KTLA-TV5 (1972) "The Prisoner" Com'l Breaks..

[@manofmanyinterests]

Penny Marshall and Farrah Fawcett in the same commercial???? The mind is staggered.

[@shawnmalone9711]

Dude , I was gonna say the same thing , but someone called me on my cellphone. If this commercial was made today , it would be two women hitting on each other and taking a shower together.

[@mrmonty86]

@@shawnmalone9711 That's a hot commercial.

[@OofusTwillip]

@@shawnmalone9711 There's a gag version of a Johnson's Baby Powder commercial. It's an outtake that's the same as the original, except one actress removes her towel; the other removes her robe, and they get passionate.

[@shawnmalone9711]

@@OofusTwillip I gotta check it out!

[@shawnmalone9711]

@@OofusTwillip OK, I saw the commercial. It was kind of spicy for the time (late 1970s, early 1980s?)

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

1972 a great year I was 17 and my parents were alive.

[@robatsea2009]

Ironic that just three years later both Penny Marshall and Farrah Fawcett would be ABC superstars, with "Laverne & Shirley" and "Charlie's Angels" being huge, huge television hits.

[@obsoletevideo6048]

Now Both Dead..

[@monaural2.988]

Things like this are but one reason these tapes have to be saved. You can just imagine what tv stations erased and threw away the last 70 plus years. I wouldn’t want to know, I’ll tell you that.

[@JENDALL714]

Penny Marshall already at this time had a recurring role on the Odd Couple.

[@terrancetucker8020]

Both are reunited in heaven doing this commercial! RIP, Penny and Farrah.

[@80sMetalHead]

YES YES YES !! Another great upload of classic KTLA !! Thanks Again !! Keep it up with the LA classics; KTLA, KTTV, KHJ, KCOP, KNXT, etc. A+A+A+

[@wmbrown6]

In New York, "The Prisoner" aired at that time on Channel 5 - WNEW-TV5, that is.

[@NicksVideoArchivesWorldHQ]

@wmbrown6, The NYC independent channels were the stations to watch back in the day, WPIX, WNEW, WOR. I collect broadcasts from those NYC stations, always looking for people to trade with if you have anything on tape/dvd.

[@pinedelgado4743]

I didn't even know THE PRISONER WAS shown on KTLA!!! Shows what I know which isn't very much. LOL!!!

[@danorthsidemang3834]

Damn, now I really want to buy a car at Mike Salta Pontiac

[@jamesslick4790]

Hellz Yeah! A 65 Ford wagon for $495!!! ($3,200 in today's money) Or a '66 Dodge Coronet coupe $695! ($4,500 in today's money) I'll take BOTH! Wayyyyyy better than the rip-offs at William's Leasing: A 1973 Mercedes Benz 280 LEASE for $179 a month in 1972 dollars??! That's $1,087 today. I can lease an E-350 (close enough Mercedes modern equivalent) for $620. That works out to about $96.00 in 1972, So YEAH, a new Mercedes Benz is CHEAPER to lease TODAY than a Buick Regal was in 1972! 🤷‍♂️ Who Knew?

[@bryansikes6443]

Wow Laverne Teams Up With Jill!!!!!!

[@brianarbenz7206]

4:23 the legendary actor/presenter/narrator Fred Holiday. Seeing him fires up nostalgia. I'd watch him do Kroger supermarket commercials, and Bell Telephone demonstration films about what for that time was cool tech. I miss Fred.

[@pinedelgado4743]

Isn't he the same Fred Holiday who was the host of the ABC Daytime show THE GIRL IN MY LIFE??

[@bryankolen7265]

Yes it is.

[@shawnmalone9711]

Someone must have liked cars a lot to tape all of these car commercials. I remember Ralph Williams from the late 1960s and early 1970s because Dad used to watch old movies on the weekend or the all night 🎥 In those days the car dealers sponsored a lot of those shows and their commercials were always on TV. You have to be of a certain age to remember Cal Worthington and his dog "Spot"."Go see Cal, go see Cal, lol. Thank you Rick, for uploading memories of KTLA, 5, Los Angeles, 1972-1973. 👍

[@oldiesgeek454]

@Shan Malone When I saw the salesman plugging the '73 Ford Pinto, it made me want to yell at my phone screen: "No! You cannot sell that hazardous car"! 😊

[@shawnmalone9711]

@@oldiesgeek454 LOL, in the early 1970s big gas guzzling cars were all the rage until the energy crisis in late 1973. The cars became smaller for fuel efficiency and the Japanese cornered the automobile industry.

