Here's the complete broadcast of "Salvage" as presented on The ABC Sunday Night Movie over WXYZ Channel 7 in Detroit, MI. (this was the a repeat broadcast - the movie originally aired on Saturday, January 20th 1979)
This made-for-TV flick - which served as the pilot for the short-lived TV series Salvage 1 (which only aired for 16 episodes total) - starred Andy Griffith (in the long period of flop shows in-between his 1968 departure from The Andy Griffith Show and the start-up of Matlock in 1986) and Joel Higgins (years before Silver Spoons) as scrap and salvage entrepreneurs who build a makeshift rocket designed to salvage items abandoned in outer space, and in particular the moon - and meet resistance every step of the way from the government. Also starring Trish Stewart, co-starring J. Jay Saunders, Raleigh Bond and Jacqueline Scott, with guest stars Peter Brown, Lee De Broux and Richard Eastham, and special guest star Richard Jaeckel.
All show and bumper voiceovers by Joel Crager.
Includes:
Station ID / Action News promo (with Doris Biscoe)
Show opening and preview of film
Commercials for:
Aim toothpaste
Pontiac Catalina
Lipton Iced Tea
Sears Super Values (on paints)
Act I (featuring opening credits)
Commercials for:
Holiday Inn
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
Pizza Hut
Gillette Right Guard anti-perspirant
Act II
Commercials for:
Nestlé Sunrise instant coffee
Carefree Sugarless Gum (with "The Wright Brothers")
Promo for Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels and Vega$ (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for 20/20 (voiceover by Fred Collins)
Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID superimposed
Act III
Commercials for:
Flintstones Tablets Plus Iron
Super Shade sunblock by Coppertone
Mazda GLC
Schlitz Beer
Bumper
Promo for Good Morning America (with David Hartman)
Commercials for:
McDonald's
Cedar Point's Frontier Days (from June 2nd through 10th) (voiceover by Norman Rose)
Animated station ID (voiceover by Al Pinter)
Return bumper
Act IV
Commercials for:
7-Eleven Slurpee (guy with cards)
Dial soap
1979 Pontiac Grand Prix
O.B. Tampons - from Johnson & Johnson
Promo for Three's Company, Taxi and When the West Was Fun (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Act V
Commercials for:
Triumph TR7
Sears Super Values (on Craftsman products)
Kingsford Charcoal Briquets
7up soft drink
Bumper
Promo for ABC Monday Night Baseball (voiceover by Fred Collins)
Preview of Action News at 11pm with Doris Biscoe
Commercials for:
American Airlines - "Half-Fare Coupon Offer"
Yoplait yogurt (with Loretta Swit) (voiceover by Bob Landers?)
Animated station ID / promo for Kelly & Company (voiceover by Al Pinter)
Return bumper
Act VI
Commercials for:
Olympic Latex Stain paint
Michelob Light beer
Promo for Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels and Vega$ (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Allan Jefferys)
Promo for ABC World News Tonight (voiceover by Fred Collins)
Act VII
Commercials for:
Volkswagen Rabbit (with Wilt Chamberlain)
Tampax tampons
Excedrin Extra-Strength Pain Reliever (voiceover by Alan Bleviss)
Ban Roll-On (with Mary Frann of "Newhart" fame)
Film ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for Three's Company, Taxi, How the West Was Fun and 20/20 by Allan Jefferys) - featuring the Columbia Pictures Television "Sunburst" logo bumper at the end
Show ending titles
Promo for ABC Monday Night Baseball (voiceover by Fred Collins)
This aired on local Detroit TV on Sunday, June 3rd 1979 during the 9:00pm to 10:58pm (Eastern) time frame.
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