ABC's 1968 commercials

[49jubilee]

back then, they didnt know what DENTAL FLOSS WAS so they lost their teeth--without 'meth' BTW 1968 was the year drugs MAINSTREAMED.....(sigh)

[mrshert]

I am pretty sure that is model Sunny Griffin

[reymatt76]

The lady in the HAIR SETTER ad looks like one of the models that appeared in a Virginia Slims commercial around the same time. If anyone knows if it's the same woman or what I'm talking about let me know.

[rascal211]

Commercials were way better in the 1960s than they are today.

What happened, can't they make catchy jingles anymore.

They don't use horns much anymore, horns are powerful and catchy and often used in 1960s commercials.

[TVDude78]

The woman's voice on the Milk Of Magnesia commercial sounds like June Lockhart.

[trashiscool1]

Curse Sir Walter Raleigh! "he was such a stupid git".John Lennon 1968.

[lennomenno]

Some people say the only reason we have "The good old days" is because of a bad memory...I'm not so sure..

[JoshuaTaylor]

Golly !

I gotta get me one of those fancy reel to reel's that tell me how to brush my teeth. ;-)

[nassmatic]

The Frito Bandido is voiced by Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and Speedy Gonzales

[nassmatic]

smoking and skating! ahh now, that's how you relax!

[Catdude5000]

I would still think that all of these commercials — denture aids and hair curlers and analgesics and all — would still work just fine interspersed between Fox News (even including the politically-incorrect one at the end)....

[felixjazzage]

@Catdude5000

Obligatory Fox News dig is obligatorily unamusing.

[Catdude5000]

@felixjazzage ...but Fox News kind of disses Ron Paul, and the Frito Bandito wouldn't get him and most of his fans to eat more Fritos.... :O)

[felixjazzage]

@Catdude5000

I watch Fox News as little as humanly possible, because it doesn't appeal to my point of view, and, yes, its editorial slant's wildly against Ron Paul. I'm a Libertarian, not a flag-waving neocon.

I just find reflexive slams against Fox, that are kind of lazy, sort of dull. Most of the Fox jokes aren't funny.

Ron Paul/ Frito Bandito 2012

[Sheri451]

My Mother used to make me go to reataurants in curlers. I was embarrased. I was only 11 at the time. Oh Yeah people put on some Polygrip and eat a candy apple instead.

[texasghost]

It's sad you cant use the Frito Bandido anymore without risk of a lawsuit by LULAC.

[bingobongo445]

It's the only cancer stick i have found with the right taste!

[JxT1957]

taste that beats the others cold pepsi pours it on.. i remember that!

[dao3rd123]

What was Jimmy Durante doing in there?

[19Chuck80]

All these commercials are great, musically beautiful, not too long unimaginative and boring, wow how times have changed! Whats that sport them guys are playing in the Pepsi Commercial

[LenaAndreia]

@19Chuck80 They're playing--Jai alai, I think.

[MovieTech]

@19Chuck80 Yes, its Jai Alai.

[MrSteve24fps]

The Frito Bandito was voiced by Mel Blanc!

[david02911]

The Frito Bandito...here's to political incorrectness!

[shoemanbundy]

In that Pepsi commercial it sound like they're singing "pepsi poison oak"

[regressing2apes]

wow the shaver gal is hawt

[elc1960]

I can't be the only one who thought the shaver ad in the beginning was actually a Rice-A-Roni ad. The guy in the Phillips ad (at 2:35) is Rik Pierce, who was the guy from the original Hai Karate after shave ad who has to fend off the advances of a hot babe.

[19Chuck80]

@elc1960 I have to admit I thought the Sunbeam ad was gonna be a Rice A Roni ad myself, its amazing how most men and women looked back then, and the swinging orchestra music they used for commercials, and they were way shorter but somewhat enjoyable, unlike the ones now.

[RichieEastside]

I thought sunbeam was a bread company...or am I just a young little whippersnapper?

[elc1960]

@RichieEastside Yep - you're a young whippersnapper. Sunbeam Electronics was a very popular home appliance company well into the 1980s, making blenders, toaster ovens, hair dryers, lighted portable vanity mirrors, electric toothbrushes, curling irons, etc. Not sure if they're still in business today.

[RichieEastside]

@elc1960 Oh so it's a different company altogether? They're lucky they didn't get sued by the bread folks then. Well, I was not aware of that, thanks for the info. =)

[LenaAndreia]

@RichieEastside I used to work for Sunbeam Appliances in 2006. You have no idea how many emails we got from people complaining about problems with their bread. XD

[LenaAndreia]

@elc1960 They are, I used to work for them in 2006. They're fused with Mr. Coffee and Oster. At the office, we even had a whole table FULL of their retro appliances and electronics from the 50s and 60s. That shaver was one of them. :3

[fromthesidelines]

Actually, 'SeanElGato', PepsiCo bought Frito-Lay in 1965. Donald Kendall, then chief executive of the company, explained why: "Salted snacks make people thirsty"...and he was proven right by the rapid expansion of both companies in later years.

[Bloodybunny]

"Get Poli-Grip. And then go have yourself an ear of corn." Weirdest slogan ever.

[elc1960]

@Bloodybunny I got one weirder - the old cigarette ad that said "It's not how long you make it, it's how you make it long!" (Subliminal much?)

[ChristianTVArchive]

Wow, these commercials are in excellent condition for 1968.

[Poodlepups]

The laxative survey guy has the worst job in the world.

[wkat950]

Pepsi ought to use some of their old slogans to market "Pepsi Throwbacks" which, supposedly, taste like Pepsi back in the day. I first drank Pepsi (early 70s) when they started putting HFCS (fake sugar) in it. I do remember those heavy cans!

[themrjoemax]

i sure miss those 16 ounce glass bottles. pepsi sure tasted good back then.

[19Chuck80]

@themrjoemax Yes all soda was much better in glass! I just was born in time for the LAST fat glass bottles that were used in the mid-late 80's...before I was 10yrs old, by 90's that crappy cola taste of plastic came around

[TimelordR]

And i was just a 2-year old rugrat when these commercials came out. 

[littlemute]

omg mr.cooper!

[argo984]

Gotta love how they didn't need any proof of there claims back then.

[jsilence418]

I can't describe what seeing these time pieces does ,thanks for posting!

[fromthesidelines]

Sterling Drug originally manufactured Bayer and Phillips; now, it's Bayer. That's distiguished actor/narrator Alexander Scourby's voice in the Excedrin spot. Bristol-Myers originally created Excedrin and owned Clariol...these days, it's a Novartis product, and Procter & Gamble owns Clairol. Block Drug Company manufactured Polident and Poli-Grip (today, GlaxoSmith Kline markets it). Mel Blanc is the "Frito Bandito"- Mason Adams is the announcer at the end.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

@fromthesidelines: You missed one...Pepsi now owns Frito-Lay (the cola company bought them out in the Eighties).

[fromthesidelines]

Obvious parody of the famous "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE" opening sequence at :33 {"This tape will self-destruct in five seconds....as well as your medicine cabinet. Lots of luck, Mr. Cooper!"}; Brown & Williamson Tobacco's sales of Raleigh and Belair flourished during the '60s because of the "free coupons" on the backs of those packs- and you could get some great "prizes" by redeeming those coupons from their catalog (like an oxygen mask from all the cigarettes you smoked to get those coupons)!

[ftsjr]

I loved the Frito Bandito.

[halcaannen]

Give me a time machine now!!!

[swloomis]

I miss the days when women went out in rollers, I used to love it

[raymondclark32]

it's looks like actor jimmy durante' host ABC's hollywood palace in 1968 where commercial come from.