Added: Oct 7, 2008
From: eyeontv
Duration: 1:28
From WBAL Baltimore one of the great all time news opens, with Cool Hand Luke music, Movie of the Week animations, and the set walls that rotate into place! Add a puppet for the weather segment and you've got a winner!
Channel: Film
Rating: 4.81 (27 ratings) Views: 11570' favoriteCount='66 Comments: 50
USAGiant Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - JP as a weathercaster back then lol? Oh that right things become 'retro again lol' so don't be surprised if Elmo does a segement on the weather channel in near future lol.
wlns Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - This makes me think of the movie Anchorman. Every newscast needs a puppet!
chibicelchan Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Why.... Was there a puppet?The very beginning with the globe reminds me of the 1998 ABC World News Tonight opening. That was pretty flashy for its time. BUT WHY WAS THERE A PUPPET DOING THE WEATHER.
tkaye2 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - The desk layout reminds me of something that would be used on a panel discussion more than a newscast.
tkaye2 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Many stations treated the weather segment as light material then. There were lots of cartooning weathermen and goofy Willard Scott types. Weather was easy filler that could be expanded or contracted depending on how much news was happening that day.
spectrum10 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - The rotating set on this video reminds me of the rotating set at the beginning of the Newlywed Game.
spectrum10 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - I noticed that he had to look down from time to time to read news off a hard copy. Back then they didn't read news off a video monitor like they do now.
WeakApplause Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - But not just any puppet, a kind of scary looking puppet.
WeakApplause Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - But not just any puppet, a kind of scary looking puppet.
CaptainPaintball Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Nowadays, like in Philadelphia, the weather IS the main story. In 2000, the NBC affiliate started assigning names everytime it snowed! It is ridiculous here. Now each local affiliate has it's own weather channel. No offense to them, but I'd take Rhea and JP over Hurricane Schwartz, John Bolaris and all theother weather hysterics any day!
guitarrick57 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - They were the best and worse of times... I can remember watching Rolf Heartsgaard all through the 60's, especially JP puppet's "Good night Rolfffffffff... at the end of the weather report...lol I've seen Rhea on MPTV every now and then. Thank you for posting!
mccrea60 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - More, more more.........please. Love this stuff....I wonder what year it was. I'm thinking about 1970?
tmq1384 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - I had this newscast until the puppet. There's a puppet at the fucking news desk.
Davez621 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Doesn't look like late 60s to me - it's in colour.
WVECSpirit Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Hey, it's the grandfather of ALF!
ALittleWinchellDoYa Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Rolf Hertsgaard refers to "an impending peace settlement." Rhea and JP talk about "the changing colors of the leaves." So, I put the time frame of this clip at mid-October to early November 1972... during Henry Kissinger's Paris Peace Talks on the Vietnam War.
brealmsys Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Ya know, all three networks were in color by 1967, and a lot of local stations were too by then.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - Most stations, and all three networks here in the States, were 'full color' beginning in 1966 and '67. Which is when many people here started buying color sets, they were becoming affordable, and much more reliable.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - I liked weather people like Bill Kuster, who did the weather back when KYW was still known as WRCV! Jim O'Brien over on WPVI was not too bad either.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - I'd love to know what WBAL used to create the opening graphics. I know nowadays it's done with computer systems like Avid.
threeby8887 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - A PUPPET on the news? Seems to me like somebody on the production staff had some especially acidic orange juice for breakfast one day. :)
noahf67 Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - So was JP a regular at WBAL? He mustve been.He probably co-hosted afternoon movie shows,made big fees for spot reads, etc...
joebradio Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - A great time capsule.. and, yes, even until the late 70's weather guys were not the overdegreed, AMS approvedm meterological geeks who spend 10 minutes telling you about the jet stream when you just want to know whether you need a sweater or an umbrella on your way out the door to work tomorrow. Considering some of the overhyped stuff they throw at us during sweeps months (fear for you life about something you never would think about outside of those months) a puppet is not so bad.
UncleMikeNJ Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - I see: It was Colonel Jim Mustard, in the news studio, with the microphone!
jpguinness Says:
Oct 7, 2008 - This is the time of stuff you would only find on TV in the 60's and 70's.