Hungry For Cereal?

Here's a 1970s commercial for three General Mills cereals, Franken Berry, Count Chocula, and Boo Berry.

From The Folks Who Brough You Franken Berry And Count Chocula

Here's a 1972 commercial for two General Mills cereals, Sir Grapefellow and Baron von Redberry.

Hey, Here's A Way To Read While Eating Your Cereal!

From around 1960, here's a commercial for General Mills' Twinkles cereal.

At Least Nobody Went Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs In This Ad

From 1960, here's a pre-Sonny commercial for General Mills Cocoa Puffs cereal.  Two brothers and a sister pretend that they are in Africa when they are pursued by a lion.  The three siblings were used in television commercials for the cereal's first six years of existance before they were replaced in 1964 by that winged and feathered fugitive from an insane asylum, Sonny.

Coo Coo For Cocoa Puffs!

Frankly, I like Sonny better with his clothes on.

From 1964, here's a commercial for General Mills' Cocoa Puffs as Sonny tries to become cultured.

Chuck McCann did Sonny's voice.

Wow!

Tennessee Tuxedo, Chumley, and Baldy appear in a commerical for General Mills' Frosty-Os Cereal which originally appeared during an episode of Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, which aired at the time over CBS television.  This commercial was from the 1964-65 season.  It was back in the days when stars appeared in integrated commercials that appeared during their respective shows.  General Mills sponsored (and owned) Tennessee Tuxedo.

While Bradley Bolke (as Chumley) and Kenny "Senator Claghorn" Delmar (as Baldy) appeared in this ad, Don Adams, who starred as Tennessee's voice, did not appear.  Mort Marshall, who played the voice of Tennessee's nemesis, Megopolis Zoo manager Stanley Livingston, filled in.

Evidenlty, Someone's Feeling His Cheerios

Here's a commercial for Cheerios dating back to around 1952, seen during an ABC Network telecast of The Trouble With Father (a.k.a. The Stu Irwin Show).

How 'Bout A Bowl Of Powdered Donutz?

From 1982, here's a commercial for General Mills' Powdered Donutz Cereal, a cereal that, sadly, no longer exists.  What's next, a cereal that tastes like hard boiled eggs?

Hey, Sonny...

How about taking up another sport----like fencing?  



That's Sonny, trying to take his mind of Cocoa Puffs Cereal by bowling in this 1979 commercial.

Don't Blame The Cow For The Soggy Flat Corn Flakes

It's time for a 1968 commercial for General Mills' Kix Cereal.

Now, A Word From Our Sponsor

From 1951, here's a commercial for "Wheaties!"  Featured in this advertisement for "The Breakfast of Champions" is Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Ralph Kiner.

Have Some Cheerios With The Munsters

From the mid-1960s, here are Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, Al Lewis, and Butch Patrick appearing in a Cheerios commercial that originally aired near the end of a CBS telecast of The Munsters.

Now A Word About Not One But Two Cereals

From what may look like the early 1960s, here is a two-part commercial from General Mills.  The first part features Bullwinkle and Rocky plugging Sugar Jets cereal while the second part features Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman extolling the virtues of Wheat Hearts, which was a hot cereal.

Pssst, Wanna Be An Indian?

Why, all you need are a pair of aluminum arm bands. And they're FREE!  Just buy a box of General Mills' Sugar Jets cereal and send in a boxtop.  This commercial goes back to probably the late 1950s

How Bout A Bowl....

Of Cheerios. Here are Donald Duck, his nephews, and The Cheerios Kid in a 1950s commercial that probably aired on either Disneyland or The Mickey Mouse Club on ABC.

All In Pursuit Of A Leprechan And A Box Of Cereal

Here is a 1964 commercial , one of the earliest ones, for General Mills' Lucky Charms cereal.






Arthur Anderson did the voice of Lucky the Leprechan for many years.