July 21, 1971 commercials

Taken from The Tonight Show off WRC/NBC.
1. NBC 1962-75 color ID
2. Sears
3. Allstate
4. Anacin
5. Primatene Mist
6. Dial deodorant
7. Mateus
8. Lawry's salt
9. Pontiac Ventura II
10. Kellogg's Corn Flakes
11. Kellogg's Rice Krispies
12. Minute Maid
13. Breck Basic Texturizing Shampoo
14. The Tonight Show commercial bumper
15. Apollo 15 coverage on the Today show promo bumper
16. Calgon Nature Baths
17. Northern Virginia Community College
18. WRC News 4 Washington promo bumper
19. Giant Food
20. Dr. Scholl's foot deodorant
21. Ameircan Express
22. Colonial Chrysler-Plymouth (Alexandria, VA)
23. Ryder
24. Alka-Seltzer
25. Bactine
26. Colgate
27. Spred latex paint
28. Lipton tea
29. Litter Green cat litter
30. Maxwell House Caffree coffee
31. Another The Tonight Show commercial bumper
32. Vic Damone promo
33. VO5 Miral Plus! hair spray
34. Slim Jims
35. The Mike Douglas Show promo bumper
36. Another Giant Food
37. Another American Express
38. Buick (2 ads)
39. Volvo
40. Sara Lee
41. Florida Orange Growers
42. Naturally Feminine by Johnson & Johnson
43. FDS spray
44. Another VO5
45. Another The Mike Douglas Show promo
46. King City Pontiac
47. Johnnas promo

[@Maskedmutant]

This was shown on my 4th birthday!!!

[@elmartillo7931]

The day I was born, and happy birthday to me LOL

[@victoryak86]

I turned seven on that day.

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

i swear to god, that peacock is as legendary as Gru.

[@amhaney1]

I turned 8 the day these aired!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Weirdly, instant tea ads make a comeback in 1991.

[@lindamerchant4431]

Voice of Sears I was her age when I was first taught to ride a bike and around 1971

[@mitzithompson6585]

I was 8 months old

[@Market-ro1gp]

I was 8! A few I remember.

[@amhaney1]

These aired on my 8th birthday

[@lindaeasley5606]

Lol! The Scholl's foot odor spray is the most memorable commercial to me from this selection. There was also one where his dog fell over from a begging position

[@williamcole2348]

That was for Odor Eaters but it's the same actor, Roy Stuart from Gomer Pyle

[@luisreyes1963]

There's something funny about foot odor...🦶

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

How about Feminine Deodorant Spray announced by ... several men

[@brentmann2988]

3:25 Michael Bell on the voice-over for Lawry's Seasoned Salt. 2:06 I believe this is Bonnie Herman's voice in this Dial commercial. 8:00 William Schallert on the v/o for Dr. Scholl's. 9:44 This Karl Weber on-camera appearance for Alka-Seltzer is a real treat. 12:15 Peter Thomas for Litter Green.

[@fromthesidelines]

Peter also spoke for Listerine at the time {"Listerine Antispetic. It's got the taste people hate. *Twice a day."}*

[@matthewthomasjames]

Nine days before my third birthday, living in Manhattan, playing in Washington Square Park every day as my mom hung out with the other hippie moms on the benches.

[@jrebecca0195]

Wow, my mother was five months pregnant with me when this aired! 👀

[@jrebecca0195]

@Jared Thomas which series?

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"The best baking baking in the world ... that happens to be frozen because it's the 70s."

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Future "Shaft" star Richard Roundtree in the Colgate toothpaste ad as a baseball coach. Rare Alka-Seltzer spot with Karl Weber on camera. Paul Richards speaks for American Express.

[@brentmann2988]

Great catch on Karl Weber's on-camera appearance for Alka-Seltzer. He really was an all-time great commercial talent.

[@wmbrown6]

The Apollo 15 V/O promo at 6:15 was Fred Facey, and the Vic Damone promo at 14:05 was V/O'd by Bill Rippe.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Phil Gaines does a couple of station id's for WRC-TV in Washington. Gaines was a staff announcer from 1963-79.

[@thegoldendog7991]

I was nine years old. A hippie couple rented the house across the street from us. They had two pets: a cat named Captain Midnight and a black Lab named Pax. They weren’t there very long. Sometimes I wonder how they ended up. I guess they’d be mid ‘70s in age now.

[@christineferreira2181]

Idk why but that dialogue dry deodorant commercial was somewhat fun and entertaining-at least for me 🙂

[@simonthomas168]

Reminds me some of the old '1-10' number animation sequences for Sesame Street too.

[@artgamechanger3841]

Yep. Best one.

[@louischristopher7116]

Life was simpler 50 years ago.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Bring your trash to Pat's house!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Hit song at the time: "Sweet Hitch-hiker", Creedence Clearwater Revival. For the V05 ad, "we put these two hair-sprayed girls on a rocket sled ..."

[@MaryBeth1965]

13:38 is that Daniel J. Travanti who'd a decade later be in the show " Hill Street Blues"? Sure looks like him.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

No, he looks way too old. Travanti looked like that in '85. BUT ... Veronica Hamel did the last TV tobacco ad in 1970.

[@danielyoung5137]

My last day as a 19 y/o.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

My uncle's last day in his 30s.

[@shawnmarengo494]

7:27 - I think the “Star of the Tent Sale” promo was recorded in a cave.

[@fromthesidelines]

7:40- Roy Stuart.

[@mikescheer9819]

Breck basic texturizing shampoo song - 5:44

[@fromthesidelines]

14:49- Dan Resin.

[@zaq55]

@ 15:24 - Paul Richards. That might also be him on the voice-over for the other AMEX ad @ 8:12.

[@bladecastlevania3653]

Shaft actor Richard Roundtree 10:48

[@jelanimclean6326]

15:53: Buick. 16:55: Volvo.

[@shawnmarengo494]

At 12:46 - it would have been faster to just say the time than “Sorry, that’s not my table”.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

I was 4

[@MaryBeth1965]

I would be 6 in a month 😊

[@lindamerchant4431]

Lawry's on burgers and 🐔 chicken

[@luisreyes1963]

Delicious! 😋

[@luisreyes1963]

Mateus Wine: Portuguese Rotgut. Ed McMahon wished he had poured Budweiser on his Corn Flakes...🥴

[@lindamerchant4431]

Primetene mist Dial soap and deodorant then antiperspirant

[@luisreyes1963]

Don't get them mixed up. 😅

[@matthewthomasjames]

The Buick ad is terrible. Twelve Buicks in 19 years…wow, those cars sure didn’t have lasting power!