February 2, 2011: Fun and Games

There are 20 additional ads today, all from February and March, 1969. There are eight in the the Channel 11 gallery including a Saturday, 2/22/69 ad for the NBC World Premiere Movie "Deadlock" and "Sunday in New York" (Jane Fonda), shown on Sunday and a Tuesday, 2/23/69 ad for CBS Playhouse "The Experiment" (Michael Douglas in his first credited role, as M.K. Douglas). There's a Friday, 2/28/69 ad for The High Chaparral "Surtee" on NBC, Gomer Pyle, USMC "Gomer Tends a Sick Cat" on CBS and "Adam's Rib" on 11's Friday Night at the Movies and there's a Saturday, 3/1/69 ad for three movies, "Rose Marie," NBC Saturday Night Movie "Some Like it Hot" and "Designing Woman" on The Late Show. There's a Tuesday, 3/4/69 ad for CBS shows Lancer "The Great Humbug" (Wayne Maunder) and 60 Minutes and there's a Saturday 3/8/69 ad for two more movies, NBC Saturday Night Movie "The Birds" and "Shadow of a Doubt" (Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright) on The Late Show and there are two more ads for specials, a Tuesday, 3/11/69 ad for The Ella Fitzgerald Show (Duke Ellington) and a Friday, 3/21/69 ad for The First Americans on NBC. There are six more in the Channel 13 gallery including a Tuesday, 2/25/69 ad for ABC show That's Life "Gloria Does Her Thing" (Robert Morse, E.J. Peaker) and Deadline (Bill Charles, Frank Venner) and a Thursday, 2/27/69 ad for What's My Line? (Wally Bruner). There's a Friday 2/28/69 ad for "Lover Come Back" (Doris Day, Rock Hudson) and a Saturday, 3/1/69 ad for an Ohio-Bowling Green basketball game and "Merrill's Marauders" (Jeff Chandler). The other two ads are a Saturday, 3/8/69 ad for The Hollywood Palace (Diana Ross and the Supremes) on ABC, Your All-American College Show and "The Longest Hundred Miles" (Doug McClure) and a Wednesday, 3/12/69 ad for The King Family and ABC Wednesday Night Movie "You're a Big Boy Now" (Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner). There's one more in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery. It's a Thursday, 3/6/69 ad for a Jim Rudes report, "Should Capital Punishment be Abolished?" on Deadline. There are two ads in the Channel 24 gallery including a Thursday, 2/27/69 ad for a delayed broadcast of ABC show Let's Make a Deal, which channel 13 did not carry on Friday nights because of their 7:30 movie. WDHO aired it at 7:30 Thursday against another ABC show, The Flying Nun on 13 (instead of CBS show The Queen and I). Confusion like this would end for the most part beginning on June 15, 1969 when all ABC shows would air on 24, NBC shows on 13 and CBS shows on 11. The second one is a Friday 3/21/69 ad for an Ohio Class AA High School Basketball game between Libbey and Columbus East. There are two more WDHO-TV ads for Boris Karloff Film Festival Week in the Sci-Fi & Horror Movies gallery, a Monday, 3/3/69 ad for "The Raven" and a Saturday, 3/8/69 ad for "House of Frankenstein." The last of today's ads is in the NET gallery. It's a Monday, 3/10/69 WGTE-TV 30 ad for NET Journal "Some of Our Best Friends." On Friday I'll be posting (by request) all of the TV Guide pages from 2/5/71 as well as an ad, TV Highlights and some Apollo 14 headlines from the 2/5/71 Toledo Blade and for those who are missing the '90s ads, some January 1996 TV Guide ads, too.



January 31, 2011: Triple Threat

There are 19 additional 1969 ads today, all from plus in the Random Pages gallery, a 2/7/69 Toledo Blade Norman Dresser story on Johnny Ginger. There are six ads in the Channel 11 gallery, including a Friday, 1/24/69 ad for The Enchanted Isle and a Tuesday, 2/4/69 ad (and Blade description) for 60 Minutes (Harry Reasoner). There's a Thursday, 2/13/69 ad for two Friday movies, "The Girl Who Had Everything" on The Big Show and "Never So Few" on Friday Night at the Movies. There are two ads from Wednesday, 2/19/69, one for The Big Show (Movies & Money) and one for two Wednesday night CBS shows, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and part one of the Hawaii Five-0 episode "Once Upon a Time" and "Trapeze" on The Big Show on Thursday. There's one more, a Friday, 2/10/69 ad for "Sweet Bird of Youth" on Friday Night at the Movies (Paul Newman). There's one in the Channel 11 News gallery, a 2/20/68 ad (Where more people watch more news) and there's a Tuesday, 2/11/69 ad for "Campus Unrest...What's it all About?" on Comment in the News / Special Reports Ads gallery along with two Channel 13 ads for Deadline, a Monday, 2/10/69 ad for the report on (Toledo Mayor William J.) "Ensign vs Crime" and a Tuesday, 2/11/69 ad for a report on "College and the Negro." There are five more in the Channel 13 gallery including a Friday, 2/7/69 ad for "For Love or Money" (Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor) and a Thursday, 2/13/69 ad for five ABC shows, The Flying Nun "The Boyfriend" (Sally Field), That Girl "There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man," Bewitched "Mrs. Stephens, Where Are You?," What's It All About, World? (Dean Jones) and Peyton Place (delayed broadcast from Monday 2/10/69 when WSPD-TV showed Laugh-In on NBC). There's a Friday, 2/14/69 ad for "Marnie" (Tippi Hendron, Sean Connery) and a Friday 2/21/69 ad for"How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (Robert Wagner, Jill St. John). There's also a Saturday, 2/22/69 ad for a Bowling Green vs. Toledo basketball game and "Agent for H.A.R.M." There are two more ads for Deadline in the Channel 13 News gallery, a 2/19/69 ad with Frank Venner and a 2/20/69 ad with Jerry Keil. The Channel 24 gallery has one ad, a Friday 2/7/69 ad for the premiere of Playboy After Dark. Today's last ad is in the Radio Station Ads gallery. It's a 2/7/69 ad for WGLN-FM 105.5, "Home of the Jones Boys," when they were a country music station. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

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January 29, 2011: Red Shadow

I added 20 more ads today plus, in the Random Pages gallery, a 7/12/66 AP story about the annoucement of the new Overmyer TV Network. D. H. Overmyer was the owner of WDHO-TV 24 at the time. There are seven more ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery including two for WCWA, a 4/4/66 ad for their traffic reports and a 4/26/68 ad (...the greatest air force on earth!). There's a 7/9/66 WMHE-FM ad for Jazz Saturday Night (U.S. Nix) and a 7/9/66 ad for WPOS-FM (Coming Soon!). There are two WTOD ads, an 8/6/66 ad for the Cassius Clay vs. Brian London Heavyweight Championship fight and a 4/18/68 ad congratulating Bob Kelly on winning The Blade's favorite disc jockey poll. The last radio ad is a 4/18/68 ad for WTTO (The Indians station) and in the Other Vintage ads gallery there's 7/26/66 ad for U.S. Savings Bonds (Jimmy Durante). There are four in the Channel 11 gallery, a Saturday, 6/11/66 ad for "Blackboard Jungle" (Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow), a Wednesday, 5/1/68 ad for series premiere of The Dom DeLuise Show on CBS, a Saturday 1/4/69 ad for The Killy Style (Jean-Claude Killy) and a Saturday, 1/18/69 ad for The CBS Golf Classic. There are four more in the Channel 13 gallery, a Friday, 8/19/66 ad for Red Shadow Over Northwestern Ohio, a special on N.O.R.A.D., a Wednesday, 8/24/66 ad for The Glass City Classic Clinic, a Saturday, 4/13/68 ad for Tigers Baseball, which listed the TV games for April and May and a Saturday, 1/11/69 ad for two college basketball games, Toledo vs. Miami and DePaul vs Notre Dame, Super Bowl III: Jets vs. Colts in Miami and The League That Came in from the Cold. There are two more ads for Deadline in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Wednesday, 8/3/66 ad (Judge Robert Franklin, Jim Rudes) and a Wednesday, 5/1/68 ad (Bill Charles). The Channel 24 gallery has a 7/4/66 ad for Blue Cross Holiday Comedy Classic, "My Little Chicadee." There's one more ad in the NET gallery , a Friday, 4/26/68 ad for Julius Monk's Plaza 9. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 27, 2011: 24 Tonite

