Stay tuned for the end to see some SCTV nostalgia :)

@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter

3 жыл бұрын

Bring it on Long John

@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter

3 жыл бұрын

Man! I can't find the Genesee brewing commercial, the one with the old man on the docks, with the clam chowder, can't find it for the life of me. If you can find it or have a compilation with it on there please let me know!!!

@baylinkdashyt

3 жыл бұрын

I never knew their show open showed them in street clothes; a very nice touch.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@80sutopia68

2 жыл бұрын

I love SCTV! That was good stuff! I remember going into Long John Silver's growing up and wearing the pirate hat! Great Videos! Thanks!

I love that vintage look from the 80’s

@jerrygil1965

2 жыл бұрын

Late 70s and Early 80s

Watching in 2021, this feels like it’s from an alternate universe

@thephoenixhasflown

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of this older stuff feels like that now. You want to go on a bit of a trip look up radio, how it's done playlist

@thephoenixhasflown

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind the playlist is now hidden

@thephoenixhasflown

3 жыл бұрын

Have a look at these channels instead Ellis feaster Dusty old tapes Tapes from the radio

@SnarkyRC

3 жыл бұрын

Oh it is. We live in bizarro world now.

@andrewtodaro2874

3 жыл бұрын

What a difference 40 years makes!

That Hitachi VCR is probably still playing tapes...Hitachi was incredible in those days.

@deniseherud

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, their Magic Wand is world famous.....😂😂😂😂😂😂

@saxongreen78

3 жыл бұрын

@@deniseherud You dirty devil, you! 😈😊

@boogiedaddy3434

3 жыл бұрын

You're not kidding. I had a Hitachi VCR that lasted from 1988 up until 2016.

@davidnieve6444

3 жыл бұрын

And if they broke, you could fix them, same with T.V.s

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

I still have an Emerson vcr and it's huge lol.

I really like to watch old commercials.Commercials were better then and life seemed more simple too.

I turned 18 and graduated in 1981, 40 years, how did it go so quickly?

I wish I could go back to my childhood the 80s was so much fun miss this era

When I had the fish tacos and fries during lockdown last spring from Long John Silver's, the food still taste good and its a shame the location near me burned down and never reopened.

@arricammarques1955

3 жыл бұрын

Deep fryer fire?

@thrillington2008

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

We had one open in the town next to ours. It used to be a Burger Chef! Didn't last long though.

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

Are you in Staunton Virginia? The Long John's burned down here .

@thrillington2008

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickhill8612 Newport News. The location nearby in Hampton burned down.

1981 was my birth year, so these commercials were so awesome to see. 👍👍

@DavesArchives

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, C64!

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives me too dave.

How exciting 1981 seemed. It’s a shame we can’t say the same for 2021.... 😷 🦠 🥴 🔥 💥 🔥

@fordmavericksosx3569

3 жыл бұрын

Mike L So true.

@pannoni1491

3 жыл бұрын

@@fordmavericksosx3569 Well 1981 had its share of inherited problems from the '70s like high inflation, high interest rates, and a sluggish economy, and a lot of Boomers and older still had that "best days were behind us" like the '50s/'60s were, but the new Reagan administration brought about new opportunities, and by 1984, the go-go spirit was back. And keep in mind that Mr. Reagan was nearly killed (as well as the Pope), so there was the same unrest issues going on back then, and crime was going up due to all those cocaine dealers. Instead of a pandemic, 1981 also brought AIDS intro the news. It wasn't as bad as the current situation was, but the fact was that there was no hope of a vaccine, so it really shows that not everything in the past was as rosy as it seemed. At least TV was more fun, there was no Internet or cellphones to make you feel perpetually glued to the outside world, and the new tech at the time made you feel like there was plenty to do without feeling overwhelmed.

@fordmavericksosx3569

3 жыл бұрын

pannoni14 True. The 80’s were far from perfect, however I still think 1981 sounds more fun than 2021, with the pandemic, so much hatred, literally everything being politicized, everyone being “cancelled” and censored for having a different opinion. It only gets worse from here...

