October 1, 2010: Cable in the Classroom

There are 21 additional ads today from August and September 1991. There are three in the ABC gallery, one for MCTV, a preview of ABC's Saturday morning shows (M.C. Hammer, Jaleel White), one for "A Fish Called Wanda" (Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin) and an ad on two pages for two Tuesday night shows, the Full House season premiere episode "Double Trouble" and the series premiere of Home Improvement (Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Zachary Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith). There are three more in the CBS gallery, a full-page ad for 60 Minutes (Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Lesley Stahl, Morley Safer, Mike Wallace), a full-page ad for CBS Sunday Movie "P.S.I. Luv U" (Connie Sellecca, Greg Evigan) which was the pilot for the series and a two-page ad for two Monday night season premieres, the Murphy Brown episode "Uh-Oh" part 2 (Candice Bergen) and the Designing Women episode "The Big Desk" (Jan Hooks, Meshach Taylor, Dixie Carter, Julia Duffy, Annie Potts, Jean Smart). There are two ads in the Fox Gallery for Roc, a full-page ad from the week before the premiere and a second one for the pilot episode (Charles S. Dutton). There are four in the NBC gallery, one for the return of Katie Couric to Today (Katharine Hepburn), a full-page ad for the Eerie, Indiana premiere episode "Forever Ware" (Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow), a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up for the Michael Landon Tribute and one for the Law & Order episode "Confession" (Michael Moriarity, Richard Brooks, Chris Noth, Paul Sorvino). There are eight ads in the Vintage Cable Ads gallery including four full-page Cable in the Classroom ads, a color ad for The Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel, a color ad for CNBC and ESPN's Earthwind Live School Forum, a color ad for A&E's Dinosaur! (Walter Cronkite) and the Monitor Channel and one for Bravo's Culture in the Classroom. There's a Disney Channel ad for "The Parent Trap" (Haley Mills) and there are three TNT ads, one for "Crazy from the Heart" (Christine Lahti, Ruben Blades), one for "Final Verdict" (Treat Williams, Glenn Ford, Olivia Burnette) and one for an NFL on TNT game featuring the Lions at the Redskins. The last ad is in the TBS gallery. It's one for the World of Audobon episode "Great Lakes, Bitter Legacy" (James Earl Jones). More ads from September - November 1991 (including ads for the series premieres of Brooklyn Bridge, Reasonable Doubts and The Commish, are on the way...