I added 20 more ads today, all of them from the '60s. The Channel 11 gallery has six, including a Tuesday 11/23/65 ad for the CBS special Salute to Stan Laurel and "Streets of Paris" on Night Owl Theater (Jean Gabin) and a Wednesday, 6/8/66 Food Town full-page ad for Let's Go to the Races, which would premiere one week later. There's a Tuesday, 11/12/68 ad for two CBS shows, Lancer "The Prodigal" (Andrew Duggan) and The Doris Day Show "The Antique" and The Jane Morgan Show and there's a Wednesday, 11/13/68 ad for two more CBS shows, Green Acres "A Husband for Eleanor" (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) and The Jonathan Winters Show. There's a Saturday 11/16/68 ad for the NBC special Jack Benny's Bag and a Monday, 6/18/68 ad for The Linkletter Show (Art Linkletter). The Channel 13 gallery has four ads, a Saturday, 2/14/66 ad for the Miss Toledo Pageant, a Tuesday, 6/14/66 ad for The Merv Griffin Show, a Tuesday 11/12/68 ad for "A Majority of One" (Alec Guiness, Rosalind Russell) and a Saturday, 11/16/68 ad for a contest involving guests on The Mike Douglas Show and The Merv Griffin Show. There are two more in the Channel 13 News gallery for Deadline, a Tuesday, 11/23/65 ad with Peter Jennings and a Saturday, 11/27/65 ad with Frank Venner and there are two more Deadline ads for Gordon Ward reports in the News / Special Reports Ads gallery, a Wednesday 11/13/68 ad for a series of reports on Adoption and a Monday, 6/18/68 ad for a series of reports on Sex Education. There are four ads in the Channel 24 gallery, a 5/6/66 ad for Friday night shows, including NBC shows Camp Runamuck, Hank, Mr. Roberts and The Trials of O'Brien on CBS, a 5/11/66 ad for Wednesday night shows, including NBC shows The Virginian and Bob Hope Theater and The Danny Kaye Show on CBS, a 5/22/66 ad for Sunday night shows, including My Favorite Martian on CBS, Branded on NBC, the last Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Final Fade-Out" on CBS and The Wackiest Ship in the Army on NBC, and a 5/26/66 ad for Thursday night shows, including NBC shows London Paladium, Laredo, Mickie Finn's and The Dean Martin Show. The Radio Station Ads gallery has a 4/11/66 WJR ad for Tigers Baseball with Ernie Harwell and Gene Osborn and the Other Vintage ads gallery has a 4/8/66 full-page ad for Buckeye Beer. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 25, 2011: Sex in the Mails

There are 20 more ads today, one from 1949 and the rest from the '60s. The oldest one is in the Other Vintage ads gallery. It's a 6/24/49 ad for The Duke of Paducah appearance at Buck Lake Ranch, near Angola, Indiana. There are six in the Channel 11 gallery including a Saturday, 1/9/65 ad for a Northwestern vs. Indiana Big Ten Basketball game with play by play by Bill Flemming. There are two ads for movies, a Tuesday, 1/12/65 ad for the next day's afternoon movie, "Don't Bother to Knock" (Marilyn Monroe) and a Wednesday, 1/13/65 ad for "The Hitler Gang" on the next day's Big Show and there's a Tuesday, 2/2/65 ad for The Honeymooners (Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows) and a Wednesday 10/30/68 ad for The Julie London Show. There are four more in the Channel 11 News gallery, a 2/2/65 People's Savings ad which congratulated Joe Gillis and WTOL-TV, a 2/29/67 ad for The Huntley-Brinkley Report (David Brinkley), a Tuesday, 10/29/68 ad for Campaign '68 "The Issues" and a Thursday, 11/7/68 ad for Paul Harvey Comments. There are five in the Channel 13 gallery including two ads for the 3-1/2 hour Group W special, One Nation Indivisible, a Monday, 5/20/68 ad (and Toledo Blade story) and a follow-up ad from Monday, 5/27/68. There's a Tuesday, 10/29/68 ad for the movie "Rome Adventure" and a Thursday, 11/7/68 ad for two ABC shows, Journey to the Unknown and The Joey Bishop Show. There's also a Saturday, 11/9/68 ad for The Hollywood Palace (Mike Douglas) on ABC and the late night movie "Girl on the Run" and there's one in the Channel 13 News Gallery, a 5/30/68 ad concerning WSPD-TV editorials (David Drury Stinks) and there's one in the News / Special Reports Ads gallery, a Friday 5/24/68 ad for a Jim Rudes Deadline report on "Sex in the Mails." There are two Channel 30 ads in the NET gallery, a Thursday, 1/28/65 ad for A Sleep of Prisoners (Barry Morse, Paul Stevens, Ramon Bierei, Jon Vought) and a Monday 2/1/68 ad for Brazil: The Gathering Millions. Today's last ad is in the Radio Station Ads gallery. It's a Saturday, 11/9/68 ad for two football games, Ohio State vs. Wisconsin with Frank Gilhooley and Joe Taberner preceded by a Libbey vs. DeVilbiss High School Game of the Week with Garry Miller and Chuck Buckenmyer). More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 23, 2011: Pin Busters

You'll find 20 more ads today, the oldest one from 1949 and the newest one from 1971. There are six in the Channel 11 gallery including a Saturday, 9/29/62 ad for the series premiere of Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine on CBS and a Saturday, 12/11/65 ad for two bowling shows, Pinbusters with Orris Tabner and Beat Junior Powell. The next one was a Thursday 9/21/67 ad for four NBC shows, but the show descriptions were for the shows that aired a week earlier: Daniel Boone "The Ballad of Sidewinder and Cherokee" (Fess Parker), Ironside "Message from Beyond" (Raymond Burr), Dragnet "The Big Bang" a.k.a. "The Grenade" (Jack Webb) and The Dean Martin Show, I'm not sure if the same ad ran on 9/14/67 because that issue was not online. There's a Friday 5/3/68 ad for "The Grapes of Wrath," a Wednesday, 1/29/69 ad for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour premiere on CBS and a Wednesday, 9/16/70 ad for four CBS shows, Storefront Lawyers "A Man's Castle," Peanuts (special) "It was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown," Medical Center "Brink of Doom" (James Daly, Chad Everett) and Hawaii Five-0 "And a Time to Die" (Jack Lord) and there's a Saturday 5/11/68 ad (news-gath-er-er) in the Channel 11 News gallery. There are four ads in the Channel 13 gallery including a Wednesday, 9/22/65 ad for Zorro (Guy Williams) and a Saturday 9/27/69 ad for the premiere of Talk Back. There's also a Wednesday, 9/16/70 ad for three NBC shows, The Men from Shilo "The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie" (James Drury, Stewart Granger, Doug McClure, Lee Majors), The Kraft Music Hall (Alan King, Paul Lynde) and the premiere of Four-In-One which had the first of six hour-long McCloud episodes, "Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?" (Dennis Weaver) and a Thursday 9/16/71 ad for The Venner-Ward Report and three NBC shows, The Flip Wilson Show, the pilot episode of James Garner as Nichols and The Dean Martin Show. There are two more ads for Deadline in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Friday, 1/5/68 ad (you're at the scene) and a Friday 5/3/68 ad (Bill Charles, Congressman Del Latta) and in the News / Special Reports Ads gallery, a Friday, 5/17/68 ad for a Jim Rudes Deadline report on "The Pill." There are four additions to the the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Thursday, 9/15/49 ad for Father Knows Best (Robert Young) on WSPD-AM, a Saturday, 4/12/68 ad for WCWA's 30th Anniversary, a 5/4/68 ad for WKLR-FM 99.9 (Al Fredricks, Ty Amos, Bill Coleman, Douglas O'B, Russ Charles, Ted Wright, Rita Murray) and a Thursday 5/9/68 ad for WMGS-AM 730. There are two more in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a 9/21/67 ad for Tony Packo's and a 9/6/71 ad for Highland Appliance. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 21, 2011: Famous on the Local Scene!

