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SummitStrand86 05-07-2019, 05:41 AM Here are a few items that I am looking for:
- Davey And Goliath: "The Family Of God" episode (The one episode not available on the Davey And Goliath DVD box set)
- Not Necessarily The News - The original one-hour 1982 HBO special which was later developed into a hit HBO comedy series from 1983 to 1990
- Christmas With The Bing Crosbys - 1972 NBC Bell System Family Theatre special featuring special guest stars Sally Struthers and David Hartman w/o/c including a Bell System commercial featuring a young Scott Baio as himself
- The Bing Crosby Show - 1964 Christmas episode
- The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet: "Christmas In October" episode
- Livewire - 1982-83 Nickelodeon talk show - Topic: Video arcade games - Musical guests: Buckner & Garcia
- John Denver: Rocky Mountain Christmas - Original 1975 ABC broadcast complete with Timex sponsor commercials (I do not need the 1977 ABC broadcast of this special)
- The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait - 1978 ABC broadcast complete with Best Foods sponsor commercials plus local commercials as well (I do not need a nearly commercial free copy of this special where there is only one commercial for RSO movie soundtrack albums)
If I can think of any other titles that I want then I will post them later.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 07:45 AM Here are some TV commercials that I am looking for DVD-R copies of:
- 1983 animated BurgerTime home video game from Mattel Electronics for Intellivision, Atari and other systems and computers
- 2017 Duracell Santa commercial entitled, "Christmas Is Chaos" featuring the song, "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" sung by Bing Crosby (60 second and 30 second versions but not the 15 second version)
- The recent Marines' Toys For Tots commercial featuring a poor mother and her children plus two Marines delivering toys on Christmas (60 second version but not the 30 second version)
- The 30 second promo for the 1984 theatrical releasing of the movie, "The Cotton Club" which opens with white titles over a solid black background about Francis Coppola being the director who brought us the gangster film, "The Godfather"
- The Mountain Dew commercial featuring Davey And Goliath
- The 1978 Life Savers commercial featuring Henry Fonda
- The 1986 Pizza Hut "After Christmas" commercial about "leftover turkey" sung to the tune of The Twelve Days Of Christmas
- The 1990 Duracell Christmas commercial with a Duracell-powered Rudolph toy (Both the 30 second and the 15 second versions)
- The 1986 Coca-Cola commercial with kids on Santa's lap (but not the revised 1987 version)
- The 1982 Coleco Pac-Man tabletop game with Mr. Arcade and a wife trying to get her husband home from the arcade
- The 1982 Coleco Donkey Kong tabletop game with Mr. Arcade and a gorilla
- The 2017 New York Lottery Pac-Man scratch-off game commercial
- The 1986 Polaner All Fruit commercial featuring a guy at a snobbish dinner asking, "Would you please pass the jelly?"
- The 1977 Kodak film Christmas commercial featuring a very young Ricky Schroder taking a Christmas photo with his shaggy dog
- The 1980 Kodak Colorburst instant camera commercial entitled, "The Night Before Christmas" where a boy takes a photo of Santa and shows it to his older brother
- The USPS commercial about a boy in an orphanage writing a letter to Santa asking for a puppy for Christmas
- All 1985 New Coke and Coca-Cola Classic commercials plus Pepsi commercials taking advantage of Coca-Cola's marketing blunder
- The second 1984 Wendy's "Where's The Beef?" featuring Clara Peller and her little old lady friends on the phone with the Home Of The Big Bun manager on his private yacht
- The mid-1980s Burger King "New" Whopper commercial featuring Mr. T (but not the commercials featuring both Mr. T and some football player, either Lyle Alzado or John Matuzak)
- The early 1990s Martini and Rossi Asti Spumante "You Make Me Sparkle" World Trade Center commercial (30 second version but not the 15 second version)
- HBO promo for "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" featuring Kermit The Frog on the red curtain stage set of The Muppet Show promoting this special
