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You'll find 20 new additions to the Halloween Ads gallery today, all October ads from 1990-1995. There are six ToledoVision 5 ads, starting with a Friday, 10/30/92 ad for "Heartstoppers...Horror at the Movies" hosted by George Hamilton, on Eerie Street Theatre. Next is a Saturday, 10/30/93 ad for two Halloween specials, A Mirthworm Masquerade and "The Halloween Tree," followed by a Saturday, 10/29/94 ad for three Halloween  specials, Halloween is Grinch Night, The Lorox, and "The Halloween Tree." There's also a Sunday, 10/30/94 ad, again for Halloween specials, Doug's Halloween Adventure, Rugrats Halloween, and Ren & Stimpy Classics, followed by a Monday, 10/31/94 ad for "A Nightmare on Elm Street," and a Saturday, 10/28/95 ad for the following Halloween specials: Doug's Halloween Adventure, Rugrats Halloween, Ahh! Real Monsters Halloween, Rocko's Modern Life Halloween, the movies "Halloween" and "The Halloween Tree." There are three more Buckeye CableSystem ads, starting with a Saturday, 10/29/94 ad for "Halloween II" on the Sci-Fi Channel. Next is a Sunday, 10/30/94 full-page ad for the "Action Halloween Mayhem Marathon" on Impulse pay-per-view. You could watch "Bloodlust: Subspecies III," "The Dark," "Witchcraft," "Psycho Cop 2" and "Leprechaun," all for $5.95. There's also a Tuesday, 10/31/95 ad for VH-1's Halloween lineup featuring "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and related programming. There are two more items from the Sunday, 10/30/94 TV Week, the cover for The Simpson's Tree House of Horror Marathon, and the cover story by Tom Ensign which also included other Halloween program highlights. There are nine more ads, starting with a Friday, 10/19/90 ad for Hills 16th Annual Pumpkin Hunt. Next is a Friday, 10/26/90 ad for the Kroger/Toledo City Parks Family Halloween Fun at Ottawa Park, followed by a Monday, 10/26/92 ad for Food Town's Halloween Balloons, and a Tuesday, 10/27/92 ad for the West Toledo Lions Club Haunted House. There's also a Wednesday, 10/28/92 ad for Woodville Mall Halloween Happenings, followed by a Friday, 10/29/93 ad for Gross Electric's Halloween Trade-In Sale, and a Saturday, 10/8/94 ad for Westgate's Pumpkin Decorating Contest. And there's a Friday, 10/27/95 ad for The Toledo Zoo's Pumpkin path, and another 10/27/95 ad, for the Food Town Kids Concert Holiday Fantasy at the Toledo Museum of Art, featuring Disney recording artist Norman Foote.

More November 1995 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...