July 25, 2012: V.I.P. Treatment

 

I added sixteen more ads today, from October and November, 1976. There are four additions to the Channel 11 gallery, including a Saturday, 10/30/76 ad for syndicated shows, Pop! Goes the Country (Ralph Emery), Dolly (Dolly Parton), The Best of Buck Owens and The Andy Williams Show. There's also a Tuesday, 11/2/76 ad for Dinah! and a Wednesday, 11/3/76 ad for three movies on The Big Show, “King Creole” (Elvis Presley), “M*A*S*H” (Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland) and “Fantastic Voyage.” There are four additions to the Channel 11 News gallery, a Monday, 10/25/76 ad (Mel Martin), a Tuesday, 10/26/76 ad (Orris Tabner, Joe Ashton, Jeff Heitz), a Wednesday, 10/27/76 ad (Jim Proctor) and a Saturday, 10/30/76 ad for Comment (John Glenn). There's one more channel 11 ad in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, a Tuesday, 11/2/76 ad for their Election Night 76 coverage. There's also a channel 13 ad in that gallery, another 11/2/76 ad for their “V.I.P.” election night coverage (Gordon Ward, Chase Clements, Frank Venner, Roger Webber, Stan Odesky). There are two more additions to the Channel 13 gallery, including a Saturday, 10/23/76 ad for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. They showed a week's worth of epsiodes at 11:30, instead of Saturday Night Live. There's also a Friday, 10/29/76 ad for programs airing in November. There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSsytem Gallery, a Saturday, 10/30/76 ad (This is the season to switch!). There are four additions to the Buckeye Channel 5 gallery, including a Thursday, 10/21/76 ad for Sixth Grade Report (Dr. Frank Dick Meets Our Press) and a Wednesday, 10/27/76 ad for At Issue 76, featuring presentations by Presidential candidates, Ford and Carter. There are two more ads for movies, a Monday, 10/25/76 ad for “Apache Massacre” and a Tuesday, 11/2/76 ad for “Picnic,” “Forty Guns,” “Stopover Tokyo,” “Western Union” and “May Pal Gus.” More November 1976 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...