January 1995 WFLD commercials (Part 4 of 6)

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GADZOOKS!!!!

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HUZZAH!!!!

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FTW

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OMG!

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LOL

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Long Live WFLD!!!!

[1977Melville]

Heather Locklear was milfy back then. Now not so much.

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@1977Melville Long Live Heather Locklear!!!!

[Ninsegalover]

I used to ALWAYS watch Living Single and Melrose Place!

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@Ninsegalover Me 2

[jurriaan95]

this clip was on m birthday..

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@jurriaan95 Not Mine

[prlad85]

Wow! I remember some of these! Houseguest was such a great Movie as well (R.I.P. Phil Hartman, God rest his soul). Those M&M/'s commercials were great as well!

Very nice job! Keep up the great work! Thanks for posting! A++++++++

Have a great night, a great day tommorrow, a great night tommorrow, a great weekend, a great month, a great winter, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! All the best in 2010 and beyond! Puerto Rican Love from New York City!

Great TV from great times!

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@prlad85 Long Live Phil Hartman!!!!

[bubbaali021]

i have the first 4 seasons of melrose place on dvd(that 2 hour episode is on the season 3 dvd)

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@bubbaali021 I Don't

[btm85bubs]

Great clip. Thanks for posting.

Were the "Martin" end credits from a Fox network airing? If so, when did Fox start "squeezing" the end credits of its prime-time programs?

In September 1995, blue M&Ms replaced tan M&Ms.

To be honest, those M&M commercials creep me out a little. It's as if Burger King used a talking cow to advertise its Whoppers - "mmm, I really enjoy being butchered, chopped up, and fried in grease!"

[btm85bubs]

There is a local hamburger place called Betty's Best Burgers (it used to be part of the Fuddruckers chain, but is now an independent operation). The area near the cashier features a large window looking onto a storage room with huge hanging slabs of raw meat. Although I enjoy eating there on occasion, and am always pleased to notice an absence of flies buzzing around the meat, I am not especially pleased by the sight of dead, butchered cows.

[barber747]

Yes they were. Can't you tell?

The "squeezed" credits debuted sometime in early 1996. Check out one of my December 1996 Fox commercial breaks for one of the earliest examples of their "squeezed" credits displays. It's the one labeled, "WFLD commercials - December 5, 1996, Part 3".

[btm85bubs]

I thought they might have been from a syndicated airing or something.

NBC instituted squeezed credits in the 1993-94 season (although it was already taking programs' "real" credits and shrinking them to a little box to allow for network promos as early as May 1993). CBS followed suit at the beginning of the 1994-95 season. I believe ABC didn't adopt the practice until the 1996-97 season. I know for sure that ABC was still airing "real" credits as late as February 1996.

[barber747]

No, not a syndicated airing. If there were Fox promos throughout, then it wasn't from a synd. airing. Actually, to be honest, w/ you, that partic. episode of "Martin" was taped over w/ the Jan. 1998 material I had posted before, so it was difficult to tell anyway.

Also, the earliest split screen credits I've seen from ABC were from the 1997-98 season. Have you seen any from the 1996-97 season? If so, where?

[btm85bubs]

No, I have not.

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@btm85bubs Too Bad

[gettingyours]

ABC started putting sqeezed credits on sitcoms beginning with the 1996-97 season, but it wasn't put on all programs until the 1997-98 season (however NYPD Blue didn't get sqeezed credits until the 1998-99 season)

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@gettingyours I Realized That

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@barber747 IDK

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@btm85bubs I Know

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@barber747 Thanks

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@btm85bubs LMMO!