Great news!!!! After 52 years RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER is back on NBC!!! And it couldn't come at a better time since 2024 is the 60th anniversary of the premiere of the venerated and beloved special. Its truly a dream come true.
I'd forgotten those charming GE ads featuring the "Rudolph" characters, but I had NOT forgotten the photos of Burl Ives and his fellow voice actors who worked on the special!
I was five when Rudolph first aired, and I remember how these commercials were as much a part of the show as the show itself. It was fun to see some of the Rudolph characters themselves showing off the products. 😀❤️
That is why I still like to watch Christmas shows on tv...for the commercials But they are NOWHERE NEAR...as good as they were say...over 40 years ago.,.
Also I'm only 18 and I watch this special every year, but part of me wants to go back to like 50 years ago and see how different it was. I almost like the time from the 60s-80s better than now
I was a kid in the 70's. We never missed this special because it only came on once a year! The 70's was a wonderful time to be a kid! You would have liked it.
My dad & both my grandfathers worked most of their careers at GE, so we had lots of GE appliances. My siblings & I bought our parents a GE toaster oven for their 20th annversary, and they still have one of those teapot clocks in their summer cabin.
I'm 27 and to me Christmas Isn't complete unless I watch all the old Rankin/Bass Christmas specials along with Its A Wonderful Life. Ever since I was a kid I loved when these specials would come on and now I'm passing It down to my daughter who also loves them. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and God Bless Everyone!
@@WiiLoveWeather7-12-16 I Absolutely Love Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials, they were the Best to watch around Christmas Time, I Remember when I was young and Living in Canton South Dakota, I would sit on the floor in front of the TV in the living room, I would watch Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, I also remember watching other Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials, Like. 1. The Little Drummer Boy. 2. The Little Drummer Boy Book 2. 3. Jack Frost. (Rankin/Bass One). 4. Santa Claus is coming to town. 5. The Year without a Santa Claus. 6. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. 7. The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold. 8. Pinocchio's Christmas. 9. The First Christmas the Story of the First Christmas Snow. 10. Frosty The Snowman. Animated Movie. 11. Frosty Returns. Animated Movie. 12. Frosty's Winter Wonderland. Animated Movie. 13. The Legend of Frosty the Snowman. 14. Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July. Etc. Etc.
@@matthewsoucy9073 I had completely forgotten about leaving a comment on this video lol. Yes! The Die Hard movies are awesome. Sad to hear about Bruce though.
MiserBrosPress Wow commercials that actually focus on the products. A simpler, better time. You can tell those small appliances were built to last...a LONG time, and were "Made In The USA". Thanks for uploading this wonderful trip back in time to a better world.
I was born in 1956 and l remember watching Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer when it aired the first time and most years since, but l don't remember these special commercials.
This is very nice! Seeing the original commercials from the first year that this show aired is really neat. Just as CBS did a great job in showing the special over the years, I know NBC will do just as well with it in 2024!
Glad to see those old black-and-white GE TV commercials from 1964. As I was watching them, I thought, what if they were shown in color, just as the special first aired in color in 1965 (along with the added scene) 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Beautiful modern style. The voiceover ad at the end or a show with Andy Williams and Bobby Darin-great stuff. With just 3 networks, Quality was the rule! Thanks for the hard to find rarities!
Your announcer is Mel Brandt. Incidentally, Mr. Brandt was also the regular announcer for the G.E. COLLEGE BOWL which was pre-empted by this programme. Thank you for posting this most rare footage. It is most appreciated. There are few constants in life and thankfully RUDOLPH is one of them. I have long-wished to see these pieces of film when you revealed that they existed over a decade ago. Now that I have, IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF THE YEAR! Merry Christmas! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
"The General Electric Fantasy Hour" was a series of family specials that aired on NBC when the popular quiz show, "The G.E. College Bowl" was preempted. Mel Brandt was the announcer of these specials; he was the announcer on "College Bowl".
Wow! This is as if a small (but extremely self-aware) part of my life memory was opened up, repaired, maintanence, re-adjusted & put back together! Wow! Thanks so much for this. This premiered 5 years before I was born, but we still had a B&W TV until the late 1970s. I remember by that time 'Norelco' had an electric shaver commercial (stop-motion animation) they showed with Rudolph.
