70's Commercials Vol. 103

These commercials aired on NBC on July 29th, 1978
1. New Jersey Bank
2. Shop Rite
3. Schaefer Beer (With George Kennedy)
4. Polaroid Polavision (The guy in the plaid sport coat is Steve Guttenberg. Polavision was a proprietary silent Super 8 film format that was a huge commercial failure and was discontinued in 1979)
5. NewsCenter4 Ending
6. Promo for "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert"
7. SNL Cold Open (Left part of this in since it immediately featured a parody of Don Kirshner played by Paul Shaffer)
8. Schick Personal Touch Razor
9. U.S. Army
10. Kirin Beer
11. Faberge Organic Shampoo (With Joe Namath)
12. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
13. Honda (With the voice of Burgess Meredith)
14. TV Spot for "The Driver" (A critical and commercial flop when released, this is now considered a cult classic and often cited as an influence on directors like Quentin Tarantino)
15. Wilkinson Twin Blade Razor Cartridges
16. Kodak Our Gang Movie Camera (Also a silent Super 8 movie camera)
17. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
18. Marriott Essex House
19. Gatorade
20. Visa
21. Castrol Motor Oil
22. Revlon Flex Conditioner
23. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
24. Volkswagen Rabbit Diesel
25. Ultra Brite Toothpaste
26. Woolite
27. Maybelline Super Shiny Lip Color
28. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
29. RCA Music Service Offer
30. Levi's Womenswear
31. Toyota Celica
32. Brut 33 (With Joe Namath again)
33. TV Spot for "Foul Play" (Chevy Chase's first movie after he left SNL in late 1976 to pursue a film career, which was seen as a questionable choice at the time. "Foul Play" went on to be a success at the box office and earned Chase, Goldie Hawn and Dudley Moore Golden Globe nominations)
34. Kotex Light Days PantiLiners
35. Promo for "Sha Na Na!" (With Martha & The Vandellas)
36. Barrelhead Draft Root Beer
37. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
38. East Wind Limousine Service Promotional Bumper
39. Promo for "Contract On Cherry Street"
40. TV Spot for "Eyes Of Laura Mars" (The original story and initial script treatment were written by John Carpenter, though he disowned the final shooting script rewritten by David Zelag Goodman. This was several months before the release of Carpenter's "Halloween")
41. Columbia Records at Korvettes (Billy Joel's "The Stranger" was a late 1977 release and Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness At The Edge Of Town" and Bob Dylan's "Street Legal" had just come out in June of '78)
42. WYNY 97.1 FM
43. Promo for "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert"
44. Windex (Steve Guttenberg can also be seen here at 16:48)
45. Vanish (If I ever meet a toilet bowl genie I'm setting that poor bastard free. What a miserable existence)
46. Tuscan Pop (Buddy Hackett speaking a foreign language was not on my bingo card)
47. 4C Iced Tea
48. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
49. Kodak Handle (With Dick Van Dyke)
50. Dr Pepper (With the Harlem Globetrotters)
51. Comet (Nice New Yawk accent)
52. TV Spot for "Hooper"
53. WNBC Radio 66
54. Toyota Buck Stretching Days
55. Metric Education/U.S. Office Of Education PSA (We all know how this turned out)