They do where I live in Northern Michigan. There is a Grand Rapids station that pre-empts anything to get their meteorologists on-air during a tornado warning, sometimes for hours at a time if the storm travels across the state and maintains cloud rotation the whole time.
It was 11:47pm. Most of the news department had probably cleared out for the night. Cameras would have been fired down. It would take at least 20 minutes to warm up the tubes and do a calibration.
The warning was for 2 counties, this channel probably covered 9 counties, so there were people watching who would have been annoyed if they shut down the station for a storm.
This tornado warning was issued due to a funnel cloud spotted near Milford Michigan and was spawned from The Independence Day Derecho of 1977. It started in the morning hours of July 4th in Minnesota, passed through Wisconsin, Michigan and ended in Northern Ohio early the next morning on July 5th. It lasted for a total of 15 and a half hours.
This was 3 years before I was born. My grandparents (dad's side of the family) lived in a trailer park in Milford, just north of M-59 off of North Milford Rd.
@@minty_Joe Interesting! I assume that would be Highland Greens Estates on N. Milford Rd.? I grew up in Fenton about 10 or so miles Northwest from there. I was alive when this happened, but don't remember it because I was only 2 years old. My older brother told me he remembers picking up a bunch of fallen branches in our backyard the next day and that the stone cross on top of St. John's church had been blown off.
@@deerfish3000 Wow. Yeah, that's exactly where they used to live. They're both long gone now. They moved up to Roscommon in 1987; we had a summer cabin up there. I lived in Walled Lake from birth (1980) to around Christmastime 1991, before moving up to Traverse City. So, yeah, small world!
so much history in one video. hijackings. tornados. smoking in hospitals. mary hartman l. late movies. god i love this channel. i remember laughing my ass off at mhmh as a kid. even then i knew it was satire and it helped foment my love of absurdist humor.
Don't forget the Ajax commercial and the dishwasher massaging the waitresses shoulders. Definitely couldn't do that today. You would be fired and sued for sexual harassment. 🤣🤣
This was SO WONDERFUL to watch ... yes, Mary Hartman, the smoking physician (and nobody batted an eye, could you imagine that today, omg?), the commercials, the old fashion weather warning. Fond memories.
Man who cares about the Ajax commercial when we had the *”Isley Brothers”* gracing our screens. Man you guys have to get your priorities together, the best band in American music history and you guys are talking about Ajax lol 😂
The final episode of MHMH - the tornado warning came close to interrupting her surprise final appearance on the show after being missing for weeks beforehand, and the then-shocking revelation that her new life with Sgt Foley wasn’t so new after all...
Dude, ME TOO. This was just fantastic to watch .... Mary Hartman, the commercials, the weatehr warnings. Oh, if only it waere 1977 again .... what I'd give.
I remember watching an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard going way back to 1980 I was six years old during that time then KMOX-TV (Now KMOV) breaks in for a Tornado Warning just issued for North St. Louis County then The Tornado Warning Sirens went off they had a Tornado spotted somewhere in Florissant
Marineland voiceover by Henry Ramer. This is the commercial I remember from my childhood. Marineland is still in operation, still bombarding us with their commercials in every commercial break (sometimes twice), and still horribly abusing their animals. My parents took us there in 1974, and were so outraged by what they saw, that we never went back.
For that Special Report Segment at 2:30, there is actually a CBS Newsbreak with Morton Dean and that story is the lead off!! The Newsbreak occured before 8pm
You mean to tell me CBS actually ran VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT late at night, one of my all-time favorite movies, and I missed it?!? Well, damn and blast!! R.I.P. Sir Roger Moore. "For all the Saints, who, from their labours, rest..."
I’d forgotten all about Mary Hartman. We used to watch it all the time when I was little. It didn’t make any sense then either. Can’t believe I forgot that call “Mary Hartman Mary Hartman”
I would have to take my chance with the tornado. This was the final episode of MHMH. This was your only chance to watch it. Obviously no DVR's back then and barely any VCR's. My brother and I watched this. It was on late at night I want to say. I know it was syndicated. At 14 and 13 years old we thought it was a trip. 😊😊
Until the full DVD box set was released a few years ago, practically the entire second season of MH2 had not telecast anywhere since its original airing (it had short-lived airings on Lifetime and TV Land, but it was always pulled after a few weeks)
Back then when a tornado warning occurs they go back to regular programming. Nowadays whenever that occurs oh, it's full coverage they preempt your favorite shows.
