WBBM Channel 2 - Ending of Search for Tomorrow and Channel 2 Newsbreak (6/17/1977) 📰

Here's the ending moments of the long-running soap opera Search for Tomorrow as broadcast over WBBM Channel 2, followed by a complete Newsbreak news update with Kathryn Kiefer (the top story of which was the death of Dr. Wernher von Braun) which aired within the first segment of The Lee Phillip Show.

Includes:

Last 10 seconds of Clorets commercial - "The Breath Deodorant" (with Richard Herd)

Search for Tomorrow ending titles (with voiceover by Dwight Weist advising that As the World Turns will be on one half-hour from here)

Promo for As the World Turns (ending voiceover by Roger Forster)

PSA for American Lung Association - it's "a matter of life and breath" (pamphlet about second-hand smoke)

Promo for "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" on The CBS Friday Night Movies (voiceover by Gaylord Avery)

Commercials for:

TV Guide - June 18th-24th 1977 issue (drawing of Laverne & Shirley by Jack Davis on the cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant) (music: "Solar Song #3" by Reynold Weidenaar, from the Sam Fox music library)

Airwick Twin Deodorizers

Station ID / promo for Dinah! (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Opening for The Lee Phillip Show (otherwise complete show can be seen here:    • The Lee Phillip Show - "Star Wars Cast Int...  ), with preview of coming show and intro of news update from Kathryn Kiefer, with following items:

Rocket engineer Wernher von Braun dies at age 65 on Wednesday (June 15th); a look back at his life and career

Police open fire on rioting blacks in two South African townships outside Johannesburg

Jefferson Park Patrolman Phillip Ernesto (?) suspended over fatal shooting of handcuffed burglary suspect John Neuman, 18, as announced by Superintendent James Rochford

Chicago cabbies won't go on strike, after agreement reached between Yellow Checker cab companies and drivers' union; Mayor Bilandic says no fare increase - for now

Both sides unhappy about U.S. Steel made to pay $4 million in pollution penalties to government, but being given a 3-year window in installing anti-water pollution gear at their Gary Works plant; a report from Jerry Bowman has comments from Jim McDonald of the EPA and David Comey of Citizens for a Better Environment

Jury deliberations still going on in 321-day civil rights trial involving Black Panthers over 1969 raid on their apartment

Mitchell Krauss report on ongoing boycott (now going on 6 months) of coffee because of high prices; instant coffee now outselling the canned, roasted variety

Noon readings of Dow Jones Industrials and volume

Weather report and close of news update with Kathryn Kiefer giving a quick preview of "Star Wars" guests and members of a "Star Wars Fan Club" (actually they're Star Trek fans, but close enough I guess...)

Commercials for:

Jewel Food Stores - "Father's Day Sales"

Wyler's Unsweetened Juice Mix (voiceover by Peter Thomas)

Amtrak - "Sure Beats Driving" (voiceover by Peter Thomas)

First 28 seconds of Segment 2, with look at "Star Wars" phenomenon (whIch again, can be seen in its entirety here:    • The Lee Phillip Show - "Star Wars Cast Int...  )

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, June 17th 1977 during the 11:57am to 12:07pm timeframe.

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