80sCommercialVault
80s Commercials Vol. 684
updated
1. Trix (Commercials starting here aired 9/16/85)
2. Hi-C Candy Apple Cooler (With Alyssa Milano)
3. Fruit Roll-Ups (I believe Jenny Lewis is the redheaded girl at 1:21 and 1:27)
4. "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" Title Card
5. Promo for "Robotech" (I actually posted three volumes of commercials from episodes of "Robotech" that aired on KCOP in the summer of 1985 back in Vols. 1009-1011)
6. Alpha-Bits (Ray Parker Jr. AND Huey Lewis going to sue over that bassline)
7. Hot Wheels Crack-Ups (With the voice of Ernie Anderson)
8. Promo for "Heathcliff"
9. Honey Nut Cheerios
10. "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" Title Card (Since the Scooby-Doo movies were an hour long, they had to be split in half to air in a 30 minute block)
11. "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" End Credits
12. Options House PSA (With Mariette Hartley)
13. Pop Tarts
14. KCOP Station ID
15. Promo for "Robotech"
16. Gold Key Entertainment Logo
17. "Krofft Super Stars" Intro
18. "Land Of The Lost" Intro (Partial)
19. Rainbow Brite Lala Orange (Commercials starting here aired 9/17/85)
20. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
21. Fruit Corners Fruit Bars
22. Give A Hoot, Don't Pollute PSA (With Woodsy Owl. Judging by the condition of this print, this is probably from the 70's)
23. "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" Title Card
24. Lucky Charms
25. Golden Grahams
26. Golden Grahams (Just in case one commercial featuring this weird little mascot wasn't enough)
27. "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" Commercial Bumper (This aired after a long period of dead air, so probably KCOP's way of saying "technical difficulties")
28. "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" End Credits
29. Cocoa Puffs (Partial)
1. Home Savings And Loan Association (Commercials starting here aired 7/20/76)
2. KEYT Station ID
3. ABC Sports Olympics Bumper
4. Sears National Home Appliance Sale
5. Sears Free Spirit 10-Speed Bike
6. ABC Olympics Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Burger King, Stanley and Schlitz)
7. Coca Cola
8. EF Hutton
9. ABC Olympics Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Northwestern Mutual Life, Brut and Taster's Choice)
10. Schlitz
11. ABC Station ID
12. American Express Travelers Checks (With Karl Malden)
13. Clairol Short & Sassy (With Dorothy Hamill)
14. Millers Outpost
15. Law Enforcement Careers PSA
16. Chevy Trucks
17. Clairol Short & Sassy (With Dorothy Hamill...again)
18. ABC Olympics Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Weyerhaeuser, Brut and...Liquid Plumr)
19. Promo for "Hot Seat" (A daytime game show that aired on ABC from July to October 1976. Only a home recording from one episode is said to exist, as the master tapes for it were erased and reused by ABC: youtube.com/watch?v=QhGL4Ne1KGY)
20. Stanley (Commercials starting here aired 7/28/76)
21. Kentucky Fried Chicken
22. Promo for "Charlie's Angels" (Amazing to post a promo for the premiere of this classic TV show! I believe this promo went on longer but it was cut off by the Olympics broadcast)
23. Taster's Choice Coffee (Commercials starting here aired 8/1/76)
24. Sears Summer Drummer Hardware Sale
25. Goodyear G800 Radial Tires (Commercials starting here aired on KTLA in early August of 1976)
26. Noxzema Shaving Cream (With Farrah Fawcett)
27. Sizzler
28. Promo for "Art Hafey Vs. Danny Lopez" (Lopez beat Hafey, who went down in the 6th round)
29. HR Portable Steam Carpet Cleaning System
30. "The Big Valley" Commercial Bumper
31. Promo for "The African Adventure" (Most likely this 1971 nature documentary: imdb.com/title/tt0229201)
32. KTLA Station ID
1. Milk's The One (With John Goodman! Commercials starting here aired 3/16/81)
2. Light n' Lively Yogurt
3. Jim Wallwork for Governor (This was for the Republican gubernatorial primary, where he finished fourth...losing to Thomas Kean. He ran again in 1993 where he placed third)
4. Promo for "Von Ryan's Express"
5. Ford (The 10% back was a way to lessen the blow from the sky high interest rates that still gripped the economy, which was under recession with the high interest rates used to curb inflation. The interest rate on a loan for a new car in 1981 was around 17%)
6. Taster's Choice Coffee
7. Kodak Film
8. 7 Eleven
9. Dodge/Plymouth/Chrysler (Most automakers were having cashback sales promotions during this period)
10. Promo for "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley", "Three's Company" and "Too Close For Comfort" (Damn, that is a solid lineup)
11. ABC Station ID
12. Double Action Calgonite (Honey, what did I tell you about going inside the dishwasher?)
13. NyQuil (This guy walked so Nathan Lane could run)
14. Promo for "The Greatest American Hero"
15. "That's Incredible!" Commercial Bumper
16. Promo for "Hart To Hart"
17. Bonz (Dogs don't know it's not bone! IT'S BONE!!!)
18. WABC News Bumper
19. Chevrolet (More cash bonuses)
20. Coast (The actor here is Harry Waters Jr. best known for playing Marvin Berry in "Back To The Future"! "Hey Chuck, it's your cousin MARVIN BERRY!")
21. Folgers
22. Promo for "The Greatest American Hero" (One of the GOAT 80's TV theme songs)
23. Wrigley's Double Mint Gum
24. Ford Mustang
25. "That's Incredible!" End Credits (Partial)
26. Mountain Dew (Commercials starting here aired 8/31/81)
27. McDonald's You Deserve A Break Today Game (With veteran TV/Radio actor Frank Nelson)
28. 9-Lives (11:13 Maybe this was the study about cats watching TV that Robert Mitchum's character brings up in "Scrooged": youtube.com/watch?v=0Oa5yEq2qvM&t=32s)
29. Promo for "The Richard Simmons Show" (Even though the crazy clip here of him being thrown into a refrigerator looks almost like it's from a sitcom, this was for his morning exercise/talk show that ran from 1980-84)
30. Replay Gum
31. Unicap M (But why the phallic shaped bottle?)
32. ABC Station ID
33. Enhance Shampoo
34. No Place Like Sam's (This was actually part of the restaurant chain Sambo's, who had renamed some of their locations to this moniker earlier in 1981 in an attempt to rebrand the company and move away from a name that many associated with a racial slur. By late 1981 they filed for bankruptcy and by 1982 all but the original location in Santa Barbara, CA closed)
35. Chevrolet 6.2L Diesel Trucks
36. Promo for "The Manions Of America" (A three part miniseries starring Pierce Brosnan and Kate Mulgrew. This was Brosnan's first American role, a year before his series "Remington Steele" debuted on NBC)
37. Federal Express (The famous ad starring John Moschitta, later known for as the Micro Machines man and directed by Joe Sedelmaier who later made the iconic Wendy's "Where's The Beef" ad in 1984)
38. Milk-Bone (15:52 I love the cartoony art on those old dog food boxes that look more like they're from the 60's)
39. "That's Incredible!" Commercial Bumper
40. Promo for "World News Tonight"
41. WYNY FM Radio (With Bruce Bradley)
42. Sasson
43. York Peppermint Pattie
44. WABC 7 News Bumper
45. "That's Incredible!" Commercial Bumper
46. RCA (After a series of blunders including the failed CED Home Video system, RCA was acquired by its former parent company General Electric in 1986, largely due to GE's interest in acquiring the NBC TV network...which RCA owned. The rest of the company was sold or liquidated and the company went defunct in 1987)
47. Cheese
48. Lifesavers
49. Promo for "Mork & Mindy" (RIP Robin Williams. This was a promo for the fourth and final season of the show, and yes, one of the episodes involved a plot where Mork becomes pregnant by Mindy)
50. 1982 Dodge Aries K Wagon (19:08 I really hate it when I'm suddenly driving in the middle of a Halloween sound effects record)
51. Wendy's (With Dave Thomas and Estelle Harris at 19:52)
52. Promo for "The Greatest American Hero"
53. "That's Incredible!" End Credits
1. Promo for "Clueless Premiere Beach Party"
2. Gatorade
3. Ray Ban Xrays Sunglasses
4. The Rembrandts "L.P." at Camelot Music
5. Honda Del Sol
6. Fila Delta Cross Trainer (With Mike Powell, whose 1991 world long jump record still stands)
7. Snapple
8. TV Spot for "Judge Dredd" (3:12 "I AM THE LAWWW!")
9. MTV Station ID
10. Promo for "Road Rules"
11. Lipton Original Iced Tea
12. Al's Honda
13. The Dating Network
14. Soloflex
15. "Beavis and Butt-head" Disclaimer
16. Promo for "Beavis and Butt-head"
17. "Beavis and Butt-head" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by 1-800-COLLECT, Red Dog Beer and Stridex)
18. 1-800-COLLECT (With Ed O'Neill)
19. Stridex (Needs more cheesy video effects!)
20. Red Dog Beer (Voiceover by Tommy Lee Jones)
21. The Adventures of Batman & Robin for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and Game Gear (Now THIS is a commercial I'm surprised to see! The Genesis version is easily the best game here and is a great run-and-gun beat-em-up. The Sega CD version is a mediocre combat racing game, but worth playing for the animated FMV sequences alone...which to my knowledge have never been released elsewhere)
22. TV Spot for "Species" (Natasha Henstridge quickly became a household name among teenage boys after this movie was released)
23. MTV Station ID
24. MTV Malibu Beach House Promo
25. Miller Lite
26. Promo for "The Mask" on Starz!
27. MTV News Brief
28. Reebok
29. You're Worth Waiting For PSA
30. Apple Macintosh (With Oliver Stone)
31. Oxy10
32. TV Spot for "Species"
33. MTV Station ID
34. Reebok
35. TV Spot for "The Net"
36. Certs (Voiceover by Don Pardo of SNL)
37. Formula 2001 Super Protectant
38. Donette Studio (Even a local ad for a photography studio in 1995 had to have a hip EDM soundtrack)
39. MTV Station ID
40. Six Flags
41. Tower Records
42. Gatorade
43. Soloflex Rockit (Herbie Hancock shoulda sued!)
44. Rogaine (All of the women in this appear to be Australian?)
45. TV Spot for "First Knight"
46. Sega Saturn (This is one console I never really experienced back then, but I've recently been playing a bit of the library on the Retroid Pocket 4. Though it can be hard to adjust to those crude early 3D polygonal graphics, many games do have that unmistakable Sega charm. Sega Rally in particular is a decent port of the arcade game)
47. Donkey Kong Land for Game Boy (Seeing these two ads back to back, you can definitely see how Sega's style of marketing had infected Nintendo's at this point)
48. The Production Dept.
49. Crimeline/Blythe Plumbing & Heating
50. MTV News Brief
51. Details Magazine
52. MTV Station ID
53. Promo for "Road Rules"
54. Three Dog Night: Greatest Hits
55. Crimeline/Jerry Chambers Chevrolet
56. Promo for "Junior" on Pay-Per-View
57. Barq's Root Beer ("Stink-N-Stare" combines two extremely 90's gimmicks...Magic Eye and Scratch & Sniff)
58. 7-11 Slurpee (Parody of "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer")
59. Soloflex
60. Sports Illustrated "Below The Rim" VHS and Hoop Set
61. MTV Station ID
62. TV Spot for "Clueless"
63. Sunkist
64. Info Vision
65. MTV News Brief (The death of model Krissy Taylor was initially believed to be caused by an asthma attack but independent experts later determined that she suffered from a rare heart disease)
66. Promo for "Michael Jackson Guitar Giveaway Sunday" (I'm not sure what the value of owning a signed guitar by someone who didn't even play guitar is)
67. Gatorade (With Michael Jordan)
68. Soloflex Rockit
69. Entertainment Weekly Hot Dance Mix
70. MTV Station ID
71. Living In The 90s (It's always fun to post this compilation, which featured music from only the first four years of the decade...along with a few songs from the late 80's)
72. Crimeline/Blythe Plumbing & Heating
73. Promo for "The Shadow" on Starz!
74. ITT Technical Institute
75. MTV Station ID
76. TV Spot for "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory"
77. Cybergenics Quick Trim
78. Soloflex
79. Art Institutes International
80. Promo for Block Party Summer on Nick at Nite
81. Crimeline/Jerry Chambers Mitsubishi
82. Promo for "Legends Of The Fall" on Pay-Per-View
83. "MTV Oddities" Commercial Bumper
84. Promo for "Fight Back" on MTV News
85. Designer Imposters Body Spray
86. Pay Day
87. MTV Station ID
88. "MTV Oddities" Commercial Bumper
89. Promo for "The State"
90. Skittles (The girl in red at 44:04 is Amanda Peet)
91. DMX
92. Army National Guard PSA
93. MTV Station ID
94. MTV Station ID
95. TV Spot for "Clueless" (46:33 Breckin Meyer in this movie looks suspiciously like the guy in the wanted sketch in all of the Crimeline ads...)
96. Degree Antiperspirant
97. Big Red
98. Salon Selectives Botanical Blends
99. MTV Station ID
100. MTV Promo
101. Baby Ruth (Voiceover by Hoyt Axton. I'm about 99% sure that the guy playing Babe Ruth also appeared in this Motrin IB commercial: youtube.com/watch?v=32E0KCBY42Q&t=98s)
102. Apple Macintosh (With George Clinton)
103. A&W Root Beer
104. ITT Technical Institute
105. U.S. Army
106. Twix
107. DMX
1. Purina 100
2. New Jersey & You: Perfect Together (With Brooke Shields and NJ Governor Thomas Kean)
3. WNYT News Bumper
4. "Riptide" and "Remington Steele" will not be seen tonight...
