Retro Commercials: Vol 57 (1978)

[@sebring1960]

It's totally amazing how the human brain works, and this proves it! I haven't seen these commercials since they had aired back in the late 70's, and had basically forgotten them, and yet, I still remember them. Something as simple as a 30 second commercial. It's really awesome! Thanks Dave for preserving my past!

[@PilotVBall]

Frightening how we are programmed by the propaganda. Imagine what else you were force fed by the media back in the 1970s that is now subconsciously molding your personality and driving your behavior. Frightening.

[@jess4metoo]

PilotVBall Programmed? We didn’t buy any of these products with maybe the exception of Folger’s. If we were “programmed” to buy them, they failed.

[@bernardenorth]

@Joseph P. Arsenault you mean to tell me they advertised the 78 Coupe DeVille for 3 years I don't think so pal I'm just giving you a hard time

[@reneeleininger8599]

I love everything 70s and early 80s, thank you so much Dave, it brings back memories of childhood, more simple times, and it makes me feel cozy.

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

"Reach out and touch someone"- good memories.

[@wandaperi]

@Cuck ButtFurd MeToo > MGTOW

[@5roundsrapid263]

Why would a monopoly need to advertise?

[@IJustWantToUseMyName]

My brother used to sing “reach out and touch someone” before hitting me.

[@freebird0147]

Pervert :)

[@12inch_monster]

you mean good mammaries 😆

[@SuV33358]

Awwwww! Hickory farms! The beef stick, the sesame sticks, the cheese samples, the hard candies.....i have such great memories of that place!

[@susanthern]

Mario and Dee Ann Andretti we’re married almost 57 years when she passed away in 2018. May she rest in peace.

[@apexone5502]

I had completely forgotten about Sealtest Ice Cream. The things that you are reminded of whenever you look at these old commercial mash up channels.

[@jszoradi8650]

Wow the commercials we've long forgotten growing up we still remember them! How amazing how the brain can keep that sentimental memory. The days we never took long distance phone calls for granted.

[@valerieannrumpf4151]

I remember eating sealtest icecream as a kid growing up on long island.

[@LannieLord]

What town ?

[@lowbridge7070]

Man. I was 9 years old in 1978 and I remember pretty much every commercial in this video even though I haven't seen them in decades. Though, I do have somewhat mixed feelings over seeing them again these days. While it does bring back fond, nostalgic memories of myself as a kid, sitting in front of the tv watching my favorite cartoons, movies, and tv shows, it also serves to bring up memories of my poverty and hunger around the same time. You see, we were dirt poor. We could hardly afford groceries. Hunger was a constant companion. So, more often than not, I was watching tv with a growling, empty belly. Seeing food scenes in movies and TV shows, and tv commercial advertisements for various food products would drive me up a wall. Cool whip, nestea iced tea, sealtest ice cream, stove stop stuffing, etc, while watching the tv commercials for them, I recall wishing I could have the privilege of feeding my face with those food products, among many others, to put in my stomach.

[@tangerinefizz11]

That's Wendy Malick in the Excedrin commercial!

[@jpolar394]

I love every one of these commercials because the actors who are in them don't act like a$$holes like the ones in today's do and second is you don't hear the phrase DOT COM every 5 seconds . Thank goodness for the mute button and the channel changer button too.

[@mr.pavone9719]

You may not hear "dot com" but you do get to hear "act now!" and "but wait, there's more!" over and over.

[@melanieraleigh4961]

Man how I miss Hickory Farms!

[@5roundsrapid263]

That lady is about 70 now.

[@IJustWantToUseMyName]

I still miss it whenever I go back home and go to the mall. We used to walk around the store and fuel up on samples before more shopping. lol

[@tomshaw6373]

I haven't seen these commercials in over 40 years, yet I could sing every single jingle as if I had no ownership of my own brain. Wild!

[@EphemeralProductions]

9:05 is Wendy (I forget her name) from just shoot me. 😁

[@markasflood8196]

Wendie Malick

[@jackiehoward7300]

So hard to believe that it used to take 2 hours for a pregnancy test to work! How times have changed.

[@jeremydes100]

No kidding..I just found out I'm NOT pregnant!! Whew!!!

[@jackiehoward7300]

+jeremy desrochers lol. Too bad, you would be rich. I think you would also need a c section.

[@fool4singing]

God, that thing looked like something out of chemistry set!

[@hoagie1978]

She could have drove to the doctors office and back in 2 hours.

[@wandaperi]

Now, they need a CoViD19 ( Coronavirus ) test that takes less than two hours

[@eduardoramirezjr4403]

I miss the local/regional commercials, especially the ones like Mrs. Potemkin of Potemkin Cadillac.

