80's Commercials Vol. 1013

[@yusakug]

Illustrated Wildlife Treasury…This kid and commercial are ingrained in my brain, due to how often they played it during kids programming back in the 80s.

[@mariotelles9571]

Nothing beats old Nickleodeon commercials❤

[@DanZero77]

This is definitely in the morning - all these shows were on then! You posted the ads from the 3 hour Looney Tunes Block in an earlier block - and I watched the whole thing that morning! All those one minute ads I remember very well, who could forget I LOOOVE FRAGGLE ROCK and those wildlife cards!

[@Rnyargd]

Nostalgia overload here.

[@MSP10julia]

Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon - Eh, What’s Up Doc. 🐰🥕 Kids In Motion - Kid-Friendly version of the Jane Fonda Workout VHS tapes

[@WilfredCthulu]

So ever since the last upload I took an interesting into finding out what that Highband thing is. My friend and I searched around a lot to not much avail but thanks to the help of others on reddit they found other commercial breaks where it appeared, identified the music playing, and most of all someone found an article revealing it was a variety show with sketches and music videos cowritten and produced by someone named Michael Woloshen for the station CHEK, which is in Vancouver. I would link the post with all this but idk how links affect the comments here. I still don't know how/why it was on Nick at Nite exactly and I think it's mostly still lost media but yeah.

[@DanZero77]

Thank you for figuring all that out! I posted in the last volume the particular clip was shot in Victoria BC at a defunct pharmacy on Fort St. This definitely helps and I'll check out the information here!

[@ItsThatRetro]

"I love Fraggle Rock" he says after turning off the TV while Fraggle Rock is airing.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Maybe he just meant the theme song. It *is* an all time classic.

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

That is so cool that you reached over 1000 commercial break uploads. Quite an accomplishment

[@Autumn_Able]

Keeping the David the Gnome intro in? Based. :D

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Fraggle Rock Books- I owned that tote bag that came with those books when I was a kid. I mostly used it to carry books to Sunday School every Sunday, as I recall. Story time Musical Treasury- Out of all the character designs in this collection of videos, the lion at 9:27 is the most terrifying, I think. Especially when it opens its mouth.

[@Tr0nzoid]

This was a charming little period for Nickelodeon, which became overshadowed by their hugely popular 1990s content and the Nickelodeon Studios era.

[@80sCommercialVault]

My very first memories of watching Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. are from 1988. While I still watched throughout my childhood, by 1991/92 it already felt like a different channel than what it was in the late 80's. Though many of the Nick Jr. shows from that era stayed on the lineup for a surprising amount of time.

[@WWJD85]

I enjoy the 88-91 era of Nickelodeon, especially the gameshows like finders keepers, make the grade, think fast, and double dare. They were best gameshows on Nickelodeon.

[@darktetsuya]

man those old bumpers take me back! also that wildlife cards set commercial. and David the Gnome, nuff said! Last I checked the whole thing's free here on youtube so definitely one to look up!

[@thejackal007]

I actually found one of those Disney records at a second hand music shop a few months ago!

[@MLaker221]

Thank you for this on a Saturday morning!

[@beboman009]

What weird luck, To see the commercial for the little prince while i'm currently watching the subbed anime.

[@SmashAdams216]

Aw, I didn't know Lois died. I used to love The Elephant Show as a kid, too.

[@yusakug]

David the Gnome was an early product of the infamous Harvey Weinstein and his brother who brought the cartoon to America and handled the English version before they became famous as film moguls, and before Harvey became famous for…something else…

[@80sCommercialVault]

It's my understanding that the dub was done by Cinar, who handled all of the other dubs/localizations seen on Nick Jr. at the time. Miramax just provided distribution and funding maybe?

[@louisperez3452]

I have that Fraggle Tote Bag somewhere