CBS Network - Switch - "Fade Out" - WNAC Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 11/4/1977) 📺
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Here's a complete first-run airing of an episode of Switch, "Fade Out" (S03E03), as broadcast on the CBS Network via then-Boston, MA affiliate WNAC Channel 7 (now WHDH - of no relation to what since 1972 is WCVB Channel 5).
This show - which starred Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert, Charlie Callas and Sharon Gless, and on this installment (about a leading lady facing threats on her life and a movie producer hiring Pete and Mac to protect her) features among the guests Casey Kasem - was in its final season at the time; the opening title sequence used (with its moving vertical lines traveling horizontally) would also form the basis for the opening titles of New York station (and WNAC's then sister station) WOR Channel 9's "The 4 O'Clock Movie" beginning in this year and used (for the most part) through 1984 (both were created by Image West using the "Scanimate" video-based animation system).
Includes:
Ending of station ID / Second City Television (SCTV) promo (that series also aired in New York on WOR-TV, from 1977 until 1979)
Episode preview, followed by opening titles
Sponsor billboard for Buick (voiceover by ??)
Commercials for:
Midsize Buick Regal
Zenith Videocassette Recorder
Episode Act I
Commercials for:
Buick Regal and LeSabre - "Turbo Charged"
One Step at a Time by Water Pik (quit smoking aid)
Episode Act II
Promo for All in the Family and Alice (voiceover by ??)
Promo for Rhoda (voiceover by Don Robertson)
Commercials for:
Midsize Buick Century
FTD "Hello Sunshine" Bouquet
Switch bumper (voiceover by Dick Tufeld?)
Promo for The Jeffersons (voiceover by Don Robertson), followed by CBS "Lightning Eye-D" (voiceover by Bill Martin)
Commercial: Cadillac dog food (was it known as the Cadillac of dog foods? My dog got better mileage on Toyota Dog Food though)
Station ID / promo for Newsroom 7 with John Henning
Episode Act III
Commercials for:
Mazda GLC
Sears Kenmore - Save $70.00 (through December 31st)
Gallo Premium Wine (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
Episode Act IV
Commercials for:
Chevrolet - "See What's New Today" (New-Size Malibu)
Sears Renfrew Hall Collection (sale on country English furnishings through November 19th)
Harveys Bristol Cream (after skiing on snowy mountains)
Promo for "Jacqueline Susann's 'Once Is Not Enough' " on The CBS Wednesday Night Movies (voiceover by Alan Berns)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Women's Tennis Championship Finals on Saturday, and 60 Minutes on Sunday, by Bill Martin) - followed by post-1976 Universal TV bumper
Promo for The Carol Burnett Show, followed by promo for Rhoda and On Our Own (voiceovers by Don Robertson) and CBS "Lightning Eye-D" (voiceover by Bill Martin)
Preview of upcoming Newsroom 7 with John Henning (about to end when recording does)
This aired on local Boston TV on Friday, November 4th 1977 during the 10:00pm to 11:00pm (Eastern) timeframe.
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.
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Casey Kasem and Robert Wagner! That Zenith VCR commercial was awesome 👌. How far we've come.
Such an underrated show. Wish it was out on DVD.
Regardless of what you think about Robert Wagner. He's a pretty damn good actor with many notable roles. Still alive at 93.
When I was a child I wanted to grow up to be as classy as RJ. At 93 he is just as handsome as ever and still overflowing with class. They don’t make stars like they used to!
Hart to Hart is still one of my favorite shows. I also appreciate his role in The Towering Inferno.
They say only the good die young.
This was a great series for Eddie Albert
and Robert Wagner and a very underrated
one at that Sharon Gless and Charlie Callas
were very good as well and they had great
guest performers also. 😊 👍 📺 📺
My sister had a Buick just like the one in the first commercial! It was baby blue and it was a beast! Lol! Thanks for the memories 🐦
Great video 📹 we need shows 😀 like this back on TV 📺 😮😊
Back when Ch.7 was still an CBS affiliate before the switch to NBC then finally an independent station broadcasting news 24/7.
This series should be on dvd
I didn't even know this show existed. A very young Sharon Gless. Pre Heart to Heart Robert Wagner. Thanks for this, I can see why it didn't do too well. It is ultimate 70s cheese, but I love it.
Switch, will return in a moment!
I never knew that there once was a "Cadillac" dog food in 1978. lol
Must be a regional brand.
Thank you so much!!! Binging the seasons now! 🤗
Sigh, Dorrie Thomson. She always stood out in that Columbo episode "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case" even though she's barely in it.
And Zohra Lampert... That voice. Killer.
I remember this show.
Wow, never thought you’d have stuff from Boston until i saw what I’ve seen for the past two weeks. Anything from WBZ?
I had to be up early for kindergarten when this aired. To bad I missed it. Good show though. 🙂👌
Zohra Lampert was always great. She often found an interesting, unexpected take on the character she was playing.
Wow!Casey Kasem acting?! We had heard him voicing cartoons for ages and doing American Top 40 and Top 10. But acting? Color me surprised.
