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I added 21 more ads today, from September and October, 1977 plus three more Random Pages gallery additions (in two images), all Norman Dresser stories from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Tuesday, 9/13/77 story about several WTOL-TV programming changes and there are two items about NBC's The Richard Pryor Show, a Thursday, 9/22/77 story, “Ch. 4 Cancels Pryor; Ch. 13 Voices Concern” and a Wednesday, 9/28/77 story, “Chs. 13, 4 Refuse 'Richard Pryor Show'.” There are seven additions to the Channel 11 gallery, including a Tuesday, 9/13/77 ad for the 1977 edition of The Way We Were, for People Are Funny, The Lone Ranger, Lassie, Sgt. Bilko, I Love Lucy, Peter Gunn, Leave It To Beaver and Our Miss Brooks. There's a Wednesday, 9/21/77 ad for The Liar's Club, $100,000 Name That Tune and CBS prime time shows, Good Times, “The Evans Get Involved,” parts 1 and 2 of 4, and The CBS Wednesday Night Movies “A Killing Affair” (O.J. Simpson, Elizabeth Montgomery). The following week Good Times would be followed by the premiere of Busting Loose. Next is a Thursday, 9/22/77 ad for The Liar's Club, Wild Kingdom, and CBS prime time shows, The Waltons, “The Stray,” Hawaii Five-0, “You Don't See Many Pirates These Days” (Jack Lord) and Barnaby Jones “The Mercenaries” (Buddy Ebsen). There's also a Friday, 9/23/77 ad for The Liar's Club, The Price Is Right (Bob Barker), and CBS prime time shows, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman “Anschluss '77“ (Lynda Carter), Logan's Run, “The Collectors,” and Switch, “Net Loss” (Eddie Arnold, Robert Wagner). There are two for their Saturday night line-up, a 9/24/77 ad for Hee Haw (Roy Clark) and CBS prime time shows, The Bob Newhart Show, “Bob's Change of Heart” The Jeffersons, “The Grand Opening,” The Tony Randall Show “Pilot” and The Carol Burnett Show, and a 10/1/77 ad for Hee Haw, The Bob Newhart Show, “Ex-Con Job,” Mary Tyler Moore “Love is All Around,” The Jeffersons, “Once a Friend,” The Tony Randall Show, “The Prodigal Father Returns” and The Carol Burnett Show. There's also another Saturday, 10/1/77 ad, for Mary Tyler Moore “Love is All Around.” Channel 11 showed syndicated reruns of MTM instead of We've Got Each Other, the show CBS had scheduled for that time slot. There are eight additions to the Channel 13 gallery, including a Tuesday, 9/13/77 ad for Family Feud, Hollywood Squares and NBC prime time shows, The Richard Pryor Show and NBC World Premiere Movie, “Sex and the Married Man” (Barry Newman, Joanna Pettet). Next is a Wednesday, 9/14/77 ad for All Star Anything Goes and Match Game P.M., followed by a Thursday, 9/15/77 ad for Wild, Wild World of Animals and The Ohio Lottery Show. There's a Friday, 9/16/77 ad for Candid Camera, Hollywood Squares and NBC prime time shows, Sanford Arms, “Bye Fred, Hi Phil” (Teddy Wilson, LaWanda Page), Chico and the Man, “Who's Been Sleeping in My Car?” (Jack Albertson, Gabriel Melgar), The Rockford Files, “Beamer's Last Case” (James Garner) and Quincy, “No Deadly Secret” (Jack Klugman). There's also a Saturday, 9/17/77 ad for the conclusion of the two-part episode of The Bionic Woman, “The Bionic Dog” (Lindsay Wagner) and a Thursday, 9/22/77 ad for Wild, Wild World of Animals, The Ohio Lottery Show and NBC prime time shows, ChiPs, “Undertow,” Man From Atlantis, “Melt Down” (Patrick Duffy) and Rosetti and Ryan, “If You Can't Trust Your Lawyers...” (Tony Roberts, Squire Fridell). And there are two more for early evening game shows, a Monday, 10/10/77 ad for The Gong Show and The $128,000 Pyramid and a Tuesday, 10/11/77 ad for Family Feud and Hollywood Squares. There's one addition to the Channel 24 gallery, a Thursday, 9/22/77 ad for their 7:30 shows, That's Hollywood, Sha Na Na, The $25,000 Pyramid, Truth or Consequences and The Muppet Show. The ad also featured an iron-on “Still the 1” decal. There are four additions to the PBS gallery, all for Channel 30. There's a Saturday, 9/10/77 ad for a Minnesota vs Ohio State football game and a Monday, 10/3/77 ad for Ten Who Dared (Anthony Quinn). There's also a Thursday, 10/6/77 ad for The Fall of Eagles “Death Waltz” and a Monday, 10/10/77 ad for the premiere of The Dick Cavett Show. There's another ad on this site for the Cavett premiere from the October 8-14, 1977 issue of TV Guide, here, which also includes a “close-up” description. Today's last ad is in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Thursday, 10/6/77 ad for $2.99 T-Bone Dinners at Bonanza (William Conrad of Cannon). More October 1977 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...