Vintage TV Commercials From 1974

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[@rick3747]

I was 8 in 1974. Women were still mainly chained to the home. Brady Bunch just finishing up its first run. "Greatest Generation" would usually go out on New Year's Eve to continue to celebrate winning WWII but upset about their kids being in Vietnam. Disney was a bi-yearly destination for many of us on the East Coast. Kids could play outside when school not open almost until sundown and be relatively safe.Sears wishbook catalog was many kids favorite book to open. TV had 4 channels here in PA in 1974......

[@elc1960]

Let me echo the sentiments of several commenters: The quality of the transfers on this collection is amazing. They'd have to be first generation from well-preserved originals, I guess. And as of today they'd be 48 years old.

[@mikepietila1614]

I remember several of these classic commercials back in 1974 age 10....great memories......growing up in the seventies and early eighties....life was great...

[@metalmopars]

That chicken has low hang'n balls.

[@joannebond4078]

Amen the good old days

[@countrygirl4422]

I loved growing up in the 70s and 80s! ♥️

[@deborahchesser7375]

@@countrygirl4422 absolutely the best of times

[@kevinwood5317]

Some of these I can't remember, but others are DEEEP in the memory bank! Many of them must have run until the end of the 70s/early 80s. I don't think advertisers felt the need to constantly roll out new versions of their successful commercials back then, some ads ran more or less the same for 15-20 years!

[@anthonymastrando9299]

I was 14 in 1972. I remember all these commercials. What a fantastic time to grow up. I feel so blessed.

[@michaeldavidfigures9842]

I was 14 in '72 too. Good times.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

I was 7 in 1974 and i got a baby alive like baby doll for Christmas ❤❤❤❤

[@Mandi2727]

Do you still have it

[@TheBlueyedblond]

I was 10 in 1974. I remember the Snoopy toothbrush commercial. I asked my mom if we could get it and she said no. :-(

[@toll2087]

If I was you I'd go on ebay and see if they have it, just to finally have it lol

[@betterd9160]

Parents had no guilt in those days.

[@hensonlaura]

It was expensive.

[@robinswenson9045]

Remember me and my sister got Snoopy toothbrush for Christmas 🎄🤣

[@amnos55555]

maaaaaan that Snoopy toothbrush. Didn't get it either 😢

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

I was 11 in 1974. Seems like an eternity ago now... almost like a different lifetime.

[@joesimon2029]

I'm about your age . I remember in 1980- when the 70s were not that far back. NOW the 1980s are like a million years ago.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

@@joesimon2029 Just as you say.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

I was 11 in '74, too. I attained that age on June 10.

[@charlesbaldo]

Was almost 20 then, remember every single one like they were on today. Still use many of these products today. Shows why it’s important for advertisers to get you when you are young in your formative years

[@vintagevideo2564]

I love vintage tv shows and commercials. That's all I post on my channel.

[@michelewp616]

One trend I never want to see again, carpet in bathrooms.

[@70sleftover]

Good observation. I get what you're saying - my cousins up the street got that for the powder room, so we did, too. I remember my dad cutting it to fit. Was machine washable, but probably too large for our machine. Then there were the kitchens some of my aunts had with that flat indoor/outdoor foam-backed carpeting. Another bad idea.

[@jennyjacobs5674]

Or on the lid and toilet seat!!!

[@dreamtraveler3769]

So true! One time my parents septic tank was full and the carpet in their bathroom was destroyed when the plumbing backed up in their bathroom. What a mess! That’s when they had to rip the carpet out and put in cheap linoleum. They should have just put in tile!

[@pariahthistledowne854]

Funny...i find myself liking 70's color schemes now...but ixnay on the macromay, and pissoir carpet!

[@fool4singing]

...and if you had carpet on the toilet tank, the sweat from the toilet tank would grow black mold underneath! 😦

[@bobbillings]

This is what advertisers got away from. I actively buy products at the store from commercials I watched 40 plus years ago as their jingles and slogans are still in my head. I can't stand commercials and fast forward and skip them in today's times, yet I actively seek out and watch these old style commercials because they actually make you want to buy their products.