Casey was on Hawaii Five 0 in 1974. He played Larry Swift a appliance store owner- The episode was Steal Now ,Pay Later
He was also in The Incredible Two Headed Transplant. He may have wanted to forget that one...
Casey also appeared on episodes of "Quincy","The Hardy Boys Mysteries" & "Charlie's Angels".
Casey Kasem also was on a couple of episodes of Saved By The Bell.
@@joejoewest yeah, as himself LOL
0:32 is the intro to “Switch”, and it was a homage to WOR-TV’s “4 O’Clock Movie” and the WB and Village Roadshow logo variants in “Ocean’s Eleven”.
I remember watching switch as syndication On WOR TV back in the day
I think it was more the WOR "4 O'Clock Movie" main title being derived from the "Switch" open. WOR even had a video animated ID for 1977-78 similar to the "Last Farewell" ID of Chicago's WGN Channel 9. And Image West did that too.
@@alfonsogreen2722 - Ironic, given how "The 4 O'Clock Movie's" opening titles borrowed heavily from "Switch's."
Gotta het me one of those Zenith VCRs
Oliver Wendell Douglas got a new gig! ❤ Great show
Nice to see Casey Kasem aka Scooby's pal Shaggy & Johnny Seven aka
I remember the theme and my mom had an Olds Cutlas similar to the Buick Regal.
Another Boston television station - WCVB - would later use its own moving vertical lines variant for the intros of its newscasts from 1985-87.
This was episode 3 not episode 5 . Original Air Date October 14, 1977. Sharon Gless was the last Universal contract player. When SWITCH premiered in 1975 Ms Gless was also appearing in a recurring role on MARCUS WELBY MD. The series was pulled in January of 1978 ( after episode 12) and replaced by THE INCREDIBLE HULK. The remaining 10 episodes were burned off during that Summer.
Corrected the episode number. However, the air date on this particular broadcast is correct.
Casey Kasem!
The voiceover announcer for the sponsorship was Dick Tufeld.
Stay Tuned Next For Your Late Local News, Followed By The CBS Late Movie!
Love the old stuff thank God they haven't gotten this desperate
I love "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" seducing Jonathan Hart! Also loved when Casey Kasem did t.v. shows. As a kid, I would close my eyes just to listen to his voice. Cagney as the craft services lady! I guess Stephanie Powers made a much better partner than Eddie Albert! This was a great find.
The mystery voiceover might be Dick Tufeld.
Kasem and Wagner would encounter each other again in The Hardy Boys episode "Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom pt.2"
Johnny Seven aka Lt. Reese in A Man Called Ironside
The makers of Zenith also made a giant ray gun, in case you want to take over the World. Every line Casey says, sounds like old-time sports radio or a game show host.
All I hear is Shaggy and "On with the countdown...". LOL
@@ShaneyBright And "Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars"?
I think 🤔 that the announcer for both ALL IN THE FAMILY 👪🏻 and ALICE promos for the night 🌚 of November 6, 1977, on CBS was the late ⏰ Dick Tufeld (née Richard Norton Tufeld, LOST IN SPACE 🌌) who also did the SWITCH bumper, which starred 💫 Robert Wagner (HART ❤️ TO HART ❤️) and the late ⏰ Eddie Albert (GREEN ACRES).
The voiceover for the sponsorship billboard for Buick was done by none other than Roy Rowan.
No, it's Dick Tufeld
great nostalgia. so much better than the trash we have today...
Sometimes I wonder how any of us watched film-to-tape back then. The technology in 1977 was incompetent to begin with, and this transfer here isn't even up to the low standards of 1977 technology. Seriously, you can't even see what's going on in the first scene, and the entire telecine has bad jitter. I also wonder how the heck "Switch" lasted 3 seasons (at a time when the standard run of a CBS series was 3 episodes) when nobody ever watched it. Must have been Bill Paley's favorite show...
41:48 they were offering $70 off a microwave. In 2024 money that would be about $358. So my question is I wonder how much the microwave was if you were getting that much of a discount
Edit: about $3,000 or so... Did some research
Terminator font
Seems Alec Baldwin might wanna watch this..
Another Glen "Larceny" A. Larson production. XD
Even the opening theme sounds like a ripoff of the Rockford Files theme by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter
@47:02, isn't that Glen Larson? XD
I haven’t seen this show since I was a kid, I was 10 years old when it ended. I remember it being a fun show with the characters pulling elaborate cons on the bad guys to bring them to justice. But this episode is terrible. The writing, direction and acting are all horrible. I’ll have to look for other episodes to see whether my memory is bad or if this episode is just rare bad one.
It may have to do with this being its final season, the quality - or lack thereof - of this episode . . .
There were many episodes that were pretty good. Great cast. Natalie Wood made cameos with her husband in 2 of the episodes, including "The Cruise Ship Murders." Wagner and Albert made a good pair. I used to have the whole series on DVD. Someone transferred it from video. Quality was good on most episodes. I haven't seen those DVD's since I moved a few times.
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Lame, 'Switch' to McCloud.