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80's Commercials Vol. 1051

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These commercials aired on CBS on January 26th, 1980

1. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
2. Cheerios
3. Star Wars Action Figures (0:51 I like how Greedo and Walrus Man are depicted like they're middle school bullies, with ObiWan serving as the vice principal that scares them off before they can steal Han Solo's lunch money. The action figures featured here were from the second wave of toys that Kenner released in 1978. Also notable is the inclusion of the original handsome and debonair "small head" Han Solo figure, which was eventually replaced by the notoriously ugly "big head" Han Solo in later waves: https://i.imgur.com/rJnS0VL.jpeg)
4. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
5. "In The News" Commercial Bumper (Featuring Mighty Mouse. I guess maybe these segments were originally preceded by bumpers like this, but this is the first example that I've encountered)
6. "In The News" Intro (That weird sound effect was mixed too high here...or the announcers audio was mixed too low. Either way, a weird mistake!)
7. Three Musketeers Commercial Bumper (Also the first time I've seen a product sponsor for an "In The News" segment)
8. Three Musketeers
9. "In The News" The Draft (And you can sign up for selective service ♫ AT THE POST OFFICE ♫ Sorry, I can't get the song from Vol. 1049 out of my head, please send help)
10. Promo for "The Chisholms" (This was a shortlived Western TV series that followed a miniseries in 1979. The actress here is Rosemary Harris, who went on to play Aunt May in the Sam Raimi "SpiderMan" films)
11. "Annie" (This was for the original Broadway run at the Alvin Theatre but by this point no longer featured the original cast. I believe that the actress playing Annie at this point was Sarah Jessica Parker but I can't confirm that's her in this commercial)
12. Promo for "The Muppet Show"
13. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
14. Nestle Quik
15. Kellogg's Stick Up For Breakfast Contest
16. Star Wars Imperial Troop Transporter (This is considered the first "Expanded Universe" Star Wars toy...created entirely by Kenner and not depicted onscreen in the original trilogy. Eventually this transporter appeared in season one of "The Mandalorian" in 2019)
17. Darci Cover Girl Doll (Kenner's attempt at a Barbie type fashion doll. Also that ♫ Darci, cover girl Darci ♫ jingle will now be stuck in my head...along with the Post Office song. With actress Leah Ayres)
18. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
19. DC Super Heroes Mini Comic Books in Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles (It's so bizarre to see the cereal offer come BEFORE the actual meat of the commercial...maybe that format hadn't been worked out yet?)
20. Crest (Designed/animated by Marvel artist Herb Trimpe)
21. Star Wars Millennium Falcon Vehicle and Action Figures (And here you can see they're using the ugly "big head" Han Solo that became standard in the line going forward. Thankfully the later iterations of his character for Empire and Jedi had much better headsculpts)
22. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup (With Peter Billingsly as "Messy Marvin")
23. "We Will Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
24. "The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show" End Credits
25. Boy Scouts Of America PSA (With Hank Aaron

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