Growing up in the 80s around SoCal, I vividly remember the local TV stations from Los Angeles KCOP & KTTV. They had great programming, and I used to see those Santa's Village commercials all the time which I remember as well. Makes me happy to see them again :)
They always used to say cereal was "part of this nutritious breakfast" in the 80's... I was born in 96 and I would always see "part of A nutritious breakfast" in the early 2000's.... Funny how things slowly change.
I just posted this same commercial break on my channel, that came from Darian Sewell's "Heathcliff" VHS recording he uploaded a year ago. Before he took it down a few weeks ago. But, it's good to see that you're posting it in a different way! Plus, the quality is a little better, despite of the dirty heads and tracking issues from the tape.
80s videos from socal really take me back! as I recall KCOP was independent at the time (before nowadays where it seemed like every station wound up being affiliated ... I wonder if there are any indies left?)
DarkTetsuya There are some independent stations still around, but I think they're mostly stuck with poorer programming if not running infomercials for large chunks of the day. My feeling is that the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of independent stations.
ah I figured as much, I can't speak for the midwest/east coast, but from what I've seen on the west coast most of the stations already got swallowed up by the newcomers like the WB/CW and some of those other stations... but it wouldn't surprise me if there were still some indies left, but you're probably right about the programming.
Wait, there were Superman IV Collectors Cups? Does this mean there were cups graced with the face of Lenny Luthor, Lex Luthor's moronic teenage sidekick played so memorably by Jon Cryer? I need to find a time machine and a 7-11 ASAP.
I don't remember seeing a lot of Heathcliff after 1986, but kids are fickle channel-changers. There are a lot of videos of the abandoned Santa's Village, kinda fun to see it alive and all for once! Fruit Swirl Bars! Ha! I don't think they lasted too long. Am I wrong here? Those Cheerios ads...I thought they were supposed to have the nutritious breakfast BEFORE going off adventuring? Not when someone needs to be rescued by banana crazed simians! HOLY CRAP!! That "Crocodile Dundee" Fruity Pebbles parody was awesome! "Crocodile Blon-dee?"
That Honey Nut Cheerios commercial must have been a carry-over from 1984. I'm sure I had that commercial on an old tape from 1984 (I can't verify it, though. The tape bit the dust). The Furrever Friends jingle is extremely catchy. My sister and I each had one when we were kids (they're cats, and we had almost every single cat plushie ever made). I had two of the Garfield cups. The ones on the left.
I remember watching that Alpha cereal commercial when i was a kid and believe that would happened to me if i ate it. I use to run and hide when that clown of Macdonald came on. My Grandparents own all those Time life books. It use to scare the crap out of me. I don't know why. I remember sneaking to read those books and then getting scare of them.
The music in the Wizardess 900 Number commercial is "2/1" by Brian Eno, from "Music for Airports". Considering the mindset I go into these uploads with, I'm kinda taken aback by hearing an artsy, ambient 8-minute long instrumental from someone so reviered in the REALLY artsy corners of the music world but I'm not complaining. x)
Kinda amazing that Superman IV had any marketing tie-ins, given what a colossal bomb the movie was. Also, was Heathcliff any good? I mean, the theme song was epic, but he's always (fairly or not) come across as a Garfield rip-off clone even though he came before Garfield!
RE: Heathcliff, didn't watch it much as a kid, but it's not a bad show. Mel Blanc voiced Heathcliff so it had that going for it. Besides being an orange cat, the character and situations are pretty different from Garfield. And like you said, the character appeared as a newspaper comic strip five years before Garfield so it *can't* be a rip-off or clone. If anything Garfield is a more successful derivative of Heathcliff.
Once upon a time, when Heathcliff was on Nickelodeon, my grandmother called to me and my sister, "Garfield's on!" because she knew we liked Garfield. Don't hold it against her, though. We watched so many cartoons, she had a hard time keeping them straight.
Speaking Of The Show, What Other Independent Stations Used to Ran The DiC Entertainment Version Of This Show? All I Can Remember Is This And WMSN Madison, Wisconsin When They Played That Version Of The Show Back In October 1986 (Exactly 4 Months After WMSN Launched as Independent For A Year And Then FOX From 1987-Present), and another one on the same station in December of 1986. According To Wikipedia, It Was Shown Season 1 Episode 22 (Early 1985 Episode???) Back in October 1986. I heard there are other versions of the show from the 3 strongest Cartoon Companies of the 80's, Hanna-Barbera to DiC to Ruby-Spears. DiC is the 2nd Company who made the franchise. They Reran The Series Back In 1988-1993 on Nickelodeon, And Family Channel from 93-98 and Fox Family Channel from 98-99. And From ThisTV from September 2010-September 2011. They First Aired As National First-Run Syndication From September 5th, 1984-1988. They Still Reran the series.. TODAY! On Starz Encore Family On Weekdays And LightTV (As Of 10/6/18, If You Have Antenna Of Course).
