1970s TV COMMERCIALS BANQUET TV DINNERS SEIKO WATCHES AMEX TV GUIDE PURINA XD80755

[@tholmes2169]

Can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a book advertised on TV. Miss these days before prescription medicine ads were allowed.

[@new2000car]

Yes not only are they miserable, but on nightly news these days 17-18 out of 22 commercials are from the drug companies. I wonder if any news report dares say anything bad about the drugs being pushed.

[@tripdefect87]

James Patterson books are almost always advertised on tv

[@sugarplum5824]

​@@tripdefect87 Not on my television. I rarely see books advertised.

[@drunk_by_noon9231]

This is my first time ever seeing an advertisement for an umbrella lol

[@ArmpitStudios]

And drug ads are almost always in slow motion. God I hate them. Gladly we watch almost everything time shifted with a DVR, so all ads can be skipped.

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

Is this the same women narrating all the adverts? Sounds like she smokes 500 cigarettes a day. 😅😅

[@tholmes2169]

I still see those old Amana Radarranges in houses from the 60s and 70s. Those things are bullet proof.

[@texaswunderkind]

I swear we had that exact model. It lasted five times longer than any microwave we have had since.

[@sugarplum5824]

Appliances were built to last back then. My in-laws still have a refrigerator they bought way back in the 70s. Nowadays, you're lucky to get 5 years before they break down.

[@texaswunderkind]

@@sugarplum5824 Yeah. Sears used to have a repair center with all the parts breakdowns, manuals, parts, and helpful tips you could have ever wanted. Montgomery Ward, too. I bought an old moped at a garage sale, and ended up fixing it for a pittance after getting the one broken part at one of those.

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

​@sugarplum5824 But how else would they sell you more?

[@fromthesidelines]

5:56- That "extra ingredient" was *CAFFEINE.*

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

I remember every single one of these! In particular, the TV Guide music brings back all KINDS of great TV memories!

[@new2000car]

Such a cool jingle, so intriguing sounding. It’s been 50 years since I last heard it

[@johnp139]

Including the TV Guide ad?

[@ArmpitStudios]

It’s a great jingle.

[@deandupont5503]

So now we know what Barbara Hale was doing after 'Perry Mason' went off the air.

[@themechanic9226]

2:27 OMG is she really going to microwave a standing rib roast? Heresy!

[@Earth1218]

It’s crazy how they tried to convince everyone that you could cook an edible turkey or beef roast in microwaves back then. It would be funny to see that rib roast when the microwave was done with it. Raw on one side, gray and dehydrated on the other, with splatters of grease coating the oven. 😂

[@jamesmanley1948]

me and my gf love to sit back and watch these old commercial compilations, but its a bit annoying when they have the identical duplicates.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

"My gf and I..."

[@koroba01]

This video should have been titled “Amana Commercials from the 70’s.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you for this excellent collection.

[@hoagie1978]

Tom Selleck in the Amana ad at 2:20.

[@imbok]

If it was a real 'man pleaser' dinner, it would include cold beer!!

[@themagus5906]

Yeah; they were sold to housewives who were too "busy" for their husbands and wouldn't f**k them as well. They were too busy shopping at K-mart for quality goods. At least the "man" got to pick his own beer on the way home from the steel mill.

[@luisreyes1963]

Wished I thought of that. 🍺

[@lightdark00]

Now I have to find out what happened to Banquet Man Pleasers. 🙄

[@themagus5906]

The "Man-Pleasers" trademark name expired around 1996, and now belongs to a company in India that serves octopus, conch, beef, and sometimes horsemeat in their prepared foods. This man is not pleased.

[@jimmiesmith5811]

Who made man handlers was it Swanson's I forgot

[@fromthesidelines]

Swanson made "Hungry Man" dinners {which Banquet tried to emulate). Today, they're made by ConAgra.

[@eckankar7756]

I remember TV dinners, we used to think they were so elegant. Also there was a single serving like Salisbury steak in a bag you'd boil and pour over. piece of toast. I loved those as a kid, this was before average homes could afford a microwave. Barbara Hale as the spokesperson and that incredible voice of hers.

