CLASSIC COMMERCIALS - 1974 with NBC Nightly News Show Open

As shown during an August 8, 1974 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor Special broadcast.
This collection includes:
NBC Nightly News Open on the Resignation of President Nixon
AQUA VELVA - "There's Something About"
ANACIN - "For Hours of Relief"
EXOCAINE - "Medicated Foam"
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER - "Scout" SUV
CLOROX - "Take Away"
DENTU-CREME - "Specially Made"
BAYER - "Timed Release"
HALEY'S M-O - "Get Back in the Swing"
AMC - "Gremlin"
COCA-COLA - "Look for the Real Things"
JOHNSON'S WAX - "StepSaver"

[@mefault]

The quality of these commercials is unbeatable for it's age.

[@smittykins]

"I'm just not in the swing today"="I gotta poop and I can't!"

[@swami1]

One of the guys in this commercial played NYC's mayor in the original "Taking of Pelham 123".

[@bison4me]

Thanks for this, this was the day I was born.

[@2Phaktz]

Some things never change...evening news catered to the older population and housewives.

[@glasscitadel12]

boy does this bring back memories. i was in third grade; just trying to enjoy the tube, and all of a sudden WATERGATE, WATERGATE, WATERGATE!

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

Archie: "DON'T SAY THAT NO MORE, GOD DAMMIT!"

[@apachette07]

I love classic commercials. I also love her bell bottoms in the "Step Saver" commercial.

[@MSTS1]

Nice old clip; great quality too

[@joebradio]

I remember the Scout and Gremlin commercials like it was yesterday .. had them on cassette tape somewhere.. but, its great to actually see them again.. "Dinner for One at Burger World!!!"

[@nanlisa]

I was only 16 then. It was my last summer vacation from school. My family and I went to Childrens' Hospital in Philadelphia for some tests earlier in the day.Then I watched it at my parents' house that same night.

[@brentmann2988]

5:31 the wonderful voice of Lester Rawlins for Step Saver. He is best known for voicing Dunkin' Donuts commercials in the 80s.

[@rareblues78daddy]

I see your point! LOL! By the way, thanks for uploading this. It was quite a kick to watch.

[@jd_giants]

how did you get or record these commercials? were you recording this in 1974? I mean they are so clear, like if digitally mastered or something. its like im transported to 1974 kinda cool and weird at the same time, :) lol

[@TJS19026]

Was I the only one who didn't have arthritis back in 1974? Granted I was an infant when these commercials aired, but still....

[@pattibrooks1907]

Love commercials of every decade

[@nanlisa]

My family and I went to the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia for some tests that day. I was only 16 and it was my last summer vacation from school. We also watched it at our house that night.

[@debfan74]

just right before I was born, I came along October 19th of this year :-)

[@JohnK086]

Haley's M-O ad features the late David Lewis, the earlier Edward Quartermaine on "General Hospital".

[@ciesaro]

I'm so old I remember Exocaine

[@musicom67]

As long as not as old to remember Patent Medicine... Oh yeah, it's still around: Prevagen.

[@jjii66]

You just blew my mind.

[@tflood3]

I saw a movie shot in the 60s about the future where watching commercials from the past was the entertainment .... and here i sit 2012 this is my shows i watch commercials from my childhood that is a big LOL

[@AlbieGray]

In the Haley's M-O commercial was David Lewis (best known as the first Edward Quartermaine from GH).

[@joebradio]

@joebradio Eureka !!! I just drug out an old cassette tape labeled "Summer 1974" and parts of the Scout and Gremlin spots are on there back to back.. I'm beginning to wonder if I taped those from this newscast way back in 74 ...maybe I'm the only one who is geeky enough to find that interesting.

[@radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:26, It Was NBC News' NBC Nightly News With John Chancellor Video Open From Thursday Evening, August 8, 1974.

[@Tre404]

Really???????????

[@gingerdeegan5936]

So basically the news has always been for old people..

