Fun Friday–Great 1980s Commercials
Last summer on NBC and now this spring on SyFy, I’ve been enjoying watching the BBC series Merlin, and for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been watching (for the first time) the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix Instant Watch. So I’ve been on something of an Anthony Head kick recently.
As a teen in the 1980s, and as someone who is addicted to romance, I vividly remembered a series of commercials for Tasters’ Choice coffee that ran in the late 1980s featuring Anthony Head which really launched his acting career. So, after watching my evening episode of Buffy last night, I hopped over onto YouTube to see if I could find one of those commercials. And guess what!
Yay!
And, of course, I can’t have a post about commercials from the 1980s without this one:
A commercial for the first computer my family ever got (in 1980):
Speaking of people whose careers took off after romance-themed commercials in the 1980s:
And finally, even though this one is actually from the 1970s (I think these kids are probably older than me now!), can’t have a nostalgic post about commercials without one of the most iconic commercials of all time.
You know you’re dying to do it. Go over to YouTube and find one of your favorite nostalgic/iconic commercials from the 1980s (or ’70s or earlier) to post!
Love these old commercials. Mikey’s Life Cereal commercial was always one of my favorites.
Here’s another favorite from the ’70s, Chiffon margarine:
It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature
I’m going to try and see if this will embed my fave from that era…if not, I’ll post a link in a response.
For that wonderful stuck-in-your-head-all-day feeling, how about this one from 1979 . . .
And then there’s my favorite Hershey’s Kisses commercial . . . It said it first aired in 1990, but I think it was earlier than that . . .
I hope they work . . .
Hahaha, the Gold Blend series was hysterical. I can’t believe they stretched that out over YEARS. Thank you, that was awesome.
It amazes me now how much they were able to pack into those 30-45 second spots to tell a story of that scope. (And how some of them really didn’t seem to have anything to do with coffee!)