70's Commercials Vol. 1

These commercials aired on CBS on January 27th, 1978.
I don't expect to post many volumes of these, but there's content from the late 70's out there that I think is worth posting.
1. L'eggs
2. Excedrin (The first guy must have received all of his fashion advice from Carl Sagan)
3. 7-11 (Mr. Hyde drives a Volkswagen Convertible?)
4. Promo for "The Jeffersons", "Maude" and "Kojak"
5. Aim (Note to self: never start an argument with this lady over toothpaste)
6. Wisk (Oh god! Those dirty rings!)
7. Lowenbrau (With Paul Gleason from "The Breakfast Club")
8. "The World Beyond" Commercial Bumper
9. Promo for "The Bob Newhart Show" and "The Tony Randall Show" (Tony Randall had his own sitcom?)
10. Fred Montesi Supermarket (Amazing elevator music here)
11. Dobbs Ford
12. Promo for "Miss Arkansas Universe Pageant" ("Arkansas Universe" is a pretty strange phrase...)
13. Bayer ("It has relieved more aches, pain and fever than any medication in history." Well ok then...)
14. Western Electric Telephones
15. Dial (Oh yeah!)
16. Gallo Red Rosé (This reminds me of one of those product placements on "The Price Is Right")
17. Pam (Money - Calories - Time = Pam)
18. Sucrets
19. "The World Beyond" End Credits

[@elc1960]

The announcer in those CBS Fabulous February promos was Dick Tufeld. He was pretty much ubiquitous from the late 1950s to the '80s advertising everything from Rice-A-Roni to Raleigh cigarettes to Green Giant veggies, plus he was the voice of the Lost in Space Robot.

[@yujinny1999]

I lived in Memphis from 1967-1977 and when I saw the Dobbs Ford commercial it brought back a wave of memories from my childhood. Thanks for uploading.

[@bigdannyg1969]

Even though my wife and I have been stuck at home during these last few days, due to the ice and snow storms, that hit our area this week, we made the best of it by sitting down together and reminiscing, while watching these classic collections of 70's commercials, bring back so many wonderful memories for both of us.Thanks for all of the hard work in recording, collecting, organizing, listing, and categorizing all of these commercials, so that others can view them, and enjoy them. Great job.

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

I was born in '76 so I obviously don't remember these ads,but it's always fun to watch them.

[@LilCosgrove]

That woman dancing in the Leggs commercial, not gonna lie, is what I think of when I imagine what the 70's looked like. Also monster-Fred in the 7-11 commercial is me every morning.

[@StarfieldRailway]

Man, that's some classic flashback stuff there. 1978 was the year I finished kindergarten and started first grade. I remember the general formats of most of those commercials from way back in my life. I'm 40 now, and I'm pretty tripped out after seeing all of that.

[@maha77]

I am _savoring_ the nostalgia just watching these. Suddenly I'm a kid again, laying on the couch, mom is cooking dinner, the world seems so much larger, but safer, life seems full of wonder and excitement, and mystery. Can't wait till summer to play outside until after dark

[@ZachArmstrong02]

Damn I wish I grew up in this era

[@JasonNation72]

Ha, I remember how, during the TV show promos, they always mentioned mountain with central time zone, they haven't done that anymore in years!

[@maha77]

my favorite is 03:04 "Here's to good friends, tonight is kinda special...tonight, tonight, let it be Lowenbrau'

[@JasonNation72]

+Ray Cist Yep, 3:09, that's the late Paul Gleason from Breakfast Club and Die Hard. Poor guy passed away in '06 of mesothelioma.

[@bigroy38]

The 7-11 coffee commercial was the first funny Super Bowl commercial I remember.

[@IceJoseph7]

I wish those Ford car prices were current!

[@aquarius4953]

You need less time to buy a car, nowadays.

[@randyj420]

I'm pretty sure the bottle of Wisk we have in the laundry room is from the 70s.

[@stangable5564]

Randy J you must live with a hoarder.

[@asouthernwriter]

I was born in 1986 and love these vintage commercials! Says a LOT about what we have in 2014...

[@colleenhoperue5538]

I was a 1977 baby.I love these commercials.

[@elc1960]

Singing the Lowenbrau jingle was the awesome Arthur Prysock. Not as well known as Joe Williams, but just as good a singer.

