The ABC Sunday Night Movie - "The Master Gunfighter" - WFAA-TV (Complete Broadcast, 4/29/1979) 📺
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 01. 2022
- Here’s the complete broadcast of The ABC Sunday Night Movie's "world premiere" presentation of "The Master Gunfighter" [1975], a Western starring Tom Laughlin (of Billy Jack fame), Ron O'Neal ("Super Fly"), Lincoln Kilpatrick, Geo Anne Sosa, and Barbara Carrera (pre-Dallas - the TV series, not the city where this airing was recorded) - and of course "Edited for Television”, as aired out of Dallas/Fort Worth, TX via WFAA Channel 8.
All voiceovers for The ABC Sunday Night Movie are by Joel Crager.
Includes:
Station ID / promo for News 8 with weatherman Steve Newman
Show opening and film preview
Commercials for:
B.F. Goodrich tires
Alberto VO5 Hot Oil Treatment (with Rula Lenska - co-star of public TV staple "Rock Follies")
Enjoli 8 Hour Perfume (jingle set to tune of Peggy Lee hit "I'm a Woman")
Pabst Blue Ribbon (with what looks like jazz session musicians, or maybe they're Toto, I don't know)
Film opening titles and Segment 1
Commercials for:
Wella Balsam shampoo (with Jaclyn Smith)
Triumph Spitfire - "Just for the Fun of It"
Beneficial Finance System (circus clown doing the "sweeping the spotlight" gag demonstrates how their All-in-One Loan works) (clown played by Emmett Kelly, Jr. - who is doing the same "Weary Willie" character his father made famous).
Giacobazzi wine - "Giacobazzi someone tonight."
Film segment 2
Commercials for:
Carefree Sugarless Bubble Gum
Volkswagen Rabbit
Promo for Monday double feature "Beach Patrol" and "Samurai" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for "Ike" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Animated ABC ID
Film segment 3
Commercials for:
U.S. Army - 2-Year Enlistment Plan
Michelob Light (voiceover by John Forsythe)
Selsun Blue shampoo
STP Motor Oil (with Johnny Cash)
"We will return" bumper
Promo for "Ike" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Commercials for:
Miracle Ford - "Dallas 500"
Jack in the Box Restaurants
Station ID / promo for "Where Danger Lives"
Film segment 4
Commercials for:
Odor-Eaters - "The Offenders"
Mazda RX-7
Alpo Beef-Flavored Dinner (with Lorne Greene)
Alberto VO5 hair spray - with Miral 80 (another ad with our friend Rula Lenska)
Promos for Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels and Vega$ (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Film segment 5
Commercials for:
Ball Park Franks
Dr Pepper (featuring Bugs Bunny) [had to be mostly edited out to prevent CZcams blocking]
Schick Super II Ultrex (voiceover by Jackson Beck)
Dentyne - "Brush Your Breath"
"We will return" bumper
"Are We Second to None?" promo for World News Tonight
Commercials for:
Olympus cameras (for paparazzi to stalk unsuspecting celebrities with)
All-Pro Auto Parts Dealers
News 8 preview with John Criswell (of Dallas gas crisis at service stations, and Presidential adviser's insistence we're winning fight against inflation)
Station ID / promo for PM Magazine
Film segment 6
Commercials for:
Fiat Strada
Tegrin Medicated Shampoo (wasn't that guy in the VW Rabbit commercial?)
Promo for "Ike" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Promo for World News Tonight
Film segment 7
Commercials for:
Lowenbrau (jingle sung by Arthur Prysock)
Uniroyal Steeler radial tires (with Pittsburgh Steelers Mean Joe Greene and Jack Lambert, and Dallas Cowboys' Ed "Too Tall" Jones)
Primatene Mist and Tablets
FDS - Feminine Deodorant Spray
Film ending credits (with voiceover promo for President Carter's news conference, Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels and Vega$ by Allen Jefferys)
Show ending titles
Promo for coming week's Good Morning America - with Sandy Hill
Preview of coming News 8 at 10pm - with John Criswell
Promo for Gary Cooper Week ("Dallas," "Meet John Doe" and "The Naked Edge") (recording ends midway through this promo)
This aired on local Dallas/Fort Worth TV on Sunday, April 29th 1979 during the 8:00pm to 10:00pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help! - Zábava
The Master Gunfighter was actually a Remake of a Japanese Samurai film.
facts, everything about this film screams Japan
starting with how
Geo Ann Sosa
is just being there at big sur
everything about
her and how she moves is seen in anime like ninja scroll and castle of Cagliostro
Oh wow, thanks for this. This is the kind of obscure western that my dad would love when I was a kid. Me and my sister would just have to go play because we hated it and my mom didn't like it either. I love all the commercials too. This makes me feel 6 years old again.
It's Sunday and I'm watching the Sunday night movie of the week just like the old days 😅
My brain just exploded. I could crush this and snort it. The year 2022 has the same day match ups as 1977 so i am spending more time there in the 70s than here. I will be watching this between my spiderman reruns. Peace disco n macrame, baby. Outtasight.
And if you were home in Chicago watching the movie, it was 49 degrees with a cool west wind at 13 mph. Humidity was 52%.