Boy, I remember these days. I never thought I'd see The General Electric Fantasy Hour again. It didn't last too long. However, "Rudolph" has stayed on the air since 1964!
On this day in 1964 {December 3rd} the stop-motion animation special "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" debut on the CBS-TV network... Actor/folk singer Burl Ives provided the voice for Sam the Snowman... R.I.P. Mr. Ives {1909 - 1995}...
superjackster01 Thanks for the reply and correction; I checked with Wikipedia, imdb.com, and movieweb.com and you're right... It originally aired on Sunday night, December 6th, 1964 on the NBC-TV network... Now I have to figure out where I came up with Dec. 3rd??? Thanks again...
Thanks for sharing them. Some of us only knew it originally aired on NBC after reading the soundtrack's liner notes. This special still holds up well. Universal should done a tie-in with GE and include these ads on the Blu-Ray and DVD.
I wish tv commercials and specials were still like this. When was the last time we had a TV series that was sponsored by an appliance company or cleaning product? lol.
The promo at 0:06 is for the Sunday, December 4th, 1966 rebroadcast of NBC's Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer special edition on The General Electric Fantasy Hour, also good news after over 50 years airing on CBS, it's finally returning to it's original network in time to celebrate the 60th anniversary beginning Friday, December 6th.
I have a newspaper advertisement for GE from 1964 when they used the screen used puppets for the ads and I love seeing the Rudolph puppets stand next to GE products.
Wow! How things have changed! Thanks so much for uploading! You may want to take a look at the byline "A division of Tomorrow Entertainment" underneath the Rankin-Bass closing logo.
I feel so lucky to have been a child when shows such as "Rudolph" were first made--for us! No wonder kids today are so mean and unhappy; nobody makes holiday specials for them anymore.
Oh, i was both grateful for and jealous of your book! That was my idea years ago, in the 1970s--to one day write the behind the scenes book of Rudolph. Wonderful Thanks for writing it and uploading these
DANKE' sweet Wiah I had that clock. These are products that where made to last your lifetime. I know and have used those exact models of the meat slicer, can opener, toaster oven, iron, coffee pot in 1985 ... Love Burl....love love love ❤ Ha meet the press. Andy Williams. God where did we go wrong .... 😣
And recently to Jules Bass. It wasn't until 1966, that Rankin and Bass bought out Videocraft Limited of Canada and the animation studio bore their names.
This was fun to watch, and sure brought back a bunch of memories. My sister had the same hair dryer (but in a plain case instead of the decorative one that was shown) and we also had the electric knife and iron. Why aren't commercials made like this anymore?
There were more commercials featuring the elves in subsequent years, while still on NBC. They were for Norelco shavers, with the elves riding the inverted shaver heads as sleds LOL. I wonder if they exist.
Thanks for this! I'm old enough to remember seeing these commercials on at least a few of the early airings of the show. For years afterward, my child self still associated the elves mentally with GE products (especially the tall one with the glasses) whenever I saw them.
These are great, but the ones we really remember are the in-color commercials from the 70s with the elves from the show, but they were called the Norelco elves and they used an electric shaver as a sled. I can't find those commercials anywhere. Also, we remember the Dolly Madison commercials from the Charlie Brown Halloween and Christmas specials. Watching them was never the same once they stopped showing the expected commercials.
Too bad they don't release these classics w/original commercials, promos, etc. At least as a second version with the regular version . I LOVE classic commercials to make it look authentic & go back to how people watched TV then!
I watched this when it originally aired, never missed it when it aired each following year, and now own a copy on DVD. And I don't care one bit if it makes me seem somehow uncool.
I knew "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" first aired on "The General Electric Fantasy Hour" on NBC on December 4,1964. Arthur Rankin,Jr. and Jules Bass produced this classic tale for Videocraft International Limited of Canada. Singer/actor Burl Ives starred as the voice of Sam the Snowman, who was the narrator. Herbie is the elf who wanted to be a dentist. NBC ran this special from 1964-71,when CBS took over it over in 1972, where it has run since. Nice original spots from General Electric. Mel Brandt is the announcer.