- 1983 Atari summer commercial with girls and guys on the beach playing Atari home video games
- 1983 Atari Christmas commercial with Santa delivering Atari home video games to astronauts in their spacecraft up in space
- 90 second theatrical teaser trailer or 30 second teaser TV promo for the 1988 film, "Ernest Saves Christmas" featuring Ernest wearing a Christmas wreath around his neck talking to his friend Vern about his movie
- 1986 Sprite commercial with Ernest talking to Vern who's in his bathtub about the great taste of Lymon in Sprite
- 1980s Thanksgiving commercial for Butterball turkeys featuring family members telling each other not to complain about the turkey being dry
- 1986 Perdue Oven Stuffer Roaster commercial featuring the voice of Frank Perdue plus a silly "pick" song sung while the fridge door opens and closes with people picking off pieces of chicken from the chicken inside the fridge
- Early 1983 WYNY FM commercial featuring "The Thinker" statue switching radio stations from silly punk rock and country songs to WYNY FM
Please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
I got the original ABC Premiere of Ernest Saves Christmas.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 09:20 AM Thanks KRW but I am only interested in DVD-R copies of the 90 second teaser theatrical trailer and the 30 second TV promo spot for "Ernest Saves Christmas" where no actual scenes from the movie are shown but instead Ernest, with a Christmas wreath around his neck, tells Vern about his Christmas movie coming out.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 10:02 AM Other TV commercials I am looking for on DVD-R include the following:
- A 1986 New York Archdiocese Christmas PSA where a family are decorating their Christmas tree and the young boy passes ornaments of Santa, Rudolph and Frosty to his father one at a time but when the boy gets to an ornament featuring the Nativity scene he asks his father what significance to Christmas does this ornament have and the scene cuts to the father with an ashamed look on his face and the PSA then dissolves to the same family heading inside a church for Christmas service with the PSA announcer reminding parents to teach their children the true meaning of why we celebrate Christmas to begin with
- The 1980s MTV New Year's Eve promo where anggels are first playing, "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" on guitar and drums but then quickly shifts to a scene of the same angels blowing on party favors with confetti coming down to celebrate the New Year
- The early 1970s Polaroid commercials featuring Sir Laurence Olivier
- The early 1980s commercials for both 7Up and Lee Jeans featuring then Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt
- The late 1980s or early 1990s Kodak Christmas commercial where an old man is outside by his mailbox reading a letter from his now grownup son telling his father in the letter that he and his wife had just had a baby son and the grownup son encloses a photo of the baby son and tells his father in the letter that he gave his son his father's first name and he closes the letter with a Christmas greeting and the last sentence, "We're coming home."
- 1984 Coca-Cola "Thirst Buster" commercial for the introduction of their 3 liter bottle
- 1990s Progressive auto insurance commercials featuring E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (The first commercial is just a teaser commercial while the second commercial features E.T. with his fellow alien Extra-Terrestrials)
- Progessive auto insurance commercial featuring the very first appearance of the character, "Flo"
- Aflac insurance commercial featuring a paper-eating goat instead of the Aflac duck because the office's boss had chosen, in his own words, "something else"
- The TV Land commercial featuring a scene from "The Honeymooners" where Ed Norton teaches Ralph Kramden to dance while Tone Loc's song, "Wild Thing" is playing in the background and Ralph tells Ed, "You're the man, Norton! You're the man!"
Please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 10:28 AM More commercials that I am interested in include these:
- A late 1970s or early 1980s Milton Bradley Battleship game commercial which takes place at the opera and one of the players yell out, "You've sunk my battleship!" and everyone inside the opera house gives out a big "Shhh!"
