80's Commercials Vol. 767

These commercials aired on CBS on June 14th, 1986
1. "CBS Special Movie Presentation" Intro: "The Great Muppet Caper" (Sponsored by Ford)
2. 1986 Ford Ranger STX
3. Black And Decker Spotlighter
4. Heinz Ketchup
5. Hanes
6. McDonald's
7. Ford Thunderbird
8. TV Spot for "My Little Pony The Movie" (As someone who is a fan of this movie and grew up watching it, it's amazing to post an ad for this...with Tony Randall himself!)
9. AT&T
10. Century 21
11. KPIX Station ID
12. March Of Dimes PSA (Ooh owl!)
13. Ford Tempo (The next few ads were actually posted in Vol. 42, they were on a partial recording of the exact same broadcast of "The Great Muppet Caper" recorded by my family from the same affiliate!)
14. Extra Sugar Free Gum
15. Stroh's
16. L'oreal (With Andie MacDowell)
17. "CBS Special Movie Presentation" Commercial Bumper
18. Promo for "Kate & Allie"
19. CBS Station ID
20. Apple IIc
21. Pacific Bell
22. KPIX News Bumper
23. Avon (The audio on this part of the tape had issues, or it was something with the VCR. I did my best to make it as quiet as possible)
24. Chevy Spectrum
25. Glad-Lock (With Tom Bosley)
26. Gerber Baby Food
27. "CBS Special Movie Presentation" Commercial Bumper
28. Promo for "Scarecrow And Mrs. King", "Kate & Allie" and "Cagney & Lacey"
29. CBS Sports Break
30. Budweiser
31. CBS Sports Break
32. CBS Station ID
33. GTE Sprint
34. KPIX News Bumper
35. Dole Fruit Sorbet
36. AT&T (With Cliff Robertson)
37. Sticklets
38. Kodak Colorwatch System
39. Nissan Stanza Wagon
40. Pledge
41. Brite
42. Burger King
43. Real Antiperspirant
44. "CBS Special Movie Presentation" Commercial Bumper
45. Promo for "Drop Everything & Read" (With David Birney and Meredith Baxter Birney)
46. CBS Station ID
47. Suzuki Samurai
48. Tootje (The actress here might be Amy Stoch aka Missy from "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure"?)
49. Promo for "Mac & Mutley"
50. Nissan Stanza
51. Keebler E.L. Fudge
52. McDonald's
53. "CBS Special Movie Presentation" Commercial Bumper
54. ??? (Partial)

[@yusakug]

I think what this batch of commercials prove is that this time period was much gentler and sweeter when it came to some commercials. The McDonald's commercial with the deaf woman, the AT&T "father and daughter" commercial, and even the My Little Pony commercial with Tony Randall and the kids...You don't see this kind of sweetness in today's advertising.

[@hopegrimsley3427]

I agree with you. It just seemed liked a gentler, sweeter, and simpler time.

[@TwistedRagdoll]

Different advertising methods for different periods

[@Andronicus87]

Everyone is coarse and lewd and seems to have low IQs. Ill be 40 in 2022 So this takes me back to when I was a little kid. The good ol days.

[@KHWendy28]

the good old days where the commercials made you cry.

[@linden6352]

I just love how the ford APR rates are gradually rising throughout the video

[@evelynsmith8419]

I agree

[@markdoublea84]

I love The Great Muppet Caper. It’s my number 1 favorite movie of all time since my childhood.

[@TheComicRelief9001]

Ooh, Great Muppet Caper is my fave Muppet movie, I might have to watch it now. I could pause it and run these every couple minutes to pretend like it's on cable

[@mollietenpenny4093]

That McDonald's commercial was adorable!😊❤

[@rubysuncle]

Rita Wilson in the Ford Tempo ad as the wife. So I also have a recording of this broadcast from CBS 2, NYC. Some of the adverts are the same, some are different. Especially with it being for NYC regarding the news bumper ads and some focus on the Statue of Liberty as it was it’s 100th anniversary.

[@londonliz43]

Thank you for the memories! I graduated from high school June 1986.

[@lilcuku3256]

I'm 18 yrs old now and I wish I grew up in the 80s

[@ryandaniel7347]

Brings back so many good memories. Thank you for posting this video.