@gmfd76

3 жыл бұрын

It was a good time to be a little kid :)

@jamesharv2005

3 жыл бұрын

@@fordmavericksosx3569 everyone being cancelled huh? You cant say that jan 6th terror attack was simply a difference of opinion. Stop with the hyperbole. In 1981 we were close as ever to a civil war. Rights of all were diminished compared to today.

Ultra dangerous high rise construction and lots of beer...great combination 😄

@guerralg63

Жыл бұрын

Its better than dancing in the street full of fentanyl!

Best times were the late 70's and early 80's for so many things.

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

Ask any band of any kind of music & they will tell you they made their best stuff in the 70's

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@Leatricaw

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

In the future no one will remember commercial because they skip them..we had to watch them and honestly miss most of them because they were so original.

Thank you so much Dave for these great memories!!!😀👍

@DavesArchives

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Charlie! :)

@devilsadvocate71

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives Dave, thank you for the wonderful memories from the greatest decade. So nostalgic.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives you too dave.

Aw this gives me cold chills. Good morning 76 so watching this is like it takes me to a place that I don't often go and if I do it's only in my dreams. Here within the last year I run across something on KZread called back to the '80s and it's all SYNTHWAVE. At night when I can't sleep I'm very fond of the bladerunner soundtrack score that helps me drift off

02:18 ....when the stores actually stamped the price on the product!

10:20 Leonard Nimoy doing the voiceover for the Bell Commercial.

I was three!!! I remember some of these. I always love what Dave puts together for us. Now that I'm all old and such it's time for bed, I got work in the morning 😢😢😢😁 G'night y'all!

I was 18, dreamed of owning a Saab turbo, but drove a 66 mustang, loved Siouxie and the Banshees, DEVO, X, and Suburban lawns. Hated disco. 1981 was by far my favorite year! LA was a great place to grow up.

@jerrygil1965

2 жыл бұрын

Curious of why hated disco?

I wasn't born until 1993 but I respect 1981 for having the Pointer Sisters,Warren Zevon, Iron Maiden all doing some of their best music. Seems like a interesting year

1:15, the Long John Silver's commercial where the kid says bring it on, he would go on to play Buzz in the first two seasons of Mama's Family

The blonde at the beginning of the Long John Silvers commercial looks like Marcy Walker from All My Children (Liza) and Eden on Santa Barbara.

@VintageEntertainment606

3 жыл бұрын

I think it is Marcy Walker. I didn't know she did commercials before AMC.

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

I remember her!

@b.j.thomas9754

3 жыл бұрын

..and the kid from Mama s family who played Buzz too

@peggydawson3453

3 жыл бұрын

That's where I saw her before.I was trying to figure out what I had seen her on. ..I use to watch All My Children... 🥰

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

Peggy Dawson I did too back in college. Found out Erica Kane went to my school!

I was 12. Oh to go back for a few days and just feed quarters into the Donkey Kong at my local 7/11.

This has become my Sunday night ritual as I get ready for bed, watching your videos. Keep up the excellent work!

Early 80s were the best! I prefer it over late 80s.

@exerciserelax8719

3 жыл бұрын

Mid 80s for me. But all are great.

@josebro352

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Early 80s and late 80s were very different. Early 80s were more like the 70s.

@ambergreene5985

3 жыл бұрын

@@josebro352 Yep, I agree! Totally different aesthetic.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Come on.

I can’t thank you enough for uploading these. A true treasure trove of memories for me. When the world was a better place! And the SCTV ending was the best. That was the CCCP1 episode from October 1981

I was 10 years old and I miss the '80's.

@samhain4539

3 жыл бұрын

I was 11 lol

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

Everyone in these commercials are 70 - 80 now...

@Plastic_Ivory

3 жыл бұрын

Or dead.... :(

@MarkMeadows90

3 жыл бұрын

Not exactly. There are some children in a few of these commercials that are probably in their 40s or 50s now.

@pannoni1491

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkMeadows90 The girl in the Long John Silvers commercial for instance.

@bob494949

3 жыл бұрын

Some are, but not everyone. I turned 20 in 1981. I’m 59 now.

@atlasking6110

3 жыл бұрын

wow, you're a mental genius.

Help me, my life has just went by in a flash 🙁

@wiseowl2323

Жыл бұрын

I keep watching these videos with the same morbid sense of horror.

Damn... 40 years.

