KABC 1980 1

-MOSTLY COMMERCIALS, SOME "WHATS UP DOC"
I was recycling some old 3/4" tapes and came across this time capsule. I think it was intented to be a commercial transcript. It's from KABC in 1980. Dont sue me please, its just here for memories. If anybody who owns any of this stuff objects, dont bother You tube, Ill take it down.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 1980
• 80'S
• 1980'S
• ABC
• KABC
• EYEWITNESS
• NEWS
• RETRO
• COMMERCIALS
• CLASSIC
• TV
• GUIDE
• SKIPPY
• ANNETTE
• FUNICELLO
• DOUBLEMINT
• RODEO

[wmbrown6]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't KABC's "3:30 Movie" along the lines of, say, "The 4:30 Movie" on WABC-TV, format-wise?

[beatlequigon]

I would guess so. Maybe someone form ABC could fill us in. If Im not mistaken both KABC & WABC were O & O stations, so they might have been directed to have similar "looks" and content, if for no other reason so save money on production resources like bumps.

[Alex43499]

Do you happen to have the OLD 3:30 Movie open and music? The one with the trumpet?

[beatlequigon]

Nope sorry. Whats posted is what I got.

[fuzzymemories]

Hey cool video, but post it as a video response on one of my promo's for WLS' 3:30 Movie, I think that would be a more appropriate connection than the WSNS video. :-)

[beatlequigon]

OK. No problem.

[tvtimetravel]

@beatlequigon Same was the case with KGO from San Francisco, WLS from Chicago, and WXYZ from Detroit.

[wmbrown6]

(Part 3) KABC's daily movie show had been at 6:00 from about 1964 to Sept. 10, 1971, 6:30 from Sept. 13, 1971 to March 29, 1974, and finally 3:30 from April 1, 1974 to Sept. 12, 1980.

[wmbrown6]

Also . . . KABC's "3:30 Movie" was the first of the afternoon movie shows of the ABC O&O's to bite the dust, on Sept. 12, 1980. (Come Sept. 15, there was "The World of People" at 3:30, followed by a 4 P.M. edition of "Eyewitness News" anchored by Jerry Dunphy and Tawny Little.) The next to ax their afternoon movies, in that order, were WABC New York (in 1981), WXYZ Detroit (in 1982), WLS Chicago (in 1984) and finally KGO San Francisco (in 1985).

[StukInBuf]

Just about a month before this, my folks and I completed the move from Louisiana(Who Dat...?) to Western New York.

Let's see... Leap Year Day 1980 was a Friday.

The short local rodeo ad likely means the event was coming very soon and they wanted people to really take note.

My guess is the "Girl Most Likely To" would've been on the 26th, which puts "What's Up, Doc?" on the 25th... part of "Crazy Gals Week," if I could take a stab at it.

GO SAINTS!!

[StukInBuf]

The "parental reminder" was like Buffalo and WKBW at 7(ask if kids did homework) and 11(where are the kids?) at night.

That 1st part, in NY, would've been the last 5 sec of "4:30 movie" music with the cameraman, and the slide would be the cameraman on the side.

[StukInBuf]

I used to watch MMC in the mid-70s; I had a crush on Lisa Whelchel.

If MMC killed disco, it wasn't alone. Ask those thousands who descended on the Comiskey Park ballfield in 79 in that "Disco Demolition Night." Methinks that put disco's death into high gear.

[kresblain]

Heh... I'm older than you by two weeks. :oP But yeah, it's always cool to see these classic clips. So many memories.

[devulboy1]

At 2:47, I was only 2 weeks old on leap year day 1980 when the "Miracle on ice" occured in the Winter olympics when the USA hockey team beat the Soviets...and we won a gold medal. Some sports and world historians alike agreed this is the best way we defeated the USSR & the cold war ended a decade later with the USA came out the lone superpower.

Yeah, those commercials of that ex-mouseketeer. Anyone seen the 1970's MMC? It's what killed disco! Oh...the horror of watching it! Bring back her! +

[devulboy1]

The B&W parental reminders was like a guardian angel for generation X kids to be protected...NOT. It gotten worse after Adam Walsh's abduction at the time and we all know where father John Walsh end up as...hysterical crime fighter.

At 1:10 a TV Guide advertisement, the so-called most common book to have in the house except for the Holy Bible (so true).

At 2:00, what minor league teams are that? This is when the California League began to attract fans and the majors later took notice. +

[hiPlasma]

nah