[@markconard8490]

I was 5! Great decade for sure..

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

I received a Snoopy Toothbrush for Christmas, it was fun!

[@johnpastore7685]

I had one, too

[@DoyleFuckinHargraves]

The video quality on this collection is fantastic.

[@baylinkdashyt]

Really spectacular -- component capture off a first or second generation quad tape, I'd estimate, from the date. I wonder how it came to be recorded? West coast time-shift maybe?

[@dalemulholland2387]

It's like super hd...it's magnificent...

[@Cheirosa81]

These are so charming! 😊 I'll buy one of everything.

[@goldenboi778]

I still wish i could go back in time

[@debba7070]

Yes in a heartbeat I would

[@markchoma9822]

I miss Mom and Dad.

[@mm-xu5df]

A HAPPIER TIME

[@taykay7831]

i pay for premium to avoid ads, and yet here i am watching retro commercials-

[@m.scottreeder]

I also was age ten in 1974, and entered the fifth grade of middle school in August. The 5th grade was super cool because of the music, some of the TV shows, and movies. I believe it was around this time when Evel Kneival was real popular, the NFL WAS the NFL, and America’s baseball team was the Cincinnati Reds. I firmly remember the Watergate Scandal, but I was too young to have understood the scope and significance of the matter.

[@bigwallysservicesupply5933]

I’m watching adds, then get upset when an add comes on! : )

[@timbuk1126]

These are special though..

[@kingofkings69ner]

Ad

[@darthdennis6681]

You just deaded me!

[@c.r.alexander1117]

These commercials remind of the shows I used to watch back then...The Wonderful World of Disney, Hee Haw, All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, Sanford and Son, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, Good Times, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Rockford Files, and so many others. Every once in a while, I'll watch those shows on the retro TV channels. Some of them include the old commercials from back then! Good memories.

[@karensterton9780]

Darn! Campbell's changed the noodles in their chunky chicken soup. I want the old school noodles!!!

[@roxannestorm2616]

Kids making Mr Bill on a Play Doh commercial before there was a Mr Bill. Oh nooooo LMAO 😂.

[@christinemoccia477]

where's mr. sluggo?

[@kkmkkm-jj7wc]

I could watch these all day long!

[@harperstacey9604]

These old commercials bring back pleasant memories for me as a child. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

[@larkatmic]

That Uh O Spaghetti O’s commercial just sent me back to being 12 years old again. My god youth is fleeting, ain’t it? You never think you’ll ever get old.

[@catcookie6726]

Was that Barry Manilow singing the spaghettio's jingle?

[@larkatmic]

@@catcookie6726 I have no idea. Could be. 😊

[@brentmann2988]

@@catcookie6726 Yes, the singing voice of the great Barry Manilow.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

I'm a child of this era. I recall prettwell all of these commercials. It's amazing how well they wrote and produced these excellent product commercials especially the ones with jingles. Notice the sound of the voices used in these commercials. The clear, clean spoken English. The male narrators had generally deeper almost baritone voices... This was mostly due to the fact that they smoked. It was called smokers voice.

[@seanesposito6611]

Everything and everybody was so much happier then; So much peace and tranquility!

[@davidmitchell6873]

Not everyone today is as sad and miserable as you. Try spending time with family or go out in nature. Spending so much time behind the keyboard is unhealthy.

[@billybassman21]

Big difference in the jingles from 1974 to 1976. They sure loved freezing the frame at the end of commercials in the 70s.

[@brentmann2988]

Excellent point! In watching these commercial compilations, it seems that 1974 was the last year of hip, groovy, and sometimes even experimental commercials and jingles. Starting in 1975, we start to see commercials get more "apple pie" and "all American" -- probably because of the approaching bicentennial.

