“Largest picture tube on the market.” Let’s switch on our Daily 70s Spot. Feast your eyes on this Montgomery Ward commercial featuring a solid state, $499 TV set. This baby has actually got “speakers on both sides of the screen”! … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2013
“Introducing the 1973 Continentals. It is a very good year.” Here’s your Daily 70s Spot. A Ford commercial featuring the new Lincoln Continental line-up for ’73. Spot aired in November of 1972. Test-drive it below. Daily 70s Spot #197: Ford … Continue reading
Hanna-Barbera’s Sealab 2020 originally ran Saturday mornings on NBC beginning in September of 1972. 13, 20-minute episodes were aired. According to a few sources, three additional episodes were produced but never shown. Warner Brothers recently made the show available again … Continue reading
“Roi-Tan Falcon…if you could only cook.” Let’s light up our Daily 70s Spot. Here’s an anachronistic Roi-Tan Falcon Cigars commercial featuring a man making verbal love to a cigar. Is this one sexy, sexist or just plain silly? You make … Continue reading
Here’s one for the “What the heck?” file. Comedian and impressionist, Billy Howard occasionally appeared on the British TV show Who Do You Do? which ran from 1972 to 1976. In late 1975, Howard released a novelty single about American … Continue reading
“Now that’s more like it.” Daily 70s Spot time. Here’s famed Broadway star and TV icon, Jerry Orbach for Chevrolet. Spot aired in 1977. Daily 70s Spot #195: Chevrolet Commercial With Jerry Orbach, 1977 Previously on Daily 70s Spot: Edge … Continue reading