One more thing: "The General Electric Fantasy Hour" aired as a series of family specials on Sunday afternoons, pre-empting, "The General Electric College Bowl".
This movie always reminds me of me and my grandfather because he has a sam the snowman decoration that sings holly jolly christmas and we also watched the whole movie.
Love this special saw it when I was 7 in 1991 don't remember seeing these commercials but seen the special so many times on VHS DVD blu Ray and on CBS 👻
I always thought that they made commercials with the elves but I couldn't find it until now. I wonder if the made the Santa & Norelco electric shaver commercial too.
8:26-8:32, the cast of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Larry D. Mann, Stanley Francis, Peggy Dixon, Carl Banas, Alfie Scopp, Paul Kligman, Janis Orenstein, Corrine Conley, Paul Soles and Billie Mae Richards)!
Give me a "Thumbs Up" if there is anybody out there who still irons or polishes their shoes. I don't think this comment will be getting any "Thumbs Up."
All the dishes you can prepare Right at the table or the oven here! Prank Version: All the dishes you can prepare Don't try to shove them in your underwear!
For commercials, the animation is rather charming! By the way, if someone were to create authentic replicas of these appliances, would they still be considered safe and efficient in design?
E-ManAnimates . Yep. We had almost every one of these devices. They lasted forever and were so superior to the dimestore junk of today. Remember in 64 we as Americans were lucky enough to have all these things available at a reasonable price. Other nations had much older designs or few of these conveniences at all.
General Electric HouseWares Division basically put GE into the public eye!GE Clocks were everywhere and was the best and cheapest form of indirect advertising people would look for a clock to know what time it is and you be looking at a GE clock with the GE name and corporate logo.
Just to have a husband to give practical time saving housekeeping appliances is something most women take for granted. It's the quality little things that mean a lot.
General Electric could sponsor this for one showing with just a regular, PBS-style ad at the beginning, and then run the old ads throughout the presentation as a curio.
I believe in sharing :) There is a section after the closing of RUDOLPH where they advertise the GE COLLEGE BOWL on the dvd. ANDY WILLIAMS also does a vocal commercial for his show :)
Thank you, this is a treat. I must have seen one of the later NBC airings when I was a kid in the 60's, as I remember the twirling windmill; I couldn't remember the brand! I think the windmill was not only used at the beginning and end of the show, but also as bumpers at the halfway point. May I ask why part of this is in black and white, when it was all originally in color? Thanks again for this awesome classic and all the creative effort that went in to making it.
Great news!!!! After 52 years RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER is back on NBC!!! And it couldn't come at a better time since 2024 is the 60th anniversary of the premiere of the venerated and beloved special. Its truly a dream come true.
Full circle. Because NBC, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation are from the same parent company.
Yeah! I heard!
Will the broadcast include the original end credits too?
@@metaboiii6693 I don't really know. The first airing was in black and white.
@mikesmemoriesfromthepast89 The negatives of the original broadcast in color have been found years ago. So I hope they air it. 🤞🤞
This was when TV specials were really good watching.
may both Rankin and Bass rest in peace
R.I.P. Jules Bass (1935-2022) 😢
I'd forgotten those charming GE ads featuring the "Rudolph" characters, but I had NOT forgotten the photos of Burl Ives and his fellow voice actors who worked on the special!
I was five when Rudolph first aired, and I remember how these commercials were as much a part of the show as the show itself. It was fun to see some of the Rudolph characters themselves showing off the products. 😀❤️
That is why I still like to watch Christmas shows on tv...for the commercials But they are NOWHERE NEAR...as good as they were say...over 40 years ago.,.
Me too! This brings back memories long forgotten..🦌💚❤️🎅🏻
Also I'm only 18 and I watch this special every year, but part of me wants to go back to like 50 years ago and see how different it was. I almost like the time from the 60s-80s better than now
I'm 16 and I feel the same too.
I was a kid in the 70's. We never missed this special because it only came on once a year! The 70's was a wonderful time to be a kid! You would have liked it.
@@steveng.willis618
Yes!
America had her challenges and has made some mistakes, but we have headed in the totally wrong direction.
@@steveng.willis618 Yes, I was a little kid, at thatimr, too.
It's too high tech, now. Everyone, gets offended when the wind blows, too.
