We’ve reached 1979 and the end of the decade. Don’t worry, there’s many more seventies commercials to come, but they’ll be sprinkled out in a more random fashion for a while. This year-by-year thing takes five weeks every time I commit to it.

From 1979, enjoy spots for Ideal’s Maniac tabletop electronic game, the AMC Spirit, Post Alpha-Bits cereal, and the movie Running starring Michael Douglas.

MANIAC VIDEO GAME COMMERCIAL (1979)

_{Ideal Maniac electronic video game commercial aired November 1979.}

’80 AMC SPIRIT CAR COMMERCIAL (1979)

_{1980 model American Motors Corporation Spirit commercial featuring a comparison to Chevy Chevette. Beginning & end narrator likely Karl Weber. Spot aired November 1979.}

ALPHA-BITS CEREAL ‘PRIVATE EYE’ COMMERCIAL (1979)

_{Post Alpha-Bits cereal commercial featuring Alphabet Al the Private Eye, a magician, his assistant, and a rabbit. Spot aired in 1979.}

‘RUNNING’ MOVIE TRAILER (MICHAEL DOUGLAS, 1979)

_{TV trailer for the movie ‘Running’ starring Michael Douglas and Susan Anspach. Beginning & end narration likely by John Erwin. Spot aired November 1979.}

Previously on 70s Commercials: ‘Carpenters’/’Olivia!,’ Arthur Treacher’s, Subaru Brat, C.W. Post (1978)

More Ideal Toys: 70s Spots: Schaper Super Jock & Ideal Toys Race Cars (1978)

More AMC: 70s Spots: ’79 Chevy Camaro & AMC Concord (1978)

More Alpha-Bits: 70s Spots: Post Alpha-Bits Cereal (1975 & ’78)

More Michael Douglas: Show Toppers: ‘The Streets of San Francisco’ (1972)