Dec. 4, 2009: Seuss & Snowman

There are 17 additions today, all from December 1977. The Random Pages gallery has a page from Saturday, 12/10/77 with the thirteen channels listed in the Detroit edition of TV Guide. Shows on that page include, Oopsy! the Clown, Bozo, Uncle Ben, Patches and Pockets and Romper Room. The channel 24 gallery has an ad for an animated special, Christmas Is! and the channel 50 gallery has one for a Detroit Pistons - Buffalo Braves game. The channel 50 movie gallery has one for "Imitation of Life" on Bill Kennedy at the Movies and for "The Roots of Heaven" and "A Song is Born" on the Eight O'Clock Movie. The ABC gallery has a full-page ad for Eight is Enough: Yes Nicholas, There is a Santa Claus and Perry Como's Olde English Christmas; another full-page ad for The Donny & Marie Christmas Show and John Denver's Rocky Mountain Christmas and an ad for New Year's Rockin' Eve '78 with Dick Clark, Suzanne Somers and Robert Hegyes. The CBS gallery has five more holiday ads for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Frosty the Snowman; 'Twas the Night Before Christmas; The Waltons: The Children's Carol; The Fat Albert Christmas Special and The Tiny Tree; and one for New Year's Eve with the Royal Canadians, the first CBS New Year's Eve show following the death of Guy Lombardo. The NBC gallery has three more, one for Dean Martin's Christmas in California, one for The Bob Hope Christmas Show and one for The Little Drummer Boy. Again, all of the Christmas and New Year's ads can be found here. More ads from January and February 1978 are on the way...