TV Dialing 1960s Commercials #1: Reflections of what we watched, what we bought and what we thought

Yes, that is Maureen McCormick in the Barbie ad.

[@frankwafer6919]

Being a baby boomer, i remember all of these wonderful commercials, thank you so much!😮💖💚💜💯🤍👍!

[@rcdoodles6214]

That Charger is a thing of beauty! Design excellence that remains unmatched to this day. Love this fantastic compilation. Thank you for all your work to bring us such day brighteners!

[@kimerleviccaro1957]

Hi Fred, these old commercials help me with my memory. I am 66 years old and I remember a lot of the jingles. Thank you.

[@robertscott2210]

I'm right there with you. I'm almost same age as you, and now that Winston jingle is gonna be stuck in my head all day!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Kim. Great jingles back then.

[@quispyken]

I don't know if you're told this often enough but your channel's great and I appreciate all the work you put into it. As a Doctor Who fan of over 40 years, just to see that ice pop commercial for the first time made my week.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks for those encouraging words, quispyken.

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

Seconded!

[@Daviticus042]

I'm just glad it wasn't another cigarette commercial!😉

[@marygarza1596]

I was born in 1964 and I remember several jingles from those commercials ‘….it just puts you there ❤’ thanks for sharing

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, @@marygarza1596

[@AngelaGoodwin-fh6fw]

FredFlix is the ticket for a trip back to my childhood. Thanks Fred!

[@FredFlix]

My pleasure, Angela.

[@lrc9623c]

I can't express the joy I get from watching your channel....takes me right back to my early years. Keep it up!

[@FredFlix]

I will do that, lrc.

[@FredFlix]

You us expressed it quite well, lrc.

[@continentalgin]

Same here, I love this channel. Many thanks to Fred!

[@FredFlix]

@@continentalgin And my thanks to all of you.

[@emilysantoyo918]

Hi Fred, I love watching 60s commercials.

[@FredFlix]

Me too, Emily.

[@dougmorris9317]

Fred these were so great, thank you. On a more serious note, that Raleigh cigarette commercial really took me back. I don't remember it, but that was the only brand my dad smoked for many many years. When he died from lung cancer in 2001, we were helping our mom clean out the basement and found a stack of boxes filled with thousands of Raleigh cigarette coupons they used to come in the back of every pack. I'm not kidding, thousands! It kills me he saved those for decades and never redeemed them. I'm sure he wasn't the only one! 🤔

[@FredFlix]

That's quite interesting, Doug.

[@robertscott2210]

Nice collection, Fred. I remember almond all of these. My favorite was the Dodge Charger for 3,200 bucks 😳 I'll take a dozen please!😁👍👍👍

[@FredFlix]

And one Pamela Austin to go.

[@robertscott2210]

@@FredFlix 😁👍

[@DTD110865]

@@FredFlix Fred, I want to see her in that bomb version of "The Perils of Pauline." If Netflix still rented our DVD's I'd add a copy to my list.

[@wheeler71]

Great job by Fredflix again ; wish I could go back then - too bad we can't 👍🙏📺🇺🇸

[@fromthesidelines]

And Wink Martindale is the announcer for that "Twist 'n' Turn Barbie" ad!

[@lorraineminor71]

Was it 1971 when cigarette commercials were banned from broadcast advertising? I mourned their disappearance; I was a Boomer kid who loved TV-- especially the very entertaining commercials as much or more as the programs they sponsored. I smiled and hummed all the way through this, the jingles coming back to me. Thanks so much, Fred, for this trip down memory lane (boy, do we need it now)!

[@f.goossens8118]

Was a child in the sixties, and I do miss the past. If I had a time machine.....sigh.

[@brianrunyon266]

Fan of your channel. Although I was born in the late 80's, am interested to hear what older ads from my parents time sounded like.

[@FredFlix]

I think it's great, Brian, that you're curious about pop culture before you were born. Most people aren't.

[@TheStrmcliffae46]

thank you for all of the memories, love it😊

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome!

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

Wow!!! thank you for this wonderful look back!! You always manage to put a smile on my face 🥰

[@FredFlix]

That;s my mission, Bridget.

