Here's an extended excerpt from a Halloween broadcast of the Today show on the NBC Network (as, in Chicago, would have been seen over WMAQ Channel 5); this is directly from the network feed, so there are no local commercial breaks or station ID's, and the black where these would have been inserted has been taken out for ease of viewing. The hosts are Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley.
Includes:
Tail end of promo for "MacArthur" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(32 seconds of black edited out)
Tom, Jane and Gene Shalit discuss Halloweens past and present including Brokaw's remembrances of tipping over outhouses as a boy in Ravinia, South Dakota
Promo for "The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(32 seconds of black edited out)
8:30am (Eastern time) segment starts, with news items including:
- Western Airlines crash in Mexico City
- Blizzard hitting Great Plains states and part of Rocky Mountains
- Recommendations from a commission investigating Three Mile Island accident
- Richard Arrington elected first black mayor of Birmingham, AL
- Latest trade deficit blamed on high oil imports
- Roger O'Neil report from Elgin, IL on mortgage rates including a shot of Elgin Federal Savings; interviews with realtor Joan Rich, and homeowners Ken Sweet and Lucille Sweet (a sweet couple)
Commercials for:
Birds Eye Oriental Style Rice (with Rosalind Chao of M*A*S*H fame)
Georgia-Pacific (in Tyler, TX)
Complete denture cleanser/toothpaste
Bob Ryan's weather forecast (before Willard Scott joined the program)
Phil Donahue, Live in Chicago, and members of his audience interview Howie Gordon (1979 Playgirl Man of the Year) and wife Jeremy (?) (apparently they wouldn't stay married for much longer), and executive editor of Playgirl Magazine, Dianne Grosskopf
Promo for Quincy and Kate Loves a Mystery (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
(31 seconds of black edited out)
In next segment, Jim Brown, in Hollywood, reports on the history of Dracula in the cinema; featuring more recent Draculas George Hamilton and Frank Langella, and former Dracula Christopher Lee
Commercials for:
Reynolds Aluminum (building products to restore old homes)
All the King's Men chess "lite" game - from Parker Brothers
Alpo dog food (with (?), done Live, and featuring a starving dog)
In next segment, Gene speaks of new "Nosferatu, the Vampyre" movie, then a woman provides a Shalit pumpkin head as part of a promo for new book by Ruth J. Katz, "Pumpkin Personalities"
Commercials for:
Ovaltine (voiceover by Fred Foy)
Sta-Puf concentrated fabric softener
Schwinn bicycles (with international skiing champion Jean-Claude Killy)
Jane speaks of her coming 6-day trip to Japan as program closes
Promo for Diff'rent Strokes, Hello, Larry and The Best of Saturday Night Live (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
This aired on local Chicago TV (and across the nation) on Wednesday, October 31st 1979 within the 8:20 to 8:58am (Eastern - 7:20 to 7:58am Central) time frame.
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