Fernwood Tonight - "Lattimore Diet Program" - WFLD-TV (Complete Broadcast, 9/21/1977) 📺

Here's a complete airing of the Fernwood 2 Night (a.k.a. Fernwood Tonight) episode "Lattimore Diet Program" (S01E58) as aired over WFLD Channel 32. The series starred Martin Mull as host Barth GImble, Fred Willard as Jerry Hubbard and Frank DeVol as bandleader Happy Kyne. In this episode featured guests, 6 year old trombone player Kevin Williamson (Kevin Brando), newspaper writer and seeded tennis player Harold Clemens (Archie Hahn), and diet author Mrs. Lillian Lattimore (Carol Arthur). Also featured are the end of The People's Choice with Jackie Cooper, and the opening moments of a Classic 39 Honeymooners episode. Includes: Ending moments and credits for The People's Choice episode "Sock, The Fund Raiser" (S01E32) (with voiceover for Fernwood Tonight coming up next by Bud Kelly) (The original) Field Communications slide (voiceover by ?? - I wish we could ID this one. It's not Darwin Gillette, who took over doing the IDs in 1979) Legal Station ID / promo for The Honeymooners (with excerpt of "Mind Your Own Business"; voiceover by Bud Kelly) Opening of Fernwood 2 Night and first guest performing "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "Tiger Rag" WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (1st variant) Commercial: Homemakers Furniture - with Shelley Long Promo for People magazine with Cheryl Ladd on cover (September 26th issue) Commercial: RCA Trades Fantastic Color TV Sale (ending voiceover by Bud Kelly) Commercial: Wendy's hamburgers (check out the "in joke" on the side of the blue van) - now serving you in Chicago and Northern Indiana WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (2nd variant) Segment 2, with second guest, Harold Clemens promoting his "Power Tennis for the Blind" WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (1st variant) WFLD "Look at Us!" promo for The Honeymooners with excerpts of episodes "Young At Heart" and "Opportunity Knocks But" (voiceover by Bud Kelly) Record offer for "A Country Style Christmas" featuring 1960's and '70's country legend Connie Smith (ending voiceover by Bud Kelly) (there's an incomplete version of this ad, from a slightly later airing with the price raised a dollar, posted separately here:    • A Country Style Christmas (Partial Record ...   ) WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (2nd variant) Segment 3, with Happy Kyne telling Barth that he spends many Saturdays at the local orphanage entertaining the kids, which he believes to be tax deductible. Then Lillian Lattimore director of the Last Resort prison weight loss camp, explains her system WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (1st variant) Commercial: Visa credit card from First National Bank of Chicago - "Chicago's Bank" Record offer for "Rock Revival" by Sessions ("Rock" Revival? Shouldn't it be called "Soul Revival" based on the track list??) (voiceover by ??) (ending voiceover by ??) WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (2nd variant) Segment 4, with Barth giving PSA for "Water for California" and ending credits (with ending voiceover by Fred Willard, followed by a local voiceover promo for The Honeymooners by Bud Kelly) Station ID / promo for Rod Serling's Night Gallery for 11pm (voiceover by Bud Kelly) First few minutes of The Honeymooners episode "The Babysitter" (S01E17) before recording cuts out (no opening credits though?) This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, September 21st 1977 during the 9:59pm to 10:34pm timeframe. About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. 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 purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,700+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at: http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php...