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  Once A Star #1

  Chicago, Sports, Viewers Choice

  The first of two hour-long programs profiling former professional athletes. The show focuses on these athletes’ lives after retiring from sports, with archival footage sprinkled throughout. We get an in-depth look at these personalities, while also indirectly getting a sense of the difference between professional sports of the 50s, 60s, and 70s versus today: virtually all of the athletes work for a living. This program features “no-hit” Chicago Cub pitcher Kenny Holtzman; Cy Young Award winner Steve Stone;  first African American in the NBA, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton; TV wrestling pioneer “Dick the Bruiser” (Afflis); all-time NFL scoring leader, kicker and quarterback George Blanda; bowling champ Carmen Salvino; Casey Stengel speaking “Stengelese;”  Clown Prince of Baseball, Max Patkin; and one-season phenomenon, pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych.

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  The 90’s: President Who?

  THE 90's

  The 90’s Pre-Election special from 1991, “President Who?” Not a finished version.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: Paul Tsongas at Harper High School, part 1]

  1992 Election, Chicago, Politics, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. Senator Paul Tsongas, running in the Democratic presidential primary, visits Harper High School, a predominately African-American school on the South Side of Chicago.

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  A Look At The Cubs, 1975

  Cubs

  A TV show, including commercials, previewing the 1975 Chicago Cubs, and examining their chances of a winning season. Made up of interviews with players from the 1975 Cubs conducted at the Cubs’ spring training camp in Scottsdale, AZ, and highlight footage from training camp and previous seasons.

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  Blame It On The Media

  Patrick Creadon, THE 90's

  Raw tape from the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City. We talk to a man holding a camera who is wearing and selling “Blame it on the Media” t-shirts. He talks about whether we should blame it on the media and says everyone edits their shots and their stories. We then see him shooting Madison Square Garden and talking about the things he has shot that week. Last minute of tape repeats itself.

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  The 90’s election special: the Primary

  1992 Election, Politics, THE 90's, Tom Weinberg

  The first of three election specials from the award winning series, The 90’s. This episode focuses on “The Primary” and features moments from the Illinois presidential and senatorial primaries, featuring Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas, and Carol Moseley Braun. The producers tend to stay away from the regular news type footage and find the human interactions and the moments when the politicians are off their guard.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: WLS-TV Chicago senate race]

  1992 Election, Black, Chicago, Communities, Politics

  This tape features a Channel 7 WLS-TV eyewitness news report on the Chicago senate race debate in 1992.

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  Overnight Man

  Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Viewers Choice

  Portrait of WBBM/Chicago radio news man Joe Cummings. We follow him out on the streets getting stories, in the studio reading broadcasts, and talking about his love for Chicago.