@DavesArchives

3 жыл бұрын

Right??

@elgeneralxx

3 жыл бұрын

Pooped pants big old grandma pants

@pannoni1491

3 жыл бұрын

@@elgeneralxx 40 years ago then meant Pearl Harbor, the Boogie Woogie, and Citizen Kane. It just shows you how time flies and memory eventually turns into history.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives you said it dave.

I'd love to see a compilation of retro beer commercials. The funny ones, of course.

@DavesArchives

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea!

@SnarkyRC

3 жыл бұрын

It must include Hamm's

@youngimperialistmkii

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea😀

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives nice dave.

I turned 10 at the end of that year! 😳 I love the ripoff C3PO in that Hitachi commercial! 🤣

@devilsadvocate71

3 жыл бұрын

I turned 10 near the end of that year as well. Still the best decade, in my opinion.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

What.

The year I graduated High School, great times.

There was a time you couldn't buy Coors in the east during college days. It was special when somebody drove out west and brought Coors back for a party.

LOL the unbeatable combination of Renault and AMC. What could possibly go wrong?

I was 9 in 81 and remembering going to Long John Silvers. That was probably the only time...it was good.

"bring it on long john" - sounds like a line from a porno flick

@sweetsongstress7398

3 жыл бұрын

Rob High flick? Lol

@simplysteve68

3 жыл бұрын

The front lady looked like Shelley Long.

@Ryan2022

3 жыл бұрын

You are sick

@sweetsongstress7398

3 жыл бұрын

Patrick Merkel sick rhymes with flick?

@rexbitten

3 жыл бұрын

@@simplysteve68 She's Marcy Walker she played Liza Colby on All My Children from 1981 to 1984 and Eden Capwell on Santa Barbara from 1984 to 1991.I always liked her

The year I started college. Man that Comtrex would knock you into next week! It was notorious.

Wow grew up outside of El Paso. Those Pat Goff commercials unlocked a core memory.

Hey thank you for the time capsule. I love it.

No I don't remember '81 but baby, that's when I came through!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 #80sbaby #81fulloffun

@CommodoreFan64

3 жыл бұрын

I was an 81 baby as well being born July 4th, so to this day my mother calls me an 80's firecracker birth 😂

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

It's great to see these old ads thanks for sharing

Great work, Dave!

@DavesArchives

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks, Retrodaze!!

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives nice.

I remember my family going to Long John Silvers, Sizzlers, and Pizza Hut to sit down and have a nice dinner in the 80s and early 90s. In that time period I remember Pizza Hut being super busy inside the dining room. Now it’s the opposite: it’s surprising to see people in the dining room. Sadly. And my grandma had her late 80s large RCA tv until 2018 when she moved to a over 55+ community, she was newly widowed and it was too heavy but she loved that thing. And it went into the bedroom of one of her younger great grandkids. And it’s still going strong.

12:54 that globe rotating the wrong way triggered my OCD so hard!!

I believe that is a young Marcy Walker (from the soaps Santa Barbara and All My Children) singing in that Long John Silvers commercial.

@kathiec1333

3 жыл бұрын

Miguel. I didn't see your comment before I said the same thing, we must be right.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

5:55 "Dependable used car". (shows a clapped-out Chevy Vega) Great upload. Thanks!

@rogerbenest3164

3 жыл бұрын

For $895! As if the Ford Granada two door beside it is much better!

@michaelkay5142

3 жыл бұрын

I had a black Chevy vega driving around willimantic ct late 80's/early 90's up to no good.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Your welcome.

I grew up in Las Cruces with El Paso tv stations, so I even knew the local commercials.

David Hart A/K/A Parker Williams from In The Heat Of The Night tv show playing cards in the Pillbury commercial. Recognize the young guy in Long John commercial but just can't place him.

I am craving some hush puppies for some reason!!!! My wife is from el Paso and she started laughing and said she remembers those commercials.

The 1981 commercials I like are the Jean Nate After Bath Splash and Gillette Just Whistle ladies razor commercials.

"Bring it on, Long John." I loved eating at LJS back in the day. in the early 1990s, they had those wraps😍 and I would get either the Fish or Shrimp and grab some tartar sauce and on the way out I would ring that bell.

