NBC Network - Shirley - "Is This What Dad Really Wanted?" (Complete Broadcast, 10/26/1979) 📺
on channel: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)
Here's the complete, first-run broadcast of the very first episode of the short-lived series Shirley, "Is That What Dad Really Wanted?" (S01E01), as aired over the NBC Network via WMAQ Channel 5.
(That's Shirley, not Laverne)
Shirley Jones (late of The Partridge Family) helmed this hour-long comedy-drama as a widowed mother who moves with her family and housekeeper from New York City to Lake Tahoe. This constituted a "Who's Who" of some future big names, including Rosanna Arquette (paternal granddaughter of Cliff Arquette, a.k.a. "Charley Weaver") before films like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and being immortalized in Toto's "Rosanna," and a pre-Growing Pains Tracey Gold. Also co-starred Patrick Wayne (son of John, "The Duke," who died earlier in the year), Peter Barton, Bret Shryer, John McIntire (formerly of Wagon Train and The Virginian), Ann Doran, and Cynthia (later Cindy) Eilbacher.
In this series premiere, Shirley and her family find out their new home is being fumigated.
Includes:
"NBC Proud As a Peacock" bumper (the cut-in to the network was a little late)
Episode preview, followed by show opening titles
Commercials for:
Aunt Jemima Complete Buttermilk Pancake Mix (with actor James Widdoes, best known for playing Robert Hoover in the film Animal House)
Metropolitan Life Insurance - "Metropolitan Really Stands By You"
Episode Act I
Sponsor billboard for All-Temperature Cheer (voiceover by Dick Dudley?)
Commercials for:
All-Temperature Cheer (with coupon)
Crest toothpaste - "Checkup After Checkup"
Promos for "Gus the Pigskin Mule", Casper's Halloween and Witches Night Out (voiceovers by Casey Kasem)
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
Stove Top Stuffing (with Polly Holliday (best known as Flo on "Alice") (voiceover by Mason Adams)
Snickers bar - "It's So Satisfying"
Bumper
Promo for The Rockford Files and Eischied (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Promo for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Commercial: American National Bank - "We're the Bank for Business"
Station ID / promo for NewsCenter5 at 10pm (with Jim Ruddle)
Bumper, followed by Episode Act III
Sponsor billboard for Prell Concentrate Shampoo (voiceover by Dick Dudley?)
Commercials for:
Prell Concentrate Shampoo - "Squeeze...and go from flat to fluffy!" (with actress Catherine Hicks)
Coast Deodorant Soap
Scope mouthwash
Promo for Little House on the Prairie and "Freedom Road" (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Episode Act IV
Commercials for:
Big Red chewing gum
Reynolds Wrap aluminum
Episode epilogue
Promo for Real People, Diff'rent Strokes and Hello, Larry (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Promo for The Best of Saturday Night Live - for Wednesday (?!) (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for next week's Shirley episode, plus The Rockford Files and Eischied, by Casey Kasem)
PSA for UNICEF - "National UNICEF Day" (voiceover by Dennis Weaver)
NBC News Update with John Dancy in Washington (opening voiceover by Mac McGarry), with items:
South Korean President Park Chung Hee assassinated, country under martial law
Helicopter carrying Dominican Republic president Antonio Guzman crashes and burns east of Santo Domingo
Secretary of State Vance doesn't know whether or not South Africa tested a nuclear device, but says it would be "destabilizing" if it did
Carter Administration asks 20 oil companies for profit data to see if anti-inflation guidelines were violated
Commercial: Sominex sleep aid
Promo for CHiPs, BJ and the Bear, and A Man Called Sloane (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Commercial: Nabisco Wheatsworth Stone Ground Crackers
Promo for Channel 5 (featuring Ed McMahon, Chuck Henry, Greg Gumbel, Dillon Smith, Norman Mark, Jim Tilmon, Jorie Lueloff, Jim Ruddle, Linda Yu, (?), Mike Jackson, Carol Marin. and Steve Smith) (posted separately here: • WMAQ Channel 5 - "The Best Place to L... )
Station ID / promo for Toulouse-Lautrec paintings at Art Institute of Chicago (voiceover by Ed Grennan)
Beginning of preview of The Rockford Files
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, October 26th 1979 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm timeframe.
This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The George Jen Collection.
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