[@bigmankralc]

As much as i love 80s and 90s Commercials, its always a great treat to see older commercials just to love the campiness

[@PotbellyJesus]

9 cents for a hot dog, at least a homeless person could eat even if there wasn't that many of them. Nowadays you have to have good credit and get a loan for a hot dog

[@SoSoPrettyMS21]

Right.😂😂😂

[@aquarius4953]

It is not the price that is important. It is how long it took to be able to buy something.

[@PotbellyJesus]

Man this comment is from 5 years ago, I finally got my credit up and got the loan for that hot dog. They even included the bun for first time hot dog purchase. The grind never stops.

[@hazeldavis3176]

@@PotbellyJesus Now you can rent out half your hotdog to help pay for the other half. The true American Dream.

[@nicholephillips2994]

Are you serious?

[@TeriLynn923]

The Jeffersons, Maude, and Kojak- wow, I remember watching all these shows and all those people are dead.

[@BrianSmith-wh9bi]

Bell Telephones? Seems like 100 years ago. 😀

[@pmorrison77]

You mess with the Lowenbrau you get the horns.

[@AngryCanadian1971]

HA. Thats funny.

[@Whtxombi]

Its the dirt, sweat and assorted crud that collected around your shirt collar.

[@maha77]

03:03 My FAV commercial, 'Here's to Good Friends, tonight is kinda special'

[@80sCommercialVault]

@pacific707 From the 70's to 2002 it was brewed in America under license by Miller...with a slight difference in flavor to the original brand brewed in Munich.

[@BadWebDiver]

Here's to all those unsung VO guys! I always get a thril from those deep dulcet tones!

[@stanleycostello6541]

I forgot the Sucrets commercial. As it was running, I remember it clearly. Funny how things stick in your mind...

[@jumbybird]

Brings so many nostalgic feelings.

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

I miss the 1970's. It was a good time to be a kid and a teenager.

[@62muki]

Great commercials, I was 11 back in the day when t.v. Was free as a bird in the sky. Now you have to pay and use that digital box thing ( $49.99) plus the antenna another 15 bucks . Thank God for You Tube !

[@taratupa73]

Probably. I'm guessing West Memphis. My main clue was the mention of I-240, which encircles Memphis, just east, across the Mississippi.

[@RoxyAlexander]

LOVING vintage 7-11 smocks and cups!!

[@paulomachado5542]

Love it! Brings Back a lot of memories! Thank you!

[@Shawn666Hellion]

The World Beyond, that's an awesome flick

[@80sCommercialVault]

@manyvideoinerests It was a manufacturing arm of AT&T that produced telephones, as well as other electronic equipment and devices. The Vitaphone system that brought sound to motion pictures was developed by Western Electric, along with other advances in sound technology. In 1984, WE was swallowed up by a new division of AT&T and in 1996 became independent and split/sold its assets.

[@IRgEEK]

@4:35 yep, right up the road from me in Memphis at I-240 and Mt. Moriah. Still a Dobbs Pre-Owned there to this day. Only one Montesi's left on Summer. Great video collection. Thx!

[@jillsmith633]

I totally forgot about Shields and Yarnell.

[@pLAST3RdISAST3R]

These are so great! Even though I was born in '80, now I can go back even further!!

[@Lovejazz01]

Wow Fred Montiesi and Dobbs Ford , never thought I would ever see commercials from Memphis on this channel, thanks very much! Brings back so many memories! I was 17 when these aired.. (this was WREG tv Channel 3)

[@80sCommercialVault]

WREG, the CBS affiliate in Memphis.

[@Lovejazz01]

80sCommercialVault thanks

[@dickhickey909]

pack of hot dogs for 9 cents!

[@thakozhani]

omg..the acting is oscar worthy and a brand new car under 5k? wow..lol..i love that i was born in the 70's..

[@JohnQ1127]

@shortbread71, "Love Sydney" didn't come out until 1981, this was an add for "The Tony Randall" show which ran from 1976-1978.

[@rizinggodfist3049]

Wow! you had a VCR back then? lucky! lol....much thanks for your uploads & clear video/sound....thanks to you & other KZbinr uploaders, you make it possible for us to travel back in time.

[@80sCommercialVault]

I didn't record a lot of the video's I've posted. I was born in 1984.

[@RovingRoy]

It got replaced with "economic chains around the collar" getting ever so tight! Plus, the brunt of commercials today seem to be about how wonderful prescription drugs are.

[@tvtimetravel]

Indeed Tony Randall did have his own sitcom that time!

[@toppcatt99]

Aspirin and Sucrets??? That must have been his first cold.

[@VadersFist95]

Born in 95' but damn I wish I experienced this

[@5argetech56]

I was there.. Born in 1959! It was all great!