At least they actually said what counties the warning was for. I remember when the Detroit TV stations changed the graphics for a bit in the early 1990s. All they had was a cartoonish looking graphic of a tornado funnel with the word "warning" or "watch" under it(depending on the situation) in the corner of the screen. We were often left asking, "Okay, there's a warning or watch... but for which counties!?" lol.
That waxy yellow buildup! Poor Mary, if only...😂😂 And I just spotted two actors that would later appear in the 1978 movie "Foul Play ", which are Eugene Roche (as Archbishop Thorncrest) and Bruce Solomon (as Scotty).
As for the Tornado Warning slides on Detroit channels, I heard that WDIV/Channel 4 used a white screen with “TORNADO WARNING” superimposed on it in black lettering during the ‘70s.
Similar to the tornado warning on WGN-TV right about the time a spaceship made a vacuum cleaner-like sound on "Planet of the Apes," also found on this excellent site.
I enjoyed seeing the first of the CBS Late Movie Double Feature openings. "M*A*S*H" & "Hawaii Five-O" had split opening credits Double Feature openings later that year.
Sep 2022: A warning followed by a douche commercial. Priceless and rare these days. :) Yes, as a kid that Mary Hartman show was weird as hell. lmao. Damn, nowadays "MARY HARTMAN!!!" would make a GREAT ring tone! Thanks for the inspiration.
I wasn’t around back then, but I think most stations broke in from time to time with a slide relaxing “XXX Warning” or “XXX Watch” and then returned to programming. I heard sometimes they activated the EBS as well, but not always.
No mandate for them to activate the EBS. I wasn’t around then, but from what I have seen some channels used the EBS but most probably did not (they just interrupted with a “Tornado Warning” slide every 10 minutes or so).
I like the part where the royal oak rep holds a 📰 in the driveway to get a 🏠 refinance or a lakefront property deal... dam they ✂️ that part out for Shae.
I guarantee I woke Pop and Ma up to tell them about the tornado warning, even though we lived in Wayne County. It was during the summer and I always watched Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (I was only 12). I think it was because Mary Hartman always wore those short skirts and pantyhose. The show was terrible, but to see a woman's legs in pantyhose was a thrill for me.
I've HAD conversations with women being brutally honest before ABOUT REAL DOUCHES. One of them just laughed and basically said there's NO point to douche. NO WONDER why crappy, underconfident LYING men are CALLED 'DOUCHES'. LOL!
I remember understanding turtlewax commercials, dish soap commercials and toilet bowl cleaner commercials. I never knew what a doosh was until freshman year of high school. Those commercials way over my head. Pretty sure I used the word doosh as a kid testing a word in a stupid context and getting a 'shoosh'. Because it offends some people. That didn't help.me understand anything either.
It was different days. The entirety of life was different. TV was still fairly novel, light hearted and close was good enough. Then programming wasn't about darkness 24 hour "journalism" and rage baiting. It was much closer to live theater back then. But much of that is gone today. So much so that a vast percentage of the population cannot uderstand or appreciate the quirky unpolished stuff like this because they have almost no reference point to this base their opinion.
@@wolvenar I love quirky and unpolished. My favorite show ever has to be Mr. Show. I might have gotten a different impression of this show with a bit more context.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Those great vintage vids you posted need to be saved (and preserved), so that we can enjoy them, continuously; and this is why we want to donate moneyto you guys.
I love that the tornado warning is almost an afterthought. Now they'd have radar on a loop, scrolling red text, beeping, preemptions...
Because people are stupid. :)
That's all the warning u get ... u better run 🏃♂️
They do where I live in Northern Michigan. There is a Grand Rapids station that pre-empts anything to get their meteorologists on-air during a tornado warning, sometimes for hours at a time if the storm travels across the state and maintains cloud rotation the whole time.