[@Firedog105]

Back then you actually listen to commercials. Know we go online for reviews lol.

[@baigandinel7956]

"You can have Stovetop or potatoes. You ain't gettin' both!"

[@bernardenorth]

903 is that Wendie malick young as hell in that Excedrin commercial damn she look good

[@AK-jw7rx]

I was 5 yrs old. I remember so many of these ads, esp Jordache, and Potamkin. Love the classic Caddy for $9200 😮. These promos for the news are from NBC 4 NY. Chuck Scarborough still broadcasts the 6pm news. And I remember Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust

[@MsJDubU]

My goodness the nostalgia! ❤️

[@goldenagenut]

Hickory Farms stores were great, I miss them!

[@Thebrothaisback]

The jordache ad brought it back! My memories don't go before the late 70s.

[@michaelmcwhorter8707]

I had forgotten about Mrs. Olsen peddling Folgers coffee.

[@admatd1234]

I was 4 in '78 but I definitely remember some of the commercials and the dang jingles...yes I sang along to the Jordache commercial 😏😝

[@kanecrood1882]

I loved my Jordache jeans! How did we ever survive getting skin tight jeans on before they all added Lycra? Teens today have NO idea 😂

[@1911beauty]

Sealtest butter pecan was the best

[@5roundsrapid263]

That was my favorite!

[@DDios-ih9de]

Still around My mom liked it I was weird I liked ices

[@gdi1093]

I think 1911beauty was and still is the best 🥰😋

[@horseathalt7308]

@@jimmymelendez1836 sealtest was very big in the mid atlantic region but not as big as breyers

[@yell0wberry]

1911beauty Sealtest needs to come back, that was some great ice cream (thanks to that commercial, I stayed away from Polysorbate 80 for life)

[@michellem5647]

Sealtest omg I remember that ice cream. I was only 2 in 1978

[@franksalsa9342]

My friends be asking for beer..not tea😂😂😂👍👍

[@brentmann2988]

00:48 Peter Thomas for Amex; 2:07 Peter Thomas for Cool Whip; 4:31 Peter Thomas for Sealtest

[@zaq55]

Also, the voice of “Forensic Files”. Great catch.

[@southernoregoncatmom6519]

"The Jordache Look!!!!" :) :)

[@gsnfan]

The ad that started it all! The designer jeans fad!

[@michaelp_42]

Uh oh ..... Sergio 👖😂

[@tintindb]

@@michaelp_42.... "We love you Sergio!"

[@acer3573]

Gilda Radner on SNL with the huge sunglasses!

[@annacribbs4142]

$9292 for a caddy, coupe de ville ???? Ok now days it's a whole house 😬... They really need to bring BK sealtest, Lord where did the time go. 👀👀👀.

[@willsofer3679]

Adjusting for inflation though, $9292 in 1978 is approximately $36,740.03 in 2020. Which means it’s roughly the same price. Maybe even a bit *more* expensive back then. I’m always amused when people look through rose-tinted glasses, and think things were actually cheaper.

[@ThomasSellers]

10:24 Easy Driver makes the toughest screw job easy....for a few days until it wears out, after which you're "screwed"!

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

Edward Creter either that or you strip the damn screw with that contraption

[@yell0wberry]

I guess the people at DeWalt saw this problem and knew they had to do something about it

[@lindaeasley4336]

I remember when yogurt pies were a big thing . My mom used to make them and they were very good

[@mirkhan3314]

How are you Linda?

[@samanthab1923]

My Nan used to make them in the summer for dessert. Strawberry 🍓 was my fav.

[@lindaeasley4336]

@@samanthab1923 my mom made the strawberry ,too .She loved lemon so sometimes she would use lemon yogurt,and even chocolate

[@samanthab1923]

Linda Easley Those sound good too. Was watching a reseller vid that had a lot of Nanny era kitchen ware. Made me think more about how during heat waves she would do cold salads for dinner to avoid turning on the oven. NY with no AC. Different times 😃

[@a.m.connolly8623]

Two of the most painful things are in this. 1) The Nestea Plunge (a "belly smack on your back") It never NOT hurt when we would try it. 2) Sunbeam Razors. They did NOT cut the whisker, it tore it straight out of your face. Like an Epilady for the chin.)

[@trishayamada807]

Rack and pinion steering. OMG haven’t heard that since then! LoL

[@lisamorris6676]

Thank you for posting these commericals. Its funny how I can remember most of them after all of these years.