- 1978 and 1979 Mego 2-XL 8-track tape playing robot commercials
- 1978 Matchbox Race 'N' Chase racing car track set commercial
- Geico commercial featuring the Geico Gecko outdoors in the forest talking about "pie and chips" to either a reptile or a forest animal (I don't fully remember)
- Geico commercial featuring the little piggy in a moving car with a pinwheel sticking his head out the window and crying "Wee!" all the way home
- 1983 Kool-Aid commercial promoting the special offer to order away for either an Intellivision or Atari 2600 home video game cartridge of "Kool-Aid Man"
Please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 01:38 PM More TV commercials that I am looking for are listed below:
- 1984 Sasson commercial featuring Elton John singing "Sad Songs Say So Much" with slightly altered lyrics to change the song's title to "Sassons Say So Much" plus almost all of the footage for this commercial was taken from the music video to "Sad Songs Say So Much"
- 1991 Diet Coke commercial featuring Elton John and Paula Abdul (Both the 60 second and 30 second versions)
- 1992 Diet Coke commercial featuring Elton John singing alongside celebrities that were "dead" which raised a controversy with critics about using a dead celebrity's likeness to sell products (Both the 60 second and 30 second versions)
- 1981 TV spots for the movie, "The Great Muppet Caper" opening with the Muppets crashing through a front page newspaper to announce their new movie
- 1981 McDonald's commercials promoting collectible glasses of the movie, "The Great Muppet Caper"
- Late 1970s "No Shots, No School" NYC schools PSA featuring Muhammad Ali
- Late 1970s or early 1980s RIF (Reading Is Fundamental) PSA featuring Edward Asner and some children (60 second version)
- Late 1970s or early 1980s exercise PSA sponsored by Kellogg's featuring O.J. Simpson and some children
- The Ritz Thrift Shop in NYC commercial which had aired during in the NYC area during the 1970s and 1980s where the voiceover announcer ends by saying, "You don't need a million to look like a million" and a lady wearing a fur coat replies, "Oh, thank you"
- Early 1980s Lionel Kiddie City toy store commercials with the "Turn That Frown Upside Down" jingle
- 1984 Merry Go Round clothing store commercial featuring changed lyrics to the song, "Cum On Feel The Noize"
- Early 1980s Phillips Milk Of Magnesia commercial featuring blue Phillips Milk Of Magnesia bottles singing changed lyrics to the song, "Am I Blue?"
- Early 1980s Wild West City commercial with "Uncle" Floyd Vivino singing, "I'm Going To Wild West City"
- Early 1980s Golden Nugget casino in Atlantic City commercial featuring a man and his ditzy blonde girlfriend or wife who keeps telling him she's hungry but he's too busy gambling but when he finally get lucky he exclaims to his girl, "Now, I'll feed your face!"
- An early 1980s Schick commercial featuring Jerry Lewis crashing through a stack of Schick razors announcing that when you buy Schick razors that a portion goes to MDA
- The 1984 Wheaties commercial featuring Mary Lou Retton
- The 1984 Ronald Reagan "It's Morning Again In America" Presidential reelection campaign commercial (Both the 60 second and 30 second versions)
- The 1984 CBS Register To Vote PSA which shows a panning shot of the national cemetery where past war soldiers are buried with the voiceover announcer saying, "They've already done the hard part. Now all you have to do is register."
- The 1986 CBS Christmas "Peace On Earth" commercial briefly showing a flying dove
Please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
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SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 04:07 PM Here's another list of TV commercials that I would like to find:
- Early 1980s "Evita" Broadway musical commercial fearuring Mandy Patinkin singing Don't Cry For Me Argentina
- Promo shown only on the USA Network in 1984 for the made for syndicated TV Christmas movie, "ItCame Upon The Midnight Clear" starring Mickey Rooney
- 1986 Levi's 501 commercial featuring a song performed by Bobby McFerrin (not to be confused with the Levi's 501 commercial from 1987 featuring an onscreen Bobby McFerrin singing a completely different song)
- 1985 Ad Council "Just Say No" PSA where a young boy leaves the safety of his city apartment and heads down a long flight of stairs where he first meets a girl waving marijuana joints around telling the boy, "They'll make you feel good" but the boy tells her, "No" and then continues down the stairs but runs into a group of older boys offering him ludes with one of the boys saying, "I've got some ups. Some real nice ups." but again the boy says "No" and then heads out the building's exit to meet his friends, feeling great because he had said no to drugs (Both the 60 second and 30 second versions)
- 1995 Kmart Christmas commercial featuring Penny Marshall and Rosie O'Donnell doing somr Christmas shopping while singing The Twelve Days Of Christmas with changed lyrics ending with Rosie, holding up a "Partridge Family Sound Magazine" album CD, singing, "...and a Partridge Family CD."