5. "V: The Final Battle" Intro
6. NBC Movie Of The Week Intro
7. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
8. Toyota Commercial Bumper
9. 1984 Toyota Tercel
10. Stroh's
11. Finesse
12. Xerox
13. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
14. American Express
15. Canon Snappy 20 Camera (The girl at 5:30 is actress Mia Sara, best known for "Legend" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". I also love the bright primary colors of these cameras)
16. NBC Movie Of The Week Commercial Bumper
17. TV Spot for "Real People", "The Facts Of Life" and "St. Elsewhere"
18. Genesee
19. WNYT News Bumper
20. NBC Movie Of The Week Commercial Bumper
21. Honda Lawnmower
22. TV Spot for "Firestarter"
23. 1984 Toyota SR-5 Xtra Cab (The 1985 version of this truck was the same model that Marty McFly owned at the end of "Back To The Future")
24. Apple IIc
25. NBC Movie Of The Week Commercial Bumper
26. Promo for "Cheers"
27. NBC News Digest (With Tom Brokaw)
a. 1984 Democratic Presidential Primary Results (Gary Hart did not drop out of the race until the Democratic National Convention in July, where he vied to be Walter Mondale's pick for Vice President on the ticket. Mondale instead picked Geraldine Ferraro as his VP and went on to lose the election to Reagan by double digits, winning only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia)
28. Michelob Light
b. Soviet boycott of 1984 Summer Olympics may involve other countries (The boycott was in retaliation for the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer games in Moscow, which was prompted by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979. The other Eastern Bloc countries mentioned as possibly joining the boycott did indeed join the Soviets in boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics)
29. Genesee Cream Ale (Genesee does what Stroh's don't!)
30. CVS
31. WNYT News Bumper
32. NBC Movie Of The Week Commercial Bumper
33. Toyota Corrola
34. Stroh's
35. Honda EX 650 Portable Generator
36. Brach's Candy
37. Promo for "19th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards"
38. Promo for "Decision 84"
39. United Negro College Fund PSA
40. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
41. Micatin
42. TV Spot for "The Natural"
43. Toyota 5998 Workhorse
44. NBC Movie Of The Week Commercial Bumper
45. Promo for "Days Of Our Lives"
46. WNYT News Update
47. Dunkin' Donuts Coupons (Time to clip the coupons...)
48. Nissan
49. Burger King (With Emmanuel Lewis)
50. Promo for "Quincy"
51. NBC Movie Of The Week Commercial Bumper
52. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
53. Honda Portable Generators
54. Apple IIc
55. Honda Scooters (With Grace Jones and Adam Ant)
56. Black & Decker Spotliter
57. Promo for "Cheers", "The Duck Factory" and "Hill Street Blues" ("The Duck Factory" was a short-lived sitcom that only aired for 13 episodes. It's most notable for being Jim Carrey's first leading role in a Hollywood production)
58. Promo for "Today"
59. Arthritis Foundation PSA (With Leslie Nielsen)
60. Toyota Corolla Sport Liftback
61. Hallmark (With Gary Cole)
62. AT&T
63. Anacin
64. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
65. "V: The Final Battle" End Credits
66. Promo for "The First Olympics" (Great, thanks to this extremely long and detailed summary...I'll never have to watch this)
67. NBC Movie Of The Week Commercial Bumper
68. Promo for "The Omen"
69. Promo for "The First Olympics"
70. Matt's Premium Beer
71. Dodge Spring Rally
1. Old Milwaukee Beer
2. Hallmark (With Gary Cole)
3. Kal Kan Cat Food (The choice of crazy cat ladies everywhere)
4. Xerox Memory Writer Typewriter
5. TV Spot for "Real People", "The Facts Of Life" and "St. Elsewhere"
6. Toyota 4x4
7. Polaroid (With Mariette Hartley. No James Garner, no sale!)
8. Dove
9. Anacin-3 (You've gotta love the not-so-subtle overdub at 3:57 to replace the word "doctors" with "physicians"...for some reason)
10. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
11. Promo for "Days Of Our Lives"
12. WNYT 13 News Digest
13. McDonald's Filet o Fish
14. Mobil Super Unleaded Gasoline
15. Dodge Spring Rally
16. WNYT Rape Crisis Hotline Bumper
17. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
18. TV Spot for "The Natural"
19. Toyota Corolla Sport Liftback
20. Cover Girl Thick Lash 2 (With Carol Alt)
21. Old Milwaukee Beer
22. Coronet Paper Towels (With Rosemary Clooney)
23. Clorox 2
24. Visa (With Carol Potter)
25. L'eggs Sheer Elegance (With Maggie Han)
26. Promo for "V: The Final Battle"
27. "V: The Final Battle" End Credits
28. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
29. Promo for "The First Olympics" (A two part miniseries starring David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury and David Caruso)
30. WNYT 13 News Promo
31. Ford
1. Citizen Watches
2. Otto Oldsmobile Wheel Of Fortune Game
3. WNYT 13 News Promo
4. NBC Station ID
5. "V: The Final Battle" Intro
6. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Intro
7. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
8. Toyota Commercial Bumper
9. Toyota Celica GTS
10. Old Milwaukee Light
11. Apple IIc (The other computer is the IBM PC Jr. Neither of these computers sold well)
12. TV Spot for "Firestarter"
13. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
14. Toyota Trucks
15. AT&T
16. Maxwell House Decaffeinated
17. Skippy Peanut Butter (With Annette Funicello. The girl on the right at 5:55 is Jenny Lewis)
18. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
19. Promo for "Cheers" (Part 2 of the Season 2 finale where Sam & Diane break up. Shelley Long returned for the next season and would not actually leave the show until Season 5 in 1987)
20. Promo for "The Omen"
21. Genesee Cream Ale (Now THAT is a beard!)
22. WNYT 13 News Bumper
23. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
24. Toyota Corolla
25. American Express (These ads had a really high production value)
26. S.O.S.
27. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
28. Promo for "The A Team"
29. NBC News Digest
a. 1984 Election (At this point Walter Mondale was the clear front runner, but Gary Hart would not exit the race until the DNC in July. Mondale would go on to lose the election to Reagan in a landslide)
b. Violence in Panama's Presidential election (Despite the appearance of democracy, Panama was then under the rule of Manuel Noriega, an unelected military dictator who ruled the country from 1983 until his removal in early 1990, when he was deposed by U.S. forces: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama)
c. Pope John Paul II arrives in Papua New Guinea
d. Olympic flame begins journey to Los Angeles
30. Albany Business College
31. Matt's Premium Beer
32. CVS
33. WNYT 13 News Promo
34. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
1. Xerox 10 Series Marathon Copiers
2. Hallmark (With Gary Cole)
3. Youth Garde (With Catherine Deneuve)
4. Dristan
5. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
6. Promo for "You Are The Jury"
7. CVS (2:25 I see that even back then they had ugly, unsanitary carpet in all of their stores)
8. I ❤️ New York Vacations
9. WNYT Station ID
10. 1984 Toyota Tercel (Quotes the classic 1888 baseball poem, "Casey at the Bat")
11. Minute Maid Orange Juice
12. American Express (Great production value, but 4:39 might be the worst dubbing that I've posted here in quite a while...)
13. Toyota 4x4 Truck
14. AT&T
15. TV Spot for "Firestarter" (That shot of Drew Barrymore at 6:28 is iconic, and was used as the poster. I've never actually seen this, but now that I know it involves George C. Scott using a sniper rifle I might have to check it out...)
16. Meister Brau
17. Tomorrow on "V: The Final Battle"
18. "V: The Final Battle" End Credits
19. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
20. Promo for "You Are The Jury"
21. NBC News Digest
a. 1984 Presidential Campaign (Gary Hart did not exit the race until the Democratic National Convention in July, where Walter Mondale received the overwhelming vote from the delegates. Hart was seen as the front runner for the presidential race in 1988, but news of an extramarital affair in 1987 dashed his chances)
22. Purina Chuck Wagon Dog Food (I guess this is the commercial referenced by Rob Reiner's character Marti DiBergi at the beginning of "This Is Spinal Tap": youtube.com/watch?v=sEvQHxmrgNA&t=68s)
b. Pope John Paul's visit to South Korea (You gotta love the Popemobile)
23. Matt's Premium Beer (A family owned brewery based in Utica, New York: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Brewing_Company)
24. Citizen Watches (The clock seen in this commercial is the Rathaus-Glockenspiel in Munich: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathaus-Glockenspiel)
25. Promo for "Entertainment Tonight"
1. Dodge Spring Rally
2. WNYT Station ID
3. "Knight Rider" will not be seen tonight (Aww...)
4. "V: The Final Battle" Intro
5. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Intro
6. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
7. Toyota Commercial Bumper
8. Toyota Corolla (Obviously filmed in San Francisco...the first scene at 1:42 was likely shot on Bradford Street and the second at 1:56 was *definitely* shot on Lombard Street)
9. Timex Quartz Watches
10. Stroh's
11. Visa
12. "V: The Final Battle" Commercial Bumper
13. Apple IIc (Designed to compete with IBM's PCjr; neither computer sold well)
14. Lipton Rice & Sauce
15. Crest
16. Folger's Coffee (Featuring the fictional character "Mrs. Olson" played by actress Virginia Christine. At a certain point they weirdly stopped using an apostrophe in their name)
17. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
18. Promo for "Days Of Our Lives"
19. Marine Midland Bank
20. WNYT Station ID
21. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
22. Stroh's
23. L'eggs Sheer Elegance (With Maggie Han)
24. Polaroid
25. Hellmann's Mayonnaise (♫ Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the hell ♫)
26. Promo for "You Are The Jury"
27. Promo for "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes"
28. 1984 Toyota Standard Bed Truck
29. Wrigley's Spearmint Gum
30. Fab Detergent
31. Lysol Deodorizing Cleaner
32. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
33. Promo for "Family Secrets"
34. Promo for "Dream House" (Featuring Pat Sajak and Vanna White as celebrity guests on *another* game show!)
35. Grey Poupon Dijon Mustard (Damn, I had no idea they had variations to these ads beyond the one with the guys in cars spoofed in "Wayne's World". This is a great commercial...for me to poupon!)
36. WNYT 13 News Update (The anchorwoman at 12:17 is a young Chris Jansing, who is now one of the big daytime anchors on MSNBC. Even back then she looked like an Anime character brought to life!)
37. Mobil Super Unleaded Gasoline
38. Promo for "The Cancer Nobody Talks About" on WNYT 13 News (But...you just talked about it)
39. Dunkin' Donuts
40. WNYT Station ID
41. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
1. Greyhound
2. Kodak Colorburst 250 (I assume the mother had mumps at some point and is therefore immune and not also contagious? Otherwise this whole strategy backfires)
3. Enjoli
4. Mounds and Almond Joy
5. Mazda GLC
6. Promo for "Three's Company", "Taxi" and "Hart To Hart"
7. ABC Station ID
8. TV Spot for "The Nude Bomb" (A sequel movie to the "Get Smart" TV series, the strange title comes from the plot of the film...where the terrorist organization KAOS sets off a bomb that destroys only clothing. Ironically, this movie did not perform well at the box office, so having "bomb" in the title is fitting)
9. P.V.M. Appetite Control Capsules
10. Promo for "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley"
11. "That's Incredible" Commercial Bumper
12. Promo for "Good Morning America"
13. Crocker Bank
14. KABC 7 Eyewitness News Bumper
15. Oil Of Olay
16. Kellogg's Honey & Nut Corn Flakes
17. Burger King
18. Promo for "Eight Is Enough", "Charlie's Angels" and "Vega$"
19. Coca Cola
20. Kellogg's Most (A cereal introduced in 1979 and produced until around the mid 80's)
21. "That's Incredible" End Credits (Um, that Alan Landsburg Productions logo sequence at 8:55 is definitely incredible!)
22. ABC News Brief
a. Iranian Embassy siege in London ends (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege seen as a huge win for the Thatcher government, and the most prominent public deployment of the British Army's secretive SAS unit to date)
23. Ford Thunderbird
b. Bodies of Americans killed in hostage rescue attempt to be flown to Switzerland (Referring to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw Jimmy Carter's failed operation to rescue the hostages in Iran)
24. Promo for "The Return Of The King" (The sequel to Rankin Bass' "The Hobbit" animated TV movie from 1977, this isn't remotely as good as that...but it has some memorable moments, especially the incredible "Where There's A Whip" song: youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y I feel like they were also trying to bring a satisfying conclusion to Ralph Bashki's "The Lord Of The Rings" 1978 animated movie, which only adapted the first two books and did not receive a sequel. I wish they had ignored Bashki's strange LOTR movie entirely and made their own versions of "The Fellowship Of The Ring" and "The Two Towers", as their ROTK movie feels strange and unfinished without having extremely important characters such as Aragorn given a proper introduction. Some of the ads from this broadcast were posted back in Vol. 895: youtube.com/watch?v=8x3y0ZODEdo)
25. Alpha Beta
26. Pepsi (Filmed at Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in CA. Somewhere I actually have one of those "I Took The Pepsi Challenge" buttons they gave out that matches the yellow van seen here)
27. KABC 7 Eyewitness News Bumper
101. Arthritis Pain Formula (Commercials starting here aired 6/26/77. I still don't trust this guy, he probably has an entire case of these out back that he needs to get rid of)
102. Spalding Executive Golf Club
103. Clorets
104. General Tire
105. Sherwin Williams Latex House Paint
106. Taster's Choice
107. SunSensor Lenses (With tennis pros Rod Laver and Stan Smith)
108. Greyhound (With Pearl Bailey)
109. Tuborg Gold Beer
110. CBS Evening News End Credits
111. Promo for "60 Minutes" (Yikes at the first story)
112. Ford Granada (Commercials starting here aired 8/7/78)
113. Miller Lite (With Rodney Dangerfield)
114. Borden Lite-line American Cheese (Damn furries)
115. Tetley Tea
116. Sominex
117. Pennzoil
118. Unity Card (With Art Linkletter)
119. Metamucil
120. Goodyear Tiempo Tire (Amazing tire jingle!)
121. The Savings & Loan Foundation
122. CBS Evening News End Credits
123. Promo for "The Hawaiians"
124. Ben-Gay (Commercials starting here aired 4/27/79)
125. Benjamin Moore Paints
126. Maxwell House Coffee
127. Alcoa Aluminum
128. Monsanto
129. General Electric Food Processor
130. American Express (With Karl Malden)
131. Aqua Velva Aftershave (With Pete Rose and Joe Morgan)
132. Geritol Mega Vitamins (I believe the actor here is Joel Higgins who later played the dad on "Silver Spoons")
133. CBS Evening News End Credits
134. Promo for "Fallout From Three Mile Island" (Can be seen here: c-span.org/video/?459083-1/fallout-mile-island)
135. Sealy Posturepedic Mattress (Commercials starting here aired 4/28/79)
136. 1980 Chevy Citation (*Citation needed)
137. Litton Microwave Oven
138. Michelin Tires
139. Arthritis Strength Heet
140. Temper Insurance
141. Sanka Decaffeinated Coffee
142. Murine Eye Drops
143. Vise-Grip Locking Plyers
144. CBS Evening News End Credits
145. Promo for "Fallout From Three Mile Island" (There was actually no literal fallout from this accident, which released a minuscule amount of radioactive gas and iodine and did not even raise radiation in the surrounding area beyond normal background levels. While there are genuine concerns to be had about nuclear power, the media/public overreaction to this caused the U.S. to not invest in new nuclear power plants for decades, increased our dependence on fossil fuels and impeded development of safer systems)
146. Taylor California Cellars Wine (Commercials starting here aired 5/16/79)
147. P.V.M. Diet Plan (With Dick Van Patten)
148. Old Spice
149. Roman Meal Bread
150. Stouffer's Stuffed Green Peppers
151. Hartz 2 in 1 Plus Flea & Tick Collar
152. Krylon Spray Paint (With Johnny Bench)
153. Mazola Margarine
154. Miller Lite (With Boog Powell and Jim Honochick)
155. CBS Evening News End Credits
156. Promo for "Blind Ambition"
157. Schweppes Tonic Water (Commercials starting here aired 8/9/79)
158. Borden Skim-American Cheese
159. Geritol
160. A-1 Steak Sauce
161. ITT
162. Miller High Life (I believe that's Danny Glover at 30:33)
163. Sambo's Big Country Breakfast (With the voice of Ernie Anderson)
164. CBS Evening News End Credits
165. Promo for "Friday Morning"
166. Miller Lite (Commercials starting here aired 10/5/79. With Bruce Wilhelm)
167. Safeco (Featuring the Pink Panther)
168. Tums
169. Magic Chef Microwave Oven (With Barbara Nicklaus, wife of golfer Jack Nicklaus)
170. ITT
171. Geritol
172. Dristan
173. Sony Betamax (The other home video system being shown here was most likely U-Matic, which was developed by Sony in 1969 and came to market in 1971)
174. CBS Evening News Ending
175. Promo for "Paris"
176. Chrysler New Yorker (Commercials starting here aired 10/15/79. That final bit from Lee Iacoca sounds more like a threat than a sales pitch)
