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 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, Diff'rent Strokes, Family Ties, The Facts of Life, Gimme a Break!, Webster, 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)

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