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Mid-1970s TV commercials in order of appearance:
Amana - Radarange Microwave - 00:06
Banquet Man Pleaser - Frozen Dinner 00:40
Amana - Touchmatic Radarange Oven - microwave 01:11
Amana - Automatic Ice And Water Refrigerator - 01:45
Amana - Touchmatic Radarange Oven - 02:20
Bora Team Plus - Laundry Detergent - 02:56
Amana - Automatic Ice And Water Refrigerator - 04:00
Arm & Hammer _ Baking Soda Deodorant - 04:32
Sleep-Eze - Sleeping aid - sleeping pills 05:03
Anacin - Aspirin - 05:34
Pipeline - Milt Machlin paperback book Ad - 07:12
TV Guide Ad - 07:45
Amana - Automatic Ice And Water Refrigerator - 07:59
Seiko Quartz - Wristwatch - 08:32
Banquet Man Pleaser - Frozen Dinner - 09:02
Seiko Quartz - Digital Watch - 09:35
Bastard by John Jakes, the American Bicentennial Series - Book Ad 10:07
TV Guide Ad - 10:39
Totes Umbrella - 10:51
Baggies - Food Storage Bags - 11:25
Campbells Soup - with African American actress 11:58
Purina Dog Chow - 12:31
Borden Cheez Kisses - 13:03
Palmolive - Dish Soap - famous ad with Marge "you're soaking in it". 13:36
Dristan - Decongestant Tablets - 14:07
Palmolive - Dish Soap - 14:37
Racing Towards Judgment - David Wilkerson Book Ad - 15:09
Arrow - Joe Namath Signature Collection - Clothing Ad - 15:40
Purina Dog Chow - 16:13
Arrow Shirts - Brigade Clothing Ad - 16:45
TV Guide Ad - 17:15
Seiko Quartz Chronograph - Digital Watch - 17:27
Anacin - Aspirin - 18:00
Seiko Quartz Chronograph - Digital Watch - 18:33
Alpo - Canned Food Ad - 19:05
Mattel - Putt Putt Railroad - 19:17
Maybelline - Fresh And Lovely Makeup - 19:48
Mattel - Putt Putt Railroad - 20:19
American Express Card - 20:50
TV Guide Ad - 21:22
Genos Deluxe Pizza - 21:33
Seiko Quartz Wrist Watch - 22:05
TV Guide Ad - 22:38
Ceta - Good For Business Employment Ad 23:01
Maybelline Fresh Make Up - 23:33
Post Office - Change Of Address Kit - 24:07
Mattel - Heroes In Action Corps - 24:36
TV Guide Ad - 25:08
Seiko Quartz Chronograph - Digital Watch - 25:20
TV Guide Super Bowl Ad - 25:23
St Jude Children's Research Hospital - Cancer Awareness ad - 26:06
Mattel - The Sunshine Family World - Dolls - 26:39
The President's Mistress - Patrick Anderson Book Ad - 27:14
Liv-a Snaps Dog Treats - 27:25
TV Guide Ad - 27:38
Mattel - The Sunshine Family Van - Dolls - 27:50
Maybelline - Fresh And Lovely Lipstick - 28:25
TV Guide Ad - 28:57
Maybelline - Fresh And Lovely Liquid Makeup - 29:08
Bar-Tenders Cocktail Mix - 29:42
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Can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a book advertised on TV. Miss these days before prescription medicine ads were allowed.
Yes not only are they miserable, but on nightly news these days 17-18 out of 22 commercials are from the drug companies. I wonder if any news report dares say anything bad about the drugs being pushed.
James Patterson books are almost always advertised on tv
@@tripdefect87
Not on my television. I rarely see books advertised.
This is my first time ever seeing an advertisement for an umbrella lol
And drug ads are almost always in slow motion. God I hate them. Gladly we watch almost everything time shifted with a DVR, so all ads can be skipped.
I remember every single one of these! In particular, the TV Guide music brings back all KINDS of great TV memories!
Such a cool jingle, so intriguing sounding. It’s been 50 years since I last heard it
Including the TV Guide ad?
It’s a great jingle.
I still see those old Amana Radarranges in houses from the 60s and 70s. Those things are bullet proof.
I swear we had that exact model. It lasted five times longer than any microwave we have had since.
Appliances were built to last back then. My in-laws still have a refrigerator they bought way back in the 70s. Nowadays, you're lucky to get 5 years before they break down.
@@sugarplum5824 Yeah. Sears used to have a repair center with all the parts breakdowns, manuals, parts, and helpful tips you could have ever wanted. Montgomery Ward, too. I bought an old moped at a garage sale, and ended up fixing it for a pittance after getting the one broken part at one of those.
