October 9, 1972 commercials

Let's go into the way-back machine as I present this series of commercials from October 9, 1972. They feature:

1. Sears color TVs
2. White Owl cigars (ah, the days when that was still legal to sell on TV lol!)
3. Valvoline motor oil
4. A volunteering PSA featuring recent Hall of Fame inductee Floyd Little
5. Skittle Tac-Toe
6. 1973 Lincoln Continental
7. Gillette Trac II razor
8. Gillette The Dry Look hairspray
9. 1973 Mercury Montego
10. Hamilton-Beach popcorn popper with Joe Namath
11. Another volunteering PSA with Ron Billingsley of the Houston Oilers
12. Flair colored pens
13. Uniroyal tires
14. Metropolitan Life insurance
15. Gulftane gasoline
16. 1973 Mercury Marquis
17. Panasonic Series 44 record player
18. 1973 Mercury Comet
19. Brief snippet for the Julie Andrews Show

Enjoy these old-school ads!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• october
• 1972
• commercials
• sears
• white owl
• valvoline
• psa
• floyd little
• skittle tac-toe
• lincoln
• continental
• gillette
• trac ii
• the dry look
• mercury
• montego
• hamilton-beach
• joe namath
• ron billingsley
• flair pens
• uniroyal
• metropolitan life
• gulftane
• marquis
• panasonic
• series 44
• comet
• julie andrews show

[Unit63]

BTW, where's part 2?

[gamelover1949]

@Unit63 The 2nd part never uploaded with audio, and then I lost the disc it was on. I haven't updated the info yet.

[Sheri451]

They had benned cigarette commercials two years earlier, why were there still CIGAR commercials on TV? We had one of those corn poppers.On the car ad's why were the fronts so long? And we would have to wait fifteen years for the TVs to come in stereo.

[gamelover1949]

@Sheri451 I believe there were loopholes in the law that allowed cigar makers to circumvent those restrictions. Figures they'd find a way around them, I suppose.

[bcrkris]

The Heat Misor is in the 2nd commecial for White Owl cigars! "I'm Mr.Green Christmas, I'm Mr. Sun."

[Morcaiden]

Excellent Don Adams commercial! Don't remember ever seeing it at the time :-)

[Morcaiden]

Damn, I hated those little carts for TV sets...

[dshmechanic]

LOOK! It's Drew Carey at 3:13

[Sheri451]

@Unit63 Thank You for the information.

[Unit63]

@gamelover1949 what a bear! but fair enough, thanks!