August 31, 2014: Soups & Stews Marathon

 

You'll find fourteen more ads today, all from March 1995. plus two more Random Pages gallery additions from pages of The Blade. There's a Tuesday, 3/12/95 Peach Section item, "Buckeye to Provide Basketball Coverage," followed by a Sunday, 3/19/95 TV Week item with the Friday Highlights, VR.5 "Love and Death" (David McCallum) on 36, Sister, Sister "Scrambled Eggs" on 24, Step by Step "The Ice Cream Man Cometh" on 24, Human Language on 30, The X-Files on 36, Eerie Street Theatre "Legend of the Dinosaurs" on TV5, The NCAA Basketball Tournament on 11, and Homicide: Life on the Street "See No Evil" on 13. There are two additions to the PBS gallery for shows on WGTE-TV 30, a Saturday, 3/11/95 ad for Frank Yankovic: America's Polka King, and a Saturday, 3/18/95 ad for their Saturday afternoon "Soups and Stews Marathon," consisting of The Frugal GourmetMarcia Adams' Kitchen, Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin' at Home, Julia Child and Company, and Today's Gourmet. There are eight additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery starting with a Wednesday, 3/1/95 ad for The Andy Griffith Show on WGN, and a Friday, 3/1/95 ad for E! News Daily. Next is a Saturday, 3/4/95 ad for ESPN's "Clash of the Titans," Coach Mike Krzyzewski's Duke Blue Devils vs. Coach Dean Smith's North Carolina Tar Heels. There's also a Sunday, 3/5/95 full-page ad for the Disney Channel world premiere of Kenny Rogers: Going Home. This ad and all of today's other TV Week ads were scanned from actual paper editions. Next is a Thursday, 3/9/95 ad for I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched on Nick-at-Nite's "Magic Hour," followed by a Sunday, 3/12/95 full-page TV Week ad with the Sunday schedules for The CableSystem's three newest channels, The History Channel, E!, and ESPN2. And there's a Saturday, 3/18/95 ad for "Soultaker" on the Sci-Fi Channel, followed by a Sunday, 3/19/95 full-page TV Week ad for WCW Uncensored on Impulse pay-per-view. There's just one addition to the ToledoVision 5 gallery, a Saturday, 3/18/95 ad for the TV5 premiere of Space Precinct. There's also one addition to the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, a Wednesday, 3/8/95 ad for Music City News Country Songwriters Awards (Mel Tellis, Linda Davis) on TNN. Today's last two ads are additions to the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 3/9/95 full-page ad for Fretter Appliance, followed by a Sunday, 3/12/95 full-page TV Week back cover ad, for the Toledo Auto Show '95 (in color). Also, since this is Labor Day Weekend you might want to check out The Jerry Lewis Telethon Gallery. More March 1995 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...