@sugarplum5824 But how else would they sell you more?
I remember TV dinners, we used to think they were so elegant. Also there was a single serving like Salisbury steak in a bag you'd boil and pour over. piece of toast. I loved those as a kid, this was before average homes could afford a microwave. Barbara Hale as the spokesperson and that incredible voice of hers.
The only downside was that the Swanson family became very wealthy when they sold out to ConAgra, and by default Satan's Bastard (Tucker Carlson) when his dad married the heir to the fortune. Long before he put on a bowtie and practiced his high-pitched laugh.
The first consumer affordable microwave came from AMANA in 1976. But the first Microwave for commercial came from Raytheon, the defense contractor, in 1947. It weigh 750 pounds, used 3 kilowatts of electricity, had to be cooled with pipes of cold water which surrounded it, and cost $5,000 which amounts to $71,090.93 in July-2023 dollars.
~By 1955-60 they were sold commercially for restaurants & the wealthy, still expensive, they were built into your kitchen for $1,295 ($14,826.59 in July-2023).
~By 1971 the top 1% of the American population owned a microwave.
~By 1976 AMANA released the $349 microwave (1,918.82 July-2023). That was “affordable” in 1976.
@texaswunderkind1493 I loved Swanson. Banquet was nasty. Now Swanson isn't what it used to be.
5:56- That "extra ingredient" was *CAFFEINE.*
What a batch of great old narrated commercials!
This video should have been titled “Amana Commercials from the 70’s.
Mom had the Amana side by side fridge/freezer w/auto ice maker in Harvest Gold to match the cabinet soffits and carpeting in our kitchen, not to mention the Oster-izer Imperial blender in the same color.
Barbara Hale.
@@jorgezarco9269 Her mom was Barbara Hale?
Tom Selleck in the Amana ad at 2:20.
Very cool old commercials 😎
The Seiko ad is interesting because liquid crystal displays were very new at the time. That technology was being patented around 1970 and that Seiko watch came out in 1976.
The LCD or liquid crystal display, was invented in 1964. The LED or light emitting diode, was invented in 1962. The first LCD screens were used on calculator screens & were significantly cheaper than digital lit numbers but the LCD screens were dark so digitally lit numbers were used. They were sold as a little box with an filament lit for all numbers 0-9 which lit up one number individually for a reading from your clock or test monitors. They would cost several hundred dollars today. They were basically a light bulb with 10 filaments displaying whatever number was needed. They were also big bulky unpractical for a calculator until Japan & Casio miniaturized them under the microscope. For TVs the cathode ray tube was used until technology figured out how to light an LCD screen & it immediately competed with the plasma flat screen. Eventually LED screens replaced both as the preferred flat screen for TVs & computers.
Love these commercials, don’t love the frequent repeats though.
Thanks for sharing these!
Seiko watches commercials are awesome.
Music is definitely mysterious
O.M.G... was just sitting here watching and when Putt-Putt train jingle came on... I started singing instantly. I remembered every word. Lol.. wow. I can't remember where I sit my phone down at; but with perfect recall I can sing a 40 year old commercial.
ok now i'm frightened. i'm going to be one of those lost-her-mind elderly people who can't recognize my daughters face but will relive all glory days and events from the past as reality. Shit.
me and my gf love to sit back and watch these old commercial compilations, but its a bit annoying when they have the identical duplicates.
"My gf and I..."
2:27 OMG is she really going to microwave a standing rib roast? Heresy!
It’s crazy how they tried to convince everyone that you could cook an edible turkey or beef roast in microwaves back then.
It would be funny to see that rib roast when the microwave was done with it. Raw on one side, gray and dehydrated on the other, with splatters of grease coating the oven. 😂
These retrospective views of 1970s commercials are 'guaranteed to kill' misplaced feelings of nostalgia or 'your money cheerfully refunded'. 😉
Man the 70s really loved to fade in and out from black
So now we know what Barbara Hale was doing after 'Perry Mason' went off the air.
Pretty sure I'm all for anything called the Man-Pleaser! (And so is my wife. She's the best!)
It was intended to challenge the popularity of Swanson's "Hungry-Man" dinners.
I'll settle for a Jeno's pizza. 🍕
Thank you for this excellent collection.
Now I want a Man Pleaser...
19:50 Erin Gray!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Super 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
13:36- Jan Miner as "Madge the Manicurist".
I remember all of her commercials
Really all she ever did. Truly a Miner star.
Yum, nodules of pasteurized processed cheese spread!
Barbara Hale (Della Street on Perry Mason) for Amana.
Della is 🔥
Now I have to find out what happened to Banquet Man Pleasers. 🙄
The "Man-Pleasers" trademark name expired around 1996, and now belongs to a company in India that serves octopus, conch, beef, and sometimes horsemeat in their prepared foods. This man is not pleased.
