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DAS Smurf Modelling Set (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2858

You've heard of Das Boot? Well this is DAS Smurf - the modelling set for kids by Adica Pongo. ;-)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar's first commercial is for DAS Smurf Modelling Clay. He would have been 8 years old here.

Voiceover by Frank Welker.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, March 15th 1983. (The Ides of March!) (1982 Copyright)

Marvel Comics - "Summer Escape" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1615

Here's a neat commercial for Marvel Comics featuring kids at a playground reading the comic books. Definitely low-budget.

Features X-Men, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, Star Wars, and The Avengers.

Music almost sounds like the theme from Hawaii 5-O.

(ending voiceover ended just a tad early)

C. Marvel Comics Group
All Rights Reserved

This aired on local Chic...

Inchworm (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 1533

Here's a commercial for Inchworm from Hasbro Preschool.

This aired on local Chicago TV Friday, November 18th 1983.

Hostess Snacks (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1987

Here is another commercial for Hostess Snacks.

Boy, that mom sure has tough standards. :-)

Includes another Easter Egg at the end! 8-)

WMAQ Channel 5 - "The Wizard of Oz" (Commercial Break #1, 1973)

Views: 3567

Here's a surviving commercial break for the 1973 airing of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" (starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr) on WMAQ Channel 5. This was the seventh airing of this classic by NBC, which held the rights from 1967 to 1975. (Among the fare preempted this evening: The Wonderful World of Disney.) Includes:

Commercial: Jell-O Pudding & Pie Filling and Instant Pudding Mix - with kids in summer camp grousing about the camp food -...

WGN Channel 9 - The Transformers (Commercial Break #1, 1987)

Views: 4090

Here's a commercial break for an airing of The Transformers on WGN Channel 9. Quality's a little iffy, but this is the best I have right now. Includes:

Transformers bumper
G.I. Joe toys
Tuff Cut lawnmower
Corn Pops cereal
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous promo
Transformers bumper

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, March 11th 1987.

WFLD Channel 32 - Casper (Commercial Break #2, 1979)

Views: 2909

Another rare WFLD Channel 32 cartoon break! (I thought there was only one but there were two) Includes:

WFLD Casper bumper (dig that funky music!)

Look 'N' Love Dolly - doll for girls by Remco

Alpha Bits cereal - "Free Label Maker"

Hot Wheels by Mattel - "The Hot Wheels Line for '79" (I'm pretty sure I had the car with the Union Jack on the hood)

WFLD Casper kids' choice jingle bumper (unfortunately cut off early at t...

WSNS Channel 44 - The Good Time Bunch (Promo, 1977)

Views: 1919

Here's a promo for WSNS Channel 44's Good Time Bunch club, with hosts Brian (Vandenbroucke) and Mary Pat (Byrne) presiding over the third drawing for prizes for children ages 2-13 who are members of the club, and for those who aren't they can send in their names and addresses to join (alas, employees of Channel 44, Chase/Ehrenberg, and their families aren't eligible). The membership kit consisted of a Good Time Bunch membership card, stickers, TV schedule, and a 6-inch machine-...

ABC Network - Rudolph's Shiny New Year (Promo, 1982)

Views: 1974

Here's an ABC Network promo for an airing of the Christmas special "Rudolph's Shiny New Year", which aired on Monday, December 6th 1982.

Voiceover by Ernie Anderson.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, December 1st 1982.