[@LannieLord]

The 1970s MORPHED from the hippie era to the disco era @@brentmann2988

[@TL_oS]

I am four years old again! It’s like magic, thank you🥂🌟😺

[@NoirL.A.]

i was born in 68' and definitely remember several of these. though commercials were never high on my list of "fine watching" before youtube came along i damn sure never expected to see any of these ever again.

[@cocoaorange1]

Same here, I am a year older.

[@Andrew-rz9hc]

It's weird watching commercials without music playing through the whole thing

[@michellepost5232]

I was 13, but still recall many of those old ads. Thanks for uploading them...they bring back really nice memories. Wella Balsam shampoo smelled good, but it made my hair limp, so I rarely used it. Women would save those Sucrets tins for bobby pins and safety pins.

[@holonet2936]

😮 I still have a Sucrets tin, dating from (I think) 1980 as part of my going-off-to-college first aid kit. I keep safety pins in it.

[@hensonlaura]

​@@holonet2936 I still have an old Band Aid tin I use for Q Tips : )

[@countrygirl4422]

The Kraft spegetti was actually really good. Can't believe I'm watching these old commercials but they sure bring back memories.

[@markchoma9822]

spaghetti is a hard word to spell

[@dalemulholland2387]

I still buy it from Amazon.. It is the best spaghetti dinner ever.

[@OofusTwillip]

Skip Hinnant as the husband in the Nyquil commercial. He's best known for the original "The Electric Company", and for playing Schroeder in the original 1960s production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". (His brother, Bill, played Snoopy.)

[@nycgal4840]

I had a massive crush on him during The Electric Company days!

[@deerfish3000]

Here's another commercial you might remember with Skip doing the voiceover... kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4a8dp-Iq76omqc

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@deerfish3000 And still no sign of the Le Creme whipped creme commercial he also did around that time. He got face time on that one instead of just voice.

[@jamesreeder8633]

Good ole early 70’s commercials

[@johnellharris1366]

Stirring up some memories I had long forgotten.A world I wish I could go back to if just for a short while.

[@70sleftover]

We kids back then got a lot of mileage out of the Parkay/butter commercial.

[@lynnpayne9519]

It was the 1970's version of Hump Day. We drove adults crazy with it.

[@kennethwayne6857]

My God, I remember that!

[@CM-lh6rx]

I remember actually feeling really frustrated. Damn lying tub of Parkay.

[@kevinbowling7854]

butter

[@gregory593]

@@kevinbowling7854 It is butter! Parkaaaay.

[@barberjeff67]

The modern commercials are annoying, interrupting the fun commercials! Lol

[@guerralg63]

So true. I was interrupted by a car commercial with an absolutely narcissistic looking person driving.

[@derikdragon80]

That some Play-Doh mastery.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Cool ... Several familiar faces here-- Flo from "Alice", Mae Questel (Olive Oyl's cartoon voice, and the Pledge of Allegiance scene from "Christmas Vacation"), and that might be Melissa Sue Anderson of "Little House on the Prairie" in the Snoopy toothbrush ad. Plus classic TV character actor and voice artist Allan Melvin in the Liquid Plumr commercial. At 11:06 there's Patrick Wayne, The Duke's son. A fine lookin' specimen. His dad wasn't half as handsome. I am really enjoying these commercials because they originally aired during my childhood. So fun, it's like a time machine in some ways.

[@naturalpro2003]

PATRICK WAYNE of SINBAD fame.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@naturalpro2003 Yes--- I saw "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" when I was eleven.

[@naturalpro2003]

@@eduardo_corrochio The BEST of the SINBAD movies!!

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@naturalpro2003 I enjoyed when the sorceress didn't have enough potion to change back, that was good. :)

[@KristianWontroba]

My birth year! 😊

[@williamhobbs617]

I was born 64 I actually remember these commercials

[@maha77]

0:29 Barry Manilow singing the theme song for Spaghetti O's !

[@CairnTerrier69]

Good catch!