Who made man handlers was it Swanson's I forgot
Erin Gray is in that first Maybelline Fresh & Lovely makeup commercial, and Todd Bridges is in the Heroes in Action commercial. Plus a whole lotta Barbara Hale, and Jake Holmes sings the jingle in the first Sunshine Family spot. Oh yeah, Jack Knight from Lotsa Luck is the man in that first Banquet Man-pleasers TV dinners spot.
Tom Selleck was the husband riding the bike on one of the Amana ads.
@@hoagie1978 Hmmm...one I missed...thanks (you dirty...) lol
Any guesses on Santa Claus @ 27:27 ?
@@zaq55 I'll have to get back to you... gotta watch it again to see.
@@zaq55I watched that video again, and I don't have a clue who's playing Santa Claus in the Liv-a-Snaps commercial.
My girlfriend gave me a man-pleaser one night. It didn't involve food, though.
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw that ad. Lol.
Thanks for sharing. 🙄
If it was a real 'man pleaser' dinner, it would include cold beer!!
Yeah; they were sold to housewives who were too "busy" for their husbands and wouldn't f**k them as well. They were too busy shopping at K-mart for quality goods. At least the "man" got to pick his own beer on the way home from the steel mill.
Wished I thought of that. 🍺
I love these videos the best!
Ooh...a tension easer with a sleep helper!
I'm sure that'll be just fine.
Anacin commercial plays 2 extra times!
I've got a headache. Anything you can recommend?
When microwave ovens became practical for home use ,the idea was to cook meals in them. What wound up happening is the microwave became a way to heat up a cup of coffee and heat a frozen meal
27:14- Published in 1976. Later adapted into a cheesy 1978 CBS TV movie (starring Beau Bridges, Larry Hagman, Susan Blanchard and Karen Grassle).
Peter Thomas, announcer.
Banquet, swanson classic 70s tv dinners on tv trays i remember
VANCE!!! That actress had a part in Airport(1970).
The people of the Amana Colonies, Iowa, certainly knew how to manufacture Radaranges and refrigerators!
Is this the same women narrating all the adverts? Sounds like she smokes 500 cigarettes a day. 😅😅
I love watching ads from when microwaves first became affordable - the manufacturers really expected everyone to sell their stove and get a microwave!
12:33- Yes, Mason Adams was *VERY* busy as a commercial announcer at the time.
Not that I'm in the mood to live off TV dinners, but I wish we were able to go back in time and get some of those Man-Pleaser dinners. They can't be anywhere near as horrible as some of the TV dinners sold today. The mashed potatoes look like vomit put through the blender. My cat even refuses to eat them.
I did not know that Barbara Hale (Della Street on Perry Mason) was a spokesperson for Amana
Her original name was Amanda Deckerson.
"The Sunshine Family Van" was a primer on "how to be a Hippie!" lol! 😂...
I grew up on these frozen meals, and Hamburger Helper too- which can be made with hot dogs instead of ground beef.
Wouldn't it be hot dog helper then?
Lots of great memories. Fred Holliday was announcer on the Seiko ads.
"If it's not Amana, ir's not a Radarange". Barbara Hale was spokeswoman for years.
Had forgotten about those Anacin "range of motion" ads.
The TV Guide ad music was used for years - it used to have serious stories about the TV business and TV's effects on culture.
We kids used to make fun of the Purina pet food commercials, coming up with all sorts of "chows" - iguana chow, ferret chow, etc.
7:13- Originally published in 1976. A copy is available for reading on the Internet Archive.
Love the tv dinners big enough for a man and enough sodium for the next three weeks in one meal.
I remember the 70s. It was just Amana commercials, as far as the eye could see.
Hahaha!
Parents had one of the earliest model Amana Radarange in our home, circa 1971-2, brand new of course. The range was a Tappan gas, also in harvest gold.
In case anybody is wondering a Banquet frozen dinner is not a Man Pleaser.
Will Purina Monkey Chow suffice? 🐒
The lady sure keeps a neat Amana refrigerator. I never met anyone who keeps a big open slice of cheese, open Jello mold and a big open chocolate cake all ready to be taken out and served in a second. There must be a wedding dinner coming up right after the commercial.
5:40 Barry Bostwick
I think that's Mikey at 13:05
It is
I genuinely enjoy the creepy synth music in the TV Guide commercials
I have a Seiko watch that looks like the Seiko watches from 1976!
i skipped modern ads so i can watch vintage ones =]
15:42- Joe Namath.
A young Todd Bridges on the hero in action commercial
25:54- January 8-14, 1977 issue.
Taylor Grant, announcer.
