January 15, 2011: Frank and June

I added 20 more ads today, the oldest ones from 1955 and the newest ones from 1970. There are four in the Channel 11 gallery. The first one is a 10/2/61 ad for three Monday night CBS shows, the Window on Main Street series premiere episode "The Return" (Robert Young), the Danny Thomas Show episode "For Every Man There's a Woman" and the Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie and the Bully." Window on Main Street, which only lasted one season, was Robert Young's first series after Father Knows Best. The next one is a 10/3/61 ad for two Tuesaday night shows, the premiere of Marshal Dillon (reruns of half-hour Gunsmoke episodes and the syndicated Death Valley Days, which channel 11 showed instead of The Dick Van Dyke Show (on CBS). The next one is a Wednesday, 3/16/66 ad for the Death Valley Days episode "Tribute to a Dog" (Ronald Reagan) and Thursday 1PM movie "Surprise Package" (Yul Brenner, Mitzi Gaynor). The last WTOL-TV ad is a 2/27/68 ad for Man About Town (Leonard Nimoy). There are nine ads in the Channel 13 gallery. The first two are 9/27/55 ads for Badge 714 (syndicated reruns of Dragnet) which was sponsored by Ford and The Patti Page Show, sponsored by Oldsmobile. The next two are 10/1/61 ads, one for the Adventures in Paradise episode "Appointment at Tara-Bi" (Gardner McKay, Guy Stockwell)) and one for the Bus Stop series premiere episode "Afternoon of a Cowboy." See Wikipedia pages here and here. There next one is 10/2/61 ad for three Monday night ABC shows, the Rifleman episode "The Vaqueros" (Chuck Conners), the Surfside Six episode "One for the Road" (Van Williams) and the Ben Casey episode "To the Pure" (Vince Edwards). There's a 10/3/61 ad for three Tuesday night shows, the Bachelor Father episode "The King's English" (John Forsythe), the Calvin and the Colonel series premiere episode "The Television Job" and the New Breed series premiere episode "No Fat Cops" (Leslie Nielson). The next one is a Friday, 3/4/66 ad for "Anatomy of a Murder" (James Stewart). There's also a Wednesday, 3/16/66 ad for the Long Hot Summer episode "The Man with Two Faces" (Dan O'Herlihy) and the Thursday Movietime film "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon." The last WSPD-TV ad is a Monday, 9/4/67 ad for the premiere of syndicated episodes of The Twilight Zone. There are two more ads in the Channel 13 News gallery, a 3/14/66 ad for Deadline (Dee Leeds) and a 2/5/70 ad welcoming sports director Frank Gilhooley and women's editor June Miller to TV 13. There's only one in the Channel 24 gallery. It's a Wednesday 2/4/70 ad for a Toledo vs Ohio MAC basketball game and there are two channel 30 ads in the NET gallery, a 1/18/66 ad for Legacy and a 2/4/70 ad for Kukla, Fran and Ollie. The last two of today's ads are in the Radio Station Ads gallery, both of them from Saturday, 11/7/61. One has Wally WO-HO's Tip Top Tunes which had 'Runaround Sue' and 'Hit the Road, Jack' at the top of the list. The other is a WTOL-AM 1230 ad for an Ohio State vs. UCLA football game (Doug Tabner). More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...