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Here's a commercial from many moons ago for King-Sized Chesterfield Cigarettes.

Yes, that's the legendary Daws Butler doing all the voices on this animated television commercial.

Time For Perry, Folks!

Here is a 1952 CBS telecast of the old 15-minute Perry Como Show, with Perry, along with the Fontaine Sisters, commercials for Chesterfield cigarettes, and Perry's special guest (and fellow RCA Victor recording artist), country music legend Hank Snow!





The Como show aired on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7:45 PM Eastern Time on CBS until 1955, when the network eliminated the news-and-music half hour slot (7:30-8:00 PM), this in the wake of ABC's huge success with Disneyland. NBC did not eliminate their 15-minute musical-variety early evening shows until 1957. As for Perry, following the elimination of his early-evening CBS telecasts, he moved over to NBC to star in what would be a hugely successful hour-long Saturday night show, before moving to Wednesday nights (in 1959) to take over the Kraft Music Hall.

Well, Here Is Proof....

That cigarettes----well, Chesterfields, anyway---ARE good for you. That's George Fenneman, best remembered as Groucho Marx's sidekick on both the radio and television versions of You Bet Your Life. This commercial aired during an episode of the original version of Dragnet.



Also included, a commercial for a Remco drive-in movie theater for kids. How 'cum they didn't include Gunsmoke plus Kiko the Kangaroo, or Perry Mason plus Gandy Goose?