70's Commercials Vol. 28

These commercials aired on CBS on November 28th, 1977
1. "Tattle Tales" End Credits
2. McDonald's Hash Browns
3. La Machine
4. Robitussin
5. Promo for "The Price Is Right"
6. CBS Special Presentation Bumper
7. "The Return of the Incredible Hulk" Intro (This was the second TV movie pilot before the premiere of the series proper in March of '78)
8. NyQuil
9. Hallmark Christmas Ornaments
10. McDonald's Gift Certificates (With Corey Feldman. This has completely different music than the 1982 version I posted in Vol. 483)
11. Chutes Away!!! (With Dick Van Dyke. Apologies for the scary transition at the end)
12. English Leather (Ok, we get it lady, you like men)
13. Playtex Free Spirit
14. "The Incredible Hulk" Commercial Bumpers
15. Del Monte Ketchup/Sears Tele Games (Partial)
16. Hills Bros Almond Mocha
17. Kinney Shoes (With Ken Berry)
18. Frosted Flakes (How is the frosting "secret"? It's sugar)
19. Oil Of Olay (I have no idea why most of this is in black and white. I suppose that some companies back then still cheaped out on color film for their commercials)
20. Magic Chef Microwave
21. "The Incredible Hulk" Commercial Bumper
22. CBS Newsbreak
a. US and Israel will attend Sadat Peace Conference, other nations will hold Anti-Sadat conference (That'll show them!)
b. Judge Frank M. Johnson will withdraw nomination for FBI director due to illness (He was diagnosed with an aneurysm that was ultimately not life-threatening. William H. Webster was nominated in his place: en.wikipedia.o...)
c. AT&T Breakup
23. Contac Jr.
24. CBS Newsbreak
25. Promo for "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Awesome)
26. First Alert Smoke Detector at Pay 'n Save (Wow, what a great Christmas gift Grandma, you REALLY shouldn't have...)
27. Promo for "Family Feud"
28. "The Incredible Hulk" Commercial Bumper

[@canibaloxide]

0:57 My mom had one of those fish molds hanging on the kitchen wall when I was a kid, always thought they were just for decoration.

[@zachhoran]

There was a weekly syndicated version of Tattletales from September 1977-September 1978, this is the first footage of it seen on YOutube as far as I remember. GSN probably had the rights to air the syndicated Tattletales(the episodes are assumed to exist), but they never aired it. I can't imagine Buzzr ever getting around to airing the syndie Tattletales. In the promo for the syndicated Price is Right, they show a pic of Dennis James, who hosted the nighttime syndicated TPIR from 1972-1977 but in Fall 1977, Barker took over as host and was hosting it by this point.

[@franceslarsen4037]

Feel like I just want to scoop up Corey Feldman in the Santa Claus/MacDonald's comm. and give him back the childhood he said he never had, and his innocent happiness :(

[@luvs2cover1]

This is so awsome gets me a little teary eyed for the old days 💕

[@tdrewman]

I remember watching the Incredible Hulk this day, Just a different state and channel.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I remember wanting to watch it because a couple of my neighborhood friends (who were my age--I was 6 in 1977) were raving about it. My parents wouldn't let me watch it because they thought it was too scary.

[@samanthab1923]

I saw Dr. Joyce Brothers on that Tattle Tales clip.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Wow; Tattle Tales! As of 2021 that show is rerunning on Buzzr, a retro game show network that is available over the air in many parts of the country.

[@DanZero77]

Being my first Christmas was in 1977 (born less than a week after this video), we had that very same ornament from 3:13! The deliciousness of Sears! Channelsevennnnnnnnnnnnnnseattle.

[@RetroCirq]

Hence the username! That makes a lot of sense! :)

[@timothysprengeler4071]

My sister was born in 1977, and she had that "Baby's First Christmas" ornament too! I think my father and stepmother still have it. I kept my childhood ornaments for myself, but I don't think my siblings did.

[@TTrigg]

La Machine-what the heck was that at 1:00.? McD's Gift Certificates-Corey Feldman got a lot of commercial work back in the day.. "CHUT!!!" lol

[@unknowncitizen1254]

If anyone was interested Jean-François Paillard-Pachelbel : Canon & Gigue in D major is the music used in the LaMachine coommercial

[@BrotherHerbert]

That's longtime SF Bay Area news personality Ross McGowan in the First Alert commercial. When I saw him and the plug for Pay 'n Save I thought this was from a Bay Area station. Ken Berry seems to be channeling Harold Hill in the Kinney Shoes commercial, which is fitting since he played Hill in a production of THE MUSIC MAN a couple years before.