List price of a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am Special Edition (Black and gold) was $8028.00 However the best selling car in the US in 1979 was the Oldsmobile Cutlass. It sold over half a million at $5600
Can anyone in New York say what the weather was at the point this aired starting at 9:00pm on WABC Channel 7? I think that on Sundays after the movie it was the ABC News Weekend Report followed by "Eyewitness News" with Gil Noble and Doug Johnson.
@@wmbrown6 LaGuardia Airport , the high for the day was 67.
At 9:00 pm it was 60 degrees, 49% humidity, and a brisk 16 mph wind out of the north west.
Average Volkswagen Rabbit was $4799
Trans/Am? Now that’s a classic..
@@Biden_Cult_Morons No need to bother with mpg.
Gas was 86 cents per gallon!
@@TheBandit7613 That's equal to $3.18 today. Not that different.
I just want to sincerely thank you for uploading this film in particular, because about 5 years ago, this randomly was on a tv I was watching at like 3 a.m. while laid up post-surgery and became the inspiration for what was to become my forever costume for Halloween, the Cowboy Samurai. Black powder .45 and a katana on my gun belt, I KNEW this movie wasn’t JUST a fever dream hehehe 😁👽🤙
The Billy Jack guy !!!! As a Gunfighter !
I remember this .
Thanks
Probably the first time I've seen a camera commercial that basically says, "The paparazzi use this, you should too."
I completely forgot about this movie.
I’m here for the Big Sur coast and a local who was in the movie.
I love how this movie aired on Comet a few years back, I was struck by how obscure it was, so obscure its nearly impossible to find on home video.
Love this s post. Keep it up.
Beach Patrol and Samurai were unsold pilots for the '79-'80 fall season. ABC chose to go with the Mark Harmon "starrer" 240-Robert instead of Beach Patrol.
Pity Tom Laughlin never found another Character to play besides Billy Jack. The Master Gunfighter never really caught on.
he TOTALLY goes to the bathroom on fuck norris and all of her wack ass works
The clown in the Beneficial spot is Emmett Kelly, Jr. (doing the same "Weary Willie" character his father made famous).
Good ID, I will add it - thanks! :-)
movie eh but love the Commercials , so many memories
At 1:02:20 if I’m not mistaken that’s TK Carter, best known for playing Chester the driver in Seems Like Old Times.
My sister had one of those hats 18:05, except hers was white and she was in a wedding party.
i like that you can tell from the swords and the outfits this was based on a samurai movie, but there's almost no extended swordplay, just guys standing and staring at each other.
Do you have new years show with Dick Clark ?
Please find it, thank you.
CZcams Does have quite a few of the New Years Rocking Eve with Dick Clark; I watched one from 1978 this past new years Eve!
@@thomasparnell1025The bad news: No intro of dick clark from that show NYRE 1978.
58:54 after his 2 year enlistment he wound up resuming his status as a wino outside the liquor stores of Kentucky
who did the PBR voiceover at 3:00?..sounds like lloyd bridges
Aired a few months before I moved down there…
Yes!!! A THROWBACK Thursday 😁 ⬅️ Western HYBRID 🔫 Gun/Sword 🗡️⚔️ with sexy lead ACTor'$ in frilly lace shirts & those Throwback Commercial$ LUV'd 😘 those also!!!
The graphics lol
I miss the spectacle of the movie intros...
I think the Indian girl was the same girl that had the flower dumped on her head by Bernard in Billy Jack...She had grown up...
No Warner Bros. logo at the start!?!
29:21 Kelly Garrett From Starsky & Hutch Charlie's Angels (1977-1984)
I'm one of the few unlucky 12 year olds who saw this in the theater in 1975.
i was one of the lucky 5 year olds
1:28:19 and 1:42:28 - The promos for ABC's "World News Tonight" sounded like those was done by Fred Collins, previously an NBC staff announcer.
I also noticed, as the '70's turned into the '80's, another ex-NBC'er, Norman Rose, heard doing some ABC News voiceovers.
Wella Balsam shampoo vs. Martin Balsam Shampoo. YOU decide....
Fuzzy: Did you edit down that Dr. Pepper commercial with Bugs Bunny without notice?
Oops forgot to mention that
I deeply appreciated Tom Laughlin's first three "BILLY JACK" movies, but "THE MASTER GUNFIGHTER" was not among my favorites. When ABC aired this 1975 movie in April 1979, I was homeless, but some years later I tried to watch this movie, and I just sank into boredom! If Laughlin's character was a Master Gunfighter, then what was the business with all the Japanese Samurai swords? I've never heard of Samurai Swords being used in The American West, so unless Laughlin was trying to pay tribute to Akira Kurosawa's classic piece, "THE SEVEN SAMURAI"", the business with the Samurai swords just didn't make much sense! gunslingers had a bit of an advantage over any swords, and Tom Laughlin's character was very confusing, especially since many of us baby boomers grew up in the 1960s and watched 1967's "THE BORN LOSERS" that American International had released, the character of "Billy Jack" was just right for this time period, but "THE MASTER GUNFIGHTER" just lost me, and it just made no sense! But, watching vintage ABC-TV in 1979 a decade and a half before Capital Cities unwisely sold the TV network to The Walt Disney rodents in 1996 was a greater memory before the Disney people totally ruined this once great TV network!
I suffered through this boring movie only because of Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack) ... However, it was all poor acting, Non-interesting story line, bad fighting scenes, and the film is terrible quality, kind of blurry... This is one of those movies you only watch once.
lol Pablo looks guyanese or Trini not Mexican