Does anybody else collect TV guides?? I started several years ago and have a pretty good collection...

I've been collecting them since 1989 and to date I have at least over 1,000.

I collect some. I collect any that refer to cast members of Laverne & Shirley. I have a couple from the past year, including the 50 Greatest Characters one, plus I have four I got on eBay (from 1976, 1978, 1979, and 1982)

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"Well, Laverne is sort of childish"

"Childish? Childish? COming from a grown woman who throws tea parties for her stuffed cat!"

"Well at least I don't sew L's on everything I wear!"

"Well that would be pretty stupid considering your name's Shirley!"

I was lucky, I saw a bunch at an antique shop in preety good condition for about 3 dollars each. I picked up 4 yesterday and they are really neat.

I got the

September 22-28 1979 Issue:
Front Cover: Archie Bunker/Carroll O'Connor
Articles: Stormy Years with Archie by Carroll O'Connor, Which do You Believe? - How Six Nations Cover the Same Week's News
The Show No one Dares to Cancel - Capitain Kangaroo
Review by Robert Mackrnzie - Kate Columbo
Ads - Three's Company about New Lanlord, Taxi, Angie, Happy Days, Lobo, Last Convertible, Lazarus Syndome, Eight Is Enough, Real People, Charlies Angels, Vegas, Laverene and Shirley, Benson, Barney Miller, Soap,Quinvy, Buck Rodgers, Special One Hour Different Strokes, Eischied,


February 12-18 1983
Front Cover: So Long M*A*S*H
Articles: My Favorite Episodes of M*A*S*H by Alan Alda, The Uniqueness of M*A*S*H, Reminicing with the M*A*S*H Cast, Hast TV Killed off Great Oratory?, Dixie Carter of Filty Rich, An Interview with the Smurfs
Review: Square Pegs by Robert Mackenzie
Ads:TJ Hooker, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Smufs, Family Circus,The Invisble Woman (With Bob Denver), Family Feud Daytime Special, Happy Days Again, Laverene and Shirley and Company, TV Bloopers #5, Candid Cameras 35th Anniversary, A Team, Three's Company, 9 to 5, Quincy, Condo, Fame, Amanda's, To Close For Comfort, The New Odd Couple, Benson, First Familt Special,

April 17-23 1976
Front Cover: Gabe Kaplan and Marcia Strassman of Welcome back Kotter
Articles: Keep a Mouse Handy - "Run Joe Run" Boss Tweed, As We See It
Review: Doc by Clelevland Amory

Jan 10-16 1976
Front Cover: Ron Howard and Henry Winkler of Happy Days
Articles: What the News Doesn't Tell You About the CIA, Film is the Same Everywhere, The Incredible Dale Hoax, Dance in America, The Dropout has an MA from Yale - College didn't prepare Henry Winkler for the Role of Fonzie
Review: Bronk by Cleveland Amory

I already had this one
June 11-17 1966
Front Cover: Tina Louise, Alan Hale, and Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island

I was lucky, I saw a bunch at an antique shop in preety good condition for about 3 dollars each. I picked up 4 yesterday and they are really neat.

I got the

September 22-28 1979 Issue:
Front Cover: Archie Bunker/Carroll O'Connor
Articles: Stormy Years with Archie by Carroll O'Connor, Which do You Believe? - How Six Nations Cover the Same Week's News
The Show No one Dares to Cancel - Capitain Kangaroo
Review by Robert Mackrnzie - Kate Columbo
Ads - Three's Company about New Lanlord, Taxi, Angie, Happy Days, Lobo, Last Convertible, Lazarus Syndome, Eight Is Enough, Real People, Charlies Angels, Vegas, Laverene and Shirley, Benson, Barney Miller, Soap,Quinvy, Buck Rodgers, Special One Hour Different Strokes, Eischied,


February 12-18 1983
Front Cover: So Long M*A*S*H
Articles: My Favorite Episodes of M*A*S*H by Alan Alda, The Uniqueness of M*A*S*H, Reminicing with the M*A*S*H Cast, Hast TV Killed off Great Oratory?, Dixie Carter of Filty Rich, An Interview with the Smurfs
Review: Square Pegs by Robert Mackenzie
Ads:TJ Hooker, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Smufs, Family Circus,The Invisble Woman (With Bob Denver), Family Feud Daytime Special, Happy Days Again, Laverene and Shirley and Company, TV Bloopers #5, Candid Cameras 35th Anniversary, A Team, Three's Company, 9 to 5, Quincy, Condo, Fame, Amanda's, To Close For Comfort, The New Odd Couple, Benson, First Familt Special,

