Vintage Ontario TV Commercials from the 1970s 💥📺💥
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- čas přidán 18. 10. 2021
- A compilation of vintage Ontario TV commercials that aired in the 1970s. Some of these were transferred directly from the only known copies still left on 16mm filmstock.
I'm surprised at how much that old taperecorder costs... $59 was a lot back then
My sentiment exactly Lisa Wilder. Especially when you come from a large family, like my family of 10 people and that includes my parents. Something like that tape recorder would have us kids fighting over it. Over who gets to use the tape recorder. Maybe they should of use that in the Radio Shack commercial about your children fighting over a tape recorder?
A lot of stuff was expensive back then, I remember my dad bought my brother and me a 13" colour TV in the early 80's, it was $300! My dad made good money, it was so cool having a TV in your room in those days.
that was the sale price, regular price is $79.95!
I remember paying about $400 for a basic, brand-new Betamax VCR way back in 1981. That would be over $1300 in today's money(and it soon became obsolete shortly after the intro of VHS). Remember those nifty new Texas Instruments calculators that every student had to have, you know, the ones that could do logarithms and trigonometry functions? They cost about $30 new in 1980, which was around $130 in today's dollars!. So yes, many things, particularly electronics, were very pricey back then.
Don't worry, it's still the same price today at Value Village...
Another one bites the crisp. Holy crap. It took me half a decade as a child to get that song out of my head. 45 years later, and now it's rammed back in.
Rammed back in 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahaha
nothing better than ray charles rippin off queen on a coffee crisp commercial 😂
The singer in the ad is David Clayton Thomas of Blood Sweat and Tears fame…
@@neilharding8534 ya thats who i was thinking of. not ray charles lol
Those were the days, I miss when everything was orange.
help I'm going more and more orange! nnnoooo! ah oof, thank you wonderbread
*?&%$ tang now (nnnnoooooo!)
Orange and don't forget taupe
Kodak film and slides turn orange over time.
Or avocado green.
Robin Ward was all over Canadian TV in the '70's
Yes! I thought of him. He was also on The Starlost, an infomercial for Pay TV, and a weatherman for CTV[I think]. Quite the varied career! :D
Also hosted a reboot of "To Tell the Truth" that only lasted one season...1980-81 I believe.
I remember him mainly as the host of a Canadian game show called Guess What?, which I believe aired in the '80s.
I recognized him in that Leon's commercial right away.
There was an exercise local program in Ontario. Not sure what channel I saw it on. CKCO tv (Kitchener) on channel 13 or channel 6 or 8. Can’t remember those stations. I am quite sure it was Robin Ward doing the work out/ hosting. He was in a white outfit( gym pants). Anyone remember the show and remember the title of the show? I can’t seem to find it.
I remember a Coffee Crisp commercial. Set in a western (maybe civil war) where the cook goes "how do ya want your coffee?" The guy says, "crisp." The cook goes "you want your coffee CRISP?" The guy looks to the camera - "I want my COFFEE CRISP!" (I think he even held up a Coffee Crisp bar)
My cousin hated that commercial. Thought it was stupid. I loved that commercial and I still do!
Lol I remember that one too! Yeah I loved it too.
Oh my gosh l remember that! I had forgotten about it until l read your comment. I hardly got to watch tv as a kid but l did catch that commercial. Thank you for reviving the fun memory.
There was a version of that commercial (same dialogue) with two older ladies sitting at a table. They had bad makeup and European accents.
My brothers and I still say that when asked how he'd like our coffee. Wait staff under 50 look at us funny.
I think that one was aired in 1984 85.
The rowers was I believe 1982.
I remember them as well and thought the rowing team one was better.
I remember that Discovery Train commercial as a kid and always loved it. So cool to see it years later. I live in Buffalo area and my dad had a really good aerial antennae on the house so I watched a lot of Canadian stations. Lots of good stuff to watch back in the day. Especially Hockey Night in Canada and SCTV! I remember when Global would show Saturday mornings cartoons almost all day.
That's funny, many of us Canadian kids were raised on the Buffalo tv stations as our antennas picked them up. Commander Tom and Irv Weinstein were household names. Cheers
@@fintanoclery2698I so remember The Commander Tom Show with Tom Jolls from my days in suburban Toronto during the mid 70s. May he Rest in peace!
They were brainwashing us that this is the greatest country in the world eve back then and there's till at it only it suck today lol!
