November 6, 1981 commercials

Taken from Fridays and Portrait of a Legend.
1. Time Bandits movie trailer
2. K-Tel Dancer album (this sound is generally considered "post-disco")
3. 98 Rock WIYY FM Baltimore
4. WJZ Channel 13 Baltimore "That's What Friends are For!" promo
5. Fridays commercial bumper
6. Midas
7. Mrs. Paul's
8. Mrs. Filberts Margarine
9. Bulova Swiss
10. Code Red/Today's FBI/Grease promos
11. Halloween II trailer
12. Budweiser
13. K-Tel Elite album
14. Pearl Drops Tooth Polish
15. ABC general Tuesday Night promo
16. Datsun 310
17. Bob Evans
18. Panasonic portable cassette radio
19. McDonald's
20. Step Saver
21. The Pursuit Of D.B. Cooper trailer
22. Riunite
23. Rosemary Clooney for Coronet Towels
24. Dynasty season premiere promo
25. Castrol GTX
26. Accent flavor enhancer
27. Pollack-Blum's Furniture
28. Antron by Du Pont
29. WJZ 13 Baltimore ID
30. Another Fridays commercial bumper
31. Black Tower white wine
32. Another Dynasty promo
33. Community College of Baltimore Refugee Assistance Program
34. Love Boat/Fantasy Island promos
35. Grease/Close Encounters Of The Third Kind/Moonraker promos
36. Thomas English Muffins
37. Caligula trailer
38. Dunkin' Donuts
39. (same as #35)
40. NCAA Football: Georgia vs. Florida/other regional action promo
41. College Of The Air (Owings Mills, MD)
42. One more Fridays commercial bumper
43. Greenebaum's Jewelers (another loss for Baltimore's rapidly dwindling Howard Street downtown retail shopping district at the time)
44. A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked by the Dreyfus Medical Foundation
45. Desing and Funding, Inc.
46. The Muppet Show promo (the series was in reruns at this point)
47. More Today's FBI/Grease promos
48. WJZ 13 Eyewitness News at 11/ABC News Nightline promo
49. Visions TV sale Howard Johnsons motel (this is near the present day site of Maryland Live! casino)
50. (same as #44)
51. WPOC 93 FM
52. WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore Bob Turk bumper
53. Certs
54. Max Factor
55. "The Bug" by Vertronix
56. Mentholatum
57. Dentyne
58. WXYV V-103 FM
59. Evening Magazine promo
60. Halls
61. Ginos, Inc./Baltimore City Schools
62. The Catholics of Maryland
63. Baltimore Is Best! award nomination
64. The Law Offices of Ronald M. Sharrow
65. Jerry Turner on WJZ 13 Eyewitness News (featuring the then-new Harborplace on Charm City's skyline)
66. Another WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore ID
67. WJZ Channel 13 All Night Movie intro (WJZ was the first station in Baltimore to go 24/7)
68. Carpet Fair

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

TV 📺 series . I was telling my daughter , years ago you couldn’t binge watch a show. You had to wait til the next week ! 😂

[@mobetta2092]

And if you missed it, good luck catching it on reruns because repeats aired randomly.

[@BaseballMusic123]

Channel 13 - That's what friends are for!

[@misterelom]

13:00 No payments due till February 1982?? Man, I need to take advantage of that deal right now! 😂

[@AljIsHere128]

I am loving the Earth Wind and Fire Panasonic commercial at 8:26. It truly is amazing to me the lack of diversity in commercials over 40 years ago and today.

[@justinb954]

im so old.

[@mikejohnson515]

My aunt bought her best gold jewelry at Greenebaum's when she lived in Baltimore in the 1940's! I still have those pieces....a gold cross accented with a diamond and a topaz ring (her birthstone).

[@Imxlnt2]

I was 1 years old then! 16 days later, my sister was born 😡 😂

[@impalaman9707]

0:30---Further proof that Disco WASN"T dead at the end of the 70s---K-TEL trying to keep that Disco party going!

