70's Commercials Vol. 35

These commercials aired on WTTG on October 22nd, 1977
1. McDonald's (The quality is rough here but gets better)
2. Marching Mickey Mouse (Creepy)
3. Tree Tots Sky Coaster
4. District of Columbia Dental Society PSA
5. Raggedy Ann and Andy Talking Bank (Apparently Raggedy Ann and Andy talk like two kids from Long Island)
6. Red Cross PSA
7. Consumer Information Catalog PSA
8. Promo for "Kifaru! The Black Rhinoceros"
9. Promo for "Kifaru! The Black Rhinoceros"
10. TCR Jam Car Speedway
11. Hardy's (With Halloween Fun Machine!)
12. Turn On!
13. Preisthood PSA (Remember, always listen to that voice inside that tells you to do stuff)
14. Museum of History and Technology PSA (Probably one of the funniest TV glitches I've seen)
15. Up! Against Time
16. Preisthood PSA
17. Kids Are People Too PSA
18. Salvation Army PSA
19. Preisthood PSA
20. Girard College PSA
21. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PSA
22. Community Enterprise Development Association (The carpet at 11:23 looks like hot lava)
23. USO PSA
24. Focus PSA
25. Promo for "Tom and Jerry"
26. Campfire Girls PSA
27. Summer Enrichment PSA
28. Promo for "The Jetsons"
29. Mego Farrah Fawcett Doll (Mego made a series of Barbie-style fashion dolls of famous women back then that also included Cher and Diana Ross)
30. Montgomery County Thrift Shop
31. Play 'n Make
32. Putt-Putt All Aboard! Motor Railroad (With Corey Feldman. The other kid might be Kirk Cameron?)
33. Batman CSF Bat Copter
34. Baby Needs You
35. Big Wheel
36. Baby This 'n That
37. Putt-Putt Speedway
38. McDonald's (It's really hard to believe that a group of people actually approved these costumes for The Hamburglar and Captain Crook. How many nightmares were caused?)
39. Triple Up
40. Trix (It's weird that they show the prize inside at the beginning of the ad, I guess putting them at the end was a later development?)
41. WTTG Station ID
42. Power Shifters
43. National Park Service PSA
44. Youth Pride Inc. PSA
45. Electroman
46. Crimestoppers PSA (I'm sorry the audio quality prevents you from understanding a damn word he says)
47. American Cancer Society PSA (The animation here is pretty terrifying)
48. Mego World's Greatest Super Heroes (Unquestionably the best line of toys back then...before Kenner's Star Wars line defined exactly what an action figure was. How they got the licenses to DC, Marvel, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes and a gazillion other properties is beyond me)
49. Cathedral Fund PSA
50. Promo for "The Andy Griffith Show"
51. Forest Service PSA
52. Promo for "Tom and Jerry"
53. Promo for "Tom and Jerry"

[@michellemoffett9458]

I chuckled on the Farrah doll commercial when she lifted the dress up from her ankles and the boy quickly covered his eyes. Such innocence then! I miss it!

[@bryanwilson-n8w]

That Farrah doll did not look anything like Farrah Fawcett lol Farrah was beautiful the doll look more like a knock off at the 5 & dime store. It cracked me up the teeth were hilarious it was a fugly ugly doll lol I’m still laughing. If I were her at the time they would be sued. RIP Farrah Fawcett.

[@itsturt]

Lately, I've been putting on a lot of this channel's videos, mostly in the background. I love how cheery the advertisement music used to be in the 70s and 80s. But my actual favorite thing about this channel would probably be all the nostalgia and memory sharing in the comments of each video, because it adds a lot of interesting context. As the commercials here aired 2 decades before I was born, it's a little bit like a time capsule or history lesson in itself for me. Thanks for the great uploads and to all of the nice people in the comments section.

[@tdrewman]

I have seen the Consumer Information Catalog PSA so many times that I still remember the address, I was like blaa blaa blaa blaa 81009. When I was a kid I always wanted to send of for the catalogue just to see what I would get back.

[@jaidebeck]

My brother used to ride ona big wheel when he was little. he passed away in 2020. I miss him. :(

[@artzook5237]

Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. Maybe he has a BIG big wheel up there. I have lost a sibling also, and it is absolutely horrible. The time does not make it any better. Still seems like yesterday.

[@brianjackson6472]

I'm sorry

[@brianjackson6472]

That's sad I'm sorry

[@sillygoose420]

i love how the girl with the donald duck walking toy can’t even get it to work and they were just like “it’s fine!! use the take!!!!!”

[@elc1960]

That commercial was probably directed by Ed Wood...