My dad & both my grandfathers worked most of their careers at GE, so we had lots of GE appliances. My siblings & I bought our parents a GE toaster oven for their 20th annversary, and they still have one of those teapot clocks in their summer cabin.
I remember watching this classic show in black and white in 1965...I DO remember those commercials thank you so much for saving them....
Not everyone had color TV sets back then.
in fact most didn't! color TV sales didn't surpass b&w TV sales until 1972
More like thanks for fair use or they will take them out
@@fromthesidelines We went to a friend's house to watch it because they had a color TV... ;-)
I'm 27 and to me Christmas Isn't complete unless I watch all the old Rankin/Bass Christmas specials along with Its A Wonderful Life. Ever since I was a kid I loved when these specials would come on and now I'm passing It down to my daughter who also loves them. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and God Bless Everyone!
Same except for me Charlie Brown and Home Alone
@@WiiLoveWeather7-12-16 I Absolutely Love Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials, they were the Best to watch around Christmas Time, I Remember when I was young and Living in Canton South Dakota, I would sit on the floor in front of the TV in the living room, I would watch Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, I also remember watching other Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials, Like.
1. The Little Drummer Boy.
2. The Little Drummer Boy Book 2.
3. Jack Frost. (Rankin/Bass One).
4. Santa Claus is coming to town.
5. The Year without a Santa Claus.
6. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
7. The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold.
8. Pinocchio's Christmas.
9. The First Christmas the Story of the First Christmas Snow.
10. Frosty The Snowman. Animated Movie.
11. Frosty Returns. Animated Movie.
12. Frosty's Winter Wonderland. Animated Movie.
13. The Legend of Frosty the Snowman.
14. Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July.
Etc. Etc.
@@kathyquinn8616 this special came out the same year when the Warner bros cartoons shutdown its department
Let’s not forget Die Hard
@@matthewsoucy9073 I had completely forgotten about leaving a comment on this video lol. Yes! The Die Hard movies are awesome. Sad to hear about Bruce though.
MiserBrosPress
Wow commercials that actually focus on the products.
A simpler, better time.
You can tell those small appliances were built to last...a LONG time, and were
"Made In The USA".
Thanks for uploading this wonderful trip back in time to a better world.
+watershed44 You are learning! Now to get the message to Corporate America!
Back then I wondered if Rudolph's nose was a GE light bulb! LOL!
John Bellucci Now that you've mentioned it, I think that might be true...at one point I think GE had the rights to Rankin Bass productions
Christmas Light Bulbs :) Be sure to use red.
It was actually made up of red candlewax
Apparently it featured one of the earlier LED lights to shine visible red light. The first was developed in 1962 and the special was made in 64!
I was born in 1964, a few months before this Christmas Special first aired.
I was born in 1956 and l remember watching Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer when it aired the first time and most years since, but l don't remember these special commercials.
Rudolph is my favorite ❤❤❤ Merry Christmas 🎄
This is very nice! Seeing the original commercials from the first year that this show aired is really neat. Just as CBS did a great job in showing the special over the years, I know NBC will do just as well with it in 2024!
This intro changes from "An adventure in classic fantasy for you and your whole family" to "An Hour-Long Adventure Musical for you and your family"
Glad to see those old black-and-white GE TV commercials from 1964. As I was watching them, I thought, what if they were shown in color, just as the special first aired in color in 1965 (along with the added scene) 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Beautiful modern style. The voiceover ad at the end or a show with Andy Williams and Bobby Darin-great stuff. With just 3 networks, Quality was the rule! Thanks for the hard to find rarities!
Your announcer is Mel Brandt. Incidentally, Mr. Brandt was also the regular announcer for the G.E. COLLEGE BOWL which was pre-empted by this programme.
Thank you for posting this most rare footage. It is most appreciated. There are few constants in life and thankfully RUDOLPH is one of them.
I have long-wished to see these pieces of film when you revealed that they existed over a decade ago. Now that I have, IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF THE YEAR!
Merry Christmas! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
"The General Electric Fantasy Hour" was a series of family specials that aired on NBC when the popular quiz show, "The G.E. College Bowl" was preempted. Mel Brandt was the announcer of these specials; he was the
announcer on "College Bowl".
