Christmas Time in Chicago: a 1989 WMAQ-TV holiday special hosted by Carol Marin and Ron Magers

Here's a WMAQ-TV Christmas special that aired on December 23rd and December 25th of 1989, when the end of the Cold War seemed at hand. It interpolates segments of a "Garroway at Large" broadcast that aired on Christmas Eve of 1950, a season when things were not going well for our troops in Korea. Featured in the 1950 broadcast were Dave Garroway, Connie Russell, Bette Chapel, Cliff Norton, Jimmy Russell, Aura Vainio and Joseph Gallicchio and the NBC-Chicago Orchestra. Participating in the 1989 broadcast were Carol Marin, Ron Magers, Ray Suarez, Warner Saunders, Rich Samuels and the Georgia Frances Orchestra. Enjoy!

Broadcast Credits:

Producer: Bruce Rheins
Executive Producer: Rich Samuels
Director: Dave Ratzlaff
Tape editor: John Martin
Additional editing: Therese Ouelette Hoesli
Post-production editing: Judy Felber
Field camera/audio: Bill Nuyttens, Dave Adams, Verstel Palmer, Jerry Ongaro, Ed Bartlett, Bob Wiener, Jim MacDonald, Howie Salzman, Bill Jennings, Ed Cradick, Larry Collins.
Associate Director: Alison Ebert
Studio Audio: Dennis Wood
Video: Dale Schaeffer
Studio camera: Tom Schnecke, Robert Correll
Teleprompter: Carl Hickman
Lighting director: Eric Pahnke
Art director: Jack Hakman
Stagehands: James Kehoe, Ed Collins, George Tyriver
Makeup: Leslie Wells
Music provided by: The Georgia Frances Orchestra, The University Church Choir (directed by Irving Bunton), the Poe Classical School Choir. "White Christmas" was sung by Gregory Banks