January 21, 2011: Famous on the Local Scene!

I added 20 more '60s ads today plus a 10/5/66 Ray Oviatt 'On the Beam' column about WTOL's Switch to Color, in the Random Pages gallery. There are eight ads in the Channel 11 gallery including a Wednesday, 1/11/61 ad for a Bowling Green - Toledo basketball game with Doug and Orris Tabner. There are two 12/21/61 ads for another Series One program. This one was about an open-heart operation and the heart-lung machine. There's a Monday, 9/14/64 ad for The Mickey Mouse Club which aired from 5:50-6:20 pm (after The Big Show and followed by the ten-minute Funny Company). Next is a Thursday 9/24/64 ad for three shows, The Munsters series premiere "Munster Masquerade" on CBS (Yvonne DeCarlo, Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis), Perry Mason "The Case of the Missing Button" on CBS (Raymond Burr) and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" on channel 11's Thursday Night at the Movies (Gregory Peck). There's a Saturday, 9/22/62 ad for highlights of a Toledo Tornado vs. Grand Rapids Blazers United Football Legaue game and a Duke vs. Southern Cal football game on The NCAA Game of the Week on CBS and there's a Saturday, 9/12/65 ad for three Saturday night shows, The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS, Get Smart "Mr. Big" (Don Adams) on NBC and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas). Next is a Tuesday, 9/20/66 ad for four CBS shows, Daktari "Deadline to Kill" (Marshall Thompson), The Red Skelton Hour, Petticoat Junction "Birdman of Shady Rest" (Bea Benaderet, Meredith MacRae) and a CBS News Special "The Poisoned Air" and there's a 9/29/65 ad for The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC (Chet Huntley, David Brinkley) and The 7 O'Clock Report (Gordon Ward, John Saunders). For years, WTOL ran The Huntley-Brinkley Report instead of The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. There are four in the Channel 13 News gallery, three ads for Deadline, a 9/28/66 ad with Bishop George J. Rehring and Rev. O.H. Bertram, a 10/5/66 ad with Frazier Reams and David Drury and a 10/6/66 ad with Toledo Police Chief Anthony Bosch and Chase Clements and there's a 11/17/69 ad for The Noon Look (June Miller). There's also a Tuesday, 11/11/69 ad in the News / Special Reports Ads gallery for a series of Chase Clements reports on the Lucas County Jail. There are three in the Channel 24 gallery, a Sunday, 9/11/66 ad for six daytime shows, Swinging Country, Love of Life (CBS), As the World Turns (CBS), Password (CBS), The Doctors (NBC) and Where the Action Is. a Wednesday, 9/28/66 ad for "Five Golden Hours" and a Monday 11/17/69 ad for Love, American Style on ABC (Robert Reed, Ted Bessel, Judy Carne, Noel Harrison, Jeannine Riley). There are two more Channel 30 ads in the NET gallery, a Thursday, 9/30/65 ad for A Very Special Thirty Minutes, a preview of the new season of shows and a Wednesday 9/28/66 ad for the half-hour documentary series, The Struggle for Peace. Today's last ad is in the Radio Station Ads gallery. It's a WSPD-AM ad for "The Talk of Toledo" (People's Opinion with Art Barrie, Sportsline with Jerry Keil and Soundoff! with Eddie Kutz). More ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...