Mr. Brandt--what an announcer. I love listening to his smooth, elegant delivery. Seems like a lost art. Nobody talks like that on TV anymore.
OMG, I remember the last part when they showed the voice actors. I believe they especially showed this part for a few years.
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Wow! This is as if a small (but extremely self-aware) part of my life memory was opened up, repaired, maintanence, re-adjusted & put back together! Wow! Thanks so much for this. This premiered 5 years before I was born, but we still had a B&W TV until the late 1970s. I remember by that time 'Norelco' had an electric shaver commercial (stop-motion animation) they showed with Rudolph.
Wow 50 years and still a classic!
except the cbs version
It now back with NBC now
Boy, I remember these days. I never thought I'd see The General Electric Fantasy Hour again. It didn't last too long. However, "Rudolph" has stayed on the air since 1964!
I always wished they would include these as a bonus feature on the Rudolph DVDs.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment might just do that for the 60th anniversary next Christmas year.
@@andrewscungio3200 Would be cool, but chances are they may not if General Electric won't okay it.
Back in the days when GE brought good things to life. (Yes, I know they did not use this slogan until the 1980s and into the early 90s.)
On this day in 1964 {December 3rd} the stop-motion animation special "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" debut on the CBS-TV network...
Actor/folk singer Burl Ives provided the voice for Sam the Snowman...
R.I.P. Mr. Ives {1909 - 1995}...
It was December 6
superjackster01
Thanks for the reply and correction; I checked with Wikipedia, imdb.com, and movieweb.com and you're right...
It originally aired on Sunday night, December 6th, 1964 on the NBC-TV network...
Now I have to figure out where I came up with Dec. 3rd???
Thanks again...
It was NBC, too.
It also aired from 5:30 to 6:30 PM, believe it or not.
@@WiiLoveWeather7-12-16 In Denver, where I lived, it air at 3:30.
I am absolutely speechless at how wonderful these clips are. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for posting these.
My dad worked for GE; I think we had every single one of these appliances in our house!
It's back on NBC over 55 years later.
This year 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER!! Happy 60th, RUDOLPH!!
Thanks for sharing them. Some of us only knew it originally aired on NBC after reading the soundtrack's liner notes. This special still holds up well. Universal should done a tie-in with GE and include these ads on the Blu-Ray and DVD.
These are wonderful, it must have been a wonderful time to be alive, thank you so much for uploading these:)
ooonurse33 It was !
I wish tv commercials and specials were still like this. When was the last time we had a TV series that was sponsored by an appliance company or cleaning product? lol.
+Stephen R It is so RARE today when a television Special airs, and of quality. Our most recent was NBC's live production of THE WIZ.
Most of the commercials today are for popping pills
Now they are sponsored by bras and inappropriate stuff
The promo at 0:06 is for the Sunday, December 4th, 1966 rebroadcast of NBC's Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer special edition on The General Electric Fantasy Hour, also good news after over 50 years airing on CBS, it's finally returning to it's original network in time to celebrate the 60th anniversary beginning Friday, December 6th.
I remember this version! And being like really, really, young I was bored by the ads lol.
I have a newspaper advertisement for GE from 1964 when they used the screen used puppets for the ads and I love seeing the Rudolph puppets stand next to GE products.
This is gold, thanks Rick. Somebody needs to do a full blown documentary on Rankin and Bass. I nominate Rick Goldschmidt.
I will NOT be missing it on tv...again this year.. For the umpteenth time !!
As a retired railroad locomotive engineer (Soo Line RR), it's been my experience that GE also builds great diesel-electric locomotives!
Thanks for posting this so derful nostalgia. I vaguely remember these commercials but they're so cute. :)
Wow! How things have changed! Thanks so much for uploading!
You may want to take a look at the byline "A division of Tomorrow Entertainment" underneath the Rankin-Bass closing logo.
I feel so lucky to have been a child when shows such as "Rudolph" were first made--for us! No wonder kids today are so mean and unhappy; nobody makes holiday specials for them anymore.
