Vintage Ontario TV Commercials from the 1970s 💥📺💥
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 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 $130 in today's dollars!. So yes, many things, particularly electronics, were very pricey back then.
Don't worry, it's still the same price today at Value Village...
I always do sit ups in a turtleneck and jewelry 😂
Those were the days, I miss when everything was orange.
help I'm going more and more orange! nnnoooo! ah oof, thank you wonderbread
*?&%$ tang now (nnnnoooooo!)
Orange and don't forget taupe
Kodak film and slides turn orange over time.
Or avocado green.
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
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.
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 well Canadian figure skating champion Karen Magnussen saying "I love 'Life'!" at the end of that Shoppers Drug Mart commercial.
$59.88, my gosh. That's wildly expensive. No wonder my parents freaked when I stuffed mine with peanut butter.
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.
I thought she looked familiar.
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!
Yes, was even excited to see WUTV 29 TV Station ( Military Trail road?), beside the outlet mall. We watched an equal amount of American and Canadian TV stations.
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.
She is in two of my favourite Canadian slashers Black Christmas (1974) and Curtains(1983). She's so nice in person too :)
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!
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
@@bonriver9420maybe back then. I buy it every week and it is absolutely delicious
Feed back then was way healthier than nowadays. Now we get triple the sugar and chemicals.
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!
I love waching ads from the 70's and 80's for their charm and to soak in the things of that time.
Truly a legendary era.
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😄👍
🤣🤣👏
Such memories from my childhood! I recognize about two thirds of them.
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.
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.
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 Discovery Train Commercial more than any reminds me of a very different Canada that has unfortunatly been lost.
Thanks to the libtards Turdeau
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!
I haven't seen these since they were broadcast. The Rez spot and the beef commercial were ones I really remember.
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.
@@JustAnothrViewr Heh.
I like how the Ontario Hydro adverts are funny but also serve a point
"Wasting electricity turns people off! So turn off a light bulb, don't turn off a friend." I think that ad was from the 1960's and yes, that jingle is still in my head to this day.
The Sail tobacco commercial was locked deep inside my brain! Wild!!!
"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.
I called my mum once while I was away at college in Barrie and sang that to her as soon as she answered - she couldn't stop laughing.....good times!
@@JazzyBabe56 ... two-thirds off 'til the discount eeends. Lol. Good times indeed!
"Wasting Electricity Turns People Off" - There was also a radio PSA campaign, with jingles by Tom Lehrer.
I love that 71 Dodge Demon backing into the Leon’s warehouse
This is awesome, thank you for the upload.
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.
Amazing to see recognizable actors like Kristy McNichol in the Hostess commercial.
I noticed her too. So that was most likely shot in the mid-70's as she appeared really young here!
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!
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.
I sooo remember the Rez commercial. And the Coffee Crisp one, Stimorol and Wintario like yesterday. Thanks Stan.
Rez wood stain commercial was 1984.
Thanks for the post my friend.😊
See y’all when this blows up in a few years
I’ll be there
Hell yeah
you get it.
Same here
Y'all ,???
Ohhh good God in Heaven … I actually remember the Rez commercial!
How old was I?? My Lord … 😂
That little old guy pouring oil into the shotgun had me laughing.
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.
Oh, boy! That was a very young Christie McNicols in that second Hostess commercial. She was everywhere in the 70s and 80s!😊
Was she Canadian?
@@mr.2cents.846 As far as I know, she is American.
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!
A very entertaining upload!!
A lot of these ads are actually from the early 80's.
seems so
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!
This is like going down memory lane! Gosh, I forgot about so many of these.
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.
Well, two iconic 70's commericals were from Rochester, N.Y. -House of Guitars and one of their butcher stores (forget the name now) where the butcher muttered and swallowed his words while saying the prices all the while showing photos of the weekly deals!
@@sandrazed6089 Cool.👍🏾
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...😊
No pee Pee
@@wendieking4184 Pee Pee makes wee wee.
yes I noticed as well this was before the "cultural enrichment" of diversity
Neighbour
7:00-This ad was satirized on _SCTV_ as the Moose Beer ad.
yes - another one drinks a moose
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!
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.
@@dadgarage7966 that commercial must have been mid 70's.
15:41
love that pencil-sketch animation style for Discovery Rail!
Awesome!! Thank You
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.
Lol I keep coming back to rewatch this. I want to go back in time so bad....
Karen Magnussen was actually from BC. I lived on the same street as she did in North Vancouver.
She was so cute!!
Ah, man! That Minolta camera was beautiful!
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
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😜😄
I still have that Coffee Crisp song in my head all these years later.
The first commercial... this fellow was one of the main characters on the Canadian TV show.. The Starlost.
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
I wish my kids could have experienced life in the 70's and 80's. Canada was once a good place to live. The Canada of 2024 is a dystopian hell scape. What happened?
A certain countries NGOs helping the third world immigration of their doctors, lawyers, and engineers.