Where I live, if one sees a popular local Meteorologist w/his coat off, wearing shirt & suspenders; then you know the sh*t’s abt to get real
You had the guy doing the sign language then for the tornado watches and warnings back then before closed captioning we used to laugh at. 😂😂😂
It was 11:47pm. Most of the news department had probably cleared out for the night. Cameras would have been fired down. It would take at least 20 minutes to warm up the tubes and do a calibration.
TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY....as soon as you finish watching Mary Hartman.
This is shrecktastic I wonder if Shea was the sponc.ER.
hAA!
The warning was for 2 counties, this channel probably covered 9 counties, so there were people watching who would have been annoyed if they shut down the station for a storm.
This tornado warning was issued due to a funnel cloud spotted near Milford Michigan and was spawned from The Independence Day Derecho of 1977. It started in the morning hours of July 4th in Minnesota, passed through Wisconsin, Michigan and ended in Northern Ohio early the next morning on July 5th. It lasted for a total of 15 and a half hours.
This was 3 years before I was born. My grandparents (dad's side of the family) lived in a trailer park in Milford, just north of M-59 off of North Milford Rd.
@@minty_Joe Interesting! I assume that would be Highland Greens Estates on N. Milford Rd.? I grew up in Fenton about 10 or so miles Northwest from there. I was alive when this happened, but don't remember it because I was only 2 years old. My older brother told me he remembers picking up a bunch of fallen branches in our backyard the next day and that the stone cross on top of St. John's church had been blown off.
@@deerfish3000 Wow. Yeah, that's exactly where they used to live. They're both long gone now. They moved up to Roscommon in 1987; we had a summer cabin up there. I lived in Walled Lake from birth (1980) to around Christmastime 1991, before moving up to Traverse City. So, yeah, small world!
so much history in one video. hijackings. tornados. smoking in hospitals. mary hartman l. late movies. god i love this channel.
i remember laughing my ass off at mhmh as a kid. even then i knew it was satire and it helped foment my love of absurdist humor.
Don't forget the Ajax commercial and the dishwasher massaging the waitresses shoulders. Definitely couldn't do that today. You would be fired and sued for sexual harassment. 🤣🤣
@@der22672 Ajax SQUEAK
This was SO WONDERFUL to watch ... yes, Mary Hartman, the smoking physician (and nobody batted an eye, could you imagine that today, omg?), the commercials, the old fashion weather warning. Fond memories.
Man who cares about the Ajax commercial when we had the *”Isley Brothers”* gracing our screens. Man you guys have to get your priorities together, the best band in American music history and you guys are talking about Ajax lol 😂
The final episode of MHMH - the tornado warning came close to interrupting her surprise final appearance on the show after being missing for weeks beforehand, and the then-shocking revelation that her new life with Sgt Foley wasn’t so new after all...
Love MHMH , and Fernwood Tonight ! Rip the great Fred Willard he was fantastic on that show
I came here for the tornado warning.... I stayed for one of the funniest shows ever produced. Fun times.
Dude, ME TOO. This was just fantastic to watch .... Mary Hartman, the commercials, the weatehr warnings. Oh, if only it waere 1977 again .... what I'd give.
Quite a collection of actors in the hospital scene- Dabney Coleman, Logan Ramsey, Dody Goodman, Martin Mull, Oliver Clark etc.
That's Eugene Roche in the Ajax ad. I also think that's Judy Graubart from "The Electric Company."
Eugene Roche - thanks. He's a face that is instantly recognizable - but I cannot currently think of one specific thing I know him from. :-)
He was on All In The Family several times...and he played the "assassin" in The Jerk.
Actually I was wrong...I watched The Jerk over the weekend and it was not him.
@@jackdemus7890the “assassin” was M. Emmett Walsh, a great character actor.
I remember watching an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard going way back to 1980 I was six years old during that time then KMOX-TV (Now KMOV) breaks in for a Tornado Warning just issued for North St. Louis County then The Tornado Warning Sirens went off they had a Tornado spotted somewhere in Florissant
What type of Tornado Warning graphics did KMOX use at the time?
Marineland voiceover by Henry Ramer. This is the commercial I remember from my childhood.
Marineland is still in operation, still bombarding us with their commercials in every commercial break (sometimes twice), and still horribly abusing their animals. My parents took us there in 1974, and were so outraged by what they saw, that we never went back.