Interesting selection Dave!

@DavesArchives

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, buddy!

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives okay.

"Elvis and the Beauty Queen" -- starring Don Johnson as Elvis. Wowzers.

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

About Linda Thompson.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

I graduated in 1981 ❤️Classic time to have been young growing up in the beautiful BayArea ⭐️

Awesome Memories 👍

SNL with George Kennedy and Miles Davis holy moly Where was I ...oh yeah junior high.....

Miss those days. We were so laid back. No cell phones or social media. No political correctness.

@josebro352

3 жыл бұрын

It was the greatest time to be a kid. I remember I was twelve in 1981 and I remember my friends and I riding our bikes to 7-11 for slurpees and then going to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at the movies. No cell phones. No social media. No political correctness. No social justice warriors. Everyone hung out with each other in person constantly instead of communicating though a screen. It feels like it was in a different dimension compared to the world we live in today.

@Ryan2022

3 жыл бұрын

There was political correctness

@brianarbenz1329

3 жыл бұрын

Don't you hate people who can't let a vid of old commercials be seen without making a political speech? Get some professional help, buttwuurst, or some medicine, or something. Anyone who thinks there is such an issue as political correctness has been fooled into going on a snipe hunt.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

Loved that Sun Datsun commercial. Optimizes the laid back time it was.

There was a Long John's in my local mall, but it was an arcade. I don't know if it *used* to be a restaurant or just a coincidence?

Our nearest and only LJS restaurant closed a few months ago. The crumbs were the best! I must’ve been the only ‘94 kid who liked eating there.

That's my hometown NBC affiliate. I was 9 years old when these commercials were played. Great memories

1981 - my final year in High school! - fun Memories!!

'81 Gems

My home town!!! I remember the local ads ☺️☺️☺️

Wow ! I was 12 years old in 1981.

@elgeneralxx

3 жыл бұрын

Wow pooped pants

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

Hey LONG JOHN SILVERS in Joliet, Illinois ............ pave your moon cratered parking lot !!

@christopherbayne9061

2 жыл бұрын

@j Beautiful Carbondale?

Long John Silver’s has a special for your young buccaneers. Your pirates eat for peanuts and they cruise away with free souvenirs. You get the best sea food dishes, fries and a whole lot more. You can to (voice of a parrot). So cruise along through, it’s the fun thing to do. Long John Silver’s sea food shops.

Thank you for your time & upload! But doesn’t this make me horrible consumer? I come here for joy?! 😭😭😭

The Pat Goff’s commercial jingle is pretty catchy.

I Was in the late 70s they where in the year of 1981 I remember Wendy’s Roland McDonald’s Huckleberry’s And Tower Records And R Price Music Store they was some good times thanks 🙏 Dave 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💋💋💋💋💋💋

So very very cool!

Our long john silvers and A&W closed this year. ;^; i miss the tartar sauce.

3:29 LMFAO.....man, I forgot about that, And no, it didn't actually work....lol

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah hahaha.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

1:14 - Isn't that the kid from 'Private Lessons' and 'They're Playing With Fire'?

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

Wow I was thinking he looked familiar. It could be him.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Who knew ?.

Love the Long John Silvers ads. They need Brad Hamilton in his pirate hat!!

This is awesome!! I live near el paso!

@elgeneralxx

3 жыл бұрын

Pooped pants

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Wow.

Damn that was Leonard Nimoy narrating that PBS promo.

3:00 completely forgot Renault was a part of AMC

@rogerbenest3164

3 жыл бұрын

I thought AMC eventually became part of Renault. It was Renault that sold it to Chrysler in the late 80s.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

# American Motors Company.

Ah the commercials are from the El Paso, Tx area, cool. ☺👍 1st one the Hitachi with the robot, sounded like Danny Thomas. The front lady on the Long John Silver's one looked like Shelley Long. Bell Dimension PBS was voiceover of Leonard Nimoy.

Love all the El Paso commercials.

That Bell commercial had Lenord Nimoy doing voice over. Im not surprised. I believe he was hosting In Search Of around this time

@CommodoreFan64

3 жыл бұрын

He was also doing the ads for Magnavox magnavision Laserdisc players around this time as well.