Oh, i was both grateful for and jealous of your book! That was my idea years ago, in the 1970s--to one day write the behind the scenes book of Rudolph. Wonderful Thanks for writing it and uploading these
DANKE' sweet Wiah I had that clock. These are products that where made to last your lifetime. I know and have used those exact models of the meat slicer, can opener, toaster oven, iron, coffee pot in 1985 ... Love Burl....love love love ❤ Ha meet the press. Andy Williams. God where did we go wrong .... 😣
I have four of these original appliances, the toaster, mixer, electric knife and percolator, all in perfect working order!
0:52 “College Bowl and Meet The Press will NOT be seen at this hour so we may bring you a special program!”
RIP to Arthur Rankin Jr.
And recently to Jules Bass. It wasn't until 1966, that Rankin and Bass bought out Videocraft Limited of Canada and the animation studio
bore their names.
This was fun to watch, and sure brought back a bunch of memories. My sister had the same hair dryer (but in a plain case instead of the decorative one that was shown) and we also had the electric knife and iron.
Why aren't commercials made like this anymore?
You can tell they put a lot into those commercials. You never see them like this anymore.
It's great to see these commercials after years of not seeing them awesome
Wow this is SO cool.......imagine this has been show on network TV every year for 54 years (as of 2018).......so cool!
The commercials were the RANKIN/BASS Holy grail for me :) I have them on DVD too with the 1964 version of the special!
The opening clips are from the 1966 rerun, when NBC reran the special on Sunday, Dec. 4.
My first Christmas was in 1966. I'm so happy Rudolph has returned to NBC.
There were more commercials featuring the elves in subsequent years, while still on NBC. They were for Norelco shavers, with the elves riding the inverted shaver heads as sleds LOL. I wonder if they exist.
I remember Santa riding on a Norelco "sleigh".
I love these memories! Thanks!
My great uncle, Andrew Ferraro, worked for General Electric in Schenectady for 32 years, 1965 to 1997
Thanks for this! I'm old enough to remember seeing these commercials on at least a few of the early airings of the show. For years afterward, my child self still associated the elves mentally with GE products (especially the tall one with the glasses) whenever I saw them.
I'm 56 and its a MUST to watch this before Christmas.
December 6th, 2024 Rudolph is back in living color on NBC!!!
R.I.P. Paul Soles (The voice of Hermey)
1930-2021
And the original voice of Spider-Man!
@ that’s right, in the Meme filled 1967 cartoon.
These are great, but the ones we really remember are the in-color commercials from the 70s with the elves from the show, but they were called the Norelco elves and they used an electric shaver as a sled. I can't find those commercials anywhere.
Also, we remember the Dolly Madison commercials from the Charlie Brown Halloween and Christmas specials. Watching them was never the same once they stopped showing the expected commercials.
I'd love the whole expereience--dripo in thes commercials where they aired in the show itself and put the whole thing up here (or somewhere in YT).
Too bad they don't release these classics w/original commercials, promos, etc. At least as a second version with the regular version . I LOVE classic commercials to make it look authentic & go back to how people watched TV then!
I was born in 1967, I never saw these, really cool!
I watched this when it originally aired, never missed it when it aired each following year, and now own a copy on DVD. And I don't care one bit if it makes me seem somehow uncool.
I knew "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" first aired on "The General Electric Fantasy Hour" on NBC on December 4,1964. Arthur Rankin,Jr. and Jules Bass produced this classic tale for Videocraft International Limited of Canada. Singer/actor Burl Ives starred as the voice of Sam the Snowman, who was the narrator. Herbie
is the elf who wanted to be a dentist. NBC ran this special from
1964-71,when CBS took over it over in 1972, where it has run since.
Nice original spots from General Electric.
Mel Brandt is the announcer.
december 6, 1964, the promo I think is from 1966, and his name is hermey btw
@@ArchiveofAwesomeness1886 Hermey, then.
One more thing: "The General Electric Fantasy Hour" aired as a series of family specials on Sunday afternoons, pre-empting, "The General Electric College Bowl".
This movie always reminds me of me and my grandfather because he has a sam the snowman decoration that sings holly jolly christmas and we also watched the whole movie.
Love this, thanx for posting.
Love this special saw it when I was 7 in 1991 don't remember seeing these commercials but seen the special so many times on VHS DVD blu Ray and on CBS 👻
these commercials haven't aired since the 1960s
I always thought that they made commercials with the elves but I couldn't find it until now. I wonder if the made the Santa & Norelco electric shaver commercial too.
