January 27, 2012: City on the Grow

I added sixteen scans of TV Guide pages today as requested by Mackenzie. They're all in the Random Pages gallery. Fifteen are from the July 8-14, 1989 Detroit Edition. There are seven prime-time grids for Saturday, 7/8/89, Sunday, 7/9/89, Monday, 7/10/89, Tuesday, 7/11/89, Wednesday, 7/12/89 (inclusing 1-2PM listings), Thursday, 7/13/89 and Friday, 7/14/89. The others are for the rest of the Wednesday pages, 5-8AM, 8AM-1PM, 2-6PM (which replaces an image I had previously uploaded), 6-8PM (includes ad for Growing Pains and Just the Ten of Us, on ABC), More 8PM listings (includes full-page ad for The Princes Trust: A Rock and Roll Gala), 8-10PM, 10PM-1:30AM & 1:35-4:50AM early Thursday morning. There's also Saturday, 12/16/89 page which includes a listing for the 12:30 Dallas Cowboys - New York Giants game on CBS. I also added six more ads from January 1971 plus one more Random Pages gallery addition, a Tuesday, 1/4/71 Norman Dresser column titled "Ch. 11 to Carry 'The David Frost Show'" which also included several more stories, "Two Top Programs to Bow on Public TV," "Ch. 24 Schedules Two New Programs," about This Is Your Life and Betty White's Pet Set, "New CBS Sitcom Bows Next Tuesday," about All in the Family, "'Pearl Bailey Show' to Debut on ABC-TV" and "NBC Changing Program Hours," an AP story about the upcoming prime-time access rule. 1971 was also when cigarette adverstising on TV ended. The ban started on January 2 so they could still advertise on the NewYear's Day bowl games. There are two ads in the Channel 11 gallery, a Friday, 1/8/71 ad for the series premiere of The New Andy Griffith Show, "My Friend, the Mayor" and a Sunday, 1/10/71 ad for "The Kentuckian" on The Sunday Show (Burt Lancaster). There are three more WTOL-TV ads in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery. There's a Monday, 1/4/71 ad for "Toledo '71: City on the Grow" on News/90, a Monday, 1/11/71 ad for "No More Busses?" a series of George Wolf reports, also on News/90, and a Tuesday, 1/12/71 ad for Project Eleven "What Does a Prison Make?" with special projects director Joe Gillis. There's one more ad in the Channel 24 gallery, a Thursday, 1/11/71 ad for Changing Scene III on ABC (Engelbert Humperdinck, Barbara Eden, Don Adams).

For those in the Toledo area, ME-TV is coming to WTOL-TV 11.2 (Buckeye Cable Ch. 111) on Monday! Two Random Pages Gallery additions on the premiere of All in the Family and more 1971 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 25, 2012: Mass Transit for Toledo / Is It Worth It?

I added 19 more ads today from November and December 1970 plus three Random Pages gallery additions, all from Blade Peach Sections. There's a Friday, 11/13/70 AP item, "Ch. 50 Drops News Programs in Cost Cutback" which announced the end of WKBD's first try at 10PM news, and a Saturday, 11/14/70 Norman Dresser column, "TV Stations vs. FCC On News Coverage" which expanded on the first story. Also included was a story on pay TV coming to Chicago. There's also a Tuesday, 12/22/70 AP report on the December 7-13, 1970 top ten shows. There are six ads in the Channel 11 gallery including two for movies on CBS, an 11/12/70 ad for "The Guns of Navarone" on a special three-hour edition of The CBS Friday Night Movies and an 11/19/70 ad for "A Place in the Sun" on The CBS Thursday Night Movies. There are two more for movies on The Big Show, a Thursday 11/12/70 ad for "The Grapes of Wrath" and a Sunday, 11/15/70 ad for "Jailhouse Rock" (Elvis Presley) and there's also an 11/20/70 ad for "The Desperate Hours" on The Friday Night Movie (Humphrey Bogart). There's another ad for that movie from TV Guide, here. The last one is a Saturday, 12/5/70 ad for the color broadcast of a Toledo vs Michigan State basketball game with Orris Tabner doing the play-by-play. There are three more channel 11 ads in the the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Monday, 11/16/70 ad for the second week of News/90 drug abuse reports, "Is Is Worth It?," a Tuesday, 12/29/90 ad for Projection '70s: Medicine and a Wednesday, 12/30/70 ad for Project Eleven "The Year: 1970" with Joe Gillis. There's also a channel 13 ad in that gallery, a Monday, 11/16/70 ad for a Bill Peterson series of reports, "Mass Transit