WFLD Channel 32 - Mrs. America Pageant (First 50 Minutes, 7/18/1982) 🩱
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- Here's the first 50 minutes of the broadcast of the Mrs. America Pageant as held at the Las Vegas Hilton, hosted by Bobby Vinton and Vikki Carr, and presented over WFLD Channel 32. (The pageant itself was held on May 7th 1982.)
This whole thing seems like a weird, corny throwback, even for 1982. And it's a sobering fact that 1982 was closer to 1952 than 1982 is to 2024 (30 years versus 42 years). Time counts, and keeps counting.
Includes:
Viacom "V of Doom" (video version)
Animated Field Communications ID (voiceover by Darwin Gillette)
Station ID / promo for I Love Lucy (voiceover by Jim Barton)
Richard Simmons does usual exercise routine as lead-in to show opening (voiceover by ??)
Bobby and Vikki open festivities, then contestants come on stage and hosts sing "Mrs. America"
Commercials for:
Hilton Hotels
Extra-Strength Dexatrim weight-loss capsules (with testimonials from Diane Dunn of Agoura, CA and Fred Gaylord of Van Nuys, CA)
JetAmerica airlines to Los Angeles
Promo for Monday Movie Special "Sabrina" (voiceover by Jim Barton)
Segment 2, with Mrs. Alabama, Janet Wood; Mrs. Alaska, Wanda Badger; Mrs. Arizona, Debbie Adams; Mrs. Arkansas, Teresa Gray; Mrs. California, Donna Frame; Mrs. Colorado, Toni Jo Neibauer; Mrs. Connecticut, Gretchen Rossi; Mrs. Delaware, Carol Moneta; Mrs. Florida, Mona Hartnett; Mrs. Georgia, Janice Henson; Mrs. Hawaii, Lin DeGiorgio; Mrs. Idaho, Becky Blackhall; Mrs. Illinois, Susan Combs; Mrs. Indiana, Nell Jarrard; Mrs. Iowa, Melanie Myers; Mrs. Kansas, Carole Sperling; Mrs. Kentucky, Dee Anne Curnutte; Mrs. Louisiana, Carol Roth; Mrs. Maine, Debra Dube; Mrs. Maryland, Sharon Best; Mrs. Massachusetts, Regina Moriarty; Mrs. Michigan, Nancy Hook; Mrs. Minnesota, Patricia Russell; Mrs. Mississippi, Betty Yow; and Mrs. Missouri, Nikilyn Coyle
Commercials for:
Babe anti-perspirant by Fabergé
Glad 3-ply trash bags (with Tom Bosley)
Snapper riding mower
Promo for I Love Lucy (voiceover by Jim Barton)
Segment 3, with Mrs. Montana, Kristin Tolson; Mrs. Nebraska, Bonnie Harrington; Mrs. Nevada, Tara Clark; Mrs. New Hampshire, Linda Smith; Mrs. New Jersey, Geri Pauline; Mrs. New Mexico, Dawn Reesman; Mrs. New York, Janet Horvath; Mrs. North Carolina, Vivian Wells; Mrs. North Dakota, Susan Glick-Shore; Mrs. Ohio, Victoria Boyer; Mrs. Oklahoma, Diane Dobson; Mrs. Oregon, Karee Edwards; Mrs. Pennsylvania, Hannah Robzen; Mrs. Rhode Island, Linda Parker; Mrs. South Carolina, Faye Fincher; Mrs. South Dakota, Whiffer Randall; Mrs. Tennessee, Cindy Harris; Mrs. Texas, Rhonda McGeeney; Mrs. Utah, Francine Quinn; Mrs. Vermont, Debbie Mack; Mrs. Virginia, Mary Morgan; Mrs. Washington, Helen Kleffner; Mrs. West Virginia, Susan Veltri; Mrs. Wisconsin, Linda McCormick; and Mrs. Wyoming, Ra Jean Higginson
Award for Best State Costume, during which Rip Taylor crashes the party (of course); Vikki sings a medley of "Can You Read My Mind" (some echo had to be added) and "Believe it or Not" to the husbands of the contestants. (WFLD on-screen ID at 30:00)
Commercials for:
Clairol Nice 'n Easy Conditioner
Nestlé Toll House Cookies
Bounty Paper Towels (with Nancy Walker and bean-counting bookkeeper)
All Temperature Cheer
Schmerler Ford (with Harry Schmerler, the Singing Ford Dealer)
Segment 4, with Mrs. Photogenic Award Competition Award (presented by Norm Crosby, with contestants in swimsuits), followed by introduction of judges: Hilton Hotels chairman and president Barron Hilton; artist LeRoy Neiman; attorney Melvin Belli; Mrs. Dorthea Morefield, wife of one of 52 hostages held in Iran from 1979-81; Jenilee Harrison of Three's Company; female sprinter Evelyn Ashford; Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan; and Mrs. America Pageant founder/president David Z. Marmel; followed by naming of 10 semi-finalists (via Richard Gilman of the accounting firm Fox & Co.) on the way to determining who will be this year's Mrs. America
Commercial: Faberge organic shampoo (mostly complete)
(Sadly, the tape was recorded over after this point - honestly I think the guy just wanted to bail after the swimsuit competition based on other recordings in his collection. Still, we salute him for his service in recording this awkward anachronism)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, July 18th 1982 within the 8:00pm to 10:00pm timeframe.
