"Biggest Sunday Audience" :)

 

Hi!

 

The picture quality of this ad with Jack Kelly from a 1959 Amarillo, Texas, newspaper is terrible, but I still wanted to share it with you.

 

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that was true of the audience size for Maverick in Amarillo.

 

"Some Programs Win Awards! Others Win Audiences! Some Win Both!" the ad trumpets. 

 



It notes that Maverick was named "Best Western" by the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences. Maverick also had the "Biggest Sunday Audience", according to the American Research Bureau.

The ad sums it all up: "TONIGHT, More Amarillo Residents Will Watch Maverick Than ANY Other Sunday Program on ANY Station!"

Of course, now we can watch Maverick on Sunday, Monday or any other day of the week. But, it's still nice to see that it was the "king" of its timeslot and "aces" with the audience back in the day. ;)

Please stay tuned for more about our favorite Maverick in TDS!

A Scrap of Maverick! :)

Hi!

Here's a vintage newspaper ad for Maverick, which I just salvaged and digitized from an old scrapbook page. It's advertising the episode Alias Bart Maverick, starring suave Jack Kelly as...well, you know! This episode premiered on October 5, 1958, which means it--and this rare scrap of Maverick ephemera--is nearly 60 years old.

"Bart plays tag with a wily con man and four gun-happy brothers (not to mention a Southern belle named Cindy)!"

Speaking of ephemera: In this day of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, et al, and the never ending demand for eye-catching online content, it's sometimes difficult to find JK-related material that hasn't already been shared, tweeted and pinned seven ways from sundown.

However, another bit of ephemera just joined the Kellection which I think will be new to you. (It was to me!) Like the Maverick ad above, it's nearly 60 years old. It originated in a long-defunct "niche" publication and it's not only about JK it's by JK, too! It expresses his views on a subject not usually associated with him. Oh, and it has some dreamy pix, too. It's coming next in TDS...please stay "tuned"! ;>