for Toledo," on The Venner-Ward Report. There are four more in the Channel 13 gallery, including two for The Saturday Evening Movie. There's a 11/14/70 ad for "Shenandoah (James Stewart, Doug McClure, Rosemary Forsyth) and a 11/21/70 ad for "Father Goose" (Cary Grant, Leslie Caron). There's also a Tuesday, 11/17/70 ad for What's My Line? (Wally Bruner, Soupy Sales, Arlene Francis) and a Monday, 12/7/70 ad for NBC's The Bob Hope Special (Elke Sommer, Dorothy Lamour, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jack Benny). There are also four in the Channel 24 gallery. There's a Saturday, 11/21/70 ad for two college football games, in which Ohio State defeated Michigan 20-9 and UCLA defeated USC 45-20, and there's a Tuesday, 11/24/70 ad for The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau "The Tragedy of the Red Salmon" and The ABC Movie of the Week "Crowhaven Farm" (Hope Lange). Next is a Wednesday, 11/25/70 ad for A Night of Stars, a benefit performance that aired on Saturday, 11/28/70 (Mimi Hines, Phil Ford, Minnie Pearl, Tiny Tim, Rick Nelson, George Gobel) and there's a Friday, 12/18/70 ad for the ABC special, The Smokey Robinson Show. The last of today's ads is in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Thursday, 11/26/70 ad for The Motown Story on WKLR-FM 99.9. Before I start uploading 1971 ads I'm going to post some requested scans from July and December 1989 issues of TV Guide. Those scans and 1971 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 23, 2012: Rat Control

I added 25 more ads today from October and November 1970 plus one Random Pages gallery addition, a Saturday, 11/7/70 item from the Blade Peach Section, "David Susskind Joins Ch. 30." There are five ads for movies in the Channel 11 gallery including two for The CBS Thursday Night Movies, a 10/29/70 ad for "Heaven with a Gun" (Glenn Ford) and a 11/5/70 ad for "The Shuttered Room." There are two more for The Friday Night Movie, a 10/30/70 ad for "The Counterfeit Traitor" and a 11/6/70 ad for "Houdini" and there's a Sunday, 11/1/70 ad for "My Favorite Spy" on The Big Show. There's also a TV Guide ad for "Houdini" here. There' are two more in the the Channel 11 News gallery, a Tuesday, 11/3/70 ad for Election Night 70 with Lamont McLoughlin, John Saunders, Don Edwards, Derry Bird, Joe Gillis, Chuck Krueger, Carol Saynisch, George Wolf, Frank Smith, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather, Bill Stout, David Schoumacher, Eric Sevareid and Theodore White, and a Friday, 11/6/70 ad for the "What's the Law" segment on News/90. There's one more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Monday, 11/9/70 ad for a two week series of reports on drug abuse, "Is it Worth It?" with George Wolf, Carol Saynisch, Chuck Krueger on News/90. There are also two channel 13 ads in that gallery for two series of reports on The Venner-Ward Report, a Wednesday, 10/28/70 ad for the Bill Harris series, "Rat Control" and a Wednesday, 11/4/70 ad for the Jim Rudes series, "Drugs...and Abuse." There's one more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Tuesday, 11/3/70 ad for their election coverage with Frank Venner, Gordon Ward, Chase Clements, David Brinkley, Frank McGee, John Chancellor and Sander Vanocur, and there are eight more in the the Channel 13 gallery. There's a Monday, 10/26/70 ad for The Phil Donahue Show (Phyliss George, Pat Paulsen) and a Tuesday, 10/27/70 ad for Perry Mason "The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang" (Raymond Burr). Next is a Thursday, 10/29/70 ad for Perry Mason "The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between," The Venner-Ward Report, NBC Nightly News and What's My Line? (Wally Bruner) and a Wedmesday, 11/4/70 ad for The Bell System Family Hour "Highlights of Ice Capades" on NBC. There's also an 11/5/70 ad for NBC Thursday night shows, The Flip Wilson Show, the conclusion of the two-part Ironside episode, "Check, Mate and Murder," Nancy "Here Comes the Groom" and The Dean Martin Show, and a Friday, 11/6/70 ad for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. And finally, there's a Saturday, 11/7/70 ad for "Arabesque" on Saturday Evening at the Movies (Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren) and a Tuesday, 