Retro Commercials

These commercials aired on ABC on February 11th, 1980 1. Promo for “The 1980 Winter Olympics” 2. Chevy Monza (With Didi Conn from “Grease” promoting a car I’ve never heard of) 3. La Choy 4. KBTV Station ID 5. “ABC Monday Night Movie” Commercial Bumpers 6. Shell (OH GOD, what the hell is with the station wagon crashing through at the end?!?) 7. Pam 8. Stayfree (With Cathy Rigby. Was this the best endorsement deal she could get?) 9. AMC Concord 10. Stevinson Toyota 11. US Army (“So I’m gonna fix jeeps!” LOL) 12. FTD (That androgynous nerd scored a pretty hot girlfriend) 13. Alka Seltzer Plus 14. General Motors 15. “ABC Monday Night Movie” Commercial Bumper 16. Promo for “America Held Hostage: Day 100 of the Iran Crisis” 17. mcdonald’s (Those are eggs?) 18. Channel 9 newsbrief 19. Sears Portrait Studio 20. Channel 9 News Promo 21. “ABC Monday Night Movie” Commercial Bumper 22. Rave (Love the packaging design) 23. Ragu (Yeah, just throw that family tradition right out. You don’t have time to cook!) 24. Promo for “Happy Days”, “Goodtime Girls”, “Three’s Company” and “1980 Winter Olympics” 25. “ABC Monday Night Movie” Commercial Bumper

Another fun-filled set of commercials from 1988 and 1989. 1. Everybody’s doing “The Arches.” 2. Lee and Larry leruth always use Uncle Ben’s rice. 3. You can see the homemade taste in Prego. 4. When you want home cookin’, microwave some Swanson macaroni and cheese. 5. Cold sufferers should visit The Halls of Medicine. 6. If you’re failing in school and on the verge of being kicked off the football team, just eat a Milky Way candy bar. 7. Famous though guy, Bruce Weitz, doesn’t wear iron underwear; he wears Hanes. 8. 100 percent Hatfield means 100 percent good! 9. The rich and thrifty shop at Furniture Unlimited. 10. The PB in PB Max means peanut butter…not Maximilian’s Purple Bandoleros. 11. My Pretty Ballerina is on sale at Kmart. 12. Restore your broken plates with Swift Premium Lite sausage. 13. Lozenges from Cepacol are so tangy, cool and neat! 14. Feel like you’re seventeen again with Bell Atlantic telephone service. 15. Jimmy Dean says you really can get a good tastin’ country breakfast out of a microwave. 16. That sweet talker, Betty Crocker, makes every day a party with her new Party Frosting. 17. Ellio’s microwave pizza from mccain is crispy enough to awaken sleeping family members. 18. mcgruff the Crime Dog takes a bite out of crime in Philadelphia. 19. Cartoon dinosaurs invade Welch’s jams and jellies. 20. Oatbake tastes too BIG to be so small!

**These commercials are kind of squiggly, but were dubbed in the best quality possible** 1. Haley’s MOlaxative (It’s MOK!) 2. Mattel Tuff Stuff shopping cart (with the plastic grapes!) 3. Ultra Ban 5000 antiperspirant 4. Renuzit Air Freshener (this is the commercial that was parodied in the 1977 film Kentucky Fried Movie!) 5. Prime Variety (that dog doesn’t want the same old thing!) 6. Jello Instant Pudding (I swear that I saw this ad in the mid 70s as well) **These commercials are from my 1970-1979 Commercials Volume 2**