For that Special Report Segment at 2:30, there is actually a CBS Newsbreak with Morton Dean and that story is the lead off!! The Newsbreak occured before 8pm
REST IN PEACE JOE GLOVER. I used to take naps in the early evening so I could watch Mary Hartman.
You mean to tell me CBS actually ran VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT late at night, one of my all-time favorite movies, and I missed it?!?
Well, damn and blast!!
R.I.P. Sir Roger Moore.
"For all the Saints, who, from their labours, rest..."
I’d forgotten all about Mary Hartman. We used to watch it all the time when I was little. It didn’t make any sense then either. Can’t believe I forgot that call “Mary Hartman Mary Hartman”
Were these ads for real???
"I can't drink this- it tastes too GOOD to be decaffeinated"
I would have to take my chance with the tornado. This was the final episode of MHMH. This was your only chance to watch it. Obviously no DVR's back then and barely any VCR's. My brother and I watched this. It was on late at night I want to say. I know it was syndicated. At 14 and 13 years old we thought it was a trip. 😊😊
I was 11-12 when this was on tv late night and I used to watch with my Mom after she got home from work.
Explains so much..
Until the full DVD box set was released a few years ago, practically the entire second season of MH2 had not telecast anywhere since its original airing (it had short-lived airings on Lifetime and TV Land, but it was always pulled after a few weeks)
OMG I remember this!
The doctor just pulls out a cigarette and starts puffing in the hospital 😂 I guess a lot can change in 46 years lmfao
7:47 Was that the tornado they were warning about? It’s a miracle!
I think it was an act
Why can't I stop watching TV from 50 years ago?
Because it was more "organic". ;-)
Much better writing
Back then when a tornado warning occurs they go back to regular programming. Nowadays whenever that occurs oh, it's full coverage they preempt your favorite shows.
At least they actually said what counties the warning was for. I remember when the Detroit TV stations changed the graphics for a bit in the early 1990s. All they had was a cartoonish looking graphic of a tornado funnel with the word "warning" or "watch" under it(depending on the situation) in the corner of the screen. We were often left asking, "Okay, there's a warning or watch... but for which counties!?" lol.
That TORNADO WARNING would have scared the hell out of me. Seeing the BULLETIN screen late at night freaked me out too
@@RobertWhite1 lol!! You’re right though because after that announcement you’re just freaked out
I remember the Marineland ad airing in upstate New York around that time.
That waxy yellow buildup! Poor Mary, if only...😂😂
And I just spotted two actors that would later appear in the 1978 movie "Foul Play ", which are Eugene Roche (as Archbishop Thorncrest) and Bruce Solomon (as Scotty).
1:50, that is Judy Graubart, who played on The Electric Company as, Jennifer of the Jungle, Julia Grown-Up, The Witch, Winnie.
As for the Tornado Warning slides on Detroit channels, I heard that WDIV/Channel 4 used a white screen with “TORNADO WARNING” superimposed on it in black lettering during the ‘70s.
I miss analog television~!
Similar to the tornado warning on WGN-TV right about the time a spaceship made a vacuum cleaner-like sound on "Planet of the Apes," also found on this excellent site.
A wardrobe person who worked on some of the Chuck Barris shows in the '70s used to be ID'd on the credit rolls as
Donna Hartman,
Donna Hartman.
Love the fact that the doctor is smoking, hilarious
The Tornado Warnings look like a part of the Mary Hartman Mary Hartman show.
I was confused whether it was part of the show or not - especially when the building began to shake! How weird was that?
I enjoyed seeing the first of the CBS Late Movie Double Feature openings. "M*A*S*H" & "Hawaii Five-O" had split opening credits Double Feature openings later that year.
Good! Where's whats his face from tool tyme?
Before it was Fox 2, it was TV 2, a CBS affiliate, yes?
Yes. Switched from CBS to Fox in late 1994
Sep 2022: A warning followed by a douche commercial. Priceless and rare these days. :) Yes, as a kid that Mary Hartman show was weird as hell. lmao. Damn, nowadays "MARY HARTMAN!!!" would make a GREAT ring tone! Thanks for the inspiration.