177. Snow Crop Five Alive
178. Arco
179. General Tire
180. Arthritis Strength Heet
181. Savin Copiers
182. Subaru
183. The Savings & Loan Foundation
184. Miller Lite (With Tom Heinsohn)
185. CBS Evening News End Credits
186. Promo for "M*A*S*H"
187. CBS Station ID
188. Wang (Commercials starting here aired 12/24/79. With the voice of Paul Frees)
189. Contac Jr.
190. Miller Lite (With the Quarry Brothers)
191. Eveready Batteries
192. Super Poli-Grip
193. Static Guard (With Marion Ross)
194. Merry Christmas from CBS News
195. CoTylenol
196. Grecian Formula 16
197. CBS Evening News End Credits
198. Promo for "American Dream, American Nightmare - The Seventies" (What a fitting promo to end this. This documentary can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=w7E0H2KE_c0)
199. CBS Station ID
1. Promo for "Risko" (Commercials starting here aired 5/9/76)
2. Taster's Choice
3. Sears Pretty Natural Shaper
4. Murine Ear Drops
5. Speidel Twist-O-Flex Watch Bands
6. Commercial Credit
7. Swanson Hungry-Man Entrees (With Dave DeBusschere)
8. Amana Touchmatic Radarange Microwave Oven
9. Skin Bracer by Mennen
10. Mr Coffee (With Joe DiMaggio)
11. General Tire
12. CBS Evening News Ending/CBS Station ID
13. Lucite Paints Truckload Sale (Commercials starting here aired 7/24/76)
14. Opel Isuzu
15. Sominex
16. Doan's Pills (With Kate Smith)
17. Radio Shack (With Paul Burke)
18. Sears Tire and Auto Centers
19. Nescafe Decaffeinated
20. Murine 2 Eye Drops
21. Volkswagen Rabbit
22. CBS Evening News Ending/CBS Station ID
23. Doan's Pills (Commercials starting here aired 9/15/76)
24. Roman Meal Bread
25. United Technologies
26. Jeep CJ-7
27. Ex-Lax Pills (They work just fine...you'll see)
28. Alka-Seltzer (Sorry for the nightmares this will cause)
29. Arthritis Pain Formula
30. Wheaties
31. Betty Crocker Cake & Frosting
32. CBS Evening News End Credits
33. Promo for CBS Sports Spectacular
34. Geritol (With Pete Rose and his wife Caroline. Apparently Pete went to the same barber as Moe from the Three Stooges! Commercials starting here aired 10/18/76)
35. Egg Beaters
36. Litton Microwave Oven
37. Taster's Choice
38. Weldwood Paneling and Siding (With Steve Allen and Don Adams)
39. Momentum
40. Mr Coffee
41. Buick Electra (With Dick Cavett)
42. Unicap Plus Iron
43. CBS Evening News End Credits
44. Promo for "Ali vs Norton" (This appears to be a repeat of their fight from 9/28/76, which Ali won by unanimous decision)
45. Metamucil (Commercials starting here aired 11/1/76)
46. Buick Electra
47. Momentum Tablets (My back is starting to hurt just watching this video)
48. Wear-Ever Electric Super Shooter (Missed opportunity to call it a cookie gun)
49. Nytol
50. Karastan Carpet
51. Fresh Horizons Bread
52. FTD
53. West Bend Quickdrip Coffee Maker (With Pat Boone)
54. Chocolated Ex-Lax (The word "chocolated" has now permanently entered my vocabulary)
55. CBS Evening News End Credits
56. Promo for "Election Night '76"
57. Alka-Seltzer (Commercials starting here aired 12/13/76)
58. Kmart (A Kmart sale on "leisure shirts" might make this the most 70's commercial in existence)
59. Phillips Milk Of Magnesia
60. Diamond International (Known for making a variety of products from playing cards to matches, this was bought by business tycoon James Goldsmith in 1982 with its various products/assets divested afterward)
61. Gold Medal Flour
62. Cycle Dog Food
63. Anacin
64. Preparation H (It's a good thing he had a prominent display for it right next to the cash register!)
65. V-8
66. Fleishmann's Margarine (Poor Mr. Cholesterol)
67. CBS Evening News Ending
68. Promo for "Rhoda"
69. Cadillac Seville (Commercials starting here aired 2/8/77)
70. Chocolated Ex-Lax
71. US Steel
72. Alka-Seltzer (So now it's a hangover cure?)
73. Polident
74. Lavoris
75. Egg Beaters (Don't break the cholesterol limit or Mr. Cholesterol will *never* leave your house!)
76. Nature Valley Granola
77. Arthritis Pain Formula (36:13 Doesn't matta, just take these pills! Don't ask questions!)
78. CBS Evening News End Credits
79. Promo for "Who's Who"
70. Vaseline (Commercials starting here aired 4/22/77)
71. Atlas Tires
72. Hamburger Helper (Featuring a rare look inside the Betty Crocker test kitchens!)
73. Nytol (With the voice of Mason Adams aka the Smuckers guy!)
74. Scramblers (39:23 You would think that Humpty Dumpty wouldn't lick his lips when talking about how delicious eggs taste, but you'd be WRONG)
75. Buick Regal (I love the pixel art logo at the end)
76. Ponds Cold Cream
77. Edison Electric Institute
78. Elmer's Glue-All (I never liked that creepy bull man mascot on their packaging)
79. Jobe's Fertilizer Spikes
80. CBS Evening News End Credits
81. Promo for "NBA Playoffs"
82. Tuborg Gold Beer (Commercials starting here aired 4/28/77)
83. Pace CB Radio ("Breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck")
84. BF Goodrich Tires (With Jeff Daniels)
85. Sherwin Williams Latex House Paint
86. SunSensor Lenses (With tennis pros Rod Laver and Stan Smith)
87. Nescafe
88. Wheaties (With Bruce Jenner)
89. General Tire
90. Doan's Pills
91. Tuborg Gold Beer
92. CBS Evening News End Credits
93. Promo for "60 Minutes"
94. Tuborg Gold Beer (Commercials starting here aired 6/18/77. Apologies for the lower quality audio here)
95. Greyhound (With Pearl Bailey, who is maybe best known to younger generations as the voice of Big Mama the owl in Disney's "The Fox And The Hound")
96. Efferdent
97. BF Goodrich Tires
98. Florida Orange Juice
99. Anacin
100. Mennen Skin Bracer Aftershave
Continued in Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=jxBpdSgHzh0
1. Aspen (A short lived Apple flavored soda produced by Pepsi from 1978 to 1982)
2. Alpha Beta
3. KNBC News 4 Promo
4. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
5. Anacin (Is there also a medicine to cure the inevitable nightmares caused by 1:23?)
6. Beneficial Finance System
7. Carnation Coffee-mate
8. Chrysler 5 50 Protection Plan (With Neil Armstrong)
9. Nature Valley Granola Bars
10. Ford Granada
11. Dial
12. Polaroid (With James Garner and Mariette Hartley)
13. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
14. Promo for "Hanging By A Thread" (This is actually one long unbroken promo for various NBC TV movies, but I'm going to break them up individually in the description)
15. Promo for "The Sacketts" (Featuring a pre-fame Tom Selleck at 6:18)
16. Promo for "A Man Called Intrepid"
17. Promo for "The Best Place To Be"
18. Promo for "Today"
19. Promo for "Hizzonner"
20. KNBC News 4 Update (Featuring an early Pat Sajak appearance as the KNBC weatherman! He looks like a cardboard cutout in the background until he starts moving...creepy)
21. Lawry's Seasoned Salt (Originally invented at Lawry's The Prime Rib Restaurant in Los Angeles)
22. World Savings and Loan Association
23. Sizzler
24. KNBC News Bumper
25. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
26. Taster's Choice Coffee
27. Arby's (With the voice of Casey Kasem)
28. Bayer Aspirin
29. Maybelline Fresh Lash Mascara (With Sela Ward)
30. Promo for "Hanging By A Thread"
31. "Rollercoaster" End Credits
1. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Intro: "Rollercoaster" (A 1977 disaster movie starring George Segal)
2. AMC Concord
3. Kentucky Fried Chicken (Amazing to post an ad for KFC that actually has Col. Sanders in it!)
4. Visa
5. Dial Roll-On Antiperspirant (With Kelly Harmon)
6. Ball Park Hot Dogs (3:25 hard to believe, but that's actually what a microwave oven looked like in 1979. More like a MACROwave!)
7. General Electric Food Processor
8. Bufferin (Bufferin ends the sufferin')
9. Vanish Toilet Bowl Cleaner (I wish I had been alive back then to see the iconic Vanish Toilet Bowl Cleaner Van in person, but alas...)
10. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
11. NBC News Update
a. Organized crime and Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa may have been behind Kennedy assassination (Or...Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, as all of the available evidence points to)
b. Raymond Lee Harvey arraigned for conspiring to kill President Carter (I guess we just need to keep tabs on anyone with the name Lee Harvey)
c. Gasoline Lines (A direct result of the 1978-79 Iranian Revolution, which destabilized world oil markets and caused the price of oil to nearly double)
d. Americans want to see R-rated movies on TV per TV Guide Poll
12. Ritz Crackers (With Andy Griffith)
13. Promo for "Greatest Heroes Of The Bible" (An anthology TV series depicting stories from the Old Testament that ran for one season)
14. Promo for "Hizzonner" (A short-lived sitcom starring David Huddleston, who was also executive producer. He is probably best known for his role as "The Big Lebowski")
15. Aquafresh Toothpaste (This commercial is so low budget that they actually chroma keyed them into a photo of a drugstore instead of building a set)
16. Stanley Garage Door Opener (7:24 This guy won probably every single David Niven lookalike contest that he entered)
17. KNBC News Bumper
18. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
19. Aim Toothpaste
20. Signal Mouthwash
21. 1979 Ford Wagons (Given the earlier story about gas lines, it's easy to see why enormous gas-guzzling station wagons like this soon went out of style. American auto manufacturers took several years to adapt, causing consumers to buy smaller, more fuel-efficient foreign cars and captive imports)
22. Lowenbrau
23. Promo for "Real People"
24. Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats (In what world are these "mini"?)
25. Kraft Parkay Margarine
26. Glass Plus
27. Visine Eye Drops
28. Aquafresh Toothpaste (At least they could afford an actual shelf to put behind them for this one)
29. Honda Civic 1200 Sedan (With the voice of Burgess Meredith)
30. Schlitz Light Beer (With George Burns)
31. Best Foods Mayonnaise
32. NBC Monday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
33. Promo for "Chevy Chase National Humor Test" (Can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=H6AiLAdyT08)
1. Nick at Nite's TV Land (With Jerry Carroll aka Crazy Eddie!)
2. Soft & Dri Clear Gel Antiperspirant (With Josie Bissett)
3. Motrin IB
4. Spectracide Grass & Weed Killer
5. Internet A to Z Starter Kit (Man, I haven't thought about the Netscape browser in a *really* long time. This video is such a time capsule. Seeing that little animated loading graphic at 1:37 really took me back to the early days of the internet when pretty much everything involved staring at a loading animation)
6. "The Lucy Show" End Credits
7. Our Television Heritage: The Lucy Show
8. Digital Music Express (We also had TCI cable in my area at the time these aired and this service was advertised constantly on infomercials)
9. Find Yourself In A Book PSA
10. Dirt Devil Broom Vac
11. Nick at Nite Station ID
12. Next up on Nick at Nite...
13. Nick at Nite Promo
14. Texas
15. Texas (This guy reminds me of Robert Englund aka Freddy Krueger)
16. Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust (With Peter O'Toole)
17. Battlecage on Pay-Per-View
18. Iowa State Fair Blue Ribbon Foundation PSA
19. "The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh" on VHS
20. Tostitos (With Chris Elliot. I remember that their packaging stayed like this for a really long time and it always reminded me of the mid-late 90's)
21. Eureka Powerline and Powerline Plus Vacuum Cleaners
22. Promo for "The Munsters"
23. "The Munsters" End Credits
24. Nick at Nite Online on America Online
25. JCPenney
26. McDonald's Disney Video Masterpiece Collection Trivia Challenge Game
27. Honda Passport
28. Pace Thick & Chunky Salsa (The main actor here is Burton Gilliam who can be seen in such movies as "Blazing Saddles" and "Back To The Future Part III". IMO nothing sells salsa like a little implied cowboy murder!)
29. Nick at Nite Station ID
30. Next up on Nick at Nite...
31. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Nick At Nite title card/intro
32. Dr Scholl's Advanced Pain Relief Corn Removers
33. Nick at Nite's TV Land (On our cable system it definitely WAS a premium channel that you had to pay extra for to unscramble, though maybe at this point they were still trying negotiate with cable companies about it being included with basic cable)
34. Pond's Age Defying System (The line "because I baked...baby oiled!" was stuck in my brain for some reason)
35. L'oreal Fade Resistant Preference
36. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Video (Probably the most popular book on psychology in the 90's, it is largely seen as outdated today as it relies pretty much entirely on gender stereotypes. Besides, Mars and Venus aren't remotely habitable!)