The Internet happened
Trudeau, unfortunately
Yeah put lead back into gasoline!! I miss searching for a pay phones and having paper maps to navigate. Don’t even get me start on benefits on asbestos. Life was soooo much better back then. 🤪
@23netminder says the 19 year old. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Stay alive long enough, and I'm sure all those cell phones you love will be connected to some syndrome or disease. The new electric cars will be shown to be destroying the fresh water table of some poor African nation in the never-ending pursuit of lithium. The world will be experiencing a technological division of the haves and have-nots at a precipice rate. The worldwide division between the elitist of the middle class will develop into a generational confrontation that has been played out through technological exploitation. You're right a simpler time, really sucks. It's just so much better today. Go ask a millennial who can't afford to buy a home. Or the nearly 13 million homeless in America that are living in tents. Or the communities devastated by drug use. Go walk the streets of once great cities like San Francisco. Go to the industrial heart of America today. Walk through Detroit. But I think you may not even understand if you did. Lucky for you. Sometimes, it's a curse to have lived in a time that is a witness to the decay of the Western world.
Kristy McNichol eating a Twinkie 4:17 😄
I was born in '76, but grew up initially in southwestern Quebec. None of these commercials look and/or sound familiar.
I had a B&W TV in my room at my foster parents' house, and I got the following on antenna from Ontario: CHCH 11 out of Hamilton, I don't remember what channel 8's call sign was but it was out of Ottawa and I believe that I got TVO on 13 but don't remember. The other stations I got were: CFCF 12 (CTV), 5 (CBC), 2 (French station), and U-57 (PBS).
The colour TV in the living room was on aerial and got the aforementioned stations, plus ABC, CBS, NBC, and the precursor to Fox at the time it was WUTV 22.
These are legendary ads from the 70s. You're too young to remember these so you're more likely to remember the 80s ads. These are indeed 70s style TV ads with grainy analogue TV corny dance number commercials and cliche taglines. Ahhh simpler times when the greatest thing invented after TV was the VCR so we could actually rent and watch movies at home. 😂
@@jonfreeman9682 I remember a lot of ads from the '70s, I can tell you the first book I read at around 3 years of age.
I have not seen that Rez ad in ages! And the Hydro ads, too!
In the opening Leons shot you can see a small family home in the background. That's the house I grew up in from birth until age 19.
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.
I can’t believe that fifty years later I got roped into watching this shit again.
Plus UA-cam ads!
The first commercials at least has the actor who played Garth in the sci-fi show Starlost
"Rez" was my favorite commercial back then. Still great today 😊
Hippie spirit
Those were the best days of my life!
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.
This is too intense for me, too many core memories
Yes, I am feeling that too. Such sadness at the loss of innocence in our human society. Life used to be fun, now it's hard and serious and scary out there.
I don't remember the colour being "that" off back then. I can't believe Queen signed off on Coffee Crisp
Maybe they got royalties.
What piano piece played during the Sail ad?
Two government safety ads; The first is a cartoon about a racecar trying to be a snowplow. It fails, And they remind you that until the racecar gets perfected, "Watch out for the flashing blue light" (Because snowplows are slow). The second is promoting the use of seatbelts, by using a flying pumkin representing a car occupant) that smashes into objects, all the while a voice over says lines like,"Some poeple feel its better to be thrown clear of in an accident. I'd love to see those again!
Raisin Crisp was the Canadian version of Raisins Rice & Rye.
Milk voiceover by Don Francks, the father of Cree Summer Francks.
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.
The 1970s just as I remember them - brown!
And orange!
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!
Kristy McNichol is an American actor, she was in the Hostess commercial (also in the Golden Girls spin-off). This would indicate to me that either that was an American commercial repackaged for Canada, or its was shot here, and the last is highly unlikely. Surprised they haven't redone Coffee Crisp commercial.
Always like looking back.
dang, everything just looks so much better back then
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."😀
Fresh, wholesome Hostess! Yum, Smoky Bacon chips.
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 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.
The guy that voices the first water conservation commercial is the same guy who voiced the Eureka! science series on TVO!
I love watching these old clips -- really brings back memories growing up as a kid, along with things I didn't recognize at the time. Karen Magnussen worked out in a full daywear ensemble, complete with necklace. Hmm, who knew?
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 .😊
I wish I could be my age now (30) in 1975. The music scene would be unreal
that is true. Really sad to see that there is nothing out there in music (rare to find) and what is popular gets passed as 'music.' It's garbaaaaajge!
Some of these commercials were definitely from the 80's as the one commercial actually say's the model is from1981
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
The fact that I can remember some of these ads tells me that they work.
What a treat! Thank you ❤
I remember the Leon's, Coffee Crisp and 7up ads.
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.
Marineland and Gameworld, Marineland and Gameworld. Niagara Falls, Ontario...................That jingle has stuck in my head for decades.
....wonderful place for you to go.....Marineland, Niagara....
My dad took me to see the Discovery Train when it came to town.