Time Life's The Gunfighters-this wouldve made a perfect television series with Palance as host(sort of an anthology-type deal) Wizardess-seems like everything back then had a 1-900 number to call 7-11-RE:Superman IV..lost count of how many corners were cut making that movie lol Transformers Headmasters-there was supposedly a Headmasters character featured in that godawful Transformers The Last Knight..Bay and company missed the point yet again
OMG an anthology series where Jack Palance talks about cowboys and lost cowboy treasure in the desert...like those episodes of Unsolved Mysteries I loved. Why couldn't that have actually existed? :(
only thing saved Superman 4 in my opinion was Gene Hackman. Jon Cryer on the other hand was totally awful as Lenny Luthor. don't get me started on nuclear man or Meryl Hemingway
Growing up in the 80s around SoCal, I vividly remember the local TV stations from Los Angeles KCOP & KTTV. They had great programming, and I used to see those Santa's Village commercials all the time which I remember as well. Makes me happy to see them again :)
man jack palance he is a true legend and one of the greatest cowboys ever, all around great actor all the way miss him a lot.
I was never the biggest fan of the Heathcliff cartoon as a kid but even then I thought it did have a catchy theme song.
My mom still owns a couple of the 1987 Garfield Mugs from Mcdonalds. and may end up giving them to me when she is ready.
I still have two of those
Garfield cups. Santa's village made a comeback last year.
I still have one of those Garfield mugs, the one in the top left corner.
Me too
10:18 I still have the glass in the upper left corner and still drink from it on a regular basis! Nice to see where it came from.
KCOP LOWSSS ANGELES!
Plus Ernie Anderson V/O on the Super Slurpee ad!!! Epic.
They always used to say cereal was "part of this nutritious breakfast" in the 80's... I was born in 96 and I would always see "part of A nutritious breakfast" in the early 2000's.... Funny how things slowly change.
Starcom toys were amazing and I don't think there's been anything like that ever since.
I just posted this same commercial break on my channel, that came from Darian Sewell's "Heathcliff" VHS recording he uploaded a year ago. Before he took it down a few weeks ago. But, it's good to see that you're posting it in a different way! Plus, the quality is a little better, despite of the dirty heads and tracking issues from the tape.
Thank you for the uploads!
80s videos from socal really take me back! as I recall KCOP was independent at the time (before nowadays where it seemed like every station wound up being affiliated ... I wonder if there are any indies left?)
DarkTetsuya There are some independent stations still around, but I think they're mostly stuck with poorer programming if not running infomercials for large chunks of the day.
My feeling is that the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of independent stations.
ah I figured as much, I can't speak for the midwest/east coast, but from what I've seen on the west coast most of the stations already got swallowed up by the newcomers like the WB/CW and some of those other stations... but it wouldn't surprise me if there were still some indies left, but you're probably right about the programming.
KCAL is still independent and the only one in VHF and UHF has KDOC, KWHY, KSCI and some others.
Wait, there were Superman IV Collectors Cups? Does this mean there were cups graced with the face of Lenny Luthor, Lex Luthor's moronic teenage sidekick played so memorably by Jon Cryer? I need to find a time machine and a 7-11 ASAP.
That kid at 4:11 is the most chill I have ever seen anyone flying through space, and that's including Superman.
Man I remember Alphabets Cereal. I remember later wanting frosted alphabets cereal. When it came out.
I miss jack palance
Those fruit swirl bars look like candy bacon strips.
I don't remember seeing a lot of Heathcliff after 1986, but kids are fickle channel-changers.
There are a lot of videos of the abandoned Santa's Village, kinda fun to see it alive and all for once!
Fruit Swirl Bars! Ha! I don't think they lasted too long. Am I wrong here?
Those Cheerios ads...I thought they were supposed to have the nutritious breakfast BEFORE going off adventuring? Not when someone needs to be rescued by banana crazed simians!
HOLY CRAP!! That "Crocodile Dundee" Fruity Pebbles parody was awesome! "Crocodile Blon-dee?"
We own ALL of those Wild West Time Life Books....Believe it...............or not!
Brian Henegar Those books seem like they would be cool to own.
Oh they are...and they have LOTS of amazing illustrations
I've seen them at lots of Half Price Books, if you have that bookstore near you. Even got the Gunfighters one for myself.
I remember my dad having ordered the whole set. Not only those but he also has the Civil War series, WWII and also the Vietnam series.
Thank you for the warm fuzzies😂
"Oh God! Book II" aired Sat., 7/18/87, and "Robinson" aired Sun., 7/19/87, so these were recorded sometime between 7/13/87 - 7/17/87.
I wish MacDonald's still sold cups
They also sold drinking glasses back in the 70's.
