ABC Network - Strike Force - “Magic Man“ - WLS-TV (Complete Broadcast, 4/23/1982) 📺

Here’s a complete airing (albeit in repeat form) of the Strike Force episode “Magic Man“ (Episode 5, original air date December 11th 1981) on WLS Channel 7. This show, which only ran one season, starred Robert Stack, and also featured Dorian Harewood, Richard Romanus, Michael Goodwin, Trisha Noble and Herbert Edelman. Guest stars were Robert Ridgeley, Claudia Wells, Ike Eisenmann, Ellen Geer, Robert Sampson and Marianne McAndrew, co-starring Keith Mitchell, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson, Gina Alvarado, Randy Morton, and featuring Brad Kesten, Fritzi Burr, Brian Sheehan and Norm Blankenship. (C) MCMLXXXI Aaron Spelling Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (TYPESETTING NOTE: The actors’ names, and overall credits, were set in LTC Tourist Gothic.) Includes: Opening titles Commercial: Taster’s Choice coffee (voiceover by Dan Ingram) Act I (at 2:47, about 5 seconds of footage of investigation of East Chicago bridge collapse is shown before returning to episode) Commercial: Tronolane Anesthetic Hemorrhoidal Cream Commercial: Ford - Quality Is Job 1 Promo for premiere of Counterattack: Crime in America (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) Animated ABC ID Act II Commercial: Federal Express Overnight Letter (voiceover by Simon Oakland) Commercial: Final Touch fabric softener (with housewife Carol Royse) Bumper Promo for The Mysterious Powers of Man, The Love Boat and Fantasy Island (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker) Commercial: Durkee Real French Fried Onions Commercial: L’Air du Temps perfume Promo for “Fear On Trial“ late Saturday (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) Eyewitness News Update with Tim Weigel (opening voiceover by Mike Rapchak) Bumper Act III Commercial: Minolta X700 camera Commercial: Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Spoon Size Shredded Wheat Promo for Today’s FBI and “The Babysitter“ (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker) Act IV Bumper Theatrical trailer for “If You Could See What I Hear“ Commercial: Massengill Medicated Disposable Douche Ted Koppel promotes tonight’s Nightline with interview with former President Carter Epilogue Commercial: Budweiser Light beer Promo for “The One and Only“ (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) Ending credits (with ending voiceover [by Wally Parker] promoting SportsBeat, Inside America, “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure,“ and Nightline) This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, April 23rd 1982 during the 9:00pm to 9:59pm timeframe. About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television’s primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,500 (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at: