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Pac-Man Children's Chewable Multi-Vitamin Plus Iron with Fred Savage (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 3314
Here's a commercial for Pac-Man Children's Chewable Multi-Vitamin Plus Iron, which had no sugar or additives among its ingredients - unlike Flintstones Multi-Vitamins which had 70% sugar.
Featuring a very young Fred Savage, years before he shot to fame as the star of the TV series The Wonder Years.
(C) 1983 Rexall Corporation
"Goodbye, Fred - Hello, Pac-Man."
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 28th 1983 d...
WCIU Channel 26 - The Dennis Green Show (Part 4 - Last, 1982)
Views: 1381
Here is Part 4, the last part, of a (mostly complete) episode of The Dennis Green Show on WCIU Channel 26. Dennis Green was the coach of the Northwestern Wildcats - the college football team of Northwestern University. Co-hosted by Duane Dow - voice of the Wildcats.
Featuring, among others, Coach Francis Peay (at that time an assistant coach) who was head football coach at Northwestern University from 1986 to 1991.
Also includes commercials for Old Style beer a...
WLAK FM 94 - "The Place to Relax" (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 3679
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...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial Outtakes, "Speak Out" and Others (1979-80)
Views: 9885
Here's a set of outtakes from WMAQ Channel 5's editorial director Dillon Smith, plus a few "Speak Out" vox pops thrown in for good measure.
Includes:
Dillon counting down and introducing a "Speak Out" segment
A young woman in the 18-20 age range speaking about the legal drinking age (as a debate was raging about whether to raise the minimum age from 18 to 21)
An older man speaking about "turning it over to Picaxo"
Anot...
Prospect Federal Savings - "Mining for Check$avers" (Commercial, 1982)
Views: 1022
Here's a commercial for Prospect Federal Savings, with a gold prospector describing the bank's "Check$aver" N.O.W. account (which pays 5-1/4% interest compounded daily and is insured to $100,000) as he's looking for gold in the lake.
What's the deal with banks and prospectors back then?
Prospect Federal was located at 555 East Butterfield Road (across from Yorktown Mall) in Lombard, and tw...
WCLR 102 FM - "Movin' Easy" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 2610
Here is a commercial for WCLR 102 FM in Chicago. (Now 101.9 WTMX - The Mix) The Multichron Calculator Watch (Commercial Offer, 1983)
Views: 2795 Here's a commercial offer for The Multichron Calculator Watch - the unbelievable watch with 21 different features! You have the power to Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Use Memory, and Save a Constant. It's also a Stopwatch, Lap-Timer, shows the HOUR OF THE DAY (!), the Minute, Seconds, AM/PM, has 24 Hour Time, has a Calendar with Month, Date, Day of the Week, and a Night Light! Can you believe it? It also has a Daily Alarm, a Weekly Alarm, and an Hourly Chime. Lastly it has "Feature 21...
Movin' Easy with Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Radar Weather (I love their first album!), Johnny Mathis, Dionne Warwick, Concise News, Neil Diamond, The Beatles, Clear Traffic Watch (sell outs), Frank Sinatra, and Chicago.
Voiceover by Dave Martin, who before this had also worked at WCFL and voiced
Views: 574
Here's another commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders, featuring legendary actor (and former Rat Packer) Peter Lawford explaining how aluminum siding on the outside of a home is not only attractive but also saves money on heating in the winter and cooling in the summer, enhances a home's resale value, and is easy to maintain.
Another commercial with Mr. Lawford can be seen here.
Ending voi...
McDonald's - "Play and Win" (Commercial, 1982)
Views: 2057
Here's another commercial for McDonald's promoting their Atari "Scratch & Win" cards, with dramatized examples of past winners: the Baldwin family (presumably not including Alec or Billy) with an Atari home computer center (playing video games on the TV screen); Mike Jr. teaching his dad how to use the Atari 800 home computer; and the Murray family playing and winning an Atari home video game. Must be 13 or older to play. Expires October 22nd 1982 - or as long as supplies last. Void where...