CLASSIC COMMERCIALS - 1974 with NBC Nightly News Show Open

As shown during an August 8, 1974 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor Special broadcast.

This collection includes:

NBC Nightly News Open on the Resignation of President Nixon
AQUA VELVA - "There's Something About"
ANACIN - "For Hours of Relief"
EXOCAINE - "Medicated Foam"
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER - "Scout" SUV
CLOROX - "Take Away"
DENTU-CREME - "Specially Made"
BAYER - "Timed Release"
HALEY'S M-O - "Get Back in the Swing"
AMC - "Gremlin"
COCA-COLA - "Look for the Real Things"
JOHNSON'S WAX - "StepSaver"

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 1974
• CLASSIC
• COMMERCIALS
• RETRO
• VINTAGE
• NBC
• NIGHTLY
• NEWS
• SHOW

[playerhater812]

Is it just me, or are all these commercials focused on retired, arthritic, constipated, old people. They knew who watched the nightly news back then...

[musicom67]

@playerhater812 Yeah, the same age group who NOW watch FOX NEWS!

[musicom67]

If you were taping TV in 1974, you or your folks musta been quite wealthy. "Regular" folks didn't start getting VCRs until 1977....

[virnman]

@musicom67 We were very much an upper middle class family and didn't buy a VCR until the 80's. They cost a fortune, none of my friends had them either. The cool thing was that when the video stores started popping up, they rented VCR's along with the movies. My folks even kept our 1970 19" Zenith color t.v. well into the 1980's. I guess that's why we always had plenty of money, now even poor people have flat screens.

[musicom67]

@virnman My family got our first VCR in 1983 (I was in high school). That seems to be a general timeframe when 'most' families took the plunge. Hardcore TV guys, around that same time, already had their 'Betamaxes' for 5 years already. Remember when a blank T-120 could cost upwards of $20 a pop! Of course, when MTS Stereo was introduced in 1984, the VCR was already 'old'....

[mefault]

The quality of these commercials is unbeatable for it's age.

[tflood3]

I saw a movie shot in the 60s about the future where watching commercials from the past was the entertainment .... and here i sit 2012 this is my shows i watch commercials from my childhood that is a big LOL

[SHMUJEW]

wow , thats right when the msm was trying to destroy america

[imcopper]

today these ole farts are still living but now on oxy cotton lol

[MrMiniMeister]

HAHAHAHA "exocaine"... replace the first two letters with a 'c'

[n1uvu]

@musicom67 first t-120 maxell i bought in '81 to dub some super 8 films i had, cost 18.00. cripes !

[n1uvu]

all the network news broadcasts for the past 40 yrs, that i can remember ( since 1967-68 at least ) were pitching those type of "elderly" products ! nothing new !

[Kuahmel]

@heine71 Nope, not Welker. His voice and look are unmistakable.

[Kuahmel]

@mefault Yeah, the Aqua Velva one is ridiculous! Even commercials shot in 1980 don't look that crispy

[JP5466]

@musicom67 I don't hate Steve Liesman, I loathe him. He's a cheerleading shill for TPTB. He was hired to tell the sheep what they want to hear. Did Becky give birth to Warren Buffett's love child?  He just loves her!

[nanlisa]

My family and I went to the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia for some tests that day. I was only 16 and it was my last summer vacation from school. We also watched it at our house that night.