70's Commercials Vol. 27

These commercials aired on NBC on November 18th, 1978
1. 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit
2. Polaroid Polavision Instant Movies (With Danny Kaye. This was a bizarre proprietary silent Super 8 film format that was a huge commercial failure and discontinued in 1979. Here's a clip of it in action: • Polaroid Polavision In... )
3. Levitz
4. Jontue by Revlon
5. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
6. Marriot's Essex House
7. JCPenney MCS Series 75 Watt Receiver
8. U.S. Army
9. TV Spot for "Heroes" (That ventriloquist dummy at the beginning is terrifying. I wonder how Henry Winkler was able to grow his hair out like that while playing the Fonz?)
10. Styx "Pieces of Eight" at 7th Heaven Records
11. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
12. Sunbeam Great American Popcorn Machine (With Shirley Jones. That carnival music is annoyingly out of tune)
13. Maybelline Powder Eye Shadow
14. Texas Tom's 1925 T Model Classic Giveaway
15. Modern Furniture Rentals
16. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
17. MG Midget (Imported from England, these stopped production the next year)
18. JCPenney (For all of your knockoff Lacoste shirts)
19. Coors (Some of the most obvious dubbing I've ever seen)
20. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
21. Excedrin
22. Clairol Condition Shampoo
23. Steve's Shoes (Disco shoes!)
24. TV Spot for "It's Not The Size That Counts" (AKA "Vincent Price Has Bills To Pay". Actually, this was originally released in the UK in 1974 under the title "Percy's Progress", a sequel to 1971's "Percy")
25. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
26. Minolta XG-7
27. Touche (With Dick Van Dyke. Apologies for the slight recording glitch at 11:26)
28. Muriel (With Susan Anton. Despite the 1970 ban on cigarette advertising, small cigars aka Cigarillos could still be advertised on TV at this point)
29. TV Spot for "The Wiz" (I saw this on the Disney Channel as a kid and it really scared me)
30. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
31. Bubblicious
32. Love's Baby Soft Body Mist
33. Betterrest
34. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
35. Bic Shaver
36. TV Spot for "Paradise Alley" (Stallone's directorial debut)
37. TV Spot for "National Lampoon's Animal House"
38. Rely
39. Signal Mouthwash (Who carries a huge bottle of mouthwash with them everywhere they go?)
40. Pepsi (Based on a short story by Mark Twain: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cel...)
41. AOSoft Contact Lenses

[@sean_connors]

That Styx album in picture disk - I have that. Had it since 78.

[@sean_connors]

Will E. Fisturgash - And Paradise Theater.

[@jeffbengert2863]

Damn, if we could only go back and do it again....thanks for the memories....good times.

[@davidlanham99]

Back when we could have nice things.

[@1963Iota]

I remember going to see Grease, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever but for some reason going to see The Wiz escapes me

[@turntableone4356]

sadly a lot of people felt like you did and hence The Wiz flopped.

[@capitalistdingo]

It was showing *EXCLUSIVELY* at the Midland theatre, if that helps jog your memory.

[@cpowers94]

"By the way, she doesn't come with the car." Oh, you. *giggles*

[@martinacold9255]

Simpsons ☺️🥰

[@suddendee]

RIP Carrie Fisher

[@SeanSolomon11287]

Good job on the upload I love this channel I fall asleep listening to it sometimes.

[@tnate6004]

13:45 There is nothing more 70's than a mime doing a waterbed commercial.

[@NoctournalDonut]

I didn't know JC Penney did the Crazy Bus soundtrack. XD

[@liajohnson685]

Man if you had a water bed back then you really had it going on 😎👍🏽

[@SaundersStreetRecords]

Love the KC connection/references... I remember a few too many of these.

[@samanthab1923]

Omg 😲 my dad had that exact brown Rabbit! Second gas crunch hit & he always put over 10,000 miles a year on his work car.

