80's Commercials Vol. 41

These commercials aired on local NBC affiliate KRON in May of 1986.

1. "The Movie Special Of The Week" Bumper
2. Campbell's Chunky Creamy Mushroom Soup (Looks like they couldn't afford John Cleese and found a close approximation)
3. Vidal Sassoon Colorific
4. Ford Fever (Sign me up!)
5. 100% Colombian Coffee (This commercial is amazing on so many levels)
6. "The Movie Special Of The Week" Bumpers
7. Ed Zschau for Senate (The music in this ad scares me)
8. No on Prop 51 (With Eddie Albert)
9. TV Spot for "SpaceCamp"
10. Promo for "Jeopardy!"
11. San Francisco Minutes
12. "The Movie Special Of The Week" Bumpers
13. Irish Spring Soap (This man later drowned)
14. Chevy Spectrum (My mom had this car when I was little)
15. Promo for "Star Games" (Ted Knight playing tennis had to have been the all-time highlight of this show)

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[andycflbulb]

The Irish Spring looks like a showerhead, whats with all the cheesy special effects in all the 80s commercials????????????????

[80sCommercialVault]

@andycflbulb How else is water supposed to spray?

[johnnyc1846]

2:27.....The the chairman of president reagan's Kitchen cabinet????!!!!! What?

[80sCommercialVault]

It's an old term to describe a team of unofficial advisers to a President. Reagan's kitchen cabinet was a group of ten to twelve rich California businessmen.

[jwgreek8606]

I think that KRON was actually an NBC affiliate. BTW, do you have anything from when game show host Pat Finn was a weatherman at KRON any promos or anything?

[80sCommercialVault]

Thanks...had my stations mixed up there

Nope on your request.

[athleticsgirl23]

I just had a class today that talked about how you can learn more from advertisements about an era then you can from anything else. I immediately thought of all these volumes. IT'S SO TRUE!!!

Thanks again for the post. I was starting to worry!

[Lafours]

Space Camp...Tate Donovan and Lea Thompson are "stellar"...only reason Cate Capshaw had a career= bonin' Speilberg

[katrus]

Alex Trebek just doesn't look right without his 'stache.

[whatanightmare1]

I have never seen anyone just eat straight up cream of mushroom soup...we cook with it all the time, here in the south, but never just eat it like that guy was doing.

And, I forgot how ugly some of the cars were in the 1980's. Especially American cars.

[tiraluvr941]

i luv that irish spring guy !!!!!!!!!!

[BettinaBalser]

The model in the Vidal Sassoon ad is also featured heavily in the 1986 video for the single "Is It Love?" by Mr. Mister.

[MattTheSaiyan]

After watching the "Irish Spring Soap" commercial, I'll make sure to remember that if I ever become a bar of soap and try to get a career in acting, to remember to go to the toilet before the taping of a commercial.

[billyblackattacks]

in the 80s I would not BELIEVE that in 2010 Id want to watch a series of commercials from the 80s

[MeInTX]

1986 was probably not a good time to release a light-hearted movie about an accident involving the space shuttle.

I don't think I recognized one person in that "Star Games" ad (though I did go back to confirm that, yes, that was Ted Knight).

Neither of those political ads was particularly effective. Ed Zschau got the GOP nomination, but lost to incumbent Alan Cranston that November. Meanwhile, Prop 51 passed by a wide margin.