[@brentmann2988]

Great call on Manilow!

[@bobpierce115]

These commercials are human, straight-forward, no gimmicks, or b.s. trying to trick you. They also aren't screaming at you, have horrible, annoying cutting and don't make you wonder what the product is, or what it's for! Many also have original music and jingles, not stealing music from many decades earlier like the ones now. Uggghk!!

[@ForeignerFan74]

I Was Born On March 7, 1974.

[@delilahhart4398]

I was born February 2, 1974. 😁

[@lastdays8574]

@@delilahhart4398 Happy Birthday!!!!! I was born on February 4, 1974.

[@delilahhart4398]

@@lastdays8574 Thank you! And happy birthday to you, too! 😁🎂

[@ladivinapr]

My brother on 24 march 1974.

[@ForeignerFan74]

@@lastdays8574 Thank You!

[@gskchicago]

I had a Snoopy electric toothbrush when I grew up. Ther are a few products still around for these old commercials.

[@TnseWlms]

Good grief, it's time to brush your teeth. With your Snoopy toothbrush. Brushing right makes you get uptight, With your Snoopy toothbrush.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@TnseWlms Uptight?

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

At 5:15 "Snoopy makes you WANNA brush your teeth." 1972, I believe.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Sorry for an error. This clip was from 1974, true, but it seems like i heard "Snoopy makes you WANNA brush your teeth" before that. Possibly this spot was used for several years, as it seems I heard it before '74.

[@wheatifer]

Nothing like fish and roses. MY FAVORITE.

[@markchoma9822]

Ha!

[@brianjackson4191]

great time to be alive the 70s i was 7

[@darlenegattus8190]

I was 2, but commercials were not much different a few years later when I started remembering them.

[@janellemiller1195]

Same here. I was 2 but don't remember much tv before 1977.

[@RandyTheWildHorse]

Vicks formula 44D always works great for me!

[@trentrock3210]

Wow. That Snoopy toothbrush commercial was still in the back of my brain and I did not know it. That little boy and girl, man.

[@OofusTwillip]

My little brother and I had a Snoopy toothbrush. Somehow, it wasn't as much fun in real life as it was in the commercial.

[@70sleftover]

Came right back to me, too.

[@MMAfighter38113]

@@OofusTwillip I had one & a Snoopy sno-cone machine

[@dogsareprecious4842]

Thank you for bringing back my childhood memories!

[@margaretgarnto6272]

My favorite TV commercials back in 1974 were three that featured my favorite horror movie actor, Vincent Price. They were a commercial for Best Western motels, the one for Monster Vitamins, and the promo for the movie "The Devil's Triangle ", which he narrated.

[@markchoma9822]

I'm listening to Vincent right now on the song The Black Widow by Alice Cooper.

[@phyllispitts6656]

I was 12 when these commercials were airing. Seems like these commercials had better quality than what we see today!

[@davidmitchell6873]

Maybe you were just better quality than you used to be.

[@wheatifer]

Gen X in the house

[@giggles2302]

I remember every single one of these. Thanks for posting a piece of my childhood. :)

[@metalman2585]

I remember most of these!!!! Love them!!!

[@lchambers56]

That Foot Guard commercial. 😂 In 1974, I was 3. How do I remember some of these so vividly? I guess some of these ads ran for some years, then? 🤔

[@erickellogg8532]

I was 5

[@elc1960]

Some commercials do run for years and years. For example, the Tootsie Pop commercial where Mr. Owl bites the pop after just three licks and then the announcer says "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know." That one still comes back from time to time, and it was made in the '60s.

[@VickyLou0804]

I remember too. I was 4!

[@Lizzy720]

Funny how I skipped the commercials so I could get back to the commercials.

[@markchoma9822]

new commercials suck

[@HailAnts]

I was an 8-9 year old boy in 1974 and watched a lot of TV. Was about a decade later that I finally found out what the hell Pamprin was for..

