WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Matinee - "Abbott and Costello in Mexican Hayride" (Open & Break, 1981)
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Here's the opening moments and first commercial break for the Saturday Matinee presentation of the Abbott and Costello film "Mexican Hayride" [1948] on WGN Channel 9. Includes:
WGN "globe" ID with promo for Weekend with the Stars for 10:00pm (voiceover by Steve Hunter)
Saturday Matinee slide and opening theme music ("Happy Feet" by Quincy Jones, from "Walk - Don't Run" [1966]), with voiceover (by Steve Hunter) introducing the film starring "television's craziest duo"
Commercial: 67 WMAQ Radio - "Dancing Dollars" (seen on its own here: www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php... )
Commercial: Oven Fry chicken coating (for that "southern fried" taste - 24 Hz hum heard throughout ad not included in flavor)
Commercial: Charmin Doubly Fluffy - with Mr. Whipple (Dick Wilson) hiring Robby the Robot to stop ladies from squeezing it, with the usual predictable results
Commercial: Tang breakfast drink with Florence Henderson - "You Can't Beat Tang for Taste" (ending voiceover by ??)
"Camera" slide with "Abbott and Costello in Mexican Hayride" - dissolving into Universal International "globe" open and first few seconds of opening credits
See the following other Saturday Matinee openings for:
- "The Bells of St. Mary's" [1945] (from 1971):
www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php...
- "Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy" [1955] (from 1982):
www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php...
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, January 17th 1981 at 2:00pm.
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Soul Train Would Come On After This Saturday Matinee.
@baskin150
4 жыл бұрын
Yep!! Chi Town in the 70's...
@Tumbleweed1919
2 жыл бұрын
@@baskin150 what a time!
I loved this intro so much I had to have it! Happy Feet by Quincy Jones
Whos watching at the end of the century
I have this movie on dvd and a lot of other Abbott and Costello movies they always bring back memories of watching channel 9 the late show the late late show and the early morning show back in the 60s this was when TV stations stopped broadcasting at around 11 or midnight then started up around 5or 6 in the morning with the flag and star spangled banner channel 9 was the only station in our area that did and it only stayed on all night on Friday for the movies
Is it just me, or was "Saturday Matinee" by this point WGN's equivalent to NYC sister station WPIX's "Sunday Morning Movie" which was also, for many years, an "Abbott & Costello Film Festival" in all but name?
Dynamite!!!
That "dancing dollars" ad has a bizarre, sexual overtone to it.....or maybe i'm just crazy.
@timdub70
6 жыл бұрын
It's reminiscient of the 1940s-50s Old Gold ads with the dancing cigarette packs.