ABC Network - Those Amazing Animals - WLS Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 8/31/1980) 📺
на канале: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)
From the people that brought you In Search of... and That's Incredible!, here's an early episode (the second, in fact) of Those Amazing Animals as aired over the ABC Network via its Chicago outlet, WLS Channel 7. Hosts are Burgess Meredith (who, after all, played The Penguin on the 1966-68 Batman TV series), Jim Stafford (famous for his big hit "Spiders and Snakes") and Priscilla Presley (three years after her ex, Elvis, famous in the '70's for his jumpsuits with bird motifs, died).
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Sunday Eyewitness News with Larry Moore and Mary Ann Childers
Pete Canness (sp?) kissing a poisonous Southern rattlesnake, followed by preview of other "amazing animals," opening titles, and hosts
Commercials for:
1980 Ford LTD Crown Victoria (with Peter Graves)
Diet Pepsi (with little league baseball team Longshots)
Segment 2, starting off with Burgess introducing his co-hosts, then spotlighting:
Agnes McGrath of Colorado Humane Society training hearing-ear dogs for the deaf
Joe Carballo (sp?) of San Jose, CA, and jogging partner Fifi - a macaw; and Chic, an impersonator
Commercials for:
Duracell batteries (use on portable tape recorders)
New Extra-Strength Excedrin Capsules
Pizza-Hut - "Pizza to Go"
Promo for That's Incredible! and NCAA Football (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Animated ABC ID with lower-third right station ID super
Segment 3, with:
California sea otters next to two oil ports - and eating shellfish, horrifying both conservationists and fishermen
Annual Frog Jump Jubilee (part of Caravelas County Fair) in Angels Camp, CA (about which Jim performs a song, to pertinent footage)
The Heart of Texas Snake Handlers Club - whose president, Butch Heffelfinger (sp?), was bitten by a rattlesnake during filming of segment, and James Wood doing a demonstration of walking through a group of them
Commercials for:
Wrangler Jeans
Minute Maid orange juice
Promo for All My Children
Show bumper (voiceover by Jim Stafford)
Promo for Arkansas vs. Texas in NCAA Football
Commercial: Wickes Furniture Storewide Celebration Sale
Station ID / promo for Jay Berry on Sunday Eyewitness News
Segment 3, featuring:
James showing what to do if you find a rattlesnake in your sleeping blanket
Part 2 of look at deep water blue sharks, and Valerie Taylor's return to the place where one shark had slashed her leg to the point she had to have 140 stitches
Commercials for:
Kodak (young woman's graduation and her life in pictures) - "America's Storyteller"
Plymouth TC3 - vs. Toyota Corolla (with "The New" Chrysler Chairman Lee A. Iacocca at end)
Kentucky Fried Chicken - "Chicken School"
Promo for Taxi and Soap ABC Wednesday nights (with Danny DeVito, Richard Mulligan, and Jay Johnson and dummy) (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Segment 4, including:
San Diego Zoo's Joan Embery (correct spelling - but it always sounded like "Joan Embry" to me) showing an armadillo and chameleon to three children
A Marty Stouffer "Almanac" film of shrews (the four-legged kind) in action (one year before PBS picked up his Wild America series)
Commercials for:
Almond Joy and Mounds (in college) - "Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut - Sometimes You Don't" (posted separately here: • Peter Paul Almond Joy & Mounds - "Som... )
Hawaiian Punch (with Donny and Marie)
Burgess quotes a line from Shakespeare's "Coriolanus," Priscilla thanks tonight's guests, and Jim solicits those with "amazing animals" to mail a picture of same, before saying goodnight (with mention of next week's 90-minute special featuring the That's Incredible! hosts and introducing Jacques Cousteau)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for That's Incredible!, next week's special 90-minute Those Amazing Animals, and The ABC Sunday Night Movie presentation of "Showdown" by Allan Jefferys) followed by animated Reeves logo-derived Alan Landsburg Productions bumper
Very brief beginning to an ABC News Brief open (with voiceover by Bill Owen), before recording ends
This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The George Jen Collection.
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