80's Commercials Vol. 563

[@OzzieAstaroth]

That Levi's commercial at 3:49 reminds me of another Levi's ad I haven't seen since around that time. It used similar animation, but involved a train of Levi's jeans going past a farm or something. I only saw it once or twice as a kid, but for some reason it stuck out to me. I'd love to see it again if you ever come across it.

[@80sCommercialVault]

That ad is from 1978 and I'll be posting it soon

[@OzzieAstaroth]

Oh, sweet! Thanks in advance for that!

[@square-on-wheels]

Burger King spot features Melinda Culea from "The A-Team."

[@Zanaaa50]

I really remember that Jean Nate ad I remember thinking it was shocking.... maybe it was A LOT even for then

[@80sCommercialVault]

I say this a lot, but watching these on a CRT TV back then would have cut off around 5% of the edges of the picture because of what is called overscan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan So a lot of these ads with suggestive shots of women in the shower from back then were effectively "censored" by the medium they were viewed on because of that. This also explains why some shots of boom mikes and other oddities at the very top or extreme edges of the frame were not seen as a problem back then...because nobody could see them.

[@Zanaaa50]

I remember running to see the Jean Nate commercials with my sisters because my mother used it but we were SO scandalized by the suggestion of nudity lol I was 5 years old and was fascinated

[@kevinbarton9052]

Mary Louise Weller as a race horse jockey is in this commercial. You also know her from National Lampoon's Animal House.

[@berto1169]

In South Florida, we never got to hear Howard Cosell's now-famous announcement about John Lennon's murder because the Dolphins-Patriots game was blacked out down here. I do remember them breaking in during the radio broadcast, though.

[@melissakimball3375]

Stuart Pankin (Dinosaurs "Earl Sinclair") is the mailman in the Crocker Bank Ad... Nice collection of ads!

[@DanZero77]

Monday Night Football started at 6:00 back then? There was a helicopter game for the Intellvision called Hover Force where you flew around a city, but it had nothing to do with the news!

[@80sCommercialVault]

The game started at 9 PM eastern time, this was advertising the West Coast feed

[@TTrigg]

ABC Sunday Night Movie-loved both this intro and the later"Star Tunnel" one Eight Is Enough-Nicholas must be taking part in a gambling ring at school Hertz-OJ probably does business with Enterprise now Burger King-i tried it,wish they would bring it back Taxi-"..actually,the one i was after..is YOU." Hart To Hart-hopefully Jennifer knows some martial arts moves Mervyn's-those pants would probably go by a different name today lol KABC News Brief-hotel party must've gotten out of hand The Night The City Screamed-and was looted,etc World News Tonight-could be a new version of this promo for today's times.. The Competition-Any probably has a few not-so-fond memories of Richard Dreyfuss

[@80sCommercialVault]

Re: World News Tonight www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/

[@themusiclover30]

I notice that these commercials aired the day before John Lennon's death! How extremely sad. We lost out on some really great music that I'm sure he would have continued to make.

[@80sCommercialVault]

This is mentioned in the video description regarding the promo for Monday Night Football

[@ajpecanic]

Burger King going after Arby's, I guess. I definitely DON'T remember that sandwich.

[@yusakug]

11:58 - Santa here creeps me out. I think he's getting just a bit too much into these products. Plus, the elf using the nail groomer on him...Just kind of creepy...

[@GamerVidsForAmateurs]

When OJ was still in ads