37. Promo for "1996 VH1 Honors"
1. Next up on Nick at Nite...
2. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Nick At Nite title card/intro
3. TV Spot for "Flirting With Disaster"
4. Turtle Wax Vision Auto Polish
5. Motrin IB
6. Dirt Devil Broom Vac
7. Betty Crocker Sweet Rewards Brownies
8. Nick at Nite's TV Land
9. Mazda Protege
10. TGI Friday's (With Bryan Cranston! Though he had appeared as Jerry's dentist on "Seinfeld" by this point, this was well before his career really took off and was mostly still known for doing small parts in TV shows and commercials)
11. Stouffer's
12. L'Oreal Colour Endure Lipcolour
13. Claritin (This might be one of the first direct to consumer pharmaceutical ads. The influx of these type of ads later on in the 90's is one of the reasons why I don't post stuff from after 1996)
14. Promo for "Dr. Katz Professional Therapist" (This show always looked to me like it was animated with Mario Paint)
15. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" End Credits
16. Professional Strength Pine Sol
17. Purina One Dog Food (With Robert Urich)
18. Nick at Nite Station ID
19. Next up on Nick at Nite...
20. Nick at Nite Promo
21. Ortho Weed-B-Gon
22. BacOs
23. Pier 1 Imports
24. Math Is Power PSA (With Sinbad. The actor in the viking hat at 9:15 is Sean Whalen. I recently posted his appearance in the iconic Alexander Hamilton "Got Milk?" ad but he also appeared in TV shows like "Lost" and movies like "Twister")
25. Fruit Of The Loom (Try as you might underwear people, you're never going to get the image of Michael Madsen dancing to this song in a warehouse out of my head)
26. Stick Ups
27. Mentadent Mouthwash
28. "The Bob Newhart Show" End Credits (10:48 Somebody *please* make a sidescrolling video game where you control Bob Newhart walking down the street, avoiding enemies and hazards on his way to work)
29. Promo for "1996 VH1 Honors"
30. Lennox
31. Vidal Sassoon Shampoos and Conditioners
32. Nick at Nite's TV Land (With Marlo Thomas)
33. Nick at Nite Station ID
34. Next up on Nick at Nite...
35. Our Television Heritage: The Lucy Show (The production of "I Love Lucy" might have worked out better with Gail Gordon as Fred Mertz, as William Frawley famously did not get along with co-star Vivian Vance)
36. Extra Strength Tylenol
37. Kingsford Match Light Charcoal
38. Hot Pockets Croissant Pockets
39. Dance Mix Vol 4
1. Stouffer's Lasagna
2. Purina One Dog Food (With Robert Urich)
3. Royal Caribbean
4. Motrin IB
5. Multi-Grain Cheerios (With Dairy Queen Coupon)
6. Nick At Nite's TV Land
7. Think Flowers
8. TV Spot for "Flipper" (Flipper came back after 17 years of travels to reveal to young Frodo the true nature of his uncle's ring)
9. Pork (The other white meat)
10. Sleepinal
11. Subway A.1. Steak & Cheese
12. Eureka Mighty Mite II Vacuum Cleaner
13. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" End Credits
14. Breyers All Natural Ice Cream (Diglycerides are a common food additive used as an emulsifier in ice cream and many other foods...and show up in many natural, unprocessed foods like seed oils)
15. Fruit Of The Loom Underwear
16. Hoover
17. Crispix (I ate this cereal all the time back then and it totally gets soggy in milk)
18. Murphy's Oil Soap
19. Nick at Nite Station ID
20. Next up on Nick at Nite...
21. "Taxi" Nick At Nite title card/intro (When they first started showing this on their lineup around this time it felt a bit too recent compared to their other shows for me...but it eventually won me over)
22. TV Spot for "Flirting With Disaster"
23. Rice A Roni
24. Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail
25. Sprint (With Candace Bergen)
26. Ultra Era
27. Tums Ultra (Every meal at this diner ends with a Tums festival!)
28. Trident
29. KFC Tender Roast Chicken
30. Hillshire Farms Sausage
31. Nick At Nite's TV Land (With Casey Kasem)
32. "Taxi" End Credits
33. Spam (The other other meat)
34. Kaopectate
35. Moen Faucets
36. McDonald's Disney Trivia Challenge
37. Nick at Nite Station ID
38. Next up on Nick at Nite...
39. Nick at Nite Promo
40. TV Spot for "Mrs. Winterbourne"
41. Lipton Recipe Secrets
42. Pier 1 Imports
43. Colgate Baking Soda & Peroxide Toothpaste (Teddy Roosevelt is smiling on the outside but screaming internally)
44. Pull-Ups
45. Our Television Heritage: "Welcome Back Kotter" (Great, now I kind of want to own a Gabe Kaplan action figure)
46. Charles Gabus Ford
47. Bayer Aspirin
48. Nick At Nite's TV Land (With Barbara Eden)
49. "The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh" on VHS
50. MCI
51. Five Brothers Pasta Sauce (Reminds me a lot of the commercials for Los Pollos Hermanos in "Breaking Bad")
52. Clearasil
53. Promo for "1996 VH1 Honors"
54. Nick Station ID
1. Next up on Nick at Nite...
2. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Nick At Nite title card/intro (I loved these little factoids they used to play before shows. For a person obsessed with pointless trivia like myself they probably added a lot to my knowledge base)
3. Got Milk? (One of the more iconic 90's commercials and definitely the best Got Milk? ad)
4. Pull-Ups
5. Pier 1 Imports (Man, I haven't thought about this store in forever and to me it epitomizes the mid-late 90's. In early 2020 they filed for Bankruptcy and by May of 2020 closed all of their stores after the coronavirus pandemic hit. They reopened later that year as an online only retailer)
6. Moen Faucets
7. 409 Glass & Surface Cleaner
8. Round Up
9. TV Land
10. TV Spot for "The Birdcage"
11. Playskool (I'm pretty sure that the singer here is Phoebe Snow)
12. Stick Ups (I don't think I've seen this since the 90's and instantly remembered that CG fish at 3:39)
13. Dimetapp Elixir
14. Pringles (Every time I eat Lay's potato chips I can't help but wipe my greasy fingers all over my shirt for no reason)
15. Nick Jr Promo (I still watched this for episodes of Muppet Babies during the summer and also remember occasionally watching that weird Rupert cartoon)
16. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" End Credits (IMO this is probably the greatest sitcom of all time and is full of great writing. The episode with Rob finding the hidden treasure in his Great Uncle's desk might be my favorite episode of anything ever: youtube.com/watch?v=923eKvTV6Vo)
17. Promo for "1996 VH1 Honors"
18. Promo for "In Your House"
19. Sega Channel
20. Wrigley's Spearmint Gum
21. Hillshire Farm Brown Sugar Cured Hams
22. Head & Shoulders
23. Nick at Nite Station ID
24. Next up on Nick at Nite... (Commercials after this are technically from 4/8/96)
25. Nick Jr. Play Math! on CD-ROM
26. Clearasil
27. Dirt Devil Broom Vac
28. Dance Mix Vol 4 (AKA the soundtrack to my 6th grade talent show in '96)
29. National Guard & Reserve PSA
30. The Des Moines Register
31. The Des Moines Register
32. Wendy's (With Dave Thomas)
33. French's French Fried Onions
34. Birds Eye Pasta Secrets
35. V8
36. Motrin IB
37. Raisin Nut Bran (Who eats cereal out in a wheat field like this?)
1. The Sega Channel (An online service that offered downloadable games and other DLC for the Sega Genesis)
2. Green Giant Create A Meal
3. Honda Passport
4. Little Debbie Snack Cakes
5. Rembrandt Toothpaste
6. "Taxi" End Credits
7. Nick Jr. Play Math! on CD-ROM
8. Pur Water Filter
9. 1996 Mercury Sable (3:39 I prefer cars that have physical buttons on the dash but yeesh...it looks like an oversized Tamagotchi with a million buttons)
10. Long John Silver's (So the diving suit man is British because...fish and chips?)
11. Head & Shoulders (Or you could just brush off your jacket once in a while? And those black and white head shots were NOT taken with a Polaroid camera)
12. Nick at Nite Station ID
13. Next up on Nick at Nite... (I was almost certainly watching this night of TV because I watched Nick at Nite pretty much exclusively at this time of night from around 1994-2000. I wasn't the biggest fan of "Welcome Back Kotter" but I tolerated it)
14. Formula 2001
15. Round Up Weed Killer
16. Hamburger Helper
17. Betty Crocker Potato Mixes (There's something so memorable and iconic about that guy saying "Potatoes!")
18. MCI Friends & Family (With Whoopi Goldberg)
19. Nick At Nite's TV Land (We never had this as it was a premium channel on our cable and my parents wouldn't have bought it. I honestly don't think there was much on it that would have interested me and I was happy with what Nick at Nite offered at the time)
20. Century 21
21. Fruit Of The Loom Underwear
22. Folgers Coffee (With Randy Travis)
23. BacOs
24. Nick Jr.
25. "Welcome Back Kotter" End Credits (IMO the best part of this show was the theme song: youtube.com/watch?v=Mmm3KTa601s)
26. Promo for "1996 VH1 Honors"
27. The Des Moines Register
28. Iowa State Education Association PSA
29. Diet Dr Pepper
30. Resolve Carpet Cleaner
31. L'oreal Color Endure Lipcolour
32. Nick at Nite Station ID
33. Next up on Nick at Nite... (I don't remember "The White Shadow" being on their lineup and I never watched it. I probably turned the TV off and went to bed after "The Dick Van Dyke Show" ended)
34. Promo for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (I remembered this promo vividly)
35. Cinnamon Life Cereal
36. Spectracide Weed Killer (Begun, the weed wars have)
37. Breath Savers
38. Pantene Pro-V Hairspray
39. Purina One Dog Food (With Robert Urich. Hard to believe he's been gone for over 20 years now, RIP)
40. "A Walk In The Clouds" on Pay Per View
41. Take A Bite Out Crime PSA (Yikes)
42. 1-800-COLLECT
43. Brita Water Filtration Pitcher
44. French's French Fried Onions
45. Motrin IB
46. "The Bob Newhart Show" End Credits
47. Advil (If I come to you with serious pain and you tell me to take freakin' Advil, I'm getting another dentist)
48. Pur Water Filter (Sorry for dupe)
49. Bird's Eye
50. Nick at Nite Station ID
1. Kronenbourg Beer
2. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
3. Denny's Super Bird Sandwich
4. Budweiser (Steve Guttenberg can be seen at 1:12)
5. Ramblin' Root Beer (A root beer brand produced by Coca Cola; they stopped making it after they bought the Barq's brand in 1995)
6. Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
7. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
8. Promo for "Bob Hope's Spring Fling"
9. Federal Express
10. Jordache (Almost certainly influenced by 1980's "Urban Cowboy")
11. Kawasaki 650 CSR Motorcycle
12. Promo for "SCTV"
13. Dristan Capsules (4:24 Aww man, so close...)
14. Wrangler (Are out of control stagecoaches really a common modern-day problem?)
15. Vivitar Camera (If that's really what the Easter Bunny looks like, you can keep the damn candy and eggs...stay out of my house!)
16. I Love New York Spring Flower Festival
17. TV Spot for "Alice In Wonderland"
18. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
19. Pentax Cameras
20. Miller High Life
21. Bonjour Jeans (Very odd)
22. TV Spot for "Knightriders" (I guess this is where the TV show got the title?)
23. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
24. Bershire Place Promotional Consideration
25. New York Daily News Tonight
26. Coca Cola
27. Kellogg's Product 19 Cereal
28. Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (Sorry for dupe)
29. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper/Ending (As stated in the previous volume, this was a tumultuous season for SNL and out of the cast here only Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo returned for season 7)
1. Promo for "SCTV" (RIP to cast member Joe Flaherty)
2. TV Spot for "Stir Crazy"
3. Playtex Tampons (With Brenda Vaccaro. I can't help but notice she's a lot less "breathy" in this than the ad I posted in the previous volume...I'm thinking that they actually muted the audio when she wasn't speaking here)
4. Kronenbourg Beer
5. TV Spot for "Caveman"
6. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper (The 1980-81 season is cited by pretty much everyone as the worst in the show's history. Lorne Michaels had left as executive producer the previous season taking all of the cast and most of the writing staff with him, with new producer Jean Doumanian filling his role for this season. After an on-air F bomb on the 2/21/81 show SNL was put on hiatus and Doumanian was eventually let go. This 4/11/81 episode hosted by Chevy Chase was the last episode of the season before the 1981 WGA strike put production on hold and was the first produced by NBC exec Dick Ebersol. For the next season, only Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo remained from the 1980-81 cast)
7. Denorex (You can feel it tingle! 2:28 did we REALLY have to follow shampoo man into the shower?)
8. Dr Pepper (With David Naughton and Mickey Rooney! I believe this also features the ensemble cast from Sugar Babies, a 1979 Broadway musical that Rooney starred in at the time)
9. Honda Motorcycles
10. Nature's Organics Plus Henna Shampoo
11. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
12. TV Spot for "Excalibur" (It's always a thrill to post trailers like this for iconic movies. This movie is far from perfect but it's certainly an experience and has some incredible imagery...and Nicol Williamson as Merlin is just a classic performance)
13. Giacobazzi Wine
14. Budget
15. S.O.S. (With Estelle Harris)
16."Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
17. Promo for "Fugitive From The Empire" (A TV movie intended as a pilot for a series that wasn't picked up. The success of "Excalibur" and other fantasy epics like "The Sword and the Sorcerer" and "Conan The Barbarian" probably made them rethink their decision to not have a sword and sorcery TV show on the air during this period)
18. WPIX FM
19. Kawasaki 650 CSR Motorcycle
20. McDonald's $10,000,000 Build A Big Mac Game
21. Promo for "Bob Hope's Spring Fling"
22. Bic Shaver (Featuring a bunch of football stars. Fred Dryser at 7:52 later starred in the NBC TV show "Hunter")
23. Lowenbrau
24. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
25. The Gap (I actually had no idea the "fall into the gap" slogan was that old)
26. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
27. Summer's Eve
28. TV Spot for "Nighthawks" (Rutger Hauer's first American movie. This was plagued by production issues)
29. 97 WYNY FM
1. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
2. Chrysler
3. Milk
4. Promo for "The Greatest American Hero"
5. Promo for "Doctor Zhivago"
6. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
7. Halls
8. Chewels (The actress at 2:33 is Elizabeth Shue)
9. 1981 Toyota Corolla Tercel (It was known as the Corolla Tercel in the U.S. for a brief period based on the success and name recognition of that model. By 1982 it was branded as the Tercel worldwide)
10. Fresca
11. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
12. Promo for "Dynasty"
13. TV Spot for "The Funhouse" (This was Tobe Hooper's first big studio film after directing the independent horror classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in 1974. This didn't perform well at the box-office but was largely well reviewed at the time which led to him being chosen to direct "Poltergeist" by Steven Spielberg later that year)
14. Kentucky Fried Chicken Breast Filet Sandwich
15. KGTV 10 News Bumper
16. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
17. Carefree Panty Shields (Just your normal, everyday topic of conversation to have at a party)
18. Ford (With Robert Stack. I kept waiting for him to say "and we might even solve a mystery")
19. Purina Blends Dog Food
20. Epris Perfume by Max Factor (With Jaclyn Smith. "A little unsettling, a little disturbing" is NOT how to go about advertising a product...unless it's a horror movie or something!)
21. Lincoln Mercury Lynx Wagon
22. Cover Girl Clean Makeup
23. Fresh Start Laundry Detergent
24. Playtex Tampons (With Brenda Vaccaro. Whenever she comes up in a commercial I always think of a specific MST3K host segment from "Gamera Vs. Gaos" that compared her raspy voice to Lucille Ball and Harvey Fierstein: youtube.com/watch?v=rNtXWcS-nyo&t=93s)
25. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
26. Promo for "Soap" (Weird promo)
27. KGTV 10 News Update
28. Wienerschnitzel Patty Melt
29. San Diego Sports Arena (I assume whatever this was promoting got cut off by the previous commercial. Damn you Wienerschnitzel!!!)