[@michaelsharpe8246]

I was born in 1966

[@fantastopotomus]

I know this is from the 70's, but 9 cents for hot dogs?! They should still be 9 cents, the quality hasn't gotten any better I'm sure :P

[@LaPersonaNonGrata]

I'm soo glad I wasn't in my 30s in the seventies - it's got a weird nostalgia feel to it.

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

Yes,AIM does taste good!

[@MSgtSlaughter]

The second actress in the Exedrin commercial, "Joe" in the Lowenbrau commercial, and "Mrs. Davis" in the AIM commercial all look familiar. Maybe they had minor roles in TV. The Dial actress looks similar to actress Caryn Richman. She would have been 21 or 22 in the commercial.

[@ep838]

Great commercials!

[@gargantuaism]

Can't Fred make a cup of coffee at home?

[@Wamdeb]

OMG, that's the teacher from the Breakfast Club doing the Lowenbrau commercial!!! =-D

[@felicity4711]

“There’s content from the late ’70s out there that I think is worth posting.” I agree: the late seventies are, to me, honorary years in the early eighties! ☻

[@corv989]

That 7 Eleven werewolf looks like Unknown Hinson

[@sgtearache5303]

"wring-garound the cawler"

[@Farzee49]

Tony Randall had a sitcom in the early '80's called "Love, Sidney" It was good

[@BrianSmith-wh9bi]

It started with aTV movie with Lorna Patterson. Funny, in the movie they showed the character as gay. But in the series there was no mention.

[@tamumalone5456]

Pantyhose in the 70's and 80's I think it was the law

[@fofuxsake309]

Tamu Malone now it’s yoga pants and nobody is doing yoga.

[@shortbread71]

@johnQ1127 I know - I was responding to someone else's comment about Love Sydney that had nothing to do with this clip other than the fact that Tony Randall was in it. You may want to check the rest of the comments to see what I was responding to before 'correcting' me.

[@madgang201]

Ok, now you have 70s commercials also?! This just in, you're awesome! I know I won't get to see many of these but still.

[@wowjunky07]

Man, if only car prices was still that cheap.

[@Jorkus_]

ROFL at 4:36... the best take they could get involved someone off camera throwing a snowball at the chick. Actually, i can't tell if that's part of the commercial or not. Thank you, Dobb's Ford dealership

[@nbagoats4819]

They really pushed that flouride on us back in the 70s and 80s.

[@SweptAway529]

Not sure about the others, but I *think* the mustached guy in the Lowenbrau commercial was an actor who'd appeared on the soap opera "The Edge Of Night". Don't recall the actor's name, but am pretty sure his character name was Miles Cavanaugh.

[@sweeperjanitor]

Tv not the same without commercials. They are entertainments in themselves.

[@blueyoshigamer9667]

Sweet 70s commercials too! Your great dude!

[@TheVagolfer]

Fred looked better before the coffee!

[@eles214]

Paul Gleason

[@cheripiez67]

now i have to look up why regular pam wasn't available in certain states

[@smittykins]

If I were Barbara, I'd tell him to get his own damn aspirin and Sucrets!

[@heliomoonwave]

I was three when that 7-11 commercial aired, and it completely freaked me out.

[@gli7utubeo]

Very fine! Rare and appreciated. Thanks!!

[@scooterss2112]

Only Sucrets is not around still. Pretty amazing.

[@eles214]

I'm wondering if the other guy is Joel Crothers in the blue windbreaker fr Dark Shadows...

[@coderspy]

yes

[@WavyGravyTrain1]

Lowenbrau was a great beer eating 9 cent hot dogs.

[@AskMrScience]

LOL @ Carl Sagan. That's just what I was thinking.

[@mjSnap]

Wow, food was extremely cheap in the 70's, as compared to now...

[@80sCommercialVault]

@usamimiproductions They're actually 33 years old at this point. I did some major color correction on these...everything was washed out and yellow.

[@LHZZ12MM]

...and that "AIM" commercial...woah!!! How many times I saw that and as a kid it just went over my head...but I still remember the dialogue (kid: "AIM tastes good!" "Taste does not fight cavities, *Flouride* fights cavities" "Mrs. Davis..AIM *HAS* flouride, AIM *fights* cavities!" etc etc etc...) ...I'm just in nostalgia overload now...I'd better shut up and enjoy...later!

