NBC Network - At Your Service - "Pilot" - WMAQ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 8/1/1984) 📺
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Burned off in the dog days of summer 1984, here's the complete broadcast of an unsold pilot for a show entitled At Your Service as aired on the NBC Network via Chicago's WMAQ Channel 5.
This was an ancestor to the short-lived 1987-88 series Marblehead Manor. In this form, this pilot - about the goings-on in a New England mansion - starred Derek McGrath, Megan Gallagher, Joseph Maher, Garrett Morris (ex-Saturday Night Live), Susan Kellerman, Maria Duval and Michael Richards (in-between Fridays and Seinfeld), and guest starring Barbara Rush. (Of this cast, only Mr. Richards would play his role here on the subsequent Marblehead Manor series.) Also appearing were Tony Torres, Paul Eiding and Ellen Crawford.
Includes:
Station ID / promo for Channel 5 News at 10pm with Max Robinson (yes, THE Max Robinson, late of ABC's World News Tonight)
Show opening titles and sequence
Commercials for:
Advil - "Advanced Medicine for Pain"
Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner
Pilot Act I
Show bumper (with Channel 5 lower-third logo below)
Commercials for:
Tide laundry detergent - "Tide won't quit"
Promo for NBC Nightly News - with John Palmer
Promos for Knight Rider and Wait 'Til Your Mother Gets Home
Pilot Act II
Commercials for:
Procter & Gamble (with offer on Olympic clothing, merchandise and various products as in this week's issue of Woman's Day - expires September 15th)
Mint Fresh Signal mouthwash
Ending credits, with voiceover promos for St. Elsewhere and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (by Bill Wendell) and Today (by Bryant Gumbel)
Promo for "The Private Eyes" for Friday (voiceover by Gary Owens)
NBC News Digest with Connie Chung (opening voiceover by Fred Facey), with items:
- Hijackers of Air France jet in Tehran threaten to kill all passengers unless Paris government frees five prisoners
- Israeli leaders meet but fail to form unity government
- Dow Jones rises 19.33
- British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe assures on Hong Kong that China will keep its capitalist lifestyle for 50 years upon taking over in next century
Commercials for:
Dominick's Finer Foods - sale on RC Colas (through August 8th) (voiceover by Lloyd Hanson)
Wendy's all-night Pick Up Window
Like Cola from 7up - with Tim Conway (one of the co-stars of "The Private Eyes") - "99% Caffeine Free" - "The 7UP of colas."
Station ID / promo for Channel 5 News with Ron Magers (recording cut off early but it's something about the Chicago Fire Department)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, August 1st 1984 during the 8:30pm to 9:00pm timeframe.
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This show took too much from Benson, it's no wonder it didn't get picked up. I love these unsold pilots with original commercials. It is the only time machine we have.
thanks so much for uploading this stuff. It's theraputic levels of comfiness
I am so glad other people watch old commercials and shows for therapy. It is so much cheaper then other therapies.😀
MAX ROBINSON at the beginning. The Brother broke open a lot of doors.
I guess the people didn't like, LIKE Cola. It wasn't around long. LOL
I don't remember him anchoring local Chicago newscasts prior to going to the ABC network.
@@dalethelander3781 Max was a local anchor in Washington before ABC hired him. Unfortunately, this was his last job before he succumbed to AIDS in late 1988
@@hrtvfan2870 He was one of the good ones.
@@hrtvfan2870 Max Robinson worked at CBS station WTOP (now WUSA) in Washington, DC in the 1970s until he went to ABC News in 1978.
Kramer❗
Yep!!!
"Tonight, on 'Failed Pilot Playhouse'..."
I love this kind of stuff with the original commercials, nice little time machine… 😏
Yes, this pilot was later reworked into the 1987-'88 syndicated series "MARBLEHEAD MANOR", with Michael Richards the only returning cast member returning (as "Rick"). It lasted 24 episodes.
That's why this show's theme song sounded so familiar! I was wondering why I remembered the theme from a pilot that didn't go anywhere that came on when I was 5; I do remember watching Marblehead Manor, though.