[@texaswunderkind]

The only downside was that the Swanson family became very wealthy when they sold out to ConAgra, and by default Satan's Bastard (Tucker Carlson) when his dad married the heir to the fortune. Long before he put on a bowtie and practiced his high-pitched laugh.

[@cme98]

The first consumer affordable microwave came from AMANA in 1976. But the first Microwave for commercial came from Raytheon, the defense contractor, in 1947. It weigh 750 pounds, used 3 kilowatts of electricity, had to be cooled with pipes of cold water which surrounded it, and cost $5,000 which amounts to $71,090.93 in July-2023 dollars. ~By 1955-60 they were sold commercially for restaurants & the wealthy, still expensive, they were built into your kitchen for $1,295 ($14,826.59 in July-2023). ~By 1971 the top 1% of the American population owned a microwave. ~By 1976 AMANA released the $349 microwave (1,918.82 July-2023). That was “affordable” in 1976.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

​@texaswunderkind1493 I loved Swanson. Banquet was nasty. Now Swanson isn't what it used to be.

[@janiesippel225]

I remember the boil in a bag meals. I loved the BBQ beef and Chicken a ‘la king over toast.😋

[@RedSiegfried]

Pretty sure I'm all for anything called the Man-Pleaser! (And so is my wife. She's the best!)

[@fromthesidelines]

It was intended to challenge the popularity of Swanson's "Hungry-Man" dinners.

[@luisreyes1963]

I'll settle for a Jeno's pizza. 🍕

[@rodneygolden2796]

Mom had the Amana side by side fridge/freezer w/auto ice maker in Harvest Gold to match the cabinet soffits and carpeting in our kitchen, not to mention the Oster-izer Imperial blender in the same color.

[@jorgezarco9269]

Barbara Hale.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

@@jorgezarco9269 Her mom was Barbara Hale?

[@jimtekkit]

The Seiko ad is interesting because liquid crystal displays were very new at the time. That technology was being patented around 1970 and that Seiko watch came out in 1976.

[@cme98]

The LCD or liquid crystal display, was invented in 1964. The LED or light emitting diode, was invented in 1962. The first LCD screens were used on calculator screens & were significantly cheaper than digital lit numbers but the LCD screens were dark so digitally lit numbers were used. They were sold as a little box with an filament lit for all numbers 0-9 which lit up one number individually for a reading from your clock or test monitors. They would cost several hundred dollars today. They were basically a light bulb with 10 filaments displaying whatever number was needed. They were also big bulky unpractical for a calculator until Japan & Casio miniaturized them under the microscope. For TVs the cathode ray tube was used until technology figured out how to light an LCD screen & it immediately competed with the plasma flat screen. Eventually LED screens replaced both as the preferred flat screen for TVs & computers.

[@alangray9117]

I miss the hard sell Madison Avenue commercials. They had imagination. You can still remember then decades later. Nowadays commercials stink.

[@bitronicc1887]

Man the 70s really loved to fade in and out from black

[@roachtoasties]

Not that I'm in the mood to live off TV dinners, but I wish we were able to go back in time and get some of those Man-Pleaser dinners. They can't be anywhere near as horrible as some of the TV dinners sold today. The mashed potatoes look like vomit put through the blender. My cat even refuses to eat them.

[@forrestbrown5649]

Love these commercials, don’t love the frequent repeats though. Thanks for sharing these!

[@peeblood]

My girlfriend gave me a man-pleaser one night. It didn't involve food, though.

[@Wildrover82]

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw that ad. Lol.

[@luisreyes1963]

Thanks for sharing. 🙄

[@JWall416]

Yum, nodules of pasteurized processed cheese spread!

[@cheryldillon7358]

I did not know that Barbara Hale (Della Street on Perry Mason) was a spokesperson for Amana

[@themagus5906]

Her original name was Amanda Deckerson.

[@darrylh1971]

Barbara Hale (Della Street on Perry Mason) for Amana.

