NBC Network - Today - "Good Friday '78" - WMAQ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 2nd Hour, 3/24/1978) 📺

Here's the complete broadcast of the 2nd hour of the Today show on WMAQ Channel 5, hosted by Jane Pauley with Jess Marlow filling in for Tom Brokaw, and Chuck Scarborough in place of Floyd Kalber handling news updates.

Includes:

Tail end of promo for Richie Brockleman, Private Eye and Quincy (voiceover by Howard Reig)

Commercials for:

Borg (Datsun) in Downers Grove
Tide detergent
A&P Action Prices with "Price & Pride"

Station ID / NewsCenter5 at 10 promo

Chuck introduces news items starting with contract vote to end coal strike (reported for Meredith Lewis)

Commercials for:

La Salle National Bank with free Totes umbrella (with Noah)
The Phoenix (2848 North Broadway) promo for coming Wayne Cochran & C.C. Riders appearance
Kmart - "The Saving Place" - "Trax shoes"
Permabond Super Glue

Local weather forecast (voiceover by ??)

More news: leading with end of Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon (reported by Bill Sternoff) and report of ole time fiddlers' convention in Union Grove, NC by Jackson Bain, followed by weather by Bob Ryan

Report by Eric Burns on "new" parlor game (board game) played by King Tut

PSA for The National Alliance of Businessmen - "Hire Disabled Veterans"

Commercials for:

Lincoln Mall stores Wieboldt's, Shirts, Etc., and Bresler's 33 Flavors
Zimmerman Lincoln Mercury - "The Mark of Zimmie"
Porcelana Medicated Fade Cream

Local weather forecast (voiceover by ??)

Bob Abernethy in Washington interviews Senators Clifford Case and George McGovern about Israeli peace talks

Bumper Promo for Quark (voiceover by Dick Dudley)

Promos for:

Student Science Fair in Chicago Public Schools (voiceover by ??)
"The Plague Dogs" book by Richard Adams (voiceover by ??)

Station ID / promo for Marcus Welby, M.D. (voiceover by ??)

Local NewsCenter5 update with Gene Randall, including the following news items:

- Schools, county and city offices closed for Good Friday, but State of Illinois building, federal offices and banks open

- Travelers advisory for Easter rush at O'Hare

- Firearms agents to supervise transfer of explosives from building at 15th and Halsted to Joliet disposal site

- $100,000 worth of PCP seized by Chicago police; two North side men, Edward Smith (22) and Dennis Loretti (23), are arrested

Commercials for:

Burlington pantyhose
International House of Pancakes
Continuation of local news update:

- Chicago policemen Michael Smith, Frederick Everly and Michael Kuvelis (sp?) are indicted by Cook County grand jury; statements from States Attorney Bernard Carey and Fraternal Order of Police president John Dineen

- UMW to vote on coal contract

PSA for Easter Seal Society of Metropolitan Chicago

Promo for Tony Bennett concert at Sabre Room

Commercials for:

Venture
SportMart

Chuck's latest news update, with reports including one by Linda Ellerbee about plan to raise retirement age

Commercials for:

Reynolds Aluminum
Hanes underwear - "The Invisible Man"

Bob Ryan with sports

Commercials for:

Northwestern Mutual Life
NuTone - with Joe Garagiola

Bob with weather forecast

Bob Abernethy essay on government spending and taxes

Promo for Easter Sunday mass program (voiceover by Dick Dudley)

Commercial: Hejhal Oldsmobile

Animated station ID

Jess interviews Karl Wallenda's manager, Stephanie Shaw, in aftermath of Wallenda's recent death (see here:    • ABC News - "Karl Wallenda" (1978)   ), and a look at The Flying Wallendas' career

Commercials for:

100% Cotton Denim Jeans
American Gas Association

Kenny Rogers sings "Sweet Music Man" and speaks with Jane

Commercials for:

Sears Craftsman
Lanier's Vest Pocket Secretary (with Arnold Palmer)
Nature Valley Granola Bars

Promo for A Tribute to Mr. Television: Milton Berle (voiceover by Bill Wendell)

Commercials for:

Dominick's Finer Foods
Kraft Natural Fruit Concord Grape Jelly
Culligan Systems

Station ID / promo for "Sha Na Na"

Sanford and Son opening titles [Music Muted]

Incomplete commercial for Fleischmann's Margarine (with Mr. Cholesterol) before tape cuts out

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, March 24th 1978 during the 7:59am to 9:01am timeframe.

This was from a tape donated as part of The Mike and Britta Fayette Collection.

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