70's Commercials Vol. 87

These commercials aired on ABC on February 17th, 1978
1. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
2. Arrid Extra Dry (With Tina Louise. The discovery of Chlorofluorocarbons aka CFC's causing rapid ozone depletion was publicized by British scientist James Lovelock in 1973 and many western countries quickly began to phase them out of consumer products. They were eventually banned by The Montreal Protocol in 1987: en.wikipedia.o...)
3. Mr. Coffee (With Joe DiMaggio)
4. Nestle Cookie Mix (Whatever the hell that cacophony of noise is at 1:30, that's going to stick in my brain for awhile)
5. TV Spot for "The Other Side Of The Mountain Part 2"
6. Fabergé Organics Shampoo (With Joe Namath)
7. MG Midget
8. Promo for "What's Happening", "Operation Petticoat", "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" (If the Voodoo guy on "Fantasy Island" looks familiar, it's Ernie Hudson aka Winston from "Ghostbusters"!)
9. Promo for "How The West Was Won"
10. WLS Station ID
11. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
12. Mercury Zephyr Z-7
13. Pine-Sol
14. Mennen Speed Stick (No ♫ BYYY MENNEN ♫ ?!?!?!?)
15. Gallo Red Rosé
16. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
17. Promo for "The Six Million Dollar Man"
18. Amoco
19. Promo for "Living Together" on WLS Eyewitness News
20. WLS Movie Promo Bumper
21. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
22. Milk Bone Dog Treats (Before they were bone shaped I guess)
23. Natural Light
24. Lysol Pump Spray/Toilet Bowl Cleaner
25. Life Savers
26. Promo for "Wild And Wooly" (Charlie's Angels set in the old west? This was a one-off TV movie but it seems like it might have been a TV pilot that wasn't picked up)
27. WLS Station ID
28. Pampers
29. Neo-Synephrine II (The original was much better than the sequel)
30. Skippy Peanut Butter (With Annette Funicello)
31. Dial
32. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
33. Promo for "The Love Boat"
34. Eradicane (I love these weird midwest commercials targeted specifically to farmers)
35. Chevy Malibu
36. Eyewitness News Update (Fahey Flynn was a radio and television newscaster who had a career in Chicago dating back to 1941 and was known for his signature bow tie)
37. WLS Movie Promo Bumper (Hey, you interrupted your own news update!)
38. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
39. Bausch & Lomb Soft Contact Lenses
40. Olympia Gold
41. ABC Sports Promo
42. Promo for "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "Wild And Wooly"
43. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Commercial Bumper
44. "Three On A Date" End Credits (The music here reminds me a bit of John Barry's theme from "The Deep": • John Barry - Theme Fro... )
45. V-8
46. Jergens Yellow
47. STP Gas Treatment (With Robert Blake)
48. Bell System Yellow Pages
49. "The ABC Friday Night Movie" Outro

[@yusakug]

Annette Funicello was so associated with Skippy Peanut Butter, she poked fun at it once in a movie. She appeared in a film called Back to the Beach, where she played a caricature of herself, and her entire cupboard was stocked top to bottom with Skippy Peanut Butter to the point that it was driving her kid psychotic with all the sandwiches.

[@44excalibur]

I was seven years old, four months away from my 8th birthday when these aired. I remember these like it was yesterday. 😭

[@goldenagenut]

Being able to sit and enjoy these shows and commercials from my childhood is a real treat. It's nice for a few minutes to forget these dreadful times and go back to when I'd sit on the floor and watch tv with the family in the 70s, no worries from the adult world to plague my young mind.

[@sacheverelle2626]

Agreed.

[@viejos1000]

Man seeing this really makes me imagine if I was born in the 70s, I was born in 1996 so I’m 26 and I’m actually really big on the 80s and 90s aesthetic vibes and style but there’s just something about the 70s that always makes me imagine how a walk around the park would be or going to a club or disco and seeing these commercials play after a T.V show. The Chicagoland chevy dealer ad was to groovy btw! Also what are the odds that this is abc chicago playing! I actually live in chicago! 15 min away from the city! 😎🌃

[@DGF2099]

I love the fact that many of these commercials look like they should be interrupted by the Energizer Bunny

[@DanZero77]

That Nestle Cookie Mix ad, the effects and sounds are vintage 70s! But it was AWESOME to see the ABC Circle Films closing logo! I'm a fan of logo animations and they used at least 4 versions of this throughout the 70s. This was #3 in the lineup with the 2nd one being the rarest until it was found a few years ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKqoaZ-CYraKmaM

[@ellemjay]

5:38 Imagine having only 4 varieties of a brand to choose from! Now each deodorant brand comes in about 37 different fragrances and formulations. It makes it hard to pick up something for someone else as you aren't sure what you're looking at.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Old Spice in particular has *way* too many scents/product types.

[@yusakug]

2:40 - "It's got 4 wheels, and reflexes so quick, it almost seems alive". Somewhere, hearing this, Stephen King gets an idea for a novel called Christine.