[@princessvibez]

Great commercial videos. I just can't believe how far back these are. Lol

[@drk9011]

My mom took me to see The Wiz after I begged her. It was the only movie I remember as a kid where we walked out of the theater before the end because it was SO bad. Fun to see an MG midget commercial too!

[@miketroncin749]

07:20- the fox: so people can tell you cheaped out over $5

[@rsdaddy141]

The Great American Popcorn Machine was awesome!

[@LikaLaruku]

But the carousel music playing in the back ground was worse than any school band. lol.

[@LikaLaruku]

1:38 Some things NEVER change over time; like pretensious perfume commercials. I never knew the 70s were so 80s. I think I would have liked it back then. Kinda makes me withs I was born in the early 70s so I could have fully enjoyed the mid-70s-mid 90s.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I was born in 1971, so I remember the 1980's commercials a little better, but there are quite a few that I remember from the 70's also. When watching these 1970's volumes, I find that there are quite a few commercials from that decade that I'd kind of forgotten about but had suppressed in my subconscious memory.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I'll add that when I see a volume of kid-oriented commercials, I remember them better if they are from the 1970's or early 80's, because by the late 80's I was old enough that I wasn't really watching those types of shows anymore.

[@julieanderson-smith1692]

Putting Shirley Jones on the carousel - kinda clever, Sunbeam.

[@DecKrash]

Wow. Cigar commercial. Never saw that before.

[@JohnnyUtah15]

Can't help thinking about "Christmas Vacation" after seeing the Polaroid commercial with Danny Kaye.

[@Radec74]

that Coors commercial was tremendous 🙂

[@miketroncin749]

07:28 - this is the kind of advertising that I can really get behind. No over-paid celebrities telling me about a product they don't use, as if ,like a child, I'll do it because they do; No swimsuit models, as if using the product will make interacting with them more likely. No comedian trying to be funny, as if a chuckle is a fair trade in the end cost of the product for paying him No scare tactics, as if not using the product will result in you failing miserably in front the world. Just some guy that says" we've got a good product, here's why and thanks for buying our stuff"

[@miketroncin749]

That having been said: 08:15- it must have been something to say you pound bungholes for a living. I had no idea they still used that method to seal a keg in the 70s

[@JohnnyUtah15]

But what about the guarantee? i.imgur.com/dDbPGeg.jpg

[@miketroncin749]

+Johnny Yuma I've tried, but I'm not getting the reference.. L'il help?

[@miketroncin749]

+Johnny Yuma ahh.. After working at a theater in '91 I haven't viewed movies the same... I really can't sit through them anymore...

[@JohnnyUtah15]

Mike Troncin Oh, okay. I won't push the subject any further.

[@stephaniekelly8754]

Yay pieces of eight...angry young man ❤❤❤❤❤

[@elmobolan4274]

Waterbeds were horrible....

[@nancycampbell9554]

I actually loved my water bed back in the day

[@thebrideoffrankenstein2415]

I knowww agreed

[@toddpayne923]

3:47 STYX!!!

[@daniellaubsch1605]

Ahh Shirley Jones mom Partridge!

[@newclothes8165]

It was always funny to see at the end of a movie trailer the theaters that were showing it. We only had 3 in my city at this time so it wasnt hard to determine which had the movies. Cinema North always had the best movies.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Hmmm...I don't recall ever seeing so many commercials for feature films at one time!

[@pinksparkle258]

The Wiz was sold out? Really? That taxi cab always scared me as a kid 😲

[@extendedpinky]

I’d like to buy some of that retro furniture

[@mitzithompson6585]

I was 8 in '78

[@samanthab1923]

Jacquie Levitz the founder's widow went missing in 1995. To this day Vicksburg MS don't know what became of her.

