CBS News - 1975: A Television Album - WNAC Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 12/28/1975)

Here's an hour-long special, 1975: A Television Album, hosted by CBS News correspondent Charles Collingwood and, in this form, aired in Boston via then-affiliate WNAC Channel 7 (now WHDH).

All program and sponsor billboard voiceovers by Bill Gilliand.

A little bonus will follow after this program.

Includes:

Recording comes in just after Charles starts preview of coming show, followed by opening titles and sponsor billboard for Bufferin

Segment 1, with a look at Gerald Ford's first full year as President as reported by Bob Schieffer; the state of the economy as reported by George Herman; the state of New York City as reported by Robert Schackne; and how "Jaws" lifted the movie industry

Commercials for:
Bufferin (comparisons vs. Bayer and Anacin)
Windex glass cleaner
Glade solid air freshener
The Bankers Life - "How to Select the Right Life Insurance Company"

Segment 2, looking into the fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia; the strife in Portugal and Angola; U.S.-Soviet "détente" relations (and the Apollo-Soyuz linkup); the death of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, as reported by Bob Simon; the Mideast situation, as reported by John Sheahan; the Lebanese conflict, as reported by Bill McLaughlin; terror attacks around the world; and turmoil at the United Nations

Commercials for:
Ritz Crackers (with Andy Griffith)
Whirlpool dishwashers
Union Carbide (on solar energy)

Segment 3, with a look into the coming elections with Morton Dean on the Democrat race and Connie Chung on the Republican side; revelations about the CIA and FBI, reported by Daniel Schorr; events involving International Women's Year; the rising salaries of sports athletes; the retirement of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his replacement with John Paul Stevens; a look at the most notable deaths of 1975; the decline in the social fabric, leading to a look at preparations for America's Bicentennial, which closes the program

Commercials for:
Vicks NyQuil
Geritol - "Make Every Day Count"
Zenith Chromacolor II
Bufferin (repeat)

Repeat of opening credit sequence and sponsor billboard, followed by end credits:

Producers - Kenneth Witty, Hal Haley
Directed by Ken Sable
Narrative Written by Charles Collingwood
Film Editors - Ken Baldwin, Natalie Bider, Robert Reingold, Mitchell Rudick, Philip Weinstein, Bob Wright
Unit Manager - Judith Kahn
Research - Angela LeJuge, Ellen Levine
Production Supervisor - John P. Lyons
Associate Directors - Joe Gorsuch, Toni Siegel
Production Coordinator - Jennifer Sable
Assistant to the Producer - Charles Rozzi
Technical Director - John Pumo
Audio - Arnold Rosenzweig
Lighting Director - Ralph Holmes
Set Decorator - John Pickette
Stage Manager - James E. Wall
Scenic Design - Neil DeLuca
Videotape Editors - Ted Demers, David Diaz, Mike Dietz, Bob Foster, Walter Freedman, Jeff Laing, George Joanitis, Vic Milana, Fred Pinciaro, Bob Simon, Daniel Stevens
Graphics - Ned Steinberg, Tony Cacioppo, Lowell Chereskin, Joe Lagana
Animation Cameraman - Jerry Merola
Executive Producer - Leslie Midgley

1975 - A Television Album
A Production of CBS News
(C) MCMLXXV CBS Inc.
All Rights Reserved

Promo for Cotton Bowl Festival Parade, Tournament of Roses Parade and Cotton Bowl Game (Georgia vs. Arkansas) for New Year's Day (voiceover by Roger Forster)

'Catch the Brightest Stars' to 'Eye-D' animated bumper (voiceover by Bill Gilliand)

Commercials for:
Realty World - "A World of Difference"
Suffolk Downs race track

'Happy Kwanza' Station ID slide (voiceover by Leif Jensen)

Bonus:

First nearly three minutes of Wild, Wild World of Animals, as such:

Opening titles, followed by preview of episode "Deadly American Snakes" (narrated by William Conrad)

PSA's for:
New England Anti-Vivisection Society
United Negro College Fund (featuring on-camera appearance by NBC staff announcer Fred Facey as college instructor as well as Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, best known for playing Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington in Welcome Back Kotter) (voiceover by Adolph Caesar) (recording ends before "...terrible thing to waste")

This aired on local Boston TV on Sunday, December 28th 1975.

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

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:

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