- Any Carvel Ice Cream Stores commercial from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s featuring the voice of Tom Carvel
- Any Crazy Eddie commercials from the late 1970s through the late 1980s featuring the yelling "Crazy Eddie" guy, especially Christmas commercials and Christmas In August sale commercials
- 1980s New York City anti-discrimination PSA featuring Mr. T and then Mayor Ed Koch
- Late 1970s and early 1980s Toys "R" Us animated and live action Halloween commercial which opens with animation of Geoffrey the giraffe and his family out for Halloween followed by a live action scene of kids dressed in Halloween costumes getting candy at one household then the commercial ends in animation again
Once again, please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 04:50 PM Here are more TV commercials I want:
- A 1983 ABC "That Special Feeling" promo featuring a woman who was outside in the rain one evening and, if memory serves me right, either someone invites her inside from the pouring rain to keep dry and watch some ABC on TV or she comes home from the pouring rain and watches some ABC shows on her TV with a female singer performing the song, "That Special Feeling On ABC" (This 60 second commercial was a promo promoting ABC's upcoming fall 1983 season)
- Any late 1970s and early 1980s Dime National Bank NYC commercials featuring the short and simple jingle, "The road to riches starts at the Dime"
- Any late 1970s and early 1980s commercials for The Bowery bank featuring former New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio
- Any late 1970s and early 1980s Mr. Coffee commercials featuring Joe DiMaggio
- Any late 1970s and early 1980s Sanka coffee commercials featuring Robert Young
- Any 1980s Chrysler commercials featuring Ricardo Montalban, especially those where he mentions his love for "Corinthian leather" in Chrysler vehicles
- Chrysler commercial featuring both Lee Iacocca and Snoop Dogg
- The original early 1990s Diet Pepsi commercial featuring Ray Charles singing, "You've Got The Right One, Baby! Uh-Huh!"
- The late 1980s Diet Pepsi commercial featuring Michael J. Fox and, I believe, Gail O'Grady where Fox goes out in the rain just to get a Diet Pepsi for a pretty woman who had just moved into the building but when he returns to give her the Diet Pepsi, the woman introduces Fox to her friend and she also wants a Diet Pepsi (Both the original 60 second and the two differently edited versions which runs 30 seconds each)
- 1991 "Yakety Yak, Take It Back" recycling music video PSA featuring various music artists like Kenny Loggins, Charlie Daniels, Stevie Wonder, Bette Midler, Ozzy Osbourne and others
- 1991 "Yakety Yak, Take It Back" recycling PSA featuring Bette Midler
- 1990 Coca-Cola commercials featuring New Kids On The Block (Different versions, including one promoting "Magic Cans" where money pops up out of the Coca-Cola can when you open it)
- 1991 Coca-Cola commercials featuring C+C Music Factory (One commercial featuring just a rap song promoting Coca-Cola while another commercial promotes special CDs and cassettes found inside selected 12 packs of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Sprite)
- 1993 Diet Coke commercial featuring Paula Abdul singing and dancing with "dead" celebrities, similar to the 1992 Diet Coke commercial featuring Elton John and "dead" celebrities
Please reply if you happen to have any of these TV commercials. Thanks.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 05:49 PM Here are some more favorite TV commercials of mine that I am searching for:
- The 1978 Purina Cat Chow 1979 calendar offer commercial featuring the singing voice of Neil Sedaka changing the lyrics to his hit song, "Calendar Girl" to "I love, I love, I love my calendar cat"
- The late 1970s Purina Cat Chow commercial featuring a chubby lady doing the "Chow Chow Chow" dance with her cat
- Tabby cat food and Pollenex commercials featuring George Burns
- Any late 1970s Nacho Cheese Doritos
commercials featuring comedian Avery Schreiber
- The late 1980s and early 1990s classic Budweiser Clydesdale horses Christmas commercial featuring the voice of Ed McMahon (30 second version but not the 10 second version and not the mid-1990s 30 second version which is the same commercial but Ed McMahon's voiceover is replaced with another unknown actor's voiceover)
- The early 1980s Cadbury Creme Eggs Easter commercial featuring a bunny making chicken clucking sounds (Decent quality complete copy only because I already have a poor quality copy of this commercial with the first couple of seconds missing)
- The 1980s M&M's "Thanks, Easter Bunny" commercial (Decent quality only for I already have a poor quality copy of this commercial)
- The two different Reese's Pieces commercials that had aired between 1982 through 1984 featuring a blue-colored E.T. clone alien with big pointed ears, also called "Cousin Willy", who loves Reese's Pieces (The first commercial features the alien at a mom and pop store run by an elderly couple while the second commercial has the alien at the front door of a young boy's home where the alien shares his Reese's Pieces with him) - I have copies of both commercials but the quality on each commercial isn't that great
- The first Budweiser commercial from 1995 featuring the three frogs on their lily pads outside a bar croaking, "Bud!", " Weis!", and "Er!"
