Post by Doghouse6 on May 24, 2020 13:08:24 GMT
Jim Rockford's telephone
Ghostbusters TV ad
Turns out the number appears in numerous TV shows, but when I noticed the connection above as a kid it gave me a real buzz.
In the days of lettered prefixes, before the early-'60s introduction of what the phone companies called "digit dialing," fictional film and TV numbers were often "KLondike-5-whatever," which was, of course, also "555." It was about the same time that area codes came into use nationwide. Zip codes came along shortly afterward.
May be hard to believe now, but it was all a source of great confusion to millions at the time. Musical satirist Allan Sherman included a song about it on his second hit record album.
"Record album:" that's another obsolete phrase, isn't it?