WWOR TV 9 Secaucus, New Jersey ID - Morton Downey Jr.

[NowhereMan1966]

Mort for President! Mort, I miss ya, buddy, RIP. I always watched your show.

[ItsFrankieBoy]

This show was awesome. Damn those were the days. Im so tired of "You are NOT the father"

[Fartingbellybutton]

The Boxing Gloves are on the Wrong Hand.

[Colortiniz]

That's a blast from the past.

[farerse]

the intro music sounds like something from megaman on nes

[Derby14]

Mort broke a lot of barriers and is part of the reason we have what we have on TV today...not sure that's a good thing...although I must admit that I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time.

[bjroberts65]

I miss this show...MORTON RIP BRO.

[ledzepjimmypage]

a my home town

[NicktheBarber31]

wish i could've seen this episode in its entirety

[johnissoevil]

I do have to say this, it was a classy move by MCA to keep Phil Tonken and Ted Mallie on the payroll after the sale and call letter change. Pre-MCA, there were no cartoons on 9, so it was kinda neat to hear Tonken do a promo for Bugs and Daffy in 1987.

[retroguy1976]

r.i.p. morton downey that was a good show I love people who are angry lmao

[timmymylad]

Now I remember, WOR TV 9 left it's

studio in NY and moved to NJ at this time

in the 1980's!

[timmymylad]

How could I forget The Morton Downey Jr. Show on WOR TV 9 NY! The late 1980's would have not been the same without him!

Yeh!,Hoo,Hoo,Hoo,Hoo! lol!

[saj8]

@timmymylad I used to watch Morton Downey Jr. all the time with my mother.

Damn, I miss the late 80s!

[CelesteK]

Morton Downey Jr. Now there's a loudmouth that my brother and I were never allowed to watch.

[WhatsAYak]

Mort was part of the whole "re-imaging" done when WOR was taken over by Universal and became WWOR in 1987...they replaced the Million Dollar Movie w/Ent. Tonight @ 8, Evening Magazine @ 8:30 (or was it the other way around?), then Mort @ 9...my dad used to watch him every night, I couldn't really get into it since I was only 8 @ the time...LOL

[ctracy1]

Yep..I was a little older than you (13 in 1988) so I was fascinated by Mort. I distictly remember having to be home by 9 every night during summer vacation and hoping that whatever the topic was, there'd be a lot of screaming, yelling and (the best) someone getting tossed off the show. The amazing thing is how quick Mort came and went. WWOR later moved him to 11:30 and that seemed to be the death knell. If I remember right, toward the end he was on at like 1 in the morning!

[WhatsAYak]

Yeah, that was early in 89, when Arsenio Hall first arrived on the late night scene...Ch. 9 originally aired his show @ 12:30 AM, but when they saw the ratings he was pulling in, they moved it up an hour to 11:30, swapping time slots w/Mort in the process...you def knew he was toast @ that point.

[TJae1]

Where's the rest of the show? localstationbreak ?

[localstationbreak]

Sorry, that's all that I had, the rest was recorded over.

[TJae1]

:(...... K....

[jpg0572]

recorded over?

[tvrewind]

Received that way from a friend. Sorry.

[bvd1022]

all the stuff they put on dvd you'd think they'd put Mort on DVD this is the stuff I miss from the 80s it'll never be like this again.

[kstar8706]

Smoking a cigarette live on the air! Man have the times changed!

[daveb3]

I read his book.He did a whole lot of civil rights work,and government.Good singer as well, he was the first white artist signed to the Stax label in Memphis.

[Robotron1973]

Mort was a genius ahead of his time, every talk show today can learn somthing from him. RIP Mort

[prlad85]

Mort! Mort! Mort! Keep the videos coming!