Television Commercials (1950s-1960s) (1950)

★★★★★ · YUP, THAT'S MY CORNY MOM! · chuck2-61 · 2008-09-29

That's my mother, Margaret Edwards Perkins, playing the straight-laced farmer's wife in this goofy and legendary (in our family, at least) commerical from the early 1960's. It was filled in NYC where she did a number of product advertisements during that era. When I was a kid, she'd occasionally sing the song and we'd all giggle (one could never forget a weird jingle like that). Unlike the dour woman portrayed in this send-up of American Gothic, my mom was a funny and lively individual who eventually shifted her creative focus from acting to poetry. She passed away in 2002. A final funny…

★★★★★ · Some real classics · tanne · 2004-03-01

These ads really bring me back! The Dristan "send your sinuses to Arizona" ad seems to have been either made or inspired by the "Hertz puts you in the driver's seat" people. Cheesy special effects like that were a fad in the early '60s the same way the "Matrix" special effects are in ads today. I clearly remember the Television Code ad! The Goodyear ad is so sexist, designed to make men think that if they didn't buy Goodyear tires for their woman, she'd be stuck alone in the rain and God only knows what might happen to her...Wonder if you can still write that stewardess and ask her about…

★★★★★ · ItÃÂÃÂs like taking a trip to Arizona! · Spuzz · 2005-07-05

I thought I wouldnÃÂÃÂt enjoy these series of commercials as I did the early commercial lot that is on here that cover the 50ÃÂÃÂs, but these are comparable and even more enjoyable then the Classic Television Commercials. I really loved some of the little flourishes they put in, such as the ÃÂÃÂBingoÃÂÃÂ song in the spot for TV accountability, that insane swoop jingle for the shampoo cream, and the ridiculous assertion that an airline stewardess drinks Coca Cola non stop. Giggles Galore when the announcer says she buys a lot of Coke. Yikes! Just want to say, before I chug back a bottle of…

★★★★★ · facts of life · anticon68 · 2006-11-27

It is Charolette Rae of "The Facts of Life" in the shower scene. Great string of comercials makes me want to shave and smoke a marlboro all at the same time.

★★★★★ · I love this! · huskobon · 2004-04-04

I love this old CM's they really show me the stuff I never saw, and it's so much fun to see how CM's were done back then!

★★★★★ · No man around! · gardenwife · 2008-01-28

Wow, how things have changed. :) This series of ads really shows the changes we've witnessed in male female roles, the views of a network's responsibilities for providing family-safe entertainment, and so much more. Interesting perspective.