April 17-23 1976
Front Cover: Gabe Kaplan and Marcia Strassman of Welcome back Kotter
Articles: Keep a Mouse Handy - "Run Joe Run" Boss Tweed, As We See It
Review: Doc by Clelevland Amory

Jan 10-16 1976
Front Cover: Ron Howard and Henry Winkler of Happy Days
Articles: What the News Doesn't Tell You About the CIA, Film is the Same Everywhere, The Incredible Dale Hoax, Dance in America, The Dropout has an MA from Yale - College didn't prepare Henry Winkler for the Role of Fonzie
Review: Bronk by Cleveland Amory

I already had this one
June 11-17 1966
Front Cover: Tina Louise, Alan Hale, and Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island



TOO MANY!!-lol

Only 2 I bought them off of Ebay awhile back ago and 1 from 1959 has Jay North on the cover 2 1970 has The Partridge Family on it.

Several including the following:

9/18/53 1st Fall Preview Issue
9/25/53 George Reeves of SUPERMAN (Reprint)
6/25/54 Howdy Doody & Buffalo Bob Smith
7/2/54 I MARRIED JOAN
5/14/55 Perry Como (Reprint)
5/21/55 THE HONEYMOONERS (Jackie Gleason & Audrey Meadows)
6/30/56 Bob Cummings of LOVE THAT BOB
9/8/56 Elvis Presley (Reprint)
1/26/57 Bob Hope by Al Hirschfeld
5/25/57 Sid Caesar by Al Hirschfeld
12/14/57 Walt Disney & Friends
6/14/58 FATHER KNOWS BEST
1/10/59 Milton Berle by Al Hirschfeld
5/6/61 Donna Reed
7/1/61 THE FLINTSTONES
9/16/61 Fall Preview Issue
2/17/62 Danny Thomas
3/31/62 Alan Young and Mister Ed
11/10/62 THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
3/30/63 BONANZA cast (plus second cover with BULLWINKLE & BEN CASEY)
4/20/63 Red Skelton
5/11/63 THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (Reprint)
11/2/63 MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
5/29/65 BEWITCHED
7/10/65 THE MUNSTERS
9/11/65 Fall Preview Issue
10/2/65 GET SMART
1/15/66 I SPY
2/5/66 I DREAM OF JEANNIE
3/26/66 BATMAN (Reprint)
6/11/66 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
1/28/67 THE MONKEES
3/4/67 STAR TREK
12/17/77 ONE DAY AT A TIME
7/28/79 THE INCREDIBLE HULK

I ended up buying four more

4/16/1976 - Police Story
2/7/1976 - Barney Miller
2/14/1976 - Sanford and Son
7/3/1976 - Bicentenial Issue

I ended up buying four more

4/16/1976 - Police Story
2/7/1976 - Barney Miller
2/14/1976 - Sanford and Son
7/3/1976 - Bicentenial Issue



Iit took me forever to get that 2/14/76 TV guide.-lol That's the one with the Grady Review

Iit took me forever to get that 2/14/76 TV guide.-lol That's the one with the Grady Review

I'll have to look for it. I have just skimmed through it. I know you posted it a few months back

I'll have to look for it. I have just skimmed through it. I know you posted it a few months back



It's in the BACK, last page

It's in the BACK, last page

That is strange, mine is on page one. The last pages is an article called "Everything a Performer Could Ask For ... Except the one thing he wants most Respect"

We have most of the fall preview issues from 1965 to the late 70s...my older brother used to save issues now and then, but not on a regular basis. We also have a few random issues from the '68 through '73 period, although I don't know why he held on to them... I somehow ended up with them, and I'm not sure how.

One thing happened that was pretty cool... I have an issue from (I believe) 1971... I was looking through it one day, and I was kind of going through the days, reconstructing what I probably watched each day, and I noticed a show that I used to watch on Saturday afternoons... it was called "Sports Challenge", and it was hosted by Dick Enberg...

