The Bill Cosby Show - "The Gumball Incident" + Meditation & Sign-Off - WBBM Channel 2 (1980)
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2021
- From near the end of the broadcast day of WBBM Channel 2 (as on the end of a tape), here's most of (sans the first 5 minutes or so) a first-season episode of The Bill Cosby Show (the 1969-71 version where he played Chet Kincaid), "The Gumball Incident" (S01E19, originally aired on the NBC Network, and thus in Chicago via WMAQ Channel 5, on February 1st 1970), followed by a 'Meditation', sign-off sequence, and color bars.
This episode featured as guest star Tom Bosley, four years before landing the role of Howard Cunningham on the long-running Happy Days; it also featured Frederic Downs, John Harmon, Roy Glenn Sr., Dennis Cross, and Russell Shulman. The director (Jay Sandrich) and some of the writers (notably, Ed. Weinberger) would later go on to The Mary Tyler Moore Show the season after this.
Includes:
Episode Act I (already in progress, with Chet Kincaid in the process of being arrested - a harbinger of things to come for Cos?)
Political ads for:
Ed Burke for State's Attorney
Seymour Simon for Supreme Court Justice
Commercials for:
Bill Becker Chevrolet (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
Truck-O-Rama at the International Amphitheatre - Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm
"Community Accents" notices for production of "South Pacific" at New Trier East High School, St. Ann's Hospital Blood Drive, and showing of "Romeo and Juliet" [1968] at Daley College (voiceover by Bob Carrington) (voiceover info for where to send notices by Jerry Harper)
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
Nelson Brothers - "Furniture of the Future" (voiceover by Al Parker)
Political ad for George Bush for President
Affordable Art Sale - for Sunday (main voiceover by Joe Passarella, ending voiceover by Jerry Harper)
Political ad for John Stroger for Congress, 1st District
"Community Accents" notices for Chicago Jazz Festival for March 7th-9th, Charles Dickens Fair at Near North Association and Chicago Presbyterian Committee Singles Conference (voiceover by Bob Carrington) (voiceover info for where to send notices by Jerry Harper)
Episode epilogue and closing credits (with music by Quincy Jones - theme: "Hikky Burr")
Commercials for:
Bill Tomczak, "The Greater Car Trader" - Greater Discount Days
Political ad for Ed Burke for State's Attorney
"Community Accents" notices (repeat of what was seen in first commercial break on this clip)
Station ID / promo for (syndicated) Match Game for 3:30pm (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
Meditation - by Rabbi Gerald Wolpe (1928-2009) of Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia, PA (originally from WCAU Channel 10 in Philadelphia, also would have aired before sign-on or sign-off on the other CBS stations whose sermonettes usually went by the "Give Us This Day" umbrella) (opening and closing voiceover by Jerry Harper)
NAB Television Code display (1965 version on screen) and language (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
"CBS SSB" (film of various landmarks of Washington, DC - in much better shape than same film shown prior to sign-off at sister station WCBS Channel 2 in New York City by this point)
Station sign-off script (voiceover by Jerry Harper), with 'TWO' logo in Serif Gothic Bold, and shot of John Hancock Tower where station's transmitter is based
Animated station ID (voiceover by Ed Roberts)
Five seconds of black
EIA RS-189 color bars with ~400 Hz tone (seen for remaining less than 2 minutes of this clip) (with 5 second lower-third station ID starting around the 34:25 mark, with voiceover sounding almost like Ed Roberts reciting ID)
"Executive Producer - William H. Cosby, Jr."
This aired on local Chicago TV early Friday, March 7th 1980 during the 4:48am to 5:24am timeframe.
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Awesome! Back in the days children, we watched TV until it shut off at night!
That thumbnail, *chefs kiss*
About that....... (Cosby Chef's Kiss back)
Heathcliff Huxtable meets Howard Cunningham.
And IIRC, Jay Sandrich also worked with Cosby on "The Cosby Show" later in the '80s
He was a very old school director. He even did work far back as I Love Lucy.
This was one of my favorite shows.
This used to come on at 430am on channel 2, right before the national anthem. What I was up as a kid watching for, I have no idea. Wait!...I do! that funky outro theme song!
Tom Bosley
And who knew then that Cos would wind up in prison for real.
For a reason _way_ worse than breaking a gumball machine.
Can't we just enjoy the show? Theres like 100 other comments saying pretty much the same thing.
@@maximusprime3459 i personally can't enjoy it. but that's me.
So, it started with gumball machines.
This guy has just been freed from prison!
Mr. C! Tom Bosley! Awesomely hilarious!!! Bill even starts laughing!!! 😂😂😂
Wow, that thumbnail. Even back then they knew.
