ABC Network - Future Cop - "The Kansas City Kid" - WCVB-TV (Complete Broadcast, 4/30/1977) 📺 🤖 👮

You wanted more Future Cop, you got more Future Cop! Here's the original, first-run complete broadcast of the what wound up being the regular series finale of Future Cop, "The Kansas City Kid" (S01E05), as transmitted via ABC affiliate WCVB Channel 5 in Boston, MA. In this, Haven (Michael Shannon) impersonates a card sharp to break up a poker ring that led an investment broker to gamble away pension funds. Joan Collins is among the guests. A small bonus will follow.

(The 2-hour pilot movie can be seen here:    • The ABC Monday Night Movie - "Future Cop" ...   )

Includes:

"The Way New England Sees It" station ID (inside control room)

Show opening titles (with voiceover by Ernest Borgnine)

Commercials for:
Avon - "You Never Looked So Good"
The New Chevrolet (with Jerry Orbach)

Episode Act I

Commercials for:
Sherwin-Williams Latex House Paint (spotlighting a Hopkins, MN house painted with such paint in 1969)
Ford Granada (test vs. Mercedes-Benz 450SE)
Promos for Charlie's Angels and "Roger & Harry" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by George Ansbro?)

Animated ABC ID with lower-third WCVB ID

Episode Act II

Commercials for:
Miss Clairol shampoo and creme formulas
Ban Roll-On anti-perspirant
Promo for Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by George Ansbro?)

Bumper (voiceover by Ernest Borgnine)

Promo for ABC Sunday Night Movie presentation of "Airport" (joined in progress) (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

"Channel 5 Fun & Games" promo for Family Feud and The Instant Game Show

NewsCenter5 preview with Jim Boyd

Station ID / promo for The Numbers Game

Episode Act III

Commercials for:
Skippy peanut butter - "More Peanuts, Less Sugars"
Mercury Monarch (with Catherine Deneuve) (voiceover by Whitfield Connor)

Episode Act IV

Commercials for:
Ultra-Brite toothpaste
Irish spring double deodorant soap (with horse racer)

Episode epilogue

Commercials for:
1977 Ford Pickup - "Built Ford Tough" (but watch strapped to bumper takes a beating)
Wella Balsam Instant Conditioner (with Farrah Fawcett - notice she left out the "-Majors" despite that being part of her name at the time)
Promo for World Invitational Tennis Classic and Alan King Tennis Classic

Ending credits (with promo voiceover for Nancy Drew and "Airport," plus 103d Run for the Roses at the Kentucky Derby, by George Ansbro?), followed by Paramount Television bumper with a different bit of music as used in this season

Promo for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Eight Is Enough and Family (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by George Ansbro?)

Commercials for:
Car Quest Service Stations (with Johnny Rutherford)
"The Way New England Sees It" promo of WCVB's network and local offerings (including Chet Curtis, Natalie Jacobson and Jack Hynes of NewsCenter5)

Station ID / promo for The Numbers Game

Bonus: First two minutes of NewsCenter5 Late Edition with anchor Jim Boyd (not to be confused with The Electric Company regular or Jimmy Boyd of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" fame), as follows:

Opening (voiceover by ??), followed by first item:

2,500 sitting in to protest planned nuclear plant in Seabrook, NH, as reported by Paul Steinle (who cites number at 1,800); Guy Chichester of the Clamshell Alliance and an unnamed woman are interviewed

Jim is about to start an item involving state police when recording ends

(TECHNICAL NOTE: The same original Chiron CG fonts used at the time by WLS Channel 7 and WGN Channel 9, are in use on this newscast.)

This aired on local Boston TV on Saturday, April 30th 1977 during the 10:00pm to 11:02pm (Eastern) timeframe.

This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.

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