11/10/70 ad for their morning line-up of The Movie Game (Sonny Fox), Jeopardy (Art Fleming), Dinah's Place (Dinah Shore), Concentration (Bob Clayton), Sale of the Century (Jack Kelly), Hollywood Squares (Peter Marshall) and The Noon Report (Jim Rudes, June Miller). There's just one in the Channel 24 gallery, a Tuesday, 11/10/70 ad for "Tribes" on The ABC Movie of the Week (Jan-Michael Vincent, Darren McGavin). There's one in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Wednesday, 10/28/70 ad for Joseph's Supermarket Cash Jackpot (Dolores Smith, jackpot winner) and there are four in the Other Vintage ads gallery. There's a Thursday, 10/29/70 ad for the 1971 Gremlin at Valiton Motors and Hawthorne American and a Friday, 10/30/70 ad for a Toledo appearance by Ronald McDonald. There's also a Sunday, 11/1/70 full-page ad for The Woodville Mall, with an appearance by Woodrow, the walking and talking robot, and a Thursday, 11/5/70 ad for Kistler Ford, with a "hung" Frank Kistler. More November and December 1970 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 20, 2012: One Black, One White and One Chick

Today I added 19 more ads from September and October 1970 plus three more Blade Peach Section items in the Random Pages gallery. There's a Saturday 10/10/70 story on Channel 30's tenth anniversary, a Tuesday, 10/13/70 story on TU's plans to broadcast basketball games in color on channel 11, and a Saturday, 10/24/70 story on the changes in Buckeye Cablevision's channel line-up. There are seven ads in the the Channel 11 gallery including three more ads for CBS prime time shows. There's a 9/23/70 ad for Wednesday night shows Storefront Lawyers "The Law Can't Touch Him," the second season premiere of The Governor & J.J., "And the World Begat the Bleep," Medical Center "Undercurrent" and Hawaii Five-O "Trouble in Mind." Next is a 9/26/70 ad for Saturday night shows Mission: Impossible "Flip Side," My Three Sons "The Once Over," Arnie "An Urge to Splurge," Mary Tyler Moore "Today I am a Ma'am" and Mannix "One for the Lady." There's also a 9/27/70 ad for three Sunday night shows, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Tim Conway Comedy Hour. There's a Thursday, 8/10/70 ad for a special edition of The David Frost Show (Vice President Spiro Agnew) which channel 11 ran instead of The Merv Griffin Show on CBS, and a Tuesday, 10/13/70 ad for National Geographic "Zoo's of the World" on CBS. Thre's also a Wednesday, 10/14/70 ad for The Roadshow Fall Show with Toledo's Roadshow Entertainers and a 10/22/70 ad for a special Thursday night movie, "War and Peace." There's one ad in the Channel 13 gallery, a 9/26/70 ad for Saturday night shows, NBC's Adam-12 "Loan Sharks" (the third season premiere shown on a one-week delay), The Best of What's My Line?, The Saturday Evening Movie "Beau Geste," and "Guns for San Sebastian" on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies. There's also one in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Sunday, 4/10/70 ad for Frank Venner Interviews the President's Cabinet (Attorney General John Mitchell, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson). There are six in the Channel 24 gallery for ABC's 1970 series premieres and season premieres. There's a 9/21/70 ad for Monday night shows The Young Lawyers "Is There a Good Samaritan in the House?," The Silent Force "The Prosecutor" and NFL Monday Night Football with The Jets vs. the Browns. Next is a 9/22/70 ad for Tuesday Night shows The Mod Squad "Long Road Home," ABC Movie of the Week "How Awful About Allan" and Marcus Welby, M.D. "A Very Special Sailfish" and a 9/24/70 ad for Thursday night shows Matt Lincoln "Sheila," Bewitched "To Go or Not to Go, That is the Question," Barefoot in the Park "Pilot" The Odd Couple "The Laundry Orgy" and The Immortal "Demons of the Night." There's also a 9/26/70 ad for Saturday shows, a Penn State vs. Colorado football game, Let's Make A Deal, The Newlywed Game, The Lawrence Welk Show and a special, Howdy, a 9/27/70 ad for ABC Sunday Night Movie "Hurry Sundown" (Jane Fonda) and a Saturday, 10/10/70 ad for the series premiere of The Most Deadly Game "Little David." There are two in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Saturday, 9/26/70 ad for Ohio State Football on WTOD-AM 1560 (Orris Tabner) and a Monday, 10/26/70 ad for Joseph's Supermarket Cash Jackpot on WSPD-AM 1370 (contest winners Mr. and Mrs. George Prephan, Jr.) and there are two more in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 10/8/70 ad for AMC's 1971 Javelin and a Friday, 10/9/70 ad for Atalantic-Richfield, which explains that Sinclair Stations are becoming ARCO stations. More 1970 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 18, 2012: It's All Together

