Robert Conrad in a publicity still for A Man Called Sloane
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) has been preserving old VHS recordings of television shows. The museum has turned those recordings into digital copies and posting them to YouTube.
Examples include:
-- An episode of A Man Called Sloane, originally broadcast on NBC titled "Samurai."
-- An unsold pilot written and produced by Brian Clemens, "Escapade," intended as a kind of Americanized Avengers.
--An unsold pilot that evoked The Man From U.N.C.L.E., written and produced by Sam Rolfe, titled "Enigma."
Many of the recordings include original commercials. An example: An episode of Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected includes after Act I: 1) A Whirlpool spot with Leslie Nielsen doing the voiceover (the video is an eagle catching film from a river). 2) A spot with John Wayne selling Datril for headache relief. The theme from The Big Country plays. Ironically, The Big Country was *not* a Western film Wayne appeared in.
The non-profit is in the middle of a fund-raising campaign with almost 200 days to go. It has raised almost $5,700 of $20,000.
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