March 5, 2012: Bowling For Dollars

I added 24 more ads today from September and October, 1972 plus two Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Friday, 9/22/72 AP story, "Ch. 7 Hires Al Ackerman" and a Wednesday, 10/4/72 item by Norman Dresser, "Bowling Game Show Makes Ch. 24 Bow," about the premiere of Bowling for Dollars with host Jack Kesling. There are five ads in the Channel 11 gallery for Fall 1972 programs. The first one is a 9/13/72 ad for To Tell the Truth (Garry Moore) and Wednesday night show, The Parent Game (Clark Race) and CBS prime-time shows, The Carol Burnett Show, Medical Center "Vision of Doom" (Chad Everett) and Cannon "Bad Cats and Sudden Death" (William Conrad). There's a 9/14/72 ad for To Tell the Truth and Thursday night show, You Asked for It, and CBS prime-time shows, The Waltons series premiere episode, "The Foundling" (Ralph Waite, Richard Thomas, Michael Learned) and part one of "Around the World in 80 Days" on The CBS Thursday Night Movies (David Niven). Next is a 9/15/72 ad for To Tell the Truth and Friday night show, The Explorers, and CBS prime-time shows The Sonny and Cher Hour and the conclusion of "Around the World in 80 Days" on The CBS Friday Night Movies. There's also a 9/16/72 ad for Saturday night show, Hee Haw (Roy Clark) and CBS prime-time shows, All in the Family "Archie and the Editorial" (Carroll O'Connor), the Bridget Loves Bernie pilot episode (Meredith Baxter), Mary Tyler Moore "The Good Time News," The Bob Newhart Show premiere episode, "Fly the Unfriendly Skies" and Mission: Impossible "Break!" (Peter Graves) and a 9/18/72 ad for To Tell the Truth and Monday night show, The Hollywood Squares (Peter Marshall) and CBS prime-time shows, Gunsmoke "The River," part two (James Arness), Here's Lucy "Lucy and Eva Gabor are Hospital Roomies" (Lucille Ball), The Doris Day Show "The Great Talent Raid" and The New Bill Cosby Show. There are five "This Fall, NBC Has It All" ads in the Channel 13 gallery. There's a 9/15/72 ad for NBC Friday night shows, Sanford and Son "By the Numbers" (Demond Wilson, Redd Foxx), The Little People "Tonsils for Two" (Brian Keith), Ghost Story "The Dead We Leave Behind" (Sebastian Cabot, Jason Robards) and Banyon "The Decent Thing to Do" (Robert Forster). Next is a 9/16/72 ad for NBC Saturday night shows, Emergency! "Problem" and "In the Heat of the Night" on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (Sidney Poitier, Lee Grant) and a 9/18/72 ad for NBC Monday night shows, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and "With Six You Get Eggroll" on NBC Monday Night at the Movies. There's also a 9/20/72 ad for NBC Wednesday night shows, Adam-12 "The Late Baby" (Kent McCord, Martin Milner) NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie: Madigan "The Manhattan Beat" (Richard Widmark) and Search "One of Our Probes is Missing" (Hugh O'Brien) and a 9/21/72 ad for NBC Thursday night shows, The Flip Wilson Show, Ironside "The Savage Sentry" (Raymond Burr) and The Dean Martin Show. There are two ads in the Channel 24 gallery, a 9/15/72 ad for Friday night shows, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and ABC prime-time shows, The Brady Bunch (preview of ABC's Saturday Morning Shows), The Partridge Family "This Male Chauvinist Piggy Went to Market," Room 222 "A Little Flyer on the Market" and The Odd Couple "Gloria, Hallelujah," and a Monday, 10/2/72 ad for the premiere of Bowling for Dollars (Jack Kesling). There's one ad in the Buckeye CableVision gallery, a Saturday, 9/16/72 ad for the High School Football Game of the Week, Libbey vs. Scott. There are seven ads in the Radio Station Ads gallery, three of them for WCWA-AM 1230. There's a Wednesday, 9/20/72 ad for Charlie Fredrick talking about "Your Sex Life" and two Tuersday, 9/26/72 ads, one for Rocket Rap with Toledo coach Jack Murphy and one for B.G. Report with Falcon coach Don Nehlen. There are two more for Saturday college football games on WMHE-FM 92.5, a 9/16/72 ad for BGSU vs Purdue and a 9/23/72 ad for two games, Notre Dame vs Northwestern and BGSU vs Miami. There's one for WOHO-AM 1470, a Saturday, 9/23/72 ad with an entry form for Miss Teenage America 1973, a Saturday, 9/16/72 ad for a Northwestern vs. Michigan football game with Jim Wood and Rick Bay on WTOD, and a Friday, 9/29/72 WTTO ad for a Chicago concert at the Toledo Sports Arena. The last four ads are in the Other Vintage ads gallery, including a Saturday, 9/16/72 ad for the 9/20/72 Floyd Patterson vs Muhammed Ali fight on closed-circuit TV at the Sports Arena. There's a Monday, 9/25/72 ad for free Detroit Lions glasses at Shell Service Stations and a Thursday, 9/28/72 full-page ad for Montgomery Ward at Southwyck Mall. There's also a Thursday, 9/28/72 ad for gasoline at 26.9 cents-a-gallon, at the Ontario store at Byrne and Hill, in Toledo. More 1972 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...