I added 19 more ads today from August and September 1970 plus three more Random Pages gallery additions, all from the Blade's Peach Section. The first one is a Wednesday, 9/2/70 story, "Housing Subject of Ch. 30 Show" (Voter's Voice). Next is a Friday, 9/4/70 story by Norman Dresser on the appearance by the Sesame Street cast at Toledo's Sports Arena. The pre-show emcee was Orris Tabner. The last one is a Friday, 9/11/70 Dresser report on channel 24 picking up The Mike Douglas Show after channel 13 dropped it for The Phil Donahue Show. There are five ads in the Channel 11 gallery including a 9/15/70 ad for the CBS Tuesday night shows, The Beverly Hillbillies "The Pollution Solution," Green Acres "The City Kids," Hee Haw, To Rome With Love "Here Comes Andy" and 60 Minutes. Next is a 9/16/70 ad for CBS Wednesday night shows, The Storefront Lawyers "A Man's Castle," Peanuts "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown," Medical Center "Brink of Doom" and Hawaii Five-O "And a Time to Die" followed by a 9/17/70 ad for CBS Thursday night shows, Family Affair "The Good Neighbors," The Jim Nabors Hour with the Jackson Five and "The Brotherhood of the Bell" on The CBS Thursday Night Movies. There's also a Friday, 9/18/70 ad for The Interns "The Quality of Mercy" and The Headmaster "May I Turn On?" on CBS and "You Can't Run From It" on 11's Friday Night Movie. And finally, there's a 9/21/70 ad for CBS Monday night shows, Gunsmoke "The Noose," Here's Lucy "Lucy and the Skydiver," Mayberry R.F.D. "Sensitivity Training," The Doris Day Show "The Feminist" and The Carol Burnett Show. There are eight in the Channel 13 gallery including a Wednesday, 9/2/70 ad for a the Phil Donahue special, A Plea for Safety and a Friday, 9/4/70 ad for Bill Glass Crusade for Christ. There's a 9/15/70 ad for NBC Tuesday night shows, The Don Knotts Show, Julia "Ready, Aim, Fired" and "The Last Safari" on NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies and a 9/16/70 ad for NBC Wednesday night shows, The Men From Shilo "Colonel Mackenzie Versus the West," The Kraft Music Hall "Alan King Looks at Women's Rights and Wrongs" and the premiere of Four In One "McCloud: Man From Taos (or Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City." Next is a 9/18/90 ad for NBC Thursday night shows, The Flip Wilson Show series premiere, Ironside "A Killing Will Occur," Nancy "It's a Good Day for Meeting the President's Daughter" and The Dean Martin Show sixth season premiere, and a 9/19/90 ad for NBC Friday night shows, The High Chaparral "An Anger Greater Than Mine," The Name of the Game "So Long Baby and Amen" and Bracken's World "Love It or Leave It, Change It or Lose It." There's also a Saturday, 9/20/70 ad for The Best of What's My Line?, "Send Me No Flowers" on 13's Saturday Evening at the Movies and "P.J." on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies and two 9/21/70 ads, one for NBC Monday Night shows, The Red Skelton Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and "Boom!" on NBC Monday Night at the Movies and another one for three weekday afternoon shows, Gilligan's Island, Get Smart and Perry Mason. There's one more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Tuesday, 9/1/70 ad for the Chase Clements documentary A Different Drummer. There's one ad in the the Buckeye Cablevision gallery, a Saturday, 8/29/70 ad for their audio coverage of Toledo Mud Hens baseball and there are three in the Radio Station Ads Gallery, a Friday, 9/4/70 ad for WPOS-FM's 4th. Anniversary banquet at the Masonic Great Hall, a Monday, 9/7/70 ad for WOHO's Labor Day fireworks at Walbridge Park and a Saturday, 9/19/70 ad for The Computerized NFL Game of the Week on WSPD-AM 1370. More Fall 1970 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...