‘Almost Live!’: the news clips

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‘Almost Live!’: the news clips

Sept. 23, 1984, Seattle Times TV grid

Read all about it!

By Clay Eals

Here, in chronological order, we present an array of news clippings from The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and other print sources related to “Almost Live!” and its cast and crew, with an emphasis on its beginnings.

The  clips — more than 120 — come from The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer online archive (available via Seattle Public Library), Newspapers.com and contributors who included Ross Shafer, Tracey Conway and Darrell Suto.

Can you find a mis-titling of the show as “Almost Alive“? Enjoy.

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Aug. 7, 1977, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p126. Who wrote this story?
May 21, 1978, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p109.
Dec. 18, 1979, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p31. Can you find Boeing engineer Bill Nye?
Jan. 30, 1981, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p55.
June 26, 1981, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p58.
July 5, 1981, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p61. Who wrote this story?
March 26, 1982, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p62.
May 7, 1982, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p61.
Dec. 31, 1982, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p42.
July 7, 1983, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p37.
Sept. 18, 1983, Seattle Times, p178.
Oct. 15, 1983, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p28.
Oct. 15, 1983, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p30.
Dec. 16, 1983, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p67.
Jan. 8, 1984, Seattle Times, p103. Who’s hoisting the camera?
Jan. 8, 1984, Seattle Times, p108.
Sept. 7, 1984, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p52.
Sept. 22, 1984, Seattle Times.
Sept. 23, 1984, Seattle Times, p145. Big goof here.
Sept. 28, 1984, Seattle Times.
Sept 29, 1984, Seattle Times, p33.
Oct. 12, 1984, Seattle Times. Hmm, which show would you watch?
Oct. 25, 1984, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p23.
Dec. 30, 1984, Seattle Times p110.
Dec. 31, 1984, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p17.
Jan. 1, 1985, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p19.
Feb. 1, 1985, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p50.
Dec. 10, 1985, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p146.
March 6, 1985, Tacoma News Tribune.
March 10, 1985, Seattle Times.
March 12, 1985, Aberdeen Daily World.
April 12, 1985, Seattle Times.
April 13, 1985, Seattle Times.
April 18, 1985, University of Washington Daily.
April 28, 1985, Federal Way News, p1.
April 28, 1985, Federal Way News, p2.
May 18, 1985, Stadium World.
June 1, 1985, Seattle Times.
Dec. 22, 1985, Seattle Times, p152.
Dec. 22, 1985, Seattle Times, p155.
1985 spring, Bremerton Sun
1985 San Jose newspaper.
1985 spring, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
1985 spring, Seattle Times.
1985 spring.
Circa 1986, an “Almost Live!” cast photo from an unidentified newspaper: (top, from left) John Keister, Scott Schaefer, Ross Shafer, Jim Sharp, (bottom, from left): Mike Boydstun, Joe Guppy, Bill Nye. (Courtesy Ross Shafer and John Keister)
March 21, 1986, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p67.
April 11, 1986, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p62.
May 25, 1986, Seattle Times, p143.
June 9, 1986, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pC8.
June 9, 1986, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p23.
July 11, 1986, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p47.
Aug. 22, 1986, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pC4.
Nov. 13, 1986, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pD1.
Oct. 12, 1986, Seattle Times, p242.
March 13, 1987, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p69.
May 3, 1987, Seattle Times, p139.
May 3, 1987, Seattle Times, p140.
Sept. 4, 1987, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p38.
July 5, 1987, Seattle Times, p156.
April 3, 1989, Elizabethton Star, TN.
April 3, 1989, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pA8.
April 3, 1989, Spokane Chronicle, p2.
April 3, 1989, Seattle Times.
April 3, 1989, Tampa Tribune, p1.
April 3, 1989, The Times, Streator, IL, p21.
May 1, 1989, The Rocket, p7.
April 25, 1989, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p28.
May 24, 1989, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p29.
May 26, 1989, Seattle Times.
May 24, 1989, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pB10.
Sept. 24, 1989, Seattle Times, p116.
Sept. 24, 1989, Seattle Times, p120.
Dec. 21, 1989, Seattle Times.
April 18, 1991, Seattle Times, p153.
April 18, 1991, Seattle Times, p154.
April 18, 1991, Seattle Times, p155.
April 18, 1991, Seattle Times, p156.
April 18, 1991, Seattle Times, p157.
April 28, 1991, Seattle Times, p13.
Sept. 26, 1991, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pD8.
Dec. 29, 1991, Seattle Times, p17.
Dec. 29, 1991, Seattle Times, p23.
Dec. 29, 1991, Seattle Times, p110-111.
April 25, 1992, Seattle Chinese Post, p1, 10. (Courtesy Assent Ng and Darrell Suto)
Sept. 26, 1992, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p13.
Sept. 25, 1992, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p15.
Sept. 26, 1992, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pC1 sidebar.
October 1992, Greater Seattle magazine, p11.
October 1992, Greater Seattle magazine, p12.
Jan. 22, 1993, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p81.
April 4, 1993, Seattle Times, p142.
Aug. 25, 1993, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pC1.
Nov. 8, 1993, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p15-17.
Sept. 14, 1994, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p61.
December 1994, The Rocket. (Timeline: John Keister named host Sept. 1, 1988.)
Dec. 18, 1994, Seattle Times, p162.
Dec. 18, 1994, Seattle Times, p163.
Dec. 18, 1994, Seattle Times, p166.
Dec. 18, 1994, Seattle Times, p167.
Dec. 18, 1994, Seattle Times, p168.
Jan. 1, 1995, Seattle Times “People to Watch,” p13.
Jan. 31, 1995, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pB5.
March 18, 1996, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p17.
April 19, 1996, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p15.
May 1, 1996, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p29.
March 7, 1997, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p39.
June 7, 1997, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p34.
Feb. 7, 1998, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p17-18.
June 25, 1998, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p13-15.
Jan. 24, 1999, Seattle Times, p171.
March 18, 1999, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p12.
Sept. 2, 1999, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p60.
Sept. 14, 1999, Women’s Day.
April 1, 2000, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p62.
April 7, 2000, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p116.
May 19, 2000, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p14.
Jan. 26, 2001, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p66.
June 10, 2002, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p16.
Oct. 25, 2002, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p90.
Nov. 21, 2002, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p72.
Aug. 22, 2004, Seattle Times, p127.
Nov. 9, 2007, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p81.

 

 

 

March 6, 2008, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p27.

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