Charley and Humphrey

Thanks for all the comments. It truly brought back some great memories. It would be awesome to see those videos and have someone do some documentary on what those kids are doing today! Hopefully someone might have recorded those PSA's on Beta when watching Ultraman or some show during that timeslot.

Someone must have recorded them! There are lots of old tapes from the 80s still out there. Plus, all these public service announcements ran during children's programming, and lots of parents recorded those for their children. I used to have a few of these PSAs once upon a time, until I stupidly, stupidly taped over them as a young teenager. We just have to keep our eyes open! SFChronicle has posted some of the Charley and Humphrey bits.

C&H rock. Thanks for posting this.

I remembered a little more about the Beatles tune. I think the whole scene of the children playing and working was set to the song "All Together Now."

Yes, it was

I can remember bits and pieces of some of the "I am proud to be a Mexican/Chinese/Italian/Japane se American" clips.

The Italian-American one featured a heavy-set little boy looking into a bakery window.

The Mexican-American one made reference to have once been farm workers.

Either the Chinese- or the Japanese-American one featured the line "Now we are doctors, lawyers...and dentists.

Were there others? I just remember those four.

There was the one where kid says "I'm proud to be a Black American." During the spot, he's shown doing things with his father. "Dad and I like to...." etc. And yes, it was the Chinese American one that cited the doctors and lawyers part. It ended this way, I can still hear it now: "The next time YOU see Chinese Americans, think about their contribution to the Bay Area." I'd love to see all those again.

Oh, my goodness! I completely forgot about the erector set PSA until just now.

Please, please, please...someone must have recorded these. If anyone has them, I would love to see them again.

There was even a PSA on Gays!

But, that ran late night.

"i miss the i,m proud to be a mexican american kid walking down freuitvale ave i met him 2 years ago still lives in the neighborhood in oakland also the one about the girl imagening she was a firefighter or a cop classic ktvu memorys i miss the 80s"

LOL I'm glad you remember those PSAs...But, OaklandLatino:

Those PSAs were from the 1970's, I ought to know because I saw those PSAs right before CAPTAIN COSMO! ha ha ha ha ha

You're prolly wondering: Who the fuck is Captain Cosmo?!?!?!?!?