August 6, 2012: Festival 77

 

I added 23 more ads today, from February and March, 1977 plus one Random Pages gallery addition, two Thursday, 3/3/77 stories by Norman Dresser, “Toledo Cablevision Service Expands Its Movie Schedule” and “Staff Changes Made By Toledo Radio Stations.” There are three additions to the Channel 11 gallery, including two for Toledo Eleven News and The Big Show, a Monday, 2/21/77 ad for Bob Sharp and four movies, “Midnight Lace,” “Night Gallery,” “Change of Habit” and “Cool Hand Luke” and a Monday, 2/28/77 ad for Orris Tabner, Jan Skunda, Jeff Heitz and two movies, “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner” and “Spartacus.” There's also a Wednesday, 2/23/77 ad, same as the previous ad except it's for $100,000 Name That Tune, instead of movies. There are two additions to the Channel 13 gallery, a Monday, 2/28/77 ad for their Goaldiggers Hockey Clinic at the Sports Arena, and a Wednesday, 3/2/77 ad for the special, Barbra, With One More Look at You (Barbra Streisand). There are two more in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Tuesday, 2/22/77 ad (Gordon Ward, Nanci Riley, Bill Harris) and a Thursday, 2/24/77 ad (Jim Mengel, Phyllis Quail, Bill Clark). There are seven additions to the PBS gallery, including a Tuesday, 2/22/77 ad for This Far By Faith and six more channel 30 ads, including a Tuesday, 3/8/77 ad for National Geographic Special, “The Volga” and five Festival 77 ads. There's a Sunday, 3/6/77 ad for Napoleon and Love, Previn and the Pittsburgh and Upstairs, Downstairs and a Monday, 3/7/77 ad for No, Honestly, All-Star Swing Festival and The Pallisers. Next is a Wednesday, 3/9/77 ad for Scenes From a Marriage, No, Honestly and Childhood “Possessions” and a Thursday, 3/10/77 ad for Napoleon and Love. There are two more Saturday, 3/12/77 ads, one for Blithe Spirit, Napoleon and Love, Washington Week in Review and Wall Street Week and one for Flip Wilson's show on the following night. There are three additions to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Friday, 2/25/77 ad (Cheap Date?), a Tuesday, 3/1/77 ad (Eyeful Tower?) and a Monday, 3/7/77 ad (You'll see things you've never seen before). There are four additions to the Buckeye Channel 5 gallery (for their new library of films), a Sunday, 2/27/77 ad (Pick Your Flick), a Monday, 2/28/77 ad (Star Spangled Television), a Wednesday, 3/2/77 ad (They Shoot Movies Don't They) and a Tuesday, 3/8/77 ad (Home Movies). Today's last ad is an addition to the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Friday, 2/25/77 ad for NPR's "Once in a Century, a 75th Birthday Tribute to Marian Anderson," on All Things Considered on WGTE-FM 91.3. More March 1977 ads, including more Festival 77 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...