[@kathiec1333]

98 Rock and Channel 13. I used to tune in and I was in the DC suburbs.

[@nickdiamond7595]

6:40 oh how I remember this as a teenage boy😜

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

7:30 How did that crappy Datsun get stuck on that rock in the middle of the ocean? The voiceover guy actually used the term "beauty" to describe it, LOL

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

26:58 I suppose General Hospital's "rockin' doc Rick Springfield" is the same Rick Springfield who was a singer and released hit songs like "Jessie's Girl"(?)

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Not-so-smart aleck ; yep

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

21:48 A much younger-looking Ted Koppel, for ABC News/Nightline. (I'm not sure when that Nightline program started.)

[@goldcherry103]

Pannoni, are you from Maryland? You know a lot about the area. I am from Maryland. 😀

[@graymanmedia]

Lakein's of Hamilton still exist.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Kind of an abrupt transition at 14:54--from a Dynasty promo to an ad for a refugee assistance program at a community college (which had a seven digit phone number--no area code necessary for a local call back in those days).

[@kmart3697]

WJZ IS NOW CBS

[@cpowers94]

8:53 YEEEEEEESSSS?!

[@TMoody]

@4:48 YES!!! Maybe the best sequel in movie history.

[@graymanmedia]

Phenytoin - Is the medicine that was overlooked.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

20:00

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

4:36 I'm pretty sure I saw the movie "Grease" (Travolta & Newton-John) in the theaters, as opposed to on TV. I don't think I ever got around to seeing "Saturday Night Fever", though (except little clips of it, in ads)--that movie came out at least a couple years earlier.

[@graymanmedia]

Any comments regarding ONJs passing.

[@josephtheurer8061]

Panning do you have any commercials from Harrisburg PA from the 1980s

[@mrcorrea2000]

9:17 "OH!!!" So exaggerated but so funny 😂😂😂😂

[@talkieful1710]

I miss certs.

[@pannoni8449]

They were just 20 cents at the time.

[@talkieful1710]

@@pannoni8449 yep!

[@impalaman9707]

I miss TIc Tacs---they were always sold right near the cash register at Safeway!

[@45jacky41]

College courses on television. Precursor to the internet?

[@donnycarlson7039]

Love the Michael myers movie trailer

[@tiffanycurtis4794]

0:30 TO 1:00 WHEN MUSIC WAS WORTH LISTENING TO NOW KIDS HAVE CARDI B AND JUSTIN BIEBER 😂AT 1:36 TO 2:03 LOOK AT ALL THE COOL SHOWS SPORTS THEY HAD NOW KIDS HAVE REALITY TV 😂😂😂

[@Cjnw]

#TaylorSwift is good, though

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

@@Cjnw Taylor Swift is beautiful, but her music (what I've heard of it) is lightweight pop... Might seem cool if you're a teenager, I guess.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

@tiffany curtis The music of that era was too "disco-y", though. I did like some of it, but it's not exactly what I would consider classic rock 'n roll (although it probably was better than today's music). And a lot of those TV shows were mediocre at best--Mork & Mindy, Taxi, Laverne & Shirley, Barney Miller, the Love Boat, Fantasy Island, the cartoons &/or The Muppets... I don't know if you were a little kid (or pre-teen to early teens) at the time--maybe this stuff "rings true" more for you than it does for me.

[@timothyhanner8118]

Man if that chick in the Pearl Drops commercial (6:18) was moaning and licking her teeth like that in the morning at my crib, I don't think I would make it to work very often.

[@davidbrunson4794]

why did dynasty's second season not start until November? anyway, it was one of the corniest programs around but then again everything was back then. I guess we were doing more than our share of drugs!

[@pannoni8449]

There was a writer's strike that delayed that season's programs, leading to extra reruns, including mini-series and TV movies that aren't normally part of the cycle. The 1988-89 season was also delayed to a similar WGA strike, while 1980 had an actor's strike.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

"I guess we were doing more than our share of drugs!" Speak for yourself, dude.

[@hopegrimsley3427]

I love Dynasty

[@AljIsHere128]

@@pannoni8449 1981 had a strike like 1980 had the actor's strike? WOW!