NBC TV commercial breaks - December 29, 1974

A collection of TV ads aired on NBC during the AFC Championship Game (Raiders vs. Steelers), played on 12/29/1974.
1. Super Bowl IX bumper
2. Savings and Loan Association
3. "The Towering Inferno"
4. Amoco
5. "Columbo" bumper
6. 1975 Chrysler
7. U.S. Steel
8. American Bankers Association
9. Franco Harris for the United Way
10. IBM Copier
11. Amoco
12. Schick Super II razors
13. Lancers wine
14. "Columbo" bumper
15. Sears Die Hard car battery
16. Lou Brock for the Yellow Pages
17. Eveready batteries
18. Don Shula "Don't Be Fuelish" Ad Council PSA
19. Miller High Life beer
20. New York Life
21. "Frankenstein: The True Story" movie bumper
22. Farah Slacks
23. Amoco
24. Dodge Charger
25. Savings and Loan Association
26. Sears Steel-Belted Radial Tires

[@Ori0n1975]

I love these vintage commercial channels. I'd rather watch endless loops of these than just about anything on tv these days.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Joel Crager is speaking for your Saving and Loan Association. Mel Brandt is doing the voiceover for "Columbo" on NBC.

[@jehobden]

Mel Brandt was the announcer for SNL for 1981-82, after Michael O'Donoghue had Don Pardo "fired" from the show for a year.

[@jehobden]

Game show host/announcer Jack Clark is the man in the FSLIC commercial at 11:34. The commercial stops abruptly when he mentions that "no one has ever lost a penny [in the S&Ls]". I don't think that remained true about 10-15 years afterward.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you! I love these classic commercials.

[@Laura151The]

It was interesting to see what oil shale looks like.

[@lindaeasley5606]

"Withdraw $50 a month, every month for the rest of your life " Be still my beating heart . Btw , $50 in 1974 is equivalent to $263 in 2020 . If the people who did that were still living today and the S&L s didn't go under , the deal couldn't get you a week's worth of groceries, now

[@pattibrooks1907]

Loved the old commercials

[@amycrumedy6586]

They bring back memos for me.

[@richardkilroy3248]

You had me at The Towering Inferno ad.

[@toddwell77]

I LOVE THESE!! More please!! Thanks!

[@ClaudiusPGreen-il4nf]

Todd Grunwald

[@jehobden]

I think that's Pat Morita as the tourist taking a picture of the Dodge Charger at around 11:10.

[@brentmann2988]

Good catch! That is Pat Morita.

[@DCToonTime]

“The Towering Inferno. See it for Christmas.” What a wonderful gift for the entire family!

[@ertznay3142]

2:06 That is one of the best Columbo episodes.

[@usa02]

That's the late Jack Clark in the FSLIC (now FDIC) commercial and the late Pat Morita of "Karate Kid" fame in the Dodge Charger ad.

[@antoniod]

I didn't know that Genghis Kahn sounded like Bela Lugosi.

[@howardcitizen2471]

I miss Sears.

[@tomloft2000]

you're probably old if you remember when the SB was played in Jan.

[@jackbagley640]

The unmistakable tones of Richard Basehart on the Chrysler commercial.

[@kd4pba]

Excellent quality

[@ForeignerFan74]

I Was 9 Months Old!

[@dobbins2550]

Just discovered your channel, you have got some great stuff!! Keep it up!

[@steven2212]

Savings and loan, every one of them stole their customers blind.

[@fromthesidelines]

4:46- David Wayne speaks for IBM.

[@vividwatch47]

That's Ted Cassidy doing the voiceover for Sears steelbelted radials.

[@jehobden]

The "Columbo" promo is for a rerun of the May 5, 1974 episode, where Richard Kiley played Columbo's boss, who murdered his wife and enlisted the aid of a friend who had also murdered someone else, to cover up both their murders.

[@nancycampbell9554]

I remember that movie the towering inferno watched it on tv that first commercial sounds good but it probably be $50 a week now instead of a month but still if it is true I would do it

[@robytar]

How and on what kind of media are these old commercials found from? I know one that had a VCR before like 1980. Guess they were stored on video tape?

[@djackmanson]

Interesting to see three separate ads referencing US dependence on foreign fuels, and Don Shula promoting energy conservation, but the two car ads haven't caught up at all. Only a few years later and not only did every car ad include gas mileage (I assume by law?) but plenty of ads made a virtue of fuel economy.

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

0:35 That Burning, Churning, Durning, Kaburrming, Incinerating, Blazing, Smoking, Hot as Bulma Briefs-ing GODDAMNING Towering Inferno... I love that film.

