ABC Network - The Harvey Korman Show - WLS-TV (Complete Broadcast, 4/11/1978) 📺

Here's another rare episode of The Harvey Korman Show, "The One Where Harvey Won't Change," as aired on the ABC Network via WLS Channel 7 in Chicago. As a bonus, the ending credits of the Three's Company episode "The Rivals" and part of the opening of the Julie Farr, M.D. episode "Captive" (with guest star Stephanie Zimbalist) are part of this potpourri. (See • ABC Network - The Harv... for the backstories of both this show and Julie Farr, M.D. - plus which show took the Korman show's practice of titling its episodes "The One Where...")
Includes:
Promos for the upcoming episodes of The Harvey Korman Show and Julie Farr, M.D. (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker)
Ending credits for Three's Company, with "Three's Company was videotaped in front of a studio audience" advisement by John Ritter (with voiceover promo for Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening?! and Harvey Korman by Wally Parker)
Promo for Eight Is Enough for Wednesday (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker)
Commercials for:
Velamints - with Cathy Lee Crosby
Stroh's - "For the Real Beer Lover"
Station ID / Joel Daly Eyewitness News at 10pm preview ("11th hour deal to save Radio City Music Hall" - the New York landmark which was still standing up to the 2020 onset of the pandemic)
Opening Harvey Korman Show titles (started a bit late again)
Commercials for:
Gillette Atra - "The Impossible Shave" (with free travel kit offer at end)
RCA SelectaVision - "The 4 Hour Videocassette Recorder" (and with that, boys and girls, VHS begins its smiting of Betamax which would take the better part of a decade)
Episode Act I
Commercials for:
Cie fragrance - with Candice Bergen - "Cie Is Me"
pHisoDerm - low pH soap for women with both dry and oily skin
Yet another promo for Julie Farr, M.D. - right after Harvey Korman (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker)
Animated ABC Network ID, with lower-third station ID
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
Milk Bone Dog Biscuits
MG Midget - "Good Going"
Episode epilogue, followed by closing credits (with voiceover promo for Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening?!, a Friday Night Movie double feature of "Sticking Together" and "The Two-Five," a super special Saturday airing of The Hardy Boys, and Julie Farr, M.D. by Wally Parker)
ABC News Brief from Washington, with Tom Jarriel (opening voiceover by ABC Washington staff announcer Charles Hughes), with items:
- President Carter ruling out wage and price controls to fight inflation
- Israeli forces start pulling out of South Lebanon
- Russia demands return of Arkady Shevchenko
Commercial: Michelob - "Why Wait for the Weekend"
More news:
- Rise in average cost of a new house since December
Promo for Barney Miller and A.E.S. Hudson Street for Thursday (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker)
Promo for Eyewitness News spotlighting Joel Daly going after stories (voiceover by Gary Gears) - "If It's Important to Chicago, It's on Eyewitness News"
Station ID / promo for "Good Neighbor Sam" on The 3:30 Movie that had already aired earlier in the day (voiceover by Al Parker which plugs the correct movie for tomorrow, "The Fortune Cookie" (Part 1))
Preview and start of opening titles of Julie Farr, M.D. (Susan Sullivan is identified on-screen, but recording cuts out before Dennis Howard's name comes up as they show him in various clips)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 11th 1978 during the 8:28pm to 9:01pm timeframe.
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