NBC Network - Project U.F.O. - "The Washington, D.C. Incident" (Complete Broadcast, 2/19/1978) 🛸📺

Here's a complete first-run airing (with commercials included) of the premiere episode of the series Project U.F.O., [Project UFO] entitled "Sighting 4001: The Washington, D.C. Incident," as transmitted over WMAQ Channel 5.

This show, from executive producer Jack Webb of Dragnet fame (he was also the voiceover on the opening title setup and within other portions of this episode), starred William Jordan as Major Jake Gatlin and Caskey Swaim as Staff Sergeant Harry Fitz. The show was loosely based on the real-life Project Blue Book undertaken by the U.S. Air Force.

Featured in this episode (which dealt with a woman on a Virginia farm who saw a strange object in her yard, and an Air Force pilot chasing a UFO crashing and dying) were Anne Schedeen, Len Wayland, Frances Reid, Linwood McCarthy, John Findlater, Hoke Howell, Tim Donnelly, William Wellman, Jr., Jim B. Smith, Aldine King, Barry Cahill, Lew Brown, Fred Holliday, Christopher Woods, Hank Stohl, and Bill Overton. The music was by Nelson Riddle.

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Includes:

Station ID / promo for NBC Sunday Late Movie for 10:45pm (voiceover by ??)

Intro setup with opening titles, followed by Act I

Commercial: Trident Sugarless Gum

Commercial: Nestea “Taste the taste of wetness - take the Nestea plunge…”

Act II of episode

Commercial: Burger King - (C) 1978 Burger King Corporation

Commercial: Minolta XG-7 camera

Act III of episode

Commercial: C.W. Post cereal - (C) General Foods Corporation 1977

Commercial: Shake N Bake Pork - (C) General Foods Corp. 1977

Project U.F.O. bumper

Promo for Little House on the Prairie for Monday at 8:00pm (7:00pm Central & Mountain) (voiceover by Howard Reig)

Commercial: Dial 2 dandruff shampoo

Station ID / promo for NewsCenter5 at 10:00pm ("29 Overcome by Dangerous Fumes") (voiceover by ??)

Project U.F.O. sponsor billboard for Cascade dishwashing detergent (voiceover by Bill Rippe), followed by Act IV

Commercial: Cascade dishwashing detergent

Commercial: Downy fabric softener

Promo for premiere of Quark, for Friday at 8:00pm (7;00pm Central & Mountain)

Promo for The Awakening Land, for 9:00pm (8:00pm Central & Mountain) (voiceover by Vic Roby)

Final act of episode

Commercial: Bic Shaver

Commercial: Nacho cheese flavored Doritos - (C) Frito-Lay, Inc. 1978

Preview of next week's episode, "Sighting 4002: The Joshua Flats Incident" (voiceover by Jack Webb)

Promo for Grizzly Adams for Wednesday at 8:00pm (7:00pm Central & Mountain, followed by Black Sheep Squadron at 9:00pm/8:00pm) (voiceover by Fred Collins)

Promo for next day's Today with Tom Brokaw

Ending credits with promos for a 2-hour Whatever Happened to the Class of '65 for Thursday at 9:00pm (8:00pm Central & Mountain), and The Awakening Land coming up next (voiceover by Vic Roby)

NBC News Update with Jessica Savitch (opening voiceover by Bill Hanrahan) with items:

Egypt asks Cyprus to hand over two gunmen who murdered Al-Abram newspaper editor Yousef el-Sebai

Marchers in Cairo mourn el-Sebai's death and vow revenge

White House goes to Congress to try to end coal strike

A.J. Foyt injured, Richard Petty and David Pearson sidelined at Daytona 500; Bobby Allison wins

Commercial: American Express card with Carol Channing

Repeat of Little House on the Prairie promo

Commercial: Red Lobster

Commercial: Plymouth Horizon car

Station ID with NewsCenter5 promo for 10:00pm ("Egyptian Commandoes Rescue Hijack Victims") (voiceover by ??)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 19th 1978 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 Mike and Britta Fayette Collection.

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