The quality of this is amazing, it's like I'm watching live TV in the 70s.

What a great time it was to b a kid....

And in one commercial block, there were ads for the most famous episodes of Bionic Woman and Charlie's Angels ever. Awesome!

So, President Ford's ad aged really well.

What simple times! Take me back!

digging the jingles.

I loved Bionic Woman. I remembered most of these commercials especially Ken-L Ration dog food, totally forgot that one. 😊 What memories. 🤗

5:12 - "My children would have to go to school with cold cereal for breakfast..." YOU MONSTER!! How has Child Protection Services not heard of this??

I was three but I totally remember that episode of The Bionic Woman scared the shit out of me😂😂😂😂

I was five years old at this time and still remember that dog food commercial. Ha!

Those bring back such memories! Thanks!

I remember those Ken-L-Ration commercials... So funny, feeding your dog something you wouldn’t want to touch. 🤣 WTF was wrong with our parents. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Wow 750 bucks a year for hospital care and medical care!! It more that 750 when you sign your name at the ER

@RickJohnson

2 жыл бұрын

This comment aged well!

I’m a 43 year old woman and I always buy Life cereal. I love that stuff.

I remember when Soap was so controversial. Some stations refused to air it. My friends and I would sneak around to watch it and call each other afterward.

@calebproductions5970

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, that's hilarious!

Always loved that 'vapor action' from Halls. 1:00

Oh my gosh I had forgotten about that episode of Bionic Woman. I remember seeing that ad and freaking out when she ripped off her face and the robot was underneath.

@ 4:56 "A sensitive man" President Ford New York Daily News Headline (1975) Ford to City - "Drop dead"

@elc1960

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, you can bet the farm New Yorkers remembered that one on Election Day...

That's future Charlie's Angel Cheryl Ladd in San Francisco for Michelob (with Charlie himself, John Forsythe, doing the voice-over).

0:13--The woman on the left side of this Campbell's Chunky Soup commercial looks awfully familiar. She either is, or very closely resembles (and sounds like), the woman who gave us the immortal line "YUCK! I told you to use Fruit-Fresh" a few years later. 1:13--"Burger time, burger time, Ken-L Ration burger time." That has to be one of the catchiest dog food jingles ever--and on top of that, narration by the legendary Casey Kasem! 2:47--What ever happened to those Jell-O Americana products? They sure look good to me. 6:29--Wow; I'd love to go back in time and buy a brand new car for $3,885! I paid 3 times that much for a 6-year-old car in 2017. 7:30--One of the most iconic cereal advertising campaigns ever. (I wonder if those kids knew they were going to be on TV--LOL!)

OMG. I have to give my kids cold cereal. What the world coming to?

Robots were creepy in the 70s. That's what this video taught me.

The first grandma in that rice pudding ad is Loretta Tupper. In the '70s and '80s she was in tons of commercials. That ad for the 1977 Chevelle features Dolph Sweet of Gimme a Break!, and Philip Charles McKenzie of the Showtime series Brothers. The blonde actress playing the secretary in the Bionic Woman promo is Joan Darling, who went on to direct several episodes of M*A*S*H.

Is that Cheryl Ladd in the Michelob commercial at 2:37 ? This was a year before she'd replace Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels.

@citygirl5705

3 жыл бұрын

I think she was way hotter than Farrah. Cheryl had the face and the body.

@grease58

2 жыл бұрын

AND Charlie's voice!! (John Forsythe)

Charlie's Angels-"I'm gonna be watching you,sweetcakes!"(yikes) The Bionic Woman-wow who pissed in that announcer's cornflakes KABC Promo-City council voted against what kind of survey? Sounded like she was talking a bit fast Welcome Back Kotter-"Your MOTHER!!"

Sponsor tags are nice!

Did the Pan Am spot give anyone else an "Up with People" vibe?

@vicktdock

2 жыл бұрын

Great Aircraft, powered by P&W JT 9, built new ones 79 into early 80s and rebuilt them in the late 90s into 2000sands!

8:05 Man those fembots used to creep me out and still do! Lol

@ 2:20 That's John Forsythe on the Michelob voiceover right?

@paulpizzo2013

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's him.

@BrianKliewer

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like Charlie's "Angel", Cheryl Ladd, in it as well.

6:44 looks like Dolph Sweet who would later be on Gimme a Break with Nell Carter.

@mariohall8357

3 жыл бұрын

It’s him...he was also in the movie “Which Way is Up”...with Richard Pryor...

So did Austin Powers get the idea for "fembots" from that episode of the Bionic Woman? Seems like it.

"midsize" lmao

@80sCommercialVault

6 жыл бұрын

With a wheelbase of 112 inches, it was considered a mid-size car at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-size_car "During the 1970s, the intermediate class was generally defined as vehicles with wheelbases between 112 inches (2,845 mm) and 118 inches (2,997 mm). A turning point occurred in the late 1970s, when rising fuel costs and government fuel economy regulations caused all car classes to shrink, and in many cases to blur. Automakers moved previously "full-size" nameplates to smaller platforms.[2] New "official" size designations in the U.S. were introduced by the EPA, which defined market segments by passenger and cargo space.[3] Formerly mid-sized cars that were built on the same platform, like the AMC Matador sedan, had a combined passenger and cargo volume of 130 cubic feet (3.68 m3), and were now considered "full-size" automobiles.[4] The situation was complicated when General Motors began to downsize its models about two years before everybody else. In 1978, the Chevrolet Malibu nameplate had been redesigned on a 108-inch (2,743 mm) wheelbase, while the Ford Granada moved to the 105-inch (2,667 mm) wheelbase of the Ford Fairmont's Fox platform in 1981. Both competed with the Chrysler standard and extended K-cars, often classified as compact, though mid-size by EPA standards"

@vicktdock

2 жыл бұрын

@@80sCommercialVault Of course that "midsize" for 3888 will go for 20 g if in halfway decent shape now!

Surprising how many of these ads obsess over cost, rather than quality or convenience or other product benefits.

@80sCommercialVault

Жыл бұрын

0:23, 0:58, 2:54, 5:02, 5:41, 6:11, 7:05 Honestly have no idea what you're talking about

@Desslar

Жыл бұрын

@@80sCommercialVault No offense intended. Love your channel - it's an invaluable resource for these classic ads. I was just struck by the mother saying the Quaker Oatmeal is not a "necessity" (i.e. a luxury good?), and then passersby being amazed that a Chevy could cost less than $4000.

@80sCommercialVault

Жыл бұрын

I guess I find it odd to make a blanket statement to the effect of "advertising didn't mention quality or convenience back then; only cost" when you're just talking about one or two ads in a 10 minute video with over 20 of them. The mother in the Quaker ad literally says "it's a great convenience to me".

They still sell that fake hamburger dog food. Not one bit of real meat in it either. I buy Fresh Pet for our dog. He loves it.

@xfaktur2261

Жыл бұрын

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9:27 - Different times when they can say "Then, the most wanted squad go on the trail of a 'white slavery operation'.". It's as if their skin color made slavery more or less acceptable.

@80sCommercialVault

2 жыл бұрын

“White slavery” is basically a synonym for human trafficking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery You’re really reaching with the last sentence.

@LittleTut

Жыл бұрын

Also, noticed how just recently, corporations are now just started having more blacks and other races in their commercials and even commercials with interracial couples. As a black American, how could I not notice. 😊