I've loved this ever since hearing the jingle on a JAM collection - they're the premier producer of radio ID jingles heard all over the world on radio stations, but occasionally did something like this for television. The video showing all the stars of the ABC line up "as the 80s arrive" is really bittersweet...so many great actors and performers in the tradition of good wholesome family entertainment - and to remember how many of them have already been lost, many well before their time.
Just for pure nostalgia...hope others enjoy it.
1 posted on
11/29/2012 9:18:59 PM PST by
bigbob
To: bigbob
As a Reds’ fan, I enjoyed the batting helmet at 58 seconds.
To: bigbob
All of a sudden I feel ancient. This was just ahead of Morning In America. Wish we had THAT again.
3 posted on
11/29/2012 9:30:19 PM PST by
SoDak
(Obama..change you can step in.)
To: bigbob
Wow, that brought back some memories. I can’t get over how many of those stars are now gone! I’m beginning to feel very old.
To: bigbob; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg; BillyBoy
That was depressing. Back when the networks were worth watching with bonafide stars and the culture not thoroughly degraded. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
To: bigbob
10 posted on
11/29/2012 11:36:21 PM PST by
lowbridge
(Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
To: bigbob
The great Ernie Anderson as a special bonus was the topper.
But, alas...It was a different America then. How far we have fallen since.
To: bigbob
Interesting nostalgia since I missed the whole thing by being in West Germany in the US Army during that time. Of course, a few of those shows would come to the Armed Forces Network 6 months after being on the air in the US.
14 posted on
11/30/2012 4:24:54 AM PST by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: bigbob
Wow!! Nostalgia indeed!
So sad about Tatoo from Fantasy Island, his life just went down from the show.
I loved almost all those shows. Soap is still one of the funniest shows ever.
17 posted on
11/30/2012 6:10:27 AM PST by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: bigbob
Great find ... brought back memories. ESPN Classic has been running old “Battle of the Network Stars” episodes from the 70’s and 80’s and I’ve been watching those and remembering happier times.
19 posted on
11/30/2012 6:38:32 AM PST by
Mac94
To: bigbob
Who is the actor shown at 0:32 with the bowler hat and pipe?
30 posted on
11/30/2012 8:07:53 PM PST by
stayathomemom
(Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
To: bigbob
I remember those "Still The One" spots and makes me feel old. Ronald Reagan was about to get elected president and I was still a senior in high school, on delayed entry for the U.S. Marine Corps.
About half the actors featured in that promo are dead now.
To: bigbob
Lots of bad tv back then. It makes me glad that I was old enough to be out for dinner and drinks and missed most of that sappy chit.
52 posted on
12/15/2012 6:01:01 AM PST by
metesky
(Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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