NBC Come Home To The Best 1989

[ClassicTVful]

I love these old promos. Youtube is a godsend for the nostalgic at heart!

[cr3861]

Somehow I get the feeling from these few posts that you guys never heard of Jackee(aka LaToya) from 227. A Googling is in order for the misinformed, as LaToya Jackson never, ever appeared in a regulat TV series. And I suupose you folks never heard of Marla Gibbs, either

[VaultMasterDBT]

I don't think they're getting Jackee confused with LaToya. The woman who appears with Bob Hope around 1:12 DOES look just like LaToya. Besides, if some of the people who claim to see LaToya also mention Bob Hope in the same breath, it wouldn't make sense if they didn't know Jackee or Marla. ;)

[sierria64]

BLACK CHICK WITH BOB HOPE WAS THAT LATOYA JACKSON

[MikeStivic]

@sierria64 Looks like her, but why would she be in a 1989 NBC promo? She looks scarry.

[keithsmove]

Such a cool promo....man, back in the day!

[GWhiz99]

From :28 to :32 of this “Come Home To NBC” promo for the fall 1989 TV season, there’s Johnny Carson (508-14-8695), MARla GIBBs, Bill Cosby, Bob HOPE and bRYANt GUMbEL. The sequence begins with CARSON reading the same tabloid-sized “Peacock News” edition as GUMbEL with SPORTS story “Break Out Winner” clearly visible. Unrelated to 1981 splits: BRAD Slater is paired with KAMrun in 2007’s “Dirty Filthy Man Sex”, while KAMrun and CARSON MATTHEWs appear in 2009’s “Bareback My Crack”. Unrelated: Lauer

[GWhiz99]

Unrelated to 1981 splits or progenitor of man: Johnny Carson(508-14-8695) was born in CORNing, ADAMs County, IA, which includes UNION, BROOKs, GRANT, JASPER. This promo is for NBC’s primetime fall 1989 schedule, but has personalities from NBC News. bRYANt GUMbEL is unrelated to BRAD SLATER with KAMrun in “Dirty Filthy Man Sex”. Still, KAMrun & CARSON MATTHEWs were in “Bareback My Crack” and MARio Lopez was ALBERT CLIFFord SLATER in NBC’s “Saved By The Bell” premiering Saturday mornings that fall

[pieceofcake125]

i miss the good old days.

[jwsu2003]

Latoya is the biggest mystery in this promo. She's actually 22 years early to promote the Apprentice. I didn't see My Two Dads featured anywhere. The longest running show to air this season was the Smurfs!

[aeropostalebunny1]

I Seen Bill, Phylicia, Tempestt, Malcolm, Keyshia, And Sabrina But Where's Lisa ?

[ringtailedfox]

"Come home to the best... only on Channel 4!" WDIV Detroit... i miss the good old days of classic, quality television... i agree. NOW, NBC is "miles below the rest"...

[JHollowayNetwork]

It was much bigger than the previous 1988 season.

[flipgood89]

lol at Robert Stack....he was probably high as hell when he was doing that promo

[Anrkist713]

Robert Stack was the most awesome host for a show, ever.

[theironworker781]

I forgot how hot Stephanie Kramer was back then. I also love how these promos celebrate the fact that NBC had their own little shared universe. Imagine the fun x-overs that could have happened.

[hilarioph]

How many years when Disney is on NBC?

[keithsmove]

"Miles above the rest"?

More like "Miles below the rest" now lol

[deangelomywayentfans]

"Come Home to the Best, WVTM" WVTM-TV Birmingham

[deangelomywayentfans]

"Come Home to the Best, Only on 11 Alive" WXIA-TV Atlanta

[Edgehead10075]

What was Leno doing on NBC in 1989?

[Edgehead10075]

It sucks that Gimme a Break, The Facts of Life, and Family Ties were gone by this time.

[coolwafferman]

@Edgehead10075 Because Jay Leno was Johnny Carson's subsitute host, and I guess he was well established then.

[godgundam10]

NBC needs new leadership. Someone who knows what they're doing. Someone who wants NBC to be the best again. It sure as hell ain't Jeff Zucker.

[kittygrrlhk]

I was 12 in 1989 and television back then was much better than it is today. Atleast back then program creators had some imagine and created shows that were about something. I miss the family sitcoms and even cop and action shows and primetime soaps.

[MrGamespecialist]

wow!

[nicklebackfan]

What memories! The era before reality television poisoned primetime, the era before they cut out theme songs that made shows immortal, the era before cable fragmented the market to the point where bad television was rewarded and not penalized. *Sigh* Life must go on, I guess.