Lol. Beat me too it
Hikky Burr!!
Go get some, uh, you know em' uh, you get a half a
Pound of a small ribs?
And a cup full of reazinrizin
And a throw em' on the ground and roll em' up
And then ya get some radish
Eat em' up
@@chuckcookus 😂😂😂😂😂
What a find! As always thanks to you and whoever taped this - especially so late at night!
I really like the imagery and the old time piano in the "Community Accents" piece. Anyone have an idea what song is playing or was it simply stock music? Also, I think this is the 1st time I've heard Bob and Jerry's voiceovers together on the same promo.
Also, Fuzz, that's Bob Carrington on the last id before the bars come up.
One interesting thought I've always pondered: some of the CBS O&O's schedules were always running their programming through almost all hours of the night while the other networks and independents were long off the air for maintenance and down time. Why was that? Was it a mandate from CBS for their stations to run close to 24 hours or was it just the station GM's orders of the scheduling? Just figured that in this particular case it wouldn't be enough time to do proper maintenance to the equipment as about roughly a ½ hour later you have to start the next day's programming. An example of this was WCBS (NY flagship). They were lucky to get an hour of down time some nights and then others barely 5 minutes!
And yes... a clever touch on the thumbnail too...
@@jackdemus7890 Sounds like Ed Roberts.
WCBS "Channel 2, New York," however, in their "down time," had the old-school B&W circular test pattern (which WBBM seems to have abandoned in the mid-1970's) which, in the form they aired it since at least 1955-56, seems to have been transmitted from an RCA monoscope tube. It was one of the longest-lasting, last seen in "down time" towards the end of 1993.
Some people write about this show "failing" because it was only on for a couple of years. My cloudy recollection is that it was doing OK, between 15-20 in the Nielsens, when Cosby went into one of his funks and quit doing the show. Can anyone verify this? Regardless, it was very, very funny. Character-driven, not gag-every-10-seconds-oriented like so many lame-brained sit-coms. The story lines were often imaginative: e.g. Chet Kincaid spending the whole show trying to replace a needle valve for blowing up basketballs; dealing with a potty-mouthed student and his parents; trying to borrow a vehicle for a big date (ends up driving a garbage truck). It often taught good lessons, but with subtlety compared to his '80s show.
Last time the show on the air was on Pat Robertson's old Family Channel from 1984 to 1988 over a dozen years ago. !?!?! Why have these re-runs completely disappeared?
He wouldn't get arrested until much later.
Wow this brings back memories. I'm live in Chicago was born and raised here. My father used to think that wbbm was racist for putting the show on so late. I told him it was a rerun but he didn't care. All the candidates in the political ad's lost. Burke is under indictment now. Mr Stroger passed away and of course we know what happened to Mr Bush. Thanks for posting this brings me back to my childhood.
Here in L.A., KCOP Ch. 13 used to show this program as a rerun in the early 1970s, along with The Courtship Of Eddie's Father.
i love this show. believe it or not; i remember watching this episode, at 11 years old in Wyler's Childrens hospital with new-found Diabetes in Nov 1977. At that time it aired at about 1:00am on WBBM in Chicago. Brings back wonderful memory...
Amazing job guys!!
Amazing
Loved Bill Cosby's wardrobe in this show, before everything that happened he was very handsome
Guard was a popular actor from movies like Carmen Jones and Amos and Andy TV show.
And Sidney Poitiers father in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.
They are jamming in that outro.
I always thought this series was very underrated. I watched these late night WBBM airings for years...I taped two in early 1985, and kick myself now for not saving the ads! I have absolutely no memory of the version of Community Accents used here...I wonder how long that one lasted?
What's nice is that Fat Albert had an amazing sound track and William Henry Cosby Jr. had nothing to do with it and was not even on the record. The only place William Henry Cosby Jr.'s name appears is a tiny sleeve credit for creating the character of Fat Albert that simply says "Character of Fat Albert created by Bill Cosby".
Paul Jr. Harrington, exactly, you're right, LOL!
I like the community accents commercials.
Tom Bosley doing his “Niagara falls” bit😱
Great show. Only two seasons. Thank God, no laugh track. The date on the board used for Chet’s mug shot was Sept. 7, 1969. Maybe the date the episode was filmed. (Ad for George Bush’s unsuccessful 1980 run for President before eventually becoming Ronald Reagan’s running mate.)
Many of the CBS owned stations aired The Bill Cosby Show. Usually as a fill in rather than on a regular basis.
Funny - I don't remember it aired on WCBS-TV in New York . . .
Say what you want about Bill Cosby, but he doesn't deviate from what he sells.
