Geraldo Rivera - Al Capone's Vault Promo (1986)

[Gmancrap]

A chair?! 

[maggio888]

empty as a spinster's doodah.

[newstarcadefan]

Wow...that was the biggest farce of farces. (Yes this is coming from somebody who was 4 years old who'd rather'd watch the Newlywed Game.)

[acceptthis01]

Tales From The Crypt did an episode based on this event. Morton Downey Jr. goes into a haunted house and gets murdered on live television at the end.

[BuddenOne]

I heard geraldo chuckle when someone said they would pray for the kidnapped children in Mexico back in 05'. This guy geraldo is beyond stupid he is gutless sack of shit who hides behind the almighty media. If I had a chance to break his nose for the 3rd time I would.

[lisamaria1972]

OMG..I remember this!

[JasonL77]

Alot of people say that this was a major embarrassment for Geraldo, but I say, when you consider the major rateings it pulled in, he got the last laugh.

[cochranexyz]

I saw some of this when it aired.  I must admit that they built it up rather well, and the payoff? Just the opposite. A lot of nothing. I like'd Weird Al's spoof of this in UHF when they open Capone's glove compartment; "AHA! Road maps!".

[Hamilton940]

Funny, I just mentioned this to someone and i couldn't believe that they never heard of this. I can't believe it was all the way back in 1986. They promoted the daylights out of it, and I sat through the endless commercials for this non event.

[panther0567]

They actually found weapons of mass destruction in there.

[lesterhalfjr]

@panther0567 when they didn't find WMD I thought of this

[bluemoon95]

@panther0567 They did, I didn't know that!!!!! Lol

[kcmetro1]

The most successful Epic Fail ever.

[RusselBertrand]

THis was the High point of Geraldo;s life...sharply turned into his downfalll....he spent his own money on this shit....lmfao....he talks about the tombs of ancient egypt mayber he should relize most tombs were raided...what a dumbass

[Alfrunk]

Downfall? He's a multimillionaire you bizarre turd.

[RusselBertrand]

if someone paid you 5 million to get f u c ked in the ass on live TV would yeah?? better yet would you sleep with your bowling protégé??

[Alfrunk]

You really lost me there. I wouldn't sell out for sex...and I don't know what the bowling comment is in regard to. Geraldo is currently sleeping with Jose Baez.

[wagswayz]

@Alfrunk lol. hell yeah!

[oldhacks]

I actually watched this live when I was a kid. how could he not have known nothing was in the fucking thing?

[TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

I found a copy of the complete show at a Estate Show. Not bad quality either.

[Trontom]

I remember watching this as a kid. It was freaking hilarious! I almost wanted to hear the muted trombone going "waaa-waaa-waaaaaa" when he went in the vault.

[Sporrwer]

What was behing there. I have to do a report on him in spanish class. any boudy know what was behing that volt.

[travischurch]

A pile of dirt and some empty bottles. It was a huge disappointment if you watched the entire 2 hour broadcast.

[jusdevache]

Sporr you should be taking an English class.

[unicuber]

Al Capone's body in a jewel-encrusted coffin, along with his mistress, her step brother in law, and ten thousand dollars worth of jelly beans.

[Sporrwer]

Ha ha lol

[Ssider]

@Sporrwer I remember watching this live. It was a complete farce.  As it became clear that the great treasure was rubble and old bottles Gerarldo was filling up the time slot by firing a thompson at empty bottles.

[drumbago]

oh man...as a kid i remember waiting to watch this. all the hype they put into what really was in the vault. NOTHING! hahahaha! and I still HATE Geraldo! but i did feel sorry for him when they broke his nose with that flying chair.

[EarlSnohomish]

This was shown on WPIX in NY, FWIW.

[kevinhjoy]

Mystery or corpse? Try nothing.

[tdm5874]

HAHAHA!!! I remember wasting an evening watching that show!!!

[parragues2]

"There was nothing in Al Capone's Vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's fault"....LOL Homer Simpson Barbershop Quartet

[salspalscanada]

You gotta see this! They found Capone's Other Vault!

Google it. It opens on Nov. 20th.

[stovis]

It's a put on. They're trying to be funny - and failing miserably.

[stevenpam]

Oh - it's OK... I found it right there in 'related videos'. Classic.

[stevenpam]

So... what was in there? Seriously

[mburmy]

Just an old stop sign and a couple gin bottles...Biggest dissapointment of the modern era.

[puck220]

You got anymore vids from KWTV? I've beel lookin everywhere for old channel 9 vids!

[travischurch]

I have a few up, and I'm sure there will be more. It's pretty time consuming to capture, edit and upload them. Takes me about a day to do one VHS tape. I probably have about a dozen more tapes from the 80s.

[okiesteveus81]

how about some very old news clips from KWTV 9?!

i've seen some old clips from NBC 4, and KOCO 5, in Oklahoma City. Oh, the memories!!