70's Commercials Vol. 102

These commercials aired on CBS on May 7th, 1978
1. "Rhoda" and "On Our Own" will not be seen tonight...
2. CBS Special Presentation Bumper
3. "Elvis In Concert" Intro/Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by General Electric)
4. GE Bright Stik
5. Frigidaire Washing Machine
6. Pond's Cream & Cocoa Butter (With Don Ho)
7. Promo for "The Alamo" (Amayzing!)
8. Phillips' Milk Of Magnesia (Does it really need to come in that enormous bottle?)
9. GE Brew Starter
10. Kool-Aid
11. "Elvis In Concert" Commercial Bumper
12. Promo for "Johnny Cash Spring Fever" (The CBS logo at the end of this promo looks like a hood ornament)
13. Milk (4:37 What makes clowns clownier? We're trying to SELL the product, not scare people!)
14. Promo for "America's Junior Miss Pageant"
15. GE Food Processor
16. Tender Vittles Cat Food
17. Volkswagen Dasher Champagne Edition (The "Champagne Editions" sold by VW at this time were limited run models with different exterior and interior colors. Also, the Dasher was known as the Passat outside of the U.S.)
18. Riunite
19. GE Super Pro Hairdryer
20. Geritol
21. CBS Newsbreak
a. Senate Arms Services Committee tells Pentagon to consider reinstating the draft (The U.S. moved to an all-volunteer military in 1973 following Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign promise to end the draft. Young men still must register with the Selective Service System, but the draft has not been reinstated since 1973)
b. Former CIA officer says they ran secret war in Angola (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_act...)
c. Price of oil expected to stay the same for rest of 1978 (Mostly true, but the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution caused oil prices to skyrocket in 1979: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oi...)
d. Israel PM Menachem Begin's visit to U.S. ends
22. Contac
23. CBS Newsbreak
24. Promo for "America's Junior Miss Pageant"
25. Buick Sentry
26. WJBK News 2 Bumper
27. "All In The Family" Commercial Bumper (Sponsored by Cover Girl)
28. Cover Girl Clean Make-up (With Cheryl Tiegs)
29. RainTree (With Kelly Harmon)
30. Tab (11:48 RIP Willie Mays)
31. Ritz Crackers (With Andy Griffith)
32. Promo for "America's Junior Miss Pageant"
33. "All In The Family" Commercial Bumper
34. Purina Kitten Chow and Cat Chow
35. Cover Girl MoistureWear
36. "All In The Family" End Credits
37. Promo for "The Alamo"
38. Promo for "Murder At The Mardi Gras"
39. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan Dental Care Protection Plan
40. Pepsi 2 Liter Bottle (I kept expecting one of them to say "Up ya nose with a rubber hose!" And it's kind of crazy that 2 liters of soda were sold in glass bottles at one point)
41. Ford Fiesta (Originally designed by Ford for the European market, this was eventually replaced by the Ford Escort in 1981)
42. Bell Telephones
43. Johnson & Johnson Sundown Sunscreen
44. Johnson's Baby Shampoo
45. "Alice" Commercial Bumper
46. Chrysler Cordoba S
47. Norelco Rotary Razor
48. "Alice" End Credits
49. Promo for "Johnny Cash Spring Fever"
50. Promo for "M*A*S*H" and "Lou Grant"
51. Gorman's
52. Amoco Premium Lead-Free Gasoline
53. WJBK TV 2 Newsbreak (Ted Kennedy went against his word and ended up running for President in 1980 against Jimmy Carter and ended his campaign at the 1980 Democratic National Convention)
54. WJBK News Promo (With Walter Cronkite)
55. "Johnny Cash Spring Fever" Intro/Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Buick)

[@yusakug]

0:15 - I had a friend who was born the day Elvis died. His dad was a fan, and used to tease my friend that Elvis’ soul was in his kid’s body.

[@johnnysims4301]

Just before I was born, but has much of the same feel as early 80s. Love these!

[@teresapflaumer5717]

I saw this plus his 1977 tv concerts. I was only 5. Long live the King.

[@01FozzyS]

Awww Willie. Our Bay Area icon. RIP.

[@iamwickedz]

These are all making me feel nostalgic… but I was born in ‘82 😮

[@jareddicarlo7816]

This special is never going to be released on home video because Elvis’ estate refuses to market footage of Elvis in his “fat” period

[@WWJD85]

RIP Willie Mays.

[@yusakug]

5:37 - My fiancée and I are hoping to adopt a cat. Almost did a couple weeks ago, but it got claimed by someone else by the time we had discussed it. Wish the “cat distribution service” would show up and drop a cat into our lives.

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Frigidaire Washing Machine- I always find it fun to watch the clothes moving around in the washing machine like the ones in this commercial. Philips’ Milk Of Magnesia- With a bottle as huge as the one in this commercial, the manufacturer must expect consumers to drink it as if it were water. Kool-Aid- I like how very plainly designed the sugar container looks in this commercial, especially at 4:03.

[@yusakug]

11:58 - Andy Griffith missed his calling as a rapper.

[@Grazecraze0525]

11:47 Tab Commercial featuring the late Willie Mays...

[@TTrigg]

No Rhoda or On Our Own tonight..? Aww man Elvis In Concert-then again, that's a good thing The Alamo-always remember it Phillips Milk Of Magnesia-also in refreshing strawberry flavor 😂 Tab-Godspeed to the Say Hey Kid Murder At The Mardi Gras-hopefully neither Paul Prudhomme or Justin Wilson weren't suspects M*A*S*H-Klinger was the surprise winner Lou Grant-never get on the bad side of a sitting judge

[@DanZero77]

No Rhoda or On Our Own! Say it ain't so! It's really cool to see All In The Family here! One of my favorite series of all time! But yes the milk clown... what the? That voice!

[@Emilya-A]

Last night, I was watching Hart to Hart and Max wore an apron that said "I can't hack it without my food processor," and these commercials are a few years older than that show but close enough it is interesting there's a food processor commercial in this video. It would be fun to see a late 70s/early 80s food processor cookbook, some vintage cookbooks are great, maybe they can publish a new one inspired by the style and recipes from this time

[@Rouglas]

Loved the announcer butchering Waylon Jennings as ‘Whylon Jellings’ at 19:20.

[@feather031]

The Tender Vittles kid was also the kid in the Mean Joe Greene Coke commercial. That's perpetual To Tell The Truth panelist Peggy Cass pushing Cat Chow.

[@Emilya-A]

Wow the "my first phone" bell commercial with that mickey mouse phone. Yesterday I watched a video of someone reviewing the tiaras bayou adventure ride at Disney and he saw a payphone and was so surprised ("when was the last time I saw one of those? I must be getting old!"). Maybe landlines style phones are making a comeback now

[@80sCommercialVault]

Go to any major airport and there are still tons of payphones. They're actually still in a lot of places, but many people ignore them because they have no use for them.