February 1985 - WNEW Commercial Break for Taxi Driver

1985 WNEW commercial break for broadcast of Taxi Driver. Featuring an intriguing disclaimer at the end of the movie.
1. Old El Paso (Talk about yer cultural appropriation, lol)
2. Dreamgirls on Broadway ("The winner of more 1982 Tony awards than any other musical!")
3. The Pre-Awards Special (I didn't know this was a thing...)
4. Big Apple Movie intro
5. WNEW's "Due to mature themes, some parents may wish to exercise discretionary viewing"
6. Big Apple Movie bumper
7. Halls (That guy with the axe is making me nervous. Is this Amityville?)
8. Ivory Snow ("What's the big difference between my babies?")
9. Mr. Big (RIP Al Molinaro)
10. Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway (Did that guy says kinky? LOL)
11. PM Magazine promo (with Matt Lauer talking about swimsuits, heh)
12. Pontiac (Big jab at Reagan there, wow, lol)
13. Crazy Eddie (We miss you, Eddie!)
14. Taxi Driver bumper
15. Big Apple Movie bumper
16. Hostess (Sorry but nothing beats Entenmann's)
17. Pamprin (Sounds like Dreamgirls, lol)
18. WPLJ (I feel like this should be a game, like Five Nights of Freddy's)
19. Grand Union (with original Aunt Jemima packaging)
20. Pre-Awards Special
21. Australian Tourism Commission (with Paul Hogan, of course :D )
22. Champale ("Mellow...very mellow...")
23. Taxi Driver bumper
24. Big Apple Movie bumper
25. Honda ("Wide and longer than the Porsche 911")
26. Coast ("Feel the lather on your skin, what a nice way to begin!" I feel like this was someone's song that was laying around, could easily be like a Top 10 hit of the time)
27. Luvs (I never became a morning person, lol)
28. Star Search '85 (RIP Ed McMahon)
29. New York Post's Million Dollar Wingo (RIP Phyllis Diller)
30. Pre-Awards Special (A lot of talent there!)
31. Taxi Driver bumper
32. Big Apple Movie bumper
33. Wonder White (RIP Nancy Marchand)
34. Missing in Action 2 TV spot ("None of you have ever escaped, and none of you will!")
35. Pamprin (Also reminds me of I Need a Hero, lol)
36. Bolla (Apparently Franco was also in an episode of Falcon Crest)
37. PM Magazine promo (also with Dani Folquet)
38. Scope ("And my old mouthwash just left a medicine smell")
39. AMC/Jeep/Renault Dealers ("Read the guide before you decide!" Oh is that how it works...)
40. Taxi Driver bumper
41. Big Apple Movie bumper
42. H&R Block ("Also in Gimbels." RIP Henry Block)
43. Perdue (LOL Awesome reveal. RIP Frank Perdue)
44. 102 WPIX ("If only she paid more attention to her career!" Lol)
43. CUNARD/Queen Elizabeth 2 & Concord ("The last of the great superliners")
44. Rituals promo ("I REALLY loved you!!!!" Yikes...)
45. Ride ("The cap is ingenious!" Lol)
46. Monster trucks at the Meadowlands (I like the giant Budweiser cans, lol)
47. Taxi Driver bumper
48. Big Apple Movie bumper
49. Head & Chest ("Fast in your head, better for your chest")
50. Tio Sancho (I assume the other was El Paso, lol)
51. Mazola (Nice rendition of "Young-At-Heart")
52. Budweiser Hot Rod Pull Winter Nationals ("Presented by Go Go the Gorilla and Miss TNT")
53. Star Search '85
54. Ritz Thrift Shop (Surprising how many different ads they did)
55. Extend 12 (12am - Jimmy sneaks downstairs to watch Friday the 13th Part III. Gets sick again.)
56. Taxi Driver bumper
57. Big Apple Movie bumper
58. USA Today (RIP Senator Howard Baker. During Watergate he famously asked, "What did the President know and when did he know it?". RIP Wilton Chamberlain, sports legend and villian in Conan the Destroyer)
59. Beta Hi-Fi from Sanyo ("Which is almost as good as an audio cassette")
59. Ghoulies TV spot (Once again, WNEW glitches at the end, lol)
60. PM Magazine promo
61. Dodge (Which places this broadcast during Presidents' Week)
62. Waldbaum's (Keebler Pecan Sandies sound nice, lol)
63. Pre-Awards Special (Ok, ok I'll watch it...)
64. Taxi Driver bumper
65. Movie ends with an intriguing disclaimer, which it almost looks like Travis is reacting to, lol. "To our television audience, in the aftermath of violence, the distinction between the hero and villain is sometimes is sometimes a matter of interpretation or misinterpretation of the facts. Taxi Driver suggests that tragic errors can be made.--The Filmmakers"
66. End credits, previewing The Fighting Sullivans on Movie Greats, The Day of the Jackal on The Movie Club, and first run presentation of American Caesar

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

1:05 - That's my favorite childhood intro program, since I'd truly was little. At my formely hometown *#JamaicaNYC**.😀*
*_Manhattan_* instrumental song is also my favorite kind of music, *TheaterPup.☺️*

[@chrisamon80]

I wish to go back in thr past and save WNEW-TV Channel 5, owned by Metromedia on most of independent stations to prevent from future nonsense by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation from Australia.

[@A1collect]

This is from 1985

[@TheaterPup]

Sometimes I have trouble with that. Why do you say '85? Just checking.

[@A1collect]

​@@TheaterPup
Both Missing in Action 2 & Ghoulies came out in 1985

[@TheaterPup]

See that's confusing, IMDB says Ghoulies was '84.@@A1collect