September 27, 2012: Make a Monster Happy!

 

I added twenty more ads today, all from November, 1978 plus two more Random Pages gallery additions from Peach Sections of The Blade. There's a Wednesday, 11/15/78 story by Norman Dresser, “Promotion Director Named at WTOL-TV,” about Ann Pace, and a Friday, 11/17/78 story, “Programs Pre-Empted For Council Meeting.” There are three additions to the Channel 11 gallery, including two Monday, 11/20/78 ads, the first one for movies on The Big Show, “Godzilla, King of the Monsters,” “Rodan,” “Monster Zero” and “Terror of Mechagodzilla,” and also for the Thanksgiving football game between Washington and Dallas, and the second one, for a Godzilla Iron-On. There's also a Monday, 11/27/78 ad for “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” shown in two parts on The Big Show. There are two more for Toledo Eleven News in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery, both for a Judy Crouse series of reports on prostitution in Toledo, a Tuesday, 11/21/78 ad and a Friday, 11/24/78 ad. There are three additions to the Channel 13 gallery, including a Tuesday, 11/14/78 ad for The Rookies (George Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Kate Jackson, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Michael Ontkean), Adam-12 (Martin Milner, Kent McCord) and The Odd Couple (Tony Randall, Jack Klugman). There are two more, both for Saturday Night Live and The 13 Sunday Night Movie. The Saturday, 11/18/78 ad is for “The Odd Couple” and the Saturday, 11/25/78 ad is for “Hotel.” There are five additions to the PBS gallery, all for channel 30. First is a Tuesday, 11/14/78 ad for The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, followed by another 11/14/78 ad for The 1978 Toledo Arts Awards (Shana Alexander). There's a Tuesday, 11/21/78 ad for Live From the Metropolitan, “The Bartered Bride” which was simulcast on FM 91.3, and a Saturday, 11/25/78 ad for a tape-delayed broadcast of the Michigan at Ohio State football game, which the Wolverines won, 14-3. And there's a Wednesday, 11/30/78 ad for Aaron Rosand, In Class, with UT music students, Lisa Lantz, Shirley Miller and Elaine Moore. There's one addition to the Buckeye CableSystem gallery, a Friday, 11/17/78 ad (You Deserve Us). There are five additions to the Radio Station Ads gallery, all for WGTE-FM 91.3. The first three are for Fall Festival '78, a Tuesday, 11/14/78 ad (Glenn Miller), a Wednesday, 11/15/78 ad for an evening with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a Thursday, 11/16/78 ad for a broadcast of the Cincinnati Opera production of Richard Wagner's “Die Walkure.” There's also a Saturday, 11/18/78 ad for Top 50 Classical Countdown and a Wednesday, 11/20/78 ad for Aaron Rosand, In Recital, taped in the Recital Hall of the University of Toledo Center for the Performing Arts. Today's last ad is in the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Friday, 11/24/78 ad for Channel Master TV Antenna Systems at Kroma Antenna. December 1978 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...