80's Commercials Vol. 744

These commercials aired on ABC on March 29th, 1983
1. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Renault)
2. Renault Alliance
3. Centrum
4. L'eggs Sheer Elegance
5. Tender Vittles Cat Food
6. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumper
7. Oil Of Olay
8. Puroletter
9. Almaden
10. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumper
11. Spray 'n Wash
12. Jeep/Renault/American Motors
13. Shasta
14. Yoplait Breakfast Yogurt
15. Promo for "Benson", "Condo", "Too Close For Comfort" and "It Takes Two"
16. ABC Station ID
17. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumper
18. Wendy's
19. Calvin Klein Jeans (With Martha Plimpton...aka the most annoying aspect of "The Goonies")
20. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumper
21. ABC News Brief
a. Moscow will consider nuclear talks with U.S.
b. Newspaper report alleges former Green Beret Bo Gritz fabricated story about mission in Vietnam to raise money for POW rescue (Gritz was behind highly publicized unsuccessful rescue attempts to locate MIA POW's that were supposedly still being held in Laos)
22. Hertz (With O.J. Simpson)
23. ABC News Brief
24. Coca Cola
25. Mobil Detergent Gasoline
26. KGO Channel 7 News Bumper
27. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumpers
28. Levolor Ready Made Blinds
29. Renault Fuego
30. Jell-O
31. Post Honey Nut Crunch Raisin Bran
32. Promo for "Benson" and "Condo"
33. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumper
34. Fantastik
35. Denny's
36. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumper
37. Promo for "Nightline"
38. KGO Channel 7 News Update (WE CAN'T HEAR YOU)
39. Gibraltar Savings
40. Chevron
41. KGO Channel 7 News Promo
42. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumpers
43. EF Hutton
44. Soave Bolla
45. Promo for "Ryan's Four"
46. "The Thorn Birds" Commercial Bumpers

[@idziak4ever]

You are preserving Americana. This is a beautiful set of video exhibits that shows others what it was like to be alive in the 1980s. Thank you for doing this!

[@effthree7227]

hopefully we can get back to just being America again

[@aestroai8012]

Everybody... big ahhh! There's something very relaxing about these 40 year old commercials. I know it's a nostalgia thing, but aesthetically everybody's got a big smile, and a song, or a story. The commercials almost all had depth back then. They seem very long by todays standards. I keep them on to cheer me up. I was a kid when these aired.

[@caesar349]

I love you for posting all these different uploads of this era!!

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

3:56 Older Millennial baby on display, that baby is now approaching 40 years old.

[@seibervideo]

It’s amazing I remember seeing the Thornbirds on tv when it was on. I was very young though. Thanks for this blast from the past.

[@yusakug]

15:15 - When she started, I initially thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be a very long commercial..."

[@drstoopid6174]

Surprised to see Ben Gazzara in the PuroLetter Courier ad at 3:05 minutes. He'd probably be most popularly remembered for playing Jackie Treehorn in "The Big Lebowski" but was in a number of great movies.

[@petehutchins7062]

Roadhouuuuse

[@yusakug]

2:03 - Oh gosh, my own cat won't eat sometimes unless I am scratching her back like that. Fortunately, she doesn't ask me to lie down on the floor with her like that.

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

Random Observation - this is less than 2 months prior to the premiere of "Return of the Jedi" in theaters. That's the first of the Star Wars films I remember seeing in theaters (though I was alive to see the other 2 films, I was a bit young - especially for the first Star Wars film).

[@yusakug]

I saw Return of the Jedi at the theater also when I was 6. (i was born in the summer of 77, when the original Star Wars came out.) I knew about Star Wars mostly through my two older brothers, who were huge fans, and had told me all about the films. I remember being a bit confused, but I liked the Ewoks a lot. The following summer of 84, my brothers would take me to see both Gremlins and Ghostbusters back to back, and I fell in love with both of them. They were both my true first memorable experience at the movies.