[@GypsyFairy85]

You'll get there soon enough, never fear!

[@tiffanycurtis4794]

AT 0:28 ALL THE MEN IN MY FAMILY WORE AQUA VELVA AND THEY WENT ON TO BE SUCCESSFUL MABEY SOME OF THE YOUNG KIDS WHO ARE NOT TRYING TO THE FULLEST POTENTIAL SHOULD GET SOME 😂😂😂

[@johnpat3622]

John Chancellor: We now begin our live continuing all night coverage of the ordeal of Richard Nixon. But first... "There's something about an Aqua Velva man!!"

[@warlaker]

The last commercial asks a very fitting question for a Nixon resignation news program: "You wouldn't sweep dirt under the rug?"

[@altfactor]

If my memory serves me correct, NBC's "all evening long continuous coverage" of President Nixon's resignation actually ended up running 22 consecutive hours, until the time that former President had arrived at his California (San Clemente) home (about 4:30 P.M. EDT August 9th). The opening "theme" of "Nightly News" then consisted of a medley of the 1960's NBC hourly radio newscast sounder followed by a sounder that was used in the early 1970's at the end of NBC News television broadcasts.

[@derriusbranch8062]

looks well!!

[@Zoomer30]

Flavored Harleys MO. When you need 2 gallons of laxitive (that bottle is huge)

[@altfactor]

I believe NBC had live continuous coverage until by then ex-President Nixon had returned to San Clemente late on the afternoon of August 9th, 1974. This means that NBC, including "Nightly News" and a live-in-all-time-zones edition of "The Today Show", would have had about 22 hours of nonstop coverage (6:30 P.M. EDT August 8th-4:30 P.M. EDT August 9th).

[@thatmuse76]

The quality is fantastic. Was that on one of the old U-Matic machines? You know, you really don't hear people obsessed with waxy build-up anymore.

[@wvClifton]

I remember someone getting a VHS camera for Christmas 1981! B&W, of course.

[@kathleencollins5531]

Love this.

[@BettinaBalser]

WOW! Just...WOW!

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

The quality of this very good--I'm assuming this was from a 2" quad tape possibly recorded as an aircheck, (or for archivial purposes, considering the nature of the story)) by an NBC affiliate (or the network itself)?

[@musicom67]

@virnman My family got our first VCR in 1983 (I was in high school). That seems to be a general timeframe when 'most' families took the plunge. Hardcore TV guys, around that same time, already had their 'Betamaxes' for 5 years already. Remember when a blank T-120 could cost upwards of $20 a pop! Of course, when MTS Stereo was introduced in 1984, the VCR was already 'old'....

[@wvClifton]

Since I was kid when most of these things aired, I wondered what the hell stuff like laxatives were for!

[@sambradley1968]

I was in my Babysitter's apartment for a sleepover with the other children in the apartment when Nixon resigned. 🙂

[@ciesaro]

You don't take away ones Clorox You don't take away ones Schlitz Beer

[@musicom67]

There was a lot of stealing and purse snatching going on back then ;-)

[@musicom67]

Pause the video at EXACTLY :48 and I know what you mean. The rainbow-colored mirrors and pedestal sinks don't help either.

[@lakebay972]

Hey, it's Pearl from "Diff'rent Strokes" in the Gremlin commercial. (4:28) And "Dinner for One at Burger World." (4:48) Burger World is where Beavis and Butthead work.

[@Honestinwilkesbarre]

Back then Coke-Cola really was the real thing. No high fructose corn syrup. REAL sugar. A superior taste. When they switched to HFCS, I certainly noticed the reduction in quality. They never really switched back to the original formula after the "New Coke" fiasco.

[@Tre404]

That is true! It never tasted the same when they reverted to "Classic."

[@bubblegumgangster4949]

4:38 it’s mr Drumands housekeeper Pearl.

[@BegoneJonah]

GEEZ... the size of that Haley's M-O laxative bottle!

[@tomservo56954]

There's one from 1966 where Ted Knight is the stopped up husband....

