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These commercials aired on WXIA on February 19th, 1980
1. Great Loaf (Partial)
2. Promo for "Jim Rockford Private Investigator" (This was the syndication title for "The Rockford Files", which had just ended its run on NBC about a month before this)
3. Promo for "Tic Tac Dough"
4. WXIA News Update
a. Georgia house fails to pass bill giving equal time to creationism in public schools
b. Death sentence of four Georgia death row inmates left intact by U.S. Supreme Court (The landmark 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia decided that "The arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment." At that time no prisoners had been executed in the U.S. since 1968 with overall public support for capital punishment on the decline. This decision called the constitutionality of the death penalty into question beginning a brief moratorium for all executions nationwide and caused Florida and Texas to rewrite their laws to institute a bifurcated trial system that separated the guilt and sentencing phases to ensure constitutional due process. In 1976 the Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was indeed constitutional when imposed under this system, ending the moratorium. Georgia would not resume carrying out executions of death row inmates until 1983)
c. Atlanta City Council President election (Marvin Arrington won this election and served as the City Council President until 1998)
d. Mobile home fire
e. Bert Lance corruption trial
5. Chain Collection
6. Easy-Off Oven Cleaner (I like the weird phasey echo at 3:57)
7. Remco
8. Elaine Powers Figure Salons
9. Milk
10. National Home Life Assurance Company U.S. Veterans Health Insurance (With Roger Staubach)
11. Slim Whitman "All My Best" (Mock all you want but his song "Indian Love Call" single-handedly defeated the Martian empire in 1996 and saved humanity from annihilation: youtube.com/watch?v=HBuk1HXcz1k)
12. Food Giant
13. Krystal (This Tennessee-based fast food chain started out in 1932 as a carbon copy of White Castle after the founder had visited their restaurants in Chicago. Their hamburgers are small slider style square-shaped patties steamed on onions identical to the ones served at White Castle)
14. Final Net Hairspray
15. Maalox Plus (With E.G. Marshall)
16. Vagabond Marionettes "The Reluctant Dragon" at the Center for Puppetry Arts (Apologies for any nightmares this might cause. The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is still around: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Puppetry_Arts)
17. "Star Trek" End Credits (The episode shown here was "Wolf in the Fold")
18. Rexall Vitamins
19. Rolaids
20. Coca Cola Superbowl of Motocross
21. Promo for "Tic Tac Dough"
These commercials aired on WXIA on February 19th, 1980
1. Great Loaf (Partial)
2. Promo for "Jim Rockford Private Investigator" (This was the syndication title for "The Rockford Files", which had just ended its run on NBC about a month before this)
3. Promo for "Tic Tac Dough"
4. WXIA News Update
a. Georgia house fails to pass bill giving equal time to creationism in public schools
b. Death sentence of four Georgia death row inmates left intact by U.S. Supreme Court (The landmark 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia decided that "The arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment." At that time no prisoners had been executed in the U.S. since 1968 with overall public support for capital punishment on the decline. This decision called the constitutionality of the death penalty into question beginning a brief moratorium for all executions nationwide and caused Florida and Texas to rewrite their laws to institute a bifurcated trial system that separated the guilt and sentencing phases to ensure constitutional due process. In 1976 the Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was indeed constitutional when imposed under this system, ending the moratorium. Georgia would not resume carrying out executions of death row inmates until 1983)
c. Atlanta City Council President election (Marvin Arrington won this election and served as the City Council President until 1998)
d. Mobile home fire
e. Bert Lance corruption trial
5. Chain Collection
6. Easy-Off Oven Cleaner (I like the weird phasey echo at 3:57)
7. Remco
8. Elaine Powers Figure Salons
9. Milk
10. National Home Life Assurance Company U.S. Veterans Health Insurance (With Roger Staubach)
11. Slim Whitman "All My Best" (Mock all you want but his song "Indian Love Call" single-handedly defeated the Martian empire in 1996 and saved humanity from annihilation: youtube.com/watch?v=HBuk1HXcz1k)
12. Food Giant
13. Krystal (This Tennessee-based fast food chain started out in 1932 as a carbon copy of White Castle after the founder had visited their restaurants in Chicago. Their hamburgers are small slider style square-shaped patties steamed on onions identical to the ones served at White Castle)
14. Final Net Hairspray
15. Maalox Plus (With E.G. Marshall)
16. Vagabond Marionettes "The Reluctant Dragon" at the Center for Puppetry Arts (Apologies for any nightmares this might cause. The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is still around: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Puppetry_Arts)
17. "Star Trek" End Credits (The episode shown here was "Wolf in the Fold")
18. Rexall Vitamins
19. Rolaids
20. Coca Cola Superbowl of Motocross
21. Promo for "Tic Tac Dough"