[@DanZero77]

All I remember about "The Wiz" was the Rifftrax of the Star Wars Holiday Special that featured this commercial: The Wiz is "destined to age poorly!" "forgettable" "certified rotten on the Tomatometer" "Written by the director of Batman & Robin!" See it here at kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJKbYZhvhL6qrq8m13s Other than that, between out of tune music, bad dubbing, and shirt knockoffs, this is undoubtedly a product of the 70s!

[@80sCommercialVault]

+DanZero77 LOL I posted those ads from the Holiday special in 70's Vol. 14 and made the exact same comment about "The Wiz" in the description there. Guess I need to review my past videos more before writing these up!

[@TTrigg]

(Weird..i see there are 4 comments,but theyre not showing up on my screen..) Heroes-Harrison Ford was in this also,in a supporting role SNL-who was the host/musical guest..? It's Not The Size That Counts-i assume someone said this in the film and added"..but how you USE it!" The Wiz-tour de force for Diana Ross,Michael Jackson and Richard Pyror

[@80sCommercialVault]

SNL: host was Carrie Fisher, musical guests were the Blues Brothers

[@JohnnyUtah15]

_(Weird..i see there are 4 comments,but theyre not showing up on my screen..)_ I see there are 37 comments but only 23 display). Something weird is going on because on some other videos on different channels the amount seen doesn't match the display number near the comment field at the top of the page.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Some of those comments might be from blocked users, who I believe can still post comments but nobody else can see them. Could also be a glitch with youtube.

[@JohnnyUtah15]

80sCommercialVault Ah, yes. That's a good possibility they might be blocked and I should take note of KZbin also.

[@daniellaubsch1605]

Ahh direct from Westmoreland Pa assembly plant them Rabbits were built by VW!

[@stephaniekelly8754]

Susan anton was gorgeous too

[@Dahstin]

Crap i'm old

[@daintybeigli]

1:50 ‘sensual, but not too far from innocence’ says the creepy old man voice 😬😬😬

[@aaronbroyles9082]

Heroes on NBC? Can they save the cheerleader, save the world?

[@80sCommercialVault]

The "Heroes" here was a movie, released in theaters. Not a show on NBC.

[@aaronbroyles9082]

80sCommercialVault I know, now. Haha. I just saw "Heroes" and NBC and put two and two together.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Interesting to see that Henry Winkler starred in that movie because he was really famous playing Fonzie in "Happy Days" at the time. He must have been a busy guy back then!

[@williammoseley17]

The decade of plaid furniture and large collars on men's shirts.

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

11:03 I've played that game!

[@LOADINGNEO]

thanks for not putting a stupid logo on your vids like retroantorio

[@josephsinclair8113]

I remember when bublishous came out, I was in 4th grade and I chewed so much of it in one day I got a headache, taste good though.

[@jillsmith633]

I want the sparkly disco shoes lol. We had that Touche game, it was cool but frustrating. Yikes! Rely Tampons. They were taken off the market because they caused toxic shock syndrome and were killing women.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I remember my mother used those tampons, and then switched back to her old brand after they were connected with TSS.

[@sirlordford]

Second girl in the Luv's Baby Soft commecial at 13:19 looks familiar. Any ideas?

[@berto1169]

sirlordford She looks like the blonde from Revenge of the Nerds, but it's hard for me to tell.

[@sirlordford]

Spot on. I think you're right.

[@JohnnyUtah15]

I wonder if she would like to go out for a coffee? images.static-bluray.com/reviews/9909_4.jpg and i.imgur.com/khtybed.gif

[@teresapflaumer5717]

Is this KBMA Channel 41 Kansas City (NBC affiliate from 1970-81)?

[@80sCommercialVault]

To the best of my knowledge there is no station ID or information provided as to what affiliate these came from. It's safe to infer these came from the NBC affiliate in Kansas City based on the local ads.

[@celineferdinand6944]

Who is the Saturday Nigh Live female?

[@80sCommercialVault]

Carrie Fisher

[@celineferdinand6944]

@@80sCommercialVault Thanks.