Raleigh Commercials Compilation 1950's

Lucy and Desi seemed to talk from both sides of the mouth. While they huffed and puffed Phillip Morris on "I Love Lucy", they rented out their facillities to rival Raleigh for commercials. Here are some of their spots.

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Film & Animation

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• Raleigh Cigarettes
• Cigarette Commercials

[trashiscool1]

Curse Sir Walter Raleigh!"He was such a stupid git".

[LandondeeL]

@trashiscool1 Then maybe you should get up and have yourself a drink!

[ensgavry]

if you could clip -n-save 10,000 coupons from the packs you could send in for a nicely appointed coffin. lol

[LandondeeL]

@ensgavry Yep! Your own flip-top box!

[fromthesidelines]

Philip Morris sponsored "I LOVE LUCY" from 1951 through '55, 'Landon'. After their sponsorship ended, Desilu was able to produce commercials for other cigarette manufacturers- like Brown & Williamson's "Raleigh" [through their ad agency Keyes, Madden & Jones]. That's Marvin Miller announcing these 1958 spots; at the time, he was also appearing as "Michael Anthony" on Colgate-Palmolive's "THE MILLIONAIRE".

[LandondeeL]

@fromthesidelines To this day I'm still waiting for him to give me my million-dollar check.

[LandondeeL]

@teceyS3 Indeed. But now that we all know better, we can all enjoy the naivetity and quaintness of these commercials. My own personal favorites are the Viceroys (qv).

[BIGBUCK20]

Hell, at least an iron lung!

[TheSpritz0]

AUTOMATIC percolators were yesterday's equivalent of a home computer- they were THE item to have!!!

[teceyS3]

OMG~ I love watching these old cigarette commercials BUT~ the sales pitches the tobacco companies used to get you to smoke are seriously tragic.....