring this back all the classics

[@525Lines]

WFLD was showing the Blondie movies a few years later. Actually passable movies. They belong on Saturdays. Bring them back.

[@wmbrown6]

I.I.N.M., sister statiion WPIX-11 in New York aired such films on Saturdays as well. Maybe Sundays, prior to their movies on late mornings becoming all Abbott & Costello, all the time after 1973.

[@525Lines]

WFLD had Ma & Pa Kettle and Bowery Boy movies in the mix, too. Saturday and Sunday, too. Once or twice, WGN would show anime features, which was REALLY cutting edge in the late 70s.

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

"BLONDIE!!!"

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Very nice spot about Topper's Dancing Dawn. Dawn was Topper's answer to Barbie. Topper Toys went bankrupt in the fall of 1971, when some exec was fudging numbers with the Federal Trade Commission. The company died in 1974.

[@sexymama1966]

I was wondering who manufactured the Dancing Dawn and company dolls.. Thank u!

[@wmbrown6]

I.I.N.M., the voiceover on that Dancing Dawn commercial sounded like Peggy Taylor.

[@tomservo56954]

I'd worry about any daddy dancing with Dawn.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

I think it's cute with dad having fun with Dancing Dawn.

[@vividwatch47]

Their bankruptcy and being charged with business fraud forced them to drop the Johnny Lightning 1:64 diecast models (though the name would later be bought by Praying Mantis who would reissue the original models and introduce some new ones). The company was actually gone by '73.

[@tonyktown]

Why after 50 years I woke up with the "Chunky" commercial jingle in my head, I'll never know. Oddly enough I remembered the exact lyrics.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

The original Hamburglar is a bit creepy-looking... Love the Judy Carne ad. Never seen it before. What star quality she had.

[@d.owczarzak6888]

She was super HOT .

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

I have to admit the original hamburglar was terrifying to look at!

[@miketype1each]

Wow, at 2:27, that television would cost around $2,600 in today's money! Insanity!

[@AngryHybridApe]

I usualy watch youtube when I go to sleep. Im usually out in about 10 minutes. But the last thing I remember this time was the girl playing a lulabye on the flute. Lol

[@michaelterry1000]

Between October 9, 1970 - March 30, 1971 Flipper was on Channel 9 at 4PM, After March 30, 1971 it moved to 5:30

[@seancaruana4209]

Per the Chicago Tribune archives, Life with Blondie and Dimples aired on March 27, 1971

[@wmbrown6]

"Flipper" also aired in 1970-71 on Channel 9 in New York - WOR-TV, that is.

[@JohnHolton]

That "new" McDonalds in Oak Brook is still there.

[@mixon270]

Wow after all these years sir?

[@1L6E6VHF]

Looks like they tore down the one they were promoting and built a newer one on the same site

[@tomservo56954]

Exactly...they opened one in a town near me around the same time, and subsequently tore it down to be replaced by one of their retro style buildings that look like the original ones, only with seating.

[@oldiesgeek454]

@@tomservo56954 Have you ever seen pictures of the one in Downey California? It was built in the 50s, and was scheduled to be torn down in the 90s. But, it was restored instead.

[@tfrank4622]

A lot of places service tvs they sold sears had their own Macy's jcpenny etc

[@OofusTwillip]

Pine Bros Cough Drops' active ingredients were glycerine and "syrup of acacia", also called "gum acacia" or "gum arabic". It's a thick, gummy sap that comes from two kinds of trees in Africa or the Middle East, and has been used in medicine, India ink, glues, and cooking, for more than a thousand years.

[@far7310]

Flipper...in color. I loved at the beginning of color tv shows they advertised that specifically in the ads.

[@pfos]

$398 color TV in 1970 is equal to $2,600 in 2018 dollars.

[@bobweiss8682]

And for that price, it was a no-name set with an obsolete round screen CRT, when the major brands had moved to rectangular ones by the late 60s.

[@graymanmedia]

Yeah but how much would a 55" TV + Streaming Radio + DVD Player be today?

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

For some reason the commercials shot on film seem more “official” than the ones shot on videotape. The ones on videotape feel like they only aired locally while the ones shot on film have a more “National” professional look.

[@ZZSmithReal]

Oh, man, Judy Carne. Did I have a crush on her! LOL

[@WytZox1]

* That dad who dances with the little girl's doll is bizarre. ☺

[@luisreyes1963]

Be thankful those dolls weren't the size of G.I.JOEs back then. 😬

[@tomservo56954]

One of the reasons Hasbro developed G.I. Joe was clearly stated (in the company) to keep boys from being interested in Barbie's breasts.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

I think that Dancing Dawn spot would have stranger if the girl's younger brother was doing the dancing with Dawn.