30. Promo for "The World Of People"
31. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
32. Extra Strength Excedrin (With Dee Wallace, a year before she played the mom in "E.T.")
33. Clairol Loving Care Color Lotion
34. Pontiac (Wow, they really went all out on this commercial. The budget must have been enormous!)
35. Purina Cat Chow (I like the kitty playing with the metronome at 12:49)
36. Ford Mustang (IMO these 70's/80's Mustangs were so ugly compared to the original 60's models. The movie theater seen here is the historic Westwood Village theater in Los Angeles. Based on the marquee at 13:34 showing "Altered States", this commercial was shot right around Christmas of 1980 or early 1981. Here is a photo of the theater exterior during this time: https://i.imgur.com/kRQrLyH.jpeg)
37. Stayfree Mini-Pads
38. "The Deep" End Credits (This movie isn't perfect...certainly not a successor to "Jaws", but it's a pretty fun adventure film and a great movie to watch during the summer. And Jacqueline Bisset doesn't look half bad in it either! The score by John Barry might be the best thing about the movie and the disco infused end credits music can be heard in better quality here: youtube.com/watch?v=3PAL0uCT4jQ)
1. Oil Of Olay
2. Hefty Trash Bags
3. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
4. Yamaha Seca 750
5. Friskies Chef's Blend (You had me at cartoon cats singing doo wop)
6. Selsun Blue
7. Avis
8. Promo for "The Greatest American Hero" (Wow, awesome to post a promo for the premiere episode. ABC clearly knew the theme song to this was amazing and would carry the show)
9. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper (This seems to be a repeat of the 1980 extended TV version of "The Deep" that I posted ads from way back in Vols. 122-127, but this must have been slightly shorter than that cut since it aired on just one night instead of two. I can confirm that it does contain several deleted scenes that were not included in the original theatrical release)
10. Promo for "World News Tonight" (This was very early into Reagan's first term and just a few weeks before the assassination attempt on March 30th that hospitalized him for over a week and paralyzed White House Press Secretary James Brady)
11. Southern California Pontiac Dealers
12. KGTV 10 News Bumper (On the night of March 7th, 1981, 18-year-old Mel Yorba was fatally stabbed with a knife during a fight with 28-year-old James O'Driscoll after Yorba supposedly pinched O'Driscoll's girlfriend in Tomorrowland near the Matterhorn Bobsleds attraction. This was the first homicide to ever occur at the Disneyland property. Yorba's family later successfully sued the park for failing to provide adequate medical care/response for their son. O'Driscoll was later found guilty of second degree murder in 1983 and was sentenced 16-years to life)
13. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
14. Soft & Dri
15. Olympia Beer (The beer of choice for Grizzled hobos everywhere)
16. Promo for "That's Incredible", "Dynasty" and "Soap"
17. Promo for "Aloha Paradise" and "Vega$"
18. KGTV Station ID
19. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
20. Minute Maid Orange Juice
21. Lincoln Mercury
22. American Express (With Olympic skier Jean-Claude Killy)
23. Eraser Mate Pen by Paper Mate
24. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
25. Promo for "The Greatest American Hero"
26. Oil Of Olay
27. Cribari Wine (More like Crybaby Wine)
28. KGTV 10 News Bumper
29. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
30. Revlon Flex Extra Body Shampoo
31. Lipton (With Don Meredith)
32. Pontiac Grand Prix
33. Juicy Fruit
34. Promo for "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley", "Three's Company" and "Too Close For Comfort"
35. 7 Eleven
36. TV Spot for "Back Roads" (Apparently Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones completely despised each other while filming this)
37. Ford
38. Aqua-Fresh (There were so many heated arguments about toothpaste back then!)
39. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
40. Sears
41. Mazda B2000 Truck (Hard to believe they ever sold trucks this small looking at all of the monster trucks on the road today)
42. Budget Heating & Plumbing
43. KGTV 10 News Bumper
44. KGTV Station ID
45. "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
1. Pontiac 6000
2. M&M's (Buy your friends with M&M's!)
3. Silkience
4. FTD Magic Moment Bouquet
5. Promo for "Little House On The Prairie" and "The Boys In Company C" (R. Lee Ermy's first acting role before his career defining performance in Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket")
6. Promo for "Hill Street Blues"
7. One A Day Plus Minerals
8. Stayfree Maxi-Pads (With Cathy Rigby)
9. Colgate
10. Palmolive
11. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
12. Promo for "Love, Sidney"
13. Schmidt's Light (Wow, they really went all out for the set on this commercial)
14. Prince Spaghetti
15. McDonald's Quality Game
16. KYW Eyewitness News Update (Bob Rucker later became a professor of Journalism at San Jose State University, retiring in 2020)
17. Promo for "Hour Magazine"
18. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
19. Skippy Peanut Butter (With Annette Funicello)
20. General Foods International Coffee
21. Breath Savers
22. RCA SelectaVision CED VideoDisc Player (This was essentially a vinyl record with a conductive layer that could be read as a video signal. The tech was initially developed by RCA beginning in 1964 and took a ridiculous 17 years to come to market! While I think it would have been amazingly successful if had been released in the 60's or 70's, by the time it was available to consumers, it had been superseded by recordable tape formats like VHS and Betamax and the disc based DiscoVision/LaserDisc...which was much more advanced and had much better picture quality. I recommend the Technology Connections video about this format for more information: youtube.com/watch?v=PnpX8d8zRIA)
23. Promo for "Bret Maverick" and "Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters"
24. Lincoln Mercury
25. Betty Crocker SuperMoist Cake Mix and Creamy Deluxe Frosting
26. Bell System
27. Fresh Start Laundry Detergent (The first kid here is J.D. Roth)
1. Chevy S-10 Pickup Truck
2. Hostess
3. Kodak Kodacolor II Film
4. Triple Protection Aquafresh
5. Denny's
6. Liquid-Plumr
7. Big Red
8. Secret Antiperspirant
9. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
10. Promo for "Real People", "The Facts Of Life", "Love, Sidney" and "Quincy"
11. Datsun
12. Promo for "The Great Escape"
13. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
14. Ragu Homestyle Spaghetti Sauce (All of these women must have been immediately disowned from their Italian families for appearing in this commercial for store bought sauce, so sad)
15. Riunite
16. Shell (The Shell Answer Man isn't there to help, but to merely observe)
17. Tostitos
18. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
19. Promo for "Fame", "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Gimme A Break"
20. NBC News Update (With Jane Pauley)
a. Guatemalan Election
b. Reagan meets with Republicans over Budget (1982 was the height of the "Reagan Recession", which the U.S. came out of by the end of 1983)
c. United Rubber Workers begins contract talks (The URW eventually merged with the larger United Steelworkers union in 1995)
d. Space Shuttle Columbia prepares for third launch
21. PSFS
22. Pepsi Light (With Lauren Hutton)
23. McDonald's Quality Game
24. Promo for "People Are Talking"
25. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
1. Campbell's Soup
2. Time Magazine
3. Superstation Movie Presentation Commercial Bumper (The "Amazing Spider-Man" being shown was the pilot movie for the 1977 TV series: youtube.com/watch?v=PdCXSV15Af0)
4. Reach Toothbrush (2:56 the only thing Kevin McCallister needed to hear. BTW I think this family is insane)
5. Sportscreme
6. Fresh Start Detergent (3:42 RASPBERRY YOGURT, GROOOOSS!)
7. Lipton Cup-A-Soup
8. Miller Lite (With Howard Johnson)
9. Cover Girl Professional Mascara (With Christie Brinkley, Carol Alt and Cheryl Tiegs)
10. QT&T Answerphone
11. Promo for "Giant"
12. Superstation Movie Presentation Commercial Bumper
13. Great American Frigidaire Sale
14. Sugar Free Jell-O (9:04 I used to love reading "Magazine", it had such interesting articles)
15. Sure & Natural
16. Colgate Pump
17. Le Menu Frozen Dinners
18. Promo for "The War Of The Robots" (This shlocky Italian B-movie came out in 1978 and was clearly a rip-off of "Star Wars", so I'm not sure what they meant by "light years before Star Wars")
19. Promo for "Sixers Vs. Rockets"
20. Superstation Movie Presentation Commercial Bumper
21. Business Watch Intro
22. Brim Decaffeinated Coffee
23. Business Watch
24. Dannon Yogurt
25. Clorox 2
26. News Watch
27. Colgate Pump
28. Secure Care (With Lorne Greene. What a great voice he had, I highly recommend his western record albums: youtube.com/watch?v=Q-rsTAD0B78)
29. Promo for "Operation Petticoat"
30. Superstation Movie Presentation Commercial Bumper
1. National Dairy Board/Cheese Commercial Bumper
2. Cheese
3. Tennessee
4. Coca Cola Classic
5. Rent-A-Center (With Willy Tyler and Lester)
6. Elmwood Park Athletic Club
7. Pearle Vision Center
8. Baby Magic
9. Creep Phone
10. Double Mint Gum
11. Dianetics by L Ron Hubbard
12. Arrid Extra Dry Deodorant
13. TV Spot for "Bad Dreams" (Not remembered as a good movie and most people criticize it as an unabashed ripoff of "A Nightmare On Elm Street")
14. Energizer Batteries (With Mark "Jacko" Jackson)
15. Cheese
16. Huggies (Partial)
17. Home Supply & Lumber Center
18. Wayne Dinettes
19. Maybelline
20. Maybelline Moisture Whip Lipstick (With Lynda Carter)
21. Cheese
22. Pizza Hut
23. TV Spot for "Above The Law"
24. Ice Hockey for NES (Really wish I had known about the NES Max controller back then...it's such a neat looking piece of 80's tech)
25. R.C. Pro-Am for NES (Developed by Rare, who became a valuable second party publisher for Nintendo in the 90's developing classics such as Donkey Kong Country for SNES and Goldeneye 007 for N64)
26. Roll-O-Matic Mop
27. Promo for "Girls Nite Out" on Saturday Nightmares (Per Wikipedia: "The film focuses on a group of female college students who are targeted by a killer in a bear mascot costume during an all-night scavenger hunt on their campus")
28. Promo for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
29. Promo for "The New Mike Hammer"
30. USA Station ID
1. USA Station ID
2. Pearle Vision Center Commercial Bumper
3. Pearle Vision Center
4. Maybelline Moisture Whip Lipstick (With Lynda Carter)
5. Energizer Batteries (With Mark "Jacko" Jackson)
6. Pizza Hut
7. Coca Cola Classic
8. Promo for "Friendly Persuasion"
9. "Commander USA's Groovie Movies" Commercial Bumper ("Mako: The Jaws Of Death" is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen)
10. Roll-O-Matic Mop
11. Baby Magic
12. Coca Cola Classic
13. Orthopedic Back School of New Jersey (4:44 A torture device...for the modern age)
14. Ford 1000 Series Tractors
15. "Commander USA's Groovie Movies" Host Segment
16. Tampax
17. Pearle Vision Center
18. Maybelline Moisture Whip Lipstick (Sorry for dupe))
19. Cheese
20. Arm & Hammer Carpet Deodorizer
21. Arm & Hammer Baking Soda
22. MicroRave (I went to a Micro Rave once, very small party)
23. "Commander USA's Groovie Movies" Host Segment
24. Opryland
25. New Coke (With Max Headroom)
26. Cheese
27. Kawasaki
28. Promo for "Ray Bradbury Theater"
29. Owl Tire Barn (I prefer Barn Owl Tire)
30. Park Ave. BMW
1. Busch Gardens Williamsburg
2. Hallmark
3. Jeep Cherokee
4. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
5. Promo for "The Cosby Show", "A Different World", "Cheers" and "Seinfeld"
6. WVIT 30 News Update
7. Isuzu
8. CVS
9. Sunshine (Eventually purchased by Keebler in 1996 who was then bought by Kellogg's in 2001; the Sunshine brand is no longer used. At the time their biggest product was probably Cheez-Its, which are now branded as a Kellogg's product)
10. WVIT Station ID
11. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
12. McDonald's Dick Tracy Crimestopper Game (I feel like Dick Tracy is a good movie with great production design, but at the same time it feels completely forgotten and had no lasting impact on pop culture)
13. Toyota Celica
14. Old Spice
15. Always
16. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
17. Promo for "Those She Left Behind"
18. Toyota Previa
19. Jell-O Pudding (With Bill Cosby)
20. WVIT News Bumper
21. Duracell
22. McDonald's Dick Tracy Crimestopper Game
23. US Sprint FON Cards
24. Chevy Lumina
25. Upjohn (Just shave your head and get it over with)
26. Allstate
27. Burger King
28. Friskies Kitten Formula
29. Lexus ES250
30. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
31. Promo for "Today"
32. Dodge Dakota
33. Coors Light
34. WVIT 30 News Update (We hope you'll join us after Gremlins)
35. March Of Dimes Anti-Drug PSA
36. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
37. General Motors
38. TV Spot for "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" (I love the logo with the dancing Gizmo at 15:43)
39. Midas
40. Stop & Shop
41. "Gremlins" End Credits
1. Special K
2. Trident
3. Wendy's Dave's Deluxe
4. Met Life
5. Arrid Extra Dry Glide-On
6. American Library Association PSA
7. "The Magical World Of Disney" Commercial Bumper
8. Prell
9. Bounce
10. Speed Stick
11. Kraft Cheese & Macaroni (These days it's branded as Kraft Mac & Cheese)
12. Walt Disney World
13. Promo for "The Father Clements Story"
14. "Ernest Goes To Camp" End Credits
15. Promo for "Those She Left Behind"
16. Promo for "A Current Affair"
17. WVIT 30 News Update
18. Taco Bell
19. Connecticut Honda Dealers
20. Latta (Weird name)
21. WVIT Station ID (I like how Connecticut is so small that there's only one NBC affiliate in the entire state)
22. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Intro: "Gremlins"
23. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
24. General Motors
25. Kentucky Fried Chicken
26. TV Spot for "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" (A classic movie sequel and in many ways much better than the original movie. I love watching the original film around Christmastime, but I think Gremlins 2 has a funnier and much better written script. I love how Joe Dante was basically given free reign to essentially make a classic Warner Bros. cartoon in live action)
27. Polaroid
28. Norelco Rotatract Electric Shaver at Kmart
29. Right Guard
30. Newman's Own Dressing at Burger King (Yes, Burger King had a salad bar back then)
31. Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats (Oh c'mon, Tofu Crunch isn't THAT bad)
32. Buick Regal (Those crafty Japanese car spies)
33. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
34. Promo for "Where's Rodney" (This was an unsold pilot for a TV show starring Rodney Dangerfield aired as a summer special)
35. Carvel Ice Cream (It's just not the same without that Carvel guy rambling about Cookie Puss)
36. Promo for "A Current Affair"
37. NBC Sunday Night At The Movies Commercial Bumper
38. Ford Taurus Wagon
39. Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran
40. McDonald's Dick Tracy Crimestopper Game
41. Allstate
42. Quiz Kids Challenge Auditions
1. "The Magical World Of Disney" Commercial Bumper (These aired during "Ernest Goes To Camp")
2. Suave
3. Charmin
4. SunRinse Downy Dryer Sheets
5. Kentucky Fried Chicken
6. Promo for "Those She Left Behind"
7. Promo for "Today"
8. "The Magical World Of Disney" Commercial Bumper
9. McDonald's Dick Tracy Crimestopper Game ("Dick Tracy" was released later that week and tried very hard to be the big movie that summer like Tim Burton's "Batman" had been in 1989. While it performed well at the box office, it was not a Batman sized hit and Disney spent over $100 million on advertising, rendering any success it had in theaters moot)
10. New System Surf Detergent
11. Kraft House Italian Dressing
12. Miracle Whip
13. Speed Stick
14. "The Magical World Of Disney" Commercial Bumper
15. Promo for "The Cosby Show", "A Different World", "Cheers" and "Seinfeld" (This was the first season of "Seinfeld" which was only four episodes and aired as a summer replacement series after the pilot "The Seinfeld Chronicles" had aired as a special in the summer of 1989. A four episode season is still the smallest sitcom order in TV history)
16. McDonald's (With Beach Toy Happy Meal Toys)
17. Waldbaums Foodmart
18. WVIT 30 News Bumper
19. Wendy's Dave's Deluxe
20. Maybelline Turning Point Eyeliner
21. Colgate Junior
22. Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe (Used to eat these all the time, but Keebler Magic Middles were by far my favorite)
23. Suave
24. Promo for "Unsolved Mysteries", "Singer & Sons", "Dear John" and "Quantum Leap" (That episode of "Quantum Leap" is one of my favorites)
25. Partnership For A Drug-Free America PSA
26. Lady Speed Stick
27. Planters Peanuts (With the voice of Don Pardo)
28. Quiz Kids Challenge Auditions
29. Pillsbury Microwave Brownies
30. Cheerios
31. "The Magical World Of Disney" Commercial Bumper
32. Promo for "Where's Rodney?" (This was an unsold pilot for a TV show starring Rodney Dangerfield. A "summer hit" indeed. I posted the ads from this back in Vol. 147: youtube.com/watch?v=k6WiQl2cMg8)
33. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Light 'n Lively Yogurt (God...the voices here, the way the turtles are drawn and just the overall art style/aesthetic as a kid raised on TMNT just hurts my soul. I think even back then I saw things like this as "Bootleg TMNT"...especially after the dark and gritty live action movie came out)
34. Finnigan's Hammerite Paint
35. WVIT Station ID
36. Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Cereal
37. Tide
38. McDonald's Beach Toy Happy Meal Toys
39. Busch Gardens Williamsburg
40. "The Magical World Of Disney" Commercial Bumper
41. Promo for "Gremlins" ("Gremlins 2: The New Batch" was released to theaters five days after this on 6/15/90)
42. Reynolds Sure-Seal Storage Bags (Keep this lady away from knives)
43. Schweppes Raspberry Ginger Ale (With John Cleese)
44. WVIT 30 News Bumper
45. "The Magical World Of Disney" Commercial Bumper
1. Promo for "Alvin & the Chipmunks"
2. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
3. Nabisco Nintendo World Championships Contest
4. Hot Wheels Color Racers and Super Changers
5. Chuck E. Cheese's
6. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
7. WCGV National Nutrition Month Bumper
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Badges at Burger King (With Jonathan Taylor Thomas)
9. Cap'n Crunch Cereal
10. Promo for "Maxie's World", "Punky Brewster" and "Beverly Hills Teens"
11. AFX Pop Cycles
12. Lucky Charms
13. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
14. Tato Skins
15. Honey Nut Cheerios (With Free Career Adventures Booklets)
16. Looney Tunes Die Cast Toys
17. WCGV Cooking Class Bumper
18. Promo for "Alvin & the Chipmunks"
19. Promo for "Muppet Babies"
20. ???
