NBC Network - A Flintstone Christmas - KRBC-TV (Commercial Breaks & Excerpts, 12/7/1977) 🎄 🎁

Sadly, not the complete special, but again of interest to those who appreciate vintage Christmas broadcasts...here is what could be shown here - namely the open, commercial breaks, bumpers, and brief excerpts - of A Flintstone Christmas as aired on the NBC Network over KRBC Channel 9 in Abilene, TX (as well as KACB Channel 3 in San Angelo, TX.) (Once more, we are treated to the dreaded "vintage" lo-fi 5 kHz telco audio on the network feed - and on the special itself, the blacks being a very dark maroon.)
While this entire animated special (whose first airing this was) was taped all the way through on a Umatic 3/4" videotape, most of it had to be pruned here for display in order to avoid RUclips blockage.
A bonus "stocking stuffer" will follow.
Includes:
Station ID, with photo of outdoor scenery indicating Eastland city limit (voiceover by ??)
Preemption notice for Grizzly Adams (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Start and end of Segment 1, featuring opening title
Sponsor billboard for Kodak and Parker Brothers (voiceover by Wayne Howell)
Commercials for:
Dungeon Dice - new from Parker Brothers
Kodak EK6 instant camera (voiceover by Robert Landers?)
Start and end of Segment 2
Commercials for:
Cool Whip topping (with Marge Redmond as Sara Tucker) (ending voiceover by Joel Crager)
Riviton 300 - from Parker Brothers (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
Start and end of Segment 3
Commercials for:
Gambler board game - new from Parker Brothers (featuring a Rhett Butler lookalike)
The Handle instant camera - by Kodak (voiceover by Robert Landers?)
Network-made bumper (mistitled as "A Flintstone's Christmas")
Promo for Mac Davis . . . I Believe in Christmas and The Bette Midler Special (a.k.a. Ol' Red Hair Is Back) (voiceover by Fred Collins?)
Commercial: Zale's Jewelry
Same station ID slide (voiceover by ??)
Start and end of Segment 4
Commercials for:
Post Raisin Bran
Hot Tomato - from Parker Brothers ("Some assembly required")
Promo for The Paul Simon Special (certain audio frequencies futzed with to avoid RUclips blockage on the song Slip Slidin' Away), followed by What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (voiceover by Les Marshak)
Promo for Today (with Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley)
Start and end of Segment 5
Commercials for:
Nerf Rockets - from Parker Brothers (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
Kodak Trimlite Instamatic 18 camera (with Michael Landon)
Start and end of Segment 6
Commercials for:
Kodak Instant Cameras and Film - save $10
Sorry! - from Parker Brothers
Sponsor billboard for Parker Brothers and Kodak
Promo for Sunshine Christmas, following Little House on the Prairie (voiceover by Casey Kasem)
Promo for Gentle Giants of the Pacific and "W.C. Fields and Me" (voiceover by Norman Rose)
Audio for ending credits (see screen for reason why), with voiceover promo for "Run, Cougar, Run" on The Wonderful World of Disney, Little House on the Prairie, and Mac Davis . . . I Believe in Christmas (by Howard Reig), followed by mid-1970's Hanna-Barbera animated logo bumper
NBC News Update with John Hart (opening voiceover by Mac McGarry), with following items:
- Defense publication Jane's predicts President Carter's scrapping of B-1 bomber will lead to "seeds of defeat for the West"
- Energy Secretary James Schlesinger predicts political and social unrest unless coal replaces oil (those were the days)
- Study finds aspirin helps prevent clotting after surgery for men - but not for women
- FBI files still show no proof of conspiracy in JFK assassination
Commercial: American Express card - with Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame)
Promo for series premiere of What Really Happened to the Class of '65?, following The Paul Simon Special (voiceover by Les Marshak)
Commercials for:
Curtis Mathes TV sets (with Frank Coghlan, Jr.)
Dr Pepper - "Be a Pepper" (with David Naughton)
Different station ID slide, against plain black background (voiceover by ??)
Now for the bonus:
First two minutes of Mac Davis . . . I Believe in Christmas, with guests David Soul and Engelbert Humperdinck
This aired on local Abilene TV on Wednesday, December 7th 1977 during the 7:00pm to 8:02pm timeframe.
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