1. Kleenex Rainbow of Colors Rebate Offer–with Joanne Worley from Laugh-in! 2. mcdonald’s Quarter Pounders–The one and only…what everyone gains when eating these…pounders! 3. Clairol’s Clairess–features Cheryl Tiegs 4. Holiday Inn–People-pleasing place! ***These are commercials from KOAT Channel 7 in Alburquerque, New Mexico around January 1979, shown during the ABC Friday Night Movie “The Pink Panther Strikes Again.***
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1978-1980 Commercials: WTCN, KOA, Radio Shack, Crest, Bounce, Jimmy Carter
March 12th, 20101. WTCN-TV 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul (ABC) promo for the Carol Burnett Show 2. KOA-TV Channel 4 Denver, CO for the Salvation Army 3. Radio Shack TRS-80 (probably model 2 from 1979)–TRS-80 completed the “trilogy” of microcomputers in the late 1970s (along with Apple and Commodore) 4. Crest Toothpaste–The city of Toothopolis is being attacked by the Cavity Creeps! Boy, those Cavity Creeps destroyed my teeth bigtime! 5. Bounce fabric softener sheets–This is the Bounce commercial with the notice at the end about their agreement with General Electric Dryers. I saw this commercial alot! 6. President Jimmy Carter Re-election ad **These commercials are from my 1977-83 Commercials volume 2 set**
WFLD Channel 32 – Creature Feature (Excerpt of Open, 1979?)
March 5th, 2010Blink, and you’ll miss it! Here is an extreme rarity – a painfully small excerpt from the opening of WFLD Channel 32’s Creature Feature program. This was the program that was replaced by Son of Svengoolie in Summer of 1979. That would date this clip to at least before that time. If you pause the video at the right spot you can see a fairly clear shot of the opening title. You can make out a smokey graveyard type atmosphere with a black crow or raven perched on a tree branch to the right and a coffin in the foreground. On top of this is the Creature Feature logo and WFLD TV, along with the older, Kaiser Broadcasting style “32″ logo. No idea what the music was for wfld’s Creature Feature. You can hear an extremely small snippet of it in this clip and the other one. If anyone remembers what the music was, feel free to comment. Too bad the person that recorded this Universal movie, “The Black Cat” was so dilligent in removing the commercial breaks – because this is the only footage currently known to exist of wfld’s Creature Feature opening. 
If you ever find any more, let me know. 
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KROY 1240 AM/96.9 FM Commercial (1979)
February 22nd, 2010A quick spot for Sacramento “power music” station KROY in 1979, featuring both dial positions of 1240 AM (which had been serving the market since 1937) and companion station “97 FM”, whose actual calls were KROI (launched in 1975). New ownership took over the combo in the early 80s, but due to a format change to general Top 40 rock and an increasingly deeper ratings slide, the KROY/KROI identities were dropped in 1982. The KROY calls would return in Sacramento four years later on 96.9 FM only.