YES YES AND MORE YES. Long live 1977
12:34 darn
Dude... an actual tornado warning for MY COUNTY.
Is this show purposefully chaotic?! It looks like an improve class.
It was designed to be whacky and disjointed.
Fernwood, we're here (blows out lantern.)
So back then they just came on TV and said warning? There were no sirens on the TV like today, or outdoor tornado sirens that sounded? I dont get it.
I wasn’t around back then, but I think most stations broke in from time to time with a slide relaxing “XXX Warning” or “XXX Watch” and then returned to programming. I heard sometimes they activated the EBS as well, but not always.
Tornado sirens have been used for a long time, though, certainly in the 1970s as well.
I bet I was up watching this. Probably scared stiff, too, being that I was only 12. Always stayed up, when I could, to watch the Late Show.
Oakland county is my county. This report is cool.
Here to represent Macomb County!
...hey, can we get someone from Wayne County in here and complete the trifecta?
What no weatherman in studio?
As much as they tried to be different, I thought Mary Hartman was awful. Then again, I was 15. Looking at it now, I know I was right.
Cooooool
Why no EBS tones preceding the tornado warning bulletins? If this is 1977, weren't EBS activations permitted for weather emergencies in 1976?
No mandate for them to activate the EBS. I wasn’t around then, but from what I have seen some channels used the EBS but most probably did not (they just interrupted with a “Tornado Warning” slide every 10 minutes or so).
That scared the dog crap outta me! By the way, I used to have that Isley Brothers album
How was it?
I like the part where the royal oak rep holds a 📰 in the driveway to get a 🏠 refinance or a lakefront property deal... dam they ✂️ that part out for Shae.
Nice!
I hope y'all will reply to this I'm not in Detroit but I like The CBS Late Movie opening
Such a shame that VHS beat Betamax. The quality of this Betamax recording is pretty stellar, all things considered.
How is this in such good quality to be recorded in 1977?
Betamax. Accept no substitute.
Yeah, this looks more like the quality of the early-to-mid 80s.
That one doctor looks kinda sus... someone should 3.2.1. Contact The Bloodhound Gang.
I guarantee I woke Pop and Ma up to tell them about the tornado warning, even though we lived in Wayne County. It was during the summer and I always watched Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (I was only 12). I think it was because Mary Hartman always wore those short skirts and pantyhose. The show was terrible, but to see a woman's legs in pantyhose was a thrill for me.
So the guy hijacked a tornado?
I've HAD conversations with women being brutally honest before ABOUT REAL DOUCHES. One of them just laughed and basically said there's NO point to douche. NO WONDER why crappy, underconfident LYING men are CALLED 'DOUCHES'. LOL!
I remember understanding turtlewax commercials, dish soap commercials and toilet bowl cleaner commercials. I never knew what a doosh was until freshman year of high school. Those commercials way over my head.
Pretty sure I used the word doosh as a kid testing a word in a stupid context and getting a 'shoosh'. Because it offends some people. That didn't help.me understand anything either.
So you privatize it, then re-upload it...
There was a spelling error. Had to re-do the whole video. That's how much we care. :-)
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV ah, ok
How about Nacho flavored?
They don't even advertise douche products on TV anymore
Twister 2
This show is unbelievably terrible lolol
You have to understand it’s a satire.
It was different days. The entirety of life was different. TV was still fairly novel, light hearted and close was good enough. Then programming wasn't about darkness 24 hour "journalism" and rage baiting. It was much closer to live theater back then. But much of that is gone today. So much so that a vast percentage of the population cannot uderstand or appreciate the quirky unpolished stuff like this because they have almost no reference point to this base their opinion.
@@wolvenar - Plus, today's generation takes things much more literally than the generation that was growing up when "MH,MH" was on.
@@wolvenar I love quirky and unpolished. My favorite show ever has to be Mr. Show. I might have gotten a different impression of this show with a bit more context.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Those great vintage vids you posted need to be saved (and preserved), so that we can enjoy them, continuously; and this is why we want to donate moneyto you guys.
The acting’s terrible, unless it’s a parody of an American soap opera.
It is indeed a parody of an American soap opera.