Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here is a young-looking Shelley Long, two years before she hit Cheers, in a commercial for Homemakers - which apparently at this point was but only a division of John M. Smyth. Listen to the music in the background - should be very familiar - that little flute tune was burned into our heads.
Note: This is to replace an earlier, now broken (unplayable) video posting, preserved as an unlisted video here to save the original comments: youtu.be/daGz-5KO56Y)
"Not low priced furniture... but good furniture at low prices..."
Don't argue semantics with me, lady.
This aired on local Chicago TV early Tuesday, May 20th 1980 during the 12:00am and 1:00am timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
Here is a young-looking Shelley Long, two years before she hit Cheers, in a commercial for Homemakers - which apparently at this point was but only a division of John M. Smyth. Listen to the music in the background - should be very familiar - that little flute tune was burned into our heads.
Note: This is to replace an earlier, now broken (unplayable) video posting, preserved as an unlisted video here to save the original comments: youtu.be/daGz-5KO56Y)
"Not low priced furniture... but good furniture at low prices..."
Don't argue semantics with me, lady.
This aired on local Chicago TV early Tuesday, May 20th 1980 during the 12:00am and 1:00am timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
