
Locals can relive some classic moments in local TV history tonight at a screening in Hampden celebrating WJZ’s 70th anniversary. Highlights include the infamous 1979 Hanukkah blooper scene, Marty Bass flipping his wig, clips of a young Oprah anchoring the “Eyewitness News” desk and the hazy promo of weatherman Bob Turk and company’s adaptation of “My Girl.”
“I grew up watching the one promo, which was made in the eighties,” Siobhan Hagan, who’s spent years now working to digitize WJZ’s vast archive of footage, says of the Turk video. “I always wondered, Why is he going to this street in Fells Point and hallucinating these singers there? I realized now that it’s because he’s having a memory of the first promo they were doing in the ’70s.”