[@janellephoenix4378]

Yes, scary clown reach out and touch someone. Lol creepy

[@yell0wberry]

Megan Grant he don't play that

[@janellephoenix4378]

@@yell0wberry I know he's not. ☺ Just joking.

[@Pisti846]

The Bell System, one of the greatest research organizations ever.

[@rayfabian9488]

That was Wendy Malik in the Excedrin commercial, the first and last girl.

[@AvalonChipmunk]

oh the memories this brings back:)

[@MrRichMurphy]

Nestea plunge. “Hey lady your phone is f%#*ed. “

[@TSSYF]

Back when home pregnancy tests took ‘just two hours’ 😳

[@victorkreitner754]

A Cadillac for 9200.00..Man how times have changed.

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Oh the jingles of the 70s & 80s 🎶

[@tomshiba51]

No more reach out and touch someone. Now it's reach for your smart phone and touch the screen.

[@donaldpotter3071]

Phones were anchored to something and people sat or stood and talked. Even portable phones would carry only so far. Now they walk or drive down the street and pay attention to little else......

[@willsofer3679]

@Donald Porter The thing is, anyone over age 25 remembers landlines being the norm. And by extension, busy signals, as most people didn’t (yet) have call waiting and voicemail. The majority of people didn’t even have cell phones until the new millennium. So most of the people absorbed into their smartphones, Generation Z excluded, remembers these times. I think what we gained probably far outweighs what we might have lost with new technology, for the most part.

[@ursularowe3353]

We don't mix in crushed fruit, and we make our own crust, but my family makes that cool whip yogurt pie recipe. We've been making it as long as I remember, and I'm 30. I didn't realize it was a cool whip recipe first.

[@loki6253]

Cool whip cool aid pack condensed milk....... Mmmmmm

[@pattibrooks1907]

I was 21 and 22 years old when theses aired on TV

[@floridagator1765]

A Cadillac for less than $10k? WOW!😊

[@glennso47]

You can’t even get an old beater for less than $10,000 now days.

[@fromthesidelines]

4:08- James Harder and Renny Temple for Sealtest Ice Cream.

[@darint07]

To me the craziest thing is that it seems as nothing has changed in 40 years. Just newer technology.

[@paulamurray6974]

Miss the way life used to be. Sad how it is today.

[@miketroncin749]

3:13- I would have taken my sandwiches and got the hell away from those weirdos

[@ARedMagicMarker]

LOL, RIGHT!? TEE-TEE-TEE-TEE-TEEEEEEEEE!

[@maynardsmoreland]

One of them is Daniel J. Travanti of "Hill Street Blues."

[@jenniferr9624]

LOL 😂🤣

[@maynardsmoreland]

3:20 Take a quick look...that's Daniel J. Travanti, later of "Hill Street Blues" as the guy standing top left.

[@fromthesidelines]

7:08- One of Fred Silverman's first NBC promos (the movie aired on September 27, 1978), featuring a star he nurtured while at ABC.

[@RIXRADvidz]

9:01, WENDIE MALICK !!!!

[@AarHan3]

6:37 - More with the late, legendary Luba Potamkin! _"If your car doesn't have this nameplate_ (closeup of the Potamkin logo) _on the back of it, you've probably paid more than you should have!"_

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

We had one on the east coast Aaron. Sheehy Ford... "If this emblem isn't on the back of your car or truck, you probably did pay too much."

[@michaeldunlap1302]

love the old school Cadillac ad at 6:38

[@bosshoggg8259]

The Cadillacs are sweet

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

Are you sure this was from 1978 and not 1979? I was born on June 15 1978, which I heard was a Thursday, so Father's Day couldn't have been the 17th that year. Oh wait, the Sears ad proves it, i was right. :)

[@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer]

They have always mixed up the years

[@feather031]

Daniel J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues) in the Nestea spot.

[@DDios-ih9de]

feather031 and SUPER GROUPIE PAMALA DES BARS

[@gato7908]

8:50 construction workers were so polite and gentlemanly back then 😀

[@brentmann2988]

8:58 Alan Bleviss on the voice-over for Excedrin. "Pick Enterprise... we'll pick you up!" That's also Alan Bleviss. 2:37 Jonathan Schwartz on the VO for Chemical Bank. Radio listeners in New York City will know this voice. 1:31 Len Gochman on the voice-over for the Bell System. An actor who became an all-time great VO talent. 7:14 Joe Sirola on the VO for Sunbeam. He voiced tons of Wendy's commercials.

[@donairprince]

At 9:00 is that Wendie Malick from Hot In Cleveland?

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

Yup. LOL!!! Ya gotta start somewhere.