[@davek5027]

Another great FredFlix production bringing back great memories! Thank you so much, Fred!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Dave.

[@newkafer9409]

Great to see Rick Nelson in the Malibu U ad . There’s not much Malibu U on KZbin.

[@fromthesidelines]

It was on Friday nights [8:30pm(et)] during the summer of '67.

[@FIREBRAND38]

12:13 What a road gang! Actors Mike Mazurki, Elisha Cook Jr, Lon Chaney Jr, Robert Strauss and Leo Gorcey. And let's not forget Broderick Crawford as the Walking Boss.

[@ernestcruz6316]

Thanks! You had the names of the two I forgot, Cook and Gorcey.

[@OofusTwillip]

11:13 - Raid - Bugs voiced by Mel Blanc and Paul Frees.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

again.... THE BEST!!!

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Nunetc.

[@Dragongod462]

The girl who played Marsha brady is in a barbie commercial, never seen her that young.

[@NickvonZ]

Nearly convinces me to start smoking again! hahaha! I LOVE commercials from the Good Ol' Days!

[@cwilson6990]

I remember these 🙂 I'm getting old ! Use to have Candy Cigarettes 😅 Thank you for all you do in your channel Appreciate It so much 🙂

[@FredFlix]

You're very welcome, cwilson.

[@thrashpondopons8348]

Love the All-Star chain gang schtick at the end!

[@ernestcruz6316]

Another great surprise from Fred and his time machine. Thanks! As much as we all liked the hits of the '60s, the REAL soundtrack of that decade was those commercial jingles. Just one question: whose idea was it to include Mrs. Miller in the cast of Malibu U? At 10:11 during the Barbie commercial, an early appearance of a VERY young Maureen McCormick. Plus Mel Blanc & Paul Frees in the Raid ad. And Broderick Crawford, Mike Mazurki, Lon Chaney Jr. and Robert Strauss in the Pontiac ad at the end.

[@davek5027]

That Pontiac ad sure had an all star cast! Elisha Cook Jr and Leo Gorcey were also in the ad!

[@FIREBRAND38]

You forgot Elisha Cook Jr in the Plymouth ad. He was Wilmer in the 1941 _Maltese Falcon_ as well as Samuel T. Cogley in the 1967 _Court Martial_ episode of Star Trek and Hawaii crime lord "Ice Pick" in 13 episodes of the original _Magnum P.I._ in the 1980s. I know what you mean about Mrs Miller. First, keep in mind for context this same episode had Leonard Nimoy singing _The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins_ and second, two of Mrs Millers "songs" had cracked the Billboard Top 100 the previous year. Third, her first record (also released in 1966) had sold like a quarter of a million copies in the first three weeks after release so a smart producer would have booked her while the wind was in her sails, since after the novelty wore off and people got tired of listening to her Capital Records dropped her in 1968, the year after his episode.

[@ernestcruz6316]

@@FIREBRAND38 I knew Cook's face but couldn't remember his name. Someone else pointed him out, plus Leo Gorcey from The Bowery Boys was in it too.

[@ernestcruz6316]

@@FIREBRAND38 I suspect people were buying Mrs. Miller's album for the same reason they bought Tiny Tim's records, for the wackiness factor.

[@FredFlix]

I guess Mrs. Miller had a record out...it was crazy back then but almost a good kind of crazy (especially when compared to today).

[@cancel1913]

Fred ya hit another one outta the park! All those famous actors featured in the last one is awesome indeed.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, cancel.

[@OofusTwillip]

5:25 - Pamela Austin as the Dodge Girl. She was in the pilot episode of "Laugh In", but didn't become a cast member when it became a series.

[@tomservo56954]

She did appear on several of the first (half) season shows in 1968...

[@RobertR3750]

Great stuff, Fred. Lots of familiar character actors in the Pontiac commercial.

[@FredFlix]

Glad you enjoyed it, Robert.

[@edmundschlak5539]

It looked to me as though Andrea Drom was the beach lady in the Clairol Summer Blonde commercial. She starred in the movie “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” - and also in an Alka Seltzer commercial structured around the idea, “Whatever Shape Your Stomach Is In.” Thanks for this collection, Fred!