It was a quiz show, and would feature two teams of 3 members each, and each team consisted of players who were usually former teammates on some baseball, football or basketball team of historic significance... for example, a show might match 3 members of the 1956 Dodgers against 3 members of the 1956 Yankees (they played each other in the World Series that year)...

Anyway, this particular week in 1971, one team consisted of ex Detroit Tiger players, and one of them was a pitcher by the name of Virgil Trucks...Trucks was an excellent pitcher, he pitched two no-hitters in 1951, including one against the Yankees...I believe he won about 177 games in the major leages, and was a member of the 1945 World Series Champion Tigers (later, he was a coach with the Yankees during their dynasty of the late 50s)

It so happened that Virgil was a neighbor of mine at the time! He lived on my block, and I took this issue over to him and asked him about being on the show... he remembered it very well, and had a great time doing it... Hall of Famer Hal Newhowser was one of his teammates on Sports Challenge...

Basically, the idea of the show is, they would show a clip of a play in a famous or significant sporting event, and then would ask questions about it... the team with the most points at the end of the show would win...

It was a great show to watch, but it never really had a set time that it aired...it would depend on whether a baseball game was on the network, so it would sometimes not air at all if the game ran long...


Anyway, back to TV Guides... we also have the bicentennial issue from 1976...

And, last but not least, we have the issue from the week my wife and I were married :)

That is strange, mine is on page one. The last pages is an article called "Everything a Performer Could Ask For ... Except the one thing he wants most Respect"



Ok I was wrong then-lol I knew it was the First or Last Page

Sadly, all my TV Guides are from the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's, and I made the mistake of not preserving some of the ones from the 1980's, like that one with Fred Savage & Danica McKellar on the cover.


:thumbsdow :bonk: :drool: :(

I have the Sept-Apr (approx), not summer repeat, issues from fall of 1965 to spring of 1980, except for 4 that I am still missing. Have 2 boxes worth of duplicate issues from most all years, but mainly 1966-1970, so if anybody's looking for some older ones, feel free to get in touch. Would love to trade for the ones I still need:
Oct. 23, 1965 Branded
Mar. 19, 1966 Man from UNCLE
Sept. 24, 1966 I Dream of Jeannie
Jan. 21, 1967 Avengers

Do any of you collect TV Guides? I have an online pen-pal who, incredibly,
has managed to amass all 2800+ issues. I don't have anywhere that number
but do have over 500 issues. My most-prized issues include:

Date & Cover Subject

9/18/53 1st Fall Preview Issue
9/25/53 George Reeves of SUPERMAN [Reprint]
6/25/54 Buffalo Bob Smith & Howdy Doody
7/2/54 Joan Davis & Jim Backus of I MARRIED JOAN
5/14/55 Perry Como [Reprint]
5/21/55 Jackie Gleason & Audrey Meadows
6/30/56 Bob Cummings
9/8/56 Elvis Presley [Reprint]
1/26/57 Bob Hope by Al Hirschfeld [my favorite cover artist]
5/25/57 Sid Caesar by Hirschfeld
12/14/57 Walt Disney
6/14/58 Robert Young & Jane Wyatt of FATHER KNOWS BEST
1/10/59 Milton Berle by Hirschfeld
5/6/61 Donna Reed
7/1/61 THE FLINTSTONES
9/16/61 Fall Preview Issue
12/2/61 Joey Bishop
2/17/62 Danny Thomas
3/31/62 Alan Young and Mister Ed
11/10/62 THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
3/30/63 BONANZA [with 2nd cover: Bullwinkle & "Ben Casey"]
4/20/63 Red Skelton
5/11/63 THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW [Reprint]
11/2/63 Ray Walston & Bill Bixby of MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
5/29/65 Elizabeth Montgomery & Dick York of BEWITCHED
7/10/65 Fred Gwynne & Yvonne DeCarlo of THE MUNSTERS
9/11/65 Fall Preview Issue
10/2/65 Don Adams & Barbara Feldon of GET SMART
1/15/66 Robert Culp & Bill Cosby of I SPY
2/5/66 Barbara Eden & Larry Hagman of I DREAM OF JEANNIE
3/26/66 Adam West of BATMAN [Reprint]
6/11/66 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
1/28/67 THE MONKEES
3/4/67 William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy of STAR TREK
12/17/77 ONE DAY AT A TIME
7/28/79 Bill Bixby & Lou Ferrigno of THE INCREDIBLE HULK

I got about 10-15. Almost all are from the 70's. There is an antique shop where I live that sells them every once in a while for like 2 dollars and they really aren't in bad condition at all.

