Heroes, Hits and Hot Spots

Don't Touch That Dial · Oct 22, 2026 · 16m

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…