I renember this being on randomly in the middle of the night on WGN on the weekends.
a comedy with no laugh track in 1980!?
ahead of its time
Cosby insisted on no laugh track for this show, thinking the audience was intelligent enough to get whatever jokes were thrown in there.
This episode is actually back in 1969.
Yes...that was very unusual. MASH used to challenge CBS about using a laugh track...they often aired without one.
@@mykiemilford720 - Feb. 1, 1970. This original episode air date is mentioned.
@@jackdemus7890 And never in the operating room scenes
Do you happen to know if the 1976 game show Way Out Games is in your collection and whether it may ever be shown? Thank you.😁
Life imitates art.
As of 1974, "The Bill Cosby Show" aired weekday afternoons on WPIX Channel 11 in New York. I presume it all but disappeared from the NYC market by the time of this WBBM airing.
As for the point up to the "Meditation" here, it differed sharply from the point before WCBS-2 aired their pre-sign-off "Give Us This Day"; namely WCBS ran PSA's (largely for The Jewish Chautauqua Society) before the ID leading thereinto. No doubt WCBS would've aired this, the opening voiceover:
"Give Us This Day, your daily inspirational message, presents Rabbi Gerald Volpe of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."
And the closing:
"That was Rabbi Gerald Volpe of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Give Us This Day was presented in cooperation with The New York Board of Rabbis."
Other segments on WCBS, depending on who gave the sermonettes, were "presented in cooperation with" the Communications Office of The Archdiocese of New York (known up to the 1960's as the Radio and Television Office of The Archdiocese of New York) and the Council of Churches of The City of New York (known prior to 1968 as the Protestant Council of The City of New York).
A lot better than the Cosby show .
I always liked this show better than his other one! It was on late at night, the entire series is on dvd, but not with these classic commercials!🎞📺🎞!!!
Station Identification At 34:25!
That was a groovy and timeless meditation: LET ALL OF GOD"S CHILDREN SAY AMEN! 😇😇😇😇
Better start getting used to those bars.
Well about that 💀
@@iknowkd Uh, yeah! What a shocker!
@ near2vulcan now he's out from behind bars now so start getting used to hearing it that.
5:21 Is that mr.Wilson the old guy nxt door in the movie “denace the menace” lol
Meditation at 27:15? We had something like that in Los Angeles back in 1974, it was called “Give Us This Day” where a Rabbi also speaks similar to what we are seeing. It would come on KNXT Channel 2 right after a video with The Star Spangled Banner.
All of the CBS-owned stations had something like that.
@@jareddicarlo7816
Basically, what I am describing was something shown on CBS Television Stations Nationwide. Am I correct?
Most CBS stations called their sermonettes "Give Us This Day." WCBS Channel 2 in New York and WCAU Channel 10 in Philly sure did. So you'd be correct on that score. WBBM, in its titling, seemed to be the outlier.
I also presume KNXT used the same SSB film as WBBM did here, and also WCBS . . . I was told so did WCAU . . .
chill bill leave him alone✊🏿✊🏿
Not funny how entertainment imitates real life.
Wow used to love this show cookie mahaul or howard Cunningham Howie and Heathcliff huxstable attorneys at law.lol.
Just one of those things? Yeash. :(
Perfect thumbnail lol
Roy Glenn from Amos 'n Andy & Guess Who's. Coming to Dinner
Oh i remember this one. He accidentally got gumballs confused with rohypnol and a bunch of girls accidentally ate them then tripped and their clothes fell off.
September 7 1969?
J C, that's funny, about your comment on who would've known the cos will be in prison in real life, that's hilarious 😂.
That thumbnail did not age well
THE THUMBNAIL LMFAO
irony
3:39-3:53 is funny, is that how Bill Cosby was talking when he was tricking people.
that not a pudding pop
Howard Cunningham a drunk? 😂😂😂
Free Britney
Well, that thumbnail has aged like a fine wine.
Hey , that looks like the guy that took my Ludes Man :\ QC
He's finally free. So happy. This was the most unfair conviction I've ever seen in my entire life. Hollywood and the media now officially have egg on their faces, and the #MeToo Movement's power is crumbling.
He was using the payphone to call his drug dealer to order some Quaaludes to "administer" to his "girl" tonight after dinner :)
"George Bush. A president we won't have to train." (Political ad)
Hmmm Who are "we"?
I see.
Time travlin Cosby goes to prison.......🤣🤣🤣🤣
And Bill Cosby would end up in jail for real for a reason _way_ worse than breaking a gumball machine.
INNOCENT
Bill cosby was inocent
I dunno, I'm starting to think he really did break that gumball machine.