I am striving to be a classic TV Guide collector. I am going to be regularly
bidding on TV Guides on Ebay.

i use to collect them and i still have quite a fewbut i havent added any to my collection in a long time

I am striving to be a classic TV Guide collector. I am going to be regularly
bidding on TV Guides on Ebay.

eBay is where I got most of mine from the '50s and '60s, except the reprints. I ordered those from a mail order catalog. The majority of mine are from the
'80s and '90s. As a kid, I had a bunch from the '60s but I didn't save them.
I also had a bunch of TV comics back then, which got thrown out. But I've
managed to replace some of them (and found some others that I had never
read before). When I used to work at the local hospital, I had some extra spending money and bought a lot of cool stuff on eBay (esp. between April 2000 and May 2005, when I bought about 500 different items, mostly TV memorabilia). Ah, those were the days. Now I can barely make ends meet. But eBay is a collector's paradise, if you can afford it. Good luck!

I have about ~10 TV Guides, but not all of them are actual TVG mags... I just buy the ones that have Vicki Lawrence or Stepfanie Kramer on the cover.

I only collect them for TV reviews so I'm just about finish bidding on old tv guides


well actually i'm looking forthe tv guide review of gomer pyle-lol

Anyone out there collect TV Guide? I've dabbled with it a little...I have a few complete years so far. I'd love to have 1980-2005. :)

I used to collect tv guides in the mid 70s. I bought a pile of them off eBay just to remember what I watched and when.

I am a huge Cannon (William Conrad) fan so I wanted to get his TV Guides, which he had 3-- 1971, 1973 and 1976. That in turn led me to get a pile of them.

While I am here the first TV guide I saved was That's My Mama cover

David

Only ones I have ever saved and or recently purchased was ones with Valerie Bertinelli on the cover.

Anyone out there collect TV Guide? I've dabbled with it a little...I have a few complete years so far. I'd love to have 1980-2005. :)

I have two from late 1985 that I had gotten from an antique store in Iowa in 2009, but I didn't take care of them very well, and as such, they've pretty much fallen apart. I'm hoping to find a good many more on EBay.

I used to collect them. I had several from the mid 90s. I threw them out about 10 years ago.

I have a few vintage TV Guides from 1980-1982.

I have every fall preview issue since 1982, and then maybe a draw full of random issues for various reasons.

I have every fall preview issue since 1982, and then maybe a draw full of random issues for various reasons.
I too collected tv guide, mainly the Fall Preview issues from 1969 to 2010. After awhile I just decided to quit subscribing to TV Guide for I hardly watched much current tv. . I do also have a few speciality type guides with in those years too. When the guide change shape from small to large I couldn't store them with the littler size. I also have book on Tv guide covers, so maybe they might be worth something.

I would LOVE finding them!!

I goto goodwill and salvation army alot but I dont ever see any which is sad.......

I would love getting some 60s and earlier guides!!

Yes, I do. I started in 1969. I mainly have,I guess you called them, New fall issue season guides. The guide had all the new shows starting in the fall. As I recalled a new show called the Brady Bunch was to come that year. As years passed I saved every fall issue til around the time the small book went to 8'"by 11" which was ? 2005? . If I recalled the last one or next to last book that was small had Reba Mcintire and other stars reproducing tv casts from the past. She was Lucy Ricardo in the vat of grapes. Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa were Jeanne and Tony Nelson. When the book went big, by then I hardly watched current tv shows. We had retro stations and I tune in there. Then I kept few other such as 50 greatest comedies, greatest TV moms. Special issues. After almost 55 years I have them in my bedroom getting a tad yellow from sun and I read from time to time. What will happen to them when I died is anyones guess.

Awes0me!!