[@coreylevine3856]

Don't tell the Mother about that

[@michaelsharpe8246]

The old flipper tv show.. brings back memories 😊

[@LivLaRaj]

Illinois TV listings had "Life with Blondie" and "Dimples" at 9:30am on March 27th 1971. (**seems to conflict with McDonald's ad for Grand Opening on Feb 20 1971)

[@shawnmalone9711]

@D Heine You're the man D Heine!👍

[@bobdavis4848]

Lots of cool memories of bits here and similar. I used to beg my mom to never buy Flintstones vitamins because I thought they'd make me say "Yabba Dabba Doo!" against my will.

[@StudioZ7]

At 2:52, interesting that Chicago was still using telephone exchanges (PO7-6900) as late as 1971. Minneapolis (where I'm from) switched to all numbers by 1967 at least.

[@525Lines]

I noticed that, too. Hudson 32700 was one business's phone number sung at the end of one local commercial even into the 80s.

[@525Lines]

D Heine Maybe but the Hudson example was burned into my DNA by repeated exposures.

[@peterq.george6834]

New York City was still using lettered exchanges well into the late 1970's. PEnnsylvania 6-5000 comes to mind. MEridan 7-1212 (Time Of Day) among others. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKuUoWqBZraonpI

[@1L6E6VHF]

Many businesses continued to use the 2L+5N format after the phone companies officially switched to 7N. Construction companies in particular liked 2L+5N, with some continuing to use them into the 21st century, even if the phone companies refused to display the number on the old format. A construction company in the Cleveland area got around the problem by actually changing the name of their company to their old format phone number, whole exchange name spoken out. It may be a way of reminding potential customers they've been in business for decades. That ad for the TV looked suspicious to me. It's obviously kludged from older subassemblies acquired from surplus sales. The business is not named and no address is mentioned, making me wonder if there was no way for the customer to return the set if (s)he were dissatisfied.

[@ChicagoAstronomer]

I have been having that Bit-O-Honey tune in my head for decades! Finally hearing it again. Thanks!

[@allenjones3130]

Sock it to me! That was the late, great Judy Carne of Laugh-In fame doing the Chunky chocolate ad.

[@jonathancaldwell6342]

I thought the guy with the bears was Mister Rogers.

[@clemsonbloke]

Recorded off Rabbit Ear antennas? I didn't think home video recorders were a thing in 1970-1971. The Betamax didn't premiere until 1975 and VHS later.

[@OofusTwillip]

The very first reel-to-reel home video recorder was the Telcan, a British machine that came as a kit that the user had to assemble. In 1965, Sony, RCA, and Ampex launched their first reel-to-reel home video recorders. Sony demonstrated its U-Matic system in 1969, and launched it in 1970, in Japan. But it was so expensive that it flourished in the broadcast industry, not the home market. There's a KZbin channel that has old B&W video recordings from the late 1960s to early 1970s, by a group of friends in NYC, who got an early VTR, and pretended to have their own TV station, WBUF, by recording themselves doing "TV shows" on it.

[@elc1960]

That dad in the first Dancing Dawn ad is...a little bit weird...Not sure if it's him, but that sounds like Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon singing the Bit-O-Honey jingle...The female voice in the Pine Bros. ad is likely Alice Playten...That man doing the voiceover on the trailer for Life with Blondie was likely Eddie Lawrence, who had a hit novelty record in 1956 with "The Old Philosopher."

[@mixon270]

Wow how did you find these gems

[@timdub70]

0:36 a real Chicago Cub.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

From 1969-74, the then-WMAL-TV in Washington had a black woman hosting a local children's show in "The Magic Door!" with Sheila Thomas. Thomas is (I think) the first black to host a local children's show in the D.C. area. Her series replaced the popular "Claire and Coco" (1965-69), after Claire Kleese planned to host a talk show directed at women.

[@wmbrown6]

WPIX Channel 11 in New York had Joya Sherrill hosting "Joya's Fun School" in the early to mid-1970's.

[@tomservo56954]

Recycling a network preview for a local promo? (FLIPPER)

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes, from the 1964-'65 season.

[@tapthatt2012]

Nice transfer

[@SamMan-by2jj]

3:03

[@ahlivetuhsidamaro150]

Were these shown in Chicago? Do you remember any of these and I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid

[@MrEcorc]

I remember a few of them. Miss my saturday mornings most of all.

[@norellpolk]

The lady who hosted three top house.is she still alive

[@JENDALL714]

When the Black guy in the McDonald's ad said the burglar alarm, I thought he was going to take off running!

[@salaamakbar3630]

JENDALL714 WHAT U SAID MAKES NO SENSE!!!! U THOUGHT NO ONE WAS WATCHING....THE TRICKS ON U THIS TIME

[@davidgibson7615]

Man, you weird!

[@luisreyes1963]

Bit O' Licorice? GROSS! 🤢

[@ahlivetuhsidamaro150]

Wow her job sucked

[@SamMan-by2jj]

3:04