[@CaptchaNeon]

They still make it too but Midol is better

[@janellemiller1195]

I was 2 in 74. I don't remember watching TV intell 1977.

[@cocoaorange1]

I was 7. I recall some of them.

[@IDiggSocialMedia]

The Boerdon ad was my favorite! What a lovely actress!

[@scratchdog2216]

Born in '65.

[@scottdunn2178]

'66

[@ariesleorising9421]

Me too.

[@That_Crazy_Native_Chick43]

Lays are still my favorite chip brand.

[@luisreyes1963]

That's nice. 🙂

[@charliesav4902]

As someone born at the turn of the century.. it's weird to realize these are about to be 50 years old. Not a lot has changed....

[@dalemulholland2387]

All has changed...the country is in the crapper now..

[@Shawn666Hellion]

​@@dalemulholland2387,more like the whole world is screwed

[@fool4singing]

My sister and I had the electric Snoopy toothbrush! It made it fun to brush your teeth...

[@kimmy_future4265]

it's wild how many commercials had music and jingles back then

[@harperstacey9604]

Barry manilow wrote jingles for McDonald's and Kentucky fried chicken commercials in the seventies. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

[@perrybarton]

@@harperstacey9604He’s singing (and may have also written) the SpaghettiOs jingle here.

[@cocoaorange1]

I miss those days.

[@ConsistentlyInconsistent21]

That chicken freaked me out a bit. Ive been drinking

[@msr1116]

Usually, people who are drinking go on shopping binges they don't remember until packages start to arrive at the front door. You like to watch KZbin videos. Your way is alot cheaper. 😉

[@ConsistentlyInconsistent21]

@@msr1116 lol i do have my other vices unfortunately.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@ConsistentlyInconsistent21 Does your boss know your house smells like fried fish?

[@MMAfighter38113]

I still remember my snoopy toothbrush and sno-cone machine

[@kristeandreatujague7016]

Take me back there please. 💕

[@VIRGONOMICS]

Good times…. Thanks for sharing .

[@delilahhart4398]

The year I was born. 😁

[@rubicon-oh9km]

I was five in '74 and Spaghetti O's were the STAPLE of my diet.

[@brentmann2988]

Barry Manilow is the singer on this Spaghetti O's jingle.

[@fool4singing]

Remember Roller Coaster pasta and meatballs?

[@fool4singing]

Did anyone notice Polly Holiday (Flo from TV's "Alice") at 1:30? "Kiss my Stuff'n Such!"

[@luisreyes1963]

That's Polly Holliday, alright. She also had a role in the movie Gremlins.

[@fool4singing]

@@luisreyes1963 I always liked her a lot! She also had a bigger role in Mrs. Doubtfire, but the movie ran long with all of Robin William's improvisations, so she only appears in the opening scene on the movie; everything else was dropped. 😕

[@armybeef68]

4:58 Oh man, I totally wanted that.

[@octoberflower6943]

Hey that was Flow from Alice on the stuffing commercial

[@deeks1970]

Yes! That was Polly Holiday from Alice. If Linda Lavin wasn’t such a bitch, Polly would’ve stayed on there. She left because Linda was jealous of her.

[@a.rosesrbleu9580]

I think that chicken was voiced by Selma Diamond....from it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world and Night Court....

[@naturalpro2003]

@@deeks1970 Polly "Kiss My Grits" Holliday stole the show with her Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry persona. She played the role so well because she is a real life Southern belle from Jasper, AL.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@deeks1970 Polly left "Alice" to do a sitcom of her own, called "Flo". It was probably the studio's way of getting those two actresses away from each other. They kept moving "Flo" around and viewers lost interest quickly.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

That was Richard Dysart in the last Bayer commercial.

[@VeronicaV70]

Awesome upload, so clear and HD - The best. Thank you.