Why not start a new online collection? These vintage editions can be read and downloaded for free from the Internet Archive:

Issue #1 - April 3, 1953 (https://archive.org/details/tvguide-chicago-1953-04-03)

Various Issues - 1953-55 (https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Triangle+Publications%2C+Inc.%22&sort=date)

Various Issues - 1960s-2000s (https://archive.org/search.php?query=tv+guide+magazine&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&and%5B%5D=languageSorter%3A%22English%22&and%5B%5D=firstTitle%3AT&sort=titleSorter&page=3)

I was just about to head to bed for my neck is stiff reading all the posts, but saw this and yes Sal I could read the guides if I really want to spend the time on line. I just had insulation in my house and had to move books, my TV guides, my magazines with the Dynasty cast/ show plots to another location. Boy the whole house is wreck for I had to move a lot of stuff I have. I could heave them out, but I do wonder if any are of value. Some have a bit of sun and dust damage but are readable. Another thing I did was made collages out some of the tv covers. Don't have the collages anymore but do have articles written about Karen Grassle , Tom Bosley and many stars of the early to late 1970's. My bedroom is tv person museum. I do wonder if the TV guide company has a room with all their guides. Maybe now all on digital files. Or it is once they are delivered to home/stores they don't keep. I guess I am saying, are consumers the only keepers? Any thoughts of what I should do with my guides and tv memory media. Wait til I die and let who ever finds my stuff do what they want. I something think would I want to read about life in say Silent movies stars from the 1920's that my grandmother might have kept?

When I was an infant I ADORED TV Guides and whenever my mom would buy them she would give the issues to me to play with and since I didn't read yet since I was just a baby I would tear pages out of them and eat them page by page. I was sure lucky that I didn't end up with a tummy ache from eating sitcom recaps but it sure did pay off for me today grown up. But when I was a teenager I still got TV Guides for the photos of celebrity crushes
Bestie

I have been collecting TV Guides since 1997.

Very nice..I would like to have some ORIGINAL ones! (Original paper kept in good shape)

I have about 20-25 TV Guides that I won on eBay years ago. They feature the casts of some of my favorite shows like Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, Diff'rent Strokes, Family Ties, Gimme a Break!, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and CHiPs. A guy sent me photocopies of all of the Gimme a Break! ads.

There's many scans of covers, ads and articles in our photo galleries.

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showgallery.php?si=TV+Guide&x=0&y=0&limit=

I remember my grandfather getting TV Guide every week. It was his lifeline to know what to watch. He loved watching westerns.

Everything is online and digital these days. It's sad to see print media dying out.

I collected TV Guides back in the day but due to clutter I just ditched them in the trash but I did keep all the Fall TV Previews from 1992-2005.

The newer format that it's turned into is nowhere as good as the classic format.

I collected TV Guides back in the day but due to clutter I just ditched them in the trash but I did keep all the Fall TV Previews from 1992-2005.


I collected the Fall Preview issues for about five years or so, but then I threw them away after I missed a year.

I used to have a collection of TV Guides from the late 1960's through the mid 1970's. I ended up selling them to a guy about 10 years ago. I didn't get a lot of money for them but I figured it's better than throwing them away and getting nothing.

The newer format that it's turned into is nowhere as good as the classic format.No peoples judement of whats GOOD was sadly ruined.......

There was a man named Frank Costanza who collected TV guide and went insane when a houseguest read one and threw it away.

Actually for me it would be absolutely fascinating to read a collection of TV guides from the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Actually TV Guide has many very interesting articles. My mother would get angry with me because I would read one and then lose it. But after the week was done, we threw it in the garbage.

Would any of them be worth any money?

I reread a few every so often and get a kick of the cigarette ads. You don't see ads for stereos, rug shampoo gadgets much anymore. Reading them is blast from the past. I get in the mail to subscribe to TV guide for a low price of, It comes out to 29cent a guide but I just don't watch current tv so I passed. I do wonder how they can send the guide for that price. I was paying 29cent for the guide in the 1970's. Then a year ago, was asked to subscribe to Food Network, Good Housekeeping and Women's Day magazines for 2 years all for $15.00. If you love to cook, they would be great, but I don't love to cook or clean house.

Would any of them be worth any money?
I'd guess maybe for an avid TV Guide collector whose looking for specific articles and of course as a nostalgia trip to reading old TV schedules.

I just acquired a large collection of TV Guides from my brother. I haven't gone through and sorted them yet, but they are from the early 80's - early 90's. The condition is very good to near mint and they have no mailing labels. All the covers are intact along with the advertisements including the record club ads, cigarette ads, etc... It also looks like none of the crossword puzzles were done either. If anyone is interested in any or all these send me a pm.