Interesting to note is that Marblehead (87-88) would also feature, in its cast, Phil Morris, who would go on to play Jackie Chiles in Seinfeld.
Before he did, he appeared in the "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE" reboot on ABC (1988-'90).
Yeah, I remember Marblehead Manor-not bad. Interesting to see some of the people here: Joseph Maher and Garrett Morris!
This episode genuinely had a few pretty good gags.
love the 80s
Advil has only been around since 1984??
Looks a lot like a few other shows.
Nice
Have not laughed this hard in a very long time.
Looks like the BENSON SET
It even has the same theme song as Marblehead Manor. It has been reported that 1984 pilot for Marblehead Manor used what would become the Mr. Belvedere theme, but that may not be correct now.
this show would've been fine in the 90s
Thanks. I enjoyed that more than I expected - Derek McGrath manages to make his pseudo Sam Malone role palatable, and most of the others (especially Michael Richards and Garrett Morris) are fine. Only poor Susan Kellerman really suffers, due to the cod Eliza Doolittle accent and too many tired, crass sex jokes. I wish they'd given this cast more of a shot rather than revamping.
I was thinking how surprisingly enjoyable this is. I was expecting something completely ridiculous and a complete time-waster. There are some genuinely laugh-out-loud jokes going on here. Usually, with a pilot, you find yourself struggling to get into the characters of the show, but I really like these people. It really is weird the things that make it onto a network's schedule and the things that don't. This one should have been picked up and given time to grow.
Derek McGrath from My Secret Identity, Cheers and Dallas.
What role did he play on DALLAS?
@@tomservo56954 he played Valentine of Valentine’s Lingerie in 1986-87. Sue Ellen did business with him.
Peter Thomas is the voiceover in the Mint Signal Mouthwash commercial (Like the "Signal if you feel more mint" jingle!)
I was wondering where I knew that Bill Pullman-lookalike Derek McGrath from, he looks so familiar. I looked it up and saw he played Diane's stalker on Cheers. It's funny when you see those people that you know you know their face but you just can't place it. (At least he also played Chief Quimby on Inspector Gadget.)
Max Robinson after his stint at ABC News. I remember some of these commercials.
Benson worked because of the perfect comedic timing of the cast. This show was just a pathetic blatant cookie-cutter rip-off.
Joseph's accent makes him sound like he came over from Hogan's Heroes.
I want more
Megan went on to play Garry Shandlings wife on The Larry Sanders Show.
Before that, a year on "Hill Street Blues" and then "China Beach" as well.
@@epaddon I always like seeing Megan on these shows...it seems like she never did find a part that fit her. This one feels like she has the Caroline Macwilliams role on Benson. And Diane on Cheers.
IMDB has this listed as a TV movie, but not as a series.
They call unsold pilots that.
thanks so much.love rare stuff like this.............
This was pretty funny. I guess with It's Your Move and its own con person they didn't want to have two shows with that.
I think you’ve posted the first footage of Max Robinson at his post -ABC News tenure at WMAQ on RUclips.
I remember Max Robinson from WTOP/WDVM CBS 9 in Washington, D.C. on the station's Eyewitness News in the 1970's.
The wife at the beginning I think was in Animal House.
I was wondering when Joseph was coming into the show.
The Clapper works better, lol
Michael Richards lmao
Would’ve been great
With such talent behind the screen with David Lloyd writing & James Burrows directing, you would think the end product would have been better...
YES! FINALLY! Thank you thank you thank you! "Marblehead Manor" was such a POS compared to this.
I heard the Paramount 1981 jingle at the end. Same producer Gary Nardino reworked it as Marblehead Manor in 1987.
Megan Gallagher was on DS9 (LIttle Green Men) and Voyager (some role)
Funnier than Kramer.
I swear to god that theme song is by Sparks.
Those cheesy looks at the camera during the opening. 🤣
They did it on MM as well.
is there more episodes?
Nope. Rejected pilot.
"Marblehead Manor" ruclips.net/video/mVXMCDVMvWo/видео.html
MAX ROBINSON..LEGENDARY REPORTER
hi do you have shaping up,or aka pablo,both from 1984?
AIDS was teeming on the set amongst the make up artists and choreography.