- 1995 Budweiser commercial where ants carry an unopened bottle of Budweiser beer down their ant hole, then there's a brief silence, then the sound of yhat bottle being opened, and finally the sound of a turntable playing, "Get Down Tonight" performed by KC And The Sunshine Band
Please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
SummitStrand86 05-08-2019, 11:08 PM I have more TV commercials that are on my want list and here they are:
- Late 1970s and early 1980s Playworld toy stores in NYC commercials, particularly commercials that featured a crossword puzzle contest
- Any late 1980s Domino's Pizza featuring The Noid
- Early 1980s Black Flag Roach Motel commercials starring Mary Jo Catlett before she starred as Pearl the housekeeper on the hit sitcom Diff'rent Strokes between 1982 through 1986
- 1980s Trump Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City commercial with the jingle, "You're The King Of The Castle" featuring a Henry VIII style king entering the Trump Hotel & Casino where he declares at the end of the commercial, "Now this is a castle!"
- 1999 Energizer (or was it Duracell) battery commercial featuring a man at a gas station attempting to take a picture of Elvis Presley filling up his car's gas tank but the man's camera batteries run out on him just as Elvis, in video footage from one of his 1970s TV concert specials (probably Aloha From Hawaii), turns around to face the man's camera
- Early 2000s American Express commercial featuring Kate Winslet (Both the 60 second and 30 second versions)
- Early 1970s Dolly Madison Zingers commercial featuring a troll who enjoys Dolly Madison Zingers snack cakes
- All early 1980s Burger King commercials featuring Emmanuel Lewis (who ironically did a 1981 McDonald's 1982 calendar commercial just before his more successful ad campaign with Burger King)
- TV promo spots for the 1987 movie, "The Untouchables"
- TV promo spots for the original 1984 theatrical release of the movie, "Ghostbusters"
- TV promo spots for the original 1977 theatrical release of the movie, "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"
- TV promo spots for both the original R-rated 1977 and the PG-rated 1978 theatrical releases of the movie, "Saturday Night Fever"
- TV promo spots for the original 1978 theatrical release of the movie, "Grease" (but not the 1998 20th anniversary theatrical re-release promo TV spots)
- Any late 1970s through early 1982 commercials for the Two Guys department stores which used to be in the New York/New Jersey area
- The late 1980s Isuzu commercial featuring Joe Isuzu (David Leizure), telling the truth for a change, luring a prospective Toyota customer away from a Toyota salesman telling him the advantages of owning an Isuzu over a Toyota and the Toyota salesman repeatedly yells out, "No!" as he hangs on to the once interested Toyota customer now heading towards Joe Isuzu and the Isuzu dealership across the street
- The two 1991 TV promo spots for the movie, "The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear" featuring Leslie Nielsen on a motorcycle dressed to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (The commercial for both versions is the same except for the voiceover narration where in the first version, the announcer says, "Same name. Same make. Better hair." while in the second version, the announcer says, "He's the last guy you would think would protect you from anyone") and in each commercial, Leslie would repeat Schwarzenegger's famous " Asta La Vista, Baby!" and "Trust me." lines from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
Please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
SummitStrand86 05-09-2019, 01:37 AM Here are some more commercials that I would like to have:
- 1960s and 1970s Minute Maid Orange Juice commercials featuring Bing Crosby and his family
- Ball Park franks commercial featuring Redd Foxx
- 1979 Japanese commercial for TDK audio casserres featuring the Bee Gees and their hit song, Love You Inside Out
- Two 1983 commercials for The Pretenders' Learning To Crawl album featuring the voice of Paul Frees (The first commercial announces that the album will be available soon and that "It's worth waiting for." following by a Pretenders fan yawning while waiting on line at the record store then the second commercial announces that the album is now available and ends with a happy Pretenders fan coming out of the record store with the album)
- 1989 Visa commercial promoting Paul McCartney's Flowers In The Dirt worldwide concert tour
- 1989 California Raisins commercial featuring Michael Jackson having a dream about being a California Raisin singing "I've Heard It Through The Grapevine" then waking up saying, "It must have been something I ate." (Both the 60 second and 30 second versions)
Please reply if you have any of these commercials. Thanks.
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