The CBS Tuesday Night Movies - "Murder By Natural Causes" (Complete Broadcast, 5/20/80) 📺

Sit down, get comfy, and watch this whole movie - you will not regret it. 😎 Here's the complete broadcast of a (repeat) airing (just missing the movie preview and pre-film commercials) of the superb made-for-TV movie "Murder By Natural Causes" as aired on The CBS Tuesday Night Movies over network affiliate WIVB Channel 4. (This airing was a repeat - it originally ran on The CBS Saturday Night Movies on February 17th 1979.) The film stars the beautiful Katharine Ross as an unfaithful wife who, with her lover (Barry Bostwick, already represented in Fuzzyland in the busted pilot Young Guy Christian seen here:    • ABC Network - Young Guy Christian - "Pilot...  ), tries to off her mentalist husband (the late, great Hal Holbrook) by scaring him to death. What follows has more unexpected twists and turns than you would guess! It was written by Richard Levinson and William Link, best known for their creation of one of the greatest detectives of all time - Columbo. All movie show voiceovers by Brad Crandall. Includes: CBS Tuesday Night Movies opening added for continuity's sake, nicked from here:    • The CBS Tuesday Night Movies - "Coach" - W...  ), as it was missing from the original recording Recording comes in just after the opening titles start Commercials for: Ivory Soap (with Richard and Genese Carrion of New York City) Crest with Fluoristan Pizza Hut - New Pan Pizza - "Made with Aaahh" Carpet Fresh Film segment 2 Commercials for: A1 steak sauce - "Makes Hamburgers Taste Like Steakburgers" Mercury - $500 cash rebate on all models Sealy Posturepedic For Faces Only - suntan lotion by Coppertone Bumper Promo for "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" (voiceover by ??) CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Hal Simms) Commercials for: Luvs baby diapers College Pro Painters Station ID / News4 Update promo with John Beard (later a Los Angeles TV news legend) Film segment 3 Commercials for: Ragu Italian Cooking Sauce Sears Weatherbeater and Easy Living paint - sale Easy-Off oven cleaner Libby's Lite peaches, pears and fruit cocktails Bumper Promo for The Waltons' 10th anniversary (voiceover by Hal Simms) CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Hal Simms) News4 Newsbreak with John Beard Commercial: Convenient Food Mart Weather check at 9:57pm (53:46 into video) Commercial: Maxwell House coffee (with Ricardo Montalban) Station ID / promo for PM Magazine Film segment 4 Commercials for: Olin HTH chlorine and algae treatment - for swimming pools Alka-Seltzer (is that John Goodman?) 9 Lives cat food with Sylvester the cat (voice of Mel Blanc) STP Gas Treatment (featuring actor Noah Beery Jr. of "The Rockford Files" fame) Film segment 5 Commercials for: Glad trash bags (with Tom Bosley) Theatrical trailer for "The Long Riders" (ending voiceover by Phil Tonken?) Vidal Sassoon Shampoo - "Sassooning" (voiceover by Mr. Sassoon himself) (1979 Copyright) 1980 Ford Courier Bumper Promo for The Incredible Hulk, The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas (voiceover by ??) CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Hal Simms) Commercials for: Western New York Savings Bank (with Shirley Knox hawking elegant drinking glasses) Blue Bonnet margarine - "I'll eat my bonnet!" Station ID / News4 Update promo with John Beard Film segment 6 Commercials for: Mountain Dew Irish Spring deodorant soap Ultra Brite toothpaste Wendy's Hot & Juicy single hamburgers Film segment 7, closing with ending credits (and voiceover promo for Carlton the Doorman special and "The Grass Is Always Greener on the Septic Tank" by Lorenzo Music) Promo for "The Henderson Monster" for May 27th (voiceover by ??) CBS Tuesday Night Movies ending show titles Promo for Shirley MacLaine: Every Little Movement (voiceover by ??) CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Hal Simms) Preview of upcoming News4 Update with John Beard Commercials for: Pizza Hut - New Pan Pizza (seen earlier) Delta Washerless Faucets (voiceover by Norman Rose) Adidas sneakers Technical difficulty moment in station ID / PM Magazine promo This aired on local Buffalo TV on Tuesday, May 20th 1980 during the 9:00pm to 11:00pm (Eastern) timeframe. About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television: The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: [email protected] Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail [email protected] Thank you for your hel