May 3, 2010: Hollywood Nights

There are 21 more ads today from September and October 1986 including a full-page ad in the Channel 24 gallery for "The Canterville Ghost" (Sir John Gielgud, Alyssa Milano, Ted Wass). The ABC gallery has a full-page ad illustrated by Richard Amsel for the ABC Sunday Night Movie premiere of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Harrison Ford). The CBS gallery has five ads, two of them mentioning their NBC competition. One of those was for the sixth season premiere of Simon & Simon (Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker) which mentioned The Cosby Show and the other was one of two ads for the tenth season premiere of Dallas (Larry Hagman) which mentioned Miami Vice. The second Dallas ad (Patrick Duffy) was for the first episode following the season that was all a dream. There are also ads for "The Last Frontier" (Linda Evans) and Monday night shows Kate & Allie, My Sister Sam, Newhart, Designing Women and Cagney & Lacey. The NBC gallery has three ads, one for a primetime special edition for the 24th anniversary of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Cybill Shepherd, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Bette Midler), one for the third season premiere of Night Court (Marsha Warfield, Richard Moll, Harry Anderson, Markie Post, Charles Robinson, John Larroquette) and one for the 7th season premiere of Hill Street Blues ("Suitcase"). The TBS gallery has ten ads, one for Portrait of America: Arkansas (Hal Holbrook) and nine more movie ads for "True Grit" (Warren Oates), "Alvarez Kelly" (William Holden), "The Wheeler Dealers" (James Garner), "Quo Vadis" on Award Theatre (Deborah Kerr), "Shakiest Gun in the West" (Don Knotts), "Not Just Another Affair" (Victoria Principal), "To Catch a Thief" (Cary Grant, Grace Kelly), "Munster Go Home" (Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo) and one for three 'Robert Redford Sunday' films ("The Great Gatsby," "Barefoot in the Park" & "Inside Daisy Clover"). There's just one out-of-town ad in the Ohio-W. Pennsylvania gallery. It's a WDTN ad for TV2 News Tonight Follow-Up Reports. More ads from October 1986 are on the way...