June 15, 2011: Get in the Winner's Circle

 

I added 21 more ads today from August and September 1967, including several for Lamont McLoughlin interviews of prime-time series stars, on News/90. There are nine in the Channel 11 gallery, including a Friday, 8/25/67 ad for News/90 (Irene Ryan of The Beverly Hillbillies) and The Westchester Golf Classic, a Monday, 8/28/67 ad for News/90 (Paula Prentiss and Dick Benjamin of He & She) and an Ohio State Fair special, The Sound of Buckeye Music, and a Tuesday, 8/29/67 ad for News/90 (Sebastian Cabot of Family Affair) and The Billy Graham All-Britain Crusade. Next is a Tuesday, 9/5/67 ad for five prime-time shows, Daktari "Judy, the Astro-Chimp," The Red Skelton Hour, Good Morning, World "Knits to You, Sir," Open Housing special and Vietnam Perspective "General Thieu and Uncle Sam." All were CBS shows except Open Housing. There's also a Wednesday, 9/6/67 ad for four prime-time shows, Lost in Space "Condemned of Space," The Beverly Hillbillies "Jed Inherits a Castle," Harness Racing Sweepstakes and He & She "The Old Man and the She." All were CBS shows except Harness Racing Sweepstakes. Although not in the ad, channel 11 carried a repeat of NBC's I Spy at 10:00. There's a Thursday, 9/7/67 ad for an NBC special, Damn Yankees, a Friday, 9/8/67 ad for The Hardy Boys (another NBC special), Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. "A Visit From Aunt Bee" on CBS and "Captain From Castille" on Friday Night at the Movies and a Saturday, 9/9/67 ad for The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS and two NBC shows, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Miss America Pageant. There are three more in the Channel 11 News gallery, a Wednesday, 8/30/67 ad for News/90 (Joby Baker of Good Morning, World), a Thursday, 8/31/67 ad for News/90 (Jonathan Harris of Lost in Space) and another 8/31/67 ad (WTOL-TV, Growing with Toledo...). There are four in the Channel 13 gallery, a Tuesday, 9/5/67 ad for The Twilight Zone and Make Room for Daddy (Danny Thomas), a Wednesday, 9/6/67 ad for The Twilight Zone (Burgess Meredith), a Friday. 9/8/67 ad for again, The Twilight Zone, and F-Troop and a Saturday, 9/9/67 ad for The Newlywed Game (Bob Eubanks) on ABC. There's just one ad in the Channel 24 gallery, a Friday, 9/8/67 ad for T.U. Football Kick-Off 1967 with coach Frank Lauterbur and Jack Tabner. There are two WOHO ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery for The Sam Holman Show, a Wednesday, 9/6/67 ad and a Thursday, 9/7/67 ad. The last three ads are in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Monday, 8/28/67 ad for the Greater Toledo Bowling Proprietors Assn. (with 27 members listed), a Thursday, 8/31/67 ad for the Democratic party (The "A" Team), and a Friday, 9/8/67 ad for a Toledo Mud Hens 1967 International League Play-off game with the Richmond Braves at the Rec Center. More vintage ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...