[@buddyg1408]

Della is 🔥

[@2003ranp]

Anacin commercial plays 2 extra times!

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

I've got a headache. Anything you can recommend?

[@fromthesidelines]

13:36- Jan Miner as "Madge the Manicurist".

[@RepentfollowJesus]

I remember all of her commercials

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Really all she ever did. Truly a Miner star.

[@1northsparrow246]

These retrospective views of 1970s commercials are 'guaranteed to kill' misplaced feelings of nostalgia or 'your money cheerfully refunded'. 😉

[@jorgezarco9269]

VANCE!!! That actress had a part in Airport(1970).

[@eldepavas]

Now I want a Man Pleaser...

[@johnnyb3126]

Very cool old commercials 😎

[@ernestcruz6316]

Erin Gray is in that first Maybelline Fresh & Lovely makeup commercial, and Todd Bridges is in the Heroes in Action commercial. Plus a whole lotta Barbara Hale, and Jake Holmes sings the jingle in the first Sunshine Family spot. Oh yeah, Jack Knight from Lotsa Luck is the man in that first Banquet Man-pleasers TV dinners spot.

[@hoagie1978]

Tom Selleck was the husband riding the bike on one of the Amana ads.

[@ernestcruz6316]

@@hoagie1978 Hmmm...one I missed...thanks (you dirty...) lol

[@zaq55]

Any guesses on Santa Claus @ 27:27 ?

[@ernestcruz6316]

@@zaq55 I'll have to get back to you... gotta watch it again to see.

[@ernestcruz6316]

​@@zaq55I watched that video again, and I don't have a clue who's playing Santa Claus in the Liv-a-Snaps commercial.

[@manicangel7796]

O.M.G... was just sitting here watching and when Putt-Putt train jingle came on... I started singing instantly. I remembered every word. Lol.. wow. I can't remember where I sit my phone down at; but with perfect recall I can sing a 40 year old commercial.

[@manicangel7796]

ok now i'm frightened. i'm going to be one of those lost-her-mind elderly people who can't recognize my daughters face but will relive all glory days and events from the past as reality. Shit.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

19:50 Erin Gray!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@blackfinjrblackfinjr3555]

Super 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@РакРва]

Seiko watches commercials are awesome.

[@tholmes2169]

Music is definitely mysterious

[@fromthesidelines]

27:14- Published in 1976. Later adapted into a cheesy 1978 CBS TV movie (starring Beau Bridges, Larry Hagman, Susan Blanchard and Karen Grassle). Peter Thomas, announcer.

[@TeslaTales59]

What a batch of great old narrated commercials!

[@jimmiesmith5811]

A young Todd Bridges on the hero in action commercial

[@lestersabados1306]

amana lady smoked trillions of cigarettes

[@donbest5024]

The Banquet dinners are garbage now.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Yes, I agree with you. The Banquet dinners taste like plastic food.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

They were awful.back then too. Swanson was good

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

@@RepentfollowJesus Swanson dinners were worst.

[@sheriheffner2098]

Those TV Guide commercials used to sound creepy.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Yeah, they seemed to portray themselves as some kind of hard-hitting journalistic newsweekly... but with Fonzie on the cover!

[@ih8utbe]

Yes they did sound odd.

[@mjrodriguez8670]

The people of the Amana Colonies, Iowa, certainly knew how to manufacture Radaranges and refrigerators!

[@JakobHill]

I love watching ads from when microwaves first became affordable - the manufacturers really expected everyone to sell their stove and get a microwave!

[@jeffk19]

Love the tv dinners big enough for a man and enough sodium for the next three weeks in one meal.

[@tnate6004]

Lots of great memories. Fred Holliday was announcer on the Seiko ads. "If it's not Amana, ir's not a Radarange". Barbara Hale was spokeswoman for years. Had forgotten about those Anacin "range of motion" ads. The TV Guide ad music was used for years - it used to have serious stories about the TV business and TV's effects on culture. We kids used to make fun of the Purina pet food commercials, coming up with all sorts of "chows" - iguana chow, ferret chow, etc.

