From 1996, part 1 of a WDRB-TV Louisville, KY special "Channel 41: A Silver Anniversary Scrapbook Chapter 2" with host Ray Foushee. This documentary looked back on the history of this local station on its 25th anniversary.
Notable personalities at this station include Don Schroeder, Candyce Clifft, Lori Farmer, Ange Humphrey-Davidson, David Scott, Tammy Garrison, Jim Mitchell, Ray Foushee, Paige Quiggins, Rachel Collier, Marc Weinberg, Elizabeth Woolsey, Lindsay Allen, Valerie Chinn, Barry Bernson, Gilbert Corsey, Tamara Evans and Jennifer Baileys.
God I miss the independent station that 41 used to be. Sunday movies four, bugs bunny, Gilligans Island, fright night,and of course, pressed of the clown! Thank you 41 for being a big part of my childhood
Don’t forget Reds ⚾️, The (1977) Mickey Mouse Club, Professional 🤼♂️, Dealer’s Choice, Liar’s Club, Sanford & Son, Xuxa, Power Rangers, DuckTales, G.I. Joe, The Transformers and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, etc.
thank you for putting this up! i had this on tape for years and it always brought back fuzzy memories from the early days of 41 especially fright night and long sundays of good movies!
Anybody remember the old Fright Night movies and the low budget dude with the flash light under his chin as he told us about tonights horror movie? How about that time in the 80's when they experimented with 3D movies over tv? We had to go out and get the 3d glasses so we could see if the 3d version of "gill monster" movie would work. For me it worked a little off and on but it was an overall flop, but they were willing to try something nobody else tried.
5:46-6:00, "He's STILL not ready for primetime, but he's coming to late night this fall on FOX."-Joe Cipriano. "How hard can this be?"-Chevy Chase. "Chevy Chase, premiering September 7th..."-Joe Cipriano. "...and crashing and burning September 8th, but hey! Nobody wins them all."-Ray Foushee.
I don't think ANYBODY would forget the flop of the Capone Vault special. Though, on a serious note, where I live...the only two independant stations we could get for extreme western Mercer County, Pennsylvania was WUAB-TV and WOIO-TV in Cleveland. (Now WUAB is essentially independant, running My Network TV....and WOIO is CBS).
Channel 41 used to be a great channel as this program shows. Now its just another plain jane Fox channel just like any other Fox channel. Sadly the days of independent local progamming is gone on television.
And back in those glory days, WDRB was known as "The Childrens' Destination," and that meant kids always tuned into WDRB from 1971-2002 and catch noted kids' shows such as Xuxa, The Mickey Mouse Club, Power Rangers, The Flintstones, He-Man and The Masters of The Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, G.I. Joe, The Transformers, Bugs Bunny, Popeye, ThunderCats, X-Men, Spider-Man, My Little Pony, Beetleborgs, DuckTales, Adventures of The Gummi Bears and Goof Troop, to name a few!
I'm old enough to remember the Ultraman and Speed Racer days, but I do remember seeing an episode of Xuxa once and thinking - 'this woman can't even lip synch her own songs right!'
And don't forget the many sitcoms WDRB aired over the years: The Jeffersons (a spinoff of All In The Family), 🍻 (the most-watched sitcom of the 80s and 90s), The Andy Griffith Show (the most popular sitcom of the 60s), Modern Family (starring Sofia Vergara, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Julie Bowen and Ed O'Neill of Married... With 👶 fame), The Big Bang Theory (a sitcom about 🔬, well, sort of...), Two and A Half Men (a Chuck Lorre-created sitcom which was marred by production problems, particularly Charlie Sheen and Angus T. Jones), M*A*S*H (based on the novel by Richard Hooker and the 1970 film), The Lucy Show (Lucille Ball's second most successful sitcom), I Love Lucy (TV's first hit sitcom), The Honeymooners (which gave birth to the line "POW! TO THE MOON, ALICE!!!!"), The Partridge Family (which is a made-for-TV music band comprising of Shirley Jones, the late David Cassidy, Danny Bonaduce (who later hosted The Other Half and Starface), a pre-L.A. Law Susan Dey, Brian Forster, the late Suzanne Crough and the late Dave Madden) and, of coarse, Gilligan's 🌴 (which, as the George Wyle-composed theme song says, was "a tale of a fateful trip that started from this Tropic port aboard this tiny 🚢" about Gilligan, the first mate, and his Skipper, Jonas Grumby, and the five passengers: millionaire Thurston Howell III and his wife "Lovey" Howell, actress Ginger Grant, former Miss Kansas Mary Ann Summers and 👨🏫 Roy Hinkley, who "set sail for a three-hour tour" until bad weather caused the castaways to be stranded on a deserted 🌴, where they remained for the next three years, never having gotten off the 🌴), etc.
It's Channel 41, not Channel 42, ya idiot! Anyhoo, congrats to WDRB Channel 41 for being the best place to catch childrens' programs from the station's sign on in 1971 until September 2002, a total of 31 years!
