July 25, 2010: The Mike Van Dyke Show

You'll find another 21 ads today from December 1988. There are two ads in the ABC gallery, one for the China Beach episode "Limbo" (Dana Delany, Megan Gallagher) and one for the Thirtysomething episode "The Mike Van Dyke Show" (Mel Harris, Ken Olin, Timothy Busfield) which also includes a TV Guide close-up description. The CBS gallery has four, one for the upcoming Pat Sajak Show (which did not air in Toledo), a full-page ad for the CBS Sunday Movie "A Very Brady Christmas" (Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, Maureen McCormick, Barry Williams, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Jennifer Runyon, Mike Lookinland, Ann B. Davis), a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description for Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special and one for three more Christmas specials, A Garfield Christmas Special, Claymation Christmas Celebration and "Christmas Comes to Willow Creek" (Tom Wopat, John Schneider). There's a full-page ad and TV Guide close-up description in the NBC gallery for Bob Hope's Jolly Christmas Show (Florence Griffith Joyner, Dolly Parton, Don Johnson, Orel Hershieser, Barry Sanders). The Vintage Cable Ads gallery has a TLC ad for College USA and College Exam Review. There are eleven ads in the TBS gallery, two for NBA games (Magic Johnson), one with the Lakers playing the Celtics (Magic vs. McHale) and one with the Lakers playing the Bulls (Magic vs. Air Jordan), one for World of Audobon (Sharks), an ad and close-up description for for National Geographic Explorer (White Wolf), one for Antartica: The Greenpeace Quest and six more movie ads, one for "Planet of the Apes" and "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall), one for two colorized holiday movies, "Miracle on 34th Street" & "The Miracle of the Bells" (Natalie Wood, Frank Sinatra), one for "The Undefeated" (John Wayne, Rock Hudson), one for "Man in the Wilderness" (Richard Harris), one for the colorized version of "A Christmas Carol" (Reginald Owen) and one for "Tarzan, the Ape Man" (Miles O'Keefe, Bo Derek). The Ohio & W. Pennsylvania gallery has a WHIO-TV ad for Newscenter 7 (Cathy Ballou, Ed Krahling) and the Other Vintage Ads gallery has a Hills ad for Nerf Blast-a-Ball. More ads from December 1988 and January 1989 are on the way...