Classic TV Promos, Commercials and Bloopers - Post ‘Em! (1 Viewer)

[The 1960's]

Uncle Sam Speaks: Posters and Broadsides
US Savings Bonds and Stamps​

This video recording is a compilation of U.S. savings bond and stamp promotions; some in the form of public service announcements, some short scripted campaign messages delivered by television show casts or individual characters. The video was used in a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) exhibit entitled "Uncle Sam Speaks: Posters and Broadsides" and includes celebrities such as Bing Crosby and John Wayne; cartoon characters such as Bullwinkle and Bugs Bunny; and the casts of "Cheers," "WKRP in Cincinnati," "Father Knows Best," and "Lassie."

Twenty-Five Years of Savings Bonds - Lucille Ball​

This film features Lucille Ball reviewing the history of the sale of U.S. Savings Bonds, beginning in 1941 when President Franklin Roosevelt called on Hollywood notables to help promote their purchase, and continuing on through importance of selling bonds during the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

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[The 1960's]

The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger Peace Patrol (1958)​

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This film features Clayton Moore, in his Lone Ranger character, speaking about the Peace Patrol, a U.S. Savings Stamp and Bond program he helmed. After an introduction by Moore, the footage follows the Lone Ranger to Washington, D.C. where he is shown as he met the Director of the Savings Bond Division James F. Stiles and later (in photographs) with Vice President Richard Nixon and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. Other scenes show the Lone Ranger at the National Institute of Health, the Capitol, and at a Peace Patrol rally at the Washington Monument where he spoke to the crowd and performed gun handling tricks.

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[The 1960's]

The Donna Reed Show
US Savings Bonds Promo (Christmas 1961)

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[The 1960's]

June Allyson Christmas PSA For Savings Bonds

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[ScottRE]

As part of the Syndication Generation, my childhood was filled with the repackaging of 60's cartoons, put under an umbrella show and stripped daily.



I would watch this every day and wait for the Fantastic Four cartoon. Mostly I would wind up with The Impossibles, Frankenstein Junior or Shazzan!

 

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[The 1960's]

Walter Brennan The Real McCoys
U.S. Savings Bonds PSA​

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Mr. Brennan encourages the public to buy U.S. Savings Bonds through the Pay Roll Savings Program.

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[The 1960's]

Abbott and Costello War Bonds PSA (1941)

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Here is a generic promo for Hart to Hart from its two seasons w/Columbia Pictures Television (Rona II and Spelling-Goldberg being in association with them from 1982-84, the last of the run); it has the CPT 80s Torch Lady at the bottom left, albeit without the Coke byline of then.

Also, here is a music mix of Hart to Hart then called "The Freeway Mix"; it had this generic promo as a splash screen:

 

[The 1960's]

The Junior Astronaut - U.S. Savings Stamps and Bonds
Dennis the Menace​

This film contains a promotion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Junior Astronaut campaign to sell U.S. Savings Stamps and Bonds. In it, children were encouraged to join the campaign with a purchase of stamps or bonds, which would confer on them the status of junior astronaut and enable them to receive a certificate with the signatures of some of the Project Gemini astronauts. The promotion then had Jay North (in his role as "Dennis the Menace" from the television show of the same name) and Gail Gordon ("Mr. Wilson") enact a scenario in which Mr. Wilson's mission control role enabled him to shoot astronaut Dennis into outer space. In addition, the promotion includes NASA background information with footage of Scott Carpenter and the Aurora 7 mission. Also included are animated sequences showing the mission of the next day's Project Gemini blastoff from Houston and brief shots of the astronauts who were to participate in the mission.

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Bonanza on KTRK Houston, Mondays through Thursdays at 10:30 P.M., 1978, probably after the late Eyewitness News...

 

[The 1960's]

Irene Ryan Beverly Hillbillies
PSA For US Savings Bonds

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[ScottRE]

An Italian trailer for the Gerry Anderson UFO series. Thanks to fine editing and the great John Barry music from "From Russia With Love" (Bond Takes the Lektor), this trailer makes the show a lot more thrilling and action packed than it was.

 

[The 1960's]

Batman for U.S. Savings Bonds (1966)

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[The 1960's]

Smothers Brothers Savings Bonds PSA (1966)

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Emergency! on NBC, promo photo and description for fifth-season episode "Involvement" (OAD Saturday, Jan. 24, 1976 on NBC; this for a repeat of that episode on Sat. July 10, 1976).

And here is that press photo and blurb on EBay:

Dawn Lyn 1970s Original NBC TV Promo Photo Emergency! Series Anne Seymour | eBay

Series Anne Seymour. Dawn Lyn (My Three Sons). Anne Seymour. This is the real thing--a rare, original promotional photo/still. It is not a reprint. Promo photos are limited editions as only a small number were printed to promote the artist or production.

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[The 1960's]

NBC Fall Line-Up (1975) Lloyd Bridges

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[The 1960's]

NBC-TV Saturday Prime-Time Line-Up (1957)

A promo for NBC's Saturday Prime-Time line-up, circa sometime in 1957. The promo promotes the following shows: "The Perry Como Show", "The George Gobel Show" and a one-off TV special called "Five Stars for Springtime".

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Hart to Hart, second-season episode "Murder, Murder on the Wall" (OAD Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1980 on ABC; TV Guide from St. Louis says Oct. 28, 1980, though; on Disc 1 of second-season DVD)

And fourth-season episode "A Lighter Hart" (OAD Tuesday, May 10, 1983 on ABC; on Disc 6 of fourth-season DVD)