ABC Network - Masquerade - "Diamonds" (Complete Broadcast, 12/22/1983) 📺 🕵💎

From the "Lost, Forgotten and Obscure TV Shows" Department: Here's a complete first-run broadcast of an episode of the short-lived ABC Network spy series Masquerade, "Diamonds" (S01E02), transmitted over WLS Channel 7. This starred Rod Taylor, a pre-Cheers Kirstie Alley, and post-BJ and the Bear Greg Evigan, and was about an intelligence operation recruiting civilians with certain skills to carry out required tasks. Here, after a courier is murdered and sensitive material he was carrying is stolen, Lavender (Taylor) is frantic to get it back - and part of his plan is to stop a proposed sale. Among the guests are Morgan Brittany, Dick Gautier and Eve Arden. (NOTE: As mentioned on-screen, this is from [mainly] two sources, one of which is inferior to the other. The first 6½ minutes of Act I are in this state before switching to the better-quality recording at 8:27; this likely means the first commercial break is missing.) Includes: Show opening titles (with theme sung by Crystal Gayle) Act I Commercials for: Hanes Too! panty hose Kodak Kodamatic TrimPrint Instant Color Film (version 1) (with David Copperfield) AT&T (voiceover by Cliff Robertson) Promo for Benson, Webster, Lottery! and Matt Houston (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Bob Lloyd) ABC ID with Olympic music (and station ID lower-third) Act II Commercials for: McDonald's - " 'Tis the Season for McNugget Mania" Chaps cologne - by Ralph Lauren Promo for Hardcastle & McCormick and "Funny Lady" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Bob Lloyd) Bumper (voiceover by William Conrad) Promo for Blue Thunder (premiering January 6th) (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) Commercials for: Venture - "The Best for Christmas" Greyhound - "Ride Now - Save 1/3 Later" Station ID / Eyewitness News promo (voiceover by Mike Rapchak?) Act III Commercials for: Enjoli - "The 8 Hour Perfume" (updated version where the man helps out slightly!) Concentrated All detergent Promo for 20/20 (voiceover by Norman Rose) Act IV Bumper (voiceover by William Conrad) Commercials for: Kodak Kodamatic TrimPrint Instant Color Film (version 2) (with David Copperfield) Sears - "There's More for Your Christmas" Epilogue Commercials for: AT&T (with Andy Griffith) Pierre Cardin Man's Cologne (jingle set to tune of Rod Stewart's "You Wear It Well") Preview of next week's episode, "Girls for Sale" (opening voiceover by William Conrad) Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by Barbara Walters, and for "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" after That's Incredible! by Bob Lloyd) Bumpers for Glen Larson Productions and 20th Century-Fox Television ABC News Brief with Max Robinson (opening voiceover by Charles Hughes), with items: Interior Secretary William Clark removes three aides who'd served under predecessor James Watt Another day of sub-zero temperatures in many parts of the country Sen. Ted Kennedy calls Reagan's policies on hunger "inhumane," leading to Nightline promo about topic Commercial: Sheer Elegance by L'eggs Government okays Toyota-GM joint venture Promo for coming 20/20 Promo for World News This Morning with Kathleen Sullivan and Steve Bell Commercial: United Airlines - Hong Kong daily service Station ID / promo for Kodak All-American Football Team (voiceover by Al Parker) Opening of 20/20 with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, and preview of coming stories (voiceover by Bill Owen) This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, December 22nd 1983 during the 8:00pm to 9:02pm time frame. 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!