70's Commercials Vol. 6

These commercials aired on NBC on January 21st, 1979.
1. "Super Bowl XIII" Commercial Bumper
2. Sheraton
3. Budweiser
4. Chrysler (With Neil Armstrong)
5. Promo for "The Hawaiian Open"
6. American Express
7. Anco Wiper Blades (With Laurel and Hardy zombies)
8. Promo for "Hello Larry" (Yeah, I don't think that joke would work on TV anymore)
9. Delco (Those crafty Eskimos have a damn fine igloo)
10. Eastern Airlines
11. Promo for "NBC SportsWorld"
12. Promo for "Brothers & Sisters"
13. United States Steel
14. Iron City Beer
15. WIIC Sports Promo
16. IBM
17. NBC Sports Basketball Promo
18. "Super Bowl XIII" Commercial Bumper
19. Allstate
20. Plymouth Horizon TC3
21. Promo for "Centennial"
22. EF Hutton
23. Budweiser (I wonder if those beer wagoners were heavily armed?)
24. Promo for "NBC Olympic Diary" (With Bruce Jenner)

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

I'd love to go back in time with my Ipod and MP3 player just to see their faces. "I've come for a visit from 33 years in the future..." LOL

[@janetmarcus2502]

I Love these commercials 🤗

[@billybassman21]

They sure loved loved using male/female choir vocals in commercials in the 70s.

[@cyphrinfinity9992]

I like the running puns on the American Express commercial lol.

[@waltergray2924]

Love The 70s 🤣🤣Born 1971 Remember All Those !! This Is Awsome…. 70s Kids Get It🤣🤣

[@Mandi7882]

OMG! The Allstate commercial! Nothing like fear to sell insurance, eh!?!?

[@HamptonRoadsTVFan]

Great to once again get to see some of the commercials from one of the all-time great Super Bowls.

[@fringbenefit]

Wow 2 commercials with Apollo Astronauts Frank Borman and Neal Armstrong

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

Damn people liked their beer in the 70's!

[@renee312able]

Love these and I'm only 29 in a half! Lol.

[@ashtonhartley2662]

R.I.P. U.S. Steel. 😢

[@80sCommercialVault]

@RichterEX2 Those early floppy disks WERE pretty prodigious. I've never actually seen one of those in person. The computers I grew up with used the 5¼-inchers.

[@TonyaManningCCTT22]

I love these pages :) I many times feature them with page link to here in my FB group. I find much joy in these replays of commercials. Thank you for your hard work to bring these to each of us :)

[@tak178]

Jim Fixx died of a heart attack while jogging. Poetic justice.

[@pika23]

Jim Fixx in the Amex Ad! I was just mentioning him to my husband this morning...about how he dropped dead while running, after people thought he was so healthy...I compared my self to him...because I am right now laid up in the hospital with some kind of stroke or something after being so healthy and losing 120 pounds. Also the ad for sports caster Catch Nover totally reminded me of something out of Anchor man.

[@thepublicinformer88]

NBC cause we're something to see. Remember, every thing had a jingle. If there was a product there was a jingle amazing 30 plus years later and I remember all the words.

[@Jeff98177]

4:02 My company used to use tape drives just like those. We had dozens of them. I also used to use floppy discs the size of the one shown at 6:41; in an IBM 3800 printer.

[@seaningram4434]

8" Floppy. I didn't know there were inkjet printers back then. I thought they were dot-matrix (impact). I was born in 1971 and in the early 1980s, our first computer was the Commodore 64 :) LOL and we used the 5.25" Floppies and then we got the Apple IIGS with the dot matrix printer and the 3.5" diskette. Now we have the HPs with HDD and external HDD including the Cloud and an Inkjet printer with multiple cartridges.

[@m3trooper]

I can vaguely remember HELLO LARRY! :-)

[@Autumn_Able]

6:41 Dat Floppy Disc

[@nimityaka]

7:40 is savage

[@RoxyAlexander]

"In 1961, they introduced the male secretary! And today, we have female bosses and giant floppy disks. IBM! For People!"

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Kind of funny seeing an IBM ad promoting their "constant innovations" in technology, and seeing how dated the then-new technology is today.

