October 25, 1975 commercials

[@donavonmacallister3101]

A lot better than these stupid commercials now.

[@markavey75]

I was four months old when this commercials aired.

[@gregtheelder6313]

I was one month.

[@lindamerchant4431]

Roll house cookies pillsbury

[@markavey75]

"these" not "this" commercials...I just notice that.

[@shawnmalone9711]

In the fall of 1975, I was in my first year of High School and remember almost all of these commercials. In 1975, we had Channel Z cable TV, and enjoyed watching TV without commercials. You were considered " cool" if your family had cable TV . I really enjoy seeing these old commercials again, believe it or not.

[@theoldar]

Me too. I was also a freshman in high school and I remember almost all of these that weren't aimed specifically at NYC.

[@chuckcollins2349]

I was in the 1st grade.

[@dawn9931]

class of 79!! samee

[@NudistCell73]

Does anyone have another Dow Dowgard Antifreeze Commercial?

[@markelijio6012]

"She's Got L'eggs"-first used in a series of both TV and print campaigns for L'eggs hosiery. Debuted in the fall of 1975 and featuring many celebrities such as Linda Gray, Debby Boone, Joyce DeWitt, Barbara Eden, Jamie Lee Curtis, Juliet Prowse, Erin Gray and more.

[@pannoni1491]

After disappearing for much of the '80s, it was then revived in the fall of 1987 using the ZZ Top song.

[@jondstewart]

1:36, those were 10x better than those Quaker granola chocolate chip bars we have now. I don’t know why they were discontinued. Peanut butter crunch was the best. Those General Mills Breakfast Squares deserve honorable mention!

[@bethmessner4453]

Jon Stewart, I totally agree! I wish they would bring them back!! 👍🏻

[@luisreyes1963]

Guess some people complained that those Carnation Breakfast Bars were nothing but glorified candy bars.

[@TheTruthResearchers]

Fantastic nostalgia! Was a great Era! 🇺🇸 Thank you!

[@elc1960]

The two women in the Certs ad are Ann Morgan Guilbert (Millie from The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Louise Williams (aka Liberty Williams).

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Familiar voiceovers featured: Ken Nordine (Taster's Choice); Karl Weber (Dowgard); Danny Dark (Carnation Breakfast Bar); Joel Crager (Proctor Silex); Orson Bean (Bic); Peter Thomas (Log Cabin Syrup); Stan Sawyer (Wonder Bread and English Muffins) and Adolph Caesar (Old Spice).

[@gramig0]

Great memories, thanks

[@brentmann2988]

3:38 the iconic voice of Karl Weber for Dowgard. One of the all-time best VO talents. 8:56 the wonderfully quirky voice of Orson Bean for Bic. 14:31 you can't have a commercial compilation without the iconic voice of Peter Thomas. 2:35 the wonderful actor Jim Harder. Instantly recognizable voice!

[@elysehfm8797]

Ha ha! Now you have me looking for my dad on random commercials.

[@brentmann2988]

@@elysehfm8797 Go to 5:24 of this link and you will hear your dad: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIjan4GnlM5gbc0

[@TheTruthResearchers]

Fab Credits! Thank You!!

[@DTD110865]

@@TheTruthResearchers One other; John Cullum doing the "State Charter Revision Commission for New York City." Okay, I see at least two people already mentioned that.

[@OofusTwillip]

Nestle Hot Chocolate - The little blonde boy in the red sweater is Peter Billingsley. Grern Giant Niblets - Paul Frees voices the Farmer.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The Green Giant's voice is provided by Len Dresslar.

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

I graduated in 74 from HS. I remember a lot of these. Thanks.

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

We had only the three network channels. In my house though we only had NBC because we lived out in the country with a "lazy x" tv antenna. Anyone remember those?

[@marshagreene6782]

Marsha Marie born march 4th 1975. 46 years old 2021.

[@cathywithac3793]

The lady with the saggy pantyhose in the first commercial is Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing from Dallas). Also, those Flick my Bic commercials 8:43 were a hoot. I'm old enough to remember my NYC high school teachers used to be allowed to smoke in class. People actually smoked inside subway cars too!! P.S. My uncle had the Cordoba with the fine Corinthian leather, not the rich, crushed velour 9:45😂😂😂

[@sCulturefan]

Mariette Hartley for Nestle Toll House

[@BrianRoberson-k7g]

She cares about her cookies.

