80's Commercials Vol. 1063

These commercials aired on NBC on April 11th, 1981

1. Promo for "SCTV" (RIP to cast member Joe Flaherty)
2. TV Spot for "Stir Crazy"
3. Playtex Tampons (With Brenda Vaccaro. I can't help but notice she's a lot less "breathy" in this than the ad I posted in the previous volume...I'm thinking that they actually muted the audio when she wasn't speaking here)
4. Kronenbourg Beer
5. TV Spot for "Caveman"
6. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper (The 1980-81 season is cited by pretty much everyone as the worst in the show's history. Lorne Michaels had left as executive producer the previous season taking all of the cast and most of the writing staff with him, with new producer Jean Doumanian filling his role for this season. After an on-air F bomb on the 2/21/81 show SNL was put on hiatus and Doumanian was eventually let go. This 4/11/81 episode hosted by Chevy Chase was the last episode of the season before the 1981 WGA strike put production on hold and was the first produced by NBC exec Dick Ebersol. For the next season, only Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo remained from the 1980-81 cast)
7. Denorex (You can feel it tingle! 2:28 did we REALLY have to follow shampoo man into the shower?)
8. Dr Pepper (With David Naughton and Mickey Rooney! I believe this also features the ensemble cast from Sugar Babies, a 1979 Broadway musical that Rooney starred in at the time)
9. Honda Motorcycles
10. Nature's Organics Plus Henna Shampoo
11. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
12. TV Spot for "Excalibur" (It's always a thrill to post trailers like this for iconic movies. This movie is far from perfect but it's certainly an experience and has some incredible imagery...and Nicol Williamson as Merlin is just a classic performance)
13. Giacobazzi Wine
14. Budget
15. S.O.S. (With Estelle Harris)
16."Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
17. Promo for "Fugitive From The Empire" (A TV movie intended as a pilot for a series that wasn't picked up. The success of "Excalibur" and other fantasy epics like "The Sword and the Sorcerer" and "Conan The Barbarian" probably made them rethink their decision to not have a sword and sorcery TV show on the air during this period)
18. WPIX FM
19. Kawasaki 650 CSR Motorcycle
20. McDonald's $10,000,000 Build A Big Mac Game
21. Promo for "Bob Hope's Spring Fling"
22. Bic Shaver (Featuring a bunch of football stars. Fred Dryser at 7:52 later starred in the NBC TV show "Hunter")
23. Lowenbrau
24. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
25. The Gap (I actually had no idea the "fall into the gap" slogan was that old)
26. "Saturday Night Live" Commercial Bumper
27. Summer's Eve
28. TV Spot for "Nighthawks" (Rutger Hauer's first American movie. This was plagued by production issues)
29. 97 WYNY FM