[@roachtoasties]

The lady sure keeps a neat Amana refrigerator. I never met anyone who keeps a big open slice of cheese, open Jello mold and a big open chocolate cake all ready to be taken out and served in a second. There must be a wedding dinner coming up right after the commercial.

[@cme98]

In case anybody is wondering a Banquet frozen dinner is not a Man Pleaser.

[@luisreyes1963]

Will Purina Monkey Chow suffice? 🐒

[@fromthesidelines]

25:54- January 8-14, 1977 issue. Taylor Grant, announcer.

[@Madness832]

I'd be curious to know how many of those Amana refrigerators and Radaranges might still be operational today!

[@davidfifer4729]

We bought an Amana refrigerator in 1991. After 30+ years and a cross-country move, our daughter finally replaced it last year although it was still working fine.

[@guerralg63]

I hate modern idiotic commercials interrupting my videos about old 70s 80s commercials

[@marmaly]

I think that's Mikey at 13:05

[@chris30v]

It is

[@fromthesidelines]

10:52- Gordon Jump is the unlucky jerk with the "big" umbrella. Mason Adams, announcer.

[@zaq55]

Any guesses on "Santa Claus" @ 27:27

[@welcome741]

I grew up on these frozen meals, and Hamburger Helper too- which can be made with hot dogs instead of ground beef.

[@suspiciouswatermelon7639]

Wouldn't it be hot dog helper then?

[@yournamehere1886]

"The Sunshine Family Van" was a primer on "how to be a Hippie!" lol! 😂...

[@marmaly]

Who is the deep voiced Amana pitcher?

[@marabean]

Pretty sure that’s Barbara Hale!

[@koroba01]

It is…

[@marmaly]

@@marabean thanks.

[@letuswalkinthelightofthelo5350]

Did that huge frozen unseasoned roast cooked in the microwave taste good though?

[@texaswunderkind]

Err....it was edible. Does that count?

[@letuswalkinthelightofthelo5350]

@@texaswunderkind I think so? Maybe dip the bites in ketchup…?

[@texaswunderkind]

@@letuswalkinthelightofthelo5350 Probably a lot of ketchup. The worst thanksgiving dinner I ever had was when my aunt and uncle had a miscommunication and forgot to start the turkey. Bits were sawed off and put in the microwave. We should have just ordered Chinese take-out at that point.

[@drunk_by_noon9231]

The man pleaser was probably better lol

[@letuswalkinthelightofthelo5350]

@@texaswunderkind oh my!!! It scarred you!! 😅😅😅Auntie and uncle tried to save it though! Funny!! Microwaves are not good at all for cooking anything. Heating up - sure…

[@BackWordsJane]

When microwave ovens became practical for home use ,the idea was to cook meals in them. What wound up happening is the microwave became a way to heat up a cup of coffee and heat a frozen meal

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Banquet, swanson classic 70s tv dinners on tv trays i remember

[@fromthesidelines]

12:33- Yes, Mason Adams was *VERY* busy as a commercial announcer at the time.

[@ChadtheHammer]

I love these videos the best!

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Barbara was a dish back then.

[@zaq55]

That pants suit. Oh, baby!

[@johnp139]

WHO THE F WOULD BLEACH COLORS?!?!?

[@danstinson7687]

Racing Toward Judgment - they were pushing the same SHTF bs back then too.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

Look around. Its happening

[@johnp139]

How much did the man eater weigh and how many calories?

[@fromthesidelines]

7:13- Originally published in 1976. A copy is available for reading on the Internet Archive.

[@brentmann2988]

4:41 Vic Caroli // 20:12 Bob Landers 13:07 Mason Adams // 17:19 Taylor Grant

[@fromthesidelines]

15:42- Joe Namath.

[@joeschmo2693]

I remember the 70s. It was just Amana commercials, as far as the eye could see.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Hahaha!

[@mjrodriguez8670]

I have a Seiko watch that looks like the Seiko watches from 1976!

[@Doug-ip4up]

5:40 Barry Bostwick

[@ernestcruz6316]

So good they showed it three times in a row (lol).

