Here's a complete broadcast of the Gigglesnort Hotel episode "Following Directions" (S02E17, original air date May 9th 1976; about Dirty Dragon's misadventures with a chemistry set, owing to his not doing as the title emphasized, trying to make liquid coal) as broadcast over its originating station, WLS Channel 7.
(NOTE: For you New Yorkers lurking about these parts, this series - which ran for 78 episodes, originally from January 5th 1975 to January 15th 1978, and was then nationally syndicated across the country - aired for years starting around 1977 on WPIX Channel 11, alongside such shows as Big Blue Marble on Saturday mornings. Bill Jackson and his gallery of puppets had a New York connection dating back to 1973 when he produced and hosted a Saturday afternoon children's show, B.J.'s Bunch, which aired over WNBC Channel 4, this while simultaneously handling the final season of B.J. and the Dirty Dragon which by then had moved from WFLD Channel 32 - then in the midst of a period when Kaiser Broadcasting owned the station - to WGN Channel 9, then WPIX's sister station.)
Includes:
Tail end of a Fleetwood Construction Company ad (featuring Alan Dennison - President)
Station ID / Happy Halloween (voiceover by Janice Gears Kos) (posted separately here: • WLS Channel 7 - "Happy... )
Show opening titles and episode Act I
Commercials for:
Roll-O-Matic self-wringing mop and waxer (ending voiceover by Janice Gears Kos)
Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet - savings for Chicago and Cook County residents on $7,000 cars
PSA with Halloween safety tips - with Sharon King (posted separately here: • WLS Channel 7 - "Trick... )
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
Dynamo laundry detergent (with testimonials from Rebecca Jo Wiley, Donna Pekich and Joan Kraft) - "Dynamo Is Dynamite"
Mott's Apple Juice - "You Can Almost Hear It Crunch"
Tara Ware Microwave Corn Popper - with Butter Dispenser (ending voiceover by Janice Gears Kos)
Condesa del Mar - Wedding Parties and Banquets, 50 to 1,500 (voiceover by Janice Gears Kos)
PSA for Multiple Sclerosis - with Paul Newman
Episode Act III, followed by ending credits:
Gigglesnort Hotel
Copyright 1975 Bill Jackson
Produced by Bill Jackson
Directed by Jim McPharlin
Puppeteers - Nancy Wettler, Michael Lans
Associate Producer - Stephanie Hyman
Technical Directors - Ed Jamison, John Macenczak, Roy Hayward
Audio - Roger Brunn, Mike Donovan
Senior Video - John Rozum, Bob Cosentino, Dan Chaneske
Graphics - Rita Sorci
Stage Manager - Jerry Kupcinet, Herman Fell, Allyn Nehls
Lighting - W. Spencer Bartlett, Ray Freutel
Sound Effects - Harry Hale
Videotape Editors - Howard Malis, Bill Nobles
Scenic Designer - John Archer
Music Coordinator - Frank McNulty
(recording cuts off at this point)
Easter Egg Left In: Following this the recording switches to the tail end of a commercial for Comet Cleanser, followed by the final segment of a final-season (1973-74) episode of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour as aired over WFLD Channel 32 (where they are joined onstage by Chastity, later Chaz), followed by ending credits and who syndicated the show back then
Animated Field Communications ID (voiceover by Darwin Gillette)
Station ID / Happy Halloween (voiceover by Jim Barton) (posted separately here: • Video )
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 31st 1982 (during the 8:00am to 8:30am timeframe for the Gigglesnort Hotel episode, and about 8:58pm to 9:00pm for the WFLD Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour ending and bumper).
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dennis Polkow Collection.
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