Another fantastic upload! The channel just keeps getting better all the time. And... For people who enjoy finding quirky technical issues and clearly unintentional goofs in their TV shows, you will find one in this episode of The Partridge Family. It has to do with a surprise guest in the Partridges' kitchen.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV

29 күн бұрын

You mean Mr. Boom Mike?

@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles

16 күн бұрын

​@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Mr. Crouching Tiger." 11:23 When Shirley walks through the swinging kitchen door into the dining room, there's a member of the crew crouching behind her. Someone pointed that out years ago and still it always looks eerie when I see it

I'm so glad that I subscribed to this channel for classic Chicago stuff.

I totally forgot about Jordache jeans until I saw the ad in this video. Back in the day when I was skating every Friday and Saturday night on the expansive hardwood floor of the Axle roller rink in Norridge, around 1980 to 1982, just about all the girls there were attired in Jordache, Sassoon, or Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. Those brands were de rigueur fashion then at the Axle.

What a treat!

I like how Field would do their own musical spin when promoting a show like they did with Mash and then put a variation of their own theme music at the end. In the Chicago market I also notice they do that a lot on 32. But in Philly not so much on 48. They'd use the traditional Field theme music.

@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles

29 күн бұрын

I caught that too! I don't think I noticed it back when I was watching these in the 70s/80s, but it struck me watching it now. That's a pretty classy bit of musical arranging!

My 1980s childhood watching creepy worn old looking 1970s TV shows. Love it. I gotta see the film break on "live" television just one more time in this life.

I worked master control at WXGZ-TV FOX 32 in Appleton, Wis. for a while in 1987. All programs, commercials, most movies and promos ran on 3/4th inch U-matic cassettes. Breaks were switched with a Digitrol. The Partridge Family was the most difficult show to run due its formatting. First it went to commercial after the opening title sequence. Not much time to unload the end break and the first break, and program the Digitrol. Then the show had "Act 1" followed by a break. After break, act 2 and a break. Coming out the act 2 break there was the episode conclusion followed by the end break. Again not much time to unload one break and load the end break. Those of you who ever worked master control, aren't you glad you had the Sony Betacam or Odediks robotic systems or even the good 'old RCA Quad Cart systems for breaks?

@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles

29 күн бұрын

Now this is the kind of thing that is like manna to me. The technical, the nuts and bolts of broadcasting. This is really interesting to hear about your experiences with "The Partridge Family" due to the way it was formatted. One thing I've noticed with the show over the years is that some stations got the episodes with rather strange editing and even somewhat reformatted. I think WOR in New York is when I first noticed the editing and the placement of commercial breaks seemed different from what I had seen in years before - this was the 90s when I saw it on WOR. At any rate, I appreciated reading your comments.

@lesleypaterson1463

21 күн бұрын

Back in 1988, I worked at a local independent station, still running The Addams Family on 16mm film via the telecine. I spooled it up one afternoon and it jammed and ripped, terrible print, very worn and I repaired it fast while the Master Control tech was having a meltdown, he went to break and we were back up and running in 3 minutes. Umatic tapes were a luxury. Old prints run on a temperamental telecine was always a good way to keep you on your toes.

SO glad to finally see that Control Data Institute spot!

@FuzzyMemoriesTV

23 күн бұрын

Which one had you been looking for?

@jackdemus7890

23 күн бұрын

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV "Can a phone call change your life..."

Good stuff came on after I Love Lucy. Great Programming back then.

I was 13 when partridge came out❤❤❤❤

This was great! 😃👍

I love a Jim Barton heavy vid like this. Omg that Thanksgiving bumper with that song! I'm with you on this era man! ♥

Love what you did with the Partridge Family theme. It would make a good ringtone. And boy, First Metropolitan loved those drop ceilings.

I was born a month after this was on

14:47 William Schallert is the voice at the beginning of the PM Magazine promo.

i remember seeing screen gems logo 1978 too bad not here

So was shirley jones❤❤❤❤❤

Bruce Kimmel wrote "The First Nudie Musical", and played the hopelessly nerdy director in it. He and the other main actors (including Cindy Williams and Judy Canova) kept their clothes on. It's a great parody, and a great example of how 1970s-era p0rn0s had to have solid, funny scripts, because they couldn't show anything too explicit.

@wmbrown6

Ай бұрын

You don't mean *Diana* Canova, do ya?

I see you had to alter the opening theme to get this one through.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV

Ай бұрын

How could you tell? It was so subtle. 😆

@kengeorgejones6855

Ай бұрын

@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Until today I didn't realize how well the theme could have worked in a horror film.

I love this episode!! Featuring a pre-The Facts of Life Charlotte Rae!!

can you upload the partridge family complete broadcast june 5 1980 please

No Viacom or Screen Gems logos? :(

@wmbrown6

Ай бұрын

WFLD, apparently, didn't play that game. But then, they were - as they said - "Field Communications in Chicago."

@sexymama1966

Ай бұрын

I wished there were but that's ok, I can locate an SG logo and play it.

6:07 ❤

August 27, 2022 Chouteau

One of David Cassidy's fellow castmates on The Partridge Family went on years later to play a role of one of the lawyers on L.A. Law (Susan Dey).

@kennethoats2322

Ай бұрын

Another fun fact.... David had to show Danny bass rudiments to make it look like he's really playing.

@wmbrown6

Ай бұрын

Ms. Dey was probably one of the few of the younger cast members who was more or less unscathed from the Partridge experience (contrast with, say, Danny Bonaduce).

@wmbrown6

Ай бұрын

@@kennethoats2322 - And given that "The Partridge Family" was based on a real-life family group, The Cowsills, it was thus ironic that their records were produced by Wes Farrell - as he had produced (and Tony Romeo, writer of "I Think I Love You," had penned) the 1968 Cowsills' hit "Indian Lake."

Two of the shows in this clip, if this had been New York, would have come from WNEW Channel 5; "I Love Lucy" was a staple there for decades, and "The Partridge Family" was run on the station thru the early '80's (and thus, for some people who were fans of the Metromedia era, manna raining down from heaven). "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," though, was on rival WPIX Channel 11, as I remember. As for David Cassidy, two things brought his teen idol days to an end. The end of "The Partridge Family" in 1974 was one; the other was a concert that year at Wembley Stadium in London where, after a stampede, a teenaged fan, Bernadette Whelan, died; that haunted Cassidy to the day he died, and apparently by some accounts he never really recovered from that.

Well, give it to Field to not let closing logos show...and two of the scariest of all time...The Viacom V of Doom and the Screen Gems S from He**. When these shows were on channels 5 and 11 as wmbrown said, they ran them!

@wmbrown6

Ай бұрын

And with Viacom-syndicated stuff, especially on 5 (most notably "Hogan's Heroes" and probably "The Andy Griffith Show"), the earlier "pinball" bumper set in Peignot Bold. However, 11 didn't show any Viacom logos on "The Honeymooners" until after they got 3/4" Umatic tapes of the "Classic 39" in 1985, replacing the earlier cut-up film copies they had for decades.