70's Commercials Vol. 37

These commercials aired on ABC on December 17th, 1978
1. Volkswagen Rabbit
2. Certs (With David Garrison aka Steve from "Married With Children")
3. Kinney
4. Promo for "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley" and "The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait" (This can be seen here: • The Carpenters: A Chri... )
5. ABC Station ID
6. TV Spot for "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" (One of the best remakes ever and one of the most chilling last shots in a movie)
7. Wrangler
8. Promo for "Eight Is Enough", "Charlie's Angels" and "Vegas"
9. "Battlestar Galactica" Commercial Bumper
10. Promo for "The Nativity" (Madeline Stowe played Mary in this, one of her first acting roles)
11. Red Lobster
12. KMBC Channel 9 News Bumper
13. "Battlestar Galactica" Commercial Bumper
14. Mattel See and Say (With Dee Wallace)
15. Timex
16. Promo for "Starsky & Hutch"
17. "Battlestar Galactica" Commercial Bumper
18. L'eggs (With Juliet Prowse)
19. Toyota Celica
20. Levi's (The animation in their commercials back then was so awesome)
21. Atari (With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
22. Next Time on "Battlestar Galactica"
23. ABC News Brief
a. OPEC Raises Oil Prices
b. Cleveland to lay off city employees
c. Israel Peace Treaty not signed
24. Michelob
d. Replica of Wright Brothers plane flies on 75th anniversary of first flight at Kitty Hawk

[@1963Iota]

Ahhh.....Battlestar Galatica. I had all the toys and I still have my Speak and Say

[@SuV33358]

See n say

[@alaricblair3264]

Bobby Hull....wow! Lorne Greene--from Bonanza to Battle Star Galactica. Typecast even in outer-space.

[@bundyanna]

OMG that David Garrison ad! He was born in 1952, and clearly aged 40.

[@miketroncin749]

00:31 - it’s a fact that when you bite a certs in the dark you can see a spark. Haven’t done it in decades - I wonder if it still works

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Certs used to be my usual brand of breath mints, but they've become devilishly hard to find in my area.

[@GESSO217]

I was a year old.

[@TTrigg]

Certs-somewhere down the line he would meet a woman named Marcy Darcy.. Happy Days-nice that Fonz and his dad ended that encounter on good terms Invasion of The Body Snatchers-RE:that final scene..Veronica Cartwright was intentionally not told that that was how the film would end..when Sutherland pointed at her,her reaction wasn't scripted Eight Is Enough-wonder how Tommy got out of that predicament Atari-was that a early model Cylon..? Battlestar Galactica-"Yes,Tigh we are."

[@robertcarillio9126]

When ads were presented in soft and medium alluring sells cateting to a more intelligent audience. Compare to now...All hard, loud, obnoxious, and in-your-face hip hop infused mind numbing garbage!

[@graymangaming]

Now I wanna know what happened to Jimmy McNichol

[@yusakug]

4:27 - I had this toy, and the "cow" sound always sounded to weird to me as a kid...

[@Clam73]

I had that too.....and I used to love Battlestar Galactica...I had the fighter ship toy...loved that thing.

[@tdrewman]

I got the Toys Xmas 79 and nearly choked on the missile that viper shot out. I don't what I was doing, but it like a kid , I was fooling around and fired it while in my mouth and it got stuck in my throat.

[@Clam73]

I was just looking these up since i also had the vehicle with wheels that fired missiles too. Looks like they were recalled at the time b/c a 4yr old boy choked to death from the Viper shooting a missile into his throat.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Wow; See 'n' Say! I remember those very well.

[@DanZero77]

Increasing gas prices by **3 CENTS**!! OH NOES!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

1:00--Doesn't the design on those Kinney athletic shoes look like an inverted Nike "swoosh"? I remember Kinney very well, but I think they are now defunct except for the spinoff chain "Foot Locker," which specializes in athletic shoes. 7:19--An early version of what would become the most popular video game system of the late 1970's/early 80's--the Atari 2600. I still have mine, but I haven't figured out how to connect it to a modern digital TV set. Anybody know the trick?

[@80sCommercialVault]

You can get RF/Coax to HDMI converters but they're not cheap. A cheaper option is to hook it up to a VCR with an RF input and use the RCA composite output on the VCR, but you'd still need a RCA to HDMI converter if you don't have composite inputs on your TV...but those are much cheaper.