I added 20 more '60s ads today plus a 10/5/66 Ray Oviatt 'On the Beam' column about WTOL's Switch to Color, in the Random Pages gallery. There are eight ads in the Channel 11 gallery including a Wednesday, 1/11/61 ad for a Bowling Green - Toledo basketball game with Doug and Orris Tabner. There are two 12/21/61 ads for another Series One program. This one was about an open-heart operation and the heart-lung machine. There's a Monday, 9/14/64 ad for The Mickey Mouse Club which aired from 5:50-6:20 pm (after The Big Show and followed by the ten-minute Funny Company). Next is a Thursday 9/24/64 ad for three shows, The Munsters series premiere "Munster Masquerade" on CBS (Yvonne DeCarlo, Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis), Perry Mason "The Case of the Missing Button" on CBS (Raymond Burr) and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" on channel 11's Thursday Night at the Movies (Gregory Peck). There's a Saturday, 9/22/62 ad for highlights of a Toledo Tornado vs. Grand Rapids Blazers United Football Legaue game and a Duke vs. Southern Cal football game on The NCAA Game of the Week on CBS and there's a Saturday, 9/12/65 ad for three Saturday night shows, The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS, Get Smart "Mr. Big" (Don Adams) on NBC and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas). Next is a Tuesday, 9/20/66 ad for four CBS shows, Daktari "Deadline to Kill" (Marshall Thompson), The Red Skelton Hour, Petticoat Junction "Birdman of Shady Rest" (Bea Benaderet, Meredith MacRae) and a CBS News Special "The Poisoned Air" and there's a 9/29/65 ad for The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC (Chet Huntley, David Brinkley) and The 7 O'Clock Report (Gordon Ward, John Saunders). For years, WTOL ran The Huntley-Brinkley Report instead of The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. There are four in the Channel 13 News gallery, three ads for Deadline, a 9/28/66 ad with Bishop George J. Rehring and Rev. O.H. Bertram, a 10/5/66 ad with Frazier Reams and David Drury and a 10/6/66 ad with Toledo Police Chief Anthony Bosch and Chase Clements and there's a 11/17/69 ad for The Noon Look (June Miller). There's also a Tuesday, 11/11/69 ad in the News / Special Reports Ads gallery for a series of Chase Clements reports on the Lucas County Jail. There are three in the Channel 24 gallery, a Sunday, 9/11/66 ad for six daytime shows, Swinging Country, Love of Life (CBS), As the World Turns (CBS), Password (CBS), The Doctors (NBC) and Where the Action Is. a Wednesday, 9/28/66 ad for "Five Golden Hours" and a Monday 11/17/69 ad for Love, American Style on ABC (Robert Reed, Ted Bessel, Judy Carne, Noel Harrison, Jeannine Riley). There are two more Channel 30 ads in the NET gallery, a Thursday, 9/30/65 ad for A Very Special Thirty Minutes, a preview of the new season of shows and a Wednesday 9/28/66 ad for the half-hour documentary series, The Struggle for Peace. Today's last ad is in the Radio Station Ads gallery. It's a WSPD-AM ad for "The Talk of Toledo" (People's Opinion with Art Barrie, Sportsline with Jerry Keil and Soundoff! with Eddie Kutz). More ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...



January 19, 2011: Gateway to the World

You'll find 21 more ads today, the oldest ones from 1962 and the newset from 1969. The are eight in the Channel 11 gallery. There's a Saturday, 9/15/62 ad for The Lloyd Bridges Show "Whatsover I Enter" (delayed from Tuesday 9/11 when channel 11 showed Death Valley Days), The Defenders "The Voices of Death" (E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed), Have Gun, Will Travel "The Vigil" (Richard Boone) and Gunsmoke "The Search" (James Arness). There's a Thursday, 9/20/62 ad for the second season premiere of NBC show Hazel "Hazel's Cousin" (Shirley Boothe) and a Thursday 10/4/62 ad for the delayed broadcasts of two more shows, The Real McCoys on CBS (Walter Brennan) and Doctor Kildare on NBC (Richard Chamberlain). There's a Monday 10/8/62 ad for the delayed broadcast of NBC show Empire (Richard Egan) and there are two ads for the WTOL-TV show Series One with Joe Gillis. The first one, from 1/30/63 was called "Image: Industry." It was made in color for use by the Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce but was broadcast in black and white. The second one from 10/9/63, was a report on Toledo's efforts to supply its citizens with water and was called "Pipeline to Progress" and there's a Saturday 9/21/63 ad for another channel 11 special, Toledo: Gateway to the World. The last WTOL-TV ad is from Thursday, 9/16/65. it's for The Munsters "Herman's Child Psychology" (Al Lewis, Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo), Gilligan's Island "Gilligan's Mother-in-Law" (Bob Denver, Alan Hale), My Three Sons "The First Marriage" (Fred MacMurray) and "The Manchurian Candidate" on The CBS Thursday Night Movies (Frank Sinatra). Also, in the NBC gallery there's Chrsyler/NBC ad for Empire in it's regular time slot on channel 4 in Detroit. It's a Tuesday 10/9/62 ad for the episode "A Place to Put a Life." The Channel 13 gallery has seven ads. There's a Thursday, 10/4/62 ad for the syndicated Wanted: Dead or Alive (Steve McQueen) and the Alcoa Premiere second season premiere, "Flashing Spikes" (Fred Astaire). There's a Tuesday 10/9/62 ad for Landmark Harvest Holiday with Jimmy Dean (which aired the next night) and a Saturday 2/23/63 ad for "Duel in the Sun" on Masterpiece Theater (Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck). There's a Monday, 2/25/63 ad for three Warner Bros. Westerns, Bronco, Maverick and Sugarfoot which aired at 5:00 and Deadline, and there's a Saturday, 9/21/63 ad for two ABC shows, The Lawrence Welk Show and The Jerry Lewis Show. There's a Tuesday, 11/26/63 ad for weekday shows Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson) and Trailmaster (syndicated reruns of Wagon Train with Ward Bond) and The Phil Silvers Show. The last channel 13 ad is for Thursday, 9/16/65 ABC shows Shindig, O.K. Crackerby "O.K. Crackerby Arrives" Bewitched "Alias Darrin Stephens" (Dick York, Elizabeth Montgomery), Peyton Place and The Long Hot Summer "The Homecoming." Therere are two ads in the Channel 24 gallery from Tuesday, 5/10/66. It's for The Soupy Sales Show, The Lloyd Thaxton Show, Of Land & Seas, The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, Daktari "Wall of Flames" part 2 (CBS), Doctor Kildare "A Pyrotechnic Display" (NBC) and "Honeymoon Machine" on NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies. The last three ads are in the Radio Station Ads gallery. There's a Saturday, 2/33/63 WOHO ad for The Daytona 500, sponsored by Renault of Toledo, a 1/21/69 WCWA ad for their sports experts Van Patrick, Frank Gilhooley and Bill Stern and a 1/27/69 ad for WTTO-AM 1520. There's also a before-and-after-pic of the Hazel ad here. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 17, 2011: Poi and Poison