A Seiko watch from the 70's would be worth a fortune today!
I wish. I still have mine from 1975 (not working). I'm tempted to have it repaired just for sentimental reasons, but they don't go for much on eBay.
10:52- Gordon Jump is the unlucky jerk with the "big" umbrella.
Mason Adams, announcer.
Any guesses on "Santa Claus" @ 27:27
That "Man Pleaser" competed w/Swanson's "Hungry Man" meals.
Who is the deep voiced Amana pitcher?
Pretty sure that’s Barbara Hale!
It is…
@@marabean thanks.
Many of these products seen here were fixtures on _Let's Make a Deal,_ especially Borateem Plus and those Amana appliances.
And who's the voiceover in the Sleep-Eze ad?
Did that huge frozen unseasoned roast cooked in the microwave taste good though?
Err....it was edible. Does that count?
@@texaswunderkind I think so? Maybe dip the bites in ketchup…?
@@letuswalkinthelightofthelo5350 Probably a lot of ketchup. The worst thanksgiving dinner I ever had was when my aunt and uncle had a miscommunication and forgot to start the turkey. Bits were sawed off and put in the microwave. We should have just ordered Chinese take-out at that point.
The man pleaser was probably better lol
@@texaswunderkind oh my!!! It scarred you!! 😅😅😅Auntie and uncle tried to save it though! Funny!! Microwaves are not good at all for cooking anything. Heating up - sure…
Those TV Guide commercials used to sound creepy.
Yeah, they seemed to portray themselves as some kind of hard-hitting journalistic newsweekly... but with Fonzie on the cover!
Yes they did sound odd.
I'd be curious to know how many of those Amana refrigerators and Radaranges might still be operational today!
We bought an Amana refrigerator in 1991. After 30+ years and a cross-country move, our daughter finally replaced it last year although it was still working fine.
I did not know that Barbara Hale (AKA Della Street) advertised Amana products
My gramps still has these appliances! Back then they were built heavy duty.
I remember well the great tv dinners and the tv trays we me and my family ate them dinners on watching McCloud and flintstones on happy days what memories ❤❤
How much did the man eater weigh and how many calories?
That announcer for the ad for TV Guide at 7:45 ... doesn't it sound like Christopher Glenn who used to do the In The News segments on CBS during Sat norning cartoons? There's even similar background noises.
Yes, I knew that music was familiar. I think you are right.
Taylor Grant was the voice behind TV GUIDE'S ads from the 1960's through the early 1980's.
@@fromthesidelines Thanks Barry. You sure know your onions 👍🏼
You're welcome! And sometimes, the whole salad, too.😉
My late father called our microwave "radar range" and people gave him crap.
Is that Barry Bostwick in the Anacin ads?
Yes, it is.
I used to make my own Cheese Kisses.
7:46- January 22-28, 1977 issue {"Roots"}.
Taylor Grant, announcer.
What's with all the repeat ads?
Barbara was a dish back then.
That pants suit. Oh, baby!
The Anacin commercial was repeated two times more.
24:38- Ernie Anderson, announcer.
For a second there, I thought I was watching Dave's Archives
I always wanted a Seiko watch, but wound up with a Timex instead. 😕
22:39- January 15-21, 1977 issue.
Taylor Grant, announcer.
10:40- January 29- February 4, 1977 issue {"WONDER WOMAN"}.
Taylor Grant, announcer.
I miss the hard sell Madison Avenue commercials. They had imagination. You can still remember then decades later. Nowadays commercials stink.
Amana may tag speed queen avocado green and apricot orange 70s colors of them
Erin Gray!
Racing Toward Judgment - they were pushing the same SHTF bs back then too.
Look around. Its happening
Sunshine Family Dude is creeping me out a bit. And Bartender Cocktail Mix is puzzling - what sort of cocktail does it make?
OK, you'd think they could have had more variety of commercials rather than showing a few of them multiple times. What was the point of that?
What if you have MAJOR TENSION?!?
4:41 Vic Caroli // 20:12 Bob Landers
13:07 Mason Adams // 17:19 Taylor Grant
amana lady smoked trillions of cigarettes
"If it doesn't say Amana, it's not a Radarange".
Those two-timers!
The Borateem lady doesn’t hold back with the Borateem, a jugful.
Won’t be long before her washing machine gets clogged up!
Why anacin 3x straight?
Man-sized headaches.
I wasn’t alive then but I do find the commercials very fascinating especially the range that I’m guessing is like our toaster oven that bakes, roasts, keeps warm and broils.
Who is the man-woman?
Barbara Hale she played della street on the Perry Mason show and she William Katt mother the guy that played on the greater American hero
Well.. that's enough repeats. So long.