NBC Network - Movin' On - "Please Don't Talk to the Driver" (Complete Broadcast, 11/25/1975) 📺

Here's a complete, first-run broadcast of an episode of Movin' On from its final season, "Please Don't Talk to the Driver" (S02E09), as aired over the NBC Network, transmitted here via their then-Boston, MA affiliate WBZ Channel 4 (now a CBS O&O/affiliate).

This series (President Gerald R. Ford's favorite show) starred Claude Akins as Sonny and Frank Converse as Will, two long-distance truckers of different backgrounds (the former a grizzled veteran of the road, the latter college-educated) working together. This show helped spur a short-lived "CB" (citizens' band) craze, in addition to such music hits as "Convoy" by the late C.W. McCall. In this installment, they come across a bus whose tire was made flat by a gunshot and find themselves (and the bus passengers) in a tangle with armed bank robbers.

This was also in the period when NBC was de-emphasizing their "snake" logo which had been in use in one form (and variant) or another since 1959, and in preparation for launching their expensive (in more ways than one) 'N' trapezoid logo at the start of the New Year.

Includes:

Recording coming in midway through preview of night's lineup, with description of plot of coming episode, followed by Police Woman and Joe Forrester, only on NBC (voiceover by Jerry Damon)
(TECHNICAL NOTE: Font is a CG Bookman Bold Swash)

Episode preview, followed by opening titles (with theme by Merle Haggard - a #1 Country hit earlier in '75)

Commercials for:
Zenith Chromacolor II TV sets
Nabisco Triscuit

Episode Act I

Commercials for:
Cool Whip (with Marge Redmond as Sarah Tucker hosting a couple stranded in a rainstorm)
Post Raisin Bran (ending voiceover by Peter Thomas)

Episode Act II

Commercials for:
Datsun 1976 B210
Anacin Fast Pain Relief - "Adult Strength"

Bumper (voiceover by Frank Converse, followed by Claude Akins - one of the last "after station identification" notices before that wording was eliminated)

Promo for "The Moon-Spinners" for Wednesday (voiceover by Mel Brandt)

Commercial: Crimson Travel offer on Bermuda

Station ID / Mike Douglas promo (voiceover by ??)

Episode Act III

Commercials for:
Tyco Chattanooga Choo-Choo electric train set
Remington Super Brush (with Shelley Hack)

Episode Act IV

Commercials for:
Nuance fragrance - by Coty
Chevrolet 1976 Monza Town Coupe

Preview for coming Police Woman episode ("The Purge," S02E11), followed by preview for next week's Movin' On ("Long Way to Nowhere," S02E10) (voiceover by Arthur Gary)

Commercials for:
Budweiser beer
Liquid-Plumr (featuring Allan Melvin)

Closing credits (with voiceover promo for Police Woman by co-star Earl Holliman)

NBC News Update with Tom Snyder (opening voiceover by Bill Hanrahan), with stories:

- President Ford may agree to short-term Federal aid for New York City

- U.S. auto sales up 33% from a year ago

- Fighting continues in Beirut, 15 killed in past 24 hours

- Area around Lisbon, Portugal under siege

- Four Indians - er, native Americans indicted for killing two FBI agents on Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota on June 26th

Commercial: Exxon - Bicentennial salute to Amelia Earhart (voiceover by Norman Rose)

Promo for Thanksgiving Day lineup (Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, "A Man for All Seasons" and NFL Football - Buffalo vs. St. Louis) (voiceover by Roger Bowman)

Commercials for:
AMC Pacer with Buyer Protection Plan - from Your Eastern Mass. AMC Dealer
Anderson-Little Fine Clothing

Station ID (voiceover by ??)

Police Woman preview and truncated opening (most of which was taken out to avoid YouTube copyright issues)

Commercials for:
AMC Gremlin - "America's Lowest-Priced Car"
Scotch brand Magic Transparent Tape (with The Invisible Man)

(Recording ends after this ad.)

This aired on local Boston TV on Tuesday, November 25th 1975 during the 8:00pm to 9:02pm (EST) timeframe.

This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.

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