I've got them all from the early '60s to 2005, plus some from the '50s as well. I love looking through them when I get a chance!

I've been collecting the magazine since around 1980, and I kept all my subscription issues from 1980 to 2006. I also used to buy, and ask other people to buy, out-of-town issues for me for the listings from different areas of the country. I refused to keep up the subscription after the magazine dropped all local listings in 2005. I've also bought issues off EBay, including reprints of the first national issue and a pre-national issue that has Marilyn Monroe on the cover. The EBay issues include several dozen from the 1950s and every issue from the 1960s. I also received about 6 years of 1970s issues from a boyfriend of my sister's. Unfortunately a number of those were damaged when I had a water pipe break in my house early in 2015. I've kept them all, but the damaged issues aren't too readable now. Since then I've put all the 1970s issues in quart-sized sandwich bags to help preserve them, which I'd done from the start w/ all my EBay-purchased issues.

Did you ever have the famous TV Guide with Lucy And Desi Arnaz's baby on the cover Charley? That issue is very collectible and is very valuable
Bestie

I dont think I ever saw it.... I would love having it!!

Did you ever have the famous TV Guide with Lucy And Desi Arnaz's baby on the cover Charley? That issue is very collectible and is very valuable
Bestie


Would you like to see it and read it? That first issue - and many others - are available for free at the Internet Archive.

TV Guide _ #1 - April 3, 1953 (https://archive.org/details/tvguide-chicago-1953-04-03)

I have mostly late 1980s and 1990s issues, but some older as well. Not a comprehensive collection though. I keep them in plastic storage bins.

Thank you Sal....... I would like having them in analogue myself!! (The original paper books)


I got a nice thing from my aunt the other day..... They are moving and sadly they got rid of all her dads records,etc..... One thing in the collection is a TV GUIDE for HBO,Cinemax and Showtime from DEC 86

The book is called "Premium Channels Dec 86"

There is a section that lists some playboy ch stuff also :D


Nice having one of them!! (Over 300 titles listed)

Real Genius
Wierd Science

I merged some similiar threads.

These are the vintage TV Guides in my collection. I won them in eBay auctions. The ones from the 1990s I bought at stores. I also have quite a few regional/local TV guides which were included with newspapers.

January 29, 1966 - The cast of Please Don't Eat the Daisies
July 4, 1970 - Miyosh Umeki, Brandon Cruz and Bill Bixby (The Courtship of Eddie's Father) - 2 copies
June 19, 1971 - Brandon Cruz and Bill Bixby (The Courtship of Eddie's Father) - had a mailing label removed and the top right has a section torn off
June 19, 1974 - Kathy O'Dare and Ron Howard (Happy Days)
January 10, 1976 - Ron Howard and Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
January 10, 1978 - Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, Donny Most and Anson Williams (Happy Days)
October 28, 1978 - Pam Dawber and Robin Williams (Mork & Mindy)
February 3, 1979 - Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada drawing (CHiPs)
March 3, 1979 - Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) - 2 copies
December 15, 1979 - Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
January 15, 1980 - Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox (CHiPs)
February 2, 1980 - Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
November 22, 1980 - Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy)
December 6, 1980 - Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
July 6, 1981 - Dana Plato and Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) - 3 copies
January 9, 1982 - Michael Landon drawing (Little House on the Prairie) - Gimme a Break! review
January 30, 1982 - The cast of CHiPs drawing
August 21, 1982 - Nell Carter and Dolph Sweet drawing (Gimme a Break!)
April 23, 1983 - Linda Purl and Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
March 19, 1983 - Gary Coleman and Nancy Reagan (Diff'rent Strokes)
April 17, 1982 - Scott Baio, Erin Moran and Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
December 24, 1983 - The cast of The Love Boat drawing - Kari Michaelsen (Gimme a Break!) article
April 28, 1984 - The cast of Happy Days
April 5, 1986 - Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers and Michael J. Fox (Family Ties) - 2 copies
October 18, 1986 - Michael J. Fox and Brian Bonsall (Family Ties)
April 27, 1985 - The cast of Family Ties
September 21, 1985 - Michael J. Fox (Family Ties)
March 12, 1987 - Justine Bateman and Michael J. Fox drawing (Family Ties)
November 6, 1987 - Courteney Cox and Michael J. Fox (Family Ties)
June 1, 1988 - Brian Bonsall and Michael J. Fox (Family Ties)
May 30, 1992 - The cast of The Wonder Years
May 9, 1998 - Set of 4 Collectors' Covers with the cast of Seinfeld

I merged some similiar threads.