There are 22 more ads today, the oldest two are from 1948 and the newest is from 1971. The two oldest ads, in the Radio Station Ads gallery are from Wednesday, 11/3/48. One is a a WSPD-AM ad for Duffy's Tavern and the other is a WTOL-AM ad for Meredith Willson and his Talking People. Although channel 13 was operating at this time along with three Detroit TV stations, most people still got their entertainment from the radio. There are ten ads in the Channel 11 gallery. The first one is Wednesday, 10/4/61 ad for the Alvin Show series premiere episode "Good Neighbor" on CBS (shown on a one hour delay because WTOL aired NBC show Wagon Train at 7:30) and Perry Como's Music Hall on NBC. NBC had The Joey Bishop Show at 8:30 and CBS had Checkmate at 8:30. The next ad is a Thursday 10/5/61 ad for two series premieres, the New Bob Cummings Show episode "Executive Sweet" and the Investigators episode "Murder on Order." There's a Tuesday, 10/10/61 ad for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "The Ruptured Duck" (Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver) and Wednesday, 10/11/61 ad for "Legend of Murder: The Untold Story of Lizzie Borden" on Armstrong Circle Theatre. There's a Tuesday, 9/24/63 ad for The Red Skelton Hour with guest star Shirley Temple and the Petticoat Junction episode "Kate Grounds Selma Plout"(Bea Benederet) and a Thursday, 9/26/63 ad for four shows, Password (Allen Ludden), the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Red Wind" (Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood), the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Nebulous Nephew" (Raymond Burr), all three on CBS and Checkmate (syndicated). There's a Friday, 9/27/63 ad for three CBS shows, The Great Adventure series premiere episode "The Hunley," the Route 66 episode "Two Strangers and an Old Enemy" (Glenn Corbett, Martin Milner) and the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "A Home Away From Home." There's a Saturday, 9/28/63 ad for The Jackie Gleason Show, the New Phil Silvers Show episode "Man, It's Like Progress," the Defenders episode "The Weeping Baboon" and the Gunsmoke episode "Kate Heller" and there's a Monday, 9/30/63 ad for the Lucy Show episode "Lucy Plays Cleopatra" (Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball), the Danny Thomas Show episode "The Country Squires" and the Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie, the Birdman" (all CBS season premieres). There's a Monday, 5/2/66 ad for the Toledo Eleven premiere of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (on NBC). There are two more channel 11 ads in the the Channel 11 News gallery, a Friday, 10/1/66 ad for The 11th Hour News Final and a Monday, 1/18/71 ad for the premiere of Eyewitness News (Don Edwards, John Saunders, Orris Tabner, Clem Gendron). There are six ads in the the Channel 13 gallery, a Wednesday, 10/4/61 ad for the Hawaiian Eye episode "The Kapua of Coconut Bay" (Anthony Eisley), a Thursday, 10/5/61 ad for the My Three Sons episode "Instant Hate" (Fred MacMurray), a Saturday 10/6/61 ad for The Lawrence Welk Show, The Fight of the Week (Cassius Clay vs. Alex Miteff) and Make That Spare!, a Tuesday, 10/10/61 ad for the Alcoa Premiere episode "People Need People" (Fred Astaire), a Wednesday 10/11/61 ad for the Naked City episode "The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street" (Paul Burke, Horace Mann) and since it's never too early to start thinking about Spring, a Saturday 4/16/66 ad for Tigers Baseball (Washington Senators vs Detroit). This was back when the NBC Game of the Week was competing against local and regional telecasts of other games. The Tigers network at that time originated at channel 2 in Detroit and was also carried by channel 6 in Lansing. There are two channel 24 ads, one from Monday, 4/25/66 and one from Tuesday, 5/3/66, the day channel 24 first went on-the-air. These are some of the network shows they had on then: Hullabaloo (NBC), John Forsythe (NBC), Dr. Kildare (NBC), Daktari (CBS), Tuesday Night at the Movies (NBC), The Virginian (NBC), Bob Hope Theater (NBC). Danny Kaye (CBS), Daniel Boone (NBC), Laredo (NBC), Mickie Finn's (NBC), Dean Martin (NBC), Camp Runamuck (NBC), Hank (NBC), Mr. Roberts (NBC), I Dream of Jeannie (NBC). More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...

January 15, 2011: Frank and June

I added 20 more ads today, the oldest ones from 1955 and the newest ones from 1970. There are four in the Channel 11 gallery. The first one is a 10/2/61 ad for three Monday night CBS shows, the Window on Main Street series premiere episode "The Return" (Robert Young), the Danny Thomas Show episode "For Every Man There's a Woman" and the Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie and the Bully." Window on Main Street, which only lasted one season, was Robert Young's first series after Father Knows Best. The next one is a 10/3/61 ad for two Tuesaday night shows, the premiere of Marshal Dillon (reruns of half-hour Gunsmoke episodes and the syndicated Death Valley Days, which channel 11 showed instead of The Dick Van Dyke Show (on CBS). The next one is a Wednesday, 3/16/66 ad for the Death Valley Days episode "Tribute to a Dog" (Ronald Reagan) and Thursday 1PM movie "Surprise Package" (Yul Brenner, Mitzi Gaynor). The last WTOL-TV ad is a 2/27/68 ad for Man About Town (Leonard Nimoy). There are nine ads in the Channel 13 gallery. The first two are 9/27/55 ads for Badge 714 (syndicated reruns of Dragnet) which was sponsored by Ford and The Patti Page Show, sponsored by Oldsmobile. The next two are 10/1/61 ads, one for the Adventures in Paradise episode "Appointment at Tara-Bi" (Gardner McKay, Guy Stockwell)) and one for the Bus Stop series premiere episode "Afternoon of a Cowboy." See Wikipedia pages here and here. There next one is 10/2/61 ad for three Monday night ABC shows, the Rifleman episode "The Vaqueros" (Chuck Conners), the Surfside Six episode "One for the Road" (Van Williams) and the Ben Casey episode "To the Pure" (Vince Edwards). There's a 10/3/61 ad for three Tuesday night shows, the Bachelor Father episode "The King's English" (John Forsythe), the Calvin and the Colonel series premiere episode "The Television Job" and the New Breed series premiere episode "No Fat Cops" (Leslie Nielson). The next one is a Friday, 3/4/66 ad for "Anatomy of a Murder" (James Stewart). There's also a Wednesday, 3/16/66 ad for the Long Hot Summer episode "The Man with Two Faces" (Dan O'Herlihy) and the Thursday Movietime film "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon." The last WSPD-TV ad is a Monday, 9/4/67 ad for the premiere of syndicated episodes of The Twilight Zone. There are two more ads in the Channel 13 News gallery, a 3/14/66 ad for Deadline (Dee Leeds) and a 2/5/70 ad welcoming sports director Frank Gilhooley and women's editor June Miller to TV 13. There's only one in the Channel 24 gallery. It's a Wednesday 2/4/70 ad for a Toledo vs Ohio MAC basketball game and there are two channel 30 ads in the NET gallery, a 1/18/66 ad for Legacy and a 2/4/70 ad for Kukla, Fran and Ollie. The last two of today's ads are in the Radio Station Ads gallery, both of them from Saturday, 11/7/61. One has Wally WO-HO's Tip Top Tunes which had 'Runaround Sue' and 'Hit the Road, Jack' at the top of the list. The other is a WTOL-AM 1230 ad for an Ohio State vs. UCLA football game (Doug Tabner). More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...



