Anyone else remember Dialing For Dollars?

[MerryBlooms]

I remember being cuddled on the sofa with my mom for the midday movie and my nap time. lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_McCormick_%28television_personality%29

[olddots]

1. remember it well

our mid day movie was sometimes called " THE MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE " we're oooooooooooooooooooooooooold !

[MerryBlooms]

2. I also remember the Spiegel catalogue commercial they'd play - 60609!

lol, never thought in a million years I'd move from a 97530 to a 60030 and be so close to that 60609! Chicago might as well been a foreign country to this Southern Oregon foothills gal.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Pat McCormick was the chief cook and bottle washer at KTVU (fake pilot names fame) for years

Yes, I remember Dialing for Dollars

[MerryBlooms]

4. Charley and Humphrey, too. *sigh Fond memories. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

7. I was a little too old when Charley and Humphrey splashed to really get into it

My fond memories were back in the fifties with KPIX's Captain Fortune and, well, of course The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz.

[MerryBlooms]

10. Captain Fortune looks like it was a fun show.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Opening scene was grand

Film of Captain Fortune Swagger down the gangplank of the Balclutha, catches a cable car, hangs on the outside with one arm with his ditty bag over his shoulder, up the hill, hops off the moving cable car in front of the station on Van Ness (creative license), runs inside...cut to the live show inside! Magic!

[handmade34]

5. this is my only knowledge

of Dialing for Dollars...

[MerryBlooms]

9. Great song, great woman. n/t

[many a good man]

6. I remember Bowling for Dollars

[MerryBlooms]

8. Cool! n/t

[Bertha Venation]

12. So do I -- but on the west coast.

And too long ago for such an ad to appear in the TV Guide or anywhere else. It was just ON when Grandma said it was on, and how she knew I will never know.

[olddots]

14. in Mass. we had Candlepins For Cash

a kids show called ironically BIG BROTHER with Bob Emery in Rhode island they had Major Mudd . great local stuff and now there are only outsourced cartoons .

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. We had Dialing for Dollars with Don Nelson at KTRK-TV, Channel 13.

[Ptah]

15. They're trying to find me!

[nolabear]

16. You bet. Wouldn't it be fun if it still existed? I miss local movie showings.

Strange and interesting local TV personalities are going the way of the dinosaur. It's too bad.

[CraftyGal]

17. I remember it quite well :)

I loved watching it before the movie....in Vancouver we had US channels as part of basic cable. Yay!