[@mniscmoney]

Whenever someone mentions Tony Randall, I immediately think of the Simpsons gag where he's one of the only two people to eat that ultra jumbo steak, and Homer mistakes the other guy who did it for him.

[@christermyrberg3661]

I immediately think of Gremlins 2 - The New Batch

[@PHL1213]

Please take me back to the wonderful 80's=Goat of Decades!

[@yusakug]

3:41 - I wish they did an advertisement like this when they released the Transformer animated movie late that summer. "Tell them how Optimus Prime dies!" "Tell them about how they swear now!" "Tell them about the scene where dozens of Autobots get massacred!"

[@Starfox-xy7zb]

And the celebrity in the commercial would be Leonard Nimoy.

[@gamegal1238]

Can I transport myself to the 80's? Because I'd really like to leave this decade, if I could.

[@Andronicus87]

And we aren't even a whole year into it yet.....

[@inandoutofreal1ty]

have you found a way?

[@dinahkyle3196]

Ah the Great Muppet Caper. It always puts a big slaphappy smile on my face and stays there every time I watch it

[@DanZero77]

Heck yes The Great Muppet Caper one of my favorite movies to watch in the 80s and that CBS movie intro gets you all hyped up for it. However that kid with the rubber sandwich at the end I'd like to know what the heck that was too.

[@moviecollector4345]

Back when they promote everything and now they just promote insurance and medicines.

[@lavendermagic84]

I, too, grew up watching My Little Pony: The Movie back in the '80's. Didn't know they had an tv ad for the movie. Pretty cool that Tony Randall was promoting it, too!

[@hopegrimsley3427]

This + glass of Riunite => a wonderful way to start my extended birthday vacation weekend

[@yusakug]

Happy birthday, and have a great weekend!

[@hopegrimsley3427]

yusakug thank you!!!

[@leonaleona1628]

So cool! I was a teen when these came out

[@Alexander_Timonin]

86 Thunderbird Turbo kicks ass

[@frenchjr25]

I see these and all of your other videos and I hope that someday you consider donating copies of them to UCLA or another archive. For most of these commercials these might be the only copy that exist.

[@hrtvfan2870]

Pretty sure that if one did a list of advertisers you wouldn't expect to see have a commercial airing in a Muppet movie, Stroh's (or any beer company, for that matter) would be at or near the top of the list

[@TTrigg]

Chevy Spectrum-loved the music video-type feel of this ad Cagney & Lacey-too bad CBS passed on the reboot GTE Sprint-guess he didnt have the heart to tell his dad that he was about to be expelled Burger King-reminds me of John Mellencamp's"Small Town"video Mac & Mutley-i expected the dog to start laughing ???-guess they came back just in time for the conclusion of The Great Muppet Caper

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

0:50 RIP Charles Grodin T_T It's something to think too that when this aired on TV, Jim Henson was still alive, and now he's been dead for over 30 years.

[@80sCommercialVault]

The worst thing about Henson's death is that it was entirely preventable, and he might have lived if he had gone to the hospital just a few hours earlier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson#Illness_and_death

[@typorter-pp6lh]

2:34 Is that Lisa from 3-2-1 Contact in the front row?

[@alwayscrazy1]

Oh how I loved... and miss 3,2,1 Contact! Bloodhound Gang! :)

[@SheraeRoberts]

That March of Dimes commercial was odd.

[@80sCommercialVault]

??? The march of dimes is a nonprofit organization that works on preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Here's an article from 2017 correlating studies of the hearing of Barn Owls (the same owl in the ad here) with potentially preventing deafness/hearing loss in humans: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/barn-owls-do-not-suffer-age-related-hearing-loss-study-shows-180964969/

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

That ??? Footage in the end looks like it could have been either an advertisement for a kid's toy, or a movie meant to be scary and watched in a dark living room like that.

[@80sCommercialVault]

I think it's possibly a commercial for Marine World Africa USA, a Sea World esque amusement park/zoo that was in the Bay Area back then.

[@lindaeasley5606]

The Hanes commercial was rather weird

[@xenniealchayliss2489]

Andy McDowell looking hott AF 16:55 vosh from st tng?!