70's Commercials Vol. 111

These commercials aired on NBC on October 28th, 1978

1. "Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park" Intro (The infamous TV movie starring the band Kiss and filmed at Magic Mountain amusement park. This movie has reached cult status and has been covered to death but RedLetterMedia's review of it is worth watching:    • Best of the Worst: Kiss Meets the Pha...   )
2. McDonald's
3. Chevrolet Monte Carlo
4. Cheetos
5. Swiss Miss Lite
6. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Commercial Bumper
7. Promo for "Sword Of Justice"
8. Promo for "The Bob Newhart Show" (RIP Bob Newhart)
9. Stick Ups
10. Promo for "In Search Of" (Irrefutable evidence that Leonard Nimoy smiled at one point)
11. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Commercial Bumper
12. Log Cabin Pancake Mix (These ads where they chroma keyed the actors into still photos of a kitchen are super weird to me. I guess they saved money by not having to build a set? Still seems bizarre to me)
13. Sanka (With Robert Young)
14. JC Penney Cotton Shaper
15. JC Penney Battery
16. AMC Spirit DL
17. Trident (Going from the disco at the end of the previous ad into this one shows how much it had saturated popular culture)
18. Listermint (6:34 gotta love that little noise)
19. Pepto Bismol (6:45 the woman on the far left is Estelle Harris. Also it's nice to see the guy from Mexico getting diarrhea in the U.S. for some balance)
20. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Commercial Bumper
21. NBC News Update
a. Israel and Egypt Peace Talks (This was about a month after the Camp David Accords which led to the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in March of 1979)
b. Red Brigade terrorist sent to jail in Italy for murder of Aldo Moro (The Red Brigade were a far left terrorist organization active in Italy from the 1970s to 1988)
c. Daylight Savings ends (Please, let's just keep daylight savings time year round)
22. Ford LTD
23. Promo for "Diff'rent Strokes" (Awesome to post a promo for the premiere episode!)
24. Promo for "David Cassidy - Man Undercover" (Keith Partridge is going to clean up the city...one bullet at a time! The title makes it sound like David Cassidy was actually playing himself in this. This series was born out of an episode of the show "Police Story" that Cassidy had appeared in the previous May and received an Emmy nomination for his performance. This show only lasted for 10 episodes before cancellation)
25. Milk
26. Burger King Steak Sandwich
27. Promo for "Sha Na Na"
28. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Commercial Bumper
29. Maybelline Nail Color
30. Polaroid Polavision (A proprietary silent Super 8 film format that was a huge commercial failure and was discontinued in 1979)
31. Plymouth Horizon
32. Purina Cat Chow (My grandmother has a collection of Mighty Dog calendars dating from the late 70's to late 80's that are very similar to this that she still uses)
33. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Commercial Bumper
34. Promo for "Centennial"
35. Promo for "Stranger In Our House"
36. Rayon Fabric (With Donna Karan)
37. Pepsi
38. Promo for "In Search Of"
39. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Commercial Bumper
40. Pizza Hut SuperStyle
41. Holiday Inn
42. Dry Idea Antiperspirant
43. Stove Top Stuffing
44. STP Motor Oil (With Johnny Cash)
45. Kal Kan Chunky Beef Dinner
46. Anacin
47. 7up (Even more disco! By 1979 people were getting tired of it which led to events like "Disco Demolition Night" at Chicago's Comiskey Park in the summer of 1979)
48. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Commercial Bumper
49. Promo for "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery"
50. Promo for "Summer Of My German Soldier" (Jewish girl meets escaped Nazi POW..."I can change him")
51. Keep America Beautiful, Inc. PSA (Featuring Iron Eyes Cody. The one from 1970 featuring him crying over garbage is iconic:    • Keep America Beautiful: The Crying In...  )
52. Venereal Disease PSA
53. "Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park" Ending/End Credits