Here’s an NBC TV Guide ad from September 1969 promoting the network’s Monday lineup consisting of My World and Welcome to It, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, and NBC Monday Night at the Movies:
This may look like a full-page advertisement but you’re actually looking at a pair of half-page ads that ran on two pages. I stuck them together so they’d fit better online.
NBC debuted its new Monday lineup on September 15th, 1969. Kicking things off at 7:30PM was the series premiere of My World and Welcome to It, a new sitcom based on the work of James Thurber that starred William Windom. It was followed at 8PM by the third season premiere of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Then at 9PM came the season premiere of NBC Monday Night at the Movies with Nobody’s Perfect, a 1968 comedy.
My World and Welcome To It was cancelled at the end of the 1969-1970 season, making it a one season wonder.
This particular ad is from the Eastern New England Edition of TV Guide. Channel 4 was WBZ-TV in Boston, MA and Channel 10 was WJAR-TV in Providence, RI.
Image Credit:
TV Guide, September 13th, 1969 (Vol. 17, No. 37), Eastern New England Edition, A-42 & A-43.
Nice ad, thanks for posting!
There’s a Christmas episode of My World on YouTube. Windom is probably best recognized as the captain in Star Trek who fought the giant space cannoli.
My World and Welcome To It is one of my all-time favorite shows. It won a bunch of Emmy Awards. That was the year that all the shows that won Emmys had already been cancelled.
Is NBC’s iconic Thursday comedy block back? The network is certainly making an effort to revive it, with a sophomore season of Superstore, followed by
Is that David Hartman with McClure in that illustration?
I checked it and confirmed that Hartman was in that movie, so the answer is yes.
JUST SAW FALL 2019’S T.V. LINEUP..I’LL BE DOIND SOMETHING ELSE THAN WASTING MY TIME WATCHING THESE LOUSY SHOWS… hey remember originality…innovation..imagination?? it is a damned pity no one else does!