January 13, 2011: Right from the Horse's Mouth

I added 19 more ads plus an image of two Toledo Blade stories from 1965 and 1966 on the early days of Buckeye Cablevision in the Random Pages gallery, along with a Blade TV Highlights box from Wednesday, 2/5/1969 which includes a listing for the premiere of the ABC show Turn-On which was cancelled after one airing. There are six ads in the Channel 11 gallery, including a Sunday, 10/1/61 ad for the Mr. Ed second season premiere episode "My Son, My Son" (Alan Young). This was the CBS premiere after a year in first-run syndication. The other ads are a Thursday, 11/4/64 ad for "Hell Below Zero" on the 11/5/64 Big Show; a Monday 12/14/64 ad for "Battle Circus" on Night Owl Theater (Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson); a Saturday 2/12/66 ad for "Two Weeks in Another Town" on Hollywood Spectacular (Kirk Douglas); a Wednesday, 2/23/66 ad for two Thursday 2/24/66 movies, "Watch the Birdie"(Red Skelton) at 1:00 and "The Invisible Boy" on The Big Show and a Wednesday 3/23/66 ad for the Death Valley Days episode "The Courtship of Carrie Huntington" (in first-run syndication) and the Thursday 3/24/66 1:00 Movie "Monkey Business" (Cary Grant). There are seven ads in the Channel 13 gallery, a Saturday, 1/29/66 ad for an Ohio vs Kent State basketball game and "Two Women" (Sophia Loren); a Tuesday 2/1/66 ad for The Fugitive episode "Stroke of Genius" (David Janssen) and the 2/2/66 Movietime film "Ma and Pa Kettle" (Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride); a Friday 2/4/66 ad for "Portrait in Black" (Anthony Quinn, Lana Turner); a Monday, 2/7/66 ad for the Ben Casey episode "Weave Nets to Catch the Wind" (Vince Edwards) and "The Deadly Mantis" (2/8/66 Movietime film); a Saturday 2/12/66 ad for The Farmer's Daughter, shown on delay (Inger Stevens) and "The Benny Goodman Story" (Steve Allen); two side-by-side Sunday 2/13/66 ads, one for the Toledo Orchestra Junior Concert and one for two Monday 2/14/66 shows, The Mike Douglas Show (Marty Allen, Steve Rossi) and "Panhandle" on Movietime (Rod Cameron); and a Wednesday 2/23/66 ad for the Long Hot Summer episode "Reunion, Italian Style" (Nancy Malone) and 2/24/66 Movietime film "The Mole People." There's one more in the Channel 13 News gallery. It's a Monday, 1/27/69 ad for the first "post Weather-in-the-Weather" Frank Venner weather report on Deadline, now from inside the studios. The Channel 24 gallery has a Saturday, 5/7/66 ad for ten Saturday shows, Quest for Adventure, Danger is My Business, Sherlock Holmes "Dressed to Kill," The Scherer-MacNeil Report (NBC), Ozzie & Harriet (ABC), the I Dream of Jeannie episode "I'll Never Forget What's Her Name" (NBC), Secret Agent, The Loner (new ABC game show The Face is Familiar was in the listings instead), Cameo Theater "Barricade in the Big Black" and ABC News at 11. There's one channel 30 ad in the NET gallery for The City Makers and there are are two ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a 1/27/69 WOHO-AM 1470 ad for Toledo's Only Helicopter Traffic Report and a 1/28/69 WCWA-AM 1230 ad for a "Queen of Seaway Radio" contest. More vintage Toledo Blade ads are on the way...



Tuesday, January 11, 2011: Man About Town

You'll find 19 additional ads today from the online archives of The Toledo Blade. There are also two additions to the Random Pages gallery, a 3/23/66 Ray Oviatt "On the Beam" column with a story on Channel 24 coming to the airwaves and a Friday, 3/25/66 schedule of the following week's daytime shows. There's also a list of channels that listings were given for. There are nine ads in the Channel 11 gallery, a Friday, 11/12/65 ad for "The Devil's Desciple" on Night Owl Theater (Burt Lancaster); a Saturday, 1/22/66 ad for the premiere of Upbeat (Paul Revere and the Raiders) and "Indiscreet" on Hollywood Spectacular (Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman), a Sunday, 11/23/66 ad for a 76ers vs. Hawks NBA game (Wilt Chamberlain) and "The Left-Handed Gun" (Paul Newman); a Tuesday, 1/25/66 ad for the Petticoat Junction episode "Yogurt, Anyone?" on CBS (Linda Kaye Henning, Gunilla Hutton) and Run for Your Life, an NBC show on delayed broadcast (Ben Gazzara); a Wednesday, 1/26/66 ad for the Lost in Space episode "The Sky Pirate" on CBS (Guy Williams, Mark Goddard) and the I Spy episode "Always Say Goodbye" on NBC (Robert Culp); a Saturday, 1/29/66 ad for "Moon Pilot" on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, an NBC show on delayed broadcast and "Alexander the Great" on Hollywood Spectacular; a Friday, 9/15/67 ad for the Tarzan episode "Tiger, Tiger" on NBC (Ron Ely), the Gomer Pyle, USMC episode "Recruiting Poster" on CBS (Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton), "The Wrong Man" (Henry Fonda) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC; a Wednesday, 1/24/68 ad for local daytime talk show Man About Town (Lamont McLaughlin) and a Monday, 9/23/68 ad for five CBS shows, the Gunsmoke episode "Lyle's Kid" (James Arness), the Here's Lucy series premiere episode "Mod, Mod Lucy" (Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Jr.), the Mayberry R.F.D. series premiere episode "Andy and Helen Get Married" (Andy Griffith, Aneta Corseaut), the Family Affair episode "The Latch Key Kid" (Anissa Jones, Brian Keith, Sebastian Cabot) and The Carol Burnett Show (Jim Nabors). There are four ads in the Channel 13 gallery, a Wednesday, 11/4/64 ad for "Lost Continent" on Movietime 13; a Friday 11/12/65 ad for "Operation Petticoat" (Cary Grant); a Friday, 9/15/67 ad for four ABC shows, the Off to See the Wizard episode "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion, Part II," the Hondo episode "Hondo and the War Cry," the Guns of Will Sonnett episode "A Bell for Jeff Sonnett" (Walter Brennan, Dack Rambo) and the Judd for the Defense episode "The Deep End" (Carl Betz, Stephen Young) and a Monday, 9/23/68 ad for What's My Line? (Arlene Francis, Wally Bruner), the I Dream of Jeannie episode "Jeannie and the Wild Pipchicks" on NBC (Barbara Eden), Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In on NBC and the pilot episode for The Outcasts on ABC (Don Murray, Otis Young). There's also one in the Channel 13 News gallery. It's a First Federal Savings ad for Deadline at 11 PM. There's a Channel 24 ad in the Sci-Fi & Horror Movies gallery. It's a Tuesday, 3/4/66 ad for "The Invisible Ray," a part of Boris Karloff Film Festival Week. There are two more channel 30 ads in the NET gallery, one for the conclusion of the series History of the Negro People, "The Future and the Negro" (Ossie Davis) and one for "Diary of a Student Revolution" on NET Journal. There's one ad in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Saturday, 2/1/64 WTOD-AM 1560 one-column shy of a full-page ad with Lou Fielder, Maureen McMahan, Sid Davis, Jim Snyder, Ann Corrick, Rod McLeish, Larry O'Brien, Mike Shaw and Shapura. The last one is in the Other Vintage ads gallery. It's an ad announcing New Ford Trucks for '56. More vintage Toledo Blade ads are on the way...

