May 23, 1972 commercials

Taken from the Dick Cavett Show off an unknown ABC station.
1. Coleco Family Pools
2. Totem Lawn-Leaf Bags
3. Pfeiffer
4. The Dick Cavett Show commercial bumper
5. Jell-O Soft Swirl
6. ABC Wide World of Sports promo
7. Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law promo
8. The Brady Bunch promo
9. ABC Evening News promo
10. Another The Dick Cavett Show commercial bumper
11. Indianapolis 500 promo
12. Yet another The Dick Cavett Show commercial bumper
13. Corelle by Corning
14. Kraft Barbecue Sauce
15. Sears
16. Max Factor Ultralucent Waterproof Make-Up
17. Domino Sugar
18. Shell Improved No-Pest Strip
19. The American Heritage Dictionary
20. Taster's Choice
21. Sinarest
22. The Partridge Family promo
23. Room 222 promo
24. The Odd Couple promo
25. Love, American Style promo
26. Still another The Dick Cavett Show commercial bumper
27. Password promo
28. Another ABC Evening News promo
29. American Cancer Society
30. Action PSA
31. American Red Cross

[@Janizzary]

I had to look Coleco up on Wikipedia. They went from leather goods to vinyl pools to video games 🤯🤯🤯

[@OofusTwillip]

And Cabbage Patch Dolls.

[@gsnfan]

It was the poor sales of video games that led to the demise of Coleco.

[@VelvetCyberpunk]

The comments in these videos are as interesting as the videos themselves. You guys are awesome. 💜👍

[@luisreyes1963]

A pity Wide World Of Sports is no longer on Saturday afternoon TV. 🌐

[@pannoni8449]

ESPN (ironically owned by the same company) hinted at its end, but it was the boom in all those secondary sports cable networks, local and national, that lead the demise of WWoS. At least at Walt Disney World, the "Wide World of Entertainment" complex still exists as a homage to its legacy.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Sure is! Born 1963 here, and how well i remember that era.

[@devonmitchell5294]

​@@TheBrooklynbodine Born in 1964. I remember it as well.

[@Despiser25]

@@devonmitchell5294 65 and the agony of defeat was a large part of my childhood.

[@ForeignerFan74]

Thanks For Sharing!

[@OofusTwillip]

2:16 - Jello Soft Swirl - The girl is Denise Nickerson ("The Electric Company" & Violet Beauregarde in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory").

[@elc1960]

She was also part of the cast of Dark Shadows.

[@OofusTwillip]

​@@elc1960 And she was Lolita in the very short-lived Broadway musical "Lolita". The music was good, but the subject matter was very creepy.

[@elc1960]

@@OofusTwillip The creepiest version of Lolita was the 1990s Jeremy Irons one with Dominique Swain in the title role...ewwwww!

[@OofusTwillip]

Coleco - The first music was used as the theme for the long-running British gameshow "Mastermind". The second music was used as the theme for the Canadian educational cartoons "The Wonderful World of Professor Kitzel". Kitzel and the narration were voiced by Paul Soles, the voice of Hermey the Elf and Spider Man/Peter Parker.

[@OofusTwillip]

1:01 - Totem Lawn Bags - with Alex Karras (Mungo in Blazing Saddles").

[@rubysuncle]

AND George Papadopoulos from 80’s sitcom “Webster”

[@OofusTwillip]

​​@@rubysuncle And tbe Hooded Fang in the bizarre 1970s Canadian movie "Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang".

[@OofusTwillip]

1:34 - Pfeiffer - with Fred Foy (the announcer on the "Lone Ranger" radio shows, in radio's golden age).

[@elc1960]

Speaking of the Lone Ranger, that's Jay Silverheels, aka Tonto, at the beginning of the Brady Bunch promo. (4:49 - "Mr. Brady, you have large tribe!")

