ABC Network - Love on a Rooftop - "Dave's Night Out" (Complete 16mm Network Print, 11/29/1966) ❤️ 📺

Here's another close approximation of seeing an off-air first-run taping from "back when" (before Umatics, Betamaxes and VHS's were even invented) - once again in the form of a 16mm network print, but this time of another series, Love on a Rooftop, in this case the episode "Dave's Night Out" (S01E12), as first broadcast over the ABC Network and therefore, in Chicago, via then-WBKB Channel 7. Here you can actually see original ads, sponsor billboards, and even network promos.

This short-lived series - staffed behind-the-scenes by people who also had involvement in two other TV series on the air at the time, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie - starred Peter Deuel (later Pete Duel of Alias Smith and Jones fame) as apprentice architect Dave Willis and a pre-Laugh-In Judy Carne as his young wife, art student Julie Campbell Willis, struggling to make it in San Francisco. Rounding out the cast were Rich Little (later to gain fame as an impressionist) and Barbara Bostock (aka Barbara Lawson) as their neighbors Stan and Carol Parker, and Herb Voland and Edith Atwater as Julie's parents. Yet with all this talent, the program would fizzle out after only 30 episodes.

In this one, Julie gets a mysterious phone call while Dave is supposed to be out playing poker but in fact was somewhere else, thus causing her to become jealous and jump to the wrong conclusions about the situation. Also features Reta Shaw, Virginia Sale, Dick Balduzzi, Jim Begg, Hollis Morrison, and Sandy Kenyon.

Includes:

Pre-show SMPTE countdown (excerpted)

"Love on a Rooftop - Next - In Color" (with the same background music used on Bewitched openings!)

Episode prologue

Show opening titles (1966 copyright; narrative voiceover by Peter Deuel), followed by sponsor billboard for ABC itself (opening voiceover by Hank Simms) and promo for The FBI (with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.)

Commercial: Dentyne (on board an airport; filmed in black-and-white)

Episode Act I (with writing and directing credits at start)

Commercial: King-size Winston cigarettes ("It's Not How Long You Make It, It's How You Make It Long"), and Winston extra king-size menthol cigarettes

Episode Act II

"Love on a Rooftop Will Be Right Back" bumper

Commercial: Clearasil (filmed in black-and-white) - "We Wish to Lose You as a Customer Too"

Episode epoilogue

Ending sponsor billboard for Clearasil (voiceover by Hank Simms)

Show ending credits (parts of theme would have been muted on actual original off-air taping for voiceover promo for coming ABC shows including that following this show - The Fugitive, then in its final season), followed by Screen Gems 'S from Hell' animated bumper and 'an abc presentation' still bumper - and various images indicating 'TAIL'

This originally aired on most ABC stations - and on local Chicago TV - on Tuesday, November 29th 1966 during the 9:30pm to 10pm Eastern / 8:30pm to 9pm Central timeframe.

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