21. Record Breakers
22. Jell-O (Wow, this "Agent Double L-O" might be the strangest animated mascot that I've ever posted on this channel, and I have absolutely no memory of it. The art style here reminds me a bit of Archie comics)
23. Cheerios
24. Animal Crackers Pet Centers
25. Crunch Berries Cereal
26. Micro Machines Secret Auto Supplies
27. Panini 1990 Baseball Sticker Book Album (With Nolan Ryan. I had several of these Sticker Books for Disney properties such as "Cinderella" and "Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers")
28. Animal Crackers Pet Centers
29. Tetris for NES
30. Cocoa Puffs
31. Fox Kids Club Contest
32. Promo for "Maxie's World"
1. Micro Machines Cargo Plane Playset
2. Micro Machines Insiders Double Play Playsets (I feel like this was around the peak of Micro Machines' popularity and it feels like they were oversaturating the market with product)
3. Barnyard Commandos Action Figures
4. WCGV Contest Bumper
5. Micro Machines Highway Warriors (Oversaturating the market or not, it was worth it to see the Micro Machines man dressed up in a Mad Max getup!)
6. Micro Machines Pocket Playset
7. Animal Crackers Pet Centers
8. Fox Kids Club Artists
9. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumpers
10. Tato Skins
11. McDonald's
12. Cheerios
13. Sweetie Pups and Sweetie Kitties
14. The Incredible Edible Egg
15. Fox Kids Club
16. Fruit Wrinkles (The creator of the Snorks should have sued)
17. Oatmeal Swirlers
18. Marvel Action Universe Bumper (This aired following an episode of the Robocop cartoon)
19. Looney Tunes Die Cast Toys
20. Cookie Crisp
21. Fox Kids Club High School Art Exhibition at Milwaukee Art Museum PSA
22. Sunkist Fun Fruits Rock 'N' Roll Shapes (5:48 I like the fake heavy metal band name "The Heck". As always, I could really do without the nightmare fun fruit trees)
23. Cinnamon Toast Crunch (IMO no cereal really came close to the taste of these back then, though I also ate Apple Cinnamon cheerios for a while)
24. Buckle Up PSA (Not trying to detract from the message he's trying to convey, but this guy has the most Wisconsin accent I've ever heard)
25. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Accessories and Action Figures (In May of 1990 my family was on vacation in Hawaii around the time of my birthday and I picked out the Flushomatic Torture Machine at a Woolworth's in Honolulu as one of my presents. The concept was basically ripped off from the MOTU Slime Pit: youtube.com/watch?v=SGuGFkrOUSU&t=402s)
26. Promo for "DuckTales"
27. Chuck E. Cheese's (At this time I think the marketing really worked on me, as I constantly begged my parents to go here. I think we only went once or twice)
28. Cinnamon Toast Crunch (I wonder what the last commercial featuring the other two bakers was...before they were savagely murdered by Wendell)
29. Fox Kids Club Artists (Sorry for the dupe, Goobie made me do it)
30. Domino's Pizza (Yep, this is from 1990)
31. The Power Glove for NES
32. Promo for "Maxie's World", "Punky Brewster" and "Beverly Hills Teens" (Maxie was Hasbro's knock-off version of Barbie. I've never even heard of "Beverly Hills Teens", which looks absolutely terrible)
33. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sewer Playset (I got this as a Christmas present in 1990 and it was the crown jewel of my action figure collection for a while along with the Ghostbusters Firehouse, but I do remember that it was a bit flimsy and the pieces had the tenancy to fall out when I played with it)
34. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
1. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
2. Super Golden Crisp
3. Tetris for NES (Considered the definitive version of the game by most players. My only gripe with the NES Tetris is the lack of the classic "Type A" Game Boy music: youtube.com/watch?v=z3ZiVn5L9vM)
4. Shark Bites Fruit Snacks
5. AFX Pop Cycles
6. Cheerios
7. Animal Crackers Pet Centers (Gotta love local ads like this)
8. Fox Kids Club Happy Presidents Day Interstitial
9. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
10. Teddy O's (WARNING: may permanently transform your dad into a bear)
11. Hot Wheels
12. Fox Kids Club
13. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
14. Barnyard Commandos Action Figures
15. Incredible Edible Eggs
16. Oatmeal Swirlers
17. Record Breakers Dual Turbo Series
18. Transformers Micro Master Combiners
19. Nabisco Nintendo World Championships Contest (I know that the NWC 1990 Gold Cartridge is considered the holy grail...but that tote bag with the NWC logo on it is also pretty cool)
20. Record Breakers Road Burner Series
21. Chuck E Cheese's
22. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
23. Fox Kids Club High School Art Exhibition at Milwaukee Art Museum PSA
24. Flippits
25. Spy Tech
26. Crunch Berries Cereal
27. Promo for "Fun House" (I remember watching this after school with my sister around this time, just before "Silver Spoons" was on. It was certainly no Double Dare but it was entertaining enough at the time. The giant maze at the end was essentially ripped off for Nickelodeon's "Legends Of The Hidden Temple")
28. Barnyard Commandos Action Figures
29. Peanut Butter Crunch Cereal
30. Barnyard Commandos Action Figures (I guess they were really pushing these things? Makes sense that commercials for other Playmates properties would air during TMNT. I don't even remember if I actually watched the cartoon or if it was even on in my area)
31. Thunder Jets Fruit Snacks
32. Fox Kids Club Artists
33. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Badges at Burger King (With Jonathan Taylor Thomas)
34. Micro Machines Secret Auto Supplies
35. McDonald's (These kids look like they're in middle school...I really doubt they'd be assigned to read Moby Dick and write a report on it)
36. Cheetos (Their old packaging was so much more classy than the bright orange they have today. Yes, I used the word "classy" to describe something related to Cheetos)
37. Turbo Tricksters
38. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Party Wagon, Foot Cruiser and Pizza Thrower (I had all of these, the Pizza Thrower was great fun)
39. Fox Kids Club Artists
40. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
41. Kool-Aid Wacky Warehouse (With Mystery Gift offer)
42. Cap'n Crunch Cereal
43. Promo for "Fun House"
44. Little Lost And Founds
45. Golden Grahams
1. Swift Butterball Turkeys (Do Pilgrim ghosts have NOTHING better to do than to try to get people to eat Turkeys?)
2. WOKR Eyewitness News Bumper
3. "Charlie's Angels" Intro
4. Tostitos
5. Vicks Sinex
6. Johnson's Baby Shampoo (With Fran Tarkenton)
7. Total (You can tell that this was before the obsession with fiber later on in the 80's, as there's no mention of it)
8. Promo for "Tenspeed And Brown Shoe" (A short-lived detective/comedy series starring Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum. It was cancelled after 14 episodes) and "Attica"
9. ABC Station ID
10. Contac (I've posted this one before, but holy crap...eight pills of *anything* a day is not healthy. And "They're new?" is not an excuse. It doesn't seem like you even have a cold!)
11. Chun King
12. Promo for "Mork & Mindy" and "Benson"
13. "Charlie's Angels" Commercial Bumper
14. Promo for "Vega$" (Partial, a network promo interrupted by the network it seems?)
15. McDonald's Extra Fry-Day (Neat to post a leap year specific promo in a leap year)
16. Vanderstyne Ford
17. WOKR Eyewitness News Bumper
18. "Charlie's Angels" Commercial Bumper
19. Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn (7:09 Damn, did they really sell it in giant jars like that?)
20. L'Oreal Accents Collection
21. Promo for "Barney Miller", "Soap" and "20/20"
22. "Charlie's Angels" Commercial Bumper
23. Dodge, Chrysler and Plymouth $50 Test Drive
24. Richards Wild Irish Rose Wine
25. Vicks Formula 44D
26. Mennen Millionaire Cologne
27. Next Time on "Charlie's Angels"...
28. "Charlie's Angels" End Credits (WOW, it's amazing to post even an audio promo for "The Andy Kaufman Special". This was a special originally filmed in 1977 as "Andy's Funhouse" but not aired by ABC until 1979 and can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=S6Gzq8xVHsA This repeat was apparently edited down to fill an hour timeslot)
1. Promo for "The Great Escape"
2. Sanyo Beta Hi-Fi VCR
3. California Dentist Association PSA
4. AM/PM
5. Lucky
6. "Late Picture Show" Commercial Bumper
7. Jamaica Tourism (Using the melody of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" in a jingle for Jamaica tourism is certainly an...interesting choice. At this point in time Jamaica was in dire economic straits partly due to crime and political unrest/violence which led to a sharp decline in tourism)
8. Pete Ellis Dodge
9. Pioneer Chicken (With OJ Simpson. Double the OJ, double the awkwardness!)
10. Snuggle Fabric Softener (Hey, it's the bear show! Based on the 1982 date stamp at the end, I think this is possibly the original commercial for this product...and Snuggle's first appearance!)
11. "Late Picture Show" Commercial Bumper
12. Record A Call Telephone Answering Machines (I remember the one we had back in the 80's was an enormous woodgrain monstrosity like this thing)
13. Bounce Fabric Softener
14. Comet (As a kid the cans of this stuff and Kraft Parmesan cheese looked basically identical to me back then)
15. Stater Bros. Markets (This chain is still around but is only found in the LA area)
16. "Late Picture Show" Commercial Bumper
17. Wherehouse (I haven't thought about this chain in a LONG time. I had no idea that they once specialized in movie rentals...or that they had Merlin the wizard as their mascot with Paul Winchell voicing a friendly version of Gargamel from Smurfs! Also, I can't imagine Disney was thrilled at how similar this depiction of Merlin was to their own version of him from "The Sword In The Stone")
18. Taco Bell (With William H. Macy well before his acting career took off. It's always incredible to post stuff like this!)
19. Nissan 200 SX
20. Grand Prix Race-O-Rama (AMAZING! The Go Karts look like fun, but let's be serious...the arcade looks awesome and was probably what most people went there for. This was a chain that also had at least one other location in Ft. Lauderdale Florida, which was frequented by the infamous Billy Mitchell)
21. "Late Picture Show" Commercial Bumper
22. Promo for "Support Your Local Gunfighter"
23. Worthington Ford (The wacky commercials for this car dealership were another staple of LA local television)
24. Reynolds Wrap
25. KCOP Station ID
26. Promo for "Support Your Local Sheriff and "Support Your Local Gunfighter" (Despite the similar title and featuring most of the same cast, "Support Your Local Gunfighter" was not technically a direct sequel and more of a remake/reboot that featured different characters)
27. The Independent News (I left this short partial recording in as a bonus)
a. Winter Storms
b. Battle Of The Budget (Partial)
1. Promo for "Return To Eden" (Um, wow. You had me at crocodile!)
2. Mazda
3. Kentucky Fried Chicken Kentucky Nuggets
4. "The Benny Hill Show" Commercial Bumper
5. Promo for "Support Your Local Gunfighter"
6. C&R Clothiers
7. TWA
8. Sanyo Beta Hi-Fi VCR
9. "Late Picture Show" Commercial Bumper
10. Promo for "Jeopardy!" (Damn, this is a cool promo. Working in a promo for "Star Trek" into a fake Jeopardy question is a stroke of genius!)
11. TV Guide (RIP Harry Anderson)
12. Pete Ellis Dodge (The jingle at 6:00 was a hallmark of LA TV during this period)
13. Federated Superstores (With Shadoe Stevens)
14. Ross
15. Promo for "My TV" and "Solid Gold"
16. Ralphs (With Shirley Jones)
17. Royal Palm Ranch
18. Taco Bell (With Yasmine Bleeth from "Baywatch" and Julie Piekarski from "The Facts Of Life")
19. "Late Picture Show" Commercial Bumper
20. Promo for "Tuff Stuff Week" (Featuring: "The Great Escape", "Three Days Of The Condor", "The Getaway", "Valdez Is Coming" and "Red Sun")
21. AirCal
22. Nissan King Cab (I'll take the Nissan King Crab instead)
23. TV Guide
1. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
2. Tonka Hyperdrivers
3. Precious Places
4. Baby Bubbles
5. Tyco Flower Makin' Basket
6. Census '90 PSA (The girl at 1:37 is Tatyana Ali)
7. Skittles
8. The Power Glove for NES (A throwback to the first volume of 90's commercials that I posted...which were also from a recording of TMNT/Rescue Rangers from a local affiliate in the spring of 1990)
9. Tyco Snack Shop
10. Cheerios (Here's more of this weird short-lived mascot)
11. Dial-A-Teacher PSA
12. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Commercial Bumper
13. Cocoa Pebbles (Barney's voice just sounds *off* here. He sounds almost like Jerry Seinfeld. This was shortly after Mel Blanc died and the Barney Rubble voice was in flux)
14. Guardian Legend for NES (Originally came out in 1988. This commercial really should not have compared this game to Zelda and Zelda 2, but it's apparently not a bad game?)