[@bluetickfreddy101]

Thank you

[@pdxtal7468]

14:13 -- Harry Reasoner as anchor of the ABC Evening News (a bit before my time). My only recollection of Harry Reasoner is as a 60 Minutes correspondent on CBS -- and a very good one.

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

Reasoner had been with CBS News for years when he, Mike Wallace, and producer Don Hewitt launched "60 Minutes" in 1968. Unhappy at CBS, Reasoner moved to ABC News in 1970 and co-handled the evening news there, first with Howard K. Smith, and then after working solo for about a year, Barbara Walters. Unhappy at ABC, Reasoner returned to CBS News--and "60 Minutes"--in 1978. He retired in 1991, and died later that year. More than anything, Harry Reasoner was a fine, thoughtful writer, as this promo demonstrates.

[@billybarnett2846]

Above ground pools. The oasis of urban summer fun.

[@rick3747]

I was 5.8 years old in May 1972.

[@Despiser25]

7 in that day. I think my favorite toy was the laughing robot.

[@BobMori]

17:15 American Red Cross - James Stewart voiceover.

[@collegeslammer]

And the Mastermind theme tune is in the Coleco Pool commercial.

[@OofusTwillip]

15:14 - John Wayne Cancer PSA - The movie is "North to Alaska", and the dapper villain he's fighting with is Ernie Kovacs. Kovacs provided his own custom-tailored wardrobe, and thoroughly enjoyed destroying it in the muddy street-fight.

[@marcchristie180]

Nice find. Any chance you have other breaks from episodes of the Dick Cavett Show? There are always great PSA finds there

[@OofusTwillip]

Dick Cavett sure appreciated theatre music. The bumper starts with "Jesus Christ Superstar", and segués into his show's theme: the cadenzas from "Glitter and Be Gay" from Bernstein's "Candide". When Cavett started criticizing Nixon, all of Cavett's staff members just happened to get audited by the IRS. But not Cavett himself, because Nixon knew that if he ordered the IRS to audit Cavett, it would prove that Nixon was using the IRS as a weapon against his critics. It was illegal then, and still illegal now, for a President to interfere with the IRS.

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

Lee Majors just one year away from 'The Six Million Dollar Man'

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

14:13--The Harry Reasoner promo is good and thoughtful because Reasoner was a fine writer.

[@OofusTwillip]

4:19 - Owen Marshall promo - voiceover by Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson.

[@Janizzary]

Father of film director, Paul Thomas Anderson.

[@patrickv391]

6:20 Jesus Christ Super Star as Dick Cavett's theme music,,,,,, cool.....

[@metall1983]

damn micro jow rip😥 loved those commercials thank god for pannini still

[@JonesMediaMan]

Finally, someone I can ask. Any idea what happened to Microjow? Did he get sick of KZbin giving him grief about ads, and just pull everything down? It happened to MemoryMuseum too.

[@metall1983]

@@JonesMediaMan I don't know but his channel will be missed

[@jamesrogers47]

The commercial spots are remarkably similar to spots from the late 1960s, the only thing that distinguishes them are hairstyles and clothing. I suppose that there must be a stylistic "inertia" at work.

[@luisreyes1963]

Kraft BBQ sauce isn't put in those fat glass bottles anymore. 🍖

[@OofusTwillip]

17:13 - American Red Cross PSA - Voiceover by Jimmy Stewart.

[@smittykins]

Shell No-Pest Strips were hella toxic.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Swimming pool same name as later video system

[@arnoldzyphill3167]

has any one seen the WALKING ON AIR animated american cancer society psa anywhere ?

[@user-vh2pk6bd3g]

Corelle wear does break

[@smittykins]

Two of my mom’s plates broke. To the company’s credit, they were replaced for free.

[@peterhogan9537]

wow I save 5 cents.

[@MacLover-yp5ex]

Is this cartrivision?

[@faithsupport4023]

🐕hi pannoni 8 (you don't have to do a Q&A video but) do you think you're a good person? if so do you think there's an afterlife? also i'm not better than anybody else