Actress Gale Storm Dies at 87

[TV_on_the_Porch]

The Gale Storm Show has seen the light of day once in the last 30 years that I'm aware of: WKBD 50 in Detroit did their Celebration of Television lineup for a couple of summers in the late 70s. The Gale Storm Show was part of the 1978 edition if I remember correctly, being referred to as "the Love Boat of the 50s" which it really was.

[MickeyMac]

Originally Posted by TDRyan

The Gale Storm Show has seen the light of day once in the last 30 years that I'm aware of: WKBD 50 in Detroit did their Celebration of Television lineup for a couple of summers in the late 70s. The Gale Storm Show was part of the 1978 edition if I remember correctly, being referred to as "the Love Boat of the 50s" which it really was.

We used to get WKBD here when I was a kid but in 1978 I think we only had five stations and that wasnt one of them.

[bossradio93]

Originally Posted by MickeyMac

We used to get WKBD here when I was a kid but in 1978 I think we only had five stations and that wasnt one of them.

I remember seeing My Little Margie Saturday (or Sunday) nights at 7:00pm on KBSC-TV (now KVEA) Channel 52, like WKBD, was a Kaiser Broadcasting-owned station and I haven't seen the series in over 30 years.

Probably WKBD didn't have much of a strong signal back then since most UHF stations at the time operated at 200kw or almost up to 1,000kw compared to many operating at 2MW (Megawatts*) or more starting in the early to mid '70s.

*One kilowatt = 1,000 watts. One megawatt = 1 million watts.

[TV_on_the_Porch]

WKBD was carried on many cable systems, including the one in my town (across the state) from the beginning in 1976 until it was dropped for some reason sometime in the early 80s.