Vintage Television Commercials - 1980s - Part 2

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  • This is a compilation of television ads, news opens and promos that aired during the early and mid-1980s. They originate from off-the-air VHS recordings.
    Swanson's Hungry Man Dinners
    Quaker Corn Bran cereal
    Stouffer's French Bread Pizza
    Sanka instant coffee
    Static Guard anti-static spray
    WNEV-TV noon news open
    NBC Nightly News close
    Burger King contest
    Suave shampoo and conditioner
    CBS "Up to the Minute" promo
    Arrid Extra Dry antiperspirant
    Zayre department store sale
    TV Guide
    WBZ-TV Eyewitness News Update
    Kix cereal
    Mop & Glo floor wax
    CBS "The Body Human" promo
    Maxwell House coffee
    Whirlpool dishwashers
    U.S. Department of Labor minimum wage PSA
    Vaseline petroleum jelly
    Playtex bra
    WSBK-TV Sports promo
    CBS News election coverage promo
    Fisher-Price Toys
    Hanes pantyhose
    Stop & Shop supermarket
    WNAC-TV noon news open
    All rights are acknowledged.

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  • @johnmitchell7196
    @johnmitchell7196 11 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Very cool! What I wouldn't give to go back to the 80's.

  • @mallorylee345
    @mallorylee345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I totally remember the Static Guard commercials. My sister and I used to imitate those so many times. I miss the 80s!

  • @pwnshhhop51
    @pwnshhhop51 7 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Videos like this just make me wish I had a time machine.

  • @mookeychase0907
    @mookeychase0907 9 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I just watched part 1 now this, I could do this all day matter fact I will. This is that time machine I always wished I had...

  • @Stellaluna88
    @Stellaluna88 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My parents drank Sanka and it was served at most of the local restaurants in NEPA. Thanks for posting!

  • @jaxgal618
    @jaxgal618 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The girl in the Suave commercial is Kim Alexis and yes, that's Mary Frann w/Robert Young.
    I used to work at Stop 'n Shop in high school.

  • @wolche1978
    @wolche1978 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    the wonderful and colorful era of the '80s! 😉

  • @commander1982
    @commander1982 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I'd give anything to go back to these days of my innocent youth!

  • @lindaadamthwaite6638
    @lindaadamthwaite6638 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    oh my gosh! I could sing the whole KIX commercial 30 years later!

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 11 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I remember the Quaker Corn Bran ad! The scarecrow in that spot is a cross between Ray Bolger's scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz", and "Rooney Doodle" {"THE DOODLEBOPS"}.
    5:22- TV GUIDE cover {May 2-8, 1981}. Taylor Grant, announcer

  • @mcfrdmn
    @mcfrdmn 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Excellent vintage TV commercials !

  • @Babyywood
    @Babyywood 11 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    these commercials actually made me want to buy things...

  • @MyStaticGuard
    @MyStaticGuard 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We spy Static Guard! Thanks for sharing these awesome vintage videos!

  • @paullim686
    @paullim686 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    my entire childhood in 10 minutes!

  • @elineff3895
    @elineff3895 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    That's Robert Young on the Sanka commercial, good actor, May He Rest Peacefully

  • @LaurenceMoore
    @LaurenceMoore 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Those news casts are gold

  • @elc1960
    @elc1960 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Looks like the late Mary Frann with Robert Young in the Sanka ad. The babe in the Suave shampoo ad looks familiar but I don't remember her name. The cute girl that sneaks up on the guy next to the tree in that Arrid ad is Jayne Modean. And that Stouffer's jingle is sung by a guy who was all over the place in TV jingles, but I never knew his name either. Larry Santos sings that Whirpool jingle, I believe.