[Edgehead10075]

Yes. We must get used to it.

Are there any network sitcoms anymore where the kids are the main focus?

[nsrbr]

Come Home To The Best... Only On NBC!!!.

[coolwafferman]

Good promo. NBC at one time had some very good sitcoms. Today the network is like a huge WTF?

"'Cosby", Hunter" "227", "The Golden Girls" "In the Heat of the Night", "Empty Nest",and "Night Court". I like those shows and this promo came out the year I was born. Thank god for reruns, DVD, and Youtube. Because the best is there. Not on NBC.

[pannoni1]

This was my preschool year and probably the first season I could recognize what they were saying! I was born just in time to experience that "last gasp of '80s fun". But I nostalgize the past like I'm a thirty-something.

[RetroGirl2385]

My preschool year too! Ditto everything else you said!

[kc86er]

Hey I began preschool that year too (1989-90)! I remember most of these shows as well (when they were on NBC), mainly "Alf", "Cosby Show", "Hogan Family", "Night Court", and "A Different World". That's right, I actually watched "Night Court" when I was 3 years old :)

[Edgehead10075]

Hunter was another good Saturday show.

[coolwafferman]

@Edgehead10075 Next to "In the Heat of the Night", "Hunter" is one of my favorite NBC crime shows.

[soseztheleadr]

Love the memories flooding back right now. ^^

[gmta28]

Latoya scares me..

[ronniemas1]

Wow, gets a little annoying after oh say....30 seconds.

[Awesoman]

@ronniemas1 Agreed...it's so annoying it's surreal.

[fgldnglbs]

The Cosby Show, L.A. Law, Golden

Girls and Night Court are the standouts; Hunter, 227 and Empty Nest(sorry R,.M.) remind you its 20 YEARS.

[internationalMR]

Wow... I don't remember that at all.

[islandblader]

geez, i was 2 years old when this came out! why cant TV still be like this?

[narutomustgonow]

Blame the stupid corporate hacks. I grew up during this era and boy you really did'nt need 500 channels. Someone in the 90s decided that all this optimistic promotion was dated and they needed to be edgy and slutty (within FCC rules) and started aiming for the lowest common denominator and taking the fun out of TV eventually these corporate hacks started buying or merging with the cable stations

and turned those places to trash. all I can say is my fairly new HDTV is gathering dust and......

[narutomustgonow]

if you really want to "come home to the best" in 2009 Drop the Remote and turn the laptop on watch some Youtube Veoh or Hulu. Now that's REAL entertainment!

[lolaxgoth]

Yea, I was wondering about Latoya Jackson too LoL. Honestly, I think that promo was too long. Too "jazzed"

[BarrettTV]

yeh why is latoya in this? lmao...and why is bob hope in this? can sumone explain without me having to go thru the 95 comments on here lol

[BexxiesTV]

Bob Hope is in this b/c he did TV specials on NBC back then...I think he did them until the mid 90s or somewhere in there. As for Latoya, I have no idea. LOL.

This promo was...a bit much. I think it went on about 2 minutes too long. The 1990 one, The Place to Be, was much better in my opinion.

[Edgehead10075]

Yes. Bob Hope's final NBC special was on November 23, 1996, and it was hosted by Tony Danza for some reason.

[Edgehead10075]

Another good point is that the networks, especially NBC, had good programming on Saturdays. The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, 227, Amen, Diff'rent Strokes, Gimme a Break, and The Facts of Life were all on Saturdays at one time or another. Now there is no good programming at all on TV on Saturdays, even with the hundreds of channels that we have now.

[thenextrung]

@Edgehead10075 Tony Danza what a shame. :(

[NitekMuscle]

Why is LaToya Jackson in the promo? Tonight Show reference?

[BUTTONBICHON]

WTF LATOYA/

[danarussell27]

And now we only have lousy reality show to look forward to. sigh!

[agenttorpor]

Bob Hope should have just died right then and there thanks to this craptacular, dated piece of trash...

[SoulThing1981]

Richard Mulligan RIP!!(

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

This was GREAT!! All my favorite memories rolled into a great commercial! Thanks for posting this!

[luverfriend]

it looks like they had lots of fun making this

i know i would've enjoyed this

[TragicWK]

WTF - they could get Bob Hope but not John Ratzenberger??

[pannoni1]

Even the campaigns from the 60's are enjoyable to watch. They tended to be more descriptive and sometimes showed brief clips of the new programs. Sometime in the mid-late 90's, campaigns lost their effectiveness.