15. Lucky Charms
16. Recycle PSA
17. Promo for "Growing Pains"
18. "DuckTales" Commercial Bumper
19. Charms Blow Pop (Anyone who grew up during the early 90's should be able to recite this commercial word for word)
20. Trix (Will the rabbit really get to eat Trix? No, never. Not even one bite)
21. Tyco Fashion Place Super Dough Playset
22. Tyco Snack Shop (Sorry for dupe)
23. Tinnitus PSA
24. "DuckTales" Commercial Bumpers
25. Promo for "Batman"
26. American Medical Association PSA (With Emmanuel Lewis)
27. Legacy Of The Wizard for NES
28. Canine Companions For Independence PSA
29. "DuckTales" Commercial Bumper
30. Promo for "Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" (The episodes of DuckTales and Rescue Rangers were aired in an hour long package for syndication, similar to the Disney Afternoon that premiered in syndication later that year)
31. Corn Pops (With Brian Austin Green)
32. McDonald's (A lot of the aesthetics of this ad are um...borrowed from the Toontown scene in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit")
33. "Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" Commercial Bumper
34. Kool-Aid Wacky Warehouse
35. DC Comics Superheroes Action Figures (Toy Biz also released their first wave of Marvel action figures in 1990...for a brief period they seem to have had the DC and Marvel licenses at the same time)
36. TV Spot for "Ernest Goes To Jail" and "Spaced Invaders"
37. "Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" Commercial Bumper
38. "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" on VHS (I vividly remember seeing this movie with my sister at a mall in the summer of '89 while my mom was shopping, along with "The Adventures of Milo and Otis". We owned this VHS tape as well. The Roger Rabbit cartoon "Tummy Trouble" was originally shown before the movie in theaters)
39. Mickey Mouse Viewmaster
40. Micro Machine Service City (I think I had this one)
41. Cabbage Patch Kids
42. Oopsie Daisy
43. Smithsonian PSA (With Pat Morita)
44. "Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" Commercial Bumper
45. Promo for "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (It's always neat to post promos for first run TNG episodes. The episode here is "Sins Of The Father" from Season 3)
46. Apple Cinnamon Cheerios
47. Police Academy Hotline (Just a reminder for everyone that for some reason "Police Academy" had it's own cartoon series)
48. "Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" Commercial Bumpers
49. The Incredible Edible Egg
50. McDonald's
51. Handi-Snacks Sega Genesis Sweepstakes (19:12 Getting sucked down a pipe...maybe don't use this imagery in a Sega commercial)
52. Micro Machines Transport Chopper
53. "DuckTales"/"Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" End Credits
54. Promo for "Rio Grande"
1. Wisk
2. Snuggle Fabric Softener (Hey, it's the bear show!)
3. TV Spot for "Youngblood" (0:52 ugh this voiceover is so forced and awkward)
4. "Miami Vice" Commercial Bumper
5. Volkswagen GTI
6. TV Spot for "F/X" (IMO this is one of the most underrated action movies of the 80's. I realize it was successful at the time and spawned a sequel and TV series, but it seems like it's rarely discussed these days)
7. Tyson Chick'n Chunks (Describing your meat as "chunks" is not how you get me to try your product)
8. Dristan (Caffeine is found in many pain relievers because it helps rush it into the bloodstream. Unless you're allergic or sensitive to it, it's stupid to complain about it)
9. Jeep Cherokee
10. TV Spot for "Power"
11. "Miami Vice" Commercial Bumper
12. Promo for "The Cosby Show" and "Amazing Stories" (Mark Hamill meets Gimli the dwarf?)
13. WESH News Center 2 Update (These aired only three days after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28th, which killed all seven astronauts aboard. This is also from an Orlando affiliate only around 50 miles away from the launch site at Cape Canaveral...so the Challenger story was also a local one)
14. McDonald's
15. Suzuki Samurai (Notable for being featured in a 1988 review in Consumer Reports magazine where they deemed the Samurai to be "not acceptable" and stated that it "easily rolls over in turns". Suzuki later sued Consumers Union, the parent company of Consumer Reports, and cited this article for poor sales of the Samurai in the United States: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Motor_Corp._v._Consumers_Union_of_the_U.S.,_Inc.)
16. Promo for "Stolen Dreams" on WESH News Center 2
17. "Miami Vice" Commercial Bumper
18. Benylin DME
19. Lubriderm Lotion
20. TV Spot for "F/X" (6:41 Mason Adams is awesome in this...his character *almost* makes you forget that he's the Smuckers guy)
21. Chili Cheese Fritos ("Grease" was definitely missing a scene where the T Birds all eat a bag of chili cheese corn chips together)
22. Colgate (Unfortunately the experimental "all toothpaste, all the time" format of this radio station never caught on with listeners)
23. Promo for Taylor Vs. Blake on "NBC Sportsworld"
24. AMC Jeep Renault
25. Promo for "Peter The Great" (Won the Emmy for Best Miniseries)
26. "Miami Vice" End Credits
1. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
2. Cheerios
3. Star Wars Action Figures (0:51 I like how Greedo and Walrus Man are depicted like they're middle school bullies, with Obi-Wan serving as the vice principal that scares them off before they can steal Han Solo's lunch money. The action figures featured here were from the second wave of toys that Kenner released in 1978. Also notable is the inclusion of the original handsome and debonair "small head" Han Solo figure, which was eventually replaced by the notoriously ugly "big head" Han Solo in later waves: https://i.imgur.com/rJnS0VL.jpeg)
4. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
5. "In The News" Commercial Bumper (Featuring Mighty Mouse. I guess maybe these segments were originally preceded by bumpers like this, but this is the first example that I've encountered)
6. "In The News" Intro (That weird sound effect was mixed too high here...or the announcers audio was mixed too low. Either way, a weird mistake!)
7. Three Musketeers Commercial Bumper (Also the first time I've seen a product sponsor for an "In The News" segment)
8. Three Musketeers
9. "In The News" The Draft (And you can sign up for selective service ♫ AT THE POST OFFICE ♫ Sorry, I can't get the song from Vol. 1049 out of my head, please send help)
10. Promo for "The Chisholms" (This was a short-lived Western TV series that followed a miniseries in 1979. The actress here is Rosemary Harris, who went on to play Aunt May in the Sam Raimi "Spider-Man" films)
11. "Annie" (This was for the original Broadway run at the Alvin Theatre but by this point no longer featured the original cast. I believe that the actress playing Annie at this point was Sarah Jessica Parker but I can't confirm that's her in this commercial)
12. Promo for "The Muppet Show"
13. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
14. Nestle Quik
15. Kellogg's Stick Up For Breakfast Contest
16. Star Wars Imperial Troop Transporter (This is considered the first "Expanded Universe" Star Wars toy...created entirely by Kenner and not depicted onscreen in the original trilogy. Eventually this transporter appeared in season one of "The Mandalorian" in 2019)
17. Darci Cover Girl Doll (Kenner's attempt at a Barbie type fashion doll. Also that ♫ Darci, cover girl Darci ♫ jingle will now be stuck in my head...along with the Post Office song. With actress Leah Ayres)
18. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
19. DC Super Heroes Mini Comic Books in Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles (It's so bizarre to see the cereal offer come BEFORE the actual meat of the commercial...maybe that format hadn't been worked out yet?)
20. Crest (Designed/animated by Marvel artist Herb Trimpe)
21. Star Wars Millennium Falcon Vehicle and Action Figures (And here you can see they're using the ugly "big head" Han Solo that became standard in the line going forward. Thankfully the later iterations of his character for Empire and Jedi had much better headsculpts)
22. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup (With Peter Billingsly as "Messy Marvin")
23. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
24. "The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show" End Credits
25. Boy Scouts Of America PSA (With Hank Aaron
1. Domino's Pizza (Avoid the noid!)
2. Big Red
3. Ritz Crackers
4. Miller Lite
5. CBS Share The Spirit Bumper
6. Stop The Madness PSA (With Pat Summerall)
7. Mighty Dog (My family had a recording of the exact same airing of "The Muppets Take Manhattan" from CBS...but nearly all of the commercials were skipped with only a few brief snippets remaining. Only the very beginning of this Mighty Dog commercial was recorded, so it's amazing to finally see the entire thing! Pirate dogs!)
8. Equal
9. STP Gas Treatment
10. Playtex (That cat she's holding must be on a lot of sedatives)
11. Speed Stick Deodorant (Byyyy Mennen)
12. "CBS Special Movie" Commercial Bumper
13. Promo for "Hard Copy" (Before the tabloid news show took the same title, this lasted for only 8 episodes)
14. Promo for "Cagney & Lacey"
15. Promo for "The Wizard"
16. CBS Station ID
17. Burger King (The "Burger King Town" seen at the beginning of this and especially the shot at 5:15 is actually the Courthouse Square at the Universal Studios backlot, best known as Hill Valley from "Back To The Future". It was seen in a lot of commercials back then. When it was used for "Gremlins" it even had a Burger King facade installed, though I believe that was taken out for BTTF)
18. Smith's Home Furnishings
19. KOIN News Bumper (They linger for *just* a bit too long before fading out to the point that it becomes awkward)
20. Kit Kat
21. All Detergent
22. Johnson's Baby Shampoo
23. Tylenol (With Susan Sullivan)
24. Tampax
25. "CBS Special Movie" Commercial Bumper (The celebrities that they're naming in these bumpers have like, two minute cameos at most in the actual movie. They really should have been listing Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, Rowlf, Dr. Teeth etc. as the stars)
26. Promo for "Kate & Allie", "My Sister Sam", "Newhart" and "The Cavanaughs"
27. Promo for "CBS Schoolbreak Special: The Day They Came To Arrest The Book" (Man, it's a good thing that the days of reactionary book banning are well past us as a society)
28. CBS Sportsbreak
29. Budweiser
30. CBS Sportsbreak
31. CBS Sportstbreak
32. Smith's Home Furnishings
33. KOIN News Bumper
34. Double Mint Gum
35. Kentucky Fried Chicken (With Foghorn Leghorn selling out his own kind)
36. Selsun Blue
37. Midol 200
38. Snickers
39. Kellogg's Raisin Bran
40. Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion
41. Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine
42. Tampax
43. "CBS Special Movie" Commercial Bumper
44. Promo for "The New Mike Hammer" and "Broken Vows"
45. CBS Station ID
46. The Nike International Sweden vs USA Tennis Match (Buy your tickets at "G.I. JOE's". Note: members of the ruthless terrorist organization known as Cobra will not be permitted to enter the arena)
47. KOIN News Bumper
48. Coors (With Mark Harmon)
49. Hostess
50. Pizza Hut (With comedian Rich Hall)
51. Children's Tylenol
52. Promo for "Super Night At The Super Bowl" (We had this special at the very end of the tape I mentioned and it is possibly the most 80's thing in existence. I mostly remember Miami Sound Machine singing their song "Bad Boy" to random footage of football players and The Beach Boys singing "The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)" featuring a comedy bit with Ruth Buzzi playing that character that slapped people with her purse! Unfortunately this tape was eaten by our VCR in the late 90's and I really hope to one day find another copy of this special!)
53. "CBS Special Movie" Commercial Bumper
1. "The Saturday Late Movie" Commercial Bumper (Commercials starting here aired 9/15/84. "Alexander The Great" was the 1956 version starring Richard Burton)
2. ??? (Well, that certainly WAS a brief intermission...)
3. Take A Bite Out Of Crime PSA
4. Waterbed Center
5. Central Washington Kidney Foundation PSA
6. KVEW Station ID
7. "The Saturday Late Movie" Commercial Bumper
8. Democracy PSA (With Telly Savalas. Based on the condition of the print here, it's hard to believe this PSA was from 1984...but I think that's what the copyright date at the end says. If you told me 1964 I'd believe it, but I think Telly had more hair then...)
9. "The Saturday Late Movie" Commercial Bumper
10. Selective Service PSA (AMAZING! This will most likely be the best PSA that I EVER post on this channel, so enjoy it! ♫ AT THE POST OFFICE ♫)
11. "The Saturday Late Movie" Commercial Bumpers
12. Army National Guard PSA
13. KVEW Station ID
14. "The Saturday Late Movie" Commercial Bumper
15. Job Training Coordinating Council PSA (With Bob Hope)
16. "The Saturday Late Movie" Commercial Bumper (Commercials starting here were recorded on 9/29/84, during an airing of "Yellow Submarine")
17. Godfather's Pizza (Be sure to try the cannolis here, they're to die for)
18. Keep The Torch Lit PSA (Funding the restoration of The Statue Of Liberty, which was closed to the public and restored from 1984-86)
19. "The Saturday Late Movie" Commercial Bumpers
20. Greg's Sleep Center (Or if you want to go by how they spelled it in the ad GREG'Sleep Centers)
21. Goodwill (8:17 buy your kids all of the oversized trenchcoats they need to go back to school in style!)
22. Promo for "WKRP In Cincinnati"
23. Buckle Up PSA (With then Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, wife of the late senator Bob Dole)
24. Promo for "The New Jokers Wild" (That is some magnification on Bill Cullen's specs there...reminds me of Tyrell from "Blade Runner")
25. "Sunday Premiere Movie" Commercial Bumper (Commercials starting here were recorded on 9/30/84, this time during the 1948 film "Key Largo"...sorry make that "Key LargOHHH”)
26. "Key Largo" film glitch (This is edited down a bit and featured a much longer portion of dead air before they cut to commercial)
27. Vote No on Ballot Measure 3 PSA (Just how big IS this elevator?)
28. Wendy's "Where's The Beef?" Monday Night Football Game (With Dick Butkus and Clara Peller aka the "Where's The Beef?" lady from the last volume...who became a national star after the commercial blew up in early 1984. In early 1985 Wendy's fired Peller after her appearance in an ad for Prego spaghetti sauce where she claimed to have "found it" and also pulled the entire "Where's The Beef?" campaign. It took them years to recover in sales. RIP to both Butkus and Clara)
29. Promo for "Barney Miller"
30. Pasco's 100th Year Centennial Celebration
31. "Sunday Premiere Movie" Commercial Bumper
32. Nestle Toll House Morsels
33. Promo for "Cougar Highlights '84" (Uses a song by the Police that the station almost certainly did not have permission to use. It's not too late to sue, Sting!)