[@80sCommercialVault]

@arclight2012 Not denying that price is insane, but it's with a coupon and a minimum $15 purchase. Being recorded during January, they were probably trying to get rid of their stock during a time when not many people are outside grilling hot dogs.

[@christineferreira2181]

Oh no I’m too late to see who won Miss Arkansas!

[@ToSatisfyU2013]

Dang my older sister was a year old when these aired. Old commericials.

[@tujohnboy]

Dobb's Ford is in Memphis, Tennessee , That's where I bought my truck in 1995. lol Didn't expect that commercial to be in there at all. Aim is familiar, 7 11 , Excedrin, and especially Sucrets, I was 10 years old.

[@eles214]

Yeah beef dogs for 9 cents??? Im truly hungry....wow!!! That Fred Montesi logo comes close to looking like the Ford logo!!!

[@LHZZ12MM]

"Extra Strength Means Excedrin".. Wow...just...wow...I hadn't seen that commercial since when it last aired and now I'm having a total mind rush :0)!!!!

[@kimthompson1520]

Great one 80scommercialvault

[@TeriLynn923]

LOL I didn't mean they are dead because I watched them. I have a lot of power but not that much.

[@80sCommercialVault]

@blugreen123 Lowenbrau is an actual German beer. "The World Beyond" is a very cheesy movie about Mud Golems.

[@BigBrotherMateyka]

@80sCommercialVault I found that government models are exorbitantly expensive. They charge you an arm and a leg for something that doesn't even go back to when MTV was decent. And that's even without the unbelievable warranty charge and insurance policy! What a ripoff! I should have also mentioned that I saw a great bargain on QVC one time, but they were sadly all out of stock. Thanks for the help anyways. I shall always be on the lookout for a new sale. Cheers. =)

[@mattderrin3099]

Memphis TV Channel apparently

[@DanZero77]

There's a little monster in all of ussssss we can feel beastlyyyyyyy 7-eleven is a lifesaverrrrrr and coffee can perk up your morningggggg. That AIM ad -- WTF? If I ever got wound up over using the wrong toothpaste, something isn't right. Tony Randall's very own show lasted 2 seasons, one on ABC and one on CBS. Creepy music on those closing credits!

[@DanZero77]

Also, I believe these commercials came from CBS affiliate WREG-TV in Memphis, TN, if you want to add that to the info box.

[@LT1HILLINGHOE]

"Innkeeper...a ration of Lowenbrau for me and my men." I remember those commercials as a kid and that catchy song but that line and those guys are really corny now.

[@sparhopper]

Remember, you're watching 'media'. It does not _accurately_ represent the culture it claims to. Media creates it's own culture, by _mocking culture_ (5:39) more than anything else. These commercials are as representational of the 70's, as much as today's commercials (3/16) are, of our own culture. Would _you_ want _today's_ commercials to represent our culture, _for the future_ to look back on? -Wally...

[@80sCommercialVault]

+sparhopper That entire argument hinges on the assumption that commercials haven't changed between the 70's and now. They absolutely represented the culture back then. Campaigns like "be a pepper" and "where's the beef" became culture defining icons. That simply doesn't happen anymore. Commercials have transformed from little time capsules into bland, soulless ads for car insurance and prescription medicine. The medium is essentially dead and has been replaced with "skip this ad in 5 seconds"

[@catlover10192]

Things like commercials only show the side of culture that was "ideal." It takes news broadcasts and Hollywood movies, especcially rated R ones to get any sort of idea what it was really like.

[@person800]

That phone commercial at 5:39 was painfully relatable. I don't think that was mocking culture at all.

[@Farzee49]

This bunch of commercials are AMAZING! I am 36 but I remember alot of stuff from '78 television. I have a great memory in general but most of my memories start from the age of 3. I could read at that age and paid close attention to TV ads in particular. Thanks for putting these up. BTW The L'eggs ad is simply repugnant, I mean, really.

[@sargetech]

A pkg of beef hot dogs for 9 cents!!!!! WOW!!

[@chazcov08]

Connie Sellecca @0:38!

[@80sCommercialVault]

@BigBrotherMateyka Nothing beats the ones you can pick up at police and repo auctions. Older Gov't produced time machines are also worth having, and can often be obtained with the right connections. Lots of bells and whistles on those things, let me tell ya. Stay away from the Kenmore brand time machines at Sears though. My displacement annex once got fried using one of those things, and I winded up in the outer orbit of Jupiter! Very embarrassing...

[@TeriLynn923]

It's fun to reminisce isn't it?

[@mountainsandsea]

wow, how time has flown.