[@Eric_Stoneheart420]

my grandpa had one of those easy drivers gathering dust on his shelf for the longest time before he got rid of it......

[@guitarwhisperer6262]

Chemical bank, sealtest icecream, jordache jeans. Omg memories.

[@AK-jw7rx]

Same. And these promos for NBC 4 NY with Chuck Scarborough

[@DDios-ih9de]

The Girl in the Ice Tea Commercial Falling in the pool Thats SUPER GROUPIE ! Pamela De Bars wrote a few books about her Led Zeppelinn Who Jagger and other R&R God's Adventures She made being a GROUPIE adorable..lol

[@tintindb]

Did Sealtest make mint chocolate chip? I loved scraping the ice cream off the paper ...

[@adamscott7354]

The all new Sunbeam shaver THAT'S RIGHT, IT LOOKS LIKE A GUN!!! _Bond theme, Walter PPK looking shaver_

[@johnyzero2000]

What did I just see?! A commercial were the Dad is loved and respected?????

[@annacribbs4142]

How you going get excited over seeing a commercial that you haven't seen since your childhood, Lol.. Well I did I thought 🤦🤦👀 I seen sealtest ice cream I was like I ate that as a kid.... 🙌🙌🙌💯💯💯

[@turntableone4356]

Steve Cauthon--the jock--he sounds like a kid but he has to be about 18 on here.

[@Eric2221]

Family Guy on Hickory Farms: " Would you like to taste my smoked meat log?" I still laugh 😅

[@dwconrad7776]

I always preferred Breyers ice cream to Sealtest but I did like the Rocky Road!

[@johnyzero2000]

Was that Wendy Malick on the Excedrin commercial?

[@gmg9010]

Yeah I’m watching this for some reason

[@harveyvid]

Joan Baez for StoveTop Stuffing?

[@kanecrood1882]

Wendy Malick from Hot in Cleveland in the Excedrin commercial! 9:12

[@gallaxy70]

Truely..... Thank You Sir.....

[@freedomfitness8720]

My Jordaches were so tight and I looked gooooood!

[@horseathalt7308]

Being a teen boy back then im sure they did. Good times. Distracting times lol

[@franceslarsen4037]

Oh, that makes me want some Butter Almond Ice Cream! I don't know if they sell that anymore...

[@rogerswindell7537]

Frances Larsen Nice price “MY CHANGE 😂”

[@jedijackluther]

Unfortunately seal test is no longer around. Just one more reason we need to go fund me time machine

[@horseathalt7308]

@@jedijackluther yes i definitely felt more at home in the 1970s. CERN might be a real time machine

[@fromthesidelines]

7:14- Joe Sirola, announcer

[@5roundsrapid263]

10:00 My grandfather had one of those! I used to play with it.

[@rogerswindell7537]

4:06 sealtest ice cream 😂

[@wandaperi]

Sealtest, the ice cream of thumbnails

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

Lancias appreciated like gold and Steve Cauthen made more money than most big four sports players

[@misti7766]

The stuffing guy can stuff my cavity!

[@5roundsrapid263]

His wife was a cutie, too.

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Car commercials are The best

Binkie McFartnuggets needs to do voice overs of these.

[@glennso47]

Father’s Day is coming up REAL SOON! 😁

[@gallaxy70]

Daves Archives......RULES.....

[@y2kpinkbby]

Quarantine tingz

[@Dudeitsmeee]

Y'all get yer packs-a-processed seasoned meat down here at Hick'reh Farms. Overpriced hors d'oeuvre s. At the mall!!

[@DavesArchives]

Lol

[@taureanmay1411]

@@DavesArchives go on Dave.

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

@8:23 Tom Snyder! ***Swoons***

[@wmbrown6]

I'd've said the same of Luba Potamkin . . .

[@EphemeralProductions]

If only they sold cars for $9000 still. Lol

[@brenthaymon280]

I bought a new Oldsmobile Cutlass in 1978 for $7,800.

[@yell0wberry]

Was Frank Furillo picked for Hill Street blues based on this commercial?

[@horseathalt7308]

Who is the pretty young mother @5.28? She definitely was a start on primetime tv just after this. Anyone?

[@TheLanceFrazier]

"Retro" means something patterned after an old style. "Vintage" means something that is old. So, this is a video of VINTAGE commercials.

[@wavstudionet]

4:19 Is this Bronson Pinchot?

[@fromthesidelines]

6:37- Luba Potamkin.

[@christineferreira2181]

It took 2 hours back then to determine pregnancy?!

[@jedijackluther]

Is that a real song in the chemical bank commercial, or just a generic song for the ad?