Fernwood Tonight - "Save Fernwood 2 Night Telethon" - WFLD-TV (Complete Broadcast, 9/30/1977) 📺
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- Here's another full broadcast of Fernwood Tonight (a.k.a. Fernwood 2 Night), "Save Fernwood 2 Night Telethon" (S01E65, the last original episode of this incarnation of the series), as aired over WFLD Channel 32, from very early on after Field Communications resumed ownership of the station, after four years under Kaiser Broadcasting. (previous to this we saw another complete Fernwood Tonight from WFLD: • Fernwood Tonight - "La... )
This episode (along with regulars Martin Mull and Fred Willard of course) featured Vern Rowe as Vern Taylor, Geraldine Papel as Candy Lee Hargrove, and of course Frank DeVol as bandleader Happy Kyne. (The character Frankie 'Kid' Carbone was referenced in the opening intro, but Frank Marocco who played him did not appear.)
Includes:
Field Communications ID slide, with logo justified left and synth music (and still-unknown voiceover)
Station ID (with Kaiser-era 32 logo still in effect) / promo for The World At War for Sunday at 6pm (voiceover by Bud Kelly)
Segment 1, with opening (and title on chalkboard), Barth's monologue, and Vern coming on to recite a poem and play "When the Saints Go Marching In" on trumpet
WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (1st variant)
Commercials for:
Preparation H
Short 1 minute version of "Elvis" record offer that ran for years starting in 1973 (but ran up again after The King's death) (main voiceover by ??) (ending voiceover by ??)
WFLD "Look at Us!" promo for the premiere of (Norman Lear's newest comedy) Forever Fernwood beginning Monday, October 3rd at 10:00pm (voiceover by Bud Kelly)
WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (2nd variant)
In Segment 2, Barth and Jerry commence their telethon, then welcome Candy Lee who does a tap dance while singing "I Am Woman"
WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (1st variant)
Commercials for:
Twin theatrical trailer for TV for "The Night Child" and "Beyond the Door" (main voiceover by ??) (ending voiceover by Bud Kelly)
Record offer for "62 Golden Greats" from Sessions (main voiceover by ??) (ending voiceover by ??)
WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (2nd variant)
Segment 3, with Barth making the PBS station announcer's plea for funds as Vern and Candy Lee join him and Jerry at the desk
WFLD Fernwood Tonight bumper (1st variant)
Commercials for:
Visa - "Everything's a Snap" (this after they adopted that name after being known for years aforehand as BankAmericard) - tied in with The First National Bank of Chicago (includes a neat shot of the inside of an A&P store)
Sports Cards - encyclopedia of sports info - how sports announcers have all info about baseball players' stats (ending voiceover by Doug Dahlgren?)
Segment 4, with ending credits (and promo voiceover for The Honeymooners episode "Pardon My Glove" by Bud Kelly)
"30 minutes of very remarkable entertainment, almost live..."
Station ID / promo for The World at War for Sunday at 6pm (voiceover by Bud Kelly)
First few seconds of The Honeymooners opening titles (voiceover by Gaylord Avery)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, September 30th 1977 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm timeframe.
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R.I.P. Fred Willard
And RIP Martin Mull
My favorite show in the whole world. THANK YOU.
Last episode of Fernwood 2night! Next summer it returned as America 2-Night.
May Martin Mull RIP. According to the New York Daily News he died on 6/28/2024.
RIP Fred Willard, he even liked my Twitter reply many years ago before he passed away, I was very honored.
The deadly serious Preparation H commercial right after Vern Taylor's segment...
I love finding these old shows from my childhood that I was too little to watch back then. This show is hilarious . I am surprised it didn't last longer. Maybe it was ahead of it's time. These mockumentaries are all over the place from the late 80s onward. I'm happy I discovered it.
R.I.P. Martin Mull
In my opinion, he wasn't the same after Fred Willard died-he was like a brother to him.
This took me back to my Freshmen year of high school when we didn’t understand the show but we couldn’t stop watching it.
Another awesome find! I NEVER missed this show, or MHMH or Forever Fernwood. Too bad music clearance issues keep this series from being released.
Music Rights is a joke
The Green Bay Packards were indeed coached by the late, great Vince Lombardo.
Though he later went on to couch the Kansas City Chefs.
Synth sounds of the 70s are just all types of perfect.
That's a very young Fred Willard!
This must have been shortly after Field Communications bought the station from Kaiser Broadcasting.
They owned the station before Kaiser. I think they sold it originally because issues with the Fields estate. Marshall Field's was sold for similar I believe.
@@carmelopappalardo8477 Field owned WKBD 50 then sold it to Kaiser in the early 70's and bought it back in 1976-1977.
@@mharris5047 I think you mean WFLD.
fitting it's posted on the unofficial telethon holiday
RIP Martin Mull!
Happy Kyne doesn't look so... happy.
I think that's supposed to be the idea, his expression belying his nickname . . .
'77! I loved this show back then, and still today!
30:43 is the first 10 seconds of “The Honeymooers” opening. It was one of WPIX-TV’s staples in local NYC television.
Interestingly, the first station in NYC to air "The Honeymooners" in its long syndicated life was WRCA Channel 4 (now WNBC) in 1957-58; it moved to WPIX the following year.
The furniture came from Martin's home I believe.
3:35 15 cents for a Pepsi… I wonder what a typical hourly wage was when this show aired? ;-)
$2 an hour maybe?
Sounds about right. And a typical family could afford to buy a house on one salary, as I understand it. Hard to believe, comparing today’s housing prices. Cheers.
@@Gravydog316 You are correct, the Michigan minimum wage was $2 an hour in 1976. I was making about $100K per year back then as an accounting professor (accounting professors are a rare breed so we made a lot of money) and some consulting contracts I worked through the summer back then.
@@gwarlow I bought a decent house with a cashier's check in 1976 for $4,000. I didn't even bother to get a mortgage for that amount. That same house (if it were still standing) would probably cost $200K today.
I loved this show as a kid but my Grandmother hated it, haha, she went to bed and I watched it and loved every minute of it
As a comedy fan from the UK who had heard this show mentioned by comedians as one of the greatest under appreciated shows ever I thank you so much for uploading
Where in Chicago did America 2-Nite air?
WFLD of course! We have a couple bumper/commercial excerpts from an episode or two.
Omg! Bless you for posting this!
I hope you have the ad to Suffolk Marketing's Elvis Presley treasury (one inspirational album and one Christmas album), which was released in 1977, shortly after the King's death.
Daphne Maxwell-Reid at 25:15?
Now showing up Marty 😢😢😢😮😮😮
I didn't really connect with the show's sense of humor but what I watched was good.
THIS SHOW WAS GENIUS!
“What are you a cop?”
Thank you. Great channel.
I use to rush home from high school to watch this show. Ground-breaking!
support
just lovely
Fernwood....the greatest ever!!!....
There is gum under the coffee table in heaven tonight.
Back 🔙 in the day when shows were funny 😊
Life was simpler, more meaningful
The show died with this episode. I wasn't very fond of America 2Night.
Wasn’t it basically the same? How was it different?
@@tommythevenot7617 Barth moved the show to California. Most of the guests were celebrities. I tended to prefer made up characters played by unknown actors (Jim Varney played Virgil-he was unknown at the time).
@@Lupton2000 I see. Well, still a great show overall. I watched it at night when I was 11-12yr. I grew up watching great comedy like this and Monty Python also.