Dec. 28, 2009: "We're Looking Good"

I added 19 additional ads today from September, October and November 1979. The channel 7 gallery has one for Match Game PM with Fred Grandy and two 4:00 Movie ads for "Murder on Flight 502" (Hugh O'Brien, Polly Bergen & Robert Stack) and "Scream of the Wolf" (Jo Ann Pflugg & Peter Graves). The channel 50 gallery has one for Happy Days Again & M*A*S*H (Henry Winkler & Alan Alda), one for the Red Wings season opener against the L.A. Kings and one for a Pistons-Bullets game and the channel 50 movie gallery has one for "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (Don Knotts). The PBS gallery has ads for two channel 56 American Film Theatre presentations, "Rhinocerous" and "A Delicate Balance" (Katharine Hepburn). The ABC gallery has an ad for All-Star Family Feud with the casts of Benson, Dallas, Eight is Enough and One Day at a Time, a two-page ad for Tuesday night shows, Happy Days, Angie, Three's Company, Taxi and Hart to Hart, and two ads for Halloween shows, The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (more info here) and Mork & Mindy (A Morkyville Horror).

The CBS gallery has four ads with the 'We're Looking Good' theme, one for Sunday night shows 60 Minutes (Mike Wallace & Johnny Carson) and Archie Bunker's Place (series premiere with Martin Balsam & Carroll O'Connor), one for Monday night shows The White Shadow and M*A*S*H, one for Friday night shows The Incredible Hulk, The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas and one for part one of M*A*S*H (Goodbye Radar) which was Gary Burghoff's farewell performance on the series. The NBC gallery has one for Saturday night shows CHiPS & BJ and the Bear and one for The Rockford Files (Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs) a 2-hour episode with Lauren Bacall. More from November 1979 are on the way...