[@noahpartic7586]

14:03 I'm originally from Silver Spring MD in the 70's & remember WTTG CH 5 DC. It was an independent channel before it became a FOX Affiliate in '87. Independent channels only showed so much kids programming on Saturday Mornings compared to the Big 3 Networks: ABC, NBC & CBS. Just watching that segment alone almost makes me homesick. Thanks for the nostalgia. It's good to see a segment of home, for a time😏.

[@rodriguez1025]

At 4:38, WTTG is named as a Metromedia station. Metromedia was born out of the ashes of the DuMont network and became the core of the Fox network nationwide.

[@noahpartic7586]

@@rodriguez1025 Noted.

[@sirlordford]

23:41 I remember this so distinctly. There was a serious campaign towards the youth against smoking. It really only worked on the very young and only until they got to be a few years older but now it's reaping its rewards.

[@tamumalone1718]

The 70's always a sheep dog around 😂😂😂

[@samanthab1923]

We had one on our block. Buffy was her name.

[@goldcherry103]

Cool upload. Love it. I am from the Maryland area mentioned here. So I can relate to these commercials. Thanks for sharing.

[@jbro4400]

When the kids opened the door and Ronald was standing there it scared the hell out of me. Pennywise got nothing on Ronald McDonald.

[@mamabear3903]

I agree!!!!!

[@optigrabbingit]

These are from Saturday, 10/22/77. "The Jetsons" aired at 1030 AM. "Kifaru" aired Wednesday, 10/26/77 at 8 PM.

[@JoeAconite]

This is like a video from an alternate dimension.

[@tamumalone5456]

I forgot what it's like not having to dial the area code

[@goldcherry103]

Tamu Malone Yes!!!

[@noahpartic7586]

I remember, especially when having to still use rotary phones.

[@OzzieAstaroth]

I bought one of those Electroman toys from someone at a yard sale when I was a kid in the mid 80s. It was missing the symbol on its chest and the light bulb, and I never really knew what it was called until recently. This is the first time I've actually seen a commercial for it. Looking at it now, its kinda lame, but back then I thought it was pretty neat. I just made up my own name for him. Also, those Mego toys lasted well into the 80s. I remember having several of them, but my favorite was the Hulk. There is a company called "Figures Toy Company" that is remaking them, though its mainly DC characters only.

[@SuzysRedStripes]

There were a lot more PSAs on here than I expected.

[@noahpartic7586]

I remember WTTG Ch 5 in DC, but cartoons after 5pm then? I was too young to recall that I surmise yet it was worth it to be in the time when cartoon hr. Existed before & after school. Sigh, no longer.

[@BillSeipel]

"Baby Needs You" = "Shut your baby up!"

[@JustinStender]

Anyone else have to do a double-take at the 9:13 mark when the priest is talking about the girl that was worked on with a can opener by her mom before being thrown out a plate glass window? What the hell was with that?! It was so weird I wasn't sure I heard correctly, but that's what he said....

[@Thelightballer1]

That looks just like the tv i was watching it on too...takes me waayy back.

[@billybarnett2846]

Good old channel 5 in DC. I used to watch Superman (George Reeves) when I was little.

[@sunnyzengaravito4930]

Advertising for priests was kinda creepy

[@ib4038]

Job for the right kind of man..lol

[@ronsmac]

Dc channels 5 and 20 were the greatest for kids. Unfortunately They were both difficult to get good reception where I lived.

[@TerrickTerran]

I would venture a guess that DC and Marvel didn't have their toys licensed and when Mego had the chance to sign both of them, they did so. Some really nice looking toys from the pictures I've seen even if they only used a handful of bodies to make them.

[@chadfromgb3060]

i see a t-shirt tucked into blue jeans. With a belt!

[@DoubleVision30]

That was Carry from Little House On The Prairie” in the play roller coaster video!

[@erickellogg8532]

such memories

[@tamumalone5456]

Damn the wolf has COPD😂😂😂

[@MrBoyYankee]

Emphysema.

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

Smoke Wins FATALITY

[@MrBoyYankee]

Woodsy the owl give a hoot don't pollute *HOOT HOOT!!!* Damn I'm old.

[@samanthab1923]

Loved Woodsy! Bring him back, the littering was off the charts in county parks the last 6 months.

[@a.rosesrbleu9580]

@@samanthab1923 Voiced by none other than Winnie-The-Pooh himself, Sterling Holloway...Hoot, hoot!

[@samanthab1923]

A. RosesRBleu That is so cool 😎 you know that! Makes me wonder who did the voice of the Tootsie Pop Owl 🦉?

[@MrBoyYankee]

@@samanthab1923 Paul Winchell

[@samanthab1923]

Devon Lott Thanks 🙏🏻

[@brianjackson6472]

Oh god i remember these .

