Every time I see a Pizza Hut commercial from the 80s, I'm not only reminded of how much better their pizza used to be, but of the many Friday nights my family spent there to celebrate the weekend. I remember the Book-It Program, which was an elementary school reading program that encouraged kids to read more by offering coupons for personal pan pizzas if they read a certain number of books. But I mostly miss those sit down restaurants they used to have. It's sad to see them mostly replaced with the fast food-style pick up restaurants and food stands they have now.
Whoever recorded these in 1982 must have been loaded! Very high-quality VCR and apparently subscribed to cable TV - in 1982! Another great commercial set for 80sCommercialVault and great quality. Thank you so much!
The sheer amount of people that watched TV back then and the lack of any serious competition with big box retailers more than justified what the ad buys cost.
The Benny Hill end credits with the announcer saying the Three Stooges were on next made me smile -- I grew up in Detroit in the '80s and on Friday nights my dad would let me stay up late to watch the Three Stooges, although I was still a bit too little to do that in 1982 (it came on at midnight and even a few years later I didn't always make it). I also definitely watched a lot of Star Trek on WKBD with him -- those are some of my earliest memories. They showed reruns (and later first run TNG and DS9 eps) all through the '90s.
Star Trek-good episode After Hours-Charlene"Iv'e Never Been To Me"..huh? In Search Of-soon to be returning to television and hosted by Nimoy's successor as Spock,Zachary Quinto The Last American Virgin-ending was like a punch to the gut Underground Man-the killer must be stashing the dead bodies in the sewers The Incubus-speaking of endings i certainly didnt see that twist coming..
After Hours was a compilation of top 40 radio hits from early-mid 1982. Charlene's song came out in 1977 and just barely made the Hot 100 but got airplay again in early-mid 1982 and hit top 10.
In Search of... is coming back? Shut up! I DEFINITELY will be tuning in to that reboot! ( did you catch the use of "tuning in"? LOL Ahhhhhhh, can't stop with my olden days lingo)
I'm from Flint and we got a lot of the Detroit channels, including WKBD 50. My mom adored Bill Kennedy at The Movies and we saw a lot of movies on his show. Ah memories.
The guy in the Pizza Hut ad looks very much like Larry Cedar of Square One TV fame. The Soldier was a real badass movie. But these commercials showed all the best parts! I'm looking forward to more of Bill Kennedy.
This is before my time, so it's kinda baffling to me that Pizza Hut commercials used to have strange country flare with the jingle singer. Like, it seems like an odd choice for a *pizza* chain...
Pizza Hut never had an Italian aesthetic (the first restaurants were started in Kansas). The interior of the restaurants back then also had kind of a rustic/country vibe with a lot of wood.
Every time I see a Pizza Hut commercial from the 80s, I'm not only reminded of how much better their pizza used to be, but of the many Friday nights my family spent there to celebrate the weekend. I remember the Book-It Program, which was an elementary school reading program that encouraged kids to read more by offering coupons for personal pan pizzas if they read a certain number of books. But I mostly miss those sit down restaurants they used to have. It's sad to see them mostly replaced with the fast food-style pick up restaurants and food stands they have now.
Whoever recorded these in 1982 must have been loaded! Very high-quality VCR and apparently subscribed to cable TV - in 1982! Another great commercial set for 80sCommercialVault and great quality. Thank you so much!
Seeing these commercials for local businesses. I can't help to think how expensive it would have been to do that back in 1982. Compared to now.
The sheer amount of people that watched TV back then and the lack of any serious competition with big box retailers more than justified what the ad buys cost.
The Benny Hill end credits with the announcer saying the Three Stooges were on next made me smile -- I grew up in Detroit in the '80s and on Friday nights my dad would let me stay up late to watch the Three Stooges, although I was still a bit too little to do that in 1982 (it came on at midnight and even a few years later I didn't always make it). I also definitely watched a lot of Star Trek on WKBD with him -- those are some of my earliest memories. They showed reruns (and later first run TNG and DS9 eps) all through the '90s.
These are from Thursday, 8/19/82 and Monday, 8/23/82. "Hitler's Children" aired 8/20/82, "Destination Toyko" aired 8/24/82.
I like at the end of the “I’ll Take Sweden” promo it says “With limited interrupt-“....then the promo is quickly cut off lol
The Last American Virgin, I will never forget that ending.
Star Trek-good episode
After Hours-Charlene"Iv'e Never Been To Me"..huh?
In Search Of-soon to be returning to television and hosted by Nimoy's successor as Spock,Zachary Quinto
The Last American Virgin-ending was like a punch to the gut
Underground Man-the killer must be stashing the dead bodies in the sewers
The Incubus-speaking of endings i certainly didnt see that twist coming..
After Hours was a compilation of top 40 radio hits from early-mid 1982. Charlene's song came out in 1977 and just barely made the Hot 100 but got airplay again in early-mid 1982 and hit top 10.
In Search of... is coming back? Shut up! I DEFINITELY will be tuning in to that reboot! ( did you catch the use of "tuning in"? LOL Ahhhhhhh, can't stop with my olden days lingo)
I'm from Flint and we got a lot of the Detroit channels, including WKBD 50. My mom adored Bill Kennedy at The Movies and we saw a lot of movies on his show. Ah memories.
Bill Kennedy was so cool. He told lots of awesome stories.
The guy in the Pizza Hut ad looks very much like Larry Cedar of Square One TV fame.
The Soldier was a real badass movie. But these commercials showed all the best parts!
I'm looking forward to more of Bill Kennedy.
Don't forger Cedar's role as Leon in Deadwood.
#1 - Waitaminnit. Wasn't the other dude (just after Ally answered the phone) Larry Cedar from Square One TV?
Yes, it's Larry Cedar.
The quality of this recording is outstanding!
WLVI ch. 56 in Boston had the same promos,programming and simmilar ID logo.(another station owned by Field Communications at that time).
#32 - "...A rebate commercial? I won't do it."
Tough, Plimp; you just did. :P
This is before my time, so it's kinda baffling to me that Pizza Hut commercials used to have strange country flare with the jingle singer. Like, it seems like an odd choice for a *pizza* chain...
Pizza Hut never had an Italian aesthetic (the first restaurants were started in Kansas). The interior of the restaurants back then also had kind of a rustic/country vibe with a lot of wood.
these are fun to watch while eating