NY TV COMMERCIAL BLOCK 1977

[StukInBuf]

This "LeMans" movie had to be either June or July of 77. I should know; after my folks and I moved back to Brooklyn from SanFran, I recall the "LeMans" announcements airing on NBC right about then.

[OreckBoy1]

Hey!! It's C*H*I*P's Jon Baker!!!!

[RJS3566]

Larry Wilcox from CHiPs?

[tapthatt2012]

yes. and john wayne's son patrick.

[RealAgentOfSHIELD]

I have great memories of when The Sting was playing at the Capre on Fordham Road in 1973 (didn't see it, but the buzz was so big that even at 6 I know about the film,) but I don't remember it being released in 1977.

[necko115]

i wish i lived in the 60's-80's

[MSTS1]

Nice, don't see many like this, and the file quality is quite good.

[tapthatt2012]

may be mono on disk. wm brown mentioned youtbe is doing stero only. not sure--have to check. on my computer--coming out of one speaker.

[wmbrown6]

The right channel, to be precise. Many mono-only headphones only pick up audio from the left channel.

[TRKoneAD2]

Old Spice commerical - was that "CHIPS"

I remember Eddie Murphy saying a funny joke about using some Old Spice on his first date and Brute - I rather not say it here - this is family TV

[usa02]

Is that the late Ernie Anderson v/o the TV Trailer for "The Sting"?

[wmbrown6]

Sure sounds like it.

[TheEdgeOfLlanview]

Oh wow; that's Larry Wilcox in the Old Spice commercial! :-)

[retroguy1976]

took the words outta my mouth lol

[EarlSnohomish]

BTW, I saw "The Sting" at our local drive-in when it first came out. One of the first movies that I saw at that venue that I didn't fall asleep before the movie ended (even though I really had no idea what the heck was going on :-)

Didn't "Le Mans" air on WNEW years later?

Thanks, Tap!

[EarlSnohomish]

Patrick Wayne was the Old Spice guy?! My family and I saw him in "The Land That Time Forgot" (the first time that I saw him) that same year, but I never made the connection until now.

As for Larry Wilcox (the other sailor) in 1977, Patrick Wayne was like his famous father star-wise in comparison. :-)

[tapthatt2012]

remember patrick wayne in sinbad and the eye of the tiger?

[EarlSnohomish]

I remember when it came out, Tap, but if the TV spots ever mentioned his name, it didn't mean anything to me at the time.

I did see "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" years later, FWIW.

[StukInBuf]

@tapthatt2012 No, but I recall him as the host of the 1990 "Tic Tac Dough," a sorry substitute for Wink Martindale's rendition.