@freebird0147

3 жыл бұрын

@@CommodoreFan64 The man was keeping busy between Star Trek movies. Good for him.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

He is.

The main actress in the Long John Silvers ad looks familiar, I wonder what else she did.

@vivienleigh2121

3 жыл бұрын

She played Liza on All My Children.

@space.tel-e-grams

3 жыл бұрын

she was also Eden in Santa Barbara

@heavilyarmedgoy

3 жыл бұрын

The boy at 1:15 too.

@kellswitch

3 жыл бұрын

@@space.tel-e-grams I just spend the last few hours down a soap opera rabbit hole, I had forgotten about Santa Barbara :O)

@vivienleigh2121

3 жыл бұрын

@@heavilyarmedgoy He played the grandson in Mama's Family.

12:00 the great Casey Kasem puts an extra smile in his voice on this NBC promo.

Holy cripes... 13.8% APR financing! SUCH A DEAL! (4:28 )

@NathanWind99

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta have great credit for that sweet rate. Most will pay more.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Great.

Dave how can we get these tapes with tv shows and commercials on them? Can we pay for these files to be emailed to us? Do you have the complete files with both tv shows and commercials?

Love it Hitachi was our first VHS remember being amazed that we could record off the TV the video we did was Bruce lee Enter the dragon

Ah yes, 1981, the year ronald mcdonald unveiled his mcWOPR hamburger shaped supercomputer, what a year.

@samanthab1923

3 жыл бұрын

Just rewatched Wargames recently. Still holds up 😀

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Ooooooh.

These ads were broadcast from the Tonight Show off KTSM in El Paso on October 9th, 1981. It looks like these may have come from an eBay seller where s/he posted several lots of tapes in 2017. I myself won a lot of Betas (content was recorded from 1981-1986) and a couple VHS lots, mostly recorded from 1984-1992, with a few recordings from the mid-late '90s almost all from the same market. I myself found from the Beta lot the 19th Anniversary Special of The Tonight Show along with a full and partial episode with Joan Rivers guest hosting. Interestingly, I found partial episodes of the ABC soaps One Life To Live and General Hospital recorded on the same day as these ads were shown in that Beta lot. Soon, I'll post a couple videos with spots from January 1982 from NYC stations (one from New Year's Day, so most of the ads there will actually be from '81).

@zymaymyn

3 жыл бұрын

The George Kennedy SNL aired October 17th 1981. The SNL scene in 12:08 was "The Bizzaro World", which was in the Susan Saint James/The Kinks episode from October 10th, 1981. So this taping was from October 16th of 1981, not October 9th.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Okay.

1st to comment here! can we one day get a special of all-food or all-video game commercials from the 80's/90's?

@DavesArchives

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe a McDonalds edition soon :)

@alexgeorge501

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives sweet

@pannoni1491

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrawesome3915 Unless if they're from the same company in chronological order.

@christineferreira2181

3 жыл бұрын

pannoni14 does Crystal Pepsi count of a soda and/beer video occurred? It was so disgusting. It had the Van Halen commercial and tasted worse than it looked. Nasty!

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesArchives dave we'll see.

Man, some of those guys were TWO-FISTING them some Coor's beer. Nice!

is that Lorne Green in the coors commercial? I was 10 in 81!!

@themig71

Жыл бұрын

So was I. I woke up and I'm 51. Shit.

My birth year nice to see commercials from my birth year

That lil doughboy still poppin' round here

1981- graduated, joined the military. Edit: I stopped watching my show to watch commercials, what does that say about tv in 2021?

@sandyb2379

3 жыл бұрын

I did too....boy how time flies.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

Wow.

Brewed right from the rocky mountains.....right from the tap.

Cool to get a little glimpse of the old school Long John Silvers interior. Going there felt like u were boarding a pirate ship when u were a kid. Somewhere along the way they thought it’d be better to get rid of all that & go w a boring ass, basic design

That was the year after my sister was born

@grabasandwich

3 жыл бұрын

I lived in the 70s for 6 months😋

@psistis80

3 жыл бұрын

I was still swimming in my dad's testicles.

@taureanmay7480

3 жыл бұрын

You.

I remember several of these commercials! I'm an f'ing dinosaur!!

I was in 7th and 8th grade when these commercials aired.