January 9, 2011: Color TV is a Waste of Money...

There are 23 more ads today, the oldest one from 1955 and the most recent one from 1969. Again, they are all from the online archives of The Toledo Blade. There are five in the Channel 11 gallery, a Sunday, 1/4/59 ad for two CBS News specials, The Big News of '58 and Where We Stand, another 1/4/59 ad for CBS weekday morning shows Arthur Godfrey Time and I Love Lucy (Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz), a Saturday, 5/16/59 ad for "Lillian Russell" on Hollywood Spectacular and "Dark Mirror" on Toltower Theater, a Wednesday, 11/7/62 ad for "The She Devil" on Night Owl Theater and "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" on The Big Show (Johnny Weissmuller) and a Friday, 1/17/64 ad for "Royal Wedding" on Night Owl Theater (Fred Astaire, Jane Powell) and "Up in Smoke" on The Saturday Show (Huntz Hall of The Bowery Boys). There are seven more ads in the Channel 13 gallery, a Saturday 5/16/59 ad for "The Bandits of Corsica" in Channel 13's Daily Movie Box (daily ad in the Blade for movies on WSPD-TV) and another ad for The Lawrence Welk Show, a Wednesday 11/7/62 ad for Deadline (Frank Venner), the Wyatt Earp episode "The Gambler" (Hugh O'Brien) and Thursday morning movie "Eyes in the Night," a Saturday, 10/3/64 ad for 12 O'Clock High (Robert Lansing), the Flipper episode "SOS Dolphin" (on NBC), Hazel (Shirley Booth) and "Spanish Main" on The Saturday Night Movie (Maureen O'Hara), a Wednesday 10/12/66 ad for The Merv Griffin Show, a Wednesday 1/20/66 ad for the Batman episode "Fine Feathered Fink" (Adam West) and the Blue Light episode "Target, David March" (Robert Goulet), a Thursday 1/21/66 ad for the Batman episode "The Penguin's a Jinx" (Burt Ward, Adam West), The Double Life of Henry Phyfe episdoe "Phyfe on a Ferry" (Red Buttons) and The Baron series premiere episode "Diplomatic Immunity" (Steve Forrest) and a Wednesday 3/23/66 ad for The Big Valley episode "Into the Widow's Web" (Lee Majors, Barbara Stanwyck) and the Thursday Movietime film, "Stop, Look and Laugh" (The Three Stooges). There are three ads in the Channel 24 gallery, a Monday, 5/9/66 ad for The Soupy Sales Show, The Lloyd Thaxton Show, Of Land and Seas, The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, Hullabaloo (ABC), The John Forsythe Show episode "The Bainbridge Curse" (NBC) the Dr. Kildare episode "Now: The Mummy" (NBC) the Theater One episode "Doyle Against the House," Talent Scouts and News at 11, and there are two Saturday 10/18/69 ads, one for the pro debut of Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) on Wide World of Sports (the Bucks beat the Pistons 119-110) and a California vs UCLA football game and another ad for Burke's Law (Gene Barry, Gary Conway). The first ad in the NET gallery is a Wednesday 1/26/66 ad for History of the Negro People on Channel 30 and there are two ads in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a 5/21/55 Chevrolet ad for Toledo dealers Lownsbury, Jim White, Kopf and Weissenberger and two 1/20/66 ads for Antenna dealers National TV and Marko. The National ad was for an Antennacraft UHF antenna to bring in Channel 50 from Detroit and the Marko ad was for Channel Master's Color Crossfire. There are four more ads in the the Radio Station Ads gallery, a 5/16/59 WTOL-AM 1230/FM-104 ad for Sunday Music and Baseball, a 2/1/64 WOHO-AM 1470 ad for Terry Shaw, Bob Martz, John Garry, J.J. Shannon and Lou K., a 12/23/65 ad for "A Christmas Carol" starring the WTOD Players (previously uploaded the the Holiday ads gallery) and a 10/18/69 WSPD-AM 1370 ad for The Grouch Club. More vintage Toledo Blade ads are on the way...

January 7, 2011: A Purple Knif?

All 23 of today's additions are from the online archives of The Toledo Blade. The earliest ad is from March 28, 1954 and the most recent one is from May 12, 1969. The first three ads are the first to be uploaded into the Radio Station Ads gallery. They were all from Saturday, 3/16/63. One was for The Bible Speaks to You which aired on WTOL 1230 in Toledo and CKLW 800 in Windsor. The second one was for Ask Your City Manager on WOHO 1470 and the biggest ad was for Detroit Tigers Exhibition Games on WTOL 1230 (Demand Radio 1-23). There are eight ads in the the Channel 11 gallery, one from Wednesday, 12/24/58 for the the Pursuit episode "Silent Night," The Millionaire episode "The Story of the Thorne Sisters," the Circle Theater episode "A Picture of Christmas," Midnight Mass and the Playhouse 90 episode "The Nutcracker" which aired on 12/25/58. This ad was previously uploaded to the Holiday ads gallery. The next one is for the Checkmate 9/17/60 series premiere episode "Death Runs Wild" (Sebastian Cabot, Anthony George, Doug McClure). There's also one for the 9/21/60 Aquanauts episode "Collision" (Keith Larsen Jeremy Slate), and a Saturday, 10/3/64 ad for the movie "Paleface" on The Hollywood Spectacular (Bob Hope, Jane Russell). There are two ads for Let's Go to the Races which aired on Wednesday nights. The first is a 7/6/66 ad with the sponsor's logo (Foodtown) and the second one is a 10/12/66 ad which has Let's Go to the Races on an hour earlier to make way for the Friends and Nabors CBS special with Jim Nabors, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Andy Griffith and Shirley Jones. The top of the ad is for a debate with 9th Disctrict Congressional candidates Thomas Ludlow Ashley and Jane M. Kuebbeler. There's another ad for Wednesday night shows from 9/21/66. It's for the Lost in Space episode "Wild Adventure," the Beverly Hillbillies episode "The Soup Contest," Let's Go to the Races and the I Spy episode "Lori." Lost in Space and The Beverly Hillbillies were on CBS and I Spy was on NBC. There's one more WTOL-TV ad in the Channel 11 News gallery. It's for Watch with Ward which aired at 7 PM with longtime Toledo newsman Gordon Ward. There are six ads in the Channel 13 gallery (which has a new header pic with four WSPD-TV logos). The first is a 3/28/53 ad for the You Are There episode "The Hamilton-Burr Duel at Weehawken Heights" which was a CBS show, shown on a delay on WSPD-TV. There's also a 6/4/54 ad for The Inner Sanctum and a 11/28/61 ad for Lasalle's Department Store which was for an appearance by Fred Flintstone (ABC show The Flintstones was seen on channel 13) and Captain Cotton & Salty (local kid's show also seen on channel 13). Also there was a Tuesday, 9/17/63 ad for the Combat! episode "The Bridge at Chalons," the McHale's Navy episode "The Day the War Stood Still," The Greatest Show on Earth episode "Lion on Fire" and The Fugitive episode "Fear in a Desert City." There's an Saturday, 12/18/65 ad for a Houston Oilers at Boston Patriots AFL game and Big Time Wrestling (The Sheik), There's also a Monday, 11/7/63 ad for Ghoulardi (A Purple Knif?) and a Thursday 9/14/67 ad for syndicated shows The Twilight Zone and McHale's Navy (Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway). There are two more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a 11/7/61 ad for their 11 PM News (Warren Guthrie, Jim Rudes, Frank Venner, David Drury) and a 2/13/66 ad for Deadline (Frank Venner). There's one more channel 13 ad in the News / Special Reports Ads gallery for the documentary A View from the Alley which was narrated by Jim Rudes with Wayne Snow. There's a 9/21/66 ad in the Channel 24 gallery for the syndicated Dennis the Menace (Jay North) and there's a 3/16/65 ad in the Other Vintage ads gallery for Brondes Ford, 'Toledo's biggest Ford dealer' (Phil and Don Brondes). More ads from the '50s and '60s including the first NET ad on this site, are on the way...