[@Playsinvain]

That’s all fine and good, but rack and pinion steering!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

0:06--Back when aerosol was one of the dominant formats for deodorant. Tina Louise is probably best known for her role as Ginger in "Gilligan's island"--and she is the last surviving cast member following the passing of Dawn Wells. 1:06--What ever happened to that Nestle Cookie Mix? Sure looks yummy,. 2:07--Organic and "earthy" shampoos seemed to be a thing back then. 3:39--I remember that my father watched just about every episode of that "How The West Was Won" series. 12:32--I'll admit that I also loved those weird Midwestern farm commercials (e.g., herbicides) when I was a kid! I am a lifelong Midwesterner, so I saw a lot of them back in the day. 16:37--"I could've had a V-8!" I loved the commercials, but I thought vegetable juice sounded disgusting back then! (My family mostly drank orange juice when I was growing up.)

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Nestle Cookie Mix- The way that woman presses together all those ingredients into a packet of the cookie mix looks pretty awkward. The sound effect doesn't help much, either. V-8- The exaggerated sound effect of the people hitting their heads after realizing they didn't drink a V-8 not only makes it funny, but it makes me think that these people have melons for heads.

[@Misfit_Kitten]

Her stop-motion limbs suddenly had like three extra joints!

[@tallpaul9475]

This is very awesome, and very comforting at the same time. I like watching things from my youth. I feel like it is going back in time, like yesterday. Does not seem that long ago. Simpler times back then, too.

[@DGF2099]

Spoiler alert for the 1978 Daytona 500 The Front Row consisted of Cale Yarborough in the #11 1st National City Travelers Checks Oldsmobile and Ron Hutcherson in the #53 Valvoline Buick. The 1978 Qualifying Race #1 was won by A.J. Foyt in the #51 Valvoline Buick. The 1978 Qualifying Race #2 was won by Darrell Waltrip in the #88 Gatorade Chevy. The 1978 Daytona 500 was won by Bobby Allison in the #15 Norris Industries Ford.

[@samanthab1923]

Never saw an MG ad. My father was a fan of Trimuph/MG. Had the MGB.

[@sacheverelle2626]

Joe diMaggio. Legend.

[@yusakug]

1:56 - "For anyone who believes in happy endings"...Geez, it's called a Spoiler Alert, lady.

[@diceman74]

I could be wrong but is that the grandma from Family Matters in the Fantasy Island promo? It's an interesting cultural artefact to see the piece on living together, kind of weird today to think of the stigma it carried in different circles.

[@kellyvariste4831]

Absolutely! Oh how times have changed ain't it funny how different the world was and this was less than 45 years ago.

[@sparklecanada0112]

Rosetta LeNoire🌹💕. Loved that lady in Family Matters. She could definitely keep Carl in his place.😉😂😂

[@goodmeasure777]

@Andrew Craig, You have a good eye. I believe that's her. The saucy quick witted Mama lol.

[@01FozzyS]

STP commercial-isn't that Robert Blake? Those overall though. lol

[@TTrigg]

Arrid Extra Dry-Tina Louise..the only surviving GI castaway The Other Side Of The Mountain Part 2-both films were good What's Happening-hopefully her husband didnt catch them Operation Petticoat-so who was the daddy..? Fantasy Island-Julie decided to never visit that island again while on a cruise,and the voodoo doctor gave up practicing..later down the line he joined a team of parapsychologists on their new venture The Six Million Dollar Man-i bet she planted a virus into that computer Living Together-they seemed like a nice couple.. Wild And Wooly-David Doyle(CA's Bosley) was in this..plot twist:what if Bosley is actually a descendant of Teddy Roosevelt 😂 Neo-Synephrine II-the second in the exciting trilogy of fighting nasal congestion Olympia Gold-POUR THE GOLD! V-8-Your'e holding the can,so why not just open it and pour a glass STP Gas Treatment-"..and we can take that to the bank!!!!" The ABC Friday Night Movie outro-that music meant,in my case,its time to get ready for Saturday morning 😁

[@jenniferseghers9355]

Nancy Frangione from Another World and All My Children in the Jergens ad.

[@ernestcruz6316]

8:10 - Norm Crosby for Anheuser-Busch Natural Light beer. 10:44 - George S. Irving for Neo-Synephrine II nasal spray. 16:46 - Dan Resin (aka Dr. Beeper from Caddyshack) in the V-8 ad.

[@impalaman9707]

At 17:50---an Italian cowboy!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ernestcruz6316]

Why not? If the crying Indian from that anti-pollution PSA can be an Italian, then Baretta can be a cowboy. And dat's da name of dat tune...

[@goodmeasure777]

I remember that Mennen Speed Stick ad "Get on The Stick" became a saying. It was like saying, get it together or get with the program. Where's the Neo-senephrine ad where the bottle would inhale and exhale lol? Ladies and gentlemen, the Eradicane ad, is why we are more..uh more...well let's say, not slender like how folk were in the 60/70s. All our food growing in soil with Eradicane, now we're a bulky generation.