[@martmccoy4364]

Putt-Putt, All aboard, Corey Feldman is EVERYWHERE!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Coincidentally, the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme was near the beginning of this volume--and Corey's sister Mindy was one of the Mousketeers in the 1977 reboot (when she was just 8 years old). I don't recall ever seeing that version, but I loved the original 1950's show when it reran in my area in the 1970's.

[@Psychol-Snooper]

16:06 I caught that too. XD

[@tamumalone5456]

I was four years old in 77 I had the piggy bank and Raggedy Ann and Andy bedsheets😎

[@kaylasamuels4585]

Tamu Malone I was 7 in 77

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I was 6.

[@tamumalone1718]

I had that Raggedy Ann bank😃😄and the walking Donald Duck

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

24:34 - When it got dark, the wolf decided not to blow the house down. He just set it on fire with his cigarette.

[@timmiller8537]

They had a public service announcement for everything back then

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Seems like half the commercials on TV nowadays are PSA's, at least in my area.

[@TonyaManningCCTT22]

I had Marching Mickey!!

[@sirlordford]

New "all volunteer armed forces." Crazy to think the Vietnam war had only ended two years before this.

[@hrtvfan2870]

Baby This 'n That? Did the marketing department use that as a placeholder name and couldn't think of a better name?

[@sillygoose420]

baby whatever the hell it does

[@Rye_Toast]

I had that doll, it was as lame as the name. (Then again, I wasn't big into dolls as a kid.)

[@beckigreen]

I had the Marching Mickey. You would squeeze his hands to move his legs. For some reason, the Donald Duck one, doesn't appear to work, the girl couldn't get it to work in the commercial, and I noticed they said it danced instead of walked. It basically the same toy, so I don't understand why the Donald one didn't work.

[@tamumalone1718]

Becki Green Donald Duck has always been a trouble maker😄

[@miketroncin749]

All hail mighty KIFARU!!

[@amhaney1]

I had completely forgotten about the PuttPutt Train.

[@kennethbrown5358]

I had one too

[@carloscardona6587]

Was the Dental PSA animated by Hannah-Barbera or Ruby-Spears?

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Carl Carson Looks like Reinert productions. They mostly did PSAs like this one, but they also did some ABC weekend specials and their Saturday morning bumpers.

[@sirlordford]

That animation is fiyah for sure.

[@MrBoyYankee]

Kid was looking at that Farrah doll way too long.

[@Dalija1979]

Lol...

[@lianalonge1984]

I was curious in how today’s audience would take the commercial. 😂🤣😂‼️

[@SuperSpaceGirlHDTV]

That one PSA with the animation with a wolf and the pigs reminds me of a Russian cartoon

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Most of the PSA's seem out of place during what was presumably a "kiddie" show, but this one seems to fit in perfectly.

[@Maskedmutant]

I remember when that commercial first came out back in1972

[@MTNmomma22]

I think Black Rhinos just went extinct that’s crazy

[@80sCommercialVault]

They’re not extinct, they’re critically endangered. About 5,000 of them are left in the world.

[@MTNmomma22]

That’s good to know. Thanks for answering. Love your channel. 🙂

[@sirlordford]

You might be thinking of the Northern White Rhino.

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Too many PSAs back then! Otherwise a stellar collection.

[@sirlordford]

The PSAs were some of the best stuff IMO. They really capture the time better than anything.

[@miketroncin749]

sirlordford yup

[@yusakug]

24:03 - The "Mother" and "Father" portraits here are pretty darn dark the more you think about it.

[@80sCommercialVault]

That gag is lifted from the Disney "Three Little Pigs" short: i.imgur.com/QZ2RTqH.jpg

[@dodieodie498]

I wonder what happened to Youth Pride, Inc. and Crime Stoppers Club.

[@80sCommercialVault]

The address of Pride Inc. is home to this organization...it probably just changed its name at some point: communitychange.org/about/ Crime Stoppers is now called Crime Solvers: mpdc.dc.gov/page/crime-solvers

[@dodieodie498]

@@80sCommercialVault Thank you very much. I wasn't expecting a response, and that was speedy. I'd never heard of these organizations and am now curious to know more. I will look them up and utilize the links. I enjoyed watching the video.

[@classictelevisioncommercia1157]

the Raggedy bank THEY HEAR THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP WHEN YOU'RE TALKING IN YOUR SLEEP

[@rainbowspace994]

24:04 WTF ????

[@80sCommercialVault]

That is actually a gag lifted directly from Disney's Three Little Pigs short.

[@chrismcgovern1647]

While it is the big bad wolf, I think it's cruel that they're laughing at someone wheezing and coughing regardless

[@davidronson8712]

@ 6:28 The priest need some serious dental work, or maybe a miracle.

[@DanZero77]

Ok (Up Against Time) well (looked) I (like) think (a) that (cool) Museum (game) of (doesn't) History (it) PSA (to) was (you?) funny! My attempt wasn't nearly as funny