WTCG 1978 "Little Rascals & Friends" & Classic Commercials

[jimjr155]

love it at 1:54!!!...haha...

[fromthesidelines]

Mort Marshall was "Fruitpie the Magician" (I remember his voices from "Tennessee Tuxedo" and "Klondike Kat")....and Dan Ingram's the announcer for the "Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine" spot.

[bofts]

We had a Mr Chef and it actuallt worked

[crazyfuk100]

oh, those hostess fruitpies are fuckin delicious!

[nightfly776]

Dan Ingram of WABC was the voice on the Snoopy commercial.

[lindenmeadow]

We had a Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine when I was a kid. I remember the commercial very well too. Ah, the memories. Thanks for posting this!

[Tamaslammer]

Mr Chef was Brian Doyle Murray. Bill Murray's brother.

[idaltuguy]

Back when you could actually have cartoon characters attacking each other. Everything was relatively good, until the dreaded 90's. Now cartoons are either stupid, or censorsed so much that they're not funny at all. RIP childhood...rip entertainment.

[darinmaclachlan]

Great nostalgia...btw...this is off-topic, but I'd like to let everyone out there reading this know the Chinese Communist Party has been persecuting 70 million Falun Gong spiritual practitioners for 10 years in China. They are put in slave-labor camps and forced to make stuff sold here. They take organs from them and sell them to rich people. The media doesn't cover it. It must stop. Thanks.

[chemistryguy]

@darinmaclachlan Yes, I agree. btw, to veer even further off of topic.

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[iluvthelittlerascals]

good job keeping all thoes commericals!

[looneywoman]

2:58 -- This is apparently what kids did before Nintendo and others invented the Gameboy.

[johnny433333]

Ah, it looks like the early 1990s commercials.

[LilM0]

I still have my old Snoopy Sno-Cone machine in the attic. :)

[donjabroni]

does it work?

[LilM0]

Nah. I tried to show it off to my nephews and the handle broke. >_>

[LadyLora]

Super 17 sounded like a cool channel.

[ArtKing12]

Did he say, Oh, crap?

[dana7densmore]

i think he did :O

[143AC]

I know that Allen Swift did the voice

of"Twinkie The Kid"?

But..Who did the voice of"FruitPie The

Magician"?

[UncleCathode]

Also Allen Swift, methinks....

[jpowell180]

..."Yummy, Snoopy!" :)

[eyeh8cbs]

Luckily you can relive the magic of worn cartoon prints on the many $1 DVDs that are out now.

That Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine commercial ran at least til the mid-80s. The later versions had an animated Snoopy licking a sno-cone over the end.

Looks like all the mail-order commercials on WTCG and WTBS's early years had the same phone number- 1-800-257-1234. Just tried it now and got a live person, but I didn't ask what company it is now.

[tkaye2]

I remember that 800 number on WTBS ads well into the late '80s. IIRC, Ted Turner said in an interview that in the WTCG days, these direct-response ads were fulfilled by the station itself. I could imagine that the operation grew so large that it could have been spun off into a separate company that was later sold, but that's just speculation on my part.

[sweetttina666]

1978 must've been an important year for my psyche. That's what my mind tells me. It's more like a presence. Something bad happened to me during Snoopy's snow cone machine commercial.

[2reelers]

Thanks for sharing! Love that local tv stuff....I sent you a message by the way!

[brithgob]

Is that Charlie Tuna voicing the Snoopy Sno-Cone spot? (the radio DJ, not the Star Kist fish)

[Markieo]

That's Dan Ingram, the legendary air personality from 77 WABC!

[brithgob]

I knew it was one of those guys.

[NEPatriot]

Not to mention WCBS-FM, kemosabe!

[CaptainWrong]

Impressionistic Rascals. LOL