[@oldiesgeek454]

@@shawnmalone9711 Yes, I once heard that time in Automobile history described as the Rice Rocket Age.

[@shawnmalone9711]

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh 😅

[@oldiesgeek454]

@@shawnmalone9711 No need to apologize, I thought it was funny too. If some PC type comes on and criticizes my comment, so be it. BTW, my first car was a '74 Datsun B 210. It got like 500mpg on the highway. The downside, it took about a half hour to go from zero to sixty. 😉

[@mrmonty86]

Sanford & Son on the cover of TV Guide is rad.

[@shawnmalone9711]

It was for the week of March 17, 1973.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The voiceover for TV Guide is the great Taylor Grant.

[@jamieschmidt939]

This appears to be from either Tues. 3/13/73 or Thurs. 3/15/73 as KTLA-5 aired The Prisoner on Tues./Thurs. evenings at 11:30pm at the time.

[@shawnmalone9711]

I did a Google search for the cover of Sanford and Son on the TV guide. It was for the week of March 17, 1973.

[@jamieschmidt939]

@@shawnmalone9711 Yes, but it would have been for sale in stores beginning on or around 3/12/73

[@shawnmalone9711]

@@jamieschmidt939 Yep

[@mattandrews3874]

$224 a month to lease a Cadillac, that was more than our house payment at the time of $124 a month.

[@Fang67RAM]

9:51 Edward Binns voiceover for the US Forest Service/Ad Council PSA.

[@kresblain]

1:27 Look, it's the Adeedo! guy.

[@mukbangsareawesome6335]

I thought Shamrock Shakes were relatively new. Boy was I wrong lol.

[@warlaker]

That $224 per month car payment would be about $1395 today

[@luisreyes1963]

Look at those battleships with wheels in those used car ads! What jalopies. 🚗

[@danorthsidemang3834]

You're a jalapeno jalopy.

[@kuahmelallah]

Many would love to see those cars in pristine shape like that. And we'd take care of them a lot better today.

[@kuahmelallah]

What's the story about buying appliances and TVs at a car service & tire place? I grew up in the 80s, so I'm completely unaware of this practice.

[@jamesslick4790]

I'm a GM guy, But I'd be all over that 65 Ford wagon for $495.00!!!

[@jamesslick4790]

1973 Mercedes Benz 280 LEASE for $179 a month in 1972 dollars!!! That's $1,087 today. I can lease an E-350 (close enough Mercedes modern equivalent) for $620. That works out to about $96.00 in 1972, So YEAH, a new Benz is CHEAPER to lease TODAY than a Buick Regal was in 1972! 🤷‍♂️ Who Knew?

[@brianarbenz7206]

2:24 A 7-year-old Dodge? They ought to pay the customer that much money to take it off their hands!

[@JENDALL714]

That car today is worth a fortune, I have one. 1960's Muscle Cars were hard to get rid of by the 1970's, because of the strict Government regulations and rising insurance costs, muscle cars were deemed of little value unfortunately, many were just crushed.

[@mrmonty86]

Pat Morita in the Aames Home Loan commercial.

[@OofusTwillip]

And Peter Leeds (a former radio actor who'd worked with Stan Freberg a lot) as the man talking about the car mechanic.

[@kuahmelallah]

Happy Days was another year away at the time.

[@JENDALL714]

@@kuahmelallah He would have a recurring role on Sanford and Son. The only non Black that Fred got along with.

[@gargantuaism]

Not one promo for War of the Gargantuas?

[@pdxtal7468]

I remember the Mike Salta commercials -- but in Portland, Oregon. Probably the late 1970's.

[@tkohl]

Pat Morita in the Aames commercial...

[@davidcouch6514]

Car prices are really annoying.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

You're really annoying