[@joeferguson2606]

The spaghettios commercial was Manilow

[@perrybarton]

I knew I couldn’t have been the only one to notice that. 🤓

[@lindaeasley5606]

Back then ,people got sick alot and worried about odors

[@steveb9151]

The video and audio quality of these vintage ads is impressive. Good job!

[@stevenedwards4470]

I had that Snoopy toofbrush. I miss it.

[@dorothysue1]

Wow, thanks for the memories.

[@mrsplanetmaster9]

I started with Play Doh in the 60's and I was under strict observation as I wanted to eat it 😮 In the 70's I made a MR BILL doll with the Doh, perfect colors. It was a hit 🎉

[@patrickmccarron5059]

9:28 - very practical - a bathtub covered in blue carpet.

[@dalemulholland2387]

Once it gets wet it will stink...then it will rot.. And the floor under it

[@patrickmccarron5059]

@@dalemulholland2387 , I was being sarcastic - lol

[@dalemulholland2387]

@@patrickmccarron5059 lololol

[@smittykins]

“I’m just not in the swing today” = “I gotta 💩 and I can’t!”

[@luisreyes1963]

Those laxative commercials, no better source of cheap comedy when I was a kid. 🤣

[@DrummerGrrrl]

Formula 44 had such a pleasant, soothing taste...I was six or seven and just loved it. LOL.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Yeah, me too. Another Vicks product, Ny-Quil, would give you a nice little buzz. And though I don't think it's in this clip, the taste of Fletcher's Castoria made constipation almost fun.

[@70sleftover]

@@TheBrooklynbodine Just mentioning Fletcher's Castoria brings back the scent/taste memory - of the remedy, not the problem being solved by it! I'd forgotten why Mom had me take a spoonful of the stuff, but it was nowhere near as unpalatable as say, castor oil, or Pepto Bismol, the thought of which makes me still want to gag.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

@@70sleftover To the best of my knowledge, I've never taken castor oil, but Pepto-Bismol was one of those tastes I could take or leave. Thanks for the reply.

[@luisreyes1963]

@@70sleftover My mom gave me & my brothers Fletcher's Castoria. Didn't taste too bad.

[@johnalanelson]

Commercials interrupted by ads ... what is the world coming to?!!!

[@mikeg.3688]

I remember most of these from my childhood but don’t remember Listerine making disinfectant spray or throat lozenges back then.

[@cowlico]

I remember my cousin got lost in the woods looking for them Keebler elves for and hour, we followed him it was hilarious because he didn’t know we were there and he started cussing and talking to himself. One of the things he said we still rib him about today: “I’m fucking out here in the woods looking for fucking elves to make me some damned cookies like a Rueben Ring Ass!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was in 1975 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@luisreyes1963]

Kellogg's now own Zesta saltines.

[@futurewolfjackson1628]

That snoopy toothbrush is legit. ooh 17:26 giant bottle of laxative!

[@oldradios09]

Very nice quality! From probably a large broadcast tape machine. Maybe a U-matic?

[@lesliejohnson1549]

That's Aunt Bethany from National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. She was also the voice of Betty Boop.

[@kevinleroy3374]

I think I saw Mr. Bill in the Play-Doh commercial

[@Serenitie85475]

You forgot to put in the 1974 meow mix commercial

[@70sleftover]

The food cats ask for by name?

[@tagtenor]

Stuff’n Such. That’s Flo from Alice! 😁

[@fufffufffuff]

This is awesome!!

[@armybeef68]

5:28 Ah yes, the days when males combed their hair to the side. Thanks dad. (I finally learned how to part it in the middle in 1984, my sophomore year in high school))

[@pmd467]

Umm, (Sir/Ma'am) just 1 more thing 🤔. Thank you so very much for posting these videos. I was a teenager during this time and these were the best days of my life hands-down. Thanks for the memories.

[@Unfunny_Username_389]

incredible quality

[@bigguys45s29]

Never seen a Right Guard Foot Guard commercial before.

[@pkf81366]

This is what I live for!!

[@markchoma9822]

lol you live for tv commercials