Mego Mystery Vehicle Identity – The Ark II Roamer
To
announce their Saturday Morning Fall Schedules, the Big Three networks would
often announce their new line-ups in the centerfolds of many a comic book. They would also do it with the language of
colorful comic book art of the time. CBS
included this side frame for Ark II
in their 1976 – 1977 season centerfold and it even includes the time of
broadcast.
Sometimes,
the local affiliate would record it or pick-up a different time of network
broadcast so they could show it at a timeslot to accommodate scheduling
rearrangements that were one-shot deals to fit specials or permanent
alterations for the season or even half season.
In a pre-VHS/pre-Beta world, this also meant some people could see the
same episode twice in a day if more than one affiliate would be picked up on
their TV or catch the show the week before if the affiliate taped the show for
broadcast a week late as also often happened.
Not the
prominence of The Roamer in the ad and how they changed the color to make it
more visible.
We’ll
post more goodies and mysteries revealed like this when we hear of them.