January 5, 2010: Submitted for Your Approval

I added 19 more ads today from November and December 1995 (including some Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's ads) and one more ad from January 1996. There are two in the ABC gallery, one for ABC Sunday Night Movie "Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story" and a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for Sinatra: 80 Years My Way (Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Patti LaBelle, Roseanne, Arnold Schwarzennegger, Paul Reiser, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett). The CBS gallery has two more, an ad and TV Giode close-up description for Soul Train's 25th Anniversary (Arsenio Hall, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Al Green, Patti LaBelle, Sinbad, Bill Withers) and another one for the animated Nanny Christmas Special, "Oy to the World." There are five in the FOX gallery, one for the Vikings-Lions 1995 Thanksgiving game (Garth Brooks, Barry Sanders, Howie Long, James Brown, Jimmy Johnson, Terry Bradshaw), one for Saturday night shows Cops and America's Most Wanted, a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for the 1995 Billboard Music Awards (Hootie and the Blowfish featuring Darius Rucker, TLC, Michael Bolton, Tina Turner, Shania Twain, Salt-n-Pepa, Brandy, Janet Jackson), a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up for the Mike Tyson vs. Buster Mathis, Jr. 12/16/95 fight (Tyson won in 3) and one for New Year's in Vegas. There are four more in the NBC gallery, one for the 1995 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Katie Couric, Willard Scott and "Bart Simpson"), a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny, a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for The NBA on NBC Christmas doubleheader featuring Phoenix vs. San Antonio and Orlando vs. Houston (Charles Barkley, David Robinson, Penny Hardaway, Hakeem Olajuwon) and by request, one (on two pages) for the 3rd Rock from the Sun series premiere episode "Brains and Eggs" (John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, French Stewart, Kristen Johnston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt), There's a larger image here. The PBS gallery has an ad and TV Guide close-up for American Masters ("Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval") and the WB gallery has one for the Pinky and the Brain episode "Napoleon Bonaparte." The Vintage Cable Ads gallery has two, a TNT full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for "Kissinger and Nixon" (Ron Silver, Beau Bridges) and a full-page ad for Bowl Week on ESPN. The CBN / Family Channel gallery has a Family Channel full-page ad for The Fam Sunday Night Movie "Two Harts in Three-Quarter Time" (Stefanie Powers, Robert Wagner, Joan Collins) and the ToledoVision 5 gallery has two more, another one for Tales from the Crypt and one for U.S. Customs Classified (Stephen J. Cannell). More ads, from 1950s and 1960s issue of the Toledo Blade, are on the way...



January 3, 2010: You Were Expecting the Cleavers?

I added 23 more ads today from October and November 1995 including some for Halloween and Thanksgiving. There are three in the ABC gallery, including one for the NYPD Blue episode "Torah! Torah! Torah!" (Sharon Lawrence, Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits). This was the first NYPD Blue episode to air on WTVG-TV 13 (Channel 13 is now ABC and channel 24 is now NBC). There are four ads (in one image) for Wednesday night shows, one for the Ellen episode "She Ain't Friendly, She's My Mother" (Ellen Degeneres), one for The Drew Carey Show episode "Drew in Court," one for the Grace Under Fire episode "Matthew Gets Busted" and one for The Naked Truth episode "Real Life Henry Higgins Turns Dork into Duke" (Tea Leoni) and there's one for the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode "Ultrawoman" (Teri Hatcher, Dean Cain, Shelley Long). The CBS gallery has three more, a 1-1/2 page ad for The Late Show with David Letterman (in L.A.), a full-page ad with a Thanksgiving theme for four Monday night shows, The Nanny Episode "Having His Baby," the Can't Hurry Love episode "Glove Story," the Murphy Brown episode "The Humboldt Dolt" and the High Society episode "Dolce and G'bye Now" and an ad and TV Guide close-up description for the Chicago Hope episode "Stand" (Richard Pryor, Adam Arkin). There are two in the FOX gallery, including a full-page ad for "Here Come the Munsters" (Edward Hermann, Robert Morse, Veronica Hamel, Christine Taylor, Matthew Botuchis). This was part of Fox's Halloween Bash IV. The other ad is one (on two pages) for two Wednesday night shows, the Beverly Hills 90210 episode "Offensive Interference" (Tiffany Amber Thiessen) and the Party of Five episode "Where There's Smoke" (Jeremy London, Neve Campbell). There are four in the NBC gallery, a full-page ad for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (for shows airing opposite the Letterman L.A. shows), one for the Law & Order episode "Paranoia," one on two pages (also with a Thanksgiving theme) for four Thursday night shows, the Friends episode "The One with the List," The Single Guy episode "Sister," the Seinfeld episode "The Pool Guy" and the Caroline in the City episode "Caroline and the Balloon" and a full-page ad for Days of Our Lives. There's one ad in the PBS gallery for The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, one full-page ad in the UPN gallery for "John Carpenter's Body Bags" and one ad in the WB gallery for the Sister, Sister episode "Thanksgiving in Hawaii" (Tia and Tamera Lowry). The Vintage Cable Ads gallery has three ads, another Discovery Channel ad for Wild Discovery ("Creepy Creatures"), one for the Nick Jr. Primetime Preview on Nick-at-Nite and a TNN ad for The Life and Times of Gary Cooper. There's also one in the CBN / Family Channel gallery for Newhart and one in the ToledoVision 5 gallery for Tales from the Crypt.

The last of the 1995 ads from November and December plus one 1996 ad (by request) for the premiere of 3rd Rock from the Sun, are on the way...

January 1, 2011: Happy New Year!

What's coming in the new year:

I'll be wrapping up the 1995 TV Guide ads this coming week. I'm not going to be posting any more TV Guide ads from the '90s for a while after that. I may ad the '96 ads towards the end of 2011 and post some occasional ads from earlier issues of TV Guide if requested, but that'll probably be it. Instead, I'm going to be concentrating on ads from the Toledo Blade newspaper archives, mostly from the '50's to the '80s. I'll be adding another gallery with radio ads, too. There are many ads for Toledo radio stations in those old issues of the Blade and even some for WJR in Detroit. Also, I'm going to jump around more and not necessarily be adding them in chronological order. Most of the ads for TV shows will be from channels 11, 13 and 24 in Toledo. I'll also be posting some channel 30 ads for NET shows, too. Look for ads for Big Time Wrestling, Ghoulardi, Deadline (Ch 13 News), Death Valley Days, Let's Go to the Races, The Inner Sanctum, The Fugitive, Ben Casey, Checkmate, Dennis the Menace, Mister Ed, You Are There and Watch With Ward (see pic above), just to name a few.

And you can continue to check out the Christmas and New Year's ads in the Holiday Season Ads gallery.

December 31, 2010: Order a Hit Tonight!