  • @TonyaManningCCTT22
    @TonyaManningCCTT22 9 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I soooo miss those days...all commercials told a story or had a song or jingle...and around Christmas it was the best...I love the new Little Ceaser's ads, because they are kind of retro, and so is that one with the muppets in it. Most commercials today just don't have the charm all those did. =W=

    • @mrpeabody7684
      @mrpeabody7684 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Tonya Manning you got that right where did the time go man i feel old : (

    • @PersephoneRising81
      @PersephoneRising81 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yes so true.. most things of today dont have the charm of things of yesteryear..

    • @BobSmith-vg2or
      @BobSmith-vg2or 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Honestly, most commercials still were annoying but at least they weren't totally repellant like 99% of them today. You'd listen to hear one that was funny or entertaining. Although I remember even in the 70s visiting my grandparents and my grandpa had made a home made "mute" system with wires so that he could mute the sound of commercials without getting up lol. This was way before remote controls (or at least we were not well off enough to have one yet). So, people were annoyed by ads in those days too, but nothing like today. 99% of them make me want to NOT buy the product now rather than buy it.

  • @KrystalLake
    @KrystalLake 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Another vintage commercial lover here. Thanks for sharing these! It's a wonderful time capsule of the decade! :)
    I don't know where else to put this, but since this had Boston channels: Does any one else who was in the New England/Boston area remember a late-80's commercial for Fox 25 (I believe shortly after moving from channel 56) where the jingle was about Fox 25 being where "all of the Celtic's games comes alive"? The ending was "We're back! And we're going for seventeen*. And we're going for number seventeen!" (or another three-syllabled number ending with an "ee" sound. Twenty-three?)
    This one jingle - which couldn't have ran for that long - is emblazoned into my memory so vividly. Super effective advertising, I guess.

  • @Mylatenightvids
    @Mylatenightvids 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    People on commercials were actually good looking back then.

    • @mattr8251
      @mattr8251 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** no it.s the food. They are poisoning us now. I.ve been talking about it for years. Even the junk food back then was still real food. When u eat today's food you accumulate toxic waste. and feel like sht.. And look at everybody.s skin back then. Firm, clear bright. It.s just from eating real food. Which again was everywhere. 90.s is when the food really started going downhill. Now it.s almost impossible. Even organic has only 1/5 the of the nutrients. Our soil is so depleted too.

    • @Mylatenightvids
      @Mylatenightvids 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Amen to that brother

  • @ozzyhead73
    @ozzyhead73 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    wow!! RD SAHL the news anchor!!!! lol, after this channel he went to ch-7 then he went to NECN( new england cable news) and i think he finally retired like 5 years ago!! i grew up in SALEM MASS so i am loving these bits and pieces of the old news broadcasts!!! by the way i think he was about to talk about how flutie finally went to the NFL, like 87? after being in the CFL for like 4 years!! to funny!! window in time!!! thanx again for the memories!!!

  • @arolindsay
    @arolindsay 11 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Hard to believe that the federal minimum wage back then was $3.35, and 30 years later it's only $7.25. Barely doubled.

    • @sezjamaelstrom9696
      @sezjamaelstrom9696 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      30 years before that a soda was a nickel and beer was a quarter.

  • @michaeldavidson8971
    @michaeldavidson8971 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    1980's was the last good decade in USA for the middle class - lower middle class.

  • @mookeychase0907
    @mookeychase0907 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Camilla Carr came to Baltimore in 1987 and was an anchor. She is now founder of Carr Communications in Baltimore...

  • @ricc1726
    @ricc1726 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    80s television was surreal...God

  • @feleciagrasty3880
    @feleciagrasty3880 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The Good Old Days!!

    • @kurtkauffman4326
      @kurtkauffman4326 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Felecia Grasty Indeed!!

    • @SusieSynth
      @SusieSynth 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Felecia Grasty I miss em so much it makes me cry lol I still like to think I live in the 80s.

    • @thecoingeek5473
      @thecoingeek5473 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sue Ellen Davis I cry too. I'm 41. The 80's sure were special. My parents are dead and this video really brought back a lot of fond memories. When I think of the 80's and my mom and dad at some point I always cry.

