December 2, 1980: Matcho Man

 

I added 23 more ads today, from May 1980 plus one Random Pages gallery addition, a Thursday, 5/1/80 story in The Blade's Peach Section, by Norman Dresser, “1980 Channel 30 Buy-In A Success; Auction Grosses Record $231,000.” which includes other items about WGTE-TV & FM. There are four additions to the Channel 11 gallery including a Saturday, 5/3/80 ad for a special Wild Kingdom on which Marlin Perkins and Dr. Benjamin Mays receive the Mutual of Omaha Criss Award. There are two more for The Big Show, a Monday, 5/5/80 ad for back-to-back episodes of Star Trek, and a Monday, 5/12/80 ad for “Elvis Week,” featuring “Paradise Hawaiian Style,” “Roustabout,” “Follow That Dream,” “Girls! Girls! Girls!” and “Blue Hawaii.” And there's a Thursday, 5/15/80 ad for Match Game with “Matcho Man” Gene Rayburn. There's also one addition to the Channel 11 News gallery, a Saturday, 5/3/80 ad for weekend anchor Bob Lawrence. There are two more for Toledo Eleven News among the six additions to the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Tuesday, 5/6/80 ad for a Bob Lawrence series of reports, “Like Taking Candy,” about crime against the elderly, and a Monday, 5/12/80 ad for a Scott Clark series of reports on exercise, “Different Strokes for Different Folks.” There are also two for 13 Nightly News, a Monday, 5/5/80 ad for a Randy Price series of reports, “Toledo...In the Future,” and a Tuesday, 5/13/80 ad for a Jim Rudes series of reports on community theaters, “Spotlights & Greasepaint.” And there are two more, both for Asa Smith reports on 24 Eyewitness News, a Wednesday, 5/7/80 ad for “Life in a Wheelchair” and a Monday, 5/12/80 ad for a series on police brutality in Toledo. There's also one addition to the Channel 13 News gallery, a Monday, 5/12/80 ad for sports reporter John Gillespie along with two additions to the Channel 13 gallery, both for The 13 Sunday Night Movie, a Saturday, 5/3/80 ad for “Catch 22” (Alan Arkin) and a Saturday, 5/10/80 ad for “Chisum” (John Wayne). There's one addition to the Channel 24 News gallery, a Wednesday, 5/14/80 ad, another one for Ed Knowles' Money Talk on 24 Eyewitness News. There are four additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30, a Friday, 5/2/80 ad for Ohio Journal, a Saturday, 5/3/80 ad for the premiere of Look at Me (Phil Donahue), a Saturday, 5/10/80 ad for 1980 World Cup of Wrestling Highlights (in Toledo) and another 5/10/80 ad for the second season premiere of Here's to Your Health (Cyd Charisse). There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Wednesday, 5/14/80 ad for The Movie Channel. There are also three additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 5/1/80 ad for People's Savings (Don Edwards), a Wednesday, 5/14/80 full-page ad for “The Sesame Street Library” at A&P, and a Friday, 5/16/80 half-page ad for the grand opening of Gardenland. For those of you who can't wait for Christmas to get here, be sure to check out the Holiday ads gallery. I'll be adding many more ads there soon, and in the meantime, more May 1980 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...