34. Safety Belt PSA (13:51 Damn, that is scary)
35. KVEW News 42 Weekend Report Promo (Featuring reporter Steve Frank)
36. "Sunday Premiere Movie" Commercial Bumper
37. Friskies (KITTIES)
38. Tree Top Apple Juice (Considering this actually aired in Washington State, I'd imagine most people living in the area had better options for apple juice than this)
39. KVEW News 42 Promo
40. Unemployment Insurance PSA (Now look confused and angry)
41. "Sunday Premiere Movie" Commercial Bumper
42. Pennzoil (With Arnold Palmer)
43. Promo for "The All New Let's Make A Deal" (Just don't think about the Monty Hall problem for too long or your head will explode: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem)
44. March Of Dime PSA
45. Milk
46. ??? (Well I guess someone didn't want that one to air)
47. Promo for "League Championship Series"/KVEW News 42 Promo
48. Office Of Child Support Enforcement PSA (Don't be a deadbeat dad)
49. KVEW Station ID
50. American Mobile Homes
51. Pacific Northwest Bell
52. KVEW Date Book
53. "Sunday Premiere Movie" Commercial Bumper
1. Jhirmack Natural Formula Performance Shampoo and Conditioner (With Victoria Principal)
2. Nature Valley Chewy Granola Bars (Amazing commercial and catchy jingle)
3. Impulse (PSA: don't actually stalk random women on trains)
4. Levi's Cords
5. "Solid Gold" Commercial Bumper
6. Pizza Hut (Featuring the Pizza Hut "bag bag" offer)
7. Central Washington State Fair (Well, I guess I missed my chance to meet Wolfman Jack!)
8. Promo for "Wheel Of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" (RIP Alex Trebek, we all know Jeopardy was the GOAT and that "Wheel Of Fortune" is for simpletons)
9. United Way Carrier Alert PSA (Are you a retired busybody? Have we got a job for you!)
10. Betty Crocker (Uh, you've got a little frosting in your mustache there, Bill)
11. Soft & Dri
12. Ace Hard Rubber Comb (WOW a commercial for a comb! This might be the only one that I ever post here, so enjoy it!)
13. Ice Blue Aqua Velva (5:36 Then why the hell did you marry me?)
14. Silkience
15. Wendy's (The infamous "Where's The Beef?" ad...one of the more iconic commercials of the 80's)
16. Snyder's Sliced White Bread (Snyder's Bread is made from PEOPLE! Tiny, tiny people!)
17. Les Schwab Tires (This chain is still around and has hundreds of locations in several states...mostly California and the Pacific Northwest. Les Schwab died in 2007 at age 89: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Schwab)
18. Snapper Hi-Vac Mower
19. Ban Roll-On Deodorant
20. McDonald's
21. Close Up Toothpaste
22. Pennzoil (With Arnold Palmer)
23. Tri-Cities Marine Dealers Association PSA (What a DAM good PSA!)
24. Rape Crisis Center PSA
25. Solid Gold Ending/End Credits (Had to include the footage of Rick Dees dancing with the Solid Gold dancers and the amazing theme song. I don't know if this was a regular occurrence)
1. WOKR Eyewitness News Bumper
2. 1981 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
3. Alka-Seltzer
4. Cover Girl Clean Makeup (With Cheryl Tiegs)
5. Lipton Cup-A-Soup
6. Promo for "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley", "Three's Company" and "Too Close For Comfort"
7. WOKR ABC Station ID
8. U.S. Marine Corps
9. Replay Gum
10. Promo for "That's Incredible" and "SST: Death Flight" ("SST: Death Flight" was a TV movie originally from 1977. It was later featured in the first season of MST3K that aired on KTMA: youtube.com/watch?v=5KcxJQ21XOA)
11. "Charlie's Angels" Commercial Bumper
12. Promo for "Dynasty" (Short, but awesome to post a promo for the premiere of "Dynasty"...another Aaron Spelling produced series for ABC that in many ways helped define the 80's)
13. Promo for "PM Magazine" (4:19 Possibly the longest hair beard combo that I've ever posted on this channel...or WILL ever post!)
14. WOKR Eyewitness News Bumper
15. "Charlie's Angels" Commercial Bumper
16. Liquid-Plumr
17. Hostess
18. Promo for "Hart To Hart" (6:00 I haven't seen an episode of this show in my life...but now that I know there's an episode with Robert Wagner fighting a mummy I may have to rectify that!)
19. "Charlie's Angels" Commercial Bumper
20. Bell System (Well done period piece with some nice vintage cars)
21. 7up (With George Brett)
22. Airwick Air Wand
23. Doublemint Gum
24. Next on "Charlie's Angels"
25. "Charlie's Angels" End Credits
1. "The Disney Afternoon" Commercial Bumper
2. 7up (Featuring Spot: The Video Game for NES)
3. Pizza Party (I never played this game, but I definitely remembered seeing this commercial as a kid)
4. Count Chocula Cereal (With Christina Ricci)
5. Fruit Rox Fruit Snacks (I don't think it's possible for a commercial to get more early 90's than this. I also get strong Star Wars Holiday Special vibes from this)
6. "Adventures Of The Gummi Bears" Commercial Bumper
7. "The Disney Afternoon" Commercial Bumper
8. Spy Tech
9. Rice Krispies (The boy at 2:45 is Trevor Eyster, aka Sponge from "Salute Your Shorts")
10. Promo for "The Jetsons"
11. "Adventures Of The Gummi Bears" Commercial Bumper
12. Coming Up On "The Disney Afternoon"...
13. Marshmallow Alpha-Bits
14. Tyson Looney Tunes Frozen Meals (I ate these quite a bit back then, though they weren't a patch on Kid Cuisine. I remember I mostly ate the Mac & Cheese and the Fish Sticks)
15. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup
16. Trix
17. WTIC Commercial Bumper
18. "The Disney Afternoon" Commercial Bumper
19. The Incredible Edible Egg
20. Pop Tarts (I posted this one a really long time ago in very bad quality so it's nice to post a better version of it. I'm pretty positive this was produced by the same studio that did the bubble tape ads)
21. Cheerios (With Bo Jackson. Wow, I totally had that yellow BO sticker)
22. Fruit Roll-Ups (I definitely used to peel out the shapes and eat them. Pointless but fun)
23. "DuckTales" Commercial Bumper
24. "The Disney Afternoon" Commercial Bumper
25. Shark Bites Fruit Snacks (I remember these being really good, and trying to remember the flavor of the great white gummy takes me back to recess in elementary school)
26. Shark Bites Fruit Snacks Water Squirter
27. Under Cover Bears Instant Oatmeal
28. Golden Grahams ("Golden Boy" is a golden jerk! Reminds me of those three other jerks from the Three Musketeers commercials)
29. Fox Kids Club
30. "DuckTales" Commercial Bumper
31. Coming Up On "The Disney Afternoon"... (The ads starting here were recorded from a different day, but are most likely still from the fall of 1990)
32. Froot Loops
33. Heavy Shreddin' for NES (IMO this is actually not a bad sports game, but like a lot of NES games the controls take a lot of getting used to and it's extremely difficult. Impressive graphics and animation for the time though)
1. McDonald's (Partial. Commercials starting here aired on 2/13/93)
2. G.I. JOE Hall Of Fame Collection
3. Nick Station ID
4. "Ren & Stimpy"/Snick Commercial Bumper
5. Promo for "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" (The only episodes of this show that really scared me back in the day were: the one with the Nosferatu-like vampire in the movie theater, selected parts of the "Ghastly Grinner" episode and the one with the girl turning into a porcelain doll. I feel like the show was more conceptually spooky rather than actually being frightening for kids)
6. Nike Air Jordans (With Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Marvin The Martian and Porky Pig! Also Don Pardo announcing! This was basically the commercial/ad campaign that inspired "Space Jam")
7. Nickelodeon Orange Appeal
8. Promo for Nick At Nites "Dates From Heck" (Brought to you by Arrid)
9. "Ren & Stimpy"/Snick Commercial Bumper
10. Snick Commercial Bumper
11. Hi-C 90120 Contest (Partial. With Gabrielle Carteris. Commercials starting here aired on 2/20/93)
12. Nick Station ID
13. Promo for "Bullwinkle's Moose-O-Rama"
14. McDonald's
15. Promo for "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?"
16. Wendy's Kids Meal (Partial. Commercials starting here aired on 3/7/93)
17. Treasure Troll Teenies (These look similar to the troll pencil toppers that were popular back then)
18. Coming Up...
19. Nick Station ID
20. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
21. Promo for "Welcome Freshmen"
22. Burger King Kids Meal (With Mickey's Toontown Kids Meal Toys. I had the Mickey and Goofy toys)
23. Secret Beauties (The girl on the left is Lacey Chabert)
24. Corn Pops (With Nintendo Game ID stickers. That brief claymation with Ludwig Koopa, Larry Koopa and Yoshi is amazing. It would be awesome if Nintendo made a 3D Mario game with that style)
25. Promo for "Wild Side Show"
26. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
27. Mondo (Commercials starting here aired on 3/20/93)
28. Inside-Out Boy
29. Nick Station ID
30. Snick Commercial Bumper
31. Jell-O Pudding (With 3x the Bill Cosby, yikes!)
32. Promo for "Fifteen" (The first kid at 11:23 is a young Ryan Reynolds)
33. Snick Commercial Bumper
34. Nick Station ID (Commercials starting here aired on 3/21/93)
35. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
36. Promo for "Snick"
37. Awesome Toss'ems
38. Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats
39. Hawaiian Punch
40. Promo for "Muppet Babies"
41. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
1. The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints PSA (Commercials starting here aired on 1/23/93)
2. Nick Is Every Day Commercial Bumper
3. Walt Disney's Studio Film Collection (I remember these box designs...we owned "Old Yeller" and "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea")
4. Nick Station ID
5. "Ren & Stimpy"/Snick Commercial Bumper
6. Promo for "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?"
7. Peanut Butter M&M's (My favorite candy. I had forgotten that they had this dark red packaging when they were first released, these days it's sort of a bright red orange color)
8. Wild West Cowboys Of Moo Mesa Action Figures (I never watched the show or had any of the toys, but I will say that the arcade game by Konami is awesome. It's basically the unofficial sequel to Sunset Riders...but with large anthropomorphic cows)
9. Promo for "Wild Side Show"
10. "Ren & Stimpy"/Snick Commercial Bumper
11. Snick Commercial Bumper
12. Littlest Pet Shop (Commercials starting here aired on 1/24/93)
13. Coming Up...
14. Nick Station ID
15. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
16. Alpha-Bits Cereal
17. Battle Trolls
18. Home Alone 2: Lost In New York for SNES, NES and Game Boy (For some reason, I bought the NES version of this game sometime in early '93...even though I had just received a Super Nintendo for Christmas. I probably didn't have enough money to buy the SNES version? Either way, it's one of the worst NES games that we owned, and I actually spent my own money on it which stings even more)
19. Ren & Stimpy Space Cadet Adventures for Game Boy (It's always neat to see that Super Game Boy dev kit used to capture footage before the peripheral was actually released to consumers)
20. Promo for "Au Revior Mr. Ed" (I didn't enjoy "Mr. Ed" on Nick at Nite as a kid so I was probably happy to see it go. BTW, when you're saying goodbye to a show starring a talking horse, don't have the sponsor be a pet food company!)
21. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
22. Cocoa Krispies (Commercials starting here aired on 1/31/93)
23. G.I. JOE Hall Of Fame Collection
24. Fantastic Roses Rose Making Set (♫ Maaade By Me ♫)
25. TV Spot for "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey" (Didn't see this in theaters, but we owned it on VHS. SPOILER the ending with Shadow being all right still can make any grown man cry like a little girl)
26. Coming Up...
27. Nick Station ID
28. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
29. Promo for "Nick News W/5"
30. Honey Comb
31. Hot Wheels Attack Pack
32. Promo for "Family Double Dare Tournament Of Champions"
33. "Ren & Stimpy" Commercial Bumper
1. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumper
2. Club Med
3. Mazda
4. Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice (With Bruce Jenner)
5. Exxon Extra Unleaded Gasoline
6. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumper
7. Promo for "Blue Thunder" (Based on the film starring Roy Scheider released earlier in 1983, this only lasted for 11 episodes)
8. WPLJ 95.5 FM (With Casey Kasem)
9. Burger King Salad and a Sandwich
10. Crazy Eddie (They must have put Crazy Eddie on a sedative to deliver this poignant New Year's message)
11. WABC Happy New Year Bumper
12. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Juicy Fruit and Dr Pepper)
13. Dr Pepper
14. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Barry Manilow, breakdancing! and Dick Clark in Times Square)
15. Dr Pepper
16. Promo for "Automan" and "Masquerade" (Every time I post a promo for "Automan" I'm reminded that there was a TV show where the main character was basically straight out of "Tron")
17. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Mary Jane Girls and Culture Club)
18. Juicy Fruit
19. TV Spot for "Silkwood"
20. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Rick James)
21. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumper
22. Moët & Chandon Champagne
23. McDonald's
24. Z-BEC
25. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumper
26. Promo for "The Fall Guy" and "Dynasty"
27. Norwich Head & Chest Cold Medicine
28. Pathmark
29. WABC Happy New Year Bumper
30. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumpers
31. Promo for "Entertainment Tonight"
32. Time Magazine
33. Promo for "The Morning Show"
34. Promo for "Blue Thunder" (This show not only featured ex NFL players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus as helicopter pilots, but also featured future SNL player Dana Carvey!)
35. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Culture Club)
36. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumper
37. TV Spot for "Silkwood"
38. Citrus Hill Select Orange Juice (With David Huddleston...best known for playing Santa Claus in "Santa Claus: The Movie" and the title character in "The Big Lebowski")
39. Solo (Solo: A Laundry Detergent Story)
40. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Commercial Bumper
41. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Ending/End Credits
1. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" Intro (Brought to you by 20th Century Fox and Dr Pepper)
2. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Priscilla Barnes from "Three's Company" and Doug Barr from "The Fall Guy" as hosts. Also featuring Culture Club and Dick Clark in Times Square. I love the shot at 4:42 with Dick Clark waving his arms and having the cue card in front of him, it's awesome to see a sort of "behind the scenes" look)
3. Dr Pepper
4. TV Spot for "Two Of A Kind" (Another box office and critical flop for John Travolta after a string of unsuccessful films, culminating in 1985's "Perfect"...which performed even worse. Travolta was essentially put in movie jail after that and went into semi-retirement until 1989's "Look Who's Talking" became a surprise hit and reinvigorated his career)
5. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Laura Branigan and Dick Clark)
6. Sugar Free Dr Pepper
7. TV Spot for "Two Of A Kind" and "To Be Or Not To Be" ("To Be Or Not To Be" had good reviews but was also not a success at the box office)
8. Promo for "Life's Most Embarrassing Moments" and "Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders" (The latter show was ABC's attempt to copy the format of NBC's "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" hosted by Dick Clark and Ed McMahon and produced by Dick Clark Productions. I wonder what Dick Clark thought of this promo airing during his New Year's Eve show?)
9. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Rick James and Dick Clark)
10. TV Spot for "To Be Or Not To Be"
11. Sugar Free Dr Pepper
12. TWA
13. The Dime Savings Bank Of New York
14. Promo for "The Making Of Superman III", "Hardcastle & McCormick" and "California Dolls" ("California Dolls" was originally released in theaters as "...All The Marbles" in 1981 but was retitled when issued outside of the U.S. due to the idiomatic title based on an Americanism not making sense to foreign audiences. This retitle seems to have also applied to TV airings. I would have titled it "Columbo Meets The Lady Wrestlers")
15. "New Year's Rockin' Eve 1984" (With Dick Clark and the ball drop. Happy New Year!)
1. Promo for "Fox New Year's Eve Live"
2. Fox Happy Holidays Bumper
3. "The Simpsons" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Volkswagen)
4. Volkswagen
5. Domino's Pizza (I believe Nikki Cox is the girl on the left at 1:52)
6. Promo for "Batman: The Animated Series" (This was an experiment by Fox to air this show in prime-time on Sunday nights, but was abandoned in March of '93 after low ratings)
7. Promo for "In Living Color"
8. Duracell
9. Streets Of Rage 2 for Sega Genesis (An all time classic console beat 'em up, but IMO the typical extreme SEGA! nonsense here does very little to actually sell the game. Additionally, any commercial for SOR2 that doesn't use "Go Straight" is a failure in my book: youtube.com/watch?v=KC-B3Q0cRrY)
10. Taco Bell (With Little Richard)
11. Promo for "Fox New Year's Eve Live"
12. Promo for "Class Of '96" (Lasted for one season)
13. Nissan Maxima and Pathfinder
14. AT&T Special Country Plan
15. Children's Tylenol Cold Plus Cough
16. Subway
17. Promo for "Married With Children"
18. Promo for "Down The Shore" (The actress at 6:53 is Anna Gunn, who later played Skyler on "Breaking Bad")
19. Promo for "Martin"


