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These commercials aired on CBS on May 16th, 1979
1. "The Muppets Go Hollywood" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Kellogg's)
2. Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats
3. Froot Loops (With the voice of Paul Frees and Paul Winchell)
4. Miracle Whip
5. Promo for "The Leif Garret Special" (This was around the height of his popularity as a teen idol)
6. Promo for "The Bad News Bears" (The TV show based on the movie, this lasted for two seasons. Corey Feldman can be seen in a few shots here)
7. Kodak Colorburst 50 Instant Camera
8. Kellogg's Frosted Flakes
9. "The Muppets Go Hollywood" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Kellogg's)
10. "The Muppets Go Hollywood" Commercial Bumper
11. Promo for "You Can't Take It With You"
12. Promo for "The Hobbit" (OMG! Unfortunately this is not a promo for the original broadcast from 1977, but it's still neat to see a network promo for this from the 70's. This is by far THE best adaptation of The Hobbit and is one of my favorite cartoons PERIOD)
13. CBS Station ID
14. TV Spot for "Grease" (This had opened nearly a year earlier in June of 1978 but I guess its theatrical run was still going strong)
15. Sunkist
16. WDVM News Bumper (About Three Mile Island, which happened about two months before this: en.wikipedia.o...
Unfortunately the fear-mongering like this that followed caused the U.S. and other countries to disincentivize nuclear power and go back to fossil fuels)
17. "The Muppets Go Hollywood" Commercial Bumper
18. Kellogg's Graham Crackos (Listen George, we just want our milk...not your weird cereal)
19. McDonald's
20. Rice Krispies (With the voices of Daws Butler, Don Messick and Paul Winchell)
21. Kodak Ektra Cameras (With Michael Landon)
22. Raisin Bran
23. CBS Newsbreak
a. Price of beef up (This was most likely directly caused by the 1979 oil crisis following the Iranian Revolution and the increase in cost to deliver fresh meat to grocery stores: en.wikipedia.o...)
b. California Governor Jerry Brown meets with President Carter at White House (Brown would go on to challenge Carter for the nomination)
c. Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drops out of 1980 presidential race
d. Louis Werner found guilty of Lufthansa heist (He wasn't the mastermind, it is believed to have been orchestrated by James Burke of the Lucchese crime family based on information he received secondhand from Werner. The heist also involved mobster Henry Hill and was a central plot point in Martin Scorsese's film "Goodfellas" en.wikipedia.o...)
24. Michelob Light
25. CBS Newsbreak
26. CBS Station ID