[newscaster13]

As a college journalism student, and longtime news watch, I grew up watching these NBC News Anchors. Some stayed and have gone.

1) Bryant Gumbel (Today) is at NFL Network, and I Don't Know where Jane Pauley is now

2) Maria Shriver - left to work with California's Governator

3) Tom Brokaw - former Nightly News anchor - is staying, but is being interim on Meet the Press, seeing that Tim Russert died

4) John Palmer, where is he now?

5) Deborah Norville (Today) now at Inside Edition.

[xevious87]

Who is woman singing at the start

[jorgeschannel]

Jackee Harry

[WorldNews92]

Why are Letterman and Cheers not featured?

[corrupt200]

tell me about it, and I thought cheers was the 2nd best sitcom after Cosby, now that Family Ties ended its run.

[reneen1018]

Can you imagine them having a commercial like this now? NBC is mostly crap these days. Wow, I was three when this came out.

[AzKkMcFaN]

I agree, and NBC execs are scratching their heads trying to figure out why their ratings are continuing to plummet

[gameshowluvr86]

Jackee Harry was such a hottie during the mid-late '80s. Those tight, flashy dresses and that BIG hair, LOVED IT!!

[losdineros]

brandon tartikoff was a genius

[ChrisC80]

Whats with the Cosby show plugs? Three times? NBC had a lot of other biggies back then and no Bea Arthur from Golden Girls?

Great flashback though

[nomadcowatbk]

Cosby was the highest rated show then

[NDW85]

Because Classic Concentration was airing on NBC at the time, Alex Trebek, Majorie Goodson-Cutt and Gene wood should have appeared in this commercial. But I guess Alex was doing a Jeopardy taping and Gene was doing a family feud taping on the day filming began.

[MrLogoman007]

Same could be said for Pat and Vanna, Jim Perry, Chuck Woolery, and Vicki Lawrence.

[birdienest81]

The animation looks eye catching. It would probably fit in with today.

[mrsnyder99]

wow.........I hadn't seen that since......since....well, since 1989! :) They just don't make TV like that anymore...what a shame.

[keithsmove]

One of the best promos of the 80's

tv used to be soooo cool

[sixstringedstress]

Scarriest promo I have ever seen.

[DefLeppardVanHalen]

Bull was really funny on this promo.

[BarrettTV]

i wish they still did stuff like this

[newsboysrok]

That. Was. Soooooooo awful. And really long. (That's what she said)

[VaultMasterDBT]

What is wrong with you? That was one of the best campaigns ever (even visually). Obviously it isn't awful if people left a year's worth of comments above you praising it..

[newsboysrok]

I apologize, mein commandant. In future, I will keep my opinions to myself.

Zieg heil!

[VaultMasterDBT]

No, you are entitled to your opinions, but do you honestly think this many people have bad taste? Come on..

[newsboysrok]

No, I don't think they all have bad taste. I just didn't like it. It didn't fit my taste. Maybe I'm the one with bad taste.

[Adom]

it's not that yoou have bat taste newsboy, but in `89 you probably would have watched ABC.

What are we all going to think 20 years from now looking back at promos for reality shows where people say things on TV that end their marriages.

[DivisiveOffering]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha Robert Stack.

[tommasfoolery]

so cheesy.

[narutomustgonow]

to cheesy enough for me. Personally they should have retained the Let's All be There slogan even though they had a new peacock. LABT was much better

[mdiva]

the people on the bikes are golden girls betty white and estelle getty

[jcouture85]

I totally forgot that The Facts of Life ended a year before this promo! But I agree with one poster, all of the Huxtables were up in this promo, i'm surprised that Bill Cosby agreed to be in this.

[TV337]

I think NBC was the best network in the 1980's and 1990's. The ratings prove it.

[barber747]

And now it is @ the bottom. That's just really sad...

[blackflower75]

This made me want to cut my eyes with razors......

[Oronzadelphia]

Wow awesome! This is sooo ultimately cheesey. I love it! Anybody know who those people are on the bikes? Wonder too why they go out of their way to metion "ALF" but never bother to show Alf?

[bakaface]

hahahahaha! I remeaber this!!!

[CharlesNigro]

Cosby, Cosby, and more Cosby, my god, how many times did they milk that cow? It's a testament to how good these shows were that most of them were/are in syndication for a number of years.

[speed114]

What was up with NBC having all the Disney stuff back then?!