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

@@yusakug I'm around a year older than you. For me, the 80's truly began with "Return of the Jedi" in 1983 (along with "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" in the Fall of 1983).

[@dragonetti1]

and just a few years later, Martha who goes wacko during competitions, would star as a 4th string actor in Goonies.....

[@ja5zymoto77]

I THOUGHT she looked familiar! lol

[@BlankParty]

What does 4th string mean?

[@dragonetti1]

@@BlankParty it means she didnt get any billing, she wasnt one of the primary stars.

[@BlankParty]

The General Thanks for explaining ♥️

[@dragonetti1]

@@BlankParty anytime. its just a shame they didnt give her a more prominant role. shes really good

[@nellenitusa9113]

11.9 percent financing? How did they pay on that? That's wild

[@80sCommercialVault]

This was actually low at the time, the average before car companies rolled out these lower rates in late ‘82 was 17.6. Keep in mind that the average price of a new car in 1983 was under $10,000...much cheaper than the average price of a new car today when adjusted for inflation.

[@milegindahouse]

6:48 The precursor to the Baconator.

[@davidwages9176]

The Spray n Wash ad says it’s by Morton Thiokol. It would’ve been nice if they had taken some of their scientists off of fighting stains and had them work on making O-rings that wouldn’t fail in cold weather.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Morton Thiokol was merely the parent company of Texize, which made Fantastik and other cleaning products. Their consumer line of cleaning products was sold to Dow Chemical in 1986 following the Challenger disaster.

[@elmobolan4274]

I wanna pop, pop, I wanna Shasta....

[@baylinkdashyt]

Nightline talks about Priestly celibacy... On the night that the network airs The Thorn Birds. Yeah, that was an accident.

[@berto1169]

Nightline piggy-backed off their network's own programming quite a lot. I remember them having a discussion about nuclear war when they aired The Day After later that year. As a 13-year-old, that film scared the hell out of me.

[@Alphahydro]

The economy must have really been in good shape when a 11.9 car loan rate can be advertised as if it’s desired.

[@80sCommercialVault]

The 1981-82 recession was technically over by the time these aired but the economy didn’t fully recover until 1984.

[@rylar717]

Ted Coppell’s nose wiggles lol

[@charliejoson9145]

Shasta - its not called a cola? It reminds me of Virgin cola ... you know as in Sir Richard Branson. It entered the Philippine market but I forgot when it left. Levalor Blinds - ahh... childhood memories of going to the province with my parents (a province where the American army or navy were stationed which contributed to the opening of Duty Free malls offering PX goods). My mom would buy those blinds in boxes depending on the size and color

[@goldenage]

Label something French and it make it fancier!

[@baladi921]

Martha is pretty

[@thegreatersnake]

Martha Plimpton. I think so too. Definitely a childhood crush.

[@tackyman2011]

Didn't realize that was her. So young.

[@DanZero77]

KGO still must be glitching - It was easier to hear the old school typewriter over the report!

[@hopegrimsley3427]

DanZero77 all that I was able to decipher was that there was a calamari shortage; super newsworthy :)

[@baylinkdashyt]

Musta been cold out there... at... the beach.

[@defenderoFreedom]

How do blinds make you look rich? 10:17

[@tackyman2011]

"Bo Gritz". You can't make this stuff up.

[@PFC_50_Grand]

The most powerful decade in US history. Everyone on earth wanted to come to America to live the dream and we were still the factory of the world 🇺🇸 Before our decline as a superpower....

[@MrBlockice22]

Wait a minute... A O.J/ Hertz commercial was around that time to (8:33)? Wow you learn something new!!

[@80sCommercialVault]

He started doing ads for them in the late 70s: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6LHkIuQjtCNbZI

[@MrBlockice22]

@@80sCommercialVault Yeah I knew when he started but I didnt know how long he did that for them. Great Vid, Thanks

[@80sCommercialVault]

He was doing them up until 1993: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJLRZnqsa9GVj5Y Obviously after 1994 they reconsidered and dropped him as a spokesperson.