[@pika23]

@m3trooper I remember that show or rather the episodes of different strokes where the spin off was introduced. My mom said she used to watch it. I was born in 1978, so this show was on a little too soon for me to have a memory watching it. Most of the Differe'nt strokes I grew up watching were the reruns. I did watch the first run versions when they jumped the shark with Danny Cooksey.

[@raptonx]

I was about 1 and 1/2 years old when this aired, lawl.

[@MrMetuber1]

Budweiser stubby bottles. I do remember those.

[@zachhoran]

SUper Bowl XIII taped off WIIC, the Iron City ad proves that(now WPXI)

[@zachhoran]

CHrysler's finances were bucket kicking I think at the time of this ad pre-Iacocca turnaround in the 80s.

[@bmorefunnyman1]

I think Hardy is Chuck McCann and Was this Superbowl the year the Steelers Offensive Line went to visit the guy from the Cocaine Cowboys for the White CoCo Powder?

[@timdub70]

Brothers and Sisters, an Animal House rip-off. I did watch ABC's Delta House, which was actually based on Animal House and featured several of the same actors.

[@sallybaker4654]

US steel, nobleese oblise. I own my soul to the company store

[@melissagreen7744]

Omg!! I thought it was! Holy crap! LOL!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I'd kind of forgotten about that NBC logo that was shown several times. Where's the peacock? I know the peacock logo has been modified from its original form, but I thought they always used some version of it.

[@pika23]

Is that Deidre Hall singing in the Sheraton Ad?

[@glamourgirl2123]

Plymouth Horizon TC3... aka Dodge Omni 024...

[@IronCavalier]

My first car was an ‘84 Omni GLH. Great little car!

[@DanZero77]

Super Bowl XIII from Pittsburgh's NBC station! The remarkable '78 Steelers over the Cowboys! Hello Colonel Blake! Too bad NBC was in the crapper in the 1978-1979 season. Surfing, Karate, and Blackjack! SPORTS!!!!! INKJETs in the late 70s?

[@mefault]

Here's the ironic thing: In the American Express commercial, Jim Fixx was at one point considered to be the healthiest man in the world. In 1984, he died of a heart attack after his daily jog...true story!!

[@ericbrork]

7:42= Ferris Bueller's house...his parents must've bought it after that owner died!

[@Diskoboy1974]

Ah, the days when people actually watched the Super Bowl for the game instead of the commercials.

[@blugreen123]

a pre-Kardashian Bruce Jenner. ahh, those were the days this was the era of super short basketball shorts. I DON'T miss those days! lol

[@LokianGOP]

A steel company..in the USA? NAAAHHHHHH

[@daemon.running]

@raptonx I was -8 :P

[@pika23]

@blugreen123 he looks like that gay guy Monty on Say yes to the Dress Atlanta on TLC

[@draveed]

It baffles me that US Steel (or any steel company) felt the need to advertise with a TV commercial to the mass consumer audience. They're not going to win new customers that way. It just seems like such a waste of money.

[@80sCommercialVault]

These aired during a Superbowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers playing in the game (they won as well) and these come from a Pittsburgh, PA affiliate. U.S. Steel is based in Pittsburgh: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel They were advertising directly to their workers watching the game. I'm not even sure if this ad was played nationally for this broadcast and may have only been seen in Pennsylvania.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

@@80sCommercialVault I was wondering if the same is true of the Iron City Beer commercial. It's funny how I remember so many beer commercials from that period, even though I was 13 years too young to legally drink the stuff in 1979. I have no memory at all of that ad.

[@nihilioellipsis]

I grew up by the southside Chicago facility. The catastrophic end to all the heavy industries in that area was really bad. thousands of steelmill workers and their union were SOL for pensions. maybe the company wanted to put something out there to counter the growing impression that they were not a decent employer.

[@glamourgirl2123]

24. Sweet! Bruce Jenner before he got messed up by the Kardashian Klan lol...

[@AdonisJones]

They were all about some retired astronauts pimping crap back then :)

[@mst3kanita]

Wowow NBC had some terrible programming back then.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I didn't even recognize most of the programs being advertised here. They are definitely not the ones considered "classics" today.

[@drk9011]

100% true. The 70s were dominated by CBS and ABC. NBC was a distant third and had little to offer back then.