December 5, 2016: Season's Eatings

There are twelve additions today to the Holiday Season Ads gallery, eleven from the December 4-10, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and one from the Sunday, December 5, 1999 edition of The Blade. The first four ads are from TV Guide, starting with a Saturday, 12/4/99 ad, the first of three for the world premiere of TNT's "A Christmas Carol," with Patrick Stewart. The first ad is for a TNT/Mail Boxes Etc. contest where you could win a trip to London. Next is another 12/4/99 ad, for the CBS special, Amy Grant: A Christmas to Remember, on which Tony Bennett appeared. There's a Sunday, 12/5/99 ad for the one-hour animated special, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, on Fox Family Channel. It's followed by another 12/5/99 ad, for the ABC special, A Rosie Christmas. Also included is the TV Guide "holiday close-up." There's also a larger version, here. Today's only ad from The Blade is a Sunday, 12/5/99 full-page ad, in the Real Estate Section, for TNT's "A Christmas Carol," the second ad for that movie. It was sponsored locally by Promedica Health System, on Buckeye CableSystem. The rest of today's ads are all from TV Guide. The next one is a 12/5/99 full-page ad for the Fox Family Channel world television premiere of "Richie Rich'$ Christmas Wish" with David Gallagher, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, and Eugene Levy. It's followed by another 12/5/99 full-page ad, the third one for "A Christmas Carol" on TNT. There's also a 12/5/99 ad for the Sunday line-up on Food Network, Emeril Kicks Up the Holidays, From Martha's Holiday Kitchen, and Decadent Desserts with Jacques Torres (season's eatings!). There's one more Sunday, 12/5/99 ad, for the CBS holiday movie, "Santa & Pete" with Hume Cronyn and James Earl Jones. The last three ads today are all Monday, 12/6/99 ads. The first ad is for Frosty's Winter Wonderland on Fox Family Channel. The second ad is for the Fox holiday special, CinderElmo with Keri Russell, sponsored by K-Mart. The third one is a full-page ad, for the CBS special, And So This is Christmas, with Baby Face, Celine Dion, Harry Connick, Jr., Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, and Charlotte Church. More holiday ads, from the December 4-10, 1999 issue of TV Guide Magazine, and from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...