70's Commercials Vol. 53

These commercials aired on ABC on December 10th, 1977
1. Nestle Souptime (With Vincent Price and Coral Browne)
2. Masumi by Coty
3. Babe (♫ You're fabulous babe! ♫)
4. Slenderalls
5. ABC Station ID
6. Jontue by Revlon
7. Bell System
8. Promo for "Snowblind: The Cocaine Connection" on the ABC Evening News
9. "The Love Boat" Commercial Bumper
10. Promo for "Eight Is Enough"
11. Orbit
12. Casual Corner
13. WJLA News Update
14. "The Love Boat" Commercial Bumper
15. Allstate
16. Aviance by Prince Matchabelli
17. Arrid Extra Dry
18. Scaefer
19. Radio Shack Pettable Portable Radios (With Paul Burke)
20. Chanel No. 5
21. Next on "The Love Boat"
22. Promo for "It Happened One Christmas" (If you can't tell, this was gender-swapped TV remake of "It's A Wonderful Life")
23. "The Love Boat" End Credits

[@vernonnilesjr7910]

R.i.p to the late great Vincent Price 😭😭😭😭

[@WickedWonder1979]

"I like beer!" No more obvious words have ever been spoken.

[@fossefan]

So many perfume commercials. And Mary Louise Weller, either right before or right after filming Animal House.

[@Farzee49]

It's the holidays and gift giving time! I love the perfume commercials

[@01FozzyS]

My favorite gum at present has been around since '77? You learn something new everyday. lol

[@Farzee49]

My fave too!

[@micahw83]

Discontinued in the 80s due to fear that the sweetener caused cancer. Relaunched in 2001

[@timothysprengeler4071]

3:38--I seem to remember Orbit gum being new around this time. It is still available in my area. I do recall that there were some fears in the 1980's about saccharin being a possible carcinogen, but those were later disproven.

[@krazeemetalchickstewart9961]

Boy do I feel 🧓 old watching these old commercials

[@LadyVoldo]

Worth the watch for Vincent Price alone.

[@VelvetCyberpunk]

I loved Babe cologne. It had a great warm woodsy cedar scent. I wish they still made it.

[@erickgregoryful]

happy and sad at the same time

[@Farzee49]

@ 1:01 Wow, it's Margaux Hemingway! -- American 70s supermodel/actress. She was the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. Her later years were marred by highly publicized episodes of addiction and depression. She died by suicide by drug overdose in 1996 at the age of 42. She was one of the most famous faces of the 70s and early 80s!

[@elc1960]

I remember going shopping with my mom around the time of these commercials, and she saw Jontue in a department store. She sprayed it in the air, sniffed it, and said to the sales clerk "I think I'll pass...give me a call when they come out with Jon Three." My mom was a hoot...

[@DreamDancer82]

Cool, WJLA, my ABC station! I love seeing what the networks looked like before I was born.

[@lianalonge1984]

Jontue by Revlon in a 2.3 oz bottle sales today on FragranceNet for $9.44. $9.44 in 1977 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $40.56 in 2020, a difference of $31.12 over 43 years.

[@hoteljason]

I love the pronunciation of Petula Clark's name at the end (9:20). It's like "Pestilence," only different. ;-)

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I noticed that too. I know she's from the UK, and I'm not sure how her first name is pronounced there, but here in America it's usually pronounced "Peh-TOO-lah."

[@elc1960]

Re the Arrid commercial: Hey look, it's the girl Belushi was peeping in on in Animal House!

[@elc1960]

In that Allstate ad with Rick Hurst as the husband, the guy playing the insurance agent is Robert DoQui, who played a pimp in the blaxploitation flick Coffy.

[@yusakug]

6:28 - Brett Kavanaugh, is that you??

[@TTrigg]

Nestle Souptime-competition for Lipton Cup-A-Soup Snowblind:The Cocaine Connection-sounds like the name of a DLC for Ghost Recon Wildlands The Love Boat-aww Julie was crushing on Potsie Webber

[@timothysprengeler4071]

0:00--What ever happened to Nestle Souptime? Those soups look pretty good in this commercial.

[@DrGull1888]

5:11 That's the police captain from Robocop. The good one.

[@DanZero77]

These ads are 6 days younger than me! Those Souptime faces are creepy! George Kennedy in the Schaefer ad!

[@Farzee49]

I feel like I'm the oldest regular commenter on this channel...eh, maybe not. lol Those Souptime faces ARE creepy! Imagine them on the supermarket shelf. @ 4:08 My mother shopped at this store all the time! I wonder if Casual Corner was only in the DC area? @7:28 Big-time, french actress/model Catherine Deneuve...gorg.

[@tadool5352]

MsFarzee I watch as much as possible but I don’t often comment-I’m from the southern Illinois area & Casual Corner was around in the malls in my area-my mom & aunt shopped there. I was around 12 when these commercials were on & I remember some them ... Yes the Souptime faces are creepy!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

@@tadool5352 I haven't seen a Casual Corner store for some time (they went out of business in 2005, according to Wikipedia), but I'm pretty sure we had them in my home state of Iowa back in the day,

[@jillsmith633]

OMG! When the video started snowing and jumping I actually reached toward the screen, looking for a dial to adjust the picture. LOL! I can't believe I did that . . . . I guess old habits come back to haunt you when you least expect it. Jeez Louise! 😳

[@kathleencollins5531]

I remember the Radio Shack animal radio commercial. My sister had the raccoon.

[@chrislang9442]

Jontue - Someone has been reading too many Harlequins. Bell System - Don’t ever use that song for a commercial. That song was already made fun of by then. Allstate - Guy playing the husband looks familiar... “It Happened One Christmas” - BOOOO! As I recall, this was at a time when they weren’t showing “It’s A Wonderful Life” annually yet.

[@80sCommercialVault]

"It's A Wonderful Life" had entered into the public domain in 1974, after Republic Pictures failed to renew their copyright. It began to be shown all over TV around this time, usually by local affiliates or public stations.

[@chrislang9442]

But it didn’t get the national or cable networks’s attention for a while, so there wasn’t as much exposure.

[@80sCommercialVault]

The exposure it got from airing on local television stations across the country is what made it become a classic Christmas movie. Before the 70's it was fairly obscure.

[@JohnnyUtah15]

Re: Allstate commercial. Looks like he is Rick Hurst aka Cletus kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHO6n2mcp9-fZ80