ABC Network - Code Red - "Riddle in the Flames" - WLS Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 9/12/1982) 📺 🔥

Here's the very last broadcast (not the final episode but the last time the series was seen on ABC) of the 1981-82 series Code Red, as aired on the ABC Network over Chicago's WLS Channel 7; this is a repeat of S01E16, "Riddle in the Flames," which originally ran on March 14th 1982. (Code Red did also air in reruns on the USA Network in the late 1980s.)

This had the distinction of being the last TV show Irwin Allen ever produced; it starred Lorne Greene (in one of several failed shows since Bonanza ended in 1973) as a veteran Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter, under whom several in his family serve as firefighters, and also featured former Eight Is Enough co-star Adam Rich.

Every segment begins and ends with a Code Red bumper (voiceover by Dick Tufeld).

Includes:

Station ID / promo for start of "Sunshine" airing on 3:00 Movie for Monday (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Episode prologue and show opening titles

Commercials for:

Toyota Supra

Kal Kan's Crave cat food

Episode Act I (including title, guest stars, writers and director)

Animated ABC ID with station ID lower-third

Commercials for:

Nature Valley Light & Crunchy Granola Snack

General Foods International Coffees Irish Mocha Mint

"Come On Along" ABC Promo for Joanie Loves Chachi, Star of the Family, Too Close for Comfort, It Takes Two and 20/20 for Thursday (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Episode Act II

Commercials for:

Clairol Final Net aerosol

New Raspberry Bubblicious

Promo for That's Incredible and NFL Monday Night Football season premiere (Pittsburgh vs. Dallas)

Commercials for:

Long John Silver's - "Put a Smile on Your Taste" with child actress Heather O'Rourke of Poltergeist fame (posted separately here:    • Long John Silvers With Heather O'Rour...  )

Station ID with Tim Weigel promoting 4:30 Eyewitness News

Episode Act III

Commercials for:

Lady's Choice anti-perspirant

Philips Petroleum - putting artificial nesting sites made out of one of their plastics, in the waters for birds

Promo for Ripley's Believe It or Not!, for 2 weeks from this Sunday (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Episode Act IV

Commercials for:

Kibbles 'n Bits dog food

1982 Lincoln-Mercury Lynx

Promo for ABC News World News Tonight report on human growth hormones for Monday

Episode epilogue

Commercials for:

Crest Toothpaste - animated "A Lot Fewer Cavities"

The New Disc Camera from Kodak

"Come on Along" ABC Promo for The Gold Monkey (Tales of the Gold Monkey) for Wednesday, September 22nd (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Dennis Haysbert gives fire safety tip from LAFD (this, decades before he first became spokesperson for Allstate Insurance - so no "Are you in good hands?" on this segment)

Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, followed by voiceover promo for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Modesty Blaise - a pilot starring Ann Turkel - by Allan Jefferys), followed by Columbia Pictures Television 'sunburst' logo bumper

Animated ABC ID (voiceover by Allan Jefferys)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, September 12th 1982 during the 6:00pm to 7:00pm 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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