[@Kuahmel]

@mefault Yeah, the Aqua Velva one is ridiculous! Even commercials shot in 1980 don't look that crispy

[@Kuahmel]

@heine71 Nope, not Welker. His voice and look are unmistakable.

[@altfactor]

Do you have more footage of NBC's coverage of the resignation of P{resident Nixon?? I suspect the reason John Chancellor was in New York and not in Washington) may have been: (1) News about a possible resignation broke that afternoon, and Chancellor might not have the time to fly to D.C., or, (2) Chancellor may have been on vacation, was summoned back to work, and that the only way for him to return to the anchor desk in time for "Nightly" was to return to New York and not to go to D.C.

[@walkerbrown8591]

It's still the same today...most commercials on all those shows are for prescriptions, Aleve, or laxatives.

[@Sheri451]

That Step saver stuff wasn't on the market long was it? We used to buy something like that to put on our floors back in the 1990s but they took it off the market.

[@ScoopNemeth]

Wasn't that the same set WNBC used for their broadcasts of NewsCenter4?

[@Nikkomedia]

The woman on AMC commercial isn't Pearl from Diff'rent Strokes?

[@hskr44]

The biggest lie on here is that Haley's M.O. was "great tasting". I took that crap back in the late 70's as a kid, and puked it everywhere.

[@musicom67]

If you were taping TV in 1974, you or your folks musta been quite wealthy. "Regular" folks didn't start getting VCRs until 1977....

[@brandonthailand2062]

What was the target demographic for this broadcast?😂😂😂

[@musicom67]

Lawrence Welk viewers...

[@sambradley1968]

What was it about Arthritis back then, 3 commercials about Arthritis? 😂

[@MooPotPie]

I miss John Chancellor . . . I forgot he was dead.

[@rareblues78daddy]

"A man wants to feel like a man," eh? There's also something about four middle-aged men singing together in the bathroom.... I don't know about smelling of Aqua Velva, but I'll bet anything these guys will be "smelling of 'man'" by the time they leave that bathroom!

[@Sixtiesfreak]

CBS apparently thinks only old people watch The Price Is Right. ;)

[@swami1]

What are "fancy 'pricees'"?

Ask Aqua Velva.

[@TimelordR]

Why yes, that's Mary Jo Catlett. She's also the voice of Mrs. Puff on SpongeBob Squarepants.

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore!

[@JHollowayNetwork]

but what about the network's 1974-75 campaign "The Network of the New NBC!"?

[@musicom67]

@playerhater812 Yeah, the same age group who NOW watch FOX NEWS!

[@Tre404]

Nope. I'm younger than that!

[@patrickmccarron5059]

2:53 Gee, Clorox hasn't changed much since 1974. They had to hang laundry back then?

[@Zoomer30]

What the frack.... Haleys MO. Just lift the bottle, if that doesn't clear you out, nothing will.

[@irish89055]

isn't the white hair guy the actor at the end of "Three Days of the Condor"... ever notice they use different voices for the actors sometimes? "Mother, I'd rather do it myself..."

[@crusty21]

You had to sit through all those commercials in the build up to Nixon's speech ? He he , it's like the networks knew lots of people were watching and they said "Ok lets milk these ad spots for all their worth"...the greedy gouls.

[@Tre404]

The actual news was cut out of this. The bumpers are still there, though. These are the ads from the entire program.

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[@irish89055]

Motherrrr.... i'd rather do it myself..... oopps wrong commercial...

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[@MrMiniMeister]

HAHAHAHA "exocaine"... replace the first two letters with a 'c'

[@tiffanycurtis4794]

AT 2:27 THE GRANDMOTHER HAS BLACK PEOPLE IN HER FAMILY YEAH GRANDMA 👩🏾👨🏻 JUST KIDDIN THOSE MEN ARE JUST REALLY TAN 😂😂😂😂

[@Wiz83]

Who is the lady in the last commercial? She's cute.

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

Arthritis sucks!

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