Wow...back before he was on The Brady Bunch, Sam The Butcher was doing commercials for GE...
The rechargable knife thing is cool. I didn't think there was anything rechargable in the 60s. Pretty ahead of its time.
If they modernized ads like these, they could replace the appliances with Phones, Tablets, Game consoles, and Gaming accessories.
It's great Rudolph is back on NBC
me too
8:26-8:32, the cast of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Larry D. Mann, Stanley Francis, Peggy Dixon, Carl Banas, Alfie Scopp, Paul Kligman, Janis Orenstein, Corrine Conley, Paul Soles and Billie Mae Richards)!
Give me a "Thumbs Up" if there is anybody out there who still irons or polishes their shoes. I don't think this comment will be getting any "Thumbs Up."
Ironically (bad pun intended), ironing is the one household chore I enjoy, especially when I'm doing a sewing project
I still shine my shoes and I iron occasionally.
I do both. I take great pride in the fact that I’m not a slob.
I love this boy do i miss my childhood 💞
Wow . . Never knew (or did not remember) about any of that. Rare stuff, indeed.
All the dishes you can prepare
Right at the table or the oven here!
Prank Version:
All the dishes you can prepare
Don't try to shove them in your underwear!
I wish those products were still available!
I remember my Grandma's house, built in '58, had those outlets.
The spirit of Bridgeport will never die!
THANKS! The book was fun to do and now I have a few variant covers available :)
This is amazing 😀
Politicians today: "We're gonna start saying Merry Christmas again, like the good ol days!"
1964: 8:29
My Grandmother had that exact toaster oven at 2:40 when I was a kid. I wish I had it now.
premiered on december 4, 1964
For commercials, the animation is rather charming!
By the way, if someone were to create authentic replicas of these appliances, would they still be considered safe and efficient in design?
E-ManAnimates . Yep. We had almost every one of these devices. They lasted forever and were so superior to the dimestore junk of today. Remember in 64 we as Americans were lucky enough to have all these things available at a reasonable price. Other nations had much older designs or few of these conveniences at all.
General Electric HouseWares Division basically put GE into the public eye!GE Clocks were everywhere and was the best and cheapest form of indirect advertising people would look for a clock to know what time it is and you be looking at a GE clock with the GE name and corporate logo.
Definitely a trip down Memory Lane.
Could you imagine a husband giving his wife housekeeping appliances for Christmas today? 😎
Just to have a husband to give practical time saving housekeeping appliances is something most women take for granted. It's the quality little things that mean a lot.
@S D...well it's a damn shame that regular people can no longer survive on one income anymore, isn't it? 🤔
Awsome love this so much thanks so much 👍💝👍
December 4 was a Sunday in 1966, not 1964.
You're on to something
They should reair the commercials on CBS when they air Rudolph on Dec. 9.
General Electric doesn't sponsor it these days, 'Funny'.......CBS is only interested in commercials "their" various sponsors bought time for.
+FunnyComputerGenius Re-air commercials for 50 year old appliances, many of which no longer exist? WHY?
+FunnyComputerGenius They'd have to take consideration from NBC who GE owns.
acholl980 Willard Scott hosted The Pillsbury Bake-off on CBS from 1990 to 1992 & he was under contract with NBC at the time.
General Electric could sponsor this for one showing with just a regular, PBS-style ad at the beginning, and then run the old ads throughout the presentation as a curio.
Twenty-three years later GE would buy NBC from RCA.
I believe in sharing :) There is a section after the closing of RUDOLPH where they advertise the GE COLLEGE BOWL on the dvd. ANDY WILLIAMS also does a vocal commercial for his show :)
Thank you, this is a treat. I must have seen one of the later NBC airings when I was a kid in the 60's, as I remember the twirling windmill; I couldn't remember the brand! I think the windmill was not only used at the beginning and end of the show, but also as bumpers at the halfway point. May I ask why part of this is in black and white, when it was all originally in color? Thanks again for this awesome classic and all the creative effort that went in to making it.
This was quite a find...very cool. :)
Rudolph is back today on NBC right?
I love those old commercials