[@FredFlix]

Yes, it was Andrea, Edmund, and of course she was in the second Star Trek pilot and perhaps she would have stayed as a regular (pre-empting Grace Lee Whitney?) i she hadn't done Russians.

[@dariobava]

Great collection of commercials here!! And a few of my favorites especially The Pontiac one!:)

[@FredFlix]

Glad you enjoyed it, Dario.

[@tigre7739]

Super Compilation Fred!! Some beautiful things 🤩the beach football game, the exciting new Pontiacs. What effort they put in to the cigarette ads, detriment to one's health never looked so good!😁

[@FredFlix]

You're so right, tigre.

[@farnumbp]

I love these ❤

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, FF.

[@barryputterman2412]

Hey, hey! Fredflix goes international with a Wall's ice cream advert from England.

[@FredFlix]

Couldn't resist the Dr. Who tie-in, Barry.

[@briankeller788]

"Only 6 pence!" the announcer says. The exchange rate at that time was UK£1=US$2.40, and the British currency system went this way: 12d (old pence) = 1s (shilling), and 20s=£1. So, 1d=1 U.S. cent; then the sixpence would have equalled 6 U.S. cents.

[@user-ub9ox6qn4f]

As a toy collector, that Barbie commercial is particularly interesting because, today a Twist N Turn Barbie in good condition is worth about $200-300. While the Barbie Mattel wanted girls to turn in is about$5000-6000.

[@69Hurst442]

I remember most of these. Thanks Fred

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Ironink.

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

Oowee, wonder what that Beatles stash would be worth today.

[@continentalgin]

There were hundreds of companies ripping off The Beatles. If they had gotten proper royalties, McCartney would have more billions than he does. Epstein was not a smart manager in the merchandising of Beatles stuff. He thought it was all just good publicity and didn't require royalties. After their mishandling of the Apple Boutique and having to shut it down, they were practically broke in comparison to other stars in music and movies. Klein ripped them off, too.

[@CypherCypherCypherCypher]

Wow, all the cigarette ads! Thanks for sharing!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Cypher.

[@markbeauseigneur5947]

I still would rather be in that time then this time now.

[@FredFlix]

You and me both, Mark.

[@continentalgin]

Quite a lot of us feel that way. Life must have been just as good as we all remember. My siblings and I and everyone else I've met who was a kid in the early to mid-sixties thinks it was the most wonderful time of our lives. I was born in 1955.

[@garymckee8857]

The same meal at McDonald's you get change back from your 20 dollar bill. Thanks Fred 👍

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Gary.

[@brendajeanproffitt6919]

These are so great Fred they don't make these anymore more

[@Litauen-yg9ut]

That was a good one Fred. Wild how cigarettes used to be marketed. I still have a couple a day but only at work on break. You get looked at like you have 5 eyes or something in your head..

[@FredFlix]

That's so wrong. I've heard you only have three, Litauen. 😃

[@Litauen-yg9ut]

🤣🤣@@FredFlix

[@nacinthewoods8464]

Thanks so much for what you do, FredFlix.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, nacetc.

[@Ij-jan]

Memory lane. Thanks for another great video.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, l j.

[@merce10554]

Watching old cigs ads always make me think of Don Draper and Mad Men. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Great compilation, Fred. 💜🤟

[@FredFlix]

Many thanks, Mercedes.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Nice adds i almost started too smoke again

[@twold4this]

Great stuff! A UK advert.. Walls Ice Cream... did that come *as a pair* with the previous ad for Dove, Lifebuoy etc as they are all Unilever products... ... me, an advert nerd? Never! 😳😄

[@continentalgin]

When I was a kid, everybody smoked everywhere and I have no idea why, but people didn't think it was too gross. Now, looking back... ugh, yuck, no way!

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Gary Merrill speaks for Raleigh and Belair Menthol Cigarettes.

[@ChantelleBrown-fb7gy]

Of course barbie commercial was my fave even though baby dolls were the love of my young life! LoL!❤

[@budgarner3522]

Could hear the click of the dial with each ad. Never knew Winston was ever in menthol. Had an uncle who saved those Raleigh coupons. And it was the Dodge girl who made us pre-teen boys vow to buy a Dodge when we could get a driver's licence. And change back from your dollar for 2 burgers, fries and a coke. Wowsers! My little brother always did the "You bug, me Raid, whooosh!" act as a 1st grader. Wow, thanks for the memories Fred.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Bud. Good comment.