You'll find 21 more ads today, all from October 1995. There are three in the ABC gallery including a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for the Murder One episode "Chapter Four" (Daniel Benzali) which was the first to air against ER on NBC. There's also one for ABC Sunday Night Movie "The Surrogate" (Connie Sellecca, Alyssa Milano) and a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for the NYPD Blue third-season premiere episode "E.R." (Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, Jimmy Smits, Nicholas Turturro), This was the last time it aired on channel 36. It would air on WTVG-TV 13 starting the following week, when 13 would become the ABC affilaite and 24 would become the NBC affilate (Channel 24 refused to carry NYPD Blue). There are three more in the CBS gallery including a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story" (Eva Larue) which also includes a close-up description for The Mickey Mouse Club Story (Doreen Tracey, Bobby Burgess) which aired opposite the movie on the Disney Channel. There's also an ad for "Cagney & Lacey: A View Through the Glass Ceiling" (Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly) and one for a prime-time episode of The Young and the Restless (Eric Braeden). There are four more in the FOX gallery, a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for "Alien Nation: Body and Soul" (Eric Pierpoint, Tiny Ron), a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for the premiere of MADtv (Nicole Sullivan, Byan Callen, David Herman, Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr, Artie Lange, Mary Scheer, Debra Wilson, Kato Kaelin), a 3/4 page ad for Fox's Halloween Bash IV (hosted by the Cryptkeeper) and one for Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask. There are two in the NBC gallery, an ad and TV Guide close-up for the ER episode "What Life?" (airing against Murder One) and an ad and TV Guide close-up description for part one of the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Fire" (Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman, Kyle Secor, Reed Diamond). There's one in the PBS gallery for the daytime series Wishbone and there are two full-page ads in the UPN gallery, one for the Nowhere Man episode "The Spider Webb" (Bruce Greenwood) and one for the movie "Roswell." There are four ads in the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, a Lifetime ad for "Deadly Love" (Susan Dey), a TNN ad for The Life and Times of Roy Acuff, an E! ad for The Gossip Show (Downtown Julie Brown) and a full-page ad for "Pulp Fiction" on pay-per-view (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman). There are two more in the CBN / Family Channel gallery, one for "Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen" and one for Columbo (Peter Falk). More ads from October and November 1995 are on the way...



December 29, 2010: Nature Calls

I added 20 more ads today from September and October 1995 plus a TV Guide Prime-Time Schedule chart in the Random Pages gallery. There's one full-page ad in the Channel 36 gallery for Home Improvement and there are three in the ABC gallery, a full-page ad for the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode "We Have a Lot to Talk About" (Teri Hatcher, Dean Cain), a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for the Murder One episode "Chapter One" and an ad and TV Guide close-up description for ABC Sunday Night Movie "Trial by Fire" (Gail O'Grady, Andrew Kavovit). There are four more in the CBS gallery, a full-page ad for the American Gothic pilot episode (Gary Cole), another ad for the Chicago Hope episode "Rise from the Dead" (Jayne Brook), one for a 48 Hours story on bombs (Dan Rather) and one for the Picket Fences episode "Reap the Whirlwind" (Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor). There are four more in the FOX gallery including two ads for two Sunday night shows, a 3/4 page ad for Springfield's Most Wanted (John Walsh) and a full-page ad for The Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" There's another ad on (1-1/2 pages) for the Melrose Place 100th episode, "Blind Ambition" and there's an ad for Wrestlemania XI: The Special (Lawrence Taylor, Bam Bam Bigelow, Pam Anderson). There are five ads in the NBC gallery including a two-page ad for four Tuesday night shows, part one of the Wings episode "Burning Down the House," the NewsRadio episode "This is Not Entirely Based on Julie's Life," the Frasier episode "She's the Boss" and The Pursuit of Happiness episode "Celebrations in Hell." There's also one for the Law & Order episode "Bitter Fruit" (Ellen Greene) and another two-page ad for four Thursday night shows, the Friends episode "The One with Ross's New Girlfriend," The Single Guy pilot episode, the Seinfeld episode "The Engagement" and the Caroline in the City pilot episode. There's an ad on two pages for the JAG two-hour series premiere episode "A New Life" (David James Elliot) and the last NBC ad is one on two pages for two Sunday night shows, the Mad About You episode "New Sleep-Walking PLUS" (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) and the Hope & Gloria episode "An Embarrassment of Teapots" (Cynthia Stevenson, Jessica Lundy). There's one ad and TV Guide close-up description in the PBS gallery for the ten-hour series Rock & Roll and there are three more in the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, two Discovery Channel ads for Wild Discovery, one for "Hunters of the African Plain" and one for "Dinosaur Descendants" and there's an AMC full-page ad for The AMC Film Preservation Festival. More October 1995 ads are on the way...

December 27, 2010: That's Fall, Folks!

There are 21 more ads today, all from September, 1995. There's another ad in the Channel 13 gallery for the Jerry Lewis 'Stars Across America!' MDA Labor Day Telethon and in the Channel 24 gallery there's and ad (on two pages) for America's Most Wanted: Final Justice (John Walsh). There's a two-page ad in the Channel 36 gallery for two Saturday shows, the Xena: Warrior Princess series premiere episode "Sins of the Past" (Lucy Lawless) and the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys second season premiere episode "The King of Thieves" (Kevin Sorbo, Bruce Campbell). The Ohio & W. Pennsylvania gallery has two more full-page ads for those Xena and Hercules episodes on WOHL-TV 67 in Lima as well. The ABC gallery has a 1-1/2 page ad and four TV Guide close-up program descriptions for four Wednesday night shows, the Ellen episode "Shake, Rattle and Rubble" (Ellen Degeneres), the Grace Under Fire episode "Great Eggspectations" (Brett Butler) and the pilot episodes for The Drew Carey Show and The Naked Truth (Tea Leoni) and the CBS gallery has an ad on two pages for The Late Show with David Letterman. There are three more in the FOX gallery, a 1-1/2 page ad for the 47th Annual Emmy Awards (Cybill Shepherd, Jason Alexander), one on two pages for two Monday night shows, the pilots for Partners (Jon Cryer, Maria Phillips, Tate Donovan) and Ned and Stacey (Thomas Hayden Church, Debra Messing) and a full-page ad for the Strange Luck series premiere episode "Soul Survivor" (D.B. Sweeney). The UPN gallery has three ads, one announcing that MTV will be hosting UPN shows and two more ads for two more forgettable Tuesday night shows, the Deadly Games episode "One Mean Mother" (Christopher Lloyd, Shirley Jones) and the Live Shot episode "A Death in the Family." There are four in the WB gallery, a full-page ad for four Wednesday night shows, the Sister, Sister episode "The Natural," The Parent 'Hood episode "Robert in the Hood," The Wayans Bros. episode "Shawn Takes a New Stand" and the Unhappily Ever After episode "Jack Moves Back" and one for the Pinky and the Brain episode "Of Mouse and Man." There's a full-page ad for four Sunday night shows, a rerun of the Kirk episode "Welcome to New York," the Simon episode "Watch This," the Cleghorne! episode "Genesis" and the First Time Out pilot episode and another full-page ad for Wednesday night shows, The Wayans Bros. episode "Fatal Subtraction" and the Unhappily Ever After episode "Zit Could Happen to You." There are four more ads in the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, an A&E ad for Fall Premiere Week on Biography (Tony Bennett), a Lifetime ad (on two pages) for The Commish (Michael Chiklis), a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for The MTV Video Music Awards (Michael Jackson) and a Comedy Central ad for Politically Incorrect (Bill Maher). More ads from September 1995, including one for the premiere of JAG are on the way...