Heroes, Hits and Hot Spots

Don't Touch That Dial for October 22, 2026: Heroes, Hits and Hot Spots. 9 pieces (vintage commercials and promos, songs and theme tunes): Mission: Impossible, Blackout, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and more, with Ricky Voltage. In this episode: 0:00 Don't Touch That Dial opens: Ricky Voltage welcomes you 1:17 Mission: Impossible (theme, 1966) 3:18 Blackout (TV spot, 1978) — A TV spot for the 1978 film Blackout from New World Pictures, starring Jim Mitchum, Robert Carradine, and Belinda J Montgomery. The film dramatizes a catastrophic blackout that plunges New York City into chaos and lawlessness. 3:48 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV theme, 1970) — The Mary Tyler Moore Show featured an opening sequence with a theme song called "Love Is All Around" that was written and performed by Sonny Curtis. 6:17 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 6:27 Disco Fever by Ronco (commercial, 1978) — A Ronco commercial for a compilation album of original disco hits featuring Gloria Gaynor, Thelma Houston, Walter Murphy, Johnny Taylor, and Lovell, promoting the album as suitable for listening and dancing at parties. 6:55 K-tel Boxing Wars (commercial) — A K-tel television commercial promoting the Boxing Wars home video compilation, which featured classic boxing matches starring Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Norton, Holmes, and George Foreman's comeback fight. 7:20 Wonder Woman 10:32 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 10:42 Star Trek Convention (radio spot, 1987) 11:13 Close Encounters (commercial, 1987) 11:24 John Williams - Superman Theme 15:44 Ricky Voltage signs off Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com .