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Eagle Discount Supermarkets - "Tis the Season to Be Merry" (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a Christmas commercial for the now-defunct Eagle Discount Stores, with offers for fresh fruit baskets and Eagle holiday gift certificates, available in any amount and redeemable for any item. Features the man with the white beard and red suit at the end, holding the basket of fruit.

This commercial is the same as shown here the following year, the only difference being in the lower-third text (and ...

The 24 Days of Christmas - "England" with Michael Caine (1979)

Views: 1458

Here's another installment from the recurring 24 Days of Christmas one-minute featurettes, here with Michael Caine (just a few short years away from becoming "The Hardest Working Man in Hollywood") describing the Christmas traditions in England (five years before WBBM Channel 2's Bob Wallace travelled all the way there to find them out in person). Caine starts off by invoking the names of key characters from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" before listing holiday traditions that d...

Toys "R" Us (Christmas Commercial #4, 1981)

Views: 2419

Here's an animated Christmas commercial for Toys "R" Us, with Geoffrey the Giraffe and his family gathered 'round the fireplace before heading off to the area Toys "R" Us store to sample all the toys being offered - all to a special holiday-themed arrangement of "The World's Biggest Toy Store...The Biggest Selection" jingle.

This particular (and memorable) ad had aired at least since 1976, but in this form (with a notice t...

Andre Champagne & Cold Duck - "Greet The Season" (Commercial, 1976)

Views: 4489

Here's an even earlier variation of the Christmas Andre Champagne commercial - this one also including Cold Duck for your sparkling holiday drinking. Differs a bit from the 1979 and 1983 commercials.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Monday, December 6th 1976! (not Chicago, but close enough)

A Solid Gold Christmas (Part 11, 1982)

Views: 1520

Here is Part 11 of "A Solid Gold Christmas". Enjoy this holiday cheese tray!

(Includes a WGN 9 O'Clock News Promo at the end with Denise Cannon & John Drury!)

Featuring: Rex Smith, Marilynn McCoo, John Davidson, Marie Osmond, John Schneider, Donna Summer, America, Andrae Crouch, Roberta Flack, Crystal Gayle, The Oak Ridge Boys, Peter, Paul & Mary, Jerry Reed, Sister Sledge, The Chipmunks, Wayland Flowers & Madame, Jeff Altman, and The Solid Gold Dancers.
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WLAK FM 94 - "The Place to Relax" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 3696

Here's a commercial for the "beautiful" music of WLAK - The Lake FM 94 - "The Place to Relax", which played a lot of instrumental easy-listening songs.

This station is now known as WLIT-FM (93.9 "My FM"). Each November and December, they torture Chicagoans with non-stop holiday music.

Featuring actor Patrick O'Neal (who starred in my favorite Columbo episode in 1978, "Make Me A Perfect Murder") (O'Neal also did this same type of ad (and with the same slog...

WSNS Channel 44 - "Season's Greetings" (Bumper, 1978)

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Here's an animated "Season's Greetings" bumper from WSNS Channel 44, starting off with snowflakes falling, and where a pair of trees evolves into the "44" logo.

Directed and produced by Kurt Mendelsohn. Camerawork by Ron Vasser.

Kurt said about the making of this, "Took at least 10 passes to layer it all together. Connie made several vertical boards of snowflakes on black. We recorded Ron's camera slowly tilting up on the first one, irised low, then played i...