WFLD Channel 32 - The Wizard of Oz (Complete Broadcast, 10/21/1985) 📺

Here's the complete broadcast of a presentation of The Wizard of Oz over WFLD Channel 32 (then some five months away from ownership transferring from Metromedia to Fox, who still owns it to this day). No, it is NOT the 1939 MGM film that made a star of Judy Garland (and co-starred Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke and Frank Morgan). This is an animated version made in 1982 by, of all places, Toho Studios (of Japanese monster movie fame), doing their spin on the old L. Frank Baum tale. With Aileen Quinn (who was "Annie" in the big 1982 film of the same name) as Dorothy, Lorne Greene (long removed from both the Ponderosa and a certain spaceship) as The Wizard, John Stocker as the Tin Man, Billy Van as the Scarecrow, Thick Wilson as the Cowardly Lion, Elizabeth Hanna as the Wicked Witch, and Wendy Thatcher as Glinda, the Good Witch. Unlike the 1939 movie which began and ended in sepia tone, this whole cartoon is in color. There are bumpers after every fourth commercial in a break. Includes: Return bumper (surreptitiously edited from later in the piece to provide extra context - also the first 25 seconds of the opening of the film were missing from the original recording and were spliced in from another source) Question - who does the voiceovers for WFLD's cartoon bumpers at this point? I feel like the voice is familiar but yet I still can't place it. Was it a local Chicago radio person? Act I, with opening credits Commercials for: Head & Shoulders shampoo Capri Sun Natural Fruit Drink PSA from U.S. Forest Service with Woodsy Owl - "The Case of the Vandalous Villain" Promo for What's Happening?! for 5pm and Diff'rent Strokes for 5:30pm Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (at Rosemont Horizon thru October 27th) (main voiceover by Les Marshak) (ending voiceover by Jim Barton) TV Guide (October 26th-November 1st issue, with Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather on the cover) Chicagoland-Northwest Indiana Dodge Dealers Star Search - November 2nd Chicago Auditions Act II Commercials for: Teddy Ruxpin Mounds candy bar Luvs diapers with comfort waistband (outside in park) Dominick's Finer Foods - 60th year sale TV Guide subscription offer (with Alex Karras) Act III Commercials for: Cherry Coke - "Back to the Future" (posted separately here:    • Cherry Coke - "Back to the Future" (Commer...  ) BVD Underwear Reynolds Oven Cooking Bags Promo for Chicago Bulls on 32 (intro to Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" partly reversed to avoid copyright blockage) Grapefruit 45 Fat Burner Plan Act IV Commercials for: Chicagoland-Northwest Indiana Dodge Dealers (repeat) Capri Sun Natural Fruit Drink World Wrestling Federation at Rosemont Horizon on November 7th Promo for Gimme a Break! for 6pm and Three's Company for 6:30pm Subscription offer for Money magazine Act V Commercials for: Efferdent denture cleanser Hunt's Snack Pack pudding by Beatrice - "Detective Mom and the Case of the New Easy-Open Pack" (posted separately here:    • Hunt's Snack Pack Pudding - "Detective Mom...  ) Holiday Travel (to Las Vegas and California) Promo for Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors for 3pm on WFLD Afternoon Superstars Record offer for 40 Christmas Classics (part of “White Christmas” had to be reversed to avoid copyright blockage) Act VI Chicagoland-Northwest Indiana Dodge Dealers (again!!) Luvs diapers with comfort waistband (inside baby's sleeping room) Empire Carpet - "Easy to Buy Carpets" (with Lynn Hauldren) Promo for The All New Let's Make a Deal for 11am Sports Illustrated subscription offer (with Jim Palmer, Darryl Strawberry, Elaine Zayak, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, and Wayman Tisdale with Dan Dierdorf) Act VII, followed by closing credits and, at the very end, Alan Enterprises bumper (that company's logo was seen in 1980's copies of the 1952-54 Abbott & Costello Show when it was shown on one of the cable channels in the 2000's) This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, October 21st 1985 during the 7:30pm to 9:30pm timeframe. (Movie was also rerun on Sunday, December 8th 1985 at 12pm) 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 help!