June 4, 2010: Hollywood Jewel

There are 21 new ads today, all from October 1987. The ABC gallery has two, one for Dolly! (Dolly Parton) and one for the Buck James episode "Too Close to Home" (Dennis Weaver). There's one in the CBS gallery for the Newhart episode "Reading, Writing and Rating Points" (Bob Newhart, Peter Scolari) and there's also one in the FOX gallery for the first Women in Prison episode "Vickie Does Prison" (Peggy Cass, Julia Campbell, Wendie Jo Sperber, Antoinette Byron, CCH Pounder). The NBC gallery has two full-page ads, one for "Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam" (Raymond Burr, Ann Jillian, Bill Macy, Tony Geary, John Rhys-Davies) and one for the 13th season premiere of Saturday Night Live (Steve Martin, Sting). The PBS gallery has one for the WonderWorks episode "The Fig Tree" on WBGU (Olivia Cole) and the Vintage Cable Ads gallery has an HBO ad and TV Guide close-up description for the 10/16/87 Heavyweight Championship fight between Mike Tyson and Tyrell Biggs. The TBS gallery has nine ads including two for Laverne & Shirley, one with Michael McKean and David Lander and one with Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall and one for The New Leave it to Beaver episode "First Base" (John Snee). The rest are for the movies "Casablanca" (Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart), "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Big Hand for the Little Lady" (Henry Fonda), "Midway" (Charlton Heston), "Earthquake" (Charlton Heston) and two Monday night movies, "The Magnificent Obsession" and "All That Heaven Allows" (Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman). The ToledoVison 5 gallery has one for J.D. Scott's 5th Avenue Warehouse Sale and the Other Vuntage Ads gallery has two full-page ads, one for Dutch Masters Dutch Treats little cigars and a national GM ad for Mr. Goodwrench. More from October and November 1987 are on the way...