ABC Network - Good Morning America - WLS Channel 7 (Last 90 Minutes, 6/25/1981) ☀️

Here's a broadcast of the last roughly 90 minutes of an edition of Good Morning America as aired on WLS Channel 7, guest-hosted by Dynasty star John Forsythe with regular co-host Joan Lunden. A little bonus will follow.

Local voiceovers by Fred Kasper(?).

Includes:

Opening notice about source tape, followed by news update from Steve Bell with report from Bettina Gregory (recording skips through midway)

After John's segue, recording cuts to end of commercial for Nature Valley Granola Bars, followed by commercials for:
American Express / Pan Am (incomplete; recording cuts out midway)
Kraft Creamy Cucumber salad dressing (recording comes in towards end)

John Coleman's weather report (with local forecast cut-in)

Commercial: Geritol (jingle apparently sung to tune of "Joshua Fit the Battle")

Joan looks at current doings of former Wimbledon champs Rod Laver, Evonne Goolagong and Jack Kramer; followed by Ruth Batchelor's Hollywood, and John introducing segment from Joan on the importance of trademarks in brand names with Prof. Arthur Miller

Commercials for:
Neutrogena skin care
Listerine (voiceover by Dan Ingram)
Marathon Oil (voiceover by Alan Bleviss?)
Paba Plus skin moisturizer

Joan interviews Richard Mulligan about his role in coming film "S.O.B."

Commercials for:
ERA Real Estate - "We're Selling Houses"
Good Seasons Italian Dressing (with Anna Maria Alberghetti)
Sugar Free Tic Tac (with Kelly Harmon)
Promo for "Peter Pan" with Sandy Duncan at Arie Crown Theatre

John and Joan preview coming hour and tomorrow's edition

Promo for ABC News Closeup - "When Crime Pays" (voiceover by Fred Collins)

Commercials for:
Subaru
Woman's World
Weekend Warehouse Furniture Clearance Center

Station ID / promo for Hadley School for the Blind

Next hour, starting with Steve Bell news update (and reports by Susan King, Anne Garrels and Bob Clark), followed by John Coleman weather and John interviewing White Sox organist Nancy Faust, Orioles bat boy Dennis Cashen, and Yankee Stadium vendor George Whitfield on baseball strike

Commercial: Marshall Field's (with Burt Wolf; opening voiceover by Al Parker)

Joan interviews NOW head Eleanor Smeal on ERA

Commercials for:
Misericordia Homes
Weekend Warehouse Furniture Clearance Center
Kiddie Kingdom
Promo for Eyewitness Newsmagazine at 4:30pm
Schaumburg Toyota

AM Eyewitness News with Bob Petty

Commercial: Unity Savings (in-between news segments)

Mary Ann Childers promotes upcoming AM Chicago

Commercials for:
Dominick's Finer Foods
Baskin-Robbins ice cream
Bay Furniture $2 million anniversary sale (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

Next half, leading off with Steve Bell news update (and reports from Jack Smith and WJZ-TV Baltimore's George Baumann), and more weather

Commercial: Reach toothbrush

Host David Hartman speaks with Dr. Tim Johnson about human bites

Commercials for:
Maxwell House coffee (sung by Ray Charles)
Kool-Aid
Vidal Sassoon hair care
Breath Savers breath mints

Joan introduces Steve Fox segment on water pollution in Lake Carmel, NY

Commercials for:
Beautyrest by Simmons
Lipton Onion Soup Mix (voiceover by Fred Foy)
Eyewitness News Live Action Camera promo (with Kim Peterson) (voiceover by Gary Gears)
Eckrich franks

Continuation of "Women You Love To Hate" about soap villainesses, with Joan interviewing Dr. Harvey Greenberg and The Young and the Restless co-star Melody Thomas

Commercials for:
Myadec vitamin supplement
Alpo beef flavored dinner
Eckrich smoked sausage
Red Lobster shrimp dinners

John and Joan close this edition with preview of next day's show

Promo for General Hospital, All My Children, One Life to Live and Ryan's Hope (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Preview of coming AM Chicago

Commercials for:
Eyewitness Newsmagazine at 4:30pm promo
Venture White Sale
The Drapery Factory

Station ID / promo for "The Green Slime" at 3pm

Bonus: First five minutes of AM Chicago with Mary Ann Childers (opening voiceover by Fred Kasper?) and guest Daniel Yankelovich, social analyst (note: Opening theme of AM Chicago was degraded but it can be heard here: https://youtu.be/FZCWGHtjoE0)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, June 25th 1981 within the 7:32am to 9:05am timeframe.

This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Nancy Faust Collection.

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