[@moxie96]

yes I remember ross and the white alarm was ours!

[@daintybeigli]

8:33 good god she’s microwaving that huge piece of meat?!?! Uh oh

[@dorothyriskowitz763]

These are great sharing these with my daughter she was just two when these came out

[@monstersasquatch1515]

thumbnail love 💜

[@miketroncin749]

07:48- after seeing this cartoon tiger put kayaking kids, bobsledding teens, and windsurfing punks in their place, it's nice to see a bit of retro when he himself was getting schooled..

[@daintybeigli]

10:46 the price of the smoke detector shocked me. That’s like 128 USD in 2022!

[@80sCommercialVault]

At the time battery powered home smoke detectors were still a relatively new technology.

[@franceslarsen4037]

LilbuntUWiz I loved Pachelbel's Canon from Ordinary People, the way it was used in the movie... then discovered over the years that it so often used as the backdrop for wedding scenes, commercials, etc.!

[@miketroncin749]

10:04 - news guy looks like he saw a mouse running across the studio. - that's why you're supposed to just pick up your copy, tap it twice on the desk and sorta pretend to look at it...

[@vintagetvandexciting]

I didn't know there was a syndication version of "tattletales"

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Although the video in this volume isn't of the greatest quality and has a couple of skips, these are a lot of fun to watch. 2:58--I love Hallmark Christmas ornaments! I have several that were given to me as gifts, and a few others that I inherited from my grandparents after their passing. See my comment below about "Baby's First Christmas." 4:56--My father used English Leather cologne when I was a kid. 5:22--The women's hairstyles in the Playtex ad are a sign of the times (LOL)! 6:22--That Hills Bros Almond Mocha looks really yummy right about now. I know they still make instant cappuccino beverages, but I don't recall seeing that flavor recently. 6:52--We bought a lot of our shoes at Kinney when I was a youngster. I think the only vestige of that chain nowadays is Foot Locker, which specializes in athletic shoes.

[@bloodlegion4874]

So let's get this straight. Santa Claus brings us amazing gifts and travels all around the world to do so and all he gets is a lousy 50 Cent gift certificate from McDonald's? Poor Santa LOL

[@80sCommercialVault]

alittletourinyellow.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/west-st-paul-mcdonalds-randy-pentel.jpg 50 cents could actually buy you a lot at McDonald's back then...

[@bloodlegion4874]

80sCommercialVault oh absolutely even with A quarter I remember but it's just funny LOL

[@CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

@@bloodlegion4874 thats 2 cheese burgers back then!!

[@kennethbrown5358]

I thought it was awesome to get the McDonald's gift certificates.

[@elc1960]

More "Before They Were Stars": In addition to Corey Feldman in the iconic McDonald's Christmas ad, we also have Shelley Smith for English Leather. Plus those four women in the Playtex Free Spirit ad were each in tons of TV commercials back then, but I don't believe I ever knew any of their names...pity, because they were all beautiful.

[@eriksojka9209]

Great stuff. I do remember them!!!!

[@misterelom]

6:53 That Kinney song makes me think of the Monorail song from The Simpsons.

[@80sCommercialVault]

The Monorail Song is a direct parody of this song from "The Music Man". kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnrCgJhjn9mamqs

[@LilCosgrove]

In response to the La Machine ad... was every classy ad's default music Pachelbel's Canon? XD

[@jessecoffey4737]

4:53 CHUTE! I GOT TAPED OVER!

[@80sCommercialVault]

Nothing got taped over there. The Chutes Away ad was manually inserted by the affiliate and played over the network feed and they just ended it too soon. The Planters ad at 4:54 is what ad played on the network feed.

[@ArmpitStudios]

When did we lose good music in ads like the one for Kinney’s and have it replaced with rap and autotuned bullshit?

[@80sCommercialVault]

You're describing more of a larger problem with popular music in general. The most common thing I hear in commercials these days is the generic happy-go-lucky ukelele strumming with whistling.

[@KyosukeShigeru]

@@80sCommercialVault That's the same nonsense I keep hearing too, and it's dreadful!

[@kathiec1333]

Bernard Barrow (of Ryan's Hope) for Robitussin.

[@yusakug]

10:28 - Boy, I feel sorry for the dopes who had to wear those ugly orange suits to work every day back then...