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Many extremely important awards. An extremely important show!
The real Miss America in this is Richard Simmons! What a Gem he is!
Quite a spectacle. Mrs. Arkansas, Mrs. Georgia, and Mrs. Maine...those costumes are beyond words.
Mrs. Maine figured "If my daughter had to wear this costume we made for her school play, then damn it, I'm wearing it on the show."
Another awesome thumbnail! Rip Taylor...WFLD...say no more - click!
The V of Doom never bothered me, but an unexpected V of Doom caught me off guard.
Since no one mentioned it yet, the winner was Mrs. Texas, Rhonda McGeeney. She Appears at 23:40.
It appears that based on the Chicago Tribune archives, that WFLD aired the movie "The Amazing Dobermans" with Fred Astaire, just before the Mrs. America Pageant, hence the Viacom "V of Doom" appearing at the start of the clip.
Norm Crosby…so pretty that he had those beauty contestants all kinds of nervous he’d take the crown.
The V Of Doom Rules
If you we're a kid and seen it, that V would have come thru the television eventually.
0:00 is the Viacom “V of Doom” from which show was from? “All In The Family”, “The Honeymooners”, “I Love Lucy” (which had a B&W filmed variant) and other shows that were distributed by Viacom during the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Alabama was NOT 29 lol
Do you by any chance have a pro bowlers tour telecast from abc sports from the early 70's of late 60's?
Less than one year later Field sold Channel 32 to Metromedia for a reported 100 million dollars.
Metromedia wanted to buy the station in 1970 but Kaiser Broadcasting held on to it instead.
Actually, it was still Field as of 1970; Metromedia aimed for 32 as early as 1969, but there were things that led to it not being consummated - among them Metromedia's failed merger attempt with Transamerica. Kaiser didn't enter the 32 picture until 1973.
Wow Alabama is a rough 29...more like 49 lots of them look much older than theie ages. Typical 80s
Look at how viacom who is doing logo so hard
Flying Purple V of Doom.
Does anyone know if any New York station ran this particular time capsule (no, we're not referring to Dexatrim in this case ;-) ), and if so, when?
We know both Bobby Vinton and Vikki Carr, by this point, had long since passed their respective "sell-by" dates as recording artists; the only thing missing I could see was Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy of "SCTV") coming out on stage with his "How are ya!" greeting, and speaking of the contestants by starting out with his "As a comic, in all seriousness . . . "
Per the NY Daily News, The Mrs. America Pageant aired, a full month earlier, on June 12, 1982, on channel 11 WPIX.
@@seancaruana4209 - I figured WPIX may've aired it. Apparently, the time it ran (on a Saturday) was from 8:30pm to 10pm, meaning 90 minutes. I wonder if anyone in NYC taped the whole show so we could see the rest. No doubt, the end tag for the promo was read by either Bill Biery or Ralph Lowenstein.
This program aired on WPIX 11 Saturday June 12th 1982 from 8:30-10:30 PM.
@@phantom6226 - Would make sense. New York magazine in its Cue listings in its July 14, 1982 issue had "Focus: New Jersey" at 10 followed by the news at 10:30. Sounded from what you're saying, though, that "Focus" was preempted.
@@wmbrown6 The Daily News listed "Focus: New Jersey" at 10 PM on June 12th. Newsday, The Times & The Daily News show a two-hour program from 8:30-10:30 PM.
That sounds like John Harlan doing the opening VO; he’s done plenty of work on game shows.
Yes, that’s definitely John Harlan. You can hear him on the Bob Hope specials, too.
Richard Simmons could have been a awesome future Mrs. America. Too bad he never found a real boyfriend or husband.