WFLD Channel 32 - Switch - "Big Deal in Paradise" (Complete Broadcast, 2/4/1985) 📺

Here's the complete broadcast of a rerun of the 1970s CBS network series, Switch, "Big Deal in Paradise" (S01E20, original air date February 24th 1976), as presented over WFLD Channel 32 and its Latenight 32 banner. The series starred Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert, and also featured Charlie Callas and Sharon Gless. (previous to this we shared a first-run broadcast of an episode of this series from Season 3, which you can see here:    • CBS Network - Switch - "Fade Out" - WNAC C...  ) In this installment, Pete (Robert Wagner) and Malcolm (Charlie Callas) are suspected of stealing a million dollars of underworld money. Guest starring Peter Mark Richman, Ray Danton and Anne Archer (first name misspelled "Ann" in the opening credits). Includes: Last few seconds of end credits of Kojak S05E22 episode "In Full Command" (with voiceover promo for Switch by Jim Barton) Station ID / promo for PM Magazine Show opening titles (from Season 2, the Scanimate graphics style of which would also be adopted for the opening titles of New York station WOR Channel 9's The 4 O'Clock Movie starting in 1977) Sponsor billboard for Advanced Formula Crest with Fluoristat (voiceover sounds like Leif Jensen, a longtime announcer for WNAC/WNEV Channel 5 in Boston, MA) Act I Commercials for: Advanced Formula Crest with Fluoristat ("Mom! My checkup!") M&M Candies - "A World of Wondrous Places") Pipin' Hot White Loaf - from Pillsbury Nestlé Toll House Semi-Sweet Morsels Act II Latenight 32 bumper (show title written on snow-covered car) Commercials for: Hall's Mentho-Lyptus - with Vapor Action Schmerler Ford (with Harry Schmerler, Your Singing Ford Dealer) Zest soap (with Doug Blanchard) Promo for Entertainment Tonight (with Robb Weller) (ending voiceover sounds like Peter Thomas) Act III Commercials for: Scope mouthwash - "The Way It Was" Welch's Orchard Juices Craftmatic Adjustable Bed - with color TV gift offer Promo for Diff'rent Strokes (voiceover by Jim Barton) Latenight 32 bumper (with shot of Chicago Police paddy wagon) Act IV Commercials for: Close-Up toothpaste Remington Micro Screen Rechargeable Shaver (with company president Victor Kiam - and ending plug for January issue of Reader's Digest) Celozzi-Ettelson Chevrolet Precision Lens Crafters Latenight 32 bumper (with shot of taxi driving along Michigan Avenue bridge) Act V Commercials for: Pillsbury Crescent Rolls Chloraseptic sore throat lozenges (use of timer to show when it kicks in) Celozzi-Ettelson Chevrolet - "Huge Selection of Cavaliers" Promo for Three's Company and Taxi (voiceover by Peter Thomas?) Latenight 32 bumper (that Chicago Police truck again) Act VI Latenight 32 bumper (taken along subway station as train approaches) Commercials for: Dominick's Finer Foods (sale on Tropicana Pure Orange Juice - good through February 6th) (voiceover by Lloyd Hanson) Colonial Penn Medicare (with Ed McMahon) PSA for 744-GANG (with Police Superintendent Fred Rice) Promo for Man About the House (the basis for Three's Company) and All in the Family (voiceover by Jim Barton) Act VII Latenight 32 bumper (with view of bus stop sign) Commercials for: Concentrated All detergent College of Automation - "Dial S-U-C-C-E-S-S" Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Taxi, PM Magazine and Comedy Classics by Jim Barton) (station fades end credits early) Station ID / promo for Rituals Opening of Comedy Classics, followed by opening titles of Three Stooges short "How High Is Up?" [1940] (the latter preceded by bumper of original TV distributor Screen Gems) "Now stay tuned for Comedy Classics - next..." This aired on local Chicago TV late Monday, February 4th into early Tuesday, February 5th 1985 during the 11:30pm to 12:30am 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 help!