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