[pjc858]

Disney didn't buy ABC until 1996

[DontBeTrippin]

1995

[emmisonjs17]

those were the days... days when NBC ruled the ratings. Imagine how very early in the 80s, they sucked... literally... and going into the 90s, they ruled... the only thing the network can do now is play it smart and build on the shows they have... like they did in the very early 80s...

[fickenshiskoff]

wow if you don't blink you can see Jason Bateman in a hardhat

[MetuNtr]

Cosby truly ruled the network back then. Count how many times at least one of the characters is in the whole promo.

[TheDotComKid]

lots of people from 227 too!

[DivisiveOffering]

Nah, just Marla and Jackee.

[kittyprydex]

WHOA. I TOTALLY remember this. Something about those graphics. Whoo... Empty Nest! There's a thought I haven't had in years. Haha, Matlock is pissed. Wow, when NBC didn't suck.

[pjc858]

is there a reason why cheers got bypassed in this promo?

[DivisiveOffering]

That's what I wondered while I was watching.

[DivisiveOffering]

I wondered that all through this!

[archer1949]

Where's Cheers?

[thejyav]

HOLY CRAP i love the 80s and that was even too 80s for me

[MeInTX]

They couldn't get one Cheers cast member to show up for this?

[jas9946]

That looks like Roseanne at the very end of the promo. but she was on ABC hmm.

[DontBeTrippin]

You couldn't possibly be talking about Edie McClurg (standing next to Sandy Duncan) from The Hogan Family?!

[mooky9669]

I don't remember this promo...nice upload!

[SilasGTBronte]

Neat, vibrant promo!

[BlackNGoldRules]

I don't think they said NBC NBC enough in that song! lol

[Ulalafanboy]

What I wanna know is why the Golden Girls have coloured hair.  For that matter, where was Bea Arthur?

Jayson

[beerbash1]

Everything about the eighties sucked!

[Subzero20044]

What about Fresh Prince, Law and Order, Blossom, and the other show on NBC Promo?

[JRaygor]

Fresh Prince and Law and Order didn't debut until 1990.

[barber747]

And Blossom wasn't until '91

[AzKkMcFaN]

and Blossom didn't show up until 1991

[thewillofthe313]

too bad they can't say that today in 2007, their biggest show today is about people picking suitcases lol...I miss the good sitcoms like those.

[whizkidforte]

I like the part w/ the dancing Mickey Mouse at 2:01! CUTE!

[joecabrera82]

I don't think the Seven Network Australia doesn't have this same ident in 1990 but it might not be '7 yeah, 7 yeah, Come Home to the Best'.

[nothingfails]

whoa, is that La Toya Jackson with Bob Hope around 1:12?

[NitekKetin]

I think it's Lisa Bonet from The Cosby Show.

[FarahMalika83]

yep that's latoya jackson

[SteakDinnerBoom]

@FarahMalika83 You sure? I thought it was Jasmine Guy. Did Latoya have a TV show then?

[FarahMalika83]

@SteakDinnerBoom LOL omg I haven't been to this video since the one time I watch it a year or longer ago. I tried to watch the whole video again and this time it was total torture! lol This song really is annoying after 30 seconds like ronniemas said. I didn't see LaToya in the video this time either, so it probably was Jasmine Guy, which would make more sense as she was one of the main characters on "A Different World" on NBC.

[TVFreak788]

I just love these old NBC promos!

[DontBeTrippin]

To those here who haven't seen it yet, the video for NBC's 1988 campaign is up, just do a search for "NBC 1988".

[trisr]

Yes, I want the video for 1988 promo, I only have the audio.

[NewsLynne]

John Palmer? Stepfanie Kramer? Damn. Hope they had fun while it lasted - two years later both were long gone from NBC, just like the "227" cast.

[corrupt200]

does anoyone have the video that went with the 1988 Come home to the best...only on NBC jingle?

[DontBeTrippin]

Speaking of which, I saw someone in this promo that looked vaguely like Paul Reiser, but then I discovered it was David Leisure. So with that being said, what was up with the lack of appearances by casts of "Cheers" and "My Two Dads"? Still an awesome fall promo though, very funky!

Now a bit of trivia: this was the season in which "Baywatch" originally premiered, although it would only last one year on NBC before it returned in syndication (thanks to the financial backing of The Hoff himself!)

[corrupt200]

it's already bad enough that Famiy Ties had already ended...so no MJF in this promo

[HollywoodDerek2]

I Still Got The 1989-1990 Promo For NBc On Paul Riser's Hollywood Adventure

[JimmySand9]

If NBC were still doing promos like this, they wouldn't be in last place.