These are the vintage TV Guides in my collection. I won them in eBay auctions. The ones from the 1990s I bought at stores. I also have quite a few regional/local TV guides which were included with newspapers.

January 29, 1966 - The cast of Please Don't Eat the Daisies
July 4, 1970 - Miyosh Umeki, Brandon Cruz and Bill Bixby (The Courtship of Eddie's Father) - 2 copies
June 19, 1971 - Brandon Cruz and Bill Bixby (The Courtship of Eddie's Father) - had a mailing label removed and the top right has a section torn off
June 19, 1974 - Kathy O'Dare and Ron Howard (Happy Days)
January 10, 1976 - Ron Howard and Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
January 10, 1978 - Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, Donny Most and Anson Williams (Happy Days)
October 28, 1978 - Pam Dawber and Robin Williams (Mork & Mindy)
February 3, 1979 - Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada drawing (CHiPs)
March 3, 1979 - Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) - 2 copies
December 15, 1979 - Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
January 15, 1980 - Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox (CHiPs)
February 2, 1980 - Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
November 22, 1980 - Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy)
December 6, 1980 - Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
July 6, 1981 - Dana Plato and Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) - 3 copies
January 9, 1982 - Michael Landon drawing (Little House on the Prairie) - Gimme a Break! review
January 30, 1982 - The cast of CHiPs drawing
August 21, 1982 - Nell Carter and Dolph Sweet drawing (Gimme a Break!)
April 23, 1983 - Linda Purl and Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
March 19, 1983 - Gary Coleman and Nancy Reagan (Diff'rent Strokes)
April 17, 1982 - Scott Baio, Erin Moran and Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
December 24, 1983 - The cast of The Love Boat drawing - Kari Michaelsen (Gimme a Break!) article
April 28, 1984 - The cast of Happy Days
April 5, 1986 - Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers and Michael J. Fox (Family Ties) - 2 copies
October 18, 1986 - Michael J. Fox and Brian Bonsall (Family Ties)
April 27, 1985 - The cast of Family Ties
September 21, 1985 - Michael J. Fox (Family Ties)
March 12, 1987 - Justine Bateman and Michael J. Fox drawing (Family Ties)
November 6, 1987 - Courteney Cox and Michael J. Fox (Family Ties)
June 1, 1988 - Brian Bonsall and Michael J. Fox (Family Ties)
May 30, 1992 - The cast of The Wonder Years
May 9, 1998 - Set of 4 Collectors' Covers with the cast of Seinfeld
Do you collect them from one specific city/media market, or is yours a hodge-podge? I’ve been thinking of starting to collect TV Guides from my home market. I see them pop up on eBay from time to time.

I went through a years-long phase where I’d post entire weeks worth of vintage TV listings over at Radio Discussion at a time. I’d grab the listings from old newspaper archives I used to subscribe to. I might start doing it here.

I still subscribe. I can get it for about $25 a year, each issue goes for 3 weeks now. It's a remnant of my past. Also a race to see who dies first, me or them. (I have the same bet about still watching The Simpsons)

Do you collect them from one specific city/media market, or is yours a hodge-podge? I’ve been thinking of starting to collect TV Guides from my home market. I see them pop up on eBay from time to time.

I went through a years-long phase where I’d post entire weeks worth of vintage TV listings over at Radio Discussion at a time. I’d grab the listings from old newspaper archives I used to subscribe to. I might start doing it here.

The city/media market wasn't usually listed in the auctions when I was collecting them in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It would be much more challenging to collect them from only your home market.

I generally tried to bid on the ones in the best condition and without a mailing label.

We have a section for older classic TV schedules (mostly pre-2000).

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=3648

Thank you Todd for merging!!


I would love getting some 70s and earlier TV guides but I have to be honest,they would make me sad..

Are you shocked I got all the Valerie Bertinelli covers?

No but I am glad!!!!

I know how much she means to ya buddy :)