[@P00katube]

0:00-0:34 The way banking used to be. Savings accounts paid 5-7 percent. Now you are lucky if savings or checking accounts pay more than 2-2.5 percent.

[@howardcitizen2471]

Even less; you're lucky to get 0.5%

[@jamespfitz]

LOL. All we needed was Democrats being Democrats and interest rates are like the 70s.

[@gladasya1068]

If it was ten years after, no doubt "The Towering Inferno" would be rated PG-13.

[@gochem3013]

Tower of Hell.

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

gladasya 10 The greatest movie ever made.

[@rynehall9990]

I saw that at the movies...I think it was The Norridge

[@luisreyes1963]

@@King_Colombia_Inc Funny, James Cameron would beg to differ. 🤨

[@FlavioGirl]

don shula the coach with the most wins in nfl :)

[@patrickmccarron5059]

3:30 - no tie off protection or lanyards required.

[@mdumas43073]

5:46 - Derek Smalls for Schick.

[@Moosetta]

At 3:56, that looks like Alvarado Street in downtown Monterey, California

[@jameskash1306]

I like these selling things American made and not sad Sack like today endless lawyer abd drug bs commercials..tnx

[@Zoomer30]

What is it about skyscrapers that are on fire that become Christmas movies?

[@cpapafunk]

Christmas Day biggest movie day of the year

[@luisreyes1963]

It would be another year when a little-known film from Steven Spielberg would become the first ever Summer blockbuster, Jaws. 🦈

[@ChadtheHammer]

How is this aired on December 29th when at 1:00 it said "see on Christmas...?"

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

Hill Country The Towering Inferno was released on December 14th, 1974.

[@Copeandseethe822]

The same way we still see Christmas commercials after Christmas now. Ad space is bought in blocks of time.

[@lymarie1974]

The year of my birth!!!

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

lymarie1974 That is beautiful. I love the 70’s. I can name the amazing movies that were released in 1974. :)

[@amycrumedy6586]

Aww a good time to be born in and be a kid I was seven but I remember a lot.

[@brentmann2988]

6:57 Bob Landers for Sears. He was a disc jockey on WNEW-AM in New York in the early to mid 60s.

[@Lovejazz01]

I was 14 years old living in Okinawa ..,

[@nancycampbell9554]

I was 6 years old living in Kentucky

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

11:02 - 1974 Dodge ‘Charger’: Bebara’s 🥇🚗!

[@The_best_days_are_yesterdays]

RIP USS

[@luisreyes1963]

Thanks, China. 😡

[@swami1]

Who's the driver in the "Hey, Charger" commercial? He looks very familiar.

[@derriusbranch8062]

Go organized.

[@Zoomer30]

Still don't know what the inventors of football were thinking putting the goal post smack on the goal line. Makes no sense. It does give new insight in what a "post route" is. The idea was to use the goal post as a pick, hoping that the defender would run into it.

[@derriusbranch8062]

Go good Files and Xerox[s].

[@fromthesidelines]

10:02- John C. Becher, veteran commercial actor.

[@TimelordR]

Whatever became of that Lancers rotgut?

[@davidsmith953]

4:21 40s years? this commercial from 40 years ago.

[@fscap811]

well, if you posted in 2016, it was 42 years ago

[@patrickmccarron5059]

6:16 - Holy Shit !! Ted Bundy did commercials?

[@VahanNisanian]

How was someone able to tape this? Betamax wouldn't exist for another year. A U-Matic machine, perhaps?

[@DavidAfforo]

perchance a videotape recorder, a shibaden maybe

[@Patrick19833]

People able to tape commericals from the 1950s. Why not 1974?

[@antoniod]

Looks like an original tape that was stored at the network.

[@antoniod]

Commercials from the 50s were saved on 16mm film, not tape. They were transferred to tape later.

[@VahanNisanian]

You mean like an aircheck that an affiliate of the network kept?

[@AlanSmitheeman]

That commercial about shale oil was right on the money. 40 years later shale oil has made the USA energy independent. However the world is moving to renewable resources. Too bad shale oil extraction wasn't more efficient back in the 1970s. Oh well. Technology develops slowly.

[@Archer82ify]

Towering inferno???... I saw that on TV September 11, that was reality!

[@vividwatch47]

Super Bowl IX of course, is when the Steelers won their first Super Bowl and first ever championship after 43 seasons.

[@luisreyes1963]

The late Franco Harris for United Way.

[@williamfaquim3114]

Eveready is Mark is Black Cat alkaline ?

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[@robytar]

How and on what kind of media are these old commercials found from? I know one that had a VCR before like 1980. Guess they were stored on video tape?