  • @brandybarnett9953
    @brandybarnett9953 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The lady in the mop and glo commercial is the actress who played Susan Moore in General Hospital

    • @edwardcreter9293
      @edwardcreter9293 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brandy Barnett I remember Susan Moore, but back in the day I was crushing on Heather the evil vixen, not cos she was the bad girl but cos, weeeeellllll, she was a ravishing blonde. I was a weird kid back then.

  • @Alphahydro
    @Alphahydro 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man. Takes me back big time. Now on to Chicago commercials.

  • @17bigdawg
    @17bigdawg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    In a very strange way, even with thousands of nukes aimed at us, we were all safer back then

  • @jaxgal618
    @jaxgal618 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The girl in the Suave commercial is Kim Alexis and yes, that's Mary Frann w/Robert Young.

  • @russellschaeffler
    @russellschaeffler 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    sad that I can remember most of these commercials, but people's names I just met I forget.

  • @ThisGuyFrritz
    @ThisGuyFrritz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can remember SCTV doing a parody of the Swanson Hungry Man TV dinners, which they were called Big Dude. Holy Moly, they were *oversized*!

  • @nowdid
    @nowdid 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember that tv special about the body

  • @mind-of-neo
    @mind-of-neo 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That girl's hair at 4:10 was soo pretty!

  • @zebop
    @zebop 11 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    These are nice, a lot of the late '70s, early '80s aesthetic here. I don't like commercials after the mid to late 80s or so, they stopped "looking" good and being produced as well.

  • @Ian16545
    @Ian16545 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've a hunch that's Richie Havens singing the lead in that Whirlpool commercial. No mistaking that voice!

    • @VintageTelevision
      @VintageTelevision  10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Whirlpool jingle is a masterpiece. Last fall, I heard from a vocalist who performed in it. (See below.) I have been unable to reply to her because her TH-cam account is set up to receive messages only from people in her address book.
      >> I was the female background singer on the spot. I sang and doubled all vocals-Soprano, Alto, Contralto, and Larry Santos sang leads.

    • @rabbitchmccurry538
      @rabbitchmccurry538 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      VintageTelevision I'm Dan yessian. I don't remember you. Fill me in

  • @cherrielane2891
    @cherrielane2891 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Kim Alexis..... the Suave shampoo girl, looks like Kate Upton, identical.

  • @AdamJ617
    @AdamJ617 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Way to end this montage than with a legendary news voice over, in his way early days. Perfect ending.

  • @RageTVHTX
    @RageTVHTX 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks jaxgal618.. I was wondering who the girl in the Suave commercial was. Wow

  • @dustbowlhammer7119
    @dustbowlhammer7119 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow min wage only went up $5.00 since then!

  • @cherryjames4720
    @cherryjames4720 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember these like it was yesterday.. Lol

  • @thetrustybutterknifean80sa19
    @thetrustybutterknifean80sa19 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Anybody up for a new adventure with some kids from 1985!?

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:54- Eve Arden as "Miss Morrow" (a distant relative of "Connie Brooks")

  • @StephanieVelaAnderson
    @StephanieVelaAnderson 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you take two sides of the same song it equals ten different sounds.

  • @russellschaeffler
    @russellschaeffler 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    6:53 ... Blondie and coming of age

  • @loverofthe80s43
    @loverofthe80s43 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow hungry man dinners been out awhile I didn't remember these being out then but then my family mostly cooked if we didn't go to Mcd./Bk!

  • @BigPapaBear1000
    @BigPapaBear1000 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What is the name of that song for "the body human?"

    • @oldfartstalking
      @oldfartstalking 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Heart of Glass" by Blondie.

    • @assaultislove
      @assaultislove 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Heart of Glass" by Blondie

  • @jaxgal618
    @jaxgal618 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't think of who that girl is in the Mop 'n Glo commercial. I know she was on a regular TV show at one time. Does anyone know ??