May 13, 2011: Four Weeks of All-New Episodes

There are 21 more ads today, from March, April and May 1996. There are four in the ABC gallery, a Thursday, 4/18/96 ad for Turning Point "Rebirth: Untold Stories of Oklahoma City" (Forrest Sawyer), a Friday, 4/26/96 ad for a 20/20 program on women who hate their breasts, a Sunday, 4/28/96 full-page ad for daytime shows, The City, All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital and a Tuesday, 5/7/96 ad for NYPD Blue "Auntie Maimed" (Sharon Lawrence, Dennis Franz, Kim Delaney, Jimmy Smits). There are four more in the CBS gallery. There's a Wednesday, 4/24/96 ad for the two-hour series finale of Picket Fences ("Bye-Bye Bey-Bey" and "Three Weddings and a Meltdown") and a Thursday, 4/25/96 ad for "The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play" (James Garner). There's also a Monday, 4/29/96 ad for The Nanny "The Cantor Show" (Fran Drescher), Dave's World "Don't Blame Me" (Harry Anderson), Murphy Brown "When A. Lansing Loves a Woman" and Cybill "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (Cybill Shepherd) and a Monday, 5/6/96 full-page ad for Late Show with David Letterman in San Francisco. The FOX gallery has three more, a Sunday, 3/11/96 ad for a St. Louis Blues at Detroit Red Wings NHL game (Wayne Gretzky, Sergei Fedorov), a Monday, 4/11/96 full-page ad for Melrose Place (Loni Anderson, Jack Wagner) and a Friday, 4/26/96 ad for The X-Files "Avatar" (David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi). There are three more in the NBC gallery, a Wednesday, 4/2/96 ad for Today at the Vatican (Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel), a Thursday, 4/25/96 ad for ER "Fire in the Belly" (George Clooney, Eriq La Salle, Sherry Stringfield, Anthony Edwards, Gloria Reuben, Noah Wylie, Julianna Margulies) and a 5/4/96 full-page ad for Days of Our Lives. There's just one WBGU-TV 27 ad in the PBS gallery, a Monday, 4/23/96 ad for morning show Sunny Side Up. There are five more in the Vintage Cable Ads gallery, a Saturday, 5/4/96 AMC full-page ad for Remember WENN, a Sunday, 4/7/96 Discovery Channel ad for the series premiere of Discover Magazine, a Sunday, 4/20/96 full-page HBO ad for "Soul of the Game," a Sunday, 4/28/96 ad and TV Guide close-up description for VH1 Honors (Peter Gabriel) and a Monday, 4/29/96 Nick-at-Nite ad for a preview of new network TV Land. There's one more in the CBN / Family Channel gallery, a 3/30/96 full page color ad for Home and Family (Cristina Ferrare). Next time I'll be going back to the '60s for more 1966 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade.