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Seeking retro airdate for particular KTLA (channel 5) movie airing

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Jared Lekites

I am wondering if anybody here might have a TV listing featuring KTLA from about 1995 where their movie (presumably the Monday night movie) was Troop Beverly Hills?
I have this recorded off-air on a VHS with the familiar mid-1990s "5 Movie Theater" bumpers before the commercial breaks and I am trying to place the exact date it was recorded. Just before the movie starts, there's a Lincoln/Mercury dealer sponsorship title card with a voice-over.
Unfortunately the commercials are cut from the tape so I don't have local news teasers or movie trailers to give me more clues about the airdate but there is a brief start of an episode of THE BRADY BUNCH at the beginning of the tape before the movie kicks in that has a screen crawl about the OJ Simpson trial being in recess until Tuesday morning.
With this OJ trial info, I would venture to guess that this would mean the movie aired September 1995 or shortly thereafter but it could have been earlier in the year, possibly in April. It's possible that it could have aired in very early 1996 but I moved away from California in March 1996 so it could not have been any time after that.

I am aware that bumpers from an airing of Troop Beverly Hills on KTLA a couple years prior exist on YouTube and these bumpers/title cards not match the bumpers on my VHS.

Any help appreciated!
 
Wow. That's some ask, going back a full 30 years (your deduction on using the reference to the Simpson trial was good detective work). I can't even remember what I had for breakfast a week ago.

I am going to watch this thread to see if anyone comes up with further clues, and I will dig around myself just in case I can turn up something useful.
 
I have seen a couple September 1995 TV listings posted on here before but none that mention Troop Beverly Hills on KTLA.

The bumpers on my VHS look like this and IIRC, these Movie Theatre bumpers were used on Saturday and Monday, typically.
 
Jared Lekites said:
I have seen a couple September 1995 TV listings posted on here before but none that mention Troop Beverly Hills on KTLA.

The bumpers on my VHS look like this and IIRC, these Movie Theatre bumpers were used on Saturday and Monday, typically.
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That's actually a useful bit of information, because The WB was programming Sundays and Wednesdays in the 1995-96 season, so that's consistent (and it also lets us eliminate the two nights of The WB since KTLA wouldn't have been able to air Movie Theatre on those nights).
 
crainbebo said:
LA Times says it was broadcast on 2/20/1995 as an 8:00 movie.
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Let me guess, newspapers.com, right?

I keep a subscription to that, as one of the few luxuries I allow myself. That thing is incredibly powerful and enables newspaper searches that yield information found nowhere else.
 
While I am here, another thing I'd love to find from around this era is a commercial I recall airing frequently. I want to say it was for a restaurant called "Toco's". The commercial had this guy with a guitar approaching people on the street and singing a song that kind of sounded like "Mrs. Robinson". The lyrics were something like: "I live in Los Angelos... I like to eat at Toco's. Woah woah whoa woah woah. Eenie meenie meenie mieny moe..."

I have yet to find this (supposedly) local commercial or any mention of it online.
 
I am a Southern California native (born just north of L.A. in 1956, have never lived farther than 100 miles from Los Angeles) and I never heard of that restaurant.
 
I've gone through several YouTube videos of commercial blocks from this era and region and I've come up with nothing. It's a very vivid recollection, though. Possibly it played every commercial break when I was taping a movie or something.

Other movies I remember recording off air were "Throw Mama From the Train" and "Twins". I would venture to guess these were also off KTLA but the tapes I had of them are lost now.
 
Yes, newspapers.com subscription. $77 autopay every six months, and I get newspaper archives from 49 states plus most of Canada. Beats having to travel to the Missoula Public Library to find a certain date for the Missoulian, or the Boise Public Library for the Statesman. I've been able to find nearly every date for every TV recording I find in the wild on VHS, even the cable-taped movies, as there are often promos left after or before the film.

I like how some newspapers had multiple markets in the TV inserts, like the Tri-City Herald (pre-1993). Tri-Cities, Yakima, Spokane, most Portland stations (no KPDX), 5/7/9/11 Seattle, and CHEK-6 Victoria, plus there were cable providers in the area that carried KTVT, KTLA, and even WPIX via satellite.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Oh ... Togo's. Of course.

Still in business:

TOGO'S – Fresh Sandwiches & Restaurant Catering, Made to Order

TOGO'S serves fresh sandwiches and subs made to order. Visit our restaurant for deli-style catering, pickup, or delivery. Order online today!
togos.com togos.com

And about to open a new location nearer to me, in Chatsworth!
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I've never actually tried them out. I still plenty of contacts in the area. Maybe I will pay Togo's a long overdue visit and hum their old annoying commercial jingle in my head while enjoying a sandwich next time I am in the golden state!

I was located in the Yorba Linda/Brea area when I lived in California and if we were going out to eat, it was usually to Ruby's Diner.
 


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