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citricjoy · 3 days
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i love their love….
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davros42 · 10 months
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Happy "Max Headroom Incident" Day to all who celebrate.
On November 22, 1987 television signals in Chicago were interrupted twice by an unknown person in a Max Headroom mask.
(Kids, ask your grandparents about Max Headroom)
The first time, WGN Channel 9's 9 PM news was interrupted for about 17 seconds before WGN's engineers got control of their signal back.
The second time, it was WTTW Channel 11's turn. The PBS station's airing of the classic Doctor Who episode The Horror of Fang Rock was interrupted with the clip above.
Those responsible were never caught and has since become a legendary moment in piracy/hacking.
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Daffy Duck made after the likeness of a Garfield Goose painting from the set of WGN’s “Family Classics.” This painting by Jesse Silver of artwork I pencilled, found its way into episodes of “Duck Dodgers” and “The Looney Tunes Show.”
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oldshowbiz · 2 months
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ca-dmv-bot · 1 year
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Customer: MY INITIALS- DMV: DAMN? Verdict: DENIED
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Honda Step WGN Pop Joy, 2023, by White House. A Japanese camper specialist is offering a pop-top conversion based on the Honda Step WGN MPV. The conversion includes sleeping accommodation for up to 4 people, swivel seats and a fully-equipped kitchenette
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zombielink5 · 1 month
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Going camping with no cell service, I hope I run into my wife Hasil Farrell in the mountains!
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fitsofgloom · 2 months
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The House That Fear Built
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citricjoy · 1 month
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things that could’ve saved outsiders 2016:
• gave the farrell women leg hair wtf
• gave hasil + sally ann the most screen time. by a big fucking margin
• explored the farrell’s culture more instead of just showing a couple mountain parties and shallow expressions of a nebular sort of ‘worship’ for their depthless folksy religion
• made big foster’s rape an actual plot point with narrative weight and consequence instead of using it as a graphic pre-intro sting and then never giving him any notable trauma or feelings on it at all nor have him even mention it to the rest of the family
• gave krake the second most screen time
• had even a single person acknowledge the farrell <- -> feral thing that would’ve been funny
• made kyle gallner wear a collar and bark like a dog
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taxi-davis · 1 month
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WGN-TV - Saturday Morning Movie - "The Bowery Boys in Jail Busters" (First 24 Mins., 4/12/1980) part 1
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parisian-nicole · 3 months
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Outsiders TV Series is up in Tubi
I loved this series and my ‘Sasil’ ❤️
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domono08 · 9 months
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What time is it in Chi-Town?
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lizisodd · 7 months
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It's famed Chicago weatherman Tom Skilling's last day on TV! To celebrate, Chicagoland had a tornado last night. 🌪️
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mariocki · 1 month
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Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates: The Case of the Scarlet Letters (1.3, WGN-TV, 1952)
"Mr. Mullins, I have in my possession sixty-eight letters, none of which has begun to outlive its usefulness. I'm quite prepared to admit that blackmail is risky, but then murder has its disadvantages too - that is why I gave up murder."
#inspector morley late of scotland yard investigates#inspector morley late of scotland yard#(there's some confusion about the correct title of this series; it appears onscreen with 'investigates' but many online sources omit the#final word and it wouldn't be unique in having a title screen that differed slightly from the official name of the show; either way it's a#hell of an unwieldy name for your programme.....)#classic tv#1952#john gilling#victor m. gover#tod slaughter#patrick barr#tucker mcguire#leonard sharp#another rediscovered gem made available by the good folks at kaleidoscope#oof. ok. so the story of Inspector Morley is complicated and still semi mysterious (the show is 70 years old after all‚ there's precious#little surviving documentation). as far as it goes‚ this was a UK production intended for sale to the BBC (there existing no independent tv#company in 1952). the beeb‚ for whatever reason‚ passed on the series. 13 episodes had been made and of these about seven were cobbled#together into feature films to recoup some of the costs; those survived and saw occasional outings on rainy afternoon tv schedules here#it was thought that the remainder were junked‚ but research (not my own i hasten to add) has revealed that the whole series was in fact sol#to the US where it was shown on WGN (a Chicago based station i believe). when kaleidoscope recovered this particular episode some 6 or 7#years ago‚ it was thought to be the sole surviving episode‚ at least in its original format (ie. not edited into a feature). actually it#sounds like they might all exist and a few are even on youtube (including this one). this is very early detective tv and it shows its age#not just in its ropey visuals (it's all quite soft and fuzzy) but in its very old fashioned shape and design‚ which is closer to mid#century film than what television would shortly become. that sensation is only furthered by the presence of the immortal Tod Slaughter‚ a#bastion of early british cinema and one of the first horror icons the uk ever produced. unusually‚ it seems like he starred in most (if not#all) of the episodes of the series; unusual bc he plays the villain‚ opposite Barr's staunch ex copper Morley. having a recurring villain#must certainly have helped when editing the shows into films for cinema release but it was quite a strange choice for tv#tho perhaps a set cast reduced costs (this was clearly a budget production‚ tho it does feature some impressive early location shooting)#Slaughter is great fun‚ in full scenery chewing mode as the wicked and unrepentant mastermind behind all sorts of crimes#Barr even has personal beef with him‚ though it would require seeing the other eps to fully understand it i suspect
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oldshowbiz · 4 months
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schlock-luster-video · 3 months
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On June 28, 1975, Bride of Frankenstein was screened on WGN Creature Features.
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