[@wmbrown6]

The WNBC booth announcer on duty this late night/early Sunday morning was Bill Rippe.

[@seventiesgirl6449]

That's the late Victoria Lynn Johnson in the Shake and Bake commercial, who would become the August 1976 Pet Of The Month and the 1977 Penthouse Pet Of The Year, star in the movies Grizzly, Starship Invasions, Smokey and The Bandit, Racquet, on TV in the Young and The Restless and Dukes Of Hazzard.

[@luisreyes1963]

Learning something new every day. 😯

[@lindamerchant4431]

Back then then the mid 70 s kind of mirrored today's world in 2022

[@desertdispatch]

Loved those breakfast bars

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

My dear friend, Monica Rial, was born 20 days before these commercials aired, and Elton John performed at the christ almighty *DODGERS STADIUM.* 😃❤️💖

[@luisreyes1963]

You mean, the anime voice actress Monica Rial? 😲

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

@@luisreyes1963Yes. 😊

[@sCulturefan]

John Cullum in the NYC City Charter ad

[@luisreyes1963]

The BIC disposable lighter ad had a funny ending. Also, whatever became of Golden Griddle syrup? 🥞

[@amhaney1]

John Cullom, from Northern Exposure, in the voting PSA at 5:50

[@wmbrown6]

He was in the Broadway musical "Shenandoah" at the time, wasn't he? I remember the ads for that . . .

[@HamilcarBarca-jm3ey]

Ah, Fall 1975. I was 13 years old. Just a young teenager then.

[@Alan-lv9rw]

Before cable, we were lucky in Connecticut to have 10 TV channels. Most places had just three.

[@marygarza1596]

The little rascal 😂😂😂😂

[@The70sGal-mf2xc]

Dallas actress Linda Gray in the Leggs pantyhose commercial.

[@elc1960]

Rango cologne??? Makes me wonder if Tim Conway got a cut off that one...

[@lindamerchant4431]

Those carnation instant breakfast bars real goodike today's granola pecan andhoney oat bars

[@jonathancaldwell6342]

Don Pardo, now there was a legend.

[@rrsaga]

I was 3 years old exactly when this aired, cool

[@fromthesidelines]

18:49- Dan Resin and Mort Marshall.

[@luisreyes1963]

A silly ad for Luden's Cough Drops.

[@fromthesidelines]

22:55- "THE GREAT GREAT SHOW"- Channel 4's showcase of "late late movies"- followed "SN" (at 1am) during the 1975-'76 season. The following September, they scheduled "DON KIRSHNER'S ROCK CONCERT" instead.

[@wmbrown6]

Would you know what was used for "The Great Great Show" theme? I know its origins date to early-mid 1964 as a late Friday night/early Saturday morning 'skein' after "Tonight's News" which in turn followed "The Tonight Show" (their M-Th [broadcast day] overnight film 'skein' was then "The 13th Hour," changed later in 1964 to "Tonight's Movie," before "The Great Great Show" was expanded to five nights a week by 1966, Sunday nights/early Monday mornings added in 1967, and finally Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings in mid-1968 (which, in its first weeks, ran horror movies previously aired on their very short-lived [1965-68] "Festival of Thrillers" whose super-narrow film rotation made WPIX's "Chiller Theatre" look as diverse as WOR-TV's later "Fright Night" by comparison).

[@fromthesidelines]

It was a production music cue.

[@wmbrown6]

@@fromthesidelines - That I'd know, but from where? Valentino / Major Records? Video Moods?

[@fromthesidelines]

I have no idea.

[@ernestcruz6316]

Rango cologne, the cologne with the same name as a flop Tim Conway sitcom. For whenever you long for the scent of failure...RANGO!

[@thelatebrianjones]

Marciarose Shestack is the female in the white shirt in opening WNBC/4 promo- had Sunday morning show- probably better recalled from her days on TV in Philadelphia

[@wmbrown6]

It was called "Sunday," B.T.W.

[@amhaney1]

7:30 Rita Moreno for the MTA

[@luisreyes1963]

Now add homeless people, junkies & muggers to the things to worry about on public transportation. 😥

[@DTD110865]

@@luisreyes1963 They existed back then too. Also, I don't think the guy who had the doors slam on his briefcase is as much of a problem as the Subway cars clamping down on the briefcase.