[@johnmccree8941]

Look at these meals... these days all you get is a little of this/that... the shitty part of meat product... and a helluva price. And Banquet is probably the worse.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Banquet dinners are worse than Swanson's.

[@johnmccree8941]

@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc none of them are worth what you pay for them these days.

[@rodneygolden2796]

Parents had one of the earliest model Amana Radarange in our home, circa 1971-2, brand new of course. The range was a Tappan gas, also in harvest gold.

[@johnp139]

What exactly is the “extra ingredient” that we hear about like 10x???? And why not just take an extra pill????

[@RepentfollowJesus]

Caffeine

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Retsin

[@fromthesidelines]

10:40- January 29- February 4, 1977 issue {"WONDER WOMAN"}. Taylor Grant, announcer.

[@Ian16545]

Many of these products seen here were fixtures on _Let's Make a Deal,_ especially Borateem Plus and those Amana appliances. And who's the voiceover in the Sleep-Eze ad?

[@Doug-ip4up]

"If it doesn't say Amana, it's not a Radarange".

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Those two-timers!

[@pajamamar2011]

That "Man Pleaser" competed w/Swanson's "Hungry Man" meals.

[@epeterd]

OK, you'd think they could have had more variety of commercials rather than showing a few of them multiple times. What was the point of that?

[@jashdown1234]

Sunshine Family Dude is creeping me out a bit. And Bartender Cocktail Mix is puzzling - what sort of cocktail does it make?

[@JosephCerio-gl7ql]

I did not know that Barbara Hale (AKA Della Street) advertised Amana products

[@daftoptimist]

I genuinely enjoy the creepy synth music in the TV Guide commercials

[@Lutefisk_lover]

Is that Barry Bostwick in the Anacin ads?

[@eblackadder3]

Yes, it is.

[@luisreyes1963]

I always wanted a Seiko watch, but wound up with a Timex instead. 😕

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Amana may tag speed queen avocado green and apricot orange 70s colors of them

[@lestersabados1306]

My late father called our microwave "radar range" and people gave him crap.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

I remember well the great tv dinners and the tv trays we me and my family ate them dinners on watching McCloud and flintstones on happy days what memories ❤❤

[@dannybear48393]

The Anacin commercial was repeated two times more.

[@Bookworm214-y3d]

i skipped modern ads so i can watch vintage ones =]

[@bardo0007]

A Seiko watch from the 70's would be worth a fortune today!

[@davidfifer4729]

I wish. I still have mine from 1975 (not working). I'm tempted to have it repaired just for sentimental reasons, but they don't go for much on eBay.

[@johnmccree8941]

Well.. that's enough repeats. So long.

[@joecab1]

That announcer for the ad for TV Guide at 7:45 ... doesn't it sound like Christopher Glenn who used to do the In The News segments on CBS during Sat norning cartoons? There's even similar background noises.

[@marmaly]

Yes, I knew that music was familiar. I think you are right.

[@fromthesidelines]

Taylor Grant was the voice behind TV GUIDE'S ads from the 1960's through the early 1980's.

[@joecab1]

@@fromthesidelines Thanks Barry. You sure know your onions 👍🏼

[@fromthesidelines]

You're welcome! And sometimes, the whole salad, too.😉

[@sheriheffner2098]

I used to make my own Cheese Kisses.

[@fromthesidelines]

7:46- January 22-28, 1977 issue {"Roots"}. Taylor Grant, announcer.

[@jackrussell4437]

The Borateem lady doesn’t hold back with the Borateem, a jugful. Won’t be long before her washing machine gets clogged up!

[@fromthesidelines]

22:39- January 15-21, 1977 issue. Taylor Grant, announcer.

[@mikamamma]

What's with all the repeat ads?

[@Smalltar]

For a second there, I thought I was watching Dave's Archives

[@johnp139]

What if you have MAJOR TENSION?!?

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

My gramps still has these appliances! Back then they were built heavy duty.

[@FlavioGirl]

i miss the 70s