That Honey Nut Cheerios commercial must have been a carry-over from 1984. I'm sure I had that commercial on an old tape from 1984 (I can't verify it, though. The tape bit the dust). The Furrever Friends jingle is extremely catchy. My sister and I each had one when we were kids (they're cats, and we had almost every single cat plushie ever made). I had two of the Garfield cups. The ones on the left.
I remember watching that Alpha cereal commercial when i was a kid and believe that would happened to me if i ate it. I use to run and hide when that clown of Macdonald came on. My Grandparents own all those Time life books. It use to scare the crap out of me. I don't know why. I remember sneaking to read those books and then getting scare of them.
seemed like Andy heyward had his name plastered on every dic cartoon.
oh the days are getting free toys in cereal boxes how I miss them
Heathcliff and transformers wow
The music in the Wizardess 900 Number commercial is "2/1" by Brian Eno, from "Music for Airports".
Considering the mindset I go into these uploads with, I'm kinda taken aback by hearing an artsy, ambient 8-minute long instrumental from someone so reviered in the REALLY artsy corners of the music world but I'm not complaining. x)
Holy crap, Now I can't stop thinking of watching the Wizardess 900 Number commercial while listening to Windows 95 startup sound.
Wizardess 95?
Kinda amazing that Superman IV had any marketing tie-ins, given what a colossal bomb the movie was.
Also, was Heathcliff any good? I mean, the theme song was epic, but he's always (fairly or not) come across as a Garfield rip-off clone even though he came before Garfield!
RE: Heathcliff, didn't watch it much as a kid, but it's not a bad show. Mel Blanc voiced Heathcliff so it had that going for it. Besides being an orange cat, the character and situations are pretty different from Garfield. And like you said, the character appeared as a newspaper comic strip five years before Garfield so it *can't* be a rip-off or clone. If anything Garfield is a more successful derivative of Heathcliff.
Once upon a time, when Heathcliff was on Nickelodeon, my grandmother called to me and my sister, "Garfield's on!" because she knew we liked Garfield. Don't hold it against her, though. We watched so many cartoons, she had a hard time keeping them straight.
Speaking Of The Show, What Other Independent Stations Used to Ran The DiC Entertainment Version Of This Show? All I Can Remember Is This And WMSN Madison, Wisconsin When They Played That Version Of The Show Back In October 1986 (Exactly 4 Months After WMSN Launched as Independent For A Year And Then FOX From 1987-Present), and another one on the same station in December of 1986. According To Wikipedia, It Was Shown Season 1 Episode 22 (Early 1985 Episode???) Back in October 1986. I heard there are other versions of the show from the 3 strongest Cartoon Companies of the 80's, Hanna-Barbera to DiC to Ruby-Spears. DiC is the 2nd Company who made the franchise. They Reran The Series Back In 1988-1993 on Nickelodeon, And Family Channel from 93-98 and Fox Family Channel from 98-99. And From ThisTV from September 2010-September 2011. They First Aired As National First-Run Syndication From September 5th, 1984-1988. They Still Reran the series.. TODAY! On Starz Encore Family On Weekdays And LightTV (As Of 10/6/18, If You Have Antenna Of Course).
I remember the Santa village commercial
Old school
man 87 was a great eyar for animation especially for dinosaucers that show rocked
Why does that kid in the 7/11 commercial look so mad? And I swear he deliberately bumped shoulders with that little girl as he passed her.
10:55 Looks like a credit card!
Victoria Jackson! ❤️
Yeah....the Biggest Slurpie ever. Try the Double Gulp. 64 Oz is rather obnoxious. These aired the time I was born. Turning 30 sucks big time.
Time Life's The Gunfighters-this wouldve made a perfect television series with Palance as host(sort of an anthology-type deal)
Wizardess-seems like everything back then had a 1-900 number to call
7-11-RE:Superman IV..lost count of how many corners were cut making that movie lol
Transformers Headmasters-there was supposedly a Headmasters character featured in that godawful Transformers The Last Knight..Bay and company missed the point yet again
OMG an anthology series where Jack Palance talks about cowboys and lost cowboy treasure in the desert...like those episodes of Unsolved Mysteries I loved. Why couldn't that have actually existed? :(
yeah that would've been cool! though not sure if I'd have been into it at that age, haha.
Because if something like that existed, everything else in the world would suck in comparison.
I don't remember seeing as many of the 900 numbers aimed at kids after the '80s.
The FTC cracked down on them in the early 90's: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number
Why the HECK did Apple Jacks add those nasty GREEN pieces???
only thing saved Superman 4 in my opinion was Gene Hackman. Jon Cryer on the other hand was totally awful as Lenny Luthor. don't get me started on nuclear man or Meryl Hemingway
I think the wizardry commercial has some crudely made green screen. Camtasia Studio can do better than that!
Chroma Keys were blue back then, and for the time it's not bad at all.
Oh. Thanks for the info.
Wait... The 80s also had some 3D modelling software for those special effects in those commercials, right?