[@davidsilverstein7509]

My 20th birthday.

[@robhigh5991]

*There's actually another clip where Peter Marshall asks Paul Lynde "What is breaking up that old gang of mine" and Paul says "Anita Bryant"

[@elc1960]

Fran Brill is the lady on the right hand side of the screen in that Chunky Soup ad.

[@lindamerchant4431]

Nestle hot cocoa

[@sCulturefan]

Rita Moreno in the Subway Safety PSA

[@epaddon]

That PSA freaked me out as a kid with the guy about to be run over by the subway. Took me all these decades he was there retrieving his umbrella. Not sure I get though why the first two people are "problems" since the stupid motorman closed his doors too early and someone else left their litter for the lady to slip on! (I'm also pretty sure Moreno did a version of this spot in Spanish as well that also aired)

[@contempocom]

Dentyne

[@Luckyhotsummer]

looks like they got the idea for the plot for the depp movie Rango from that old Rango ad

[@lindamerchant4431]

Cordova and Ricardo montalvan

[@TheNicsmom]

Green Giant Niblets Corn 17:17

[@seventiesgirl6449]

Ricardo Montalban for the Cordoba car commercial.

[@luisreyes1963]

Was this before or after his "Rich, Corinthian Leather" phase? 😄

[@wmbrown6]

@@luisreyes1963 - Probably during. But I have to wonder if it was because of this ad that, in the UK, a version of "Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez" by Manuel and the Music of the Mountains (a pseudonym used by UK Columbia house musical director Geoff Love) was released as a single around this time, and became a hit there in early 1976 - and to think that version was originally a track on a 1971 album.

[@AtomicLoveBlast]

22:04 What was in Enderin? I can find NOTHING on the internet

[@lindamerchant4431]

Log cabin Golden griddle

[@luisreyes1963]

Log Cabin is no longer in glass bottles. 🥞

[@zaq55]

@ 6:40 -The very definitions of salacious and gratuitous.

[@luisreyes1963]

Anything for ratings, Chum. 😜

[@DTD110865]

That fireman in the Skippy dog food commercial looked like Alan Young. This isn't the same Skippy that made peanut butter, is it?

[@luisreyes1963]

Nope, totally different brands.

[@elc1960]

That fireman was James Harder, who played Big Fig in those old Nabisco Fig Newtons commercials.

[@DTD110865]

@@elc1960 I thought Charles Nelson Reilly played the Big Fig.

[@lucyhimmel]

The little spacey sound on the left channel is kind of annoying.

[@wmbrown6]

I don't know why, but on my laptop when I play it the audio is heard on both channels.

[@lindamerchant4431]

Shake n bake

[@luisreyes1963]

Still available today. 🍗

[@BALtimore2001]

Where's the snake??

[@stantonrogers]

Can you find the full episode of Saturday Night Live?

[@wmbrown6]

It's on DVD as part of the "Complete First Season." Minus commercials and local breaks, of course.

[@dunweyweydum]

Rango was all about domestic violence 😮

[@Kira7London-Spencer]

whatever happened to Enderin?

[@luisreyes1963]

What happened to Kaopectate?

[@amhaney1]

17:00 the annoying Shake and Bake ad with the twins with atrocious southern accents "and we halped."

[@elc1960]

Golden Griddle - the taste that beat pure maple? I call bullshit. It was okay but pure maple beats 'em all.

[@lindamerchant4431]

RCA color TV s zenith ge

[@luisreyes1963]

Rival Dog Food. 🐕

[@scottsbaitsandtackle]

I was 15 and remember these. I am sure several would not be allowed nowadays due to wokeness and political correctness.

[@Enr227]

I loved when it was okay for women to be thin. Before people pretended to like THIK, then showed how fake they are with ozempic.

[@pannoni1491]

Speaking of which regarding the Ozempic commercials, Pilot's "Magic" was a recent hit at the time, so music was much more creative instead of just lampooning off the classics.

[@Enr227]

@@pannoni1491 good point

[@lindamerchant4431]

Back then KFC today was Kentucky fried chicken coca cola 😃

[@impeachbiden5003]

I remember Ricardo Moltalban from "Fantasy Island." 😂