[@gregggoss2210]

Wow, lots of famous actors in the Pontiac commercial. A Dodge Charger for $3200 and change. Damn it Fred, get that time machine going!

[@FredFlix]

I'm moving off the steam-powered time machine and going to leaded gasoline. Hey, perhaps I could use the machine to travel to the future and get an all-electric model! I think I'll ... pop! Well, I'm back now. Not just electric but quantum powered. So watch "future" videos as those clips fly through the air. (Then fire up a color-tini as Tom Snyder used to say.)

[@moviesgalore9947]

We should have gotten a Bewitched & I Dream ofJeannie one-hour crossover episode maybe you can do a mashup of what it might have been like this -- Darrin is given the NASA advertising campaign and that sends him to Florida to meet the astronauts Tony & Roger and Dr. Bellows it would have been hilarious to have Samantha and Jeannie together doing magic plus Endora and Uncle Arthur and Larry Tate hoping the Government will spend millions of dollars with McMann & Tate for future ad campaigns it would have been the Best Episode ever for both shows it also would have included Serena and Jeannie's sister it would have been Epic Fun.

[@FredFlix]

Nice ideas, MG, but easier said than done. The reasons mash-ups are possible with Beaver and other shows is because I have every episode as a computer file. But with Bewitched I have only non-copyable DVDs and one or two files, and maybe just one file of Jeannie, which doesn't leave me much to work with. But I might give it a try.

[@moviesgalore9947]

@@FredFlix just lift scenes from other videos on here @Bewitched has so many clips on their channel and I'm sure Dream of Jeannie also has a channel or maybe Screen Gems you are legally allowed to use clips from other videos on KZbin to create a new video so it should work.

[@KARIS1961]

All the cigarette commercials! I got a black eye in school and all the kids would say, you’d rather fight than switch. 😂 I’d get candy cigarettes from them.

[@tolfan4438]

What ever hapened to black heal marks? Big problem at one time up there with ring around the collar

[@luisreyes1963]

I see you silpped in a British ad for a frozen ice pop featuring Doctor Who trading cards. Clever. 😄 Thanks, FredFlix.

[@FredFlix]

Couldn't resist the Dr. Who tie-in, Luis.

[@williamj1813]

I haven't smoked in 15 years and now after watching this, I have a craving for a pack of Winstons.

[@jaydouglas5847]

Well then friend the thing to do is stop by your friendly local drug store and pick up a carton of wholesome smooth and full of flavor Winstons today ! You'll find that deep rich satisfaction in every puff just like you remember. Winston...the flavor that satisfies !!

[@williamj1813]

That's hilarious. Good one!@@jaydouglas5847

[@sixtoes2313]

Ok Fred. You have been doing this for a good while now. And some how; you always come up with something new (old)... I suspect you got your hands on a Time Machine. Come on buddy, Share that dang thing.......

[@yonkieponkie]

10 46 famous actress?

[@CuppaTeaandaSliceoCake]

Telly Gold 🏆

[@sheriheffner2098]

I don't remember cigarette commercials.

[@sheriheffner2098]

Kent with the Micronite Filtercwas my parents choice. The filter with Asbestos in it. He's dead and she has COPD from over 40 years if cigarette smoking.

[@steventhorson4487]

❤

[@richardrice8076]

9:55 groovy daddy-o😉😎.

[@Agislife1960]

And we didn't even realize that everybody and everything smelled like cigarette smoke

[@sheriheffner2098]

And now today if they've still alive the cigarette actors are on Oxygen ads and commercials or dead from lung cancer, COPD oe Emphysema.Like my father who died from 40 plus years of smoking.

[@zelphx]

They stopped airing cigarette commercials when I was ten. I remember a lot of them, but I never even tried smoking. After seeing these, I forgot how disgusting it was to watch these people, in the ads, puff their lives away.

[@patrickbywater568]

Different world.