November 17, 1979 Commercial Breaks - WNBC (NBC, New York)

Commercial breaks taken from a portion of the short-lived kids' variety series "Hot Hero Sandwich" on NBC O&O WNBC in New York.
Date recorded: Saturday, November 17, 1979
00:00 - Non-Sectarian Volunteer Bureau PSA
00:30 - WNBC "Guinness Game" legal ID (1979-80 "Proud As A Peacock" NBC network promo campaign music)
00:33 - Post Fruity & Cocoa Pebbles
01:03 - Kool-Aid
01:34 - 3 Musketeers
02:04 - Trix
02:33 - Keebler Double Nutty
03:03 - Kellogg's Frosted Rice
03:33 - Squirmles (worm on a string)
04:03 - NBC "There's A Smart Way To Watch TV" PSA
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[@fromthesidelines]

3:33- I remember seeing that commercial as early as 1973!

[@jareddicarlo7816]

Fred Facey is the voice of the first promo

[@OofusTwillip]

2:34 - Keebler Elf voiced by Parley Baer, one of the busiest radio actors of the 1940s & 50s. Before that, he'd been an animal-trainer in a circus, and he married a bareback rider.

[@andrewschroy6368]

BTW, speaking of The Guinness Game, there's an episode of it on TH-cam.

[@fromthesidelines]

0:40- William Woodson, announcer.

[@OofusTwillip]

3:32 - Squirmles are still available today, but are more likely to be used as attachments on cat wand-toys.

[@brentmann2988]

2:59 always good to hear Danny Dark on a Keebler spot.

[@chantingmammal]

This was before He announced promos for NBC from 1980-81 (midseason) to the 1990s spanning the Silverman/Tartikoff (1980-81), Tinker/Tartikoff (1981-86), Wright/Tartikoff (1981-91), and Wright/Littlefield (1991-98) eras of NBC.

[@brentmann2988]

@@chantingmammal Excellent NBC knowledge!

[@OofusTwillip]

4:02 - How to Watch Television PSA - with Lenny Schultz, of "The New Laugh In" (1977).

[@videonut1988]

That’s before they’d change their “4” logo in mid-‘80...