I could instantly taste the Trident Mints as soon as the commercial started.
That goes back to 1983 or 1984. About half of those ads were 83 84/85 that I remember.
I certainly liked the backing music for that ad!
The introduction of artificial products was the 1970s. Tang orange drink crystals juice to start your kids day. Eeek and wonderbread
Tang was such a disgusting drink. It tasted awful.
Both the worst crap you could have drank or ate
Omigod Tang, I am having a flashback
"Saturday noon till Sunday at 6!"
Wow! That Bell Canada ad was so far in my brain, I had no idea until I started singing along!
I finished the jingle as I was reading it Lol.
the sales clerk in the Shoppers commercial is Lynne Griffin, who has worked in TV and movies for decades. Still active. I remember her from a children's show called Drop In back in the early 70s.
I couldn't remember her name, but I remember Drop In very well. She co-hosted with Rex Hagon, perhaps better known for his previous work on "The Forest Rangers".
Thank you good sir! I was going to ask if anybody knew her name as I instantly recognized her face.
How many are here because the world was a better time back then...
Me! I miss the 70s and it wasn't all about politics back then. Politics was for the adults to discuss and not for the children or teenagers to discuss about politics. Kids and even adults were able to live their lives freely in Canada back then, but not today in 2022 are they allowed to do that, not under dictator tyrant Justin Trudeau that's for sure.
@@waynemclaughlin8937 Dick-tator Trudeau must go! He has destroyed this once great country! Divisive SOB makes me sick.
@@waynemclaughlin8937 Trudeau sure has his faults, but have you considered that maybe you're part of the problem?
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Yes, life was fun and better without laptops and cell phones.
I'm Canadian living in Florida now love seeing these
Old retro meecuals thanks for the upload
Do you have any idea how expensive it is to patriate you snow birds and those alike??
It's causes extra carbon taxes to be issued 😂
Please tell me it's for the sun, not Florida crazy politics!
I haven't seen these since they were broadcast. The Rez spot and the beef commercial were ones I really remember.
The Discovery Train Commercial more than any reminds me of a very different Canada that has unfortunatly been lost.
Thanks to the libtards Turdeau
Great, now I want a 70’s era Hostess product.
The ones now aren't that good anymore unfortunately.
@@christineferreira2181 Yeah many once tasty things now taste like cardboard crap it may be technically healthier but certainly no where as tasty and flavorful I blame this largely on transfats removal so disappointing I tried some Hostess cupcakes about a year ago tried one absolutely awful threw the rest in the trash even Kentucky Fried Chicken was disappointing I blame it on the oil the flavor just is not there anymore and I have lived long enough that I remember when it use to be good
I don't remember Hostess cake products in Atlantic Canada, not saying we didn't have them, just don't remember if we did. Vachon was king.
Don't worry. I'm sure some are still around in random bunkers in the USA😄👍
🤣🤣👏
I like how the Ontario Hydro adverts are funny but also serve a point
My mind was just blown away ! I just turned 60 and I remember most of that stuff! Relevant today , awesome content !
I just turned 60 today, and a lot of these commercials are so familiar to this lifelong Ontarian! CHEERS!! :)
@@tonybensley6246 awesome ! We aren't even seniors yet!
The 70s NO JUSTIN NO JAGMEET NO CHOW you could communicate with the neighbors and knew your car would be in the driveway when you needed it you could go out at night and not worry about being shot etc...😊
The Sail tobacco commercial was locked deep inside my brain! Wild!!!
0:10 robin ward 2:11 a very young lynne griffin, best known for a role in bob and doug mackenzie's strange brew 4:17 kristy mcnichol 7:31 coffee crisp by rowntree, before nestle swallowed them up 11:46 robert morley
Robin Ward in The Starlost with Keir Dullea.
Didn’t even catch Kristy McNicol! Thanks! Damn American commercials sneaking into Canadian TV! 😂 I grew up 20 mins from the border…always got a mix.
I'm almost positive one of the three boys in the Kristy Mcnichol commercial walking down the side walk together is Todd Bridges. Kim Richards in the Wonder bread comm.
Love how Queen sold its hit song to Rowntree!
The Rez Woodstain commercial at time 9:42 is still remembered word for word by my older brother and me. It was played by Les Rubie a Canadian actor who also appeared on the Wayne & Shuster show.
Still my favourite of all time. Searched for a copy of it a few years ago to reinitiate my friends
@@chindodawg Ha ha. Good for you. Keep the memory alive. Also, My brothers and I still quote SCTV skits to each other.
Such memories from my childhood! I recognize about two thirds of them.
I remember every one of these. I must have watched alot of TV in my highschool years.
Well, I grew up in Ontario and I was around in the 1970s and I remember none of these exactly. Though I do remember the "Wasting Electricity Turns People Off" campaign but thought that was from the 1980s. We never had cable TV growing up and generally only watched TV when I came home from school for lunch.
TO be fair, I *do* get Coffee Crisp whenever I head up to Ontario. Can't get it here in the US of A.
Les Rubie (Wayne & Shuster cast member, and Mr. Hall in the Lottario commercials) for Rez.
Robert Morley for British Airways.
The song in the 7Up spot starts as a spoof of "West Side Story", then turns into "I'm Called Little Buttercup" from "HMS Pinafore".
Camay voiceover by Fred Napoli.
Who was the singer in the Coffee Crisp commercial at time 7:08 ? I heard his voice on a lot of beer commercials in the 70s.
Ontari-ari-ari-o! Those were the days! Who'd have thought the then PM's son would eventually destroy this beautiful country . How ironic.
Get a grip on yourself.
Leon's spokesman was in The Starlost , CTV show
Yup Robin Ward. I think he was also a Weather person too.
@@docmagnus88 And a game show host too.
Certainly a lot more lively than he was in The Starlost - watched every episode of that show. Wasn't much else on.
Even the 70's commercials were beige/brown lol!
I love that 71 Dodge Demon backing into the Leon’s warehouse
Loved the way we all styled and looked after our hair 😅
See y’all when this blows up in a few years
I’ll be there
Hell yeah
you get it.
Same here
Y'all ,???
Lol I keep coming back to rewatch this. I want to go back in time so bad....
Love the Coffee Crisp ad. I wonder if the singer is the same guy from Blood Sweat and Tears? There were many great Canadian ads(Spurmante Bambino, the animated cat food ad (w/h the white female cat), pork on your fork ad, get crackin ad, levis ad(w/h the funky bass playing). Good stuff!👍
"Miss Mew, Miss Mew.. Where are you?"
David Clayton Thomas?!
No unfortunately.
Karen Magnussen was actually from BC. I lived on the same street as she did in North Vancouver.
She was so cute!!
$59.88, my gosh. That's wildly expensive. No wonder my parents freaked when I stuffed mine with peanut butter.
Every once in awhile, I still look for a Herbies Drug Warehouse commercial I was in for Kingston Ontario. It would havew been in the 90's. Love Canada
Brain cells that haven't been accessed in four decades. I had forgotten I had them. I was so young, these are only images and impressions - the cracked skin for the skin lotion commercial, the boring furniture commercials, the kids playing soccer (because only kids are real people, of course, to the 5 year old me), TANG, that weird cheese commercial - wow.
@@Oi-Oi-Oi-420 Heh.
I remember well Canadian figure skating champion Karen Magnussen saying "I love 'Life'!" at the end of that Shoppers Drug Mart commercial.
Thanks for the post my friend.😊
Ohhh good God in Heaven … I actually remember the Rez commercial!
How old was I?? My Lord … 😂
That’s Lynn Griffith in the thumbnail. She was the token victim in Black Christmas and still acts to this day. A friend of mine too
I love that original movie.
I directed her in a play a few years ago. A total delight! She still puts the bag on her head at comic cons! Bless her ♥️
Funny, if she really was a friend of yours, you’d think you’d know her name is actually Lynne Griffin 🤔
Kind of wish she had more screen time in black christmas.
@@arconcritterWell, Andy the director who directed her never noticed her misspelled name, I think he might wanna put a paper bag over your head as well, LoL!
Is the Shoppers cashier the actress from Black Christmas? The one who gets suffocated and put in a rocking chair? And that is definitely Kristy McNichol in the Hostess commercial.
Yes! She’s also in Strange Brew
Yes that's right! She was in Black Christmas. I was always disturbed by that scene.
That's her name! It was bugging me. Kristy is immediately recognizable.
The aesthetic of the tang commercial brings me back to my childhood. All of our chairs, dishes and tables were from the 70s which lived well into the early 90s
I sooo remember the Rez commercial. And the Coffee Crisp one, Stimorol and Wintario like yesterday. Thanks Stan.
Rez wood stain commercial was 1984.
A lot of these ads are actually from the early 80's.
seems so
The man in the Leon’s commercial is Robin Ward who was in the Allen Ward Trio in Toronto. The clerk in the Life brand commercial is still acting in commercials and on various television series.
This is awesome, thank you for the upload.
The Coffee Crisp ad must have been from '80 or '81 given the "Another One Bites the Dust" ripoff jingle.
The Bell Canada ad might have been animated by Nelvana. The art style looks like the style they used at the time.
The narrator in the Leon’s commercial sounds like Robin Ward, who appeared in The Starlost and later went on to be a weatherman on Toronto TV stations.
THAT'S who it is! Thank you for your response!
The first commercials at least has the actor who played Garth in the sci-fi show Starlost
When I think of-honest Ed’s, headshops t shirts stores, arcades, Sam the record man or world’s largest bookstore. It brings a smile to my face when I skipped high school and we’re driving with my buddies from Oshawa and we would stay at an all day and walk up and down the street, enjoying the day, Man days were simplerthen……. And it was worth the detention from school when we got back the next day ha ha.
You skipped school, and they kept you out longer, as a punishment. Brilliant!!!
I have all the same memories from 1970's era Toronto, where I grew up. Also I spent many Saturdays downtown at the Eaton Centre. A shopping complex named for a department store that no longer exists.
"Wasting Electricity Turns People Off" - There was also a radio PSA campaign, with jingles by Tom Lehrer.
"Rez" was my favorite commercial back then. Still great today 😊
Hippie spirit
7:00-This ad was satirized on _SCTV_ as the Moose Beer ad.
yes - another one drinks a moose
I enjoyed a lot of the orchestration behind the music in some of these ads, though the 'Hostess' snack full of goodness reaches a bit lol. I had a Radio Shack Shure SM58 copy mic that worked until I gave it away a few years back! Good days overall!
Only halfway through but remember them all. The Rez was one of my favorites.
Les Rubie, a "Wayne & Shuster" cast member, and Mr. Hall in Lottario commercials (with Carol Robinson as Miss Penelope).
Rez wood stain was a memorable spot. I think everyone looked forward to seeing it again and again. The laugh at the end was the capper..
TBH I thought he was going to drink the stuff😜😄
This is like going down memory lane! Gosh, I forgot about so many of these.
I can't believe I still know the Coffee Crisp jingle word-for-word! It was based on Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust", of course.
Neat seeing what companies were involved in now, compared with then.
15:41
love that pencil-sketch animation style for Discovery Rail!
Most of the ads these oldies ads show more imagination and innovation then the ads on tv today.
This is too intense for me, too many core memories
I always do sit ups in a turtleneck and jewelry 😂
I miss the Trident Mints and the Raisin Crisp. Both products that are no longer around.
I ate those mints in the early eighties. Wintergreen, I still remember the cloying mouth feel of the chemical sugar.
A very entertaining upload!!
I still have that Coffee Crisp song in my head all these years later.
I can’t believe that fifty years later I got roped into watching this shit again.
Plus CZcams ads!
dang, everything just looks so much better back then
I remember the Sail, the Rez, the 7UP and the Beef Sounds Good commercials. I also remember the ending of the commercial that says “wasting electricity turns people off”. That looks like Sonja Smits in that Milk commercial with all the rhymes. I hope Queen got some royalties from that Coffee Crisp commercial.
Kristy McNichol eating a Twinkie 4:17 😄
7:04 one of the best commercials ever. And I no longer eat Coffee Crisp, but good memories.
What piano piece played during the Sail ad?
Awesome!! Thank You
It's no wonder I spent my time sitting in the dentist chair more often than not as a kid. Everything that was offered was SUGAR!
Wow, furniture in colours other than hospital white & prison grey. And l do believe that's 'Edge of Night's' Karrie Emerson in the milk commercial at 19:12. What a wonderful channel - subscribed! Can someone please tell me who the actress with the blonde braids is in the Milk commercial (18:32)? The one eating the cup of soup?
I'm pretty sure that was Kristy McNichol in the second Hostess commercial.
I noticed her too. Puppy love!
Yes it was .Nice looking girl Thx
Eating crème.😂
Yes absolutely correct.
I believe those were actually American adverts picked up in Ontario.
I don't remember stores carrying Hostess anything except
Hostess Potato chips which was a different company.
I only remember Vachon products.
I remember a family trip to Buffalo in 1979 I had a Twinkie for the first and last time.
@@RetroCaptain Hostess snacks were everywhere in London ON in the 70s.
2:10 Lynne Griffin from Strange Brew. Loving these, thanks for posting!
I remember her best from the series "Wind At My Back."
@@sadee1287 Same. Mrs. Cramp. She was so mean!
I have not seen that Rez ad in ages! And the Hydro ads, too!
Fresh, wholesome Hostess! Yum, Smoky Bacon chips.
Marineland and Gameworld, Marineland and Gameworld. Niagara Falls, Ontario...................That jingle has stuck in my head for decades.
0:00 All the savings you can carry, right Robin Ward?🙂
3:30 You get a big delight in every bite.😉
7:02 Gonna get you too!😋
9:10 Guess what this commercial is for!😜
12:50 Not bad, but I still prefer the Un-un-cola.😏
14:00 I've always liked Saturdays.😊
15:40 Remember when it was cool to celebrate our history?🇨🇦
19:28 It's always turned me off.😈
21:05 "Ah, that's nice."😀
lol went to Wintario live show in Kingston when I was so very young. Fay Dance was the host. She was a celebrity then.
Faye Dance. There’s a name I haven’t heard in years. Beautiful and charming hostess.
Oh yeah, 'Garth' from Star Lost. 'Realistic' products were truly Canadian at Radio Shack. Great headphones, receivers and speakers. It was a store that gave my teenage years inspiration to work towards buying their stuff. Wow, 'Sail' tobacco brings back memories of my grandfather. The 'Beaumont' microwave oven commercial is interesting as that technology was still the premise of the 'better-paid' in the late 70s. I still have my Minolta camera from 1981, an X-7, purchased in the days you took a roll of 35mm film to the camera store or Fotomat. To be honest, I find the majority of these commercials to be based in the 1980s.
Hi John, do you happen to know the music from the Sail commercial?
Raisin Crisp was the Canadian version of Raisins Rice & Rye.
Milk voiceover by Don Francks, the father of Cree Summer Francks.
two commercials I remember and would like to see is a Caramilk commercial with a beautiful song and teen theme and the airline commercial with the song "orange is beautiful"
To think that when these commercials came on we'd run to the fridge or cupboard for a snack and hoped that whatever we were watching would be back on the TV. Now I'm sitting here at my desk in my office watching these commercials on purpose. What the hell is going on!? Too funny.
Coffee Crisp jingle covers 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen and Neilson's Country Crisp covers 'Thank God I'm A Country Boy' by John Denver
Back when white bread, and Hostess snacks were called wholesome. My Mom gave us Tang for breakfast, it gave you vitamin c, and the astronauts had taken it into space so it must be good for you. They did taste yummy .😊
The 1970s just as I remember them - brown!
And orange!
back during a simple,better time........i was there so i can compare..i remember 90% of these as an ontario resident
I had a wall unit with a fold down desk in my room from Idomo. Got it around 1974/5 I think.
I had one as well at about the same time. Definitely from Idomo. I recall going with my parents to get it.
I don't remember the colour being "that" off back then. I can't believe Queen signed off on Coffee Crisp
7:00 John Deacon has some 'splainin to do...
I remember the Leon's, Coffee Crisp and 7up ads.
I'm still getting telemarketing calls from Leons. Sheesh.
Some of these commercials were definitely from the 80's as the one commercial actually say's the model is from1981
I greww up on US TV, so I never saw any of these ads, except for the Coffee Crisp ad. I wish the colours hadn't faded.
I remember the Coffee Crisp commercials on WUTV Channel 29 (now FOX 29) in Buffalo
@@jeffreybaker100 I used to love watching Rocketship 7 with Dave Thomas and the Commander Tom Show everyday here in Toronto. I always thought they were Canadian cuz they never had that Northern Vowel Shifted, Western New York accent back then.
Where do I get those hovercraft in the Blue commercial?
Karen Magnusson was my hero ! Wow, I feel old now, but remember almost every add
No Supamante Bambino? No